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Freddie Johnson @playawfulthings.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

SAVE FELTON COMMON from Bristol Airport expansion! Watch the campaign song video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW0U... Please buy the track to support the campaign, and links to how to object to the planning application here before 28th June: myceliumrecords.com/commonlandch...

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The Goose and the Common - Common Land Choir

YouTube video by Save Felton Common

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

This morning Pete Hegseth said "The sooner David Ellison takes over CNN, the better." Ellison may be able to buy CBS News and CNN. Jeff Bezos can buy the Washington Post. But Democracy Docket is not for sale. Support pro-democracy independent media by signing up now. bit.ly/4qr0jTS

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 19/02/2026

BBC reporting that Andrew Mountbatten Windsor has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office. There is no precedent for a senior member of the royal family being placed under arrest in modern British history. A seismic moment for the monarchy.

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Freddie Johnson @playawfulthings.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Sad to be leaving after 3 formative, brilliant years but so proud of what we've achieved as a team ❤️ The work Newsmast does matters and I wish them all the best. They'll always have a supporter in me, and I will remain engaged in and an advocate for the social web 🕸✊️

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Newsmast Foundation @newsmastfoundation.org · 04/12/2025

We're thrilled to welcome @benparker140.bsky.social to the Newsmast Foundation team! Co-founder of The New Humanitarian and a former international aid worker, Ben joins us as Editor. He'll be helping keep our Channel experience looking good across the Social Web through careful curation 🧹

An image of Ben Parker, a white male presenting figure in a suit with glasses, he holds a microphone as if on a panel. Over the image, text reads: "Ben Parker. Editor. Newsmast Foundation."

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Eliz Mizon @elizmizon.com · 20/11/2025

1/3 Case study: how can we have less toxic, non-extractive #SocialMedia, that works the way internet pioneers originally envisioned? Well, look no further than my old haunt @thebristolcable.bsky.social, and my new #Fediverse friends the @newsmastfoundation.org!

Three phone screens, all showing a different social media feed with text and images. One looks a little like Twitter, one like Reddit, one like a news homepage. They're slightly overlapping, all lined up beside each other.

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Ivan Sigal @ivansigal.eurosky.social · 19/11/2025

And @alexandrageese.bsky.social is on fire today. Frustration from yesterday's tech sovereignty summit? #EuroskyLive

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Newsmast Foundation @newsmastfoundation.org · 17/11/2025

This week, @playawfulthings.bsky.social & @michaelfoster.bsky.social are heading to Germany for the European Digital Sovereignty Summit and @eurosky.social Live 💫 Links to learn more about each event are below 👇 #SocialWeb #Eurosky #DigitalSovereignty

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Newsmast Foundation @newsmastfoundation.org · 17/11/2025

Local news and community in one app 📱 We are incredibly excited and, honestly, really proud to be launching The Bristol Cable iOS app with @thebristolcable.bsky.social today. If you're a Cable member, check it out! #SocialMedia #DigitalCommunity

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Freddie Johnson @playawfulthings.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

There's a lot to look forward to at the #Fediverse track at #SFSCon but @saskiakezia.com and @michaelfoster.bsky.social talk on growing the open social web, in the context of liberalism's crisis.

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Newsmast Foundation @newsmastfoundation.org · 10/10/2025

Yesterday, we visited @thebristolcable.bsky.social for their AGM to announce our exciting partnership. The Bristol Cable is a co-op, 100% locally-owned publication and we're very proud to be developing new ways to help them connect with their community away from Big Tech. #LocalJournalism

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Freddie Johnson @playawfulthings.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Politicians that have showed up in my dreams: Ted Heath Barack Obama 💫New💫 George Bush Sr. (Simpsons version) 💫New💫 John McCain (Simpsons version)

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Lexie Kirkconnell-Kawana @lexiekk.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Started watching #theHack on ITV and want more? 'After the Hack', our recap show with @bylinetimes.bsky.social is now out! Weekly episodes on the real politics and behind the scenes goss of the phone hacking scandal, plus what action you can take to build a better media youtu.be/VlCYtc_IGoU?...

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After The Hack | Preview Show with Byline Times & Impress

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Freddie Johnson @playawfulthings.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Pay to illuminate the Caravaggio. A pay wall for art.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Advice please: what are the new local journalism outlets sticking it to power? I'm thinking of publications like the Bristol Cable, Inside Croydon and West Country Voices. Which others should be on the list? Thanks.

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Freddie Johnson @playawfulthings.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Such a wonderful presenter and a wonderful show. A powerful piece of our country's intellectual life. Every episode is so refreshing because it demands something from its audience - almost totally alone in the media landscape. Thanks Melvyn! A wonderful project.

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Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team · 03/09/2025

Please provide your input on @blackskyweb.xyz Community Guidelines (use of the feed, moderation, app, as well as developer/network services). Anyone using our feeds, subscribed to our mod service, on the PDS/relay Provide input via the following link 🗳️: assembly.blacksky.community/6carwc4nzj

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Blacksky People's Assembly

Blacksky People's Assembly – a space for public deliberation and collective decision-making.

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A New Social @anew.social · 25/08/2025

Today, we're launching the first Beta of Bounce, a tool that lets you migrate your social graph across protocols! We got such a positive response from our announcement, and we're so excited for folks to try it out. Here's what you need to know when you Bounce: blog.anew.social/bounce-beta-...

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A New Social @anew.social · 02/09/2025

Today, we're launching $1 & $2 tiers on our Patreon so more of our community can support us! As a part of that, we also wanted to share where our funding is currently coming from and what community funding can help lead to for the future of Bridgy Fed & Bounce. Check it out in the post below 👇🏼

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New $1-2 Patreon Tiers! And Funding Update

Hey everyone 👋🏼 Following the successful launch of the Bounce Beta last week, we felt this would be a good opportunity to review how A New Social is progressing eight months in. I wanted to provide s...

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Ryan @snarfed.org · 02/09/2025

I've been paying for Bridgy Fed myself, out of pocket, since the beginning. I'm happy to, and I'll continue to, but it's not cheap. We have big ideas and plans for the future, and funding is our main blocker. Please help if you can!

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Media Revolution @media-revolution.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

The media is broken and it’s breaking us. Owned by billionaires, wired for division, built to distract. But around the world, rebels & reformers are rising. This is the #MediaRevolution 🌀 Join the countdown to 5 Nov: Media Liberation Day. 🔗 mediarevolution.org

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Freddie Johnson @playawfulthings.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Ah! I am the shame of London. I have a squeaky Lime! #London #Ebike

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 11/07/2025

A good 70% of the fighting over AI would have been avoided if VC hucksters (and gullible access journalists) hadn't conflated incrementally useful automation with computational sentience to make money

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Newsmast Foundation @newsmastfoundation.org · 19/06/2025

We're really excited to be attending @atproto.london‬ this evening! @playawfulthings.bsky.social and @saskiakezia.com ‬ will both be there to chat decentralised social media, learn more about AT protocol, and enjoy the drinks very kindly provided by @graze.social 🥂 See you soon!!

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Freddie Johnson @playawfulthings.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Peace plans - Dead Tariffs - Dead Mass deportations - Dying? In the first *6 months* What is he going to do for *3 years* He'll quit, right? It can't go on.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Just finished up at the Evanston No Kings rally. It was safe, peaceful, and a show of solidarity by *at least* 1,000 people. Go to your local protest. Don’t let this administration scare you. Stand with your community when our leaders won’t.

I’m standing between two people holding one of their protest signs which reads, “I POUR MY COCKTAILS SERVED UP — NO ICE!!!”

A man in a flannel shirt holds a sign with “8647” between his parents who are sitting in mobility aids. Their signs read “GRANDMA’S PISSED OFF!” and “DUE PROCESS FOR ALL!”

Ben and I talk to a man in a mobility aid with a sign reading “Cutting Medicare and Medicaid WILL KILL people like me!”

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

“According to KMSP-TV, the lawmakers were shot by two men dressed like police officers and driving a car that looked like a police car. One of the suspects was taken into custody in Brooklyn Park after an officer-involved shooting. The second suspect is still at large.” bnonews.com/index.php/20...

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Minnesota Senator John Hoffman and State Rep. Melissa Hortman shot at their homes

Minnesota Senator John Hoffman and State Representative Melissa Hortman, along with their spouses, have been shot by men dressed as police officers who showed up at their homes in Brooklyn Park and Ch...

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 12/06/2025

been on a run of watching Hitchcock classics (Rear Window, Vertigo, North By Northwest) and it's almost painful to observe the level of thematic and aesthetic sophistication that pop culture aspired to (let alone achieved) at the peak of the midcentury High Modernist moment

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Freddie Johnson @playawfulthings.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Seems like a good day to have this on. Stay strong LA ❤️ #Resist #Nonviolence #DirectAction

The album cover for Rage Against the Machine's "The Battle of Los Angeles"

Features an outline of a protester, fist raised, spray painted on a concrete wall.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/06/2025

what people seem to believe is that there is a large number of criminal, layabout immigrants who can be easily found and deported. they support doing so snd are dismayed by the deportation of otherwise law abiding people. the problem is that the criminal group is imaginary!

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

If you had any possible temptation to downplay how bad it is, stop immediately. Thread (add your own in replies, please) of things we can do to melt ICE and support immigrants here.

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ICE arrests under Trump top 100,000 as officials expand aggressive efforts to detain migrants

Arrests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement during President Trump's second term topped 100,000 this week.

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Touretteshero @touretteshero.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I’m profoundly sad to say that as of today, I’ll no longer be able to do my job as co-artistic director of #Touretteshero because of a recent decision by #AccessToWork to cut my support by 61%. Read & share this post, the hardest I've had to write: www.touretteshero.com/2025/05/23/a... 1/4

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Newsmast Foundation @newsmastfoundation.org · 22/05/2025

Exciting update 👉 We're inviting select users to Channel.org services now 🎉 For this beta launch, we've decided to keep Channel.org invite only but we're excited to open the beta to the public soon 👀 If you'd like to be on the waitlist, just drop us a message! #SocialWeb #NewRelease

A graphic alert reading: Channel.org BETA release. Invite only access now live

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David, just David @coldwarhost.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

this made me chuckle.

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Freddie Johnson @playawfulthings.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

"If you do not assert your principles against the status quo, others will assert them for you." Excellent article by @willdunn.bsky.social on the shadow of George Osborne's class war. www.newstatesman.com/cover-story/...

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Why George Osborne still runs Britain

Austerity was a radical economic experiment – but 15 years on, it has become the new orthodoxy.

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Freddie Johnson @playawfulthings.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

The shock of this stuff is how little it matters.

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 02/05/2025

Why only tomorrow? Surely it's time to start thinking about your eXit strategy? mathewlowry.medium.com/x-strategy-o...

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X Strategy or eXit Strategy? A cost-benefit analysis framework

Some considerations to help you clarify your eXit Strategy.

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Freddie Johnson @playawfulthings.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Tomorrow is Save Social day - Boycott mainstream social media for a day (Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, WhatsApp, Instagram, TikTok) Send a message to Mark Zuckerberg & Elon Musk. savesocial.eu/day/

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SaveSocialDay

#SaveSocialDay Kein Youtube. Kein LinkedIn. Kein Facebook. Kein Instagram. Kein WhatsApp. Kein Tiktok. Kein Twitch. Am 3. Mai 2025 ist Tag der #Pressefreiheit. Aber genau die ist in den Sozialen Netzw...

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GraphTracks.com (BlueSky analytics) @graphtracks.com · 01/05/2025

We are live on Product Hunt🚀 We would very much appreciate your support 🙏

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Newsmast Foundation @newsmastfoundation.org · 23/04/2025

Our Foundation Ambassador, Freddie, is heading to Hamburg for @ahoy.eu 🎉 Although we're not ATProto experts, it's a great opportunity to meet up with friends in the space and to make some new ones. If you're there, give Freddie a message at @playawfulthings.bsky.social #Ahoy #SocialWeb

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Adam Vaughan @adamvaughan.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

NEW 2025 has become the UK's worst wildfire year on record After just 15 weeks, 28,771 hectares have been burned That's an area roughly 2x area of Bristol More background in this story here 👇 www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

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Saskia @saskiakezia.com · 11/04/2025

I feel like I'm going crazy listening to panel after panel at #IJF25 talk about needing an EU alternative to Big Tech. There is one! Learn about it, fund it - or just listen when we say it exists 😤 If you want to learn more, come to the Mastodon aperitivo. @journalismfestival.com #IJF25

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