Mary Carson
@carsonmaryc.bsky.social
Curious, opinionated watching.
London by Derry | Have previous @guardian @BBC @Channel4 @Discovery @L_Sentinel | Producer MyFriendLanre | Handy with a camera |
London by Derry | Have previous @guardian @BBC @Channel4 @Discovery @L_Sentinel | Producer MyFriendLanre | Handy with a camera |
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the mad about paywalls on commercial publications people and the no problem with lack of attribution people are on the same exhausting side.
December 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
the mad about paywalls on commercial publications people and the no problem with lack of attribution people are on the same exhausting side.
Austerity is in the air again – from ‘overdiagnosis’ to the benefits bill. Here is what's at stake | Zoe Williams www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #austerity
Austerity is in the air again – from ‘overdiagnosis’ to the benefits bill. Here is what's at stake | Zoe Williams
A mindblowing new show reveals the human cost when the political system turns against the people, putting stories and faces to the hundreds of thousands of citizens thought to have died due to austeri...
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Austerity is in the air again – from ‘overdiagnosis’ to the benefits bill. Here is what's at stake | Zoe Williams www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #austerity
Team Oligarch Suits Up to Torpedo Netflix/WBD Merger talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/team-...
Team Oligarch Suits Up to Torpedo Netflix/WBD Merger
Simply extraordinary stuff coming out this morning about the battle over what...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Team Oligarch Suits Up to Torpedo Netflix/WBD Merger talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/team-...
Kindness rules
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www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/refuge...
People In The UK Are Opening Their Doors to Refugees – And Finding New Family
“We’ve had guests who have arrived and slept for two days because they’re finally safe."
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
December 9, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Kindness rules
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European Commission approves Meta proposal giving users the option to choose less data sharing and less personalized ads. Move comes after EC fined Meta $233 million in April for violating DMA
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Meta proposal for less data sharing is approved by European Commission
Instagram and Facebook users in the EU will now have the option to share less personal data and see fewer personalized ads.
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December 8, 2025 at 9:41 PM
European Commission approves Meta proposal giving users the option to choose less data sharing and less personalized ads. Move comes after EC fined Meta $233 million in April for violating DMA
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All of this
Its a fun, swashbuckling space opera. Like, imagine organizing your worldview around a catastrophic misinterpretation of the plot of Mass Effect lol
read the first two "Culture" series books while vacationing, and though they are ripping yarns and perfect beach reads (especially Consider Phlebas) the standard view amongst the technology brothers that they are somehow serious looks at a plausible (if deep) future never really occurred to me
December 8, 2025 at 3:11 PM
All of this
I remember this shit being read to me as a child. It was going on in Russia and behind the Berlin wall. The rest of the adult world to my small mind was aghast. And yet......
🚨Pam Bondi just ordered the FBI to compile a list of American "extremists" and to establish a bounty fund to reward tipsters, per DOJ memo leaked to me: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-fbi-l...
FBI Making List of American “Extremists,” Leaked Memo Reveals
Are you on Trump's naughty list?
www.kenklippenstein.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I remember this shit being read to me as a child. It was going on in Russia and behind the Berlin wall. The rest of the adult world to my small mind was aghast. And yet......
The best for a long time. A tonic! #Imacelebrity
That was the loveliest 'I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here' I've seen in years. So much friendship, laughter, and fun and I loved everyone. The final four were brilliant and I didn't mind who won!
And no politicians on it, Yay!💚🌿🪳🦗
And no politicians on it, Yay!💚🌿🪳🦗
December 8, 2025 at 12:45 AM
The best for a long time. A tonic! #Imacelebrity
Trump wins his peace prize from Fifa – any chance of a VAR review? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump wins his peace prize from Fifa – any chance of a VAR review?
At a gaudy and gauche World Cup draw, Gianni Infantino went all out to flatter the world’s most precious ego
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Trump wins his peace prize from Fifa – any chance of a VAR review? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Peace prize?! FIFA just got ridiculous. The elites be eliting
Trump has adopted racist conspiracy theories in his extraordinary attack on Europe
Trump has adopted racist conspiracy theories in his extraordinary attack on Europe
Trump has adopted racist conspiracy theories in his extraordinary attack on Europe
www.independent.co.uk
December 5, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Peace prize?! FIFA just got ridiculous. The elites be eliting
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Aw man. RIP Steve Cropper - a lot of great music here, and so glad he was part of the Blues Brothers. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/d...
Steve Cropper, legendary guitarist for Booker T & the MGs, dies aged 84
Prolific musician was known for work on songs like Green Onions and Otis Redding’s (Sittin’ on) The Dock of the Bay
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Aw man. RIP Steve Cropper - a lot of great music here, and so glad he was part of the Blues Brothers. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/d...
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Gavin Newsom launches portal for California residents to snitch on federal agents who ‘abuse their authority’
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Gavin Newsom launches portal to report ICE agents who ‘abuse authority’ in California
Golden State officials said the tool would help push back against a ‘campaign of terror’ by Trump administration
www.independent.co.uk
December 4, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Gavin Newsom launches portal for California residents to snitch on federal agents who ‘abuse their authority’
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Sense talk
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How the internet became enshittified – and how we might be able to deshittify it
The internet offered a world of connection and cooperation. What we got was a world of ruthless monopolies and oligarchs.
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December 4, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Sense talk
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Hey Meta. How about you don't film at all.
December 3, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Hey Meta. How about you don't film at all.
A case of projection
December 3, 2025 at 12:57 AM
A case of projection
Won’t somebody please think of Britain’s poor £2m homeowners? Oh, wait – everyone already is | Jonathan Liew www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Won’t somebody please think of Britain’s poor £2m homeowners? Oh, wait – everyone already is | Jonathan Liew
Contrast the furious reaction to Rachel Reeves’s ‘mansion tax’ to the response offered to those living with real housing injustice: indifference, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew
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December 3, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Won’t somebody please think of Britain’s poor £2m homeowners? Oh, wait – everyone already is | Jonathan Liew www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Credit where it's due.
Rape victims in England and Wales to be protected from ‘serial liar’ trope in legal shake-up www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Rape victims in England and Wales to be protected from ‘serial liar’ trope in legal shake-up www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Rape victims in England and Wales to be protected from ‘serial liar’ trope in legal shake-up
Exclusive: New laws will also curb questioning and aim to stop complainants being discredited over previous reports
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Credit where it's due.
Rape victims in England and Wales to be protected from ‘serial liar’ trope in legal shake-up www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Rape victims in England and Wales to be protected from ‘serial liar’ trope in legal shake-up www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Sally Rooney is a fucking treasure. Free Palestine. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Sally Rooney books may be withdrawn from UK sale over Palestine Action ban, court told
Rooney has said she intended to use royalties from her work "to go on supporting Palestine Action."
www.bbc.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Sally Rooney is a fucking treasure. Free Palestine. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Thank the universe for @patrickwintour.bsky.social Essential reading...
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The week Europe realised it stands alone against Russian expansionism
Washington’s Putin-appeasing plan for peace in Ukraine has failed, but many heard death knell sounded for European reliance on US protection
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Thank the universe for @patrickwintour.bsky.social Essential reading...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Survivors on ‘narco boat’ targeted by Trump order were blown apart after Hegseth verbal command to ‘kill everybody’: Report
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Pete Hegseth’s order to ‘kill everybody’ included alleged drug boat survivors: report
More than 80 people killed in campaign that law-of-war experts have labeled extrajudicial murder
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November 28, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Survivors on ‘narco boat’ targeted by Trump order were blown apart after Hegseth verbal command to ‘kill everybody’: Report
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"Israeli soldiers have shot and killed two Palestinian men during a raid in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin as the pair attempted to surrender to the military, according to video footage and witness accounts from the scene."
Israeli troops kill two Palestinians in Jenin as they try to surrender
Observers condemn Israeli army's killing of two Palestinian men in northern West Bank as 'shocking crime'.
www.aljazeera.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:07 AM
"Israeli soldiers have shot and killed two Palestinian men during a raid in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin as the pair attempted to surrender to the military, according to video footage and witness accounts from the scene."
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Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old.
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November 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old
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Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Star of The Harder They Come had hits including You Can Get It If You Really Want and I Can See Clearly Now
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
