Russian state media are today alleging that a Bellingcat reporter was involved in an attempt to hijack a Russian fighter plane. We would like to make clear that Bellingcat had absolutely no involvement in the alleged activities and the accusations towards us are entirely false.

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I have met Fenton. A sweet, simple soul who meant no harm

Confident in the work we have done to reach this conclusion www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Amazing story about Jan 6 rioter turned Blaze reporter who appears to have falsely accused a police officer of planting a “false flag” pipe bomb outside the RNC. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

QUEEN WORLD CUP #QueenWorldCup Last of the last 16, Mercury v Mercury. Self loathing v self love. BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY, never heard of it V GOOD OLD-FASHIONED LOVER BOY, joyous romp Vote in reply with your favourite, I want to hear some fighting talk. Result at 10pm.

Join us! (DM me if you want any advice on applying) careers.bbc.co.uk/job/Journali...

El Fashir is a horror that cannot be ignored. Lots of expertise went into reporting this www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Meta earns $3.5 billion every six months from showing Faceboon and Instagram users 15 billion “higher legal risk” scam ad impressions a day, internal documents state. That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators To fine it for running scam ads. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Just for context, it was an international scandal when YouTube erased documentation of Syrian government war crimes. Now it's just the Intercept and tech outlets who care. apnews.com/article/d9f1...

This is a fantastic read. Also brilliant mobile 1st storytelling - modular, scrolling driven by visual elements, no chapter more than 2 thumbscrolls long

Piracy used to be a British industry. The decline of a skilled and motivated workforce since the 17th Century has resulted in opportunities for those from developing nations like Somalia... www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cz...

Excellent work by @cycologies.com on where wheels come off "charge spectators" suggestion for bike races. I'm not going to repeat how much 2 tribune seats cost me in 2012 for TDF in Paris (four figures from painful memory)

Also works with Ganja Man...

The dubplate version of the John Lewis ad, strictly for the headstrong

This morning's (2025-11-03) hi-res images show that the oil terminal at Tuapse, Russia is working on containing the oil spill caused by yesterday's "drone sanctions" by Ukraine. One of these three tankers is a known naughty but not on any G7 government blacklists. Only on ours.

This would be crushing if I was a small ad supported outlet that needed clicks to pay the bills! But my model is convincing people to pay to read the original scoop a week earlier. Every bit of diluted follow-up in a bigger outlet is just free advertising.

Fantastic journalism. In new cycle of things, all major news outlets will repurpose @londoncentric.media work in next week or two. @jim.londoncentric.media & team doing work bigger orgs don't/won't commission/fund anymore but are happy to copy if someone else does

Love this man. It takes a lot to stick your hand up & admit you are not coping as a journalist. We fortunately have brilliant support within BBC News. Well done also for noting challenge for our colleagues who don't get to leave war ones. www.thetimes.com/life-style/c...

Good catch by @maikmarahrens.bsky.social #Furia banned/sanctioned #NUC #NotUnderCommand #BalticSea Flag #SL #SierraLeone

UK govt choosing to describe 50K British citizens living in Jamaica as "dual nationals". Looking through DWP stats, seems at least 5k of those are pensioners

We've been keeping eye on UN aid data for Gaza. Interceptions (often misdescribed simply as "looting") of aid deliveries has dropped from 80% to 6% since start of ceasefire. Remarkable change www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cw...

GRAPHIC CONTENT #BBCNews live page: www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cy... Fear of mass killings as thousands trapped in besieged #Sudan city taken by militia group #RSF #EyesOnSudan

Wild numbers in this @financialtimes.com piece on impact of age verification in UK. Pornhub traffic from UK down THREE QUARTERS, not all accounted for elsewhere via VPN www.ft.com/content/bf11...

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Far too many in cycling seem to overlook Cooke's incredible contribution and achievements in the Sport. Reminder: she was 1st rider to win both Olympic & World Road Race title in same year

A story about Mt Ventoux possibly appearing in the Tour de France Femmes. And not a single mention of Nicole Cooke riding it in yellow? Like, come on @cyclingnews.com, what the actual fuck? For those who have forgotten Cooke's story:

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...

45% of all AI answers to news inquiries had at least one significant issue. 31% of responses showed serious sourcing problems – missing, misleading, or incorrect attributions. 20% contained major accuracy issues, including hallucinated & outdated information www.ebu.ch/news/2025/10... - @ebu.ch/BBC

Applaud @cyclefit.bsky.social Manifesto www.cyclefit.co.uk/journal/the-... by @midlifecyclist.bsky.social - had years of joy from fits done 15 years ago (bike & insoles) & Jules' pioneering suggestion to try shorter cranks. Used on all my bike builds. Hoping my old Merckx isn't too old for refit

Robbed.

Breakthru does have that enormous synth bass line driving it.

Great work by Kevin to get GHF to admit their operations are paused in Gaza. We’ve been tracking their operations data for months www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Big game time #queenworldcup

Well said Francesca Simon. ‘The University of Chicago’s motto is: “Let knowledge grow from more to more; and so be human life enriched.” If you’ve learned how to think, critically and creatively, then universities have done their job.’ 1/

Using satellite imagery to tell stories better doesn’t need to be expensive. These Mexico flooding images are free from @esa.int Copernicus Sentinel 2 www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx...

Fascinated by @wfp.org charts showing food diversity decline in Gazan diets over duration of conflict. From September 2025 Food Security Analysis docs.wfp.org/api/document...

Un aperçu de cet entretien dans ce fil.

Will be finding out tomorrow if Bari is an early adopter for the exit part.

#Flash is a cinematic masterpiece. A masterpiece. Hear me? DIIIIIIIIIIIVE!

Dead cat bounce or hammer candlestick? It's all Bri, all day today.

Outstanding investigation reveals fabricated narratives in IDF animations

Interesting article on Ireland's (hopefully) evolving defence posture. If true that 75% of data cables carrying up to 95% of international traffic pass through or near Irish waters, then long past time Ireland took at least some interest in protecting them. www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-res...

Very enjoyable thread

Machine learning is a neat tool, but clearly companies are desperate to give “AI” credit for what human scholars accomplish in part because companies have bet the farm on the idea that human ingenuity is expendable. This historian is extraordinary and deserves the real credit.

feels a bit weird that we keep having these stories about individual cyber attacks but without anyone really joining the dots and going "okay, shall we maybe talk about this as a major global story"

Totally agree. Suspect number of successful attacks is tiny fraction of volume of attempts.

'Use public transport', they say. Trains now basically unusable if you have to cycle or drive to the station. Already the most expensive fares in Europe, you now need to factor in the cost of losing your bike or car, and who can risk that?

Ukraine keeps pulling off the modern military equivalent of jujitsu. Here Russia’s immense size is turned into a vulnerability, as its sprawling oil infrastructure is almost impossible to protect with limited anti air facilities

Absolutely! although the origins of this campaign go all the way back to 2022: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....