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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 28/08/2026

Oh well! Thanks Meta. Link to ad: www.facebook.com/share/v/19TT...

Ryan Herman @ryanhermanesq.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

As Frank Sobotka said in The Wire: "You know what the trouble is, Brucey? We used to make shit in this country, build shit. Now we just put our hand in the next guy's pocket.'

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Ryan Herman @ryanhermanesq.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

The Manchester United revival continues. Two games, one point, no goalscorers...

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Ryan Herman @ryanhermanesq.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Dear ChatGPT can you write me a cliche-ridden song for a football tournament?

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Ryan Herman @ryanhermanesq.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

'...what happens to these companies’ bottom lines once consumers can no longer afford to buy their products because AI has taken their jobs? Well, I’m still waiting to hear CEOs offer a solution to that problem.' www.fastcompany.com/91354243/ama...

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Who is going to shop at Amazon once AI takes all our jobs?

Tech CEOs have been fond of writing love letters about generative AI, but they never seem to address the grim economic implications.

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Ryan Herman @ryanhermanesq.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

"Copyright laws are just property laws. You don't go into people's houses and then just take their furniture and their stereo and then flog it on eBay and claim that it belongs to you and keep the profit. That is literally what they are doing." www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG7C...

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Carole Cadwalladr - Broligarchs, AI, and a Techno-Authoritarian Surveillance State | The Daily Show

YouTube video by The Daily Show

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The Fence @thefence.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Read the story of these 15-foot fibreglass sharks, and the story of the self-styled 'anarchist' property developer who commissioned them.

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Ryan Herman @ryanhermanesq.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

A brilliant piece from @dwhitehouse.bsky.social in The Fence, featuring this gem ‘Who was Coventry City’s FA Cup-winning goalkeeper in 1987?’, ‘Steve Ogrizovic’, she’d respond, two words they’d receive at a cost of a pound with their underpants a hammock between their knees. @thefence.bsky.social

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Ryan Herman @ryanhermanesq.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

I just purchased a ticket to see @pattonoswalt.bsky.social at the Union Chapel in London. Booking through the venue meant no extra fees. Booking through Ticketmaster would have meant paying an extra 10% 'handling fee'. Every gig goer should do whatever they can to avoid Ticketmaster.

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Ryan Herman @ryanhermanesq.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Now, over to Peter O'Hanara-Hanrahan to explain the new global tariffs... www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Bq_...

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The Day Today - Peter O'Hanra-Hanrahan

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 24/03/2025

Ohhh I’d been wondering why Ant Middleton had gone full “anti-woke, fuck the government, I’m moving to Dubai”. He hadn’t paid his taxes and had been living off directors loans while trading insolvently!

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Libraries are vanishing – but Essex fought back. Now, they're evolving into vibrant community hubs for the 21st century. There have been 800 library closures nationally since 2010 – nearly a fifth of the total. In Essex, however, vigorous public campaigning stopped it. ❤️🙌

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How to save libraries and what to do with them next

Libraries are vanishing – but Essex fought back. Now, they're evolving into vibrant community hubs for the 21st century

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Ryan Herman @ryanhermanesq.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

I wrote a piece for @theneweuropean.bsky.social on the wrestler who fought the Nazis. Through the efforts of a professor and a group of football supporters, Werner Seelenbinder's extraordinary life and death is finding a new audience. www.theneweuropean.co.uk/the-wrestler...

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The wrestler who fought the Nazis

Once a forgotten figure, athlete turned activist Werner Seelenbinder is finally getting the credit he is due

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Ryan Herman @ryanhermanesq.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Greetings from Sheerness-on-Sea! For those who don’t know, this is a reference to the SS Richard Montgomery which sank around 1.5 miles from the coast and loaded with around 1,400 tones of explosives…

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Mary R Morrow @marymorrow.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Read it slowly and understand it. 😳🥺 Repost 👇🏾 👇🏾

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Happy "Microsoft trying to force CoPilot subs" day in the UK for all who celebrate. (They just pinged me my renewal notice with it carefully worded to sound like a compulsory general price increase). 1) Go to your account page 2) Hit cancel 3) Change sub back.

screenshot showing choice of plans between Microsoft 365 and "lower cost without AI" option.

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Ryan Herman @ryanhermanesq.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

To use the old Aussie expression, Raheem Sterling is probably about as popular at Arsenal right now as a rattlesnake in a lucky dip

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Local Trust @localtrust.org.uk · 10/01/2025

🌟We continue to celebrate #BigLocal names on the New Year Honours list – Tracy Lowe, from Grace Mary to Lion Farm Big Local in the West Midlands, supported an incredible youth group which raised issues such as knife and gun crime: localtrust.org.uk/news-and-sto...

Graphic card with a quote from Tracy Lowe that reads 'I hope that I've got the health and the strength to carry on doing this voluntary work for as long as I can. It's part of me and it is so rewarding'. On the right, Tracy is pictured in an outdoor setting in front of a tree, wearing a black gilet and white long sleeve top.

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Local Trust @localtrust.org.uk · 30/12/2024

🌟This year, we shone a spotlight on #community leadership. In January, Val Fendley – from Ramsey Million #BigLocal – shared how they helped Cambridgeshire residents become community leaders and celebrated their achievements: localtrust.org.uk/news-and-sto... [🧵 1/3]

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Changemakers: Inspiring residents to become leaders

A part of Ramsey Million Big Local when it first began, Val Fendley shares her experience of being involved in a decade of community development.

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Ryan Herman @ryanhermanesq.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

theneweuropean.co.uk

The wrestler who fought the Nazis

Once a forgotten figure, athlete turned activist Werner Seelenbinder is finally getting the credit he is due

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Ryan Herman @ryanhermanesq.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Here's an uplifting story for Christmas Eve. Today 1000s of volunteers will take phone calls from kids around the world asking about Santa's progress as he delivers presents across the globe… (continued below)

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Ryan Herman @ryanhermanesq.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Dan Davies is an award-winning author, fantastic writer and brilliant teller of stories. He kindly contributed what is my favourite story for the recent book I wrote titled And Finally… He recalls an extraordinary course of events that helped change the course of World War II. #BookSky

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Ryan Herman @ryanhermanesq.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

I wrote a piece for @theneweuropean.bsky.social on the greatest athlete turned acvitist you've never heard of. Werner Seelenbinder was one of the few public figures in Germany to openly defy Hitler. Now, his extraordinary story is finding a new audience. app.theneweuropean.co.uk/2024/12/22/t...

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The wrestler who fought the Nazis

Once a forgotten figure, athlete turned activist Werner Seelenbinder is finally getting the credit he is due

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Ryan Herman @ryanhermanesq.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Christmas comes early when you're mentioned along Divine Dicks and Mortal Pricks... #booksky #christmasbooks #booksforchristmas

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Ryan Herman @ryanhermanesq.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

In 1990, a group of students from Leeds Carnegie (now Leeds Beckett University) travelled to Zambia to play in a series of ‘goodwill’ football matches. What they didn’t know is that the promoters had billed them as Leeds United FC. Continued below…

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Ryan Herman @ryanhermanesq.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

And Finally...by me is about extraordinary people (and some animals), life-changing events, brilliant ideas, awful inventions, random acts of kindness and stupidity, and interviews with people sharing remarkable stories. A feel-good book for dark times. But don't take my word for it. Link below.

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Ryan Herman @ryanhermanesq.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

“The biggest asset, the key that unlocks everything in this community, is this fantastic building.” I did a story for @localtrust.bsky.social on how a series of extraordinary arts projects hosted in a church have helped to revitalise a community in Portsmouth. localtrust.org.uk/news-and-sto...

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Ryan Herman @ryanhermanesq.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

When Tricia Garcia started her new job as an English teacher at Roselawn High School in Turlock, California, the first thing she did was ask where the reading books are kept. "I was shocked when I was told there simply weren't any," she recalls. A short 🧵 #booksky

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Local Trust @localtrust.org.uk · 25/11/2024

“A growing body of evidence has shown the vital role of social infrastructure in building safer, healthier, more prosperous and resilient communities.” Explore our definition of social infrastructure – and why it is an essential underpinning for successful #communities – at bit.ly/49mGFBD

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What is social infrastructure?

Discover how we define and breakdown the term, and what having strong social infrastructure means for communities.

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Local Trust @localtrust.org.uk · 22/11/2024

Ahead of our seminar next week exploring effective #community leadership, we’re revisiting our research on the long-term impact of the Community Leadership Academy – set up in 2020 to help #BigLocal participants effecting change in their areas: bit.ly/3YOqDeQ

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Understanding the long-term impact of the Community Leadership Academy

These three reports look at the experience and implementation of the Community Leadership Academy, a scheme set up in 2020 to help Big Local participants to effect change in their communities.

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Ryan Herman @ryanhermanesq.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

@coffeezilla.bsky.social deserves a lot of credit here for being way ahead on this story and for diligently piecing together a very complex chain of events involving some wild characters. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Logan Paul accused of misleading fans over cryptocurrency investments

New evidence suggests the YouTuber promoted investments without revealing his financial interest in them.

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Ryan Herman @ryanhermanesq.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

You don't often get the chance to revisit a story and find out what happened next. So, it was fantastic to be part of this @localtrust.bsky.social event. But there's a bigger story here about what happens communities can make their own decisions, instead always having decisions made for them.

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Ryan Herman @ryanhermanesq.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

This year I wrote a book called And Finally…The Weird and Wonderful World of News which features this story from 1998, a time before the internet and people believing politicians control the weather. Hopefully BlueSky helps restore some sanity to social media #booksky #books Link to book below…

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