Nick Mitchell

I just decided to abandon my 1475-day streak on Duolingo, stretching back to 2021.

That's roughly equivalent to over 15 solid days of my life translating sentences like 'my dog is unemployed' into French and German.

Tant pis.

This is a Hall of Fame reader comment on a very reactionary op-ed about Zohran Mamdani's victory that was published in my local paper today.

CapCut’s policy update raises major red flags for newsrooms The go-to mobile-editing app for TikTok, Reels, and Shorts has slipped in problematic new terms for newsrooms which risks source safety and surrenders copyright

Essential reading for anyone in the media using CapCut for social content:

www.journalism.co.uk/news/capcut-...

Spotify app

I'm no UX design expert, but Spotify's text display on the app is probably not best practice?

⌚️ Two days to go till #EMF2025

📈 93% to my new fundraising goal of £3000 for @mssocietyuk.bsky.social

🙏 Grateful if you can help push me over the line (figuratively and literally!)

🔗 www.justgiving.com/fundraising/...

YouTube video by Change.org Outside Amazon’s UK HQ, advocate demands end to sales of books that promote autism 'cures'

Autism rights campaigner Emma Dalmayne stood outside Amazon’s UK HQ in London this week with fellow activists — and a petition signed by over 35,000 people.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk3_...

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Hannah Deacon, 1979 - 2025

We were very saddened to learn of the passing of Hannah Deacon, a devoted mother and tireless campaigner for medical reform in the UK

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Two weeks till marathon day, and I'm over 75% to my fundraising goal for the @mssocietyuk.bsky.social 📈

Thanks to everyone who's donated so far, it makes it much easier to keep going on the long runs🙏

www.justgiving.com/fundraising/...

#edinburghmarathon #mssociety

Ah, the neighbour's 9.45pm Sainsbury's delivery, in all its door-slamming predictability. Not like we have a couple of kranky babies trying to sleep at last.

Correction: they're awake now 😩

Nick's 2025 Edinburgh Marathon Fundraiser for MS Society Help Nick Mitchell raise money to support Multiple Sclerosis Society

I'm attempting to run the Edinburgh Marathon to raise funds for @mssocietyuk.bsky.social (if the old knees can take it).

I'd be very grateful for anything you can chip in to help an important cause 🙏

www.justgiving.com/fundraising/...

Sign the Petition Save BBC's River City

I've already seen 5 petitions started on @ukchange.bsky.social over the past 24 hours calling on the BBC to save #RiverCity

It might not seem like a terribly important issue, but it's clearly caused anger among viewers and the Scottish TV industry

www.change.org/p/save-bbc-s...

Nick's 2025 Edinburgh Marathon Fundraiser for MS Society Help Nick Mitchell raise money to support Multiple Sclerosis Society

I'm attempting to run the Edinburgh Marathon to raise funds for @mssocietyuk.bsky.social (if the old knees can take it).

I'd be very grateful for anything you can chip in to help an important cause 🙏

www.justgiving.com/fundraising/...

Richard Tice came to Glasgow today to reveal Reform UK’s latest defectors. It did not go well. Got stuck when the Daily Mail’s Tom Gordon asked him for their names.

Sign the Petition Protect Loch Tay

It also references this 160,000-strong petition on @ukchange.bsky.social: www.change.org/p/protect-lo...

Who Gets to Own Scotland? A new land-reform bill aims to unwind a long history of inequality. But centuries of feudalism are difficult to shake.

Scotland's land ownership debate has made it to the New York Times - one of the best articles I've read on the subject

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/r...

What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.

Looking forward to the @washingtonpost.com’s hot take on the Trump-Zelenskyy debacle. It’s all about personal liberties and free markets, remember?

Suddenly Starmer's Washington visit doesn't look quite as triumphant. The bridge he wanted to build is lying in rubble.

It feels like the tectonic plates between America and Europe just split apart

Absolutely extraordinary to watch a wartime leader - who never left Ukraine even when his life was threatened - being patronised and bullied on live TV by Trump and Vance

Petition demands UK Home Secretary to extradite Andrew and Tristan Tate from the US

A petition has been launched on @ukchange.bsky.social calling on the UK Home Secretary Yvette Cooper to extradite the Tate brothers from the US.

Andrew and Tristan Tate landed in Florida on Thursday in a private jet after flying from Romania.

"He tried" - Trump's response to a question about whether Starmer persuaded him to avoid tariffs on UK. Goes on to suggest again that a "terrific" trade deal is in the works. That remains to be seen.

Trump just cut off Starmer while he was answering a potentially awkward question about Canada - "That's enough"

Power dynamics at play right there.

Bayern 0 - 1 Raith Rovers

Celtic following in the footsteps of Raith Rovers here*

* Any excuse to post this photo again

#muncel #ucl

A sign of the times that headlines as insane as this seem like an hourly occurrence in the US, rather than an Onion parody

My 2026 vote goes to the party who renames the Firth of Forth to the Gulf of Fife.

Cardiff University Cuts - movement page on change.org

We often see movements suddenly burst into life on @change.org

A good example this week is the student-led response to the cutbacks at Cardiff University

Seven petitions and 30,000+ supporters so far:

www.change.org/m/cardiff-un...

Sign the Petition Safer Driving Licensing for Newly Qualified 17-19 Year Olds

Crystal Owen has become an extraordinary campaigner. You may not agree with what she's calling for, but her passion and determination is formidable.

Today's parliamentary debate is far from the end of the story.

More on her campaign here via @ukchange.bsky.social: www.change.org/p/safer-driv...

"Forty-two years ago, for reasons beyond my comprehension, David Lynch plucked me out of obscurity to star in his first and last big budget movie. He clearly saw something in me that even I didn’t recognize. I owe my entire career, and life really, to his vision. What I saw in him was an enigmatic and intuitive man with a creative ocean bursting forth inside of him. He was in touch with something the rest of us wish we could get to. Our friendship blossomed on Blue Velvet and then Twin Peaks and I always found him to be the most authentically alive person I’d ever met. David was in tune with the universe and his own imagination on a level that seemed to be the best version of human. He was not interested in answers because he understood that questions are the drive that make us who we are. They are our breath. While the world has lost a remarkable artist, I’ve lost a dear friend who imagined a future for me and allowed me to travel in worlds I could never have conceived on my own. I can see him now, standing up to greet me in his backyard, with a warm smile and big hug and that Great Plains honk of a voice. We’d talk coffee, the joy of the unexpected, the beauty of the world, and laugh. His love for me and mine for him came out of the cosmic fate of two people who saw the best things about themselves in each other. I will miss him more than the limits of my language can tell and my heart can bear. My world is that much fuller because I knew him and that much emptier now that he’s gone. David, I remain forever changed, and forever your Kale. Thank you for everything."

was mostly keeping it together until I read Kyle MacLachlan's tribute to David Lynch

Sherilyn Fenn on Twin Peaks: 'Audrey's strong, even if she is broken' Sherilyn Fenn spoke to i about returning to the role of Audrey Horne in Twin Peaks after 26 years - and that dance scene.

I once asked Sherilyn Fenn what it was like to work with Lynch on #TwinPeaks:

"Understanding with David is overrated, don’t try to understand it. There’s no one way to understand it – however you interpret it, he would tell you that’s correct, and mean it."

inews.co.uk/culture/tele... #DavidLynch