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Chris Newell 🇺🇦🌻 retweeted
💡 Join us at #SoundsAmazing23 for an "Insight on Chapterisation".
🎧 Jemily Rime will discuss the automatic labelling of #audio & Tamsin Nooney, @BBCRD Engineer, will talk about #PodcastMetadata.
ℹ️ FREE, online, on 7 Dec. Tickets & info: bit.ly/SoundsAmazing23 #SoundTech
ALT A graphical poster promoting the event outlined in the post, with additional information: Insight on Capterisation, 10.15 - 10.45; Tamsin Nooney, BBC R&D Engineer; & Jemily Rime, University of York.
Chris Newell 🇺🇦🌻 retweeted
Ukrainians are deeply reforming their country and preparing for accession,
even as they are fighting an existential war.
Today the Commission recommends that the Council opens accession negotiations with Ukraine.
Chris Newell 🇺🇦🌻 retweeted
Let’s #SaveWomensSports RT if you’d just like to see our young girls get their fair opportunities in sport
Chris Newell 🇺🇦🌻 retweeted
Open and abusive misogyny from a libdem councillor. How is this aceptable @EdwardJDavey ?
Chris Newell 🇺🇦🌻 retweeted
Given that GC belief is protected belief in the Equality Act, @LibDems is this "diversity officer" and Liberal Democrat councillor speaking for your membership organisation? Need to sort out your #EDI training and policies ASAP
ALT A Lib Dem councillor tweeting Fuck the Terfs
Chris Newell 🇺🇦🌻 retweeted
What is it with women politicians in particular who so easily give away such hard fought for women’s rights, children’s safeguards & free speech to say so?
Chris Newell 🇺🇦🌻 retweeted
The most comfortable place for women to stand has always been where there's most male approval. Such women sell out other women for their own benefit, then point to their personal success as a great feminist triumph.
Chris Newell 🇺🇦🌻 retweeted
After the repellent scenes from New Zealand, in which a mob assaulted women speaking up for their rights, #TheLesbianProject is being intimidated and threatened in the UK, right now.
Meanwhile, drumming overhead for the last hour; chanting, shouting, fake sirens; people waiting outside for us to come out, protesting that lesbians are meeting without men present. They have come to violate our space and “teach” us a lesson in compliance.
#TheLesbianProject
Chris Newell 🇺🇦🌻 retweeted
There are multiple videos of Kellie-Jay being assaulted. Women have become used to lies, threats of violence and outright denial of reality, but if you imagine anyone feels 'defeated', think again. Your men's rights activists showed the world exactly who they are. #LetWomenSpeak
Chris Newell 🇺🇦🌻 retweeted
Cheeky snap with the BBC’s @RTS_media award for its coverage of the war in Ukraine.
@katepeters @4nnchor – at London, England
Chris Newell 🇺🇦🌻 retweeted
No wonder trans extremists are enraged. The bloody NY Times has only gone and defended JK Rowling.
No evidence, apparently
(and, sigh, yes, evidence is transphobic)
Well done Pamela Paul
nytimes.com/2023/02/16/opini…
Chris Newell 🇺🇦🌻 retweeted
The 'British disease' is really an inability to deliver, whether that's housebuilding, runways or railroads.
Infographics aren't my strong point, but perhaps two data points will help.
In 1970 we built ~380k homes (nearly half by LAs). Latest figures are 204k.
Chris Newell 🇺🇦🌻 retweeted
The airspace of Moldova was closed for about an hour since 2pm to 3pm, now the flight ban has been lifted.
#RussiaUkraineWar
Chris Newell 🇺🇦🌻 retweeted
I am feeling genuinely scared for the future of academia.
1. Critical THINKING is being abandoned.
2. We are becoming theocracies which require obeisance to accepted doctrine.
Resistance is essential.
Chris Newell 🇺🇦🌻 retweeted
What's it like living in a world of alternative reality, where Russian state media & many Russians tell you “Russia didn’t invade Ukraine” & “Russia never starts wars”? Where everything's upside down? I’ve written this piece Parallel Reality to show how I feel. @BBCRadio4 #bbcbh
Chris Newell 🇺🇦🌻 retweeted
Try just as an exercise to turn off the culture war part of your brain and read this account with the part of your brain that is aware of the dysfunctional aspects of America’s privatized and profit-oriented health care system.
thefp.com/p/i-thought-i-was-… – at Washington, DC
Chris Newell 🇺🇦🌻 retweeted
Oh dear Mr. @rogerwaters, please forgive us.
We’re so sorry we provoked Russia into this horrible war by existing as an independent nation and not willing to jump into the pit with the backs of our heads shot through.
I hope you’ll accept our apologies for all the trouble.
Chris Newell 🇺🇦🌻 retweeted
Out tomorrow, @SalmanRushdie’s new novel Victory City is a fine work of literature - and a perfect rebuke to all who have tried to silence or kill its author.
My review of it is in @FreethinkerMag now.
freethinker.co.uk/2023/02/wo…
Chris Newell 🇺🇦🌻 retweeted
It’s the Music Department where many people find themselves. It’s the Music Department where many people find their friends. It’s the Music Department where many people find a lifelong source of joy and comfort. It’s the Music Department where many people flourish and shine.