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Jo PRComms @joprcomms.bsky.social · 19h

Good luck!

Jo PRComms @joprcomms.bsky.social · 19h

I’d say a day release apprenticeship as long as she works with a stylist/salon who have proven commitment to training and getting juniors through. You need to learn more than cutting/colouring hair, and I think salon apprenticeships do that better. Caveat: my knowledge is 15/20 years later

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Women's Prize @womensprize.bsky.social · 1d

Meet the Judges of the 2026 Women’s Prizes!

A warm welcome to: Julia Gillard, @monaarshiwrites.bsky.social, Salma El-Wardany, Cariad Lloyd and Annie Macmanus, and Thangam Debbonaire, Roma Agrawal, Nicola Elliott, Nina Stibbe and Nicola Williams.

#WomensPrize

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 1d

feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*

Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 1d

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 1d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Kath @kathyburke.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, yes I know I keep banging on about my fucking book! However, if you want one repost this and I’ll do a random winner pick thing by the end of the week because I’m great like that. ♥️📚
#amindofmyown

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 3d

Delighted that Cory is having a moment with "Enshittification," because it's an accurate word for what's happening in tech and he's the right person to describe it.

(Gift link)

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/b...

A Powerhouse Writer Found One Word to Change the Debate About Tech

www.nytimes.com

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Jo dB @jodb.bsky.social · 4d

The brilliant Andrew Hankinson has done some writing again. He’s so good.

observer.co.uk/style/featur...

Laughing in Joe Rogan land | The Observer

At the podcaster’s Comedy Mothership, you can hear the authentic voice of Trump’s America. How did comedians get so much political power?

observer.co.uk

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 5d

oh wow. this finally happened to me. a piece I wrote lifted wholesale by the Daily Mail, lightly rewritten and without any links back to my original piece of writing.

most amazingly, a weird use of the word 'pacing' suggests to me that they did it with ChatGPT.

archive.ph/LFmzR

archive.ph

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Eamonn-Forde @eamonn-forde.bsky.social · 6d

This is not just about me or my book. This is about respecting and valuing actual journalism. Our ideas, our contacts, our ethics, our reputations, our hard work – that’s how stories like those in my book first come to light. If you don’t respect or value any of that, what do you respect and value?

Eamonn-Forde @eamonn-forde.bsky.social · 6d

A post about Novel Audio, Chris Atkins and their podcast on EMI and Terra Firma.

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Jo PRComms @joprcomms.bsky.social · 6d

Paying people for their actual work is so last century.

This is a major company we’re talking about, not a naive bloke in his Mum’s bedroom.

Shameful.

Eamonn-Forde @eamonn-forde.bsky.social · 6d

A post about Novel Audio, Chris Atkins and their podcast on EMI and Terra Firma.

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Arieh Kovler @ariehkovler.com · 6d

One way that Bluesky today feels like 2010 Twitter: It has an antisemitism problem. There are thankfully plenty of people willing to call it out, but lots of accounts cheering on or justifying terrorism in the last 24 hours.

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The Mill @manchestermill.bsky.social · 7d

On their holiest day, Manchester’s Jews face their ‘darkest of moments’.

Our story about today’s attack.

manchestermill.co.uk/on-their-hol...

On their holiest day, Manchester’s Jews face their ‘darkest of moments’

Amid fasting and prayer, terror comes to Crumpsall

manchestermill.co.uk

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 7d

Reform UK council in Nottinghamshire ends ban on local journalists

Ban on Nottingham Post and its website reversed after threat of legal action over damaging freedom of expression A Reform UK council has ended its ban on journalists from the area’s biggest local newspaper after being threatened with legal action over damaging the outlet’s freedom of expression. Nottinghamshire county council, which has been led by Reform since the local elections earlier this year, said it was “committed to the principles of openness” after lifting the sanctions it had placed on journalists from the Nottingham Post and its website, Nottinghamshire Live. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Emiliano Mellino @mellino.bsky.social · 7d

🚨 Our new investigation out today reveals how thousands of people who've taken their bosses to employment tribunals & won, never got paid, even after they approached the government for help.

This has serious implications for the Employment rights bill.
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

Thousands of rogue bosses get away with not paying tribunal awards

The government scheme ‘enforcing’ money owed to workers has been unsuccessful in a staggering three-quarters of cases

www.thebureauinvestigates.com

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Sarcophagus Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 7d

You don’t actually have to both sides this. The Jewish community in the UK is not the Israeli government. You can just condemn the murder of two British Jews killed in their place of worship and you don’t have to say a single other thing.

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Jo PRComms @joprcomms.bsky.social · 14d

Clearly, the fan hitting PR story this week is Sarah Ferguson (again). I.s Radio 4’s PR magazine show hosted by former royal spinner addressing it?

Of course not.

a cartoon of donald duck with a flower in his beak

ALT: a cartoon of donald duck with a flower in his beak

media.tenor.com

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Centre for Ageing Better @ageingbetter.bsky.social · 15d

Only 36% of people aged 50-66 feel they have a good understanding of workplace support available to them, and this drops to 31% for Disabled workers.

It's time to bridge the gap. Employers can make a difference by clearly communicating available adjustments and fostering inclusive environments.

"I should have spoken to [occupational health], but I didn’t know what was available. I’ve never dealt with occupational health. I didn’t even know it existed to be honest." (Male, fifties, engineer)

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Jo PRComms @joprcomms.bsky.social · 15d

Personally disappointed that Seascraper didn't make it, I loved it.

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Jo PRComms @joprcomms.bsky.social · 15d

Read three, reading another now, so will
comfortably get the shortlist read this year.

The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 16d

We are delighted to reveal the #BookerPrize2025 shortlist – six books that ‘are all brilliantly written and brilliantly human’.

➡️ Discover the full list: thebookerprizes.com/bp2025

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Jo PRComms @joprcomms.bsky.social · 17d

I do agree that people don’t seem to understand algorithms etc (and it can be complicated stuff, so hardly surprising). Like you, the Kirk stuff hadn’t popped up for me at all except on BBC radio bulletins. So I do think there’s a section of “I’ve not seen it, therefore no one has.”

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 22d

I love London so much. So much.

Did you know that London has the lowest level of ethnic violence of any city of comparable size in the world?

Multiculturalism has in fact worked here. They just don’t want it to be true because we happen to have a Muslim mayor.

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 22d

In London, hate will never win.

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Jo dB @jodb.bsky.social · 23d

Very surprising fact in the Mirror.

#saveoursubs

Owen Cooper, who played Jamie Miller, the 13 year old accused of murder in Adolescence, made history by becoming the first ever male winner of an acting Emmy at the ceremony in Los Angeles.

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.bsky.social · 23d

[me, a journalist who spends all day every day on a social media app where the discovery algorithm is personally controlled by its owner, captain birdseye] you know, a lot of people are talking about fish fingers, we should probably cover that

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Jo PRComms @joprcomms.bsky.social · 26d

This 100%. And so many accounts you'd hope would know better.

Nicola @scrapegroat.bsky.social · 26d

What I would say is that a fucking lot of people who should know better are still responding to and sharing clickbait without considering even for a second whether it might not be true.

Jo PRComms @joprcomms.bsky.social · 26d

www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning

The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn’t a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division

www.thenation.com

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