Thought I'd post this just in case some haven't seen it. It's from birdsite.

#RichardSharp resigns as BBC chairman. This is excellent news.

https://medium.com/@derekrootboy/open-letter-to-diane-abbott-mp-e272a4457597 #SolidarityWithDiane

The fact that Jews, Irish and Travelers can hide their ethnicity from racists in a way that Diane Abbott can't doesn't justify her mistake. She made a mistake and her supporters, black and white, recognized this immediately and we told her. But her mistake can be explained.

I expected Diane Abbott to lose the Labour whip, which has happened. This was an own goal on her part, but if she stands as an independent I predict she'll defeat Keir Starmer's parachuted in candidate. #SolidarityWithDiane

I 100% support Diane Abbott's statement. Not necessarily saying I played any part in getting her to do this, but I'm going to post a screenshot of four tweets I sent to her asking her to do exactly what she did do; she did what I asked within five minutes. Maybe I played a part and if I did, I'm proud of that.

Since Diane Abbott isn't on #Mastodon, I am sharing a statement she has just tweeted about a letter she wrote downgrading the ethnic prejudice/hatred suffered by Travelers, Jews and the Irish. I am relieved she corrected this so quickly. For Keir Starmer it may not be soon enough. I can still see him kicking her out of the Parliamentary Labour Party, but her statement will make this much harder.

For the benefit of #Mastodon users who have deactivated their Twitter account, here is one of a massive number of popular tweets exposing #ElonMusk. Most of us are going to war with this right wing, ultra rich idiot. We should all be. And walking away is okay if that's what you want. But you'd be more useful helping the rest of us topple his social media white elephant. That's my opinion anyway.

If #Mastodon users don't want to be on Twitter, that's their right. But I'm not going of my own free will. Those of us with both accounts should debate here, and there, options for accelerating the rapid unscheduled disassembling of #ElonMusk's social media empire. The mass boycott of so many high profile accounts of his verified begging bowl helps us. Mastodon needs to prepare for a new tsunami of #TwitterMigration refugees. Let's be patient and explain why they should come here asap.

#Mastodon peeps who have not deactivated our Twitter accounts, yet, are now debating tactics on how to deal with #ElonMusk. Here is my response to Dr Mike Galsworthy. Both my contribution and Mike's could risk us getting kicked off for sabotaging Musk's rapid unscheduled disassembling media empire. But kicking us off could also backfire. That dude's got no way out of this mess of his own making.