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Julia Macfarlane

@juliamacfarlane.bsky.social
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BBC Journalist, formerly ABC News, exiled Scot and Twitter refugee

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American Dialect Society @americandialect.org · 10/01/2026
The 2025 Word of the Year is "slop," both as a noun for low-quality AI-generated content and as a combining form for anything of little value. Read the full press release. #WOTY2025 #ADS2026 #LSA2026 americandialect.org/2025-word-of...
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2025 Word of the Year Is “Slop”
New Orleans Marriott–Jan. 9—The American Dialect Society, in its 36th annual words-of-the-year vote, selected slop as the Word of the Year for 2025. More than three hundred attendees took part in the…
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Shayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
If you search TikTok for Hurricane Melissa videos right now, you'll see a flood of AI-generated and fake videos. These AI videos include eye of the storm views from above, sharks swimming in floodwaters, huge waves battering towns, destroyed airports, and fake news reports.
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NPR @npr.org · 28/10/2025
Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.
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'Washington Post' editorials omit a key disclosure: Bezos' financial ties
Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
If Dems win the Supreme Court races in Pennsylvania in 9 days, it’s extremely likely the GOP can’t get a majority on that court until 2029. The GOP really wants to have this majority during the 2028 presidential race. Can’t put the stakes any more clearly than that. boltsmag.org/pennsylvania...
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Inside the Clunky Elections to Control Pennsylvania's Supreme Court - Bolts
The GOP is making an expensive push to end Democrats’ majority on a court at the center of election lawsuits, sparking a fledging campaign season with little precedent or template.
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Maria BOO!stillos @mariabustillos.com · 26/10/2025
His ROOMBA that had been sending detailed maps of his house god knows where, and bricking itself when he tried to disable the spyware INCREDIBLE freaking story Can we have Things with No Internet please, happy to pay extra
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Julia Macfarlane @juliamacfarlane.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
The phrase "thought leader" ought to be banned
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Julia Macfarlane @juliamacfarlane.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
New Labour deputy leader Lucy Powell is MP for Manchester Central and former Leader of the House of Commons. She was sacked from her Commons leadership role in a reshuffle that followed Angela Rayner's resignation.
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Julia Macfarlane @juliamacfarlane.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
We’re expecting the new Deputy Labour Leader to be announced imminently - live here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3...
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Julia Macfarlane @juliamacfarlane.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
On your 📻 at 7pm with The Newsroom on #bbcworldservice
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Julia Macfarlane @juliamacfarlane.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Putin bombed a kindergarten
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 22/10/2025
All this stuff, aside from being ugly as hell, once more proposes the UK as a country which doesn’t pay its debts. It’s unserious.
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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 08/09/2025
We are reporting a MASS HYSTERIA EVENT at Heathrow that closed Terminal 4 for a bit. No-one was hurt.
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Julia Macfarlane @juliamacfarlane.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Hey Gaia! Hope you’re well - did you see my WA? Messaged you about BBC and climate stuff today
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Julia Macfarlane @juliamacfarlane.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Israel claims it has already set back Iran's presumed nuclear programme by at least two years, a day after President Trump warned Tehran has a "maximum" of two weeks to avoid possible American air strikes. Gideon Saar on Saturday: We already delayed the possibility of a nuclear bomb by 2/3 years
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Julia Macfarlane @juliamacfarlane.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
2005 PRIDE AND PREJUDICE IS ON IPLAYER, RUN DON’T WALK www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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Pride and Prejudice
Romantic drama. Worried about what is to become of her five unmarried daughters, Mrs Bennet believes she may found an answer when a wealthy bachelor becomes their neighbour.
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Julia Macfarlane @juliamacfarlane.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
A busy weekend of news for you to catch up on: Five years since George Floyd’s death; Israel under mounting pressure over the deaths of 9 children in a single family - the mother is a paediatric doctor at the local hospital. And, Trump lashes out against Putin. Tune in www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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The Newsroom - 25/05/2025 22:06 GMT - BBC Sounds
The world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen
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Robert Smith @bondhack.ft.com · 20/05/2025
Builder.ai just went bust. Around half a billion dollars invested from the likes of Microsoft, QIA and Insight Partners wiped out. Full story here with @alexandraheal.bsky.social. Comes after a run of probing FT stories (led by Alex) on the company and its founder Sachin Duggal on.ft.com/43gI8YN
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Microsoft-backed UK tech unicorn Builder.ai collapses into insolvency
[FREE TO READ] Once high-flying group founded by Sachin Dev Duggal says its was unable to recover from ‘past decisions’
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Julia Macfarlane @juliamacfarlane.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
“Goodwill towards Israel is running out” - BBC’s international editor Jeremy Bowen www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Reporter Reads - Jeremy Bowen: Goodwill towards Israel is running out - BBC Sounds
The UK, France and Canada say the level of human suffering in Gaza "is intolerable."
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Tom Fletcher @tomfletcherun.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Israeli authorities have temporarily allowed us to deliver limited aid to Gaza after 11 weeks of blockade. A drop in the ocean. It must reach the civilians who need it so urgently, and we must be allowed to scale up. We are determined to save as many lives as we can.
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Julia Macfarlane @juliamacfarlane.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
I can’t believe there was a time in my life when I didn’t know what jujube tea was
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Julia Macfarlane @juliamacfarlane.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Tried to put on a news podcast from a very established media company - really interesting sounding topic on fast fashion - couldn’t make it through five minutes because of the unbearable amount of vocal fry. Why are people doing so much of this these days? Am I the only one who finds it grating?
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John Rentoul @rentouljohn.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Nigel Farage once doubted the name “Reform” but Patrick O'Flynn, former Ukip MEP, advised him to stick with it patrickoflynn.substack.com/p/bite-size-...
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Julia Macfarlane @juliamacfarlane.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Sky News Australia projects Labour and the incumbent PM Anthony Albanese will win the general election
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 02/05/2025
Nigel Farage tells Sky: "Kemi Badenoch please stay. Please don't resign. We want you to stay on as leader. I'll put some money if you want to keep you there...In many parts of this country if you vote Conservative, you get Labour. The Tories really are a waste of space."
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 01/05/2025
Mike Waltz has left the chat.
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Julia Macfarlane @juliamacfarlane.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
My husband is in Vogue! 😍 Proud wife moment www.vogue.com/article/excl...
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Great Loves, Great Loss, and Great Fortunes: An Exclusive First Look at ‘The Gilded Age’ Season 3
“If you married the wrong guy, you were in life-long trouble.” So says “The Gilded Age” creator Julian Fellowes, summing up one of the many thematic undercurrents of the historical series’s third seas...
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Julia Macfarlane @juliamacfarlane.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Right, come on Duffle Coat #grandnational
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Julia Macfarlane @juliamacfarlane.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
The video shows that the 15 aid workers in Gaza were wearing medic reflective gear and had emergency lights on, contradicting Israel’s claims. There is nonstop rapid fire heard for over six minutes, as the aid worker recording quietly repeats his dying prayers www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...
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Video Shows Aid Workers Killed in Gaza Under Gunfire Barrage, With Ambulance Lights On
The U.N. has said Israel killed the workers. The video appears to contradict Israel’s version of events, which said the vehicles were “advancing suspiciously” without headlights or emergency signals.
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Julia Macfarlane @juliamacfarlane.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Four mins until the nyse opening bell…
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Press Gazette @pressgazette.co.uk · 04/04/2025
The News Media Association, News UK and Financial Times are among the signatories to a letter to Keir Starmer saying there should be no change to big tech regulation as part of a trade deal with the US
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Digital Businesses and Campaigners Tell Keir Starmer Parliamentary Sovereignty and UK Democracy Are Not For Sale - News Media Association
More than 50 businesses, campaigning organisations and individuals have called on the Prime Minister to deliver on the objectives of two key pieces of legislation designed to make the digital…
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Fox removed the stock market ticker from their broadcasts.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
If this ain't a goddamn perfect eulogy, I don't know what is.
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Julia Macfarlane @juliamacfarlane.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Live coverage now in the USA as Americans try their own cheese and chocolate for the first time
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Julia Macfarlane @juliamacfarlane.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Courageous colleagues from the BBC Burmese Service have reached Sagaing - the area closest to the earthquake epicentre. "We can see that as we drive through the streets - three out of every five houses have collapsed." www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2...
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Myanmar-Thailand earthquake: Junta fires on convoy bringing aid to quake-hit regions
Myanmar junta chief Min Aung Hlaing has also rejected calls for a ceasefire to facilitate the delivery of desperately needed relief supplies.
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Julia Macfarlane @juliamacfarlane.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
NYU cancelled a speech by Doctors Without Borders' former chief because she wanted to mention the casualties in the Israel-Gaza war. The university said it 'could be seen as antisemitic' and mentioning cuts at USAID could be deemed to be 'antigovernment' www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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NYU canceled talk on USAID cuts for being ‘anti-governmental’, doctor says
University called Dr Joanne Liu, ex-head of Doctors Without Borders, after planning to speak on Gaza and federal cuts
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Julia Macfarlane @juliamacfarlane.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Trump's first overseas trip as President to be Saudi Arabia and the Gulf (the first trip overseas in his first administration was also to Saudi) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Trump Plans Visits to Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar in First Foreign Trip
President Donald Trump said the first presidential trip of his second term would likely include visits to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar as well as additional stops.
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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Wisconsin: not for sale
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Julia Macfarlane @juliamacfarlane.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Give the poor man a break! www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/u...
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Cory Booker Condemns Trump’s Policies in Longest Senate Speech on Record
The New Jersey senator spent much of his speech, which ended after more than 25 hours, assailing the Trump administration. He eclipsed Strom Thurmond’s filibuster of a civil rights bill in 1957.
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Julia Macfarlane @juliamacfarlane.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Heaving myself ever closer to Easter Sunday without coffee and chocolate, 0/10 do not recommend #Lent
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Julia Macfarlane @juliamacfarlane.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Exclusive: US suspends financial contributions to WTO, trade sources say - www.reuters.com/world/us-sus...
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Exclusive: US suspends financial contributions to WTO, trade sources say
The United States has paused contributions to the World Trade Organization, three trade sources told Reuters, as U.S. President Donald Trump's administration ramps up efforts to cut government spending.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 22/03/2025
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com The most effective way to protect the American system of checks and balances starts with courage from more people who believe in it, the New York Times editorial board writes.
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Opinion | Who Will Defend the Defenders of the Constitution?
The president and his allies are encouraging a campaign of menace.
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Zecharias Zelalem @zekuzelalem.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
THREAD: The impact of the Executive Order VOA shutdown, while not as devastating as the USAID funding freeze, will have a similarly long ranging and damaging impact on the world and yes, US interests.
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Trump dismantles Voice of America with executive order
More than 1,300 staff placed on administrative leave as White House accuses VOA of being anti-Trump, "radical" and "leftist".
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Julia Macfarlane @juliamacfarlane.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
“Tesla’s slipping sales are mostly, if not completely, attributed to the statements and behavior of Elon Musk.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/b...
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Can Trump and Musk Convince More Conservatives to Buy Teslas?
President Trump rallied support for Elon Musk’s car company, but there may not be enough conservatives willing to buy electric cars to make up for the Democrats who now shun Teslas.
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Julia Macfarlane @juliamacfarlane.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Canada is actively looking at potential alternatives to the U.S.-built F-35 stealth fighter and will hold conversations with rival aircraft makers, Defence Minister Bill Blair said late Friday www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Canada reconsidering F-35 purchase amid tensions with Washington, says minister | CBC News
Canada is looking at cancelling a major portion of its purchase of U.S.-built F-35 stealth fighters and plans on opening talks with rival aircraft makers, Defence Minister Bill Blair said.
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Julia Macfarlane @juliamacfarlane.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
How I sleep at night knowing I put all my savings into yarn and vintage handbags instead of the stock market
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Sean O’Kane @okane.fyi · 10/03/2025
Tesla board member James Murdoch sells $13 million worth of Tesla shares www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...
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Joe English @joe-english.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
The number of children needing emergency treatment for severe acute malnutrition in Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh has surged by 27% in Feb '25 compared to the same period last year, as worsening conditions push more young children into life-threatening hunger. www.unicef.org/press-releas...
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27 per cent surge in number of children admitted for severe acute malnutrition treatment in Rohingya refugee camps
Rising demand for life-saving nutrition treatment threatens to outpace declining humanitarian funding, leaving thousands of children at risk
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Julia Macfarlane @juliamacfarlane.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
US retail investors are not “buying the dip” as one might have expected - due to ongoing anxiety about Trump govt policy and fears over the economic impact of tariffs www.reuters.com/markets/weal...
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US retail investors wary of buying the dip as Trump anxiety deepens
Fears that Trump’s tariffs will spark an economic downturn are driving a sell-off in equities.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 09/03/2025
Chinese investors privately take stakes in Elon Musk’s companies www.ft.com/content/66857e1e-a217-4d…
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Chinese investors privately take stakes in Elon Musk’s companies
Asset managers have been promoting tech mogul’s ties to Donald Trump to lure capital to xAI, Neuralink and SpaceX
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