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Nick Posford @nickpos.bsky.social · 13h

I'll admit it would be astonishing to see someone like her deradicalised, and it definitely can't be said to have happened yet, but let's hope that journey continues. When she apologises for her past actions and behaviour, maybe it shows there is real hope.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3d

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Nick Posford @nickpos.bsky.social · 1d

I moved to Wales because I love it and had friends I wanted to be closer to. I like the focus of this report and the suggestions for change. Test & Learn agile approach makes a lot of sense. Great piece of work, would love to hear response from @plaidcymru.bsky.social & @benlake.bsky.social

Transform Wales @transform.wales · 1d

Today, we're launching Transforming Public Services for a Modern Wales. This report sets out a clear path for the next Welsh Government to move beyond short-term fixes and deliver better, human-centred services.

#DigitalWales #PublicServiceReform

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Nick Posford @nickpos.bsky.social · 7d

My one solace is that I believe (hope) in 100 years, students writing about history will debate which of the tech bros, Trump, Musk or Farage were most responsible for the destruction of societal norms. All of them will be villains of history. I have to believe that because the alternative is v grim

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Nick Posford @nickpos.bsky.social · 8d

A Pope who is more forward thinking than many predecessors (that's not saying much, though!) and a woman as archbishop of Canterbury, maybe the journey to enlightenment isn't quite destroyed by Trump and the fascists just yet....

Nick Posford @nickpos.bsky.social · 8d

I'm an atheist and brought up as a Catholic (or rather brought up by Catholics, as unpleasant as it was), but I'm pleased to see some modernity in the CofE, albeit super sceptical as I am of religion and a state backed church.

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 9d

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf

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Nick Posford @nickpos.bsky.social · 14d

Adopt a rescue. Genuinely the best thing anyone can do. Especially if they're a lurcher! Such lovely characters and they deserve happiness. These two - Rogue and Whisper - are my life's purpose, and I'll always be grateful to have them! Xx

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Nick Posford @nickpos.bsky.social · 15d

Warms my heart to see the audience response to Billy's points, I do not think Reform remotely represent the majority opinion in the UK, as much as many media organisations try to make it so.

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 15d

Richard Tice, "We've already got 80 sharia courts in the UK"

Billy Bragg, "There are also Jewish courts as well, thats part of their religion. We as a tolerant nation accept that"

"To demonise, particularly the Muslims, is the sort of thing we worry about Reform UK"

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Nick Posford @nickpos.bsky.social · 16d

The pub just down the road from me is small but loved by locals. It's a community hub, run by a great landlady who cares and constantly does great things for the community, hosts different events that bring us together, and takes no shit! It's one reason I love where I live.

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Nick Posford @nickpos.bsky.social · 18d

I remember going on holiday with a family whose son was a complete spoilt brat, tediously egotistical, boasting about everything. It was memorable for all the worst reasons. He now works for a charity so must have improved as he grew up. Whereas the President of the United States is still a child.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18d

Trump: "I'm really good at predicting things. During the campaign they had a hat -- a best-selling hat -- 'Trump was right about everything.' And I don't say that in a braggadocios way, but it's true. I've been right about everything."

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Nick Posford @nickpos.bsky.social · 19d

Indeed, the unacceptability of political violence is reinforced, that even open racists and bigots should not be murdered for political ends. Free speech advocate, open racist and bigot Charlie Kirk never resiled from being himself, why is he being portrayed differently after his horrific death?

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 19d

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Nick Posford @nickpos.bsky.social · 20d

The toxic internet may turn out to be the most consequential event in history. Encouraging the worst aspects of human nature, plus bots and trolls affecting elections and then leading to the resurgence of far right fascism. And STILL the UK govt seems to do nothing about X. That is unacceptable.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 20d

‘If he can be found, every one of the users can be’: unmasking the man behind toxic gossip website Tattle Life

For almost a decade, the site has torn apart the lives of celebrities and ordinary people alike, while its creator’s identity has remained a mystery. Until one couple turned super sleuths …

www.theguardian.com

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Nick Posford @nickpos.bsky.social · 20d

Democrats: 'but let's not get too heavy in our response'

Spooky Back From the Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 20d

We're at the point where the Trump does something worse than Watergate daily, often multiple times a day. And none of it makes news; it's just normal now.

Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 20d

In a less insane time, if it was discovered that the President of the United States said this privately to their AG, it would’ve triggered an all-encompassing, impeachable corruption scandal.

Here, Trump is saying it publicly and it’s just another Saturday.

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Nick Posford @nickpos.bsky.social · 20d

My memories as a teenager in the eighties was a fear of nuclear armageddon, but I would have struggled to envisage that it would come not from a nuclear war but because a way oversensitive stupid celebrity decided to destroy his opponents and everything else because he couldn't bear not being liked.

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Nick Posford @nickpos.bsky.social · 20d

Even more bizarre is that the 'greatest democracy in the world' elected a toddler that turned out because of (abuse of) the power of the position to create more evil and hate and foreign policy disasters than more traditional dictator states.

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Nick Posford @nickpos.bsky.social · 20d

We all thought the Terminator would come through a time wormhole but actually all it took was a small screen that transfixed us as the world decayed (and I'm not ruling out apocalyptic nuclear war as the way it ends...)

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 20d

Imagine someone suggesting back in the 1970s that, in the future, the phones would rise up and take over our daily/hourly/minutely beliefs and thinking patterns to the point that the country/world goes nuts and becomes infested with hate.

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Nick Posford @nickpos.bsky.social · 21d

If dogs were mafia bosses... "Don't mess with me mofo, or you'll be buried in cement!!"

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Nick Posford @nickpos.bsky.social · 22d

Is there an email to contact you on? I think we (UK Evaluation Society) could be interested in offering a virtual event next year linked to your book. You can email me on [email protected] if you prefer. Diolch.

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Nick Posford @nickpos.bsky.social · 23d

Returning home. Where my heart is. And my two besties!

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Nick Posford @nickpos.bsky.social · 23d

This is a lovely article, well worth all of two minutes of your time. Have just told my friend that he's my copemate!

Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 23d

Lexicographer @susiedent.com is our latest Brief Encounter:

“As the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein put it so beautifully, ‘The limits of my language are the limits of my world.’”

Read Dent’s full Q&A: www.prospectmagazine...

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 23d

"We are going to have to live here with each other" is one of the most revealing things he could have said, because it ignores the fact that many people in America have had to live in the same streets and towns as those who dehumanise them - and to accept that grim reality - for their entire lives.

Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 24d

"All I can say for me in the work I do is that I want to create a space that takes our disagreements seriously, that takes the stakes of them seriously, the consequences for people seriously, but does so without deepening our divisions irreparably. We are going to have to live here with each other"

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Nick Posford @nickpos.bsky.social · 23d

If only all policies were based on evidence of what works (and indeed if only all policies had to include evaluation to show what works), the world would be a better place and we at the UK Evaluation Society would be happy!

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 23d

Bold 'control and compassion' approach can reduce small boat numbers.

'“The new Home Secretary needs to seize the initiative on small boats with a real-world plan that is bold enough to have an impact but founded on hard evidence of what works'.

www.britishfuture.org/bold-control...

Bold 'control & compassion' approach can reduce small boat numbers - new report - British Future

New evidence shows how a 'routes & returns' approach could combine control and compassion to reduce small boat asylum crossings.

www.britishfuture.org

Nick Posford @nickpos.bsky.social · 23d

Can't help thinking the biggest contribution to UK policy and world peace would be for the king to turn to Trump at the end of everything and tell him that he (Charles), his wife, his mother the previous Queen and his whole family think Trump has no class, tacky taste & they consider him an asshole.

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Nick Posford @nickpos.bsky.social · 24d

Absolutely love this. I'm no longer a Londoner but I loved the time I spent there and its diversity is not just a strength but it's what makes London London. Wherever you're from, London can - and should always - be your home if you want it to be. AND everywhere else in the UK.

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 24d

In London, hate will never win.