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Comms-ing @UKChange.bsky.social | ex-journo and editor NationalWorld, @inews.co.uk, @thescotsmanpaper.bsky.social | sleep-deprived dad to twins

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Money, muscles and anxiety: why the manosphere clicked with young men – a visual deep dive The manosphere is known for misogyny, but that’s not the only thing that influencers in this space offer. Young men explain the allure and the problems of the manosphere in their own words

I missed it at the time but this is such a great piece of digital journalism - an easily consumable format in keeping with the subject and target audience: www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

04.12.2025 12:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

First LNER train for me today since the attack last month, and there are a couple of security guards on board, unsurprisingly.

Any anxiety is lessened by one of them telling "dad jokes" as he walks through the carriage.

27.11.2025 11:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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How to Fix a Typewriter and Your Life (Gift Article) This is the story of how a man traded steady, grinding corporate security for a dying craft and, in the process, found his soul.

Wonderful piece, courtesy of @austinkleon.bsky.social's newsletter: How to Fix a Typewriter and Your Life www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

23.11.2025 20:26 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I just decided to abandon my 1475-day streak on Duolingo, stretching back to 2021.

That's roughly equivalent to over 15 solid days of my life translating sentences like 'my dog is unemployed' into French and German.

Tant pis.

09.09.2025 20:03 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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This is a Hall of Fame reader comment on a very reactionary op-ed about Zohran Mamdani's victory that was published in my local paper today.

25.06.2025 19:31 👍 38106 🔁 6804 💬 443 📌 410
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CapCut’s policy update raises major red flags for newsrooms The go-to mobile-editing app for TikTok, Reels, and Shorts has slipped in problematic new terms for newsrooms which risks source safety and surrenders copyright

Essential reading for anyone in the media using CapCut for social content:

www.journalism.co.uk/news/capcut-...

24.06.2025 10:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Spotify app

Spotify app

I'm no UX design expert, but Spotify's text display on the app is probably not best practice?

20.06.2025 16:49 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

⌚️ Two days to go till #EMF2025

📈 93% to my new fundraising goal of £3000 for @mssocietyuk.bsky.social

🙏 Grateful if you can help push me over the line (figuratively and literally!)

🔗 www.justgiving.com/fundraising/...

23.05.2025 08:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Outside Amazon’s UK HQ, advocate demands end to sales of books that promote autism 'cures'
Outside Amazon’s UK HQ, advocate demands end to sales of books that promote autism 'cures' YouTube video by Change.org

Autism rights campaigner Emma Dalmayne stood outside Amazon’s UK HQ in London this week with fellow activists — and a petition signed by over 35,000 people.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk3_...

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22.05.2025 08:26 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Hannah Deacon, 1979 - 2025

Hannah Deacon, 1979 - 2025

We were very saddened to learn of the passing of Hannah Deacon, a devoted mother and tireless campaigner for medical reform in the UK

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14.05.2025 13:01 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Two weeks till marathon day, and I'm over 75% to my fundraising goal for the @mssocietyuk.bsky.social 📈

Thanks to everyone who's donated so far, it makes it much easier to keep going on the long runs🙏

www.justgiving.com/fundraising/...

#edinburghmarathon #mssociety

11.05.2025 15:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ah, the neighbour's 9.45pm Sainsbury's delivery, in all its door-slamming predictability. Not like we have a couple of kranky babies trying to sleep at last.

Correction: they're awake now 😩

07.05.2025 20:56 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Nick's 2025 Edinburgh Marathon Fundraiser for MS Society Help Nick Mitchell raise money to support Multiple Sclerosis Society

I'm attempting to run the Edinburgh Marathon to raise funds for @mssocietyuk.bsky.social (if the old knees can take it).

I'd be very grateful for anything you can chip in to help an important cause 🙏

www.justgiving.com/fundraising/...

12.03.2025 21:01 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 2
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Sign the Petition Save BBC's River City

I've already seen 5 petitions started on @ukchange.bsky.social over the past 24 hours calling on the BBC to save #RiverCity

It might not seem like a terribly important issue, but it's clearly caused anger among viewers and the Scottish TV industry

www.change.org/p/save-bbc-s...

19.03.2025 11:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Nick's 2025 Edinburgh Marathon Fundraiser for MS Society Help Nick Mitchell raise money to support Multiple Sclerosis Society

I'm attempting to run the Edinburgh Marathon to raise funds for @mssocietyuk.bsky.social (if the old knees can take it).

I'd be very grateful for anything you can chip in to help an important cause 🙏

www.justgiving.com/fundraising/...

12.03.2025 21:01 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 2
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Richard Tice came to Glasgow today to reveal Reform UK’s latest defectors. It did not go well. Got stuck when the Daily Mail’s Tom Gordon asked him for their names.

06.03.2025 19:47 👍 549 🔁 168 💬 58 📌 66
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Sign the Petition Protect Loch Tay

It also references this 160,000-strong petition on @ukchange.bsky.social: www.change.org/p/protect-lo...

03.03.2025 14:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Who Gets to Own Scotland? A new land-reform bill aims to unwind a long history of inequality. But centuries of feudalism are difficult to shake.

Scotland's land ownership debate has made it to the New York Times - one of the best articles I've read on the subject

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/r...

03.03.2025 14:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.

28.02.2025 21:47 👍 10483 🔁 2845 💬 171 📌 344

Looking forward to the @washingtonpost.com’s hot take on the Trump-Zelenskyy debacle. It’s all about personal liberties and free markets, remember?

28.02.2025 22:27 👍 844 🔁 99 💬 22 📌 3

Suddenly Starmer's Washington visit doesn't look quite as triumphant. The bridge he wanted to build is lying in rubble.

28.02.2025 18:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It feels like the tectonic plates between America and Europe just split apart

28.02.2025 18:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Absolutely extraordinary to watch a wartime leader - who never left Ukraine even when his life was threatened - being patronised and bullied on live TV by Trump and Vance

28.02.2025 18:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Petition demands UK Home Secretary to extradite Andrew and Tristan Tate  from the US

Petition demands UK Home Secretary to extradite Andrew and Tristan Tate from the US

A petition has been launched on @ukchange.bsky.social calling on the UK Home Secretary Yvette Cooper to extradite the Tate brothers from the US.

Andrew and Tristan Tate landed in Florida on Thursday in a private jet after flying from Romania.

28.02.2025 11:12 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

"He tried" - Trump's response to a question about whether Starmer persuaded him to avoid tariffs on UK. Goes on to suggest again that a "terrific" trade deal is in the works. That remains to be seen.

27.02.2025 21:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Trump just cut off Starmer while he was answering a potentially awkward question about Canada - "That's enough"

Power dynamics at play right there.

27.02.2025 20:51 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Bayern 0 - 1 Raith Rovers

Bayern 0 - 1 Raith Rovers

Celtic following in the footsteps of Raith Rovers here*

* Any excuse to post this photo again

#muncel #ucl

18.02.2025 21:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A sign of the times that headlines as insane as this seem like an hourly occurrence in the US, rather than an Onion parody

15.02.2025 08:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My 2026 vote goes to the party who renames the Firth of Forth to the Gulf of Fife.

14.02.2025 21:34 👍 30 🔁 5 💬 5 📌 1
Cardiff University Cuts - movement page on change.org

Cardiff University Cuts - movement page on change.org

We often see movements suddenly burst into life on @change.org

A good example this week is the student-led response to the cutbacks at Cardiff University

Seven petitions and 30,000+ supporters so far:

www.change.org/m/cardiff-un...

31.01.2025 17:06 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0