In 2022, via the @IrishExaminer, I've been lucky enough to pursue my grá for the chats on a full-time basis.
From Ireland's neurodivergent community, its DIY arts scenes and the Irish language; to astronauts, particle physicists and gosh-dang, mother-heckin' Super Mario.
God I love my no algorithm feed on here.* The news, commentary, humor, art, nerdists, photography, cooks, bakers, and cheese make it amazing. Keep up the good work everyone. Oh and let me know if I should be following anyone in particular. I'm greedy that way.
@Mastodon seriously? You are the very last people I'd expect to censor #Palestinian#media. Are you really that desperate to become like #Twitter or mainstream social media? I really hope that this is a sincere mistake, and that whoever pressed that #suspend button is reprimanded. This gives a very wrong signal to #Palestinians and independent #journalists / #press people who are seeking a friendly platform for their voices in the #fediverse.
If you dear reader are reading this post, please boost both Mondoweiss's original post (which will be displayed as a RE: link if you're in #Mastodon) to show your support for @mondoweiss as well as this quote #boost so that it may reach mastodon.social (because for all we know they could decide to just #fediblock their self-hosted instance altogether, thankfully that didn't happen yet and it's an account suspension for now)
Attention #journalists. Facebook's blocking of #news adding to dangerous situations in Canada's north.
Saw this post elsewhere. A radio host in Yellowknife "said that most people in #NWT use #Facebook to access information. But Facebook now denies# Canadians the chance to share the news. This lowers the chance for people to learn about about emergencies and evacuation orders, such as the one that’s just come into place for #Yellowknife."
This needs to get into the news to help pressure Facebook to fix this.
#Twitter was one of the most important tech utilities for #reporters to break stories and deliver #real-time news, until Elon Musk bought the company. He not only killed the #SocialMedia platform, he destroyed one of our most vital #news outlets.
@andreagrimes on how the destruction of the bird app has impacted her and many other independent #journalists.
For anyone who's come over to the #Fediverse from #Twitter: One of the first things I did when coming here was seek out a bunch of #journalists to follow, so my TL could mimic the "current events" feed. Here's a curated Google Sheet listing over a thousand journalists who've made accounts over here, who cover all sorts of things from cycling to sports to breaking news. Use it to help populate your #timeline, #share broadly for exposure.
The power #Israel disproportionately wields here, notably across a number of Western democratic states, is staggering. It is manifested in moves to not publish material critical of the country’s assault on #Gaza, and, in some cases, directly target #journalists who dare violate such injunctions.
#Censorship is a manifold beast. The conventional approach is that of the blanking redaction: the “nothing to see here” school of regulation.
As I read this eulogy for Twitter by journalists, I think what a tell it is. As the eulogy notes, many journalists have remained devoted to Twitter through thick or thin, to the bitter end.
In doggedly remaining on Twitter, they have shown a shocking lack of solidarity to those made much more vulnerable and susceptible to abuse by Musk's Twitter.
More evidence that #journalists don't understand nor are willing to acknowledge #Mastodon - in the paragraph below that starts 'Other Twitter rivals have also experienced rapid growth in recent days....' the only real actually discussed is #BlueSky in the following paragraphs....
So, there we are with 13m users, yet somehow invisible to the Guardian! Mind you, its their loss not ours....
Why #journalists and #humanitarian#aid workers assume they are safe to operate in a #war zone is beyond ignorant. Perhaps it's because they have never served in a #military?
If you are killed in a war zone, it's because you are in a war zone.
OTTAWA - Canadians are being told to avoid all travel to Israel and the West Bank because of the “unpredictable security situation” in the region.
There have been so many "final straws" but I hope that if you still have a personal account on his terrible website, Musk promoting a German political extremist party with literal nazi ties is it. Especially looking at #journalists that for some reason seem to feel like they have to continue to maintain a personal presence there. (I understand that organizations will be the last to go, but individuals - if you have any control at all, delete your :birdsite: account.)
Of course I'm very concerned about all #blackout of #communications from #Gaza & inability for #journalists to report to public, from the ground. My bigger worries about this intentional communications blackout is that it affects all #HumanitarianAid organizing communications & all on the ground #emergency#rescue communications. Those are the most important communications ATM for all civilians & aid workers, trapped under constant siege bombardment.
"Last week demonstrated the sorry state of political coverage in this country. The fixation on early, non-predictive polling...
Tuesday night, cable news panelists appeared to be at a loss to explain Democrats’ triumph. Well, for the umpteenth time, we see that polling isn’t all that predictive. Aside from low-response rates and flawed modeling, polls simply don’t reflect how voters think." https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/11/12/political-coverage-broken/
One of the many #picketlines outside the #BBC today against cuts in local radio - here #journalists of #BBCRadioLondon & #BBCLondonNews and their supporters outside New Broadcasting House #NBH. The strike is over BBC plans to replace many Local Radio shows with national or regional shows instead.
The BBC says it’s to divert more funding into digital. #NUJ - the journalists' trade #union ,- says it will diminish local radio.