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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 1h

Please join my campaign for the British government to set up a department that would deal with issues around culture, media (and sport - why not?). And also to set up a specific regulator for broadcast media.

Ben Fenton @benfenton.bsky.social · 2h

If a news organisation is making -200% margin after five years, it is not a commercial operation and should be assumed to have a different purpose.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 4h

The channel lost £33 million to communicate its content to a large audience
www.business-live.co.uk/enterprise/g...

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Grim Flandango @grimflandango.bsky.social · 1h

If you want to know why RW media dominates everything it’s because billionaires have no problem setting millions of dollars on fire if it means furthering their interests.

Ben Fenton @benfenton.bsky.social · 2h

If a news organisation is making -200% margin after five years, it is not a commercial operation and should be assumed to have a different purpose.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 4h

The channel lost £33 million to communicate its content to a large audience
www.business-live.co.uk/enterprise/g...

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Ben Fenton @benfenton.bsky.social · 2h

If a news organisation is making -200% margin after five years, it is not a commercial operation and should be assumed to have a different purpose.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 4h

The channel lost £33 million to communicate its content to a large audience
www.business-live.co.uk/enterprise/g...

GB News suffers huge loss despite doubling revenue and growing audience

The TV channel, whose well-known presenters include Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, fell to a pre-tax loss of £33.4m in the year to 31 May, 2024

www.business-live.co.uk

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David Ziggy Greene (Jam bookshop) @jambookshopuk.bsky.social · 1d

A cool charity in Hoxton that teaches & gives disadvantaged kids skills in filmmaking has asked me a question:

Any female animators want to take part in a mentorship programme they run?

They've been doing good work for 25+ years.

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Xander King @xanderking.bsky.social · 5h

This is an extremely long article to say “because I am a grasping moral vacuum without a decent booking in ages”

He says David Chapelle can’t be doing this for the money because he’s already rich. Rich people are famous for not chasing yet more money, of course. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I have been criticised for being part of the Riyadh comedy festival. This is why I did it | Omid Djalili

The headlines focus on money, but the gigs were great and I think there are different ways to achieve progress. Art, especially comedy, can be part of that, says stand-up comedian, Omid Djalili.

www.theguardian.com

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 11h

Losing my mind and what look like video game assets but instead were used to justify war crimes and genocide in the real world

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war.Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.We traced over 30 unique assets to Washington-based 3D creator Ian Hubert, who makes bespoke models created for his sci-fi project Dynamo Dream, available to his Patreon subscribers.

Models of parking lots, antennas, + pipes were repurposed as Hamas and Iranian military sites

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Fascinating work here tracing how the IDF recycled 3D assets from a cyberpunk sci-fi art project, the Scottish Maritime Museum and elsewhere to populate its widely-seen models of supposed enemy locations in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. One of the most infamous, the alleged underground Hamas command center at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, used to justify an unprecedented assault on the biggest medical center in Gaza, was actually an animation the IDF had used the previous year, saying at the time it was a tunnel beneath a UN school.

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 5h

Reading some "How can we use AI well?" articles, it feels a lot like "How can we use cocaine well?" There's definitely ways you could improve functional use, but a) seriously do you really want to b) do people who want to use it really want to c) long term, is this something you want to have said?

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 18h

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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Martin Greenaway @mgreenaw.bsky.social · 4h

Because your question is stupid. There are no slickly produced 3d animations coming from the other side TO BE debunked. I'm sorry if this reality offends you.

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Martin Greenaway @mgreenaw.bsky.social · 4h

It's going to shock you to learn that Hamas are not releasing slick 3d animations made from publicly available assets purporting to be of bits of Jerusalem. This is the lamest bit of whataboutery I think I've ever seen.

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Martin Greenaway @mgreenaw.bsky.social · 20h

But where did they do their best work Iain

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Martin Greenaway @mgreenaw.bsky.social · 20h

Anyone who says the US is not yet an authoritarian banana republic (at the very least) is neither serious nor credible.

Reuters @reuters.com · 23h

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Trump calls for Chicago mayor, Illinois governor to be jailed

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday called for Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Governor JB Pritzker to be jailed, accusing the two Democrats of failing to protect federal immigration officers without offering any evidence.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 1d

No, it's not. It's all a lie. The blunt truth is across the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them.

Iain Mansfield @igmansfield.bsky.social · 1d

Outstanding piece by Stephen Daisley.

Ethnicity is no barrier to Britishness - it's culture and integration.

That means 'smaller cohorts and aggressive integration policies' - and tackling the institutions that 'have amplified grievance narratives and radical anti-Western ideologies'.

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Martin Greenaway @mgreenaw.bsky.social · 23h

But still, won't it be great when cos only have to report twice a year, Jamie?

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Martin Greenaway @mgreenaw.bsky.social · 23h

To look at the mess our housing policy is in and to conclude that the issue with it is Stamp Duty is ... tin-eared, I'd say. Has Stamp Duty been an arse to have to pay when I've moved house? For sure. Is it the reason we have a shortfall of 5+ million houses? Not even remotely.

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Martin Greenaway @mgreenaw.bsky.social · 23h

Oh no, they're all in favour of building power plants, as long as they don't end up in Tory constituencies.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 1d

Badenoch: "While Britain was redefining what a woman is, China built five nuclear reactors."

A perfect summary of conservative idiocy. Glorifying authoritarian post-communism for its efficiency while vilifying democracy for seeking nuance and respect.

It is the Right who hate their own countries.

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Martin Greenaway @mgreenaw.bsky.social · 1d

nO rEcOuRsE tO pUbLiC fUnDs (ad infinitum)

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Martin Greenaway @mgreenaw.bsky.social · 1d

It's put me right off my hot dog breakfast, I can tell you

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 1d

No shit I'm furious. I spent eleven years learning to write well about complex topics in ethical ways, often for criminally low rates, because I believe that work's important. It's deeply insulting to see a total dipshit get fabulously wealthy for telling the rich what they want to hear!

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Martin Greenaway @mgreenaw.bsky.social · 1d

Feels like maybe he should have spent his time actually running the country, instead of writing a book, and maybe it wouldn't be in such a mess.

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Martin Greenaway @mgreenaw.bsky.social · 1d

I was rather torturing the metaphor, but still

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Martin Greenaway @mgreenaw.bsky.social · 1d

TBH, I feel like the experience of the Smiths where the whole thing implodes, the front person goes mad and heads off to the right doing their own thing, while the rest of the crew disappears into obscurity is probably more relevant.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 1d

It's properly unconscionable that the Home Office has created this situation. It should never have been allowed to happen and once it did happen it should have been immediately reversed.

The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 1d

🚨BREAKING: The metropolitan police
arrest a man for carrying a copy of our magazine. This is a threat to both journalism and freedom to protest

Aaliyah 🇮🇪🇵🇸 ‼️SAVE GAZA‼️ @aaliyahxx.bsky.social · 1d

Watch | A man was arrested in London for holding up The New World magazine, featuring the "sign of the times" with the words:

"I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action"

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Martin Greenaway @mgreenaw.bsky.social · 1d

Blue tick "progressives" with 100k followers on here, posting "Why I've just quit Twitter" in October of 2025 - what do you want, a fucking medal?

Just at the time when Bluesky is starting to ramp up its own bullshit, too.

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