One of the best things about Scotland qualifying for the World Cup finals are the conversations I am overhearing about how to clear immigration and be allowed in the US. Many Scots are not quiet about their dislike of Trump so the joy, now mixed with a little terror, is fascinating

"I am cutting Luke's hand off now" "I am being chased by a massive boulder through an old temple" "I am faking an orgasm in Katz Deli to prove a point" Netflix exec "I am killing cinema"

Am buzzing about the @indexoncensorship.org awards. Our winners are just the most incredible people. Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, Saturday Mothers, Carlos Correa & Mohamed Tadjadit - all heroes. And buzzing that Deputy PM David Lammy called Index "iconic". So that's official now. Index = iconic.

In my opinion, AI is only good for shit-talking memes. Here is the third member of Jedward - Jedgar

Look at this #FOI masterpiece. A classic. A page of a document I received from an English police force when I requested any training documents or guidance regarding the policing response to the protests calling out the proscription of Palestine Action.

Of course I am not in Scotland when the national team wins the most gloriously bonkers game to see them qualify for the world cup final for the first time since 1998. Typical

They must fight this. They must do better than CBS and ABC. Their capitulation emboldened Trump who now sees it as his strongest weapon to censor the press. If we value a free press and public service broadcaster we must support them in this fight

What is the best way of identifying a fragile regime? When poetry is presented as a form of terrorism. Mohamed Tadjadit should never have been arrested or imprisoned. He must be free

of all the atrocities these emails likely allude to, it's still amazing that 'elites' write awful things *in emails*. so above the law, so convinced of their rectitude, so conditioned to impunity.

NEW The letter the BBC could send back to Trump A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim By me. Enjoy. emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...

We condemn yesterday's verdict against poet Mohamed Tadjadit, sentencing him to an additional 5 years in prison. Tadjadit is being persecuted for his poetry and peaceful activism. We call for his immediate and unconditional release: www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/11/join...

Reporting on economic crime is, on paper, protected against #SLAPPs. But do the protections work? Dan Neidle is looking to find out. Read more from the UK Anti-SLAPP Coalition here: antislapp.uk/2025/11/12/d... @danneidle.bsky.social

The grotesqueries of our world continue unabated.

Same mission. Fresh look. Landing 13.11.25

Is anyone else getting logged out of their @bsky.app account more regularly at the moment through the mobile app? I have had to re-sign in like 5 times in the last three days.

Sauchiehall Street has lots of vacant or closing shops. If we were to follow Trump's authoritarian logic should we be expecting the military to be called in?

I think Kim's work really demonstrated Teen Vogue at its best. Non-patronising or condescending. The writers treated their audience with respect and as autonomous individuals. It will be missed and we will definitely feel it's absence

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An important demonstration of the gaping chasm in protection without universal or federal anti-SLAPP laws. @lukelebrun.ca and @pressprogress.ca are at risk cause they are in Alberta. Free speech protections shouldn't be a post code lottery

⚖️ UPDATE ⚖️ After journalist Abdalle Mumin faced legal threats, the government has laid down the law to UK firms. goodlaw.social/x90i

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All credit and solidarity with @profpech.bsky.social here. An important stand to make and one wholly consistent with the rule of law

🚨 BREAKING: The government has tabled their plan to restrict repeat protests. Demonstrations could now banned based on the 'cumulative disruption' that previous protests have caused in the area - regardless of if they have been organised by the same people or not. This is worse than we feared.

Happy Birthday ECHR! Your footing may be fragile right now and your legacy may be contested but my god you are needed now more than ever! What a day to be in Strasbourg

🚨 1 in 3 law firms are not compliant with anti-money laundering rules. 📈 But, the government has recently taken steps to address this issue. 💷 If implemented correctly, this move could be transformational for the UK's dirty money problem. Learn more: ukanticorruptioncoalition.org/work/release...

Personally, I blame woke

Digital technology, which should help to concentrate and centralize information to prevent losses, offers no guarantee against the threats of hacking and theft of personal data by cyber-criminals.

a national movement of "I'm telling daddy"

📣To mark the anniversary of the tragedy in Novi Sad, we will discuss how the govt's efforts to stifle protests and control information fuel growing attacks on the media in 🇷🇸 #Serbia. 🗓️4.11 ⏰14:00 CET Register now: www.mfrr.eu/one-year-on-... @mediafreedomeu.bsky.social

There are FAR more damaging impacts of AI on society, but I am currently raging at the near total conquest of funny animals videos. My refuge from the darkness of work has been ransacked by slop. Long live the dog falling off the sofa, the cat spooked by a cucumber or the wholesome rescue story

Seven extraordinary journalists have been named the 2025 IPI-IMS World Press Freedom Heroes for their courage and resilience: - Mzia Amaglobeli - Martin Baron - Mariam Abu Dagga (posthumous) - Gustavo Gorriti - Jimmy Lai - Victoria Roshchyna (posthumous) - Tesfalem Waldyes #Journalism #IPIWoCo25

Always nice to stumble across a bit of personal film history when you are on a work trip. The record shop from one of my favourite films, Before Sunrise where Hawke and Deply listen to Kath Bloom

Reading every day now abt US murders of supposed drug traffickers, I think of the Philippines’ Duterte, famous for such extra judicial violence…He is in jail now. But first he cemented power and ruined/ended many lives. If US violence at sea continues, it will come home. And jail may or may not come

Should be - if it was ever needed - the clearest sign that these fuckers are propagandists not journalists No journalist would agree to work under these restrictions. Period.

Imprisoned journalists Andrzej Poczobut from Belarus and Mzia Amaglobeli from Georgia have been awarded the European Parliament's 2025 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought.

You may have heard about UK ministers' plan to double to 10 years the time needed to reached settled status in the UK. But did you realise that it threatened access to pensions for the 180,000 people who came from Hong Kong on the UK government's visa scheme? My dispatch: www.ft.com/content/8b91...

Today's AWS outage, which affected a range of websites and applications—from Signal to Fortnite to key UK government services—reveals the dangers of relying on a handful of Big Tech firms, write Article 19's Corinne Cath and Don Le. These are not glitches; they are democratic failures, they say.

In Togo, the authorities have restated their intentions to regulate online speech, restricting the use of social media amid heightened political tensions.

#UK and #Ireland 🌐 Survivors of sexual and gender-based violence are being silenced by the very people accused of committing the abuse. Read the new report from @indexoncensorship.org revealing how abusive legal actions are silencing those who speak out.

⚠️ Survivors of sexual and gender-based violence are being silenced by the very people accused of committing the abuse. A new report from @indexoncensorship.org reveals how abusive legal actions in the UK & Ireland are silencing those who speak out ⬇️ www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/10/the-...

Eight years ago, we were shaken by a tragedy that had no precedent in Malta. Eight years ago, someone decided to carry out an assassination on a person who chose, instead of living a comfortable life, to risk her own safety in order to expose facts in the public interest

Last night I was in Parliament to launch @indexoncensorship.org report, "From Survivor to Defendant: How the law is being weaponised to silence victims of sexual violence", exploring how SLAPPs can silence, isolate and harass survivors of sexual and gender-based violence antislapp.uk/2025/10/16/s...

NEW: How a U.S. anti-abortion group has quietly positioned itself as a powerbroker between the Trump administration and Nigel Farage’s Reform UK. Latest investigation w Elizabeth Dias.  www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage. Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech" www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

Have returned to Joe Rogan by Georgia Maq and it hits differently and with far more potency in Trump's second term. georgiamaq.bandcamp.com/track/joe-ro...

#Badenoch and #Jenrick parroting Trump-lite policies like a British ICE, purity tests for judges and restricted free expression and expecting applause...from a near empty room. Here is a recent update from #Trump America

I’m about to start crying — the mothers of prisoners of conscience are making sandwiches for protesters traveling from other cities for today’s mass rally. #GeorgiaProtesters

Literally last week every MAGA idiot around was insisting, loudly, how terrible it was that the Biden admin pressured YouTube to remove COVID misinfo, even as YouTube said it ignored the pressure. Those same folks will either be silent or cheer this on:

NEW: UK asked Apple to backdoor iCloud encryption. Backdoors create a massive target for hackers & criminal groups. Dictators will inevitably demand that Apple do the same for them. 1/ www.ft.com/content/d101...

"They want you to see a land of laughter, so you stop listening to the screams." Bored by defensive responses by the sell-out comics in Riyadh? Why not, instead, read the powerful words of Ghanem al-Masarir, an exiled Saudi satirist www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/10/saud... @indexoncensorship.org