Northern Lass

Watching America reelect Trump from the UK, is like watching your mate get back with an abusive ex, and then us tip toeing around him because we're worried he'll get angry and smash things up.

we finally did it boys. we got our own freedom fries 🥲

This Week in Democracy – Week 3: Shadow President Elon Musk in Full Control Zeteo's new project to document the ongoing, week-by-week growth of authoritarianism in the Trump second term.

"This Week in Democracy – Week 3: Shadow President Elon Musk in Full Control"

Check out Zeteo's new project to document, line by line, day by day, week-by-week, the attacks on democracy and a free press in this Trump second term.

All the authoritarianism laid out in 1 place!

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In my years of covering internet culture I’ve always tried to impress upon people that social media algorithms + audiences actively incentivize and reward behavior and people that are almost comically evil and stupid. Anyways now that culture is running the country

Those figures are probably mainly made up for people checking and rechecking Elon musk's speech to confirm they were not going mad and he did what he did.

Thousand stand in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin with lights lit on their phones. 14 people at the front hood lit letters spelling out Hope & Resistance

An incredible photo from Berlin this evening.

An estimated 100,000 have been on the streets in the German capital today to protest against the Far Right and fascism in Europe.

#Resist

(📸 Ricarda Lang)

Poor Elon Musk, he's accidentally spoken at an AfD rally which people are now going to deliberately misinterpret

Somehow "Elon Musk Is a Genius" and "Elon Musk Doesn't Know How Hands Work" are being said by a lot of the same people

I've been inspired to set up a monthly donation. You can donate as little as £1 a month. Can you imagine if enough of us who can manage even a bit signed up, the message that sends back to the dissinfo bros?

two men standing next to each other holding a computer monitor that says gamblers all star on it ALT: two men standing next to each other holding a computer monitor that says gamblers all star on it

Whoever dubbed this new US administration, the "Nerd Reich" was frankly a genius.

The mental gymnastics that the right wing press must be doing right now after Elon's Nazi salute will be incredible.

Me, losing to my intrusive thoughts: I’ll just check social media for thirty seconds, how bad could it be

*sees the Elon picture*

Me: JESUS FUCKING CHRIST

I've just joined signal and encouraged a couple of group chats to migrate there. This feels like an efficient way to get people from WhatsApp to signal, move the group chat there for just group chats, then all of a sudden loads of mates are on there and it's a default.

Two of my favorite comments I've gotten from Chinese RedNote users during Q&A.

Q: "What do you think of Donald Trump?"
A: "I think America will be his 7th bankruptcy"

Q: "What do you think of Elon Musk?"
A: "If a person is not liked, not even by his own family, then he is a failure"

Meta has small creative businesses with the short and curlys because of its integration with ecommerce platforms such as Shopify and Etsy. I would leave insta in a heartbeat for this if there are plans for integrations like this.

When can we start referring to the United States of America, as the United Oligarchy of America?
UOA! UOA!

'One-in-a-billion' round egg discovered in Devon Alison Greene says even Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, does not have a round egg.

"It's now something that nobody else has. Elon Musk hasn't got a round egg has he?"

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Misinformation isn't random - it's strategic. 🧵

In the first cross-national comparative study, we examine 32M tweets from politicians.

We find that misinformation is not a general condition: it is driven by populist radical right parties.

with @julianachueri.bsky.social
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I've just discovered Google docs text to type (I know - late to the party) but can mumble down all my thoughts while I'm cleaning and then bang them into ChatGPT to write a blog for my website. What else is a luddite like me missing guys? I want all your mental load saving tips!

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I like this - world's biggest wealth hoarder definitely feels more fitting.

I listened to @helenpidd.bsky.social and @oliverburkeman.com on this pod last week and immediately downloaded 4000 weeks to listen to. I hit a wall before Christmas feeling chronically overwhelmed and this book is seriously helping. Highly recommend.

We're the product, the less of us there, the less attention he has to sell to advertisers. I do think this may be why he's expanded his revenue streams to subs and merch though, to be less reliant on impression figures and active user numbers.

Great letter in today's Guardian. What sort of free speech is prevented by factchecking, Zuck?

Not a single Reform MP has bothered to turn up to today's House of Commons debate on tackling violence against women and girls

I'm not disputing the inquiry bit, I don't know the Jay report deeply enough to comment on that. The initial comment of yours I was responding to was you being upset at it being voted down yesterday in particular, when the amendment was structured so that it would kill another bill.

I absolutely agree with you - Justice is the key here. But I don't think yesterday's particular call for an inquiry was about justice reading that, do you? That was my point I guess, I think yesterday the victims were completely used to generate unfair headlines which is just a gross move.

MPs vote against Tory call for new grooming gangs inquiry MPs rejected a Tory amendment calling for a grooming gang's inquiry by 253 votes.

As I understand it - the amendment in the bill the Tories added would have killed the Children's Wellbeing and Schools bill. So it was a pretty grim stunt to add it in just to generate headlines such as this. Would you read the information in this article differently? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Absolute garbage of a headline - what just happened is that a bill to protect vulnerable young people was voted through www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...