Dr. Emma L Briant🐕🇬🇧in🇦🇺Twitter’s double standards under Elon Musk - The New Statesman has uncovered evidence that right-wing accounts are being treated differently by @Jamesrbuk at @newstatesman: https://www.newstatesman.com/quickfire/2022/12/twitter-double-standard-under-elon-musk #twitter #disinformation #socialmedia #propaganda #journalism #bias #ElonMusk @potemkinvillage
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨Feels like since everyone just decided the pandemic is over people have somehow forgotten normal sickness etiquette. They're coughing without covering their mouths, visiting elderly people while sweating with fever, simultaneously sneezing and enthusiastically licking strangers' nostrils, what is going on
Matt BlazeThe collective noun for wind turbines is "a histogram".
Original at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/4491948497
Histogram
Hadley BeemanI'm finding myself uncertain and surprisingly emotional about what's going on over at Twitter. While I'm 100% behind federation (and am thrilled to see you all here!), it's hard to watch a set of communities that have been important to me for almost a decade and a half just disappear.
Ah well. We are nothing if not evolution-based, right? Bring on the brave new future.
Alice EvansIf boys never study with girls, if they grow up in all male environments, and only ever interact with girls as potential girlfriends, they may come to see them in a very narrow sexualised way.
So single-sex education is not a panacea for gender equality.
Best for Britain🧑⚕️Average salary of an NHS nurse: £33,384
💼MP basic salary: £84,144. Plus £67,505 if a Cabinet Minister.
🧑⚕️NHS canteen prices: £7.25 for macaroni cheese
💼House of Commons Members' Dining Room: £5.67 for a gourmet roast rump of beef dinner
🧑⚕️NHS parking: £25/day
💼MP travel: expensed
NHS nurses have been refused inflation-matching pay rises for 12 Tory years. It’s time to pay them properly.
Owen BarderHave +any+ social media platforms managed to recruit new generations of users, after the first generation? It seems that each new generation starts its own new community, rather than joining an existing platform.
Perhaps YouTube is an exception if we call that a social media platform (but maybe Tik Tok is replacing it)? Are there any others?
Dmitry GrozoubinskiRussian war correspondents reporting, with video, that Russian flags have come down from Kherson's administrative buildings. Reports Russians have also destroyed a significant number of bridges out of the city.
Ukrainians still proceeding very cautiously, wary of a trap or being drawn into urban combat before they're fully prepared but things are looking more and more positive for retaking the city soon.
Graham CluleyMastodon: What you need to know for your security and privacy
If you’re leaving Twitter for Mastodon, here are some things you should know.
https://grahamcluley.com/mastodon-what-you-need-to-know-for-your-security-and-privacy/
Please reblog/boost if you think this would help folks you know who are new to Mastodon. (Likes are appreciated, but won't help spread the advice)
David BuchananA cryptobro DMed me to ask if I wanted to join his mailing list.
I spent slightly too long making this to send in reply.
I spent slightly too long making this to send in reply.
