Pamela

Clear out toys now!

Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round

I think they fuck up fairly often, and should fuck up less. I think they are under political pressures and directed attacks which increase the fuckups. I think there are some bad people there as there are everywhere. I also think there are a huge number of people still dedicated to impartiality.

The truth about impartiality at the BBC And the hysteria of the current "crisis"

The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.

New piece from me.

open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

@andrewcooper.net

Tiny urban forests can help #rewild urban settings and help fight #climatechange. The brainchild of the Japanese botanist Miyawaki is taking his idea global.

We have so many solutions. Implement them. #ActOnClimate

#climate #forests #nature #biodiversity

Sky News just had Kelvin Mackenzie on, former editor of The Sun, one of the people at the centre of probably the most disgraceful front page in newspaper history, complaining about BBC journalists not being objective and 'fake news'. Astonishing. ~AA

Chris Packham on the political shift on climate change: “It’s no secret that the fossil fuel companies are funding Reform and The Conservatives - that’s a fact. These people are either denying something extremely dangerous or they’re puppet-ing it for their paymasters”

#bbclaurak

The BBC once again finds itself making news, rather than breaking news. As my colleagues and I find, based on surveying over 11,000 people, one part of British society trusts the BBC a lot more than another. There's a clear partisan and left-right divide in trust for the BBC.

Exactly right. Mistakes must be corrected, but deliberate campaigns should be recognised for what they are.

"The mainstream media, with a few exceptions, is a single issue lobby group, whose purpose is to assert the rights of capital.”
- George Monbiot

preparing for the working world in the age of AI or: seven things to tell your kids when they ask what they should study now, or what the point of studying is

I wrote this yesterday about what to tell young people who are worried about what work will be in the age of AI:

naomialderman.substack.com/p/preparing-...

Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

How can you not be radicalized.

Trump administration seeks to halt SNAP food aid payments after a court order The Trump administration has asked a federal appeals court to block a judge’s order to distribute November’s full SNAP benefits during a U.S. government shutdown. U.S.

The Supreme Court has granted the Trump administration’s emergency appeal to temporarily block a court order to fully fund SNAP food aid payments during the government shutdown.

The company that's pushing this technology should not only be regulated, it should be shut down, & everyone who worked to develop & promote this program should be held accountable in a court of law. Sam Altman belongs under the jail.

EU investing €546 billion for high speed rail by 2040

E.g. Lisbon to Warsaw, from 38 hours today to 12 hours

Pricing to compete with low cost flights

Reduce emissions by 80%

Jokes on them, they don't have Brexit sovereignty 🤷‍♂️

Very amusing to watch Reform complain about all the things wrong with the UK - every one caused by Brexit - without actually mentioning Brexit, as if they happened by magic.

21 out of 33 Conservative shadow ministers in the Lords have paid jobs outside Parliament.

Shadow ministers paid to ‘advise’ the same industries they’re meant to scrutinise. Conflict of interest institutionalized. Paymasters served.

Can't get good society without ending political bribery.

Dear GOD if you want to save money in the asylum system

1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK

2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc

3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today

I will never understand the people who can look at this and shrug.

The Price of Powerlessness How First Past the Post Fuels Britain’s Cost-of-Living Crisis

You tighten your belt, skip the heating, buy own-brand.

And you wait for the next election to cast your vote in the hope it will change things for the better.

Except it doesn’t.

And that’s not a bug in the system.

It’s the entire operating logic of First Past the Post.

Headline: Lancashire’s Reform-run council plans to close care homes and day centres

If this is what happens when Reform runs a council, just imagine Farage running the country.

Care homes closed and vulnerable people abandoned.

We cannot let Trump’s America become Farage’s Britain.

A map of part of Britiain and northern europe showing loads and loads of roman roads, picked out in red.

Wow! 😮🤩
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓

itiner-e.org

We might have to have a lie-down.

The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond

This would 💯 happen in the UK if the same political dispensation took power here

I feel like a sizeable chunk of British journalism is in complete denial about that

Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how

This is really excellent data journalism... Elon Musk has declared war on the British government, it just doesn't realise it.

Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how

must-read analysis of how Musk's twitter is drenching new users with right-wing propaganda

news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

YouTube video by BBC Music Daniel Caesar (feat. H.E.R.) perform Best Part on Later... with Jools

#GenreRoulette #SoulfulSaturday
#MusicChallenge

Best Part - H.E.R. & Daniel Ceasar
📺Later… with Jools Holland
youtu.be/j045yEf2cLg?...

Indeed 👇🏼🙌🏻
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