Vígr Griss

🐗 off.

[Julian Reichelt @jreichelt]

"Wir lassen das nicht weiter zu, dass Menschen ihre individuelle Freiheit über die Freiheit der gesamten Gesellschaft stellen."

[Tony Lapidus @TonyLapidus]

Peter Hitchens explains why he HATES mass ownership of fridges

[Vígr Griss @vigrgriss]

Jetzt wurde das Ende der Störung auf morgen 16 Uhr verschoben, und gleichzeitig schaltet mein DSL komplett ab, gar keine Verbindung mehr. Wird wirklich daran gearbeitet und was ist die Ursache der Störung?

[Vígr Griss @vigrgriss]

.@Telekom_hilft Flächenstörung Raum Köln -- es kommen nur 22.5mbit an, während für 200mbit bezahlt werden. Voraussichtliches Ende der Störung war ursprünglich gestern Abend, dann heute 14 Uhr, nun ist es 16 Uhr und noch keine Lösung. Kann jemand Auskunft geben? Danke.

[Vígr Griss @vigrgriss]

@dresserman I’ve always wondered. Who pays and provides for these Tesco branded displays with the price printed on? Do the manufacturers do it for Tesco on their advice of price or do the manufacturers ship in the contents to central warehouse and Tesco does the packing themselves?

[Vígr Griss @vigrgriss]

There’s a reason for this, too. Anti-politics and anti-smarmy journalists, me.

[John Rentoul @JohnRentoul]

@RobertBooth You mean join in the howling anti-politics mob? No thanks

[Vígr Griss @vigrgriss]

Someone called you disingenuous for this, and you told them to stop insulting you. How about now…? Was so obvious…

[John Rentoul @JohnRentoul]

She paid the taxes she owed

[Nayib Bukele @nayibbukele]

To Western nations:

You can’t build, or even fix, anything on top of societal disorder.

Take traffic, for example. The most logical solution is public transport. But without order, anyone who can afford a car will avoid it, simply because they don’t feel safe using it.

In El Salvador, we lack a lot of things, but we have achieved societal order.

You, on the other hand, have almost everything, but you're quickly losing your societal order.

You can now predict where things are heading in the near future.

There’s still time to save your nations, but not much.

[Dominic Cummings @Dominic2306]

He knew about Al Qaeda immediately, he spent August lying about 'far right' and @elonmusk , he dumped the story out now so budget would hide it
RETWEET so people know

[Vígr Griss @vigrgriss]

@StevenEdginton @Telegraph @jordanbpeterson Followed you since your YouTube channel. Well done on your achievements and the long-form interviews for Telegraph TV. Good luck with whatever’s next!

[Kevin Roberts @KevinRobertsTX]

The hypocritical elite, private-jet environmentalists, and genocide-adjacent humanitarians at #WEF24 wanted @Heritage's advice on "rebuilding trust" with everyday Americans.

Here is our message to them:

[Julian Reichelt @jreichelt]

Die Grünen sind vom Rest der Welt auf der #COP28 für dumm erklärt worden.

[BBC Question Time @bbcquestiontime]

‘It’s quite right to turn your back to this farce. It’s a total and utter farce’

@tomhfh defends the Brexit Party MEPs actions in the European Parliament. #bbcqt

[Vígr Griss @vigrgriss]

@B4Brad First class photoshop work 😄

[🏛 Jay 🗡️🪓 @TheWickedJJ]

BBC "Verify" team cover the Greek wildfires.
How it started. How it really started.

[Julian Reichelt @jreichelt]

Achtung, Achtung, wichtige Durchsage: Das Wort "Klimawandel" gilt jetzt als verharmlosend. Wenn Sie es dennoch benutzen, können Sie schnell als rechtsextrem gelten.
Die ARD ist nur noch eine Propagandaschleuder.

[Vígr Griss @vigrgriss]

@n_roettgen @GermanyDiplo Das ist was doch passiert, wenn man seine Außenpolitik an Nachbarn / ‘Freunde’ auslagert…

[Quark Satire ✌️ @QuarkDDR]

Wie die Antonio-Amadeou-Stiftung via ARD dargelegt hat, steckt hinter Emojiens meist mehr, als viele von uns ahnen. Natürlich ist deren Kachelplatz - wie unserer auch - begrenzt, weswegen wir Euch weitere Dekodierungen liefern, die Euch bestimmt genauso verblüffen wie uns:

[The New Era on X @EditorTNE]

So I wrote this post on a well-known newsletter platform earlier. But Twitter Blue permits 4,000 characters now. So here it is...my first long-form post on Twitter. It's about @elonmusk and @JamesClayton5

When Clayton ‘interviewed’ Musk
Shiny new BBC people

Until this morning I hadn’t heard of James Clayton. In my previous life (prior to March 2020) he’s the type of person I may have met on my visits to San Francisco. We’re in the same line of work, so to speak. I used to talk with journalists in the Bay Area when I was running Comms for technology start-ups and their wannabe media star CEOs. Although, James’ role as “North America Tech Reporter” for the BBC is a relatively new one. It used to be that Rory Cellan-Jones ruled that particular roost and would jaunt over from the UK to California to report from the Consumer Electronics Show and other corporate shindigs - and would studiously avoid jobbing comms types like me. He followed me on Twitter for a while but quickly unfollowed me when he realised I was pro-Brexit. And I reciprocated the unfollow when I got bored with his tweeting the results of his experiments making sourdough bread in plant-pots. Rory’s output on technology matters never really amounted to much.

This morning I found out who James Clayton was because of what had unfolded on Twitter - when I was asleep during the night (San Francisco is currently 8 hours behind BST). Apparently Clayton had offered to ‘interview’ Elon Musk on a Twitter ‘Space’ (these are like live streamed radio shows where Twitter users can connect to the spaces to listen to nominated speakers debate various topics). For this one James had offered to interview Elon Musk. And, astonishingly, Musk had agreed. Some 3 million people ‘tuned in’.

Part of the reason Musk might have agreed was that just a few weeks ago, Marianna Spring - the BBC's first specialist disinformation and social media correspondent - had put together a hatchet-job on Twitter under Musk’s management. Spring, like Clayton, has a job title befitting of the BBC’s new role in international broadcasting and global class woke moralising. Where, previously, journalists uncovered conspiracies, corruption, shady dealings or corporate malfeasance, the BBC’s new shiny role is to uncover opinions that don’t match its editorial lines and ensure they don’t get reported.

The BBC’s editorial lines are, typically, these days, defined by the UK government (and its governmental partners in the United States) and corporate partners in the World Economic Forum. Tim Weber, formerly of BBC Business, and one of Rory Cellan-Jones’ colleagues, was a regular at Davos. Now that he’s moved on to Edelman - the uber-woke PR firm that typically launches its corporate “trust” barometer at the annual Davos shindig - he must have amassed lots of Schwab brownie-points.

But the BBC, and the establishment PR machines, have never met the likes of Elon Musk. Where, in the past, the BBC could get away with atrocious, patronising behaviour and globalist schmoozing, now it has to deal with a new era that’s calling it out. And Musk, I have to say, is leading the charge.

Just a few days ago Musk adorned the @BBC twitter account with a “Government funded media” label. And, at yesterday’s lamb-to-the-slaughter Twitter-Space match, Musk supremely, and effortlessly, intellectually eviscerated James Clayton. Indeed I’d go as far as to say that it was the moment when the BBC’s brand was shredded with the same degree of hubristic-precision as when Bud Light decided to put Dylan Mulvaney’s visage on its beer cans. If James Clayton, and the entire BBC Board, aren’t asking what exactly they stand for after this car-crash, then we can expect more of the same: a humiliating descent to that place where ageing media elephants go to die.

[Vígr Griss @vigrgriss]

@whosthatgirlgio Sehr eloquent, tolle Punkte! Danke, Giovanna.