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Nick Mitchell

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Comms-ing @UKChange.bsky.social | ex-journo and editor NationalWorld, @inews.co.uk, @thescotsmanpaper.bsky.social | sleep-deprived dad to twins

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Nick Mitchell @nick-mitchell.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
I missed it at the time but this is such a great piece of digital journalism - an easily consumable format in keeping with the subject and target audience: www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
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Money, muscles and anxiety: why the manosphere clicked with young men – a visual deep dive
The manosphere is known for misogyny, but that’s not the only thing that influencers in this space offer. Young men explain the allure and the problems of the manosphere in their own words
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Nick Mitchell @nick-mitchell.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
First LNER train for me today since the attack last month, and there are a couple of security guards on board, unsurprisingly. Any anxiety is lessened by one of them telling "dad jokes" as he walks through the carriage.
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Nick Mitchell @nick-mitchell.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Wonderful piece, courtesy of @austinkleon.bsky.social's newsletter: How to Fix a Typewriter and Your Life www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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How to Fix a Typewriter and Your Life (Gift Article)
This is the story of how a man traded steady, grinding corporate security for a dying craft and, in the process, found his soul.
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Nick Mitchell @nick-mitchell.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
I just decided to abandon my 1475-day streak on Duolingo, stretching back to 2021. That's roughly equivalent to over 15 solid days of my life translating sentences like 'my dog is unemployed' into French and German. Tant pis.
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Miles Howard @milesperhoward.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
This is a Hall of Fame reader comment on a very reactionary op-ed about Zohran Mamdani's victory that was published in my local paper today.
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Nick Mitchell @nick-mitchell.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Essential reading for anyone in the media using CapCut for social content: www.journalism.co.uk/news/capcut-...
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CapCut’s policy update raises major red flags for newsrooms
The go-to mobile-editing app for TikTok, Reels, and Shorts has slipped in problematic new terms for newsrooms which risks source safety and surrenders copyright
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Nick Mitchell @nick-mitchell.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
I'm no UX design expert, but Spotify's text display on the app is probably not best practice?
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Nick Mitchell @nick-mitchell.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
⌚️ Two days to go till #EMF2025 📈 93% to my new fundraising goal of £3000 for @mssocietyuk.bsky.social 🙏 Grateful if you can help push me over the line (figuratively and literally!) 🔗 www.justgiving.com/fundraising/...
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Change.org UK @ukchange.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Autism rights campaigner Emma Dalmayne stood outside Amazon’s UK HQ in London this week with fellow activists — and a petition signed by over 35,000 people. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk3_... (1/4)
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Outside Amazon’s UK HQ, advocate demands end to sales of books that promote autism 'cures'
YouTube video by Change.org
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Change.org UK @ukchange.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
We were very saddened to learn of the passing of Hannah Deacon, a devoted mother and tireless campaigner for medical reform in the UK (1/5)
Hannah Deacon, 1979 - 2025
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Nick Mitchell @nick-mitchell.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Two weeks till marathon day, and I'm over 75% to my fundraising goal for the @mssocietyuk.bsky.social 📈 Thanks to everyone who's donated so far, it makes it much easier to keep going on the long runs🙏 www.justgiving.com/fundraising/... #edinburghmarathon #mssociety
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Nick Mitchell @nick-mitchell.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Ah, the neighbour's 9.45pm Sainsbury's delivery, in all its door-slamming predictability. Not like we have a couple of kranky babies trying to sleep at last. Correction: they're awake now 😩
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Nick Mitchell @nick-mitchell.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
I'm attempting to run the Edinburgh Marathon to raise funds for @mssocietyuk.bsky.social (if the old knees can take it). I'd be very grateful for anything you can chip in to help an important cause 🙏 www.justgiving.com/fundraising/...
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Nick's 2025 Edinburgh Marathon Fundraiser for MS Society
Help Nick Mitchell raise money to support Multiple Sclerosis Society
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Nick Mitchell @nick-mitchell.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
I've already seen 5 petitions started on @ukchange.bsky.social over the past 24 hours calling on the BBC to save #RiverCity It might not seem like a terribly important issue, but it's clearly caused anger among viewers and the Scottish TV industry www.change.org/p/save-bbc-s...
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Save BBC's River City
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Nick Mitchell @nick-mitchell.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
I'm attempting to run the Edinburgh Marathon to raise funds for @mssocietyuk.bsky.social (if the old knees can take it). I'd be very grateful for anything you can chip in to help an important cause 🙏 www.justgiving.com/fundraising/...
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Nick's 2025 Edinburgh Marathon Fundraiser for MS Society
Help Nick Mitchell raise money to support Multiple Sclerosis Society
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Andrew Learmonth @andrewlearmonth.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Richard Tice came to Glasgow today to reveal Reform UK’s latest defectors. It did not go well. Got stuck when the Daily Mail’s Tom Gordon asked him for their names.
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Nick Mitchell @nick-mitchell.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Scotland's land ownership debate has made it to the New York Times - one of the best articles I've read on the subject www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/r...
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Who Gets to Own Scotland?
A new land-reform bill aims to unwind a long history of inequality. But centuries of feudalism are difficult to shake.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.
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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Looking forward to the @washingtonpost.com’s hot take on the Trump-Zelenskyy debacle. It’s all about personal liberties and free markets, remember?
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Nick Mitchell @nick-mitchell.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Absolutely extraordinary to watch a wartime leader - who never left Ukraine even when his life was threatened - being patronised and bullied on live TV by Trump and Vance
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Change.org UK @ukchange.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
A petition has been launched on @ukchange.bsky.social calling on the UK Home Secretary Yvette Cooper to extradite the Tate brothers from the US. Andrew and Tristan Tate landed in Florida on Thursday in a private jet after flying from Romania.
Petition demands UK Home Secretary to extradite Andrew and Tristan Tate  from the US
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Nick Mitchell @nick-mitchell.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
"He tried" - Trump's response to a question about whether Starmer persuaded him to avoid tariffs on UK. Goes on to suggest again that a "terrific" trade deal is in the works. That remains to be seen.
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Nick Mitchell @nick-mitchell.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Trump just cut off Starmer while he was answering a potentially awkward question about Canada - "That's enough" Power dynamics at play right there.
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Nick Mitchell @nick-mitchell.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Celtic following in the footsteps of Raith Rovers here* * Any excuse to post this photo again #muncel #ucl
Bayern 0 - 1 Raith Rovers
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Nick Mitchell @nick-mitchell.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
A sign of the times that headlines as insane as this seem like an hourly occurrence in the US, rather than an Onion parody
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Alasdair Clark @alasdairclark.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
My 2026 vote goes to the party who renames the Firth of Forth to the Gulf of Fife.
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Nick Mitchell @nick-mitchell.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
We often see movements suddenly burst into life on @change.org A good example this week is the student-led response to the cutbacks at Cardiff University Seven petitions and 30,000+ supporters so far: www.change.org/m/cardiff-un...
Cardiff University Cuts - movement page on change.org
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Nick Mitchell @nick-mitchell.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Crystal Owen has become an extraordinary campaigner. You may not agree with what she's calling for, but her passion and determination is formidable. Today's parliamentary debate is far from the end of the story. More on her campaign here via @ukchange.bsky.social: www.change.org/p/safer-driv...
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Safer Driving Licensing for Newly Qualified 17-19 Year Olds
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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
was mostly keeping it together until I read Kyle MacLachlan's tribute to David Lynch
"Forty-two years ago, for reasons beyond my comprehension, David Lynch plucked me out of obscurity to star in his first and last big budget movie. He clearly saw something in me that even I didn’t recognize. I owe my entire career, and life really, to his vision.
 
What I saw in him was an enigmatic and intuitive man with a creative ocean bursting forth inside of him. He was in touch with something the rest of us wish we could get to.
 
Our friendship blossomed on Blue Velvet and then Twin Peaks and I always found him to be the most authentically alive person I’d ever met.
 
David was in tune with the universe and his own imagination on a level that seemed to be the best version of human. He was not interested in answers because he understood that questions are the drive that make us who we are. They are our breath.
 
While the world has lost a remarkable artist, I’ve lost a dear friend who imagined a future for me and allowed me to travel in worlds I could never have conceived on my own.
 
I can see him now, standing up to greet me in his backyard, with a warm smile and big hug and that Great Plains honk of a voice. We’d talk coffee, the joy of the unexpected, the beauty of the world, and laugh.
 
His love for me and mine for him came out of the cosmic fate of two people who saw the best things about themselves in each other.
 
I will miss him more than the limits of my language can tell and my heart can bear. My world is that much fuller because I knew him and that much emptier now that he’s gone.
 
David, I remain forever changed, and forever your Kale. Thank you for everything."
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Nick Mitchell @nick-mitchell.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
An artist and a visionary. A master of his craft and one of a kind. RIP David Lynch.
David Lynch on Twin Peaks
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Nick Mitchell @nick-mitchell.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
What happened when WPP announced a 4-day return-to-office rule? 15,000 signatures on this @change.org petition, and 100+ media mentions globally. It's a reminder for CEOs everywhere: flexibility is what most workers want, not arbitrary quotas. www.change.org/p/demand-wpp...
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Demand WPP to Revoke its Four-Day Office Return Mandate
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Change.org UK @ukchange.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
(Warning: Distressing themes) More than 100,000 people have signed a petition calling for sexual assault survivor Gisèle Pelicot to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. 1/4
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Jack Graham @jackdgraham.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
I'm working with @joshbabarinde.bsky.social to push the government to create a specific set of domestic violence aggravated offences in England and Wales. It's simple: if it was domestic abuse, name it in the offence. Back our @ukchange.bsky.social campaign to #NameDA
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Name Domestic Abuse in Criminal Convictions
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Nick Mitchell @nick-mitchell.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Hats off to @joeduggan1.bsky.social and Sam Rucker - the kind of journalism that saves lives
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Nick Mitchell @nick-mitchell.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
For Zuckerberg to call his own fact-checkers "politically biased" just highlights his own bias. This excerpt from @caseynewton.bsky.social's Platformer email explains the context well:
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Nick Mitchell @nick-mitchell.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
This list is so incredibly Guardian. Some of my favourites: "Snuggle a horse" "Admire a pigeon" 'Try alternate nostril breathing" "Make your own nettle tea" www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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‘Biceps curls while you cook!’ 101 ways to get healthier and happier – in just five minutes
Open all your windows! Sing a song! Have a hot chocolate! Guardian writers and readers reveal simple ways to lift your mood in 300 seconds or fewer
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Nick Mitchell @nick-mitchell.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Hogmanay with twin 8 month olds: 7pm: Twin 1 can't sleep due to blocked nose. Try to clear then settle her 11.30pm: Twin 2 wakes just in time for the bells, stays awake until 1.30am 5am: Twin 2 wakes again, refuses to settle - eventually asleep at 6.30am 7.30am: Twin 1 wakes for the day 😫
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Nick Mitchell @nick-mitchell.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
"I often wonder where Norman is now. Probably wintering with his mother in Guildford. A cat, and the rain... Vim under the sink, and both bars on" Yes, I watched watched Withnail & I for about the 1000th time tonight.
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Nick Mitchell @nick-mitchell.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
With a bit of time to reflect, the 'shock' Neill Collins exit could be a blessing in disguise for Raith. He wasn't rated by Barnsley fans, he gave us no new manager bounce, some of the key players went AWOL under his tenure, and he certainly wasn't a natural communicator.
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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
When you ask “was the suspect an extremist”, which kind of extremist did you have in mind www.spiegel.de/panorama/jus...
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Nick Mitchell @nick-mitchell.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
The coworking place today has played Purple Snowflakes by Marvin Gaye three times today and honestly I'm fine with that.
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David Brennan @magnatom.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
That's quite an incredible chart. In Scotland cycling appears to significantly improve (although note the confidence intervals) all types of mortality rates except for one. Traffic related casualties are significantly increased. We need infrastructure and justice protection now!
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Change.org UK @ukchange.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
This year, Change.org continued to help empower people across the UK and beyond to make their voices heard and take action on the causes they care about. 1/4
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Nick Mitchell @nick-mitchell.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Strangely, I often find my gmail being co-opted by random people around the world, prompting endless unsubscribes to everything from pizza restaurants to credit cards. But one email list I definitely WON'T be leaving is an English allotment group, which is wonderfully passive-aggressive and petty.
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Emily Bell @emilybell.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
I wrote a thing where I try and fail to contain my annoyance with untrustworthy billionaires talking about ‘fixing trust’ in news organizations with their poorly conceived AI driven bias-o-meters, and concessions to the right
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Nick Mitchell @nick-mitchell.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
What could be more festive, I ask you?
Traffic light tree in London
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Make Votes Matter @makevotesmatter.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
"We're a multi-party democracy, trying to jam every possible shape into a square hole." Excellent article by @josiah.writes.news citing research by @electoralreform.bsky.social. Nearly 78% of votes in 2024 didn't directly affect the local result. FPTP isn't working. bylinetimes.com/2024/12/10/b...
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'Britain's Deeply Unfair Two-Party Electoral System is Dying and MPs Know It'
Startling new research reveals that this year's General Election was the 'most disproportionate ever' with millions of votes wasted
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Matt Kane @mk.gg · 10/12/2024
The UK parliament has joined Bluesky, with proper verified domains and everything: • @houseofcommons.parliament.uk • @houseoflords.parliament.uk • @ukparliament.parliament.uk • @commonsspeaker.parliament.uk
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Nick Mitchell @nick-mitchell.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Excellent article looking at how Granton symbolises the poverty / opportunity gap in Edinburgh (and Scotland)
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Nick Mitchell @nick-mitchell.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
I've been working in co-working places recently and you meet lots of interesting folks. So far this morning: someone working on a new climate technology that uses "rock dust" to absorb carbon, a psychiatrist, and a PhD student working on minority attitudes to policing.
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