nascent projectionist, dilettante musician, professional video renter, qualified skipper. he/him
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David Taylor retweeted
This week the Guardian's owner, the Scott Trust, gifted the 233-year-old Observer to Tortoise Media.
This isn't just a dark day for journalism, it's a sign.
Meet the team.
This is Putin giving Tortoise's energy advisory board member an 'Order of Friendship' medal in 2017.
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The Guardian is pushing ahead with its 'sale' of the Observer. But the journalism continues... If you value the Guardian or Observer, I urge you to read this.
It's my attempt to investigate 'the money behind the money'.
Who is 'buying' us? And why?
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David Taylor retweeted
The avg rent in Bristol is now a staggering £1748. Tenants are handing over a growing slice of their pay packet every month to keep a roof over their heads - often in poor quality & insecure homes. Renters Rights Bill must include rent controls to stop tenants being ripped off.
ALT Screenshot from the ONS website showing the average private rent for the city of Bristol rising to £1748 in November 2024, accompanied by a map showing Bristol
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The Green Party have repeatedly opposed housing developments in Bristol, including at Bristol Zoo Gardens, Baltic Wharf, Dovercourt, Ashton Vale, Broadwalk and Mead Street.
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New episode! 🎙️
Life living on a boat & why there is a dispute with the council in Bristol.
A chat with Amanda from the Bristol Boaters Community Association 🚤⚓️
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David Taylor retweeted
I spent the past few months working on an essay for @nplusonemag about the rise and fall of Gimlet Media nplusonemag.com/online-only/…
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We've built a database of videos, photos and social media posts. Where possible we’ve identified those who appear.
It reveals a range of illegal activities, from wanton destruction and looting to demolitions of neighbourhoods and murder. #GazaCrimes
Disappointed to hear @TheNewsAgents adopting exactly this tone. Presenters and guest both audibly in awe of the tech involved, underplaying the death and violence of the operation in favour of a sickening focus on the Hollywood wow factor. Gadget fetishism at its bleakest.
It won’t be forgotten that the western media’s response to the maiming of thousands of people is how “amazing” Israel’s tech is.
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My favourite thing about hacking off render on a hot day is that the dust you get covered in is basically cement, so when it mixes with your sweat it sort of sets again and now I look like the Gnome King
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at the French border
🚨 NEW: Ministers are preparing to allowing free movement for under 30s within the EU
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A blindly ignorant and near- Orwellian tweet that inverts the truth, sir! How can you not know that Israel illegally occupies the West Bank and Gaza in defiance of 47 UN Resolutions, and daily keeps 5.5 million Palestinians suspended in stateless serfdom, demolishing their houses and dispossessing them of their ancestral land. It illegally holds, tortures, rapes & sexually abuses 10,000 Palestinians detainees. It has damaged or destroyed 34 out of 36 hospitals in Gaza and has killed over 40,000 civilians (including 113 journists & 200 health care workers) as well as injuring 80,000+ more, with some 15,000+ missing, presumed dead under the rubble. Israel is responsible for unprecedented civilian casualties, after dropping the equivalent of five Hiroshima bombs on an area a quarter the size of London. It performs almost daily pogroms on the unarmed farmers and shepherds of the West Bank.
It has total impunity in completely ignoring international law, and it does so with Western arms, finance and full diplomatic support. There is no parallel to this appalling mass-suppression of freedom and Israel deserves instant and immediate sanctions to make itself fall into line and return to the fold of international law and human rights.
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Another important thread @marcowenjones
🧵🚨I wanted to do another thread on the account @EuropeInvasionn. It's been one of the most widely viewed anti-immigrant & anti-muslim disinfluencers on X since the #Southport murders. Read more to learn about its shocking reach, disinformation, & hate speech #UKRiots
Heading to old market this evening. Feel it’s important that as many white bodies are there as possible
The poundshop Brownshirts would love to portray these confrontations as them v black and brown people, or them v the police. It’s not. It’s them vs a peaceful, loving majority
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Might wanna extend that radius to include the Mercure hotel in Redcliffe. Don't want you to drop the ball again like last time
Bristol Commander Mark Runacres has issued a statement ahead of demonstrations in Bristol - orlo.uk/kpcCd
He provides details of the policing operation, including our use of enhanced stop and search powers, and urges people not to trust everything on social media.
ALT A map showing where enhanced stop and search powers and dispersal zone are currently in place
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Mad how copious amounts of booze are key to the “protests”
Reminds me of this moment from the similar “protest” Save Our Statues, when a van rocked up and dished out free cans, assisted and *hugged* by @ASPolice
Also reminiscent of a different era… 🧐
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David Taylor retweeted
This week’s riots aren’t happening in a vacuum. We’re living and breathing on platforms that billionaires have optimised for outrage. This is the world that social media made.
My piece for @ObserverUK with contributions from the great @mariaressa + more
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