Threads account closed!
I actually would like to see Mastodon take up increase, but am still not seeing much working for me yet on here.
Chris Turner
@ChrisLeeTurner
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When not software engineering, being a councillor, or doing Green Party stuff - playing guitar, synths, drums, producting, DJing and promoting
Keep saying I should use Mastodon more. Now Zuckerberg is emulating Musk, maybe it's time.
So - here's a random post about nothing in particular. 🙂
Might be spending more time on here, if Zuckerberg manages to turn Facebook and Threads into another X - which he does seem to be attempting to do.
George Takei 
🏳️🌈🖖🏽So far, in 2023, the United States has seen 116 mass shootings, at least 10 of which have taken place in schools. According to EdWeek, there have been 154 school shootings in the U.S. since 2018, 51 of which took place in 2022 alone—the most ever recorded in a single year.
Yet instead of making any effort to restrict access to firearms, the Republican Party is working overtime to ban something they deem much more dangerous. Books.
The latest book bans have a decidedly White Christian nationalist spin, and now teachers and librarians find themselves in the GOP crosshairs. That's today's subject in #TheBigPicture: https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/republican-legislation-book-bans-censorship
Peter StefanovicThat’s gotta hurt! After introducing his guest as “a particularly distinguished professor of economics at Kings college London” Jacob Rees-Mogg squirms as he’s told some hard truths about the damage of Brexit. Watch in disbelief at what comes next. kudos to Professor Jonathan Portes for putting a squirming Rees-Mogg in his place
Jacob Rees-Mogg almost falls off his chair when guest gives him some hard truths about Brexit
Adam BienkovWhy we need to talk about the real bias at the BBC https://adambienkov.substack.com/p/we-need-to-talk-about-bbc-bias
Why right-wingers at the BBC are given the sort of leeway Gary Lineker never will. https://bylinetimes.com/2023/03/09/gary-lineker-andrew-neil-and-the-bbcs-real-impartiality-crisis/
Stop Funding Hate"Financial losses at GB News grew substantially last year to more than £30m... GB News... has found it difficult to win over advertisers wary of its reputation as the 'British Fox News'." https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/mar/09/losses-deepen-at-gb-news-network-moves-to-fend-off-rival-talktv-nigel-farage-jacob-rees-mogg-
Cold War Steve
"Advertisers are unknowingly funding the largest anti-trans campaign we’ve ever seen" https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/adspend-funding-increase-lgbtqia+-hate-crime/1815115
