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Sally

@sallyapiacere.bsky.social
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Musician, reader, big sister, Old Labour. I live just below the windswept moral highground. It's densely populated here and, despite its messy ambiguities, it's warmer and more friendly.

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Sally @sallyapiacere.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"Don’t be silly. I can hear you. I just can’t hear exactly what word you’re saying," said my 90yo mum just now. #hearingaids #mum
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Sally @sallyapiacere.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I feel like I'm living in a massive, seething, violent Hieronymus Bosch painting, and somewhere far away Andy Burnham is singing 'Always Look On The Bright Side of Life' and strumming 4 chords on his guitar.
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Sally @sallyapiacere.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I'm intensely curious to know what kind of conversations are going on at #bbcnews and #Newsnight following #c4news expose of Reform / James Orr.
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Sally @sallyapiacere.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
An even more interesting question for @cam.ac.uk following #c4news expose of Reform, and James Orr's special role in it.
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026
[Exit Queen.]
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Sally @sallyapiacere.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
@bylinetimes.bsky.social Just got yr email about this event. I'm still trying to understand how and why this happened to Jason Arday. But is this in-person only – no way to watch a livestream/be in a zoom audience? Can you live-post? Publish a transcript? www.thecockpit.org.uk/show/the_lur...
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Sally @sallyapiacere.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Here's a neat illustration of 'will' vs 'would' from @theguardian.com .
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Sally @sallyapiacere.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I am glad that @lucympowell.bsky.social broadened this curiously narrow question about the culpability of Cambridge University to include the media coverage. #c4news
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Sally @sallyapiacere.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I'm waiting to see how the "serious broadsheets" re-draw their defensive lines now that the real story about Jason Arday comes - hopefully - into clearer focus with the suspension of Nathan Cofnas, the racist.
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Sally @sallyapiacere.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Which other academics – or "prominent figures" as Hugh Muir calls Jason Arday – have @theguardian.com's "professional, responsible, empathetic journalists" scrutinized in this way?
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
friend showed me this: The Sun's racist attack against Benjamin Zephaniah in 1987 when he went to.... Cambridge 39 years before Jason Arday
"would you let this man near your daughter?"
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Each circle has a different story.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
NEW: It was a digital lynching. And the media is never going to hold itself to account for the role it played in Jason Arday’s death. But there are things we can do. This is a practical guide based on my own experience. broligarchy.substack.com/p/a-digital-...
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A Digital Lynching
A practical guide for individuals and organisations when the mobs gather
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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
‘Cruelty has become more than an individual failing. It has become a political language, a cultural spectacle, and increasingly a governing principle. It is within this poisoned landscape that authoritarian and fascist subjectivities flourish ..’ www.counterpunch.org/2026/08/17/j...
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Jason Arday and the Machinery of Cruelty
I am sickened and deeply saddened by the death of Jason Arday. He was only 41, a young man whose life was cut short following a period of intense public controversy and scrutiny, much of it shaped by ...
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Sally @sallyapiacere.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I think @theguardian.com's complicity is disproportionately significant because it was the 1 place Jason Arday might have hoped to find fair reporting. Imagine feeling there was no place of refuge; the isolation & despair. They ran him as their top online story for 2 DAYS while the planet burned.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Trafalgar Square today www.instagram.com/p/DcCbpUGCGS...
Vigil for Jason Arday
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Corinne Fowler @corinnefowler.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
#JasonArday phoned me a few days ago to talk to someone who knows what media abuse feels like. His untimely death shows why we need part 2 of the Leveson enquiry into media conduct
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 16/08/2026
A former director of BBC News speaks:
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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I think it's bad that the UK press can escalate what is essentially a workplace matter into national news ahead of the fucking country being on fire and then get away with hounding their victim until they die.
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Sally @sallyapiacere.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
"Nigel *adores* democracy" – Richard Tice radiating glibness and insincerity. #Newsnight
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Sally @sallyapiacere.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
What a shame that #Newsnight only managed to find interviewees like these - people able to provide context and an alternative view backed up by fact - after Jason Arday died.
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Sally @sallyapiacere.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
'at this moment of maximum grief' - stop being so patronising, ffs. She's just made an entirely cogent and lucid point. #Newsnight
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Sally @sallyapiacere.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Repeating what's in the public domain isn't a defence if it's wrong. #Newsnight
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Sally @sallyapiacere.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Jason Arday has committed suicide. He was never the story. Proud of yourselves, @theguardian.com ?
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Sally @sallyapiacere.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
My sister and I doing a spot of late-night sanding and diy. Those are Prada sunglasses I’m wearing. 💪
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Sally @sallyapiacere.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The colour is Climate Change Pink and Apocalypse Yellow. Farrow & Ball also bringing out a sophisticated Parched Lawn and Enshittification Brown in their new End Times range.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 09/08/2026
This chart does sort of summarise the Starmer government. Just not really in the way it was intended.
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Sally @sallyapiacere.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I guess, "Posh Uni messes up its generally rigorous recruitment process in unseemly haste to redress a lack of diversity in academe, the root causes of which lie outside of academe," isn't as exciting as: Jason Arday is a fabulist! Heyyyy, look at our clicks! Update our ad sales dept! #JasonArday
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Sally @sallyapiacere.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Why is the resignation of Jason Arday main news? Sure, it’s an awfully sad thing and pulls in so many directions. But the only reason it’s the @theguardian.com top story is prurience. I worry for this man’s wellbeing.
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Sally @sallyapiacere.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
whut?!
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Sally @sallyapiacere.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Tactical error on my part when dealing with GenZ.
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Sally @sallyapiacere.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
{Sigh} It's not "Rhetorric" as in "poor Yorick" of Hamlet. It's "Rhett-oric" as in Rhett Butler of Gone With The Wind #bbcnews
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Toby Miller @tobytram.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
No rain here, but it came within a field or two. Close enough that we could hear the rain laughing, hear the rain handing out crisp new five pound notes, hear the rain praising home decoration choices of the houses it fell upon.
A heavy band of rain on the wrong side of town. A parched field of watches as it passes.
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Sally @sallyapiacere.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I’m a Labour Party member and I agree.
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Sally @sallyapiacere.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
You don't have to a Green Party supporter to deplore the amount of shit that Zack Polanski has to deal with. He must really frighten the establishment. #Newsnight
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Sally @sallyapiacere.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Only just discovered #CanadianTraitors - and it's that histrionic that I can't be bothered.
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Woodo @woodo.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
No Lecturn For Andy Burnham sounds like a really bad novel from the 1960s.
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Sally @sallyapiacere.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Not sure what's going on with that ref's shorts but I'm glad it's over. #WorldCupFinal #spaarg
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Sally @sallyapiacere.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
It's a moral victory! #WorldCupFinal #spaarg
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Sally @sallyapiacere.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
The cringe deepens like a coastal shelf. #WorldCupFinal #halftimeshow
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Sally @sallyapiacere.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Sweep knows. #WorldCupFinal #SPAARG
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Sally @sallyapiacere.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
“Nothing‘s still happening” my sister has just said. #noreng
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Sally @sallyapiacere.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
10yo pianist Toby just made this excellent joke: The Green Man lives in the greenhouse. The Blue Man lives in the bluehouse. Q: Who lives in the White House? A: The Orange Man! 🤡 🤣
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Sally @sallyapiacere.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Is this what it means to educate, inform and entertain? How proud newsnight’s staff must be. #newsnight
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Sally @sallyapiacere.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Farage and Belgium all within the space of 24 hours. I feel strange. I think it's hope.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I bet she wishes she knew somebody who had the power to regulate X, so she didn't have to just turn her back while it continues to poison society.
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Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
The noise I made on reading the final line was frankly Lovecraftian.
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Glitter Jedi Fellina @glitterjedi.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Epic trolling of Trump by Hunter Biden today.
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Sally @sallyapiacere.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Ukrainian composer Nikolai Kapustin died on this day – but his music didn't! I love him in this weird, jazzy 1960s Russian music video. #dotd #NikolaiKapustin www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRnB...
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Nikolai Kapustin The Oleg Lundstrom's Big Band Toccata For Piano & Orchestra Op 8 1964 Correct Pitch
YouTube video by Albeto Andrade Piano Music
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 27/06/2026
BBC isn’t backing down. Trump sued them for $10 billion, which means discovery cuts both ways. So the BBC wants his phone logs, daily diaries, and communications. They’re defending the case by asking: did their documentary damage Trump’s reputation, or did January 6 do that all by itself?
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