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we live in a hellworld of our own making, and now even the memes won't be good. head of digital of @theipaper. (he/him, so I have a podcast)
Mar 9, 2023 7 tweets 3 min read
Elon Musk asked managers at Twitter to nominate their best employees for promotion, then fired the managers and replaced them with their lower paid nominees inews.co.uk/news/pressure-… what a guy Image
Sep 30, 2022 10 tweets 3 min read
i don’t really talk that much about what we’re trying to do @theipaper, the project we’ve been working on for, well, 2-ish years now – my view is that the proof is in the work, basically. but: journalism in the UK needs to be a lot better than it is now. it has good parts, some great parts, but a hell of a lot of problems. we think i, with fact-led, non-partisan reporting, genuinely diverse opinion, genuinely interesting features is part of a solution
May 11, 2020 6 tweets 3 min read
ONS has released stats on deaths by occupation, and they are deeply worrying for the strategy the government announced yesterday. ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulati… Bus drivers are 2.5 times more likely to die from Covid-19.

Advice is to take public transport if you need to get to work, but can't get there by car.
May 11, 2020 7 tweets 2 min read
7:52 AM - "No meetings between households"
8:11 AM - "You can meet one person from another household at a time"
8:23 AM - "You can meet multiple people at the same time while socially distancing" 8.46 AM - "You can't meet in a group of three in a park"
Apr 21, 2020 14 tweets 6 min read
Firstly, the OP repeatedly claims there are 128 accounts involved. However, not a single screenshot or handle from any account other than the original account is actually given in the thread. Why is there not a single other account public? Secondly, Hootsuite being used isn't really suspicious, it's pretty common. But what I've never seen is what OP is claiming here - that he can see who the Hootsuite account is assigned to, and its contributors, from the outside.