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Among the things I edit is www.londonfreelance.org Photo ©
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one dozen rats at a keyboard
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QANON CULTIST IN 2017: "In this 1,879 page thread I will unravel the byzantine system of codewords and phrases the global elite use to mask their pedophile cabal." JEFFREY EPSTEIN WRITING AN EMAIL AT THE SAME TIME: "helo its me jeff had fun cmmitting sex crimes wit u lst weeknd"
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Cethan Leahy
about 7 hours ago
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
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Simonetta Vezzoso
about 20 hours ago
"The GEMA legal adviser Kai Welp said the organisation now hoped to negotiate with OpenAI on how rights holders could be compensated"
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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ChatGPT violated copyright law by ‘learning’ from song lyrics, German court rules
OpenAI ordered to pay undisclosed damages for training its language models on artists’ work without permission
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/11/chatgpt-violated-copyright-laws-german-court-rules
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Dan Grey
about 17 hours ago
If The Times had written 1m more on Universal Credit with no requirements to work they would be correct – because 1m people have been moved from the old Working Tax Credits and Employment Support Allowance to UC. 1m more "on benefits" is WRONG
@geraldinescott.co.uk
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The National Union of Journalists
about 18 hours ago
We thank Grahame Morris MP for his speech in Parliament calling for the BBC to investigate and handle any errors proportionately, with regard to due process and without “political interference”.
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Anna Kaminski
1 day ago
Breaking: Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret
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Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret • Kansas Reflector
A handful of county-level officials who were involved in a small-town Kansas newspaper raid in 2023 will pay a cumulative $3 million to three journalists and a city councilor.
https://kansasreflector.com/2025/11/11/marion-county-agrees-to-pay-out-3m-for-newspaper-raid-express-regret/
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Charles Fourier
1 day ago
Spotted in London...
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Freelance Nov25: Children should not be harmed by adults - Mark Rylance on Remembrance Day
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Children should not be harmed by adults - Mark Rylance writes | The Freelance
An enquiry of the character Thomas Cromwell
https://www.londonfreelance.org/fl/2511mark-rylance.html
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John Pfaff
2 days ago
White Afrikaners looking at Trump and saying “don’t associate us with this racist!” That’s quite a legacy.
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Ed Newton-Rex
2 days ago
There’s a good chance the British Prime Minister’s main adviser on AI is an OpenAI shareholder - but the government refuses to say whether she is. 🧵 1/5
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Netopia.eu
2 days ago
Why AI Opt-Out Systems Don’t Work
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Why AI Opt-Out Systems Don’t Work | Copyright Alliance
Throughout the history of the United States, our copyright system has always been an opt-in system. That means if someone wants to use a copyrighted work, they have to get permission from the copyrigh...
https://copyrightalliance.org/why-opt-out-systems-do-not-work/
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Aaron Rupar
2 days ago
Trump: "Nobody knows what magnets are."
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Greg Jenner
3 days ago
There are many subtle and complex arguments one can have about the future of the BBC — but I guarantee you that no other channel or streaming service will be as committed to factual programming, children’s education, history shows, religious discussion, poetry, arts, or state of the nation debate
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Jenée Desmond-Harris
2 days ago
Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond-
[email protected]
or dm me. RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
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Chaminda Jayanetti
3 days ago
the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever
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David Osland
4 days ago
The Murdoch press is complaining about BBC bias. That's the very definition of foolish bravado.
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Jessica Shortall 🧂🥴
6 days ago
A woman ruined my workplace By Caravaggio (c. 1602)
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Big grooming gang exposed.
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Al Jazeera English
5 days ago
UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has responded to Israel’s UN Ambassador Danny Danon after he called her a “witch”, saying, “If I had the power to make spells... I would use it to stop your crimes once and for all.” 🔴 LIVE updates:
aje.io/ihrv92
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Steve Peers
5 days ago
The CJEU will soon be ruling on whether this Danish housing policy is directly racially discriminatory (the Advocate-General's opinion says it is:
curia.europa.eu/juris/docume...
). The UK's Home Secretary wishes to base family reunion for refugees on such a policy.
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David Hendy
5 days ago
Just to reiterate my view, having studied the history of the BBC for over a quarter of a century - as well as having worked there for several years as a journalist: Robbie Gibb should have absolutely no role whatsoever in the governance of the Corporation.
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Boris Johnson trying to undermine BBC leadership, insiders fear after leak
Director general under pressure after release of memo criticising reporting on Trump, trans rights and Gaza
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/nov/07/boris-johnson-trying-to-undermine-bbc-leadership-insiders-fear-after-leak
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The National Union of Journalists
6 days ago
The NUJ has reiterated calls for the UK government to: 📢Establish a Commissioner for Covert Law Enforcement in NI. 📢Appoint an independent body to fully investigate covert surveillance. 📢Establish an independent inquiry into the murder of Martin O’Hagan.
www.nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj...
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NUJ submits evidence on the safety and surveillance of journalists in Northern Ireland
The NUJ has responded to the Northern Ireland Select Committee’s call for evidence on policing and security in Northern Ireland.
https://www.nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj-submits-evidence-on-the-safety-and-surveillance-of-journalists-in-northern-ireland.html
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The New Arab
6 days ago
Book Club 📚 In 'Complicit', British journalist Peter Oborne rips away the veil of diplomacy to reveal Britain's fingerprints all over Gaza's destruction 👇
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The British betrayal of Gaza exposed in Complicit
Book Club: In ’Complicit’, British journalist Peter Oborne rips away the veil of diplomacy to reveal Britain’s fingerprints all over Gaza’s destruction
https://www.newarab.com/features/british-betrayal-gaza-exposed-complicit
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‘in 1981... Bottum joined Faith No Man (later Faith No More)... accenting their “pummelling rhythm section” with “a sense of beauty atop that darkness. Rock bands didn’t have keyboards then.” ’ So, to take the first that comes to mind, are the Doors not rock?
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
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‘I was the only out queer guy in rock’: Faith No More’s Roddy Bottum
The keyboard player on his heroin overdose, how Kurt Cobain wanted to be gay and why his memoir will ruin his Christian relatives’ Thanksgiving dinner
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/nov/07/faith-no-more-roddy-bottum-queer-memoir-interview
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Press Gazette
6 days ago
Conde Nast has fired four members of staff, including a politics reporter for Wired and a senior fact checker at The New Yorker, who were part of a group who gathered outside the office of chief people officer Stan Duncan demanding to discuss recent layoffs
www.semafor.com/article/11/0...
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Condé Nast abruptly fires 4 staffers after HR confrontation
The firings were an unsubtle message to its employee union that the publisher was taking a harder line in its dealings with employees.
https://www.semafor.com/article/11/06/2025/cond-nast-abruptly-fires-4-staffers-after-hr-confrontation
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saoirse
7 days ago
tapping the sign again
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IFJ- International Federation of Journalists
6 days ago
#PressFreedom📰
: MEP Sandro Ruotolo and the entire PD/S&D delegation have submitted to the European Commission the same question that cost the job to journalist Gabriele Nunziati, underlining that “No question is out of place”.
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Ruotolo (PD) submits to the Commission the same question that cost Gabriele Nunziati his job
"No question is out of place. Freedom of the press is guaranteed by Article 11 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union'
https://www.eunews.it/en/2025/11/06/ruotolo-pd-submits-to-the-commission-the-same-question-that-cost-gabriele-nunziati-his-job/
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HappyToast
6 days ago
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Hannah Fearn
7 days ago
This is insane. Big picture, people. It's November and it's 16 degrees.
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/n...
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Rachel Reeves considering pay-per-mile tax for electric vehicles in budget
EV drivers would face 3p-a-mile charge on top of other road taxes to offset falling revenue from petrol and diesel cars
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/nov/06/electric-vehicles-pay-per-mile-tax-rachel-reeves-budget
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IFJ- International Federation of Journalists
7 days ago
#Palestine🇵🇸
: Despite the ceasefire, journalists in
#Gaza
continue to work under extremely difficult conditions to keep the world informed. The
#IFJ-PJS
Media Solidarity Center in Gaza City provides them with internet connection and a safe space to work ✊🏾
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Catherine Clase
7 days ago
Middle East Studies Association and American Association of University Professors: report on US govt investigations into universities "According to the report, only 1 of 102 antisemitism complaints the authors reviewed raises antisemitism claims unrelated to criticism of Israel."
shorturl.at/xUeBz
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Surge in antisemitism investigations at US universities after October 7 attacks, data shows
A report shared exclusively with the Guardian documents how a civil rights law has become a tool to impose ideological priorities on US schools
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/05/university-anitisemitism-investigations
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kate wagner
8 days ago
dawg not the steakhouse wedding font
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Mrs. Betty Bowers
8 days ago
Will this be available on streaming?
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Marisa Kabas
8 days ago
it was so sweet of the NY post to make a special commemorative issue
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Photojournalism News
8 days ago
THE NEW ARAB: Killing of Gaza journalists highlighted on Day to End Impunity
www.newarab.com/news/killing...
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#photojournalism
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Killing of Gaza journalists highlighted on Day to End Impunity
The UN-recognised day seeks to highlight the danger faced by journalists globally, in what has been the deadliest time ever for media workers
https://www.newarab.com/news/killing-gaza-journalists-highlighted-day-end-impunity
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Trish Greenhalgh
8 days ago
Today’s bias feedback on an AI- generated student click-through exercise: “Gemini made everyone who is in a role like a porter or cleaner a person of colour but not the doctors/higher earning staff.” Good job we hire humans to check these things… 🙄
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Mueller, She Wrote
9 days ago
ATTN: if you’re on the sandwich guy jury, my Signal is in my bio. I’d love to talk after the trial. I’ll keep you anonymous. Please share widely.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them)
8 days ago
thank you for the outpouring of support! those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.
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Donate to Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover, organized by Lexi McMenamin
More than half the team at Teen Vogue was laid off this week by our parent co… Lexi McMenamin needs your support for Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-laidoff-teen-vogue-editors-recover
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southpaw
8 days ago
Burry’s Palantir trade is roughly an order of magnitude bigger—and more interesting imo—than the Nvidia puts.
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Steve 52 NO KINGS
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Freelance Nov25: Tax researcher may face a SLAPP SLAPP - sued for saying being sued is bad?
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Tax researcher faces a SLAPP SLAPP - sued for saying being sued is bad | The Freelance
Also, how anti-SLAPP law can backfire
https://www.londonfreelance.org/fl/2511slapp.html
11 days ago
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Liam Thorp
9 days ago
A total and utter hero
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Andrew Cutting
9 days ago
Happy Birthday to the European Convention on Human Rights, which has helped to protect
#OurRightsAndFreedoms
for 75 years. Here are more than 200 examples, from across the continent👇 🔗
www.coe.int/ECHR
There are thousands more.
#ECHR
#ECHR75
@coe.int
@echr.coe.int
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Marisa Kabas
9 days ago
Teen Vogue has become a top-tier political journalism authority and doing this the day before election day is just cruel.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them)
9 days ago
thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
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Neve Gordon
25 days ago
My article on the Jewish Chronicle and the weaponisation of antisemitism is out and is open access.
doi.org/10.1177/0163...
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https://doi.org/10.1177/01634437251375360
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Media, Culture & Society Journal
about 2 months ago
How is ‘antisemitism’ invoked in The Jewish Chronicle?
@gordonneve.bsky.social
shows how the paper has exaggerated & instrumentalised the term, fueling moral panic & legitimising racial governance especially around Oct 7, 2023.
#OnlineFirst
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NUJ London Freelance Branch 🗞️
10 days ago
“We’ve heard from
@nujofficial.bsky.social
, UCU
@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
& medical reps. Bringing orgs together - with all our skills, talents, capabilities - to tackle the massive issues we’re facing. - Chair
@rosesrebellion.bsky.social
Thanks to all our speakers and guests. 🙏
#IDEI2025
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Otto English
10 days ago
Daniel Hannan was born in Peru.
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