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No prizes for guessing which one's mine ❓
This is not an intellectual point, bur I wanted to state that I am frightened by the situation in the US and I am becoming even more anxious by the extent to which most people I know IRL (ie: not politics addicts) are entirely unmoved
In Ep 8 of TLDR's World Leader Leaderboard:
⚙️ Zac’s prediction of a new German-Italian engine in Europe
🇷🇸 Nadja’s updates on Serbia’s mass protests
📗 Why I chose Ursula von der Leyen as my loser of the week
+ a shoutout to the Pope and the arrival of our snack delivery 🚛
youtu.be/jqmcx8PqVYw?...
Very proud to see myself and the team featured in YouTube's Guide to Davos as the next generation of news
Thank you so much! It can be exhausting pointing out the walls of the echo chamber (on any issue, on any side)…especially when you’re right in the middle of one 😵💫
Someone voted for Bernie Sanders lmao
A fantastic read by @georginafindlay.bsky.social for @theguardian.com that transforms a particularly harrowing experience into a compelling warning about the escalating political and personal dangers posed by audio deepfakes.
Wrote for @theguardian.com about discovering my AI voice clone 🤖
"The ability to trust is central to human cooperation in our increasingly globalised, increasingly intertwined personal and professional lives – yet we have never been so close to undermining it."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
If they wish not to be seen as such, they should immediately criticise Jenrick’s deeply concerning (and factually inaccurate) statement…
This is a fantastic article discussing how the UK is *already* a 'multicultural' society - and how the term is too often used by politicians and the media to create divisions where there are none. ⬇️
It's almost like they should have noticed this was happening and built an additional, modern, high-speed rail line connecting London and the North.
Weird that didn't happen, but probably not specifically anyone's fault.
the OG has fallen 🫡
(and congrats to TLDR Global for becoming the fastest growing & second largest TLDR channel by subs)
🚨 This isn’t me narrating, but it is my voice. 🚨
My brother’s friend (21M) saw it on instagram: from a ‘verified’ account ostensibly concerned about Islam and the end of ‘Christian Britain’
Most posts in the past 4 days tagged # VoteReform…
Terrifying stuff
Northerners (we) are warmer, friendlier and more open…while southerners have a reputation for being cold and standoffish!
But there is also a North/South economic divide. The south is wealthier, has better health outcomes & life expectancy. I did a video on it a while ago:
youtu.be/dMTetBPI3ig?...
TLDR's Christmas World Leader Leaderboard™️ is out now ! ✨🟢🔴
In today's episode: a helpful explainer on the Serbian protests by @lovadinov.bsky.social 🇷🇸, plus a unanimous decision on who the biggest winner of last week was... 🇸🇾
Watch here: youtu.be/svbO2eNoIBM?...
or listen on your podcast app 🎧
Balkan bad 😰🥵
In the latest episode of TLDR's World Leader Leaderboard -as what my 🦋 bio suggests- I rant a bit about Balkan politics... specifically the massive student protests unfolding in Serbia now 🇷🇸
ft me, Zac, @tldrjack.bsky.social & @georginafindlay.bsky.social
WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=svbO...
💬 Every year, TLDR sends out a feedback survey to our viewers and we respond addressing criticisms in a video.
This year it features every member of the team, including our animators who are usually off-screen!
It’s well worth a watch — maybe we have a future in comedy?
youtu.be/WAo6nqMcUl4?...
had to show the people I’m not as boring and monotonous as I present!
..ft my words on 'Is Europe Leaderless?', 'Can Schengen Survive?', 'BRICS: Much Ado About Nothing' and multiple election special articles, my favourites being the Sri Lankan🇱🇰 and Indonesian🇮🇩 elections!
order now at: toolong.news/team
The @economist.com’s articles on language are reliably among my favourite bits of journalism.
This piece on their 2024 word of the year is no exception
And a somewhat more intellectual choice than Oxford’s…
www.economist.com/culture/2024...
TLDR’s new print magazines have arrived 📦
For this edition I wrote about the Austria, Belgium, Pakistan, El Salvador and Venezuela elections, plus Germany’s state elections, England’s far-right riots, and Russian ‘hybrid warfare’.
It’s a fab Christmas gift, order yours at:
toolong.news/team 🎁
I think it’s because turnaround times are so short that they don’t always know which platform a train will be arriving into until it’s very close? Still no excuse for the crush though!
It wouldn’t be the UK without train chaos, wouldn’t be Euston without a brutal scramble to the platforms, and I wouldn’t be a journalist if I didn’t post about it
(Shoutout to the man with the orange bike helmet. He’s ready to cycle to Crewe if needs must)
#stormbert
The time has come... it's the TLDR Awards: forms.gle/mscZf2kkFXAs...
We need your votes to help determine who's going home with the (honestly pretty low-rent) trophies
*delayed 😵💫 try us in 2 weeks!
Cannot wait to have these in our hands next week!!
If you missed out on our last edition, get your orders in quick... we sold out pretty quickly last time 😎🗞️
(and I'd say TL003 is even better)
Tomorrow. 👀
@lovadinov.bsky.social @tldrjack.bsky.social @rorytaylor.bsky.social
