Jonathan Emmett
@jonathanemmett.com
📚 Children’s author and paper engineer.
🕸️ Website & Blog: jonathanemmett.com
🌱 Green. Humanist. Tabletop gamer.
🇬🇧 Living in Nottingham, UK.
🌍 Dismayed by our generation’s indifference to climate breakdown.
🕸️ Website & Blog: jonathanemmett.com
🌱 Green. Humanist. Tabletop gamer.
🇬🇧 Living in Nottingham, UK.
🌍 Dismayed by our generation’s indifference to climate breakdown.
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If you’re reading #TheSantaTrap this term, you can find lots of FREE resources for the book using the links below:
• Read-along video
• Posters: Cover & Spread
• Activity Sheets: Wordsearch & Maze
• KS1 & 2 Lesson Plans
• Author’s Notes
• Blogpost about how schools have used the book.
If you’re reading #TheSantaTrap this term, you can find lots of FREE resources for the book using the links below:
• Read-along video
• Posters: Cover & Spread
• Activity Sheets: Wordsearch & Maze
• KS1 & 2 Lesson Plans
• Author’s Notes
• Blogpost about how schools have used the book.
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Any Heathrow expansion will devastate nearby villages and undermine environmental goals.
The Government chose the most expensive, disruptive third runway option - risking years of delays for questionable economic benefit.
www.aef.org.uk/2025/11/26/a...
The Government chose the most expensive, disruptive third runway option - risking years of delays for questionable economic benefit.
www.aef.org.uk/2025/11/26/a...
A colossal white elephant: Government selects most disruptive and costly option for Heathrow expansion - Aviation Environment Federation
On Tuesday 25th of November, the Government announced its selection of Heathrow Airport Limited’s (HAL) proposal as the basis for progressing plans for the third runway project. If approved, this …
www.aef.org.uk
November 26, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Any Heathrow expansion will devastate nearby villages and undermine environmental goals.
The Government chose the most expensive, disruptive third runway option - risking years of delays for questionable economic benefit.
www.aef.org.uk/2025/11/26/a...
The Government chose the most expensive, disruptive third runway option - risking years of delays for questionable economic benefit.
www.aef.org.uk/2025/11/26/a...
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Most carbon calculators hide the true cost of flying. The reality is flying creates massive pollution. The simplest and most effective way to reduce your travel footprint? Choose not to fly. #FlightFree
When you use an online tool to estimate the emissions from a flight, is it accurate? 🤔
If the calculator only estimates CO₂, it's not showing the full picture 🖼️
theconversation.com/how-much-co2...
If the calculator only estimates CO₂, it's not showing the full picture 🖼️
theconversation.com/how-much-co2...
How much CO2 does your flight really produce? How to know if carbon footprint claims are accurate
Many calculators leave out big chunks of climate impact or rely on oversimplified assumptions.
theconversation.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Most carbon calculators hide the true cost of flying. The reality is flying creates massive pollution. The simplest and most effective way to reduce your travel footprint? Choose not to fly. #FlightFree
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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Building the equivalent of the UK's second biggest airport right next to its largest?
Moving the M25?
Increasing noise pollution and air pollution for Londoners?
The UK faces many challenges. Heathrow expansion is not the answer to any of them - and is insanity in a climate crisis.
Moving the M25?
Increasing noise pollution and air pollution for Londoners?
The UK faces many challenges. Heathrow expansion is not the answer to any of them - and is insanity in a climate crisis.
Heathrow airport’s £33bn third runway plan chosen by government
Scheme includes plan to move the M25 and could mean up to 760 more planes in the skies around London every day
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Building the equivalent of the UK's second biggest airport right next to its largest?
Moving the M25?
Increasing noise pollution and air pollution for Londoners?
The UK faces many challenges. Heathrow expansion is not the answer to any of them - and is insanity in a climate crisis.
Moving the M25?
Increasing noise pollution and air pollution for Londoners?
The UK faces many challenges. Heathrow expansion is not the answer to any of them - and is insanity in a climate crisis.
Find out why THE SANTA TRAP is my favourite book I've written myself in this interview.
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Who likes scary monsters, wild pets and setting traps for Santa? It's Jonathan Emmett, of course! Read our interview with the original founder of Virtual Authors here: virtualauthors.co.uk/2025/11/25/1... and then why not book one of his fabulous virtual visits?
#virtualauthorvisit #authorinterview
#virtualauthorvisit #authorinterview
10 Little Questions with Jonathan Emmett
When did you start writing and why? I started writing for leisure at junior school, thanks to a teacher called Miss Morphew. Once a week the class spent an hour writing a story. All the other child…
virtualauthors.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Find out why THE SANTA TRAP is my favourite book I've written myself in this interview.
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'On The Origin Of Species', a book that changed the world forever, was published #onthisday, 1859. Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, contained within, didn’t just revolutionise science, it had a profound impact on how we view ourselves and our place in the natural world. What a wonderful man.
November 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
'On The Origin Of Species', a book that changed the world forever, was published #onthisday, 1859. Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, contained within, didn’t just revolutionise science, it had a profound impact on how we view ourselves and our place in the natural world. What a wonderful man.
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Hugely disappointing, with world now on track to yet more heating & chaos, & poorest hit first & hardest. This process needs radically rethinking - meantime it’s vital that the Brazil-led coalition of the willing urgently delivers on plans to leave fossil fuels in the ground #COP30
November 22, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Hugely disappointing, with world now on track to yet more heating & chaos, & poorest hit first & hardest. This process needs radically rethinking - meantime it’s vital that the Brazil-led coalition of the willing urgently delivers on plans to leave fossil fuels in the ground #COP30
I've seen several posts on here about Google using Gmail emails to train AI.
In this article, published today, Google state that "we do not use your Gmail content for training our Gemini AI model.”
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
#CopyrightAndAI #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #BookSky
In this article, published today, Google state that "we do not use your Gmail content for training our Gemini AI model.”
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
#CopyrightAndAI #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #BookSky
Google denies ‘misleading’ reports of Gmail using your emails to train AI
Google says “we do not use your Gmail content for training our Gemini AI model.”
www.theverge.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:32 AM
I've seen several posts on here about Google using Gmail emails to train AI.
In this article, published today, Google state that "we do not use your Gmail content for training our Gemini AI model.”
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
#CopyrightAndAI #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #BookSky
In this article, published today, Google state that "we do not use your Gmail content for training our Gemini AI model.”
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
#CopyrightAndAI #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #BookSky
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Well worth a read. It’s so sad what AI is doing to students’ ability to think for themselves👇
To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
www.huffpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Well worth a read. It’s so sad what AI is doing to students’ ability to think for themselves👇
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🎅🏼🪤📕SCHOOLS!
If you’re reading #TheSantaTrap this term, you can find lots of FREE resources for the book using the links below:
• Read-along video
• Posters: Cover & Spread
• Activity Sheets: Wordsearch & Maze
• KS1 & 2 Lesson Plans
• Author’s Notes
• Blogpost about how schools have used the book.
If you’re reading #TheSantaTrap this term, you can find lots of FREE resources for the book using the links below:
• Read-along video
• Posters: Cover & Spread
• Activity Sheets: Wordsearch & Maze
• KS1 & 2 Lesson Plans
• Author’s Notes
• Blogpost about how schools have used the book.
November 1, 2025 at 9:30 AM
🎅🏼🪤📕SCHOOLS!
If you’re reading #TheSantaTrap this term, you can find lots of FREE resources for the book using the links below:
• Read-along video
• Posters: Cover & Spread
• Activity Sheets: Wordsearch & Maze
• KS1 & 2 Lesson Plans
• Author’s Notes
• Blogpost about how schools have used the book.
If you’re reading #TheSantaTrap this term, you can find lots of FREE resources for the book using the links below:
• Read-along video
• Posters: Cover & Spread
• Activity Sheets: Wordsearch & Maze
• KS1 & 2 Lesson Plans
• Author’s Notes
• Blogpost about how schools have used the book.
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Big news! The Supreme Court has ruled that RE in Northern Ireland is indoctrinatory. Alongside mandatory collective worship and a ‘stigmatising’ right of withdrawal, this is discriminatory under human rights law. All eyes on how the governments of the UK respond 👀 humanists.uk/2025/11/19/s...
Northern Ireland RE curriculum is ‘indoctrination’ – Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has ruled in favour of a non-religious father and his child that the exclusively Christian teaching of Religious Education (RE) and collective worship in Northern Ireland are ‘indoct...
humanists.uk
November 19, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Big news! The Supreme Court has ruled that RE in Northern Ireland is indoctrinatory. Alongside mandatory collective worship and a ‘stigmatising’ right of withdrawal, this is discriminatory under human rights law. All eyes on how the governments of the UK respond 👀 humanists.uk/2025/11/19/s...
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Staunching the flow of local authority public assets into private hands should have been one of the top priorities of an incoming Labour government. When it’s gone, it’s gone 😢
At what point will Labour politicians, locally and nationally, really start to push back against the endless underfunding of local authorities?
We know what damage this does, and how it will verberate into our futures.
How is there not louder, insistent opposition to this?
We know what damage this does, and how it will verberate into our futures.
How is there not louder, insistent opposition to this?
English councils plan to sell off social clubs and sports centres to balance books
Survey finds 60% of key cities councils are planning to sell assets to meet costs of adult and children’s social care
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Staunching the flow of local authority public assets into private hands should have been one of the top priorities of an incoming Labour government. When it’s gone, it’s gone 😢
Lilliput C of E Infant School in Dorset has banned pupils from singing songs from KPop Demon Hunters over concerns they are not in keeping with its "Christian ethos".
Seems a bit small-minded.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Seems a bit small-minded.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Singing of KPop Demon Hunters songs banned at school in Poole
The head teacher tells parents references to demons can feel
www.bbc.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Lilliput C of E Infant School in Dorset has banned pupils from singing songs from KPop Demon Hunters over concerns they are not in keeping with its "Christian ethos".
Seems a bit small-minded.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Seems a bit small-minded.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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My latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books pages.
November 16, 2025 at 4:15 PM
My latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books pages.
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So to summarize, your image is packed with mistakes, uses an exploitative tech, fails to communicate a clear message, displays your ignorance, insults the people of that county, makes you look like environmental vandals and fails to describe your key demographic.
This is why you pay a designer. 7/7
This is why you pay a designer. 7/7
November 15, 2025 at 12:26 PM
So to summarize, your image is packed with mistakes, uses an exploitative tech, fails to communicate a clear message, displays your ignorance, insults the people of that county, makes you look like environmental vandals and fails to describe your key demographic.
This is why you pay a designer. 7/7
This is why you pay a designer. 7/7
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Okay, I can't let this one go. I live in Ireland, not the UK, but the use of this image by a supposedly socialist party is so stupid and offensive, I'm going to get stuck in.
Let me explain to you why any experienced illustrator/designer could have stopped you making so many miserable mistakes. 1/
Let me explain to you why any experienced illustrator/designer could have stopped you making so many miserable mistakes. 1/
November 15, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Okay, I can't let this one go. I live in Ireland, not the UK, but the use of this image by a supposedly socialist party is so stupid and offensive, I'm going to get stuck in.
Let me explain to you why any experienced illustrator/designer could have stopped you making so many miserable mistakes. 1/
Let me explain to you why any experienced illustrator/designer could have stopped you making so many miserable mistakes. 1/
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Use the form here to send a letter to Mayor of London Sadiq Khan asking him to end adverts for polluting businesses:
actionnetwork.org/letters/time...
Edinburgh and Sheffield have already introduced such bans.
Read how adverts are driving #ClimateBreakdown here:
theconversation.com/many-cities-...
actionnetwork.org/letters/time...
Edinburgh and Sheffield have already introduced such bans.
Read how adverts are driving #ClimateBreakdown here:
theconversation.com/many-cities-...
November 11, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Use the form here to send a letter to Mayor of London Sadiq Khan asking him to end adverts for polluting businesses:
actionnetwork.org/letters/time...
Edinburgh and Sheffield have already introduced such bans.
Read how adverts are driving #ClimateBreakdown here:
theconversation.com/many-cities-...
actionnetwork.org/letters/time...
Edinburgh and Sheffield have already introduced such bans.
Read how adverts are driving #ClimateBreakdown here:
theconversation.com/many-cities-...
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Generate billions for public services by taxing the most climate-hostile behaviour of the über-rich; what's not to like?
It only takes a couple of minutes to email your MP using the template form available on the link below. It will even find your MP's email address from your postcode.
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It only takes a couple of minutes to email your MP using the template form available on the link below. It will even find your MP's email address from your postcode.
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Did you know you pay more fuel tax on a single car journey than a billionaire does on a private jet flight?
Right now the gov is subsidising tax breaks, when they could be using that tax to generate billions for public services.
Help us change this: https://bit.ly/43NAeFN
Right now the gov is subsidising tax breaks, when they could be using that tax to generate billions for public services.
Help us change this: https://bit.ly/43NAeFN
November 13, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Generate billions for public services by taxing the most climate-hostile behaviour of the über-rich; what's not to like?
It only takes a couple of minutes to email your MP using the template form available on the link below. It will even find your MP's email address from your postcode.
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It only takes a couple of minutes to email your MP using the template form available on the link below. It will even find your MP's email address from your postcode.
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If, like me, you left X/Twitter because of its repellent owner, but still have an account on there, your abandoned follows could be encouraging other users to stick with it.
This thread explains why, and how to use a Chrome extension to unfollow everyone quicker.
#QuitX #TwitterExodus
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This thread explains why, and how to use a Chrome extension to unfollow everyone quicker.
#QuitX #TwitterExodus
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At the beginning of this episode, Armando explains why he’s left X and Ria explains why she’s still on there.
Many people are still on X for the same reason as Ria – they have far more followers on X than on Bluesky or other platforms.
I suspect a significant number of Ria’s followers on X will …
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Many people are still on X for the same reason as Ria – they have far more followers on X than on Bluesky or other platforms.
I suspect a significant number of Ria’s followers on X will …
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November 14, 2025 at 5:24 PM
If, like me, you left X/Twitter because of its repellent owner, but still have an account on there, your abandoned follows could be encouraging other users to stick with it.
This thread explains why, and how to use a Chrome extension to unfollow everyone quicker.
#QuitX #TwitterExodus
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This thread explains why, and how to use a Chrome extension to unfollow everyone quicker.
#QuitX #TwitterExodus
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By replying you are confirming that the email address the AI scammer sent the email to is active and regularly checked.
This and other reasons can be found in this advice post and elsewhere.
caniphish.com/blog/respond...
They’re like seagulls - if you feed them, you’ll attract more of them.
By replying you are confirming that the email address the AI scammer sent the email to is active and regularly checked.
This and other reasons can be found in this advice post and elsewhere.
caniphish.com/blog/respond...
They’re like seagulls - if you feed them, you’ll attract more of them.
6 Things That Happen When You Respond To A Phishing Email
Responding to a phishing email confirms your account's activity to attackers, potentially weakens your email security, and risks personal information leakage. This engagement can build unwarranted tru...
caniphish.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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By replying you are confirming that the email address the AI scammer sent the email to is active and regularly checked.
This and other reasons can be found in this advice post and elsewhere.
caniphish.com/blog/respond...
They’re like seagulls - if you feed them, you’ll attract more of them.
By replying you are confirming that the email address the AI scammer sent the email to is active and regularly checked.
This and other reasons can be found in this advice post and elsewhere.
caniphish.com/blog/respond...
They’re like seagulls - if you feed them, you’ll attract more of them.
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I've seen several social media posts from authors who have replied to AI phishing emails, either with responses along the lines of “Please remove me from your contact list or I'll report you for fraud" or more humorously.
Here's why REPLYING TO SCAM EMAILS IS A BAD IDEA.
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I've seen several social media posts from authors who have replied to AI phishing emails, either with responses along the lines of “Please remove me from your contact list or I'll report you for fraud" or more humorously.
Here's why REPLYING TO SCAM EMAILS IS A BAD IDEA.
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November 13, 2025 at 7:10 PM
📢FELLOW AUTHORS📢
I've seen several social media posts from authors who have replied to AI phishing emails, either with responses along the lines of “Please remove me from your contact list or I'll report you for fraud" or more humorously.
Here's why REPLYING TO SCAM EMAILS IS A BAD IDEA.
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I've seen several social media posts from authors who have replied to AI phishing emails, either with responses along the lines of “Please remove me from your contact list or I'll report you for fraud" or more humorously.
Here's why REPLYING TO SCAM EMAILS IS A BAD IDEA.
…
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💨 In 2025, a report from the Royal College of Physicians found that air pollution contributed to 30,000 deaths in the UK in 2025 and cost the UK upwards of £27 billion annually – and may be as much as £50 billion when wider impacts, such as dementia, are accounted for.
November 14, 2025 at 10:10 AM
💨 In 2025, a report from the Royal College of Physicians found that air pollution contributed to 30,000 deaths in the UK in 2025 and cost the UK upwards of £27 billion annually – and may be as much as £50 billion when wider impacts, such as dementia, are accounted for.
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We see this time and time again.
When two schools – one faith school and one non-faith school – 'merge', guess what happens?
Religion takes over, against the will of parents.
humanists.uk/2025/11/14/r...
When two schools – one faith school and one non-faith school – 'merge', guess what happens?
Religion takes over, against the will of parents.
humanists.uk/2025/11/14/r...
Save the last non-faith school in Hotwells, Bristol, from closure, Humanists UK tells DfE
Humanists UK has called on decision makers in Bristol to reject proposals to merge Hotwells Primary School, a school of no religious character, with a Church of England Primary school. If the…
humanists.uk
November 14, 2025 at 11:27 AM
We see this time and time again.
When two schools – one faith school and one non-faith school – 'merge', guess what happens?
Religion takes over, against the will of parents.
humanists.uk/2025/11/14/r...
When two schools – one faith school and one non-faith school – 'merge', guess what happens?
Religion takes over, against the will of parents.
humanists.uk/2025/11/14/r...
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Most ordinary people care about this if they understand the problem. We could make even more progress and further mitigate the consequences of climate change if we dealt with the cause of so many of our problems: the handful of billionaires who seem to control our governments.
With current pledges, the world's on track for 2.6°C of warming in 2100 compared to preindustrial levels.
10 years ago, before the Paris agreement, it was 3.6°C
20+ years ago, we thought it would be 4-5°C
So 2.6°C is better, but the problem is that climate impacts are way worse than we predicted.
10 years ago, before the Paris agreement, it was 3.6°C
20+ years ago, we thought it would be 4-5°C
So 2.6°C is better, but the problem is that climate impacts are way worse than we predicted.
World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds
Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Most ordinary people care about this if they understand the problem. We could make even more progress and further mitigate the consequences of climate change if we dealt with the cause of so many of our problems: the handful of billionaires who seem to control our governments.
At the beginning of this episode, Armando explains why he’s left X and Ria explains why she’s still on there.
Many people are still on X for the same reason as Ria – they have far more followers on X than on Bluesky or other platforms.
I suspect a significant number of Ria’s followers on X will …
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Many people are still on X for the same reason as Ria – they have far more followers on X than on Bluesky or other platforms.
I suspect a significant number of Ria’s followers on X will …
🧵
November 14, 2025 at 11:01 AM
At the beginning of this episode, Armando explains why he’s left X and Ria explains why she’s still on there.
Many people are still on X for the same reason as Ria – they have far more followers on X than on Bluesky or other platforms.
I suspect a significant number of Ria’s followers on X will …
🧵
Many people are still on X for the same reason as Ria – they have far more followers on X than on Bluesky or other platforms.
I suspect a significant number of Ria’s followers on X will …
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