Sean Dodson

The course director of postgraduate journalism and public relations at Leeds Beckett University. A former judge of the Orwell Prize. Views are mine

[Suraj Sharma @suraj_sharma14]

Bro I'm so sick of pretending this isn't weird.

The internet spent 20 years creating tutorials, open-source projects, blog posts & answers for free.

AI companies turned all of it into products worth billions.

And now the same people who created that knowledge are being told they're replaceable.

We built the library.

Someone else started charging admission.

[Sean Dodson @seandodson]

@Glinner it was filed over two nights.

[David Yelland @davidyelland]

As front pages go, this one's so beautiful.

[Sean Dodson @seandodson]

@AnneOatley @habibi_uk "Barker has reached out to us".

[Sean Dodson @seandodson]

Aww, man!

[Vincent Alexander @NonsenseIsland]

RIP Marjane Satrapi, the great cartoonist and film director, best known for PERSEPOLIS. She was only 56. A great talent. She will be missed.

[Sean Dodson @seandodson]

@IsmailMulla 💯

[Sean Dodson @seandodson]

@Harri21263Steve @NicholasOShaug1 100%

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

London Underground station flooding has reportedly been reduced by around 90% thanks to a group of engineers: beavers.

After conservationists reintroduced a family of beavers into a nearby city park, the animals built dams and restored wetlands that now absorb and slow floodwater naturally.

Authorities had planned major man-made flood infrastructure, but the beavers effectively created their own system — while also boosting biodiversity and restoring the ecosystem around them.

[haruka no yume【はるかのゆめ】 @haruka_no_yume]

🇯🇵 Tokyo from the mid 80s almost looks a dream but this is actually real. It's not AI but instead from Wim Wenders' "Tokyo-Ga" from 1985.

[Sean Dodson @seandodson]

@Livin_Liverpool Ray Kennedy and Steve Heighway are missing.

[Duille @DuilleDesign]

The menu ( in Welsh ) of Caffi Spam at Colwyn Bay for the unveiling of the Terry Jones statue this afternoon.

#montypython

[JukeBox @JukeBoxNonStop]

No matter how many times I listen to this, I cannot get over how incredible this sounds live! #TalkTalk

[80s Kidz @80s_Kidz]

Great video.
Love this guys Instagram account
Credit: johnoverity

[Wylfċen @wylfcen]

The biggest English cities in Chaucer’s time↓

[Sean Dodson @seandodson]

@HeyAmit_ Excellent snippet. Who is she?

[Sean Dodson @seandodson]

Print journalism at its best …

[Omid Djalili @omid9]

Front page of Islamic Republic newspaper “Payame Ma”. Headline “Jan Bakhtegan” (the dead) printing names of the victims. Almost impossible to count how many they acknowledge but as killings and executions continue we know it’s a fraction of the total number. News of thousands in the countryside also slaughtered is being received.

Now that the regime of the Islamic Republic has officially become a pariah state with the whole of the Western world putting the IRGC on the terrorist list, the regime are displaying a belligerent “no one likes us, we don’t care” attitude.

Far from being a sombre respecting of the dead, of unarmed innocents, men women and children, all of them with grieving families who found their bodies in body bags days later in makeshift morgues, this headline tells a different story. It’s a zero shame message to the world: “IF WE can do this to our OWN people think what WE could do to YOU, Europe and America.”

If they were trying to convince the world they’re a legitimate government and NOT terrorists, this ain’t it. ⬇️

#IranMassacre‌
#IranianRevolution2026

[Lewis Steele @LewisSteele_]

Marseille unveil a Beatles tifo. Unreal.

[Mary Aspinall-Miles @MAMBarLife]

A letter from today’s ⁦@thetimes⁩ with some fine courtroom humour…