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Chris Saul @chrissaul.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

I feel like someone is coming under pressure, exactly as predicted on the Pivot podcast by @profgalloway.com

Chris Saul @chrissaul.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I'm used to seeing old photos of SF from a bygone age. It's a bit striking when the photo is from your parents! This is a view taken in 1959 by my father towards Fisherman's Wharf, Angel Island, and Alcatraz from the Telegraph Hill area. The big wharf in the center right is Pier 39. So few boats!

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Chris Saul @chrissaul.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Fascinating read. Chip and Joanna partly to blame! No surprise there. Where’s the shiplap? 🤣

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Chris Saul @chrissaul.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Those guys in London are at it again!

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Chris Saul @chrissaul.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Fascinating. Hidden in plain sight

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Chris Saul @chrissaul.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

First week has not been kind

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Chris Saul @chrissaul.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Picked up some roses to show my love before it becomes prohibitively expensive to do so!

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Chris Saul @chrissaul.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

It’s routine that a new administration takes over official social media accounts from the old one. And the National Archives takes over the previous administration content. This happens across all social media and has done since at least the Obama administration. You just haven’t noticed it before.

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Chris Saul @chrissaul.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Trump’s inauguration showed who really matters to this administration. Not concerned about the price of eggs. slate.com/news-and-pol...

slate.com

The Scene at Trump’s Inauguration Tells Us Who He Cares About

So much for populism!

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Chris Saul @chrissaul.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Compared with some of our neighbors, our front yard lighting needed an upgrade. Pretty pleased with the result. @titanxblue.bsky.social

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Chris Saul @chrissaul.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Musk, the tech tycoon and Donald Trump confidant, made it known that he wanted Ramaswamy out of DOGE in recent days … www.politico.com/news/2025/01...

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'Everyone wants him out': How Musk helped boot Ramaswamy from DOGE

Ramaswamy is leaving the so-called Department of Government Efficiency and plans to run for Ohio governor.

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Chris Saul @chrissaul.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Daily Telegraph leads with the news

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Chris Saul @chrissaul.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

5-5-2-0-3-9 Cannot wait for season 3

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

"A cantankerous press, an obstinate press, a ubiquitous press..." Great piece! Gift link: foreignpolicy.com/2025/01/08/t...

foreignpolicy.com

When the Press Stood Up to the President

The Pentagon Papers case shows how brave media owners must be in moments of political turmoil.

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Cats with Jobs ⚒️ @catworkers.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

📚 The bookseller looks very friendly.

A fluffy brown tabby cat with green eyes and a serious expression stands in a Glasgow bookshop where books of all kinds are stacked floor to ceiling.

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

NEW: "Moving Off X: An Open Letter from UK Journalists" UK political journalists: "Twitter was, for a long time, the place to be for UK politics. We believe that time is now over... "We have taken the decision to move over to other platforms, in particular Bluesky" docs.google.com/document/d/1...

We have used Twitter – now X – for many years. It has been a resource for story-gathering, network-building, and a megaphone for getting public-interest stories to a wider audience. And it has been a well of ideas and discourse.
Unfortunately that well is now poisoned.
All of us have seen X become more toxic and broken since Elon Musk took over in 2022.
Feeds have become less useful. Engagement has plummeted, except for those who will pay. Replies gain traction not through merit, but through the corrupted blue-tick system.
We have seen hate speech and abuse deliberately dialled up and amplified, boosted not just by the algorithm, but by the owner himself.
And England’s racist summer riots were one of many factors suggesting to us that X is not a neutral platform, but a space that now seems to glorify misinformation at a great cost to our public sphere.
Millions of people are ditching X, and we are doing so, too. We have taken the view that it is no longer a useful tool for objective reporting, but a weapon being wielded by a narrowing ideological set.
A tipping point is coming. Perhaps we are already in it.
After much consideration, we have taken the decision to move over to other platforms, in particular Bluesky. For some of us that means instantly deleting our X accounts, for others it is a more gradual process.
But we are all putting the majority of our efforts into building more constructive online spaces elsewhere for political dialogue and reporting.
Bluesky is becoming a new hub for political discussion, and we encourage other UK journalists to join and become active. We are already seeing far higher engagement on our posts there than we’ve seen recently on X.
And importantly, the mechanisms to limit abuse actually work.
We enjoyed Twitter while it lasted. It played an important role in shaping many of our careers. And it was, for a long time, the place to be for UK politics. We believe that time is now over.
Twitter is dead. Long live Twitter

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