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@StephenAHenry Elgol. outstanding version of classic view.

Work has started on the 2027 Calendar - can you help us select the image to be used for January? 1. Tobermory pier lights at night - Isle of Mull 2. Red post box - Inverclyde 3. Rusty chains on Elgol Beach - Isle of Skye or 4. Contemporary image of Wemyss Bay Transport Station

@ProfAliceS painfully reminiscent of the inner dialogues of Andy Serkis, playing role of Gollum.

Andy Burnahm said in 2022: 'Clearly there is a group of people who do feel that toilets should be a safe space only for women and there should not be anyone biologically a male allowed in that space. 'I don't think that's a majority view. I think it's a minority view and quite a small minority view, actually. But it is a view so you can't completely ignore it. Possibly they might be women who have experienced male violence at some point in their life. I don't know, that's one way of looking at it.' Burnham is entitled to his opinions, but what fascinates me is that he assumes the vast majority of people agree with him, even when the opposite is demonstrably the case. The opinion polling was very clear in 2022. yougov.com/en-gb/articles… Burnham's comments smack of being in a tight bubble, and lacking curiosity about what other people think and why.

@Supersonic_Red all this! Also film spirals, Polaroid & digital. Typewriters & tablets, letraset & laser printers.

There’s a generation a lot of people forget exists. We were born at the tail end of the Boomers, but we are not culturally the same as people born in the 40s and early 50s. We are Generation Jones. And honestly, it explains a lot. We grew up in a world that still felt fundamentally analog, but we were young enough to be dragged headfirst into the digital revolution. We are the bridge generation between rotary phones and smartphones, between slide rules and AI, between Walter Cronkite and algorithm driven media. We remember when there were only a few television channels and the entire country watched the same thing at the same time. We also adapted to the internet, email, forums, social media, streaming and now artificial intelligence. We lived before and after the technological singularity hit everyday life. That is not a small thing. People born in the 40s came of age in a post World War II America that was still industrial, deeply hierarchical and institutionally stable. Their formative years were shaped by the Cold War, Vietnam, the civil rights era and a society where information moved slowly. Generation Jones came later. We inherited the aftermath of all of that. We were the kids who watched Watergate destroy blind trust in government. We watched manufacturing begin to collapse. We saw divorce rates explode. We were the first truly latchkey generation in massive numbers. We learned independence early because many of us had to. We grew up with one foot in old America and one foot in whatever this new thing was becoming. We played outside until the streetlights came on but we also learned DOS commands. We learned cursive and keyboarding. We had card catalogs and Google searches. We went from vinyl records to cassette tapes to CDs to MP3s to streaming in one lifetime. We remember maps. We remember memorizing phone numbers. We remember life before GPS and before every human interaction became filtered through a screen. And because of that, I think Generation Jones developed a very unique perspective. We are adaptable because we had no choice but to adapt. We learned technology as adults instead of being born into it. We remember a slower world but were forced to survive in a rapidly accelerating one. That creates a very different mindset than either older Boomers or younger Gen X and Millennials. A lot of us also reject the caricature people now associate with “Boomers.” We were not buying houses for the cost of a sandwich in 1965. The interest rate on my first house was over 14% and that was after buying down a point. Many of us got hit by recessions, outsourcing, pension collapses and economic instability just like younger generations did. We watched promises evaporate in real time. We understand older generations because we were raised by them. We understand younger generations because we had to evolve alongside them. That’s why the Jones generation often feels culturally homeless. We are rarely discussed, rarely defined and usually lumped into categories that don’t actually fit us. But we exist. We are the human transition point between the industrial age and the digital age. And frankly, there will probably never be another generation quite like us again.

@SergioVengeance yeah, sure. 🐦/X is also, in effect, a public forum used by journalists & other pros worldwide. As such, ideological bias in algorithm, mods or blocks (hidden or not) is & was a legitimate discussion topic. Not one to evade or trivialize with puerile crying games & ad hominems.

There's nothing wrong with a private company being biased. It's funny for you to complain about a private company being biased while also talking about the extremely biased Twitter Files that Elon published to lie to the American people - to paint a false narrative of Democrats.

@SergioVengeance @hankfrackett @DavidKlion yeah, of course I do. 🐦/X is also, in effect, a public forum used by journalists & other pros worldwide. As such, ideological bias in algorithm, mods or blocks (hidden or not) is & was a critical discussion topic. Not one to evade or trivialize with puerile crying games.

@Csharp_yaffle @hankfrackett @DavidKlion I'm sorry you didn't understand private companies having rights to run their business the way they want until Elon Musk cried about it in the Twitter Files

Bari is going to be rich no matter what but that’s not very interesting. What’s interesting is that she’s objectively a failure and the entire media industry knows it, and she knows they know it.

@hankfrackett @DavidKlion Nonsense. Bundling everyone you dislike into 'cancelled' box is a fail. There *was* an issue of ideological slant in pre-Elon🐦content-mods. ad hominems on reporters & elon isn't a mature response. all the reporters were 'puppets'? Did no 'good' guys report this story?

@Csharp_yaffle @DavidKlion you developed your perception of bari weiss as someone who is "not a corporate clone" and "plows her own furrow" from a time where she acted as a mouthpiece for elon musk? hilarious. keep on being a puppet for a puppet

@hankfrackett @DavidKlion (puts 'eg.' in ( ) your deceptive use of 'anti-trans' reveals your view. In fact, BW came on my radar during 'Twitter Files'. I still think sharp ideological bias in old-twitter content-blocking was regressive. And shouldn't 've been defended by anyone on Left. No pedestals.

@Csharp_yaffle @DavidKlion what do you think you're achieving by speculating on why i have a low opinion of her? two can play at that game: the reason you put her on a pedestal is because she shares your anti-trans views lol

@hankfrackett @DavidKlion as I said, she probably upsets you because she's clearly a centrist, yet dissents from parts of centre-left/progressive/Dem echo-chamber (eg. on trans) Yes, hired to keep Likud POV on primetime. For me, a big problem (& an old one) Solution is more viewpoint diversity, not less.

@Csharp_yaffle @DavidKlion no, she's an awful writer; no, she's not very insightful; yes; no, she's one of a thousand anti-woke aggro-centrist clones; no, her furrow is decided for her by her coprorate backers

@hankfrackett @DavidKlion writing, interviews, self-promotion. not a corporate clone; plows her own furrow. ‘let a hundred flowers bloom’

@Csharp_yaffle @DavidKlion "objectively", what are her many talents?

@blz314 @DavidKlion No, only insofar as she ran reports that were bold or progressive at the time. On moderation/censorship by twitter/x before @elonmusk takeover. On gender dogma, ‘no debate’ and witch trials in @freepress. Haven’t been following events at CBS.

@theiaincameron that's a truly disorientating map, with all lochs emptied out!! Reckon anyone who's descended Ben Chabhair by the boggy scenic route back to the lochan has been very close to your source.

How different the Scottish landscape would be if the Firth of Forth was actually called the Firth of Teith. The Forth is actually considerably smaller and shorter than the Teith when the two meet at Stirling, but for some reason the Forth takes the name. A few years ago I went to try and locate the Teith/Forth catchment’s farthest water from the sea, and luckily managed to find it. Geography geeks may find it of interest. theiaincameron.medium.com/back-and-forth…

@davidyelland @GBNEWS x.com/Csharp_yaffle/…

The article in Unherd is all very well, but somebody needs to point out that Unherd is owned by the same guy who owns @GBNews and the writer has a slot on Lachlan Murdoch’s Times Radio. Frankly, the BBC needs to get better at pointing these things out. This is not to say there is not merit in the piece nor is it to question Rob’s journalism, especially on the tortured trans issue which caused pain to many media orgs as they learned how to navigate it with compassion, a characteristic lacking almost everywhere else.

@JournalismSEEN @davidyelland @soniasodha @SoniaRGallego @RobBurl @unherd the 'kind' people still owe Lynsey an apology, and maybe the price of a house in lost earnings. x.com/Csharp_yaffle/…

@JournalismSEEN @davidyelland @soniasodha @SoniaRGallego @RobBurl @unherd Yelland, that's self-exculpatory NBBS (nonbinary bovine shite). Want a sunny tabloid spin? "Tearful Lynsey Sharp forgives batty BBC bosses" Stonewalling at 2016 & 2024 olympics was clearest sign of wall-to-wall BBC capture on women's rights. compassion & balance? not a trace.

Essential reading from @RobBurl. As I've said before, no one who denies the BBC's long history of bias on trans issues can call themselves its friend. Rooting it out is key to its survival. It must be a priority for Matt Brittin. unherd.com/2026/05/inside…

@GussieGrips Outstanding in making legal points clear (rare thing) 100 years ago, employers & reformers often did drive progressive change ‘ahead of law’. Recently, in an extraordinary betrayal, dim-witted ‘lanyard class’ did the exact opposite. For an ideology that melts in daylight.

Outstanding essay on what happens when employers (or trade unions) attempt to “get ahead of the law”. Thank you, brave woman. You were treated shoddily by NHS England. nuntiatoria.org/2026/05/15/the…

@mattwridley Agreed. But ‘pre-trained’ ?? Lousy human virus at beginning; quickly got better at infecting as it evolved. alpha, delta, omi strains totally outcompeted earlier ones. We should have studied transmission at start. Instead, we politicised. Lucky it didn’t k|ll many more of us.

This is a common view - that knowing where Covid came from would not have helped. I disagree. Knowing it was pre-trained on human cells would have told us that lockdowns were futile. But also it could help us prevent the next one - by taking the risk of lab leaks seriously.

@CapelLofft Armenian refugees from ~1917 genocide. Over a million from Syria. Imagine 18 million refugees arriving in UK in 2014. (Or listen to Fairouz songs if you think that would have ended happily)

Oh and then randomly Armenians. Plus a load of secular parties, some Arab Nationalist, some leftist. It's mental. There are currently 23 political parties represented in their parliament (by my count).

I am professionally obliged atm to read about modern Lebanese politics, and I don't know whether my primary response is confusion or depression. It's like Northern Irish politics but about 100 times bloodier and a million times more complicated.

@mysteriouskat please do the basic due diligence before posting on stuff that's so heavily contested. eg read this and sources conveniently listed therein: x.com/academic_la/st…

Here’s the problem with the NYT article everyone's making a fuss over: It’s not that prisoners can’t be tortured in Israeli prisons. All prisons have corruption and cruelty. I can’t image that Israeli prisons are an exception. The claim about dogs being trained to rape prisoners? Much has been said on whether that’s possible or not. I’m skeptical, but perhaps it is, I'm not a subject-matter expert—thankfully. The problem is that all of these claims aren’t covered in a well-researched evidence-based article, yet they are treated as if it were. These claims are made in an op-ed that does not have to adhere to the more strict reporting guidelines. It is enough that someone had made the claim to the writer for it to be included in the story. No vetting of any kind required. It’s an OPINION piece in an opinion section, where the writer shares what he BELIEVES to be true, not KNOWS to be true. And yet it is masquerading as a piece of reporting. The NYT did not run this as a news story. There’s a reason for that. But the way the claims are being treated as fact by readers and other media outlets…it may as well have.

@sallonsax x.com/Csharp_yaffle/…

Cannot believe we're back to Caroline Lucas promoting progressive alliances again. Time is cyclical, I'm having flashbacks. It's like she's learned absolutely nothing in 10 years. Nothing at all.