Jessica (Nightingale) Petitprez

The lurching horror of our national immigration narrative is on full display today. Even two years ago, I believe almost all media would have framed the victims of the Afghan leak as allies to whom we have a duty of care. In the Mail today, they are ‘migrants’ being ‘smuggled’ in to the country.

Bye-Bye 'MechaHitler': Elon Musk's xAI Quietly Fixed Grok by Deleting a Line of Code decrypt.co/329365/by...

Bring back the ancient woodlands smothered beneath your timber plantations Ancient woodlands are vanishing – and with them, some of our most loved and endangered wildlife. Forestry England manages over 100,000 acres of land that used to be ancient woodland - that’s bigger th...

🌳 Dame Judi Dench is calling for the return of ancient woodlands. Will you sign the petition to help restore the Ghost Woods and protect our green spaces for future generations? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/br...

Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy Is Disease, Starvation and Death

Musk could’ve flown to a country like Uganda to see for himself USAID’s work providing medicine to people with HIV or feeding refugees from South Sudan.

“Instead, he drew on the counsel of internet trolls & staffed DOGE with lackeys who were similarly ignorant.”
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”Healthy ageing is a huge prize for our societies. We must grab it”. FT.

Brilliant! @mikkonen.bsky.social @paulietandoori.bsky.social @jessppz.bsky.social great piece with this “nailed it” ending:

More Than a Dozen U.S. Officials Sold Stocks Before Trump’s Tariffs Sent the Market Plunging Records show well-timed trades by executive branch employees and congressional aides. Even if they had no insider information, ethics experts say such trading undermines faith in government and the ma...

It’s grifters all the way down.

too little, too late

Message to Starmer:

GET RID OF YOUR RED LINES!

The new threats Britain faces demands that we rejoin the Single Market and the Customs Union.

Common sense demands we rejoin the Single Market and the Customs Union.

Stop wasting time - DO IT!

The waiting is the worst! But we are ready here in La Reunion

Government is busy: but the media are not telling you Despite what the press tells us, the government is very busy, often doing popular things. But you wouldn’t know it from the press coverage

The government is busy - but the work is not being reported. From banning toxic pesticides to funding green jobs, here are 20 things that happened last week.

There isn’t published evidence that America has spent 350 billion. Official papers suggest around half of that, much of which was spent in America not Ukraine. Europe says it has spent more. Zelenskyy polls lower than he did two years ago but still high and higher than Trump in America.

I’ve just emailed my MP about the new report commissioned by Best for Britain - it shows that deep trade alignment with the EU would bring 2.2% of economic growth (surprise, surprise!). Check it out at www.bestforbritain.org

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@bsky.app, please can you set up a kind and interesting space without algos to replace FB and Insta? Meta will now be full of unmoderated content and lies just like X. Zuckerberg has decided to align with the Trump/Musk twisted version of “free speech”.

Fantastic book

Bluesky: the ‘safe space’ social media Like many Bluesky users, Aaron Rodericks joined after leaving X. Now head of trust and safety, he explains why ‘free speech absolutism’ isn’t his phil...

“We are trying to take a different philosophical approach at Bluesky, which means you should have the ability to freely express yourself, but others should also have the ability to freely not listen to you,” @aaron.bsky.team tells @benjamin-clark.bsky.social.
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Britain has lost its once great development prowess It was my good fortune to serve in the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) at a time of perilous global upheaval.

Britain has lost its once great development prowess

✍️ Andrew Mitchell

Invitation to follow our #SDGs #starterpack

go.bsky.app/JuqejUS

Repost if BlueSky is now your primary social media site.

NGOs and International Organisations, where are you? Still on X?!

Even more important to leave X behind for good now…. 👀 come on everybody! 🗽⛓️‍💥

Priti Patel received £10k donation from firm she helped bag millions in PPE contracts "It does look as though the Jassal family is scratching the back of Priti Patel who once scratched theirs."

Priti Patel received £10k donation from firm she helped bag millions in PPE contracts

Crooks

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I’m new to @quietriotpod.bsky.social and absolutely loving it - deep, witty, informative. Bravissimo!

Why mpox vaccines are only just arriving in Africa after two years The slow arrival of the shots shows that lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic about global healthcare inequity have been slow to bring change, public-health officials and scientists say.

Why mpox vaccines are only just arriving in Africa after two years

Under Elon Musk, Twitter has approved 83% of censorship requests by authoritarian governments The social network has restricted and withdrawn content critical of the ruling parties in Turkey and India, among other countries, including during electoral campaigns

Under Elon Musk, Twitter has approved 83% of censorship requests by authoritarian governments

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Jessica Petitprez on LinkedIn: #bluesky Given the spread of disinformation by Elon Musk on X, and X’s role in giving a platform for hate-speech and extremists, why do Government / UN / human rights /…

Let’s get more migrants from X to Bluesky! www.linkedin.com/posts/jessic...

What would happen if we all abandoned Elon Musk’s toxic platform? Twitter/X has become a cesspit of racism, bullying and unpleasantness. Has the time have come for a mass X-odus and shall we name the date?

X has become a cesspit of racism, bullying and unpleasantness. Should we abandon ship?

✍🏼 @arusbridger.bsky.social: Give us a date. Let’s call it “X-odus Day”.
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New evacuation orders have been issued by Israeli authorities, even inside the so-called “humanitarian zone”.

Once again, fear spreads as families have nowhere to go. People remain trapped in an endless nightmare of death and destruction on a staggering scale. #Gaza

Almost a third of X users in UK considering leaving, finds Savanta | News Three in 10 users of X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, say they are considering leaving the site, according to research from Savanta.

A third of UK Twitter users are preparing to quit the platform.

“Savanta found that Musk was personally unpopular with the UK public, with a net favourability score of -16, lower than Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg (-5 ) and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos (+1 ).”

Musk is also less popular than Tory politicians

Thierry Breton’s letter to X may be the EU’s “Stanley Baldwin moment” The commissioner’s stark warning to Elon Musk was a rare example of those with public power standing up to media and commercial interests

The EU commissioner’s stark warning to Elon Musk on disinformation was a rare example of those with public power standing up to media and commercial interests, writes David Allen Green.
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