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Jul 24, 2021 • 6 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
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People often ask "what are they protesting about?" about lockdown/vaccine protesters.

The answer is: A whole mix of things. And they seem to believe a whole mix of things.

Here are some examples of signs, rather than the wide crowd shots you usually see. ImageImageImageImage
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Oct 14, 2023
I went to take a look at the 'Palestine' protest in London today.

I guess I've seen more than 100 demos of one sort or another in London.

Most banners at this one were from either Socialist Worker, or 'Friends of Al Aqsa', which was formed by the optician @Ismailadampatel. Image
I asked various people what the Socialist Worker/Palestine connection was and even some people carrying 'Socialist Worker' branded signs did not to know. The Socialist Party had various recruitment gazebos at the start of the route too, so I asked there. Image
It felt slightly odd that they were using a demonstration against military action in Palestine so explicitly to try and recruit new members.

The man on the stand said the link was 'anti imperialism', and they recruit there as people are open to anti-capitalist movements. Image
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Apr 30, 2023
Here is a very short thread on this news story, and how the story has become bigger than it probably deserves to be:

If you read the text the BBC put out here, it says "Public *asked* to swear allegiance to King Charles"

That's not quite the case... Image
If you dig into it a bit, you find that strangely the news article itself switches the word 'asked' to 'invited'.

Those are pretty similar, but 'invited' is a slightly weaker word. Image
The word 'Public' also exaggerates the difference between 'invited' and 'asked':

'Public invited to attend gathering at parliament square' is different to 'Public asked to attend gathering at parliament square'.

(One means 'anyone may', one means 'everyone should')
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Sep 18, 2022
We decided to walk 'The Queue' today, but the wrong way: from the finish to the start.

Here is a short thread of photos, from the gates in front of Parliament Square back to the park in Bermondsey where people collect their wristbands to join the queue...
The exit is actually an odd spot - people leave, get asked if they're ok by Samaritans (a nice idea), and have to either force through the crowds of Whitehall, or wait to cross to the relative quiet of the square.
Here's the final outdoor bit of the queue - where people go through security, under the windows of Parliament, after they've looped through Victoria Towers Garden.
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May 10, 2022
On the value of proof reading, and unintended consequences:

There is an NFT project called Azuki. A month ago it would cost you around 34eth to buy one, which at the time was about $100k. Even at the current lows of the crypto market, they were selling at 25eth a few days ago...
As the crypto market has hit a rough patch, one of the team decided to write an article to talk about ups and downs, and that the way out of a crisis is to keep building.

Obviously, they didn't get it proof read too widely.
The blog post revealed - which the writer seemed to think fine - that the team had been involved in several 'rugs' (projects where other people had invested cash, and the team had just abandoned the project, pulling the rug on it).
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May 9, 2022
What an inspiring person.

The fund has just passed £500,000 (plus gift aid).

justgiving.com/campaign/Bowel…
This has now passed £600,000.

Worth reading the message, if you have not already.
And... this has now passed £1 million.

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Feb 15, 2022
The BBC has now run a day-long anti vaccination campaign. Possibly the most-viewed coordinated anti vaccination campaign in the world so far.

It centred around Novak Djokovic.

Here is a short thread on how it worked. ImageImageImageImage
They got an 'exclusive interview' with Novak Djokovic, the #1 ranked men's tennis player, and the only man in the top 100 who has not taken a covid vaccine.

Everyone who pays attention to tennis knows his stance, but he quickly falls out of the news outside of major tournaments. Image
Then they filled their flagship morning news program - which they believe sets the news agenda for the day - with ads for their interview, running snippets from it continuously.

Other outlets copied the story, and it has trended all day on Twitter as a result. ImageImage
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