Capricious Bow

My Tweets are the flower, you are the seed, we walked in the Twitter, we planted a Soliloquy... Don’t try and find me, please don’t you dare! ....

[Capricious Bow @CapriciousBow]

Look what I brought home today world, years it was pizza for 1 & cat litter, Now a bundle of love, reason to be #dad

[Capricious Bow @CapriciousBow]

This place used to make me laugh 100 times a week, perhaps make me sad/angry 10 times, that’s flipped. Any positives are quickly drowned by the negatives, I’m actually logging off now (not done that in years), I hope I can stay off, up yours Elon you insidious, tiny man child

[Banx @Banxcartoons]

From today’s ⁦@ftopinion⁩ ⁦@FT⁩ #trumpdance

[Mr Demos of Pnyx @gem_ste]

@onboardnavvy Quite simply an establishment plant, a patsy for those further looting the British economy and increasing authoritarianism.

[Charlotte Levin @tinycharlotte72]

I’ve been sitting on this news for a while. I love being an author but I feel it’s time for a change. So…I’ve decided to become a film star! It’s something I’ve wanted to do since being a little girl and I’m so excited for my new venture! I hope you all enjoy my new film 🙏

[Capricious Bow @CapriciousBow]

@tinycharlotte72 Last rant, if they were good at it, use another name & do it secretly, they use their position to inflate interest (false starting point), whereby normal people struggle to get to that point, any success is born from quality, just stay in your bloody lane or earn it the hard way!

[Capricious Bow @CapriciousBow]

@tinycharlotte72 P.S. I do an eye role automatically now when I see a celeb doing a book… I feel like they hog so much possible income from others, years ago a travel show would just have a presenter (not celeb), sports presenters were normal people , anyone can talk about bloody sport etc.

[Charlotte Levin @tinycharlotte72]

This has really blown up, so I just want to say that I actually like Keira Knightley and it's nothing to do with her or her book, which does look like she has actual written which makes a shocking change. This is about the ridiculousness of the whole celebrity book thing

[Ruth Husko @dank_ackroyd]

This is what made me fall in love with Roy Keane

[Capricious Bow @CapriciousBow]

@BBCSportWales @BBCScrumV Nnnnnnoooooooooooo

[Alex H @alex_house]

@bbcquestiontime I’ve stopped watching you. It makes me feel awful. I love the BBC. Please get rid of Robbie Gibb and John McAndrew and anyone else who causes you to act this way.

[kramerica industries @hepimp]

Friday

[Reid Southen @Rahll]

@engineering From the bottom of my heart, I wish you a very messy bankruptcy.

[evil @EVILSCRE4M]

@engineering big day for stalkers and harassers

[Dr Paul Dorfman @dorfman_p]

Carbon capture plan is a colossal waste of money.

https://t.co/STwN4z7dR4

[Capricious Bow @CapriciousBow]

@realpicture952 @lifehackni “Well shit a brick”

Old saying generally related to an uncomfortable surprise…. I suppose it could mean said surprise is success ….

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[Rachel Salvidge @RachSalv]

BREAKING: The number of sites polluted with toxic PFAS is on the rise. There are now four being investigated (out of potentially thousands) and the Environment Agency is freaking out about the cost of investigation, let alone clean-up... 1/
https://t.co/aDkWBDvo4p

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

In years to come, students in university departments around the world will be studying the propaganda embedded in this headline.

As someone who regularly lectures in sociology, journalism and media studies, I could teach an entire lesson on the title alone.

For example:

1. Treating the 4 Israeli soldiers as more important than the 23 Palestinian children (by leading the story with their deaths and just chucking in the others at the end) implies their lives are of higher value.

2. Infantilizing active duty soldiers as "teenagers" while not emphasizing the age of the schoolkids, despite many of them being demonstrably younger.

3. The classic use of the passive voice: Israelis are "killed" while Palestinians merely "die".

4. Putting scare quotes around "23 die" subtly undermines the credibility of that claim. Maybe no one died, and the Palestinians are just lying?

5. Using the word "attack" for Hezbollah actions, but choosing a more neutral, clinical word like "strike" for Israeli aggression.

6. Allowing Israeli sources to dictate the framing of the story ("Israel names teenage soldiers") etc.

7. Actually naming the Israeli soldiers, but not doing the same for the far greater number of Palestinians, again sends the message to the reader that Palestinian lives don't matter nearly as much, if at all.

It's truly incredible how much propaganda has been packed into 16 words. We are swimming in an ocean of propaganda. That's why it is crucial to deconstruct it and critically assess everything you read, see and hear.

[Dr. Jennifer Cassidy @OxfordDiplomat]

Say it loud.

Share it often.

Know the power of truth.