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11 years ago today.

After years of headlines vilifying the "trans lobby" and "LGBTQ+ agenda", today's Mail now has "the ADHD lobby" in its sights...

A nice, cool evening for a Run in SW London, passing through the fully-open Fulham Pier too which looks great. Worst thing about running along the River though is the amount of Pubs, very hard to not be tempted to stop in for a pit-stop beer... 🏃 #UKRunChat #RunChat

I don't post much about Food, but went to Koya in Soho for lunch and had this absolutely banging Donburi (Rice bowl with vegetables, chicken, eggs and spices) with some Miso soup - tastes as good as it looks! 😋 #Foodsky

Reform Dog Bites Media Man The British press is failing in its duty to ask the right questions of Nigel Farage

How we will look back at the British media's current constant indulgence of Nigel Farage and his brand of anti-migrant politics as the biggest collective failure of our times
@adambienkov.bsky.social
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/reform-dog...

It turns out that the craziest thing about the Simpsons is they're two late millennials on one blue collar salary in suburbia who own their house and have three kids and *aren't in poverty*.

The Simpsons are aspirational now.

Bluesky Reaches 38M Users, Though Post Volume Is Declining Bluesky’s growth momentum has slowed, but it is still growing.

I really want Bluesky to succeed, while it's not as popular as 'old Twitter' was, it's great having a non-algorithm'd feed (even if users are becoming dormant) I'd support Ads here too as long as they're not like on 'X', but do need more features #TeamBluesky
www.socialmediatoday.com/news/bluesky...

Absolutely

I don't follow Football/the Premier League that closely (although I would watch it when it's on in the Pub) but can't help but feel the stranglehold Sky has over it now, that and other broadcasters (TNT) making it harder & expensive to watch sports

Where is the Cannes Lion for making small changes every day over the course of 1-2 years to a deck no one outside of maybe eight people and me will ever see??

I use @inoreader.com and Evernote quite a lot for page/site bookmarking (I previously used Pocket for a while before it was shut down) Inoreader specifically is an RSS feed reader, but has the option to add an Bookmark option to your Bookmarks toolbar and collates them really easily

I actually chose to do this (The three dot thingy by the post) - As there's multiple AI companies and/or people doing video posts on stuff that is completely wrong/fake/totally suspect, and just had enough. At least show me something relevant FFS...

‘Worrying’ levels of screen time means young people losing confidence to socialise in person, minister warns – UK politics live Culture secretary Lisa Nandy says ‘majority of young people spend all, or almost all, of their free time alone in their bedrooms, online’

This is not caused primarily by "screen time".

It's been caused by the mass eradication of third places for young people in basically every city over the past three decades - and a society that's hostile to the concept of teens socialising in public spaces.

www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

I seem to be doing this a lot on LinkedIn (a.k.a. The business cosplay networking site) at the moment for some characters who are peddling awful 'solutions'...

47% of people think immigration is primarily illegal. There were 4% irregular arrivals in March

New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation

Watching WWE for the first time in a while and can't believe how many sponsors and logos they've crammed into the show - The broadcast, the ring, and even on the tables!? 😂 #WWE #Summerslam

I cannot see how public bodies and government departments can justify still posting on Twitter/X.

If posts get any attention at all, it's only for the wrong reasons from the worst people.

The argument that they need to be where the audience is no longer stands. Time to quietly stop posting.

Definitely 7 and 8 - The subscription-based model for good tools/services is well on the way to becoming a thing now - As well, Print, while wouldn't say it's a big comeback, is getting a resurgence purely as it's not 'Digital slop' given quality remains high while elsewhere is much lower

Lots of Ads running for Coinbase, now that they're authorised to run in the UK, at different Tube stations, playing into the whole cost-of-living situation (whereas one big Ad I saw at Waterloo just had their Logo on repeat) No Disclaimers on the Ads though, which is odd given how volatile Crypto is

These are the top replies, being financially rewarded for posting this stuff, and the explanation offered by the site’s own AI for why it’s like that.

Anyway just flicking through the Sunday newspapers reading about some minor content infractions that Ofcom might look into at the BBC/Channel 4.

Huge congratulations buddy!

Trump Unleashes New Tariff Regime in Challenge to Global Growth Get caught up.

Tariff day has arrived. At an average of 15%, the world is facing some of the steepest US tariffs since the 1930s, roughly six times higher than they were a year ago, in what threatens to deliver a delayed shock to the global economy. Here is your Evening Briefing.

Meta Crushed Q2 Ad Revenue (Oh, And It’s Investing In AI That’s Way Smarter Than You) | AdExchanger "We have a conviction that superintelligence is going to improve every aspect of what we do,” Mark Zuckerberg told investors on Wednesday.

Meta's Ad Revenues up 21% YoY - Remember back in January there was talk of a boycott due to their new stance on loosening content restrictions, cutting trust/safety teams, etc?No impact at all. Their AI tools make it so easy for clients to set up/run Ads, too.
www.adexchanger.com/platforms/me...

YouTube is changing the way that we’re watching television, and traditional broadcasters need to evolve or die.

Here’s my take on BBC Breakfast.

CEOs Are Shrinking Their Workforces—and They Couldn’t Be Prouder Bosses aren’t just unapologetic about staff cuts. Many are touting shrinking head counts as accomplishments in the AI era.

The @wsj.com has a new article pointing out how CEOs of big companies now take pride in doing regular layoffs. We’ve gone from CEOs bragging about how much they’re hiring to instead pointing out how much they’re cutting and replacing with AI, or so they claim.

A huge shift in how CEOs view success

Most people within the Media/Ads Industry I've seen feel the same, feels really grim, although most expect an uptick in work in Q4 but long term concerns afterwards

Elon Musk’s Empire Is Creaking Under the Strain of Elon Musk Tesla, SpaceX and xAI are struggling to deal with the fallout from Musk’s Trump feud and wild bets.

The Musk Dilemma: Elon’s empire has reached new heights, but it’s creaking under the strain of his antics.

So, so blatant, I hate it. You can't have a car with a driver in it, stationary on the side of the racetrack and keep it green, until after the leaders pit, no excuse for that. #Indycar #SkyIndycar

"stick the ball in their net"

"got it"

Okay I’ve found the best trans pride sign