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Pamela Duncan

@porcelinad.bsky.social
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Journalism lecturer + data trainer + external examiner. Former Guardian data projects editor. "I ❤️ spreadsheets" mug-owner. Python for the big stuff. Happiest when in/on/by the sea. I reserve the right to show off my latest Amigurumi.

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Pamela Duncan @porcelinad.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Honoured to be shortlisted for the Innovation award at the European Press Prize A year in the making, this investigation exposed how a network of public Facebook groups help incubate far-right ideas in the UK. You can read the full piece here👇🏻 www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
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European Press Prize Shortlist 2026
25 works. 34 countries. Investigations that took years. Reporting from places most of us will never see. Essays that opened conversations.
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Pamela Duncan @porcelinad.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
We all instinctively know that sentiment towards immigrants has reached new lows in the UK. Well this proves it. Labour and Conservative MPs are speaking in a more hostile way about immigration than at almost any other time in the last century... www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
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How rightwing rhetoric has risen sharply in the UK parliament – an exclusive visual analysis
In the past five years, MPs’ attitudes in the House of Commons towards immigration have swung harder to the right than at almost any other time in the last century
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Pamela Duncan @porcelinad.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Now we're cooking on gas (quite literally)
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Pamela Duncan @porcelinad.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
🎅🏻 The “Santa Claus effect”: booming tourism in Lapland is eating into green space in Finland, with a huge number of UK and Irish Irish tourists descending in Nov/Dec The finding is part of a major cross-border investigation into landtake in Euro 🧵👇🏻 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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The Santa Claus effect: how expanding tourism ate into Lapland’s green space
The number of visitors to the region has risen 160% in 30 years as concerns grow for its fragile ecosystem and indigenous practices
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Pamela Duncan @porcelinad.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
I’m a few days late to this (busy life, what can I say)... 🚨 EXCLUSIVE 🚨Guardian data analysis shows how a public Facebook network helps incubate far-right ideas in the UK. The scale is staggering: the combined membership is >600k and rising week-on-week👇 www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
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Inside the everyday Facebook networks where far-right ideas grow
The Guardian spent a year studying an online community trading in anti-immigration sentiment and misinformation. Experts say such spaces can play a role in radicalisation
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Pamela Duncan @porcelinad.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
@johncreedon.bsky.social I am very much NOT in the Morrisey camp...but my god you made up for it with Sam Cooke, the Strokes and the Libertines...you're a good egg John. No request required but tell Tim he isn't a bad egg either.
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Pamela Duncan @porcelinad.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
There are so many things to love about the Isle of Scilly's autorresponse to our recent FOI that I'm considering moving there... no casinos, no high rise buildings, no car parks or parking spaces from which we collect fees or charges...no parking inspectors"...
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Pamela Duncan @porcelinad.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
A labour of love with an insanely good Guardian and international team. Simon Goodley, Zoe Wood, @michaelgoodier.bsky.social , @juliettegarside.bsky.social , @occrp.org, SVT & 30+ news organisations across Europe 💪
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Pamela Duncan @porcelinad.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Exclusive analysis carried out by the Guardian found 760 rooms being advertised in hotels, apartments and other holiday rentals in illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank inc. East Jerusalem on AirBnB and Booking.com. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
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Pamela Duncan @porcelinad.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
"Dressed in black stockings, and wigs for the Lords, clerks carry bundles of messages tied in silk ribbons...the language in which the messages are written is…Norman French" A bizarre (& fascinating) take on the House of Lords www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Béau travau fait @direthoughts.com
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What is the House of Lords and what do peers do?
Details of what goes on in the UK parliament’s upper chamber, where messages are written in Norman French and peers can claim £361 a day
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Annelotte Janse @annelottejanse.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Can the EU stop Musk? ‘Only one institution on the planet is large enough and powerful enough to write and enforce laws that could make the tech companies change their policies. (…) But for how much longer will the EU have this authority?’ www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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Europe’s Elon Musk Problem
He and other tech oligarchs are making it impossible to conduct free and fair elections anywhere.
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Pamela Duncan @porcelinad.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
@johncreedon.bsky.social I must say I very much enjoyed the Boom Town Rats on Jools the other night... any chance of a the Great Song of Indifference by himself? And a very happy 2025 to you JC
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Pamela Duncan @porcelinad.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
@johncreedon.bsky.social John, you are an actual legend (Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis"...WHAT a shout!!!) Xmas eve eve is myself and Tim's Xmas (before the family madness)...so can you please wish him a very happy Christmas from me. Thank you for another year of savage tunes
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Pamela Duncan @porcelinad.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Christmas begins...
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Pamela Duncan @porcelinad.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
🎼On the 12 days of Christmas, My young cousin and me, Will get into a very cold sea... We are doing it for two brilliant local charities: Cancer Care West and Liquid Therapy. We'd really appreciate your donations, big or small: gofund.me/d4036430
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Donate to 12 Dips of Christmas, organized by Pamela Duncan
On the 12 days of Christmas, My young cousin and me, Will get into a very cold sea ; We are d… Pamela Duncan needs your support for 12 Dips of Christmas
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Pamela Duncan @porcelinad.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Is it just me or does Elon Musk increasingly seem like a man intent on taking down society for the lulz
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Pamela Duncan @porcelinad.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
What I know about football (soccer to our American friends) you could write on the back of a tiny stamp... ...but if it's your thing HERE is a list of every male player ever to have received a Guardian top 100 ranking...happy Xmas football fans ⚽️🎁!! www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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See how every judge voted for the 100 best male footballers in 2024
This year 197 judges took part and here we give you the chance to see how every single point was awarded
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Pamela Duncan @porcelinad.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Tech millionaires and billionaires poured almost $400m into either side of the US election campaign...more than half that total was from Musk to Trump. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
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Tech poured $394.1m into US election as Musk and crypto giving boomed
FEC filings offer only a glimpse of the money tech is pouring into Washington as it seeks to influence government
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Pamela Duncan @porcelinad.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Anyone have a good US data journos starterpack please and thank you @sandhyak.bsky.social @renlarson.bsky.social
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Pamela Duncan @porcelinad.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Sure, completed crocheted amigurumi are cute... ...but I have to live with the grisly headless versions
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Pamela Duncan @porcelinad.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Anyone know how to mute new follower notifications (and just them)? Happy complaint but they are a bit annoying.
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Pamela Duncan @porcelinad.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Bluesky data exercise: counting how many dog pics I need to like before I see more dogs than cats in my feed.
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Pamela Duncan @porcelinad.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
It felt like it took as much time to get a pic of all of these facing forward as it did to crochet the thing (although the sheep was having none of it...)
Hanging mobile for a baby
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Pamela Duncan @porcelinad.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
“Some of them look at you and hold their nose and walk backwards, and stay in eye contact with you, as if to say ‘you are smelly’.” I love Ireland, but this kind of ugly anti-immigrant sentiment is growing and needs to be called out. Necessary reading by @lisaocarroll.bsky.social
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Pamela Duncan @porcelinad.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Me of 4 minutes ago: "my logic is flawed...I'm going to have redo EVERYTHING 😤" Me of 2 minutes ago having made a tiny tweak: "I am a genius! 🤗"
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Pamela Duncan @porcelinad.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Anyone else get all their 2FA codes wiped after the last Google authenticator auto-update? Or am I just special?
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Pamela Duncan @porcelinad.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
In the never ending battle of me versus the number of tabs open on my laptop, the tabs are most definitely winning
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Pamela Duncan @porcelinad.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
What just happened? Here's the piece you need to make sense of "the blue shift" that never was. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
The arrows show the 2024 vs 2020 shift in margins in counties with at least a 1 percenatage point shift by party.
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