[email protected]: Journalists talk about the elephant in the room: our relationship with Big Tech www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/jour...

The last ever #FagsMagsAndBags - perfect work by @govindajeggy.bsky.social and team… www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

It’s a tradition

Excited to see @hazelsheffield.bsky.social has a book coming out in February! And this story - not just about Brighton - is definitely worth your time: www.theguardian.com/business/202...

#Brazil 🇧🇷 @indexoncensorship.org covers how Meta removed multiple Brazilian left-wing influencers from Instagram, with politicians calling the bans a “direct attack on freedom of speech” and on voices denouncing corruption and police violence.

A survey of more than 1,000 artists found that 56% of participants are mired in debt. What’s worse is that this number climbs to 59% for those with gallery representation and museum shows under their belt.

“My name’s Paul Nuttalls of the UKIPs” youtu.be/a17duTUK6qw #migration

Time to find those old hard drives… www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

Alexei Sayle in 1995 - just exceptional: youtu.be/7aglun7Xrgw

Need a last-minute Christmas present? Fear not, as @steampowered.com has got you covered: store.steampowered.com/app/1221260/... (first time reading #popbitch in ages)

“Auditors – so-called because they play at being citizen-journalists, “auditing” what they see around them – post hours-long videos... They are wind-up merchants, antagonising people & using their reactions as evidence that Britain is “finished”, hoping to get clicks & advertising revenue.”

“If you had to pick a single text to sum up the last few decades in political economy, it would be ‘for he that hath, to him shall be given.’ If I had to bet, it would be on the continuation of that trend.” John Lanchester in the @lrb.co.uk on #AI: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

@journalismfestival.com Oh dear… www.theguardian.com/media/2025/d... #storytelling

“In space, there is no air.”

Having a There's Too Much News moment, so I put on this performance of Luigi Nono's Prometeo while I do some writing. Unfortunately, the introductory explanation, in subtitled Czech, is quite intense. As is the setting for the performance. Back to Steve Reich. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jote...

Went to sleep thinking about this, as some chancer lobbed his law-bomb last night. And then got up and read the BBC Green Paper consultation document and felt a lot better.

Do you make freedom of information requests? Do you respond to them? Interested in the future of #FOI? Do we have the conference for you! FOI Fest - Thu 19 Feb 2026 - London & online Free tickets: pretix.eu/mysociety/fo... And coming soon... an FOI Network www.mysociety.org/transparency...

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

Please take the time to read this thread from @alisonkilling.bsky.social.

“It couldn’t happen here, part 7,943” observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Bleak outlook on the attacks on #civicspace in Europe… monitor.civicus.org/globalfindin...

One of the best #music blogs does its year-end round-up: www.saidthegramophone.com/archives/bes...

The UK celebrating International Human Rights Day in the traditional way. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... #UDHR #humanrights #europe

Today the LGA have published a brilliant report, produced by the Growth and Reform Network (a partnership between FGF and Metro Dynamics), about the vital work #councils do enabling inclusive economic #growth www.local.gov.uk/publications...

And economic #inequality is bound up with and exacerbated by #informationinequality…

The latest edition of the @londoncentric.media newsletter has a great (but depressing for TFL) story about ghost plates and #ANPR evasion (38% of taxis??), that reminds me of the old SQL injection story from 15-20 years ago: hackaday.com/2014/04/04/s...

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“This is the media ecosystem we live in now — a supercharged shopping system that thrives on outrage, dominates the culture, and resists any real scrutiny because no one’s really in charge, and another generation of creators is always there to exploit.”

Pertinent to some of the debates that have been going on in #journalism for a little while.

#music open.spotify.com/track/5UdY4q...

I was just joking in private with someone that this will definitely hit a newsroom sooner rather than later, and that it will come up as an idea in BBC Charter Renewal, and lo!

Was just on the Piccadilly Line, sardined with fans of the other lot - including one family attired in Brentford kits, hiding their home kits - so I changed up my homescreen. #COYS

The floor is…

Good god - what a wonderful episode celebrating the late #MiraCalix on NTS: www.nts.live/shows/in-foc...

“These reforms have eroded housing as a social right. The inequalities of who can live where & under what conditions, have created massive grievances among a large share of the population [that] contribute to the increasing electoral success of the radical right.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Swap Frank for Slot? or is Ange finally going to get the Liverpool job he craves? #COYS

Bon courage, podcasters! #THFC #COYS

Just walked down the high road to the shuttle and it’s very subdued. Mad to think Bilbao and the parade were six months ago, and all that goodwill and energy utterly squandered. Dread to think what platitudes TF will come out with… “learn”, “aggressivity, intensity”, “duels”… #THFC #COYS

#THFC #COYS

Better since 58 mins. And endeavour gets us going. One touch, flicks, etc. #COYS

At least with #angeball we had our hearts in our mouths a lot of the time. At the moment it’s lots of heads in hands. Shockingly disjointed. Among the worst I’ve ever seen. The boys huddled in the centre circle before they went in. Hope we can find some kind of spark in the second half. #COYS

pure masochism, again. Why do I bother? Genuine despair around me. #THFC #COYS

For all who need to tune in and zone out: www.nts.live/shows/sounds...

From our summer intern at the Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers: "S-risk is the risk that AGI doesn’t kill us all, but instead enslaves and tortures us for eternity (the ‘S’ stands for suffering). It was awesome to learn about it." directing.attention.to/p/ill-never-...

Imagine if the government & regulator actually took Meta to task for this, and forced them to put that £600m a year into a national endowment for journalism - that would support and sustain public interest journalism (on all platforms) in the UK for decades…

This is an incredibly powerful article by Peter Ettedgui. I hope people listen to him and to the others who are brave enough to come forward.