Twenty-odd minutes to go. It's make your mind up time.
A bit of Søren Kierkegaard for you all this fine morning. Kind of bleak, maybe, if only superficially; but he's got a point! (Source: www.themarginalian.org)
In an unexpected turn of events, the damaged lamp post is pointing at the angry councillor.
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The 2024 UK General Election had a bigger effect on national identity in Britain than Euro 2024
Sound surprising? Well, we found this as part of a paper accepted at @bjpols.bsky.social
With the World Cup ⚽️ starting tomorrow, this is the perfect time to read more blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/thinking-wal...
Loyalists, of course. I live there and have a shop on the Shankill. 🙄
The areas affected on the news yesterday are UVF controlled. (Although it appears to be spreading to nationalist areas.
They may not be bombing but haven’t gone away…
I am absolutely appalled by the POGROMS in Belfast.
But it is lazy to just blame social media. POGROMS have been around for centuries. They are rooted in racism, which is fueled by elites.
Look at Reform, Tories, and, yes, Labour. Look at GB News, Times, and BBC, before starting about Tik Tok.
Of course the prime minister is posting on X about how bad the riot organised on X is. Fucking of course he is. An expression of complete subservience to the men in Silicon Valley and the White House who have instigated this moment.
Anaka Women's Collective are a refugee/migrant support group who did a lot of work last night getting people out of danger, and a lot of their work is co-ordinated with Participation and the Practice of Rights (PPR)/No One Left Behind.
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In the course of today, His Majesty’s Government will do both of the following things:
- moan loudly about X and blame it for the grotesque scenes in Belfast;
- create huge amounts of content for X to monetise
To govern is to choose.
How much time have you spent on local Facebook groups, X or Nextdoor recently?
Hopefully less than the @smfthinktank.bsky.social research team - we manually analysed 125,000 social media posts from 95 places in the UK to get a read on the extent and nature of local misinformation. (1/6)