Alison Killing
Visual investigations at the FT. Architect who won a Pulitzer.
- Wow, this banner breaks each and every #accesibility rule 🤨. There's no way to do so unless it's on purpose.
- Made it to Venice, excited to see #labiennale #venicebiennale
- Yeah, it's really hard to read! And the grey means that the banners don't stand out at all.
- Made it to Venice, excited to see #labiennale #venicebiennale
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- Lol. Is it how much of the crop is lost by making the circle, or something more complicated?
- Morning Justin!
- Same story, posted same time: Bluesky - 393 reposts, 551 likes Twitter/X - 3 retweets, 7 likes
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- I posted it on Bluesky, or I wouldn't have been able to make the comparison! and this is my primary social platform (and that of many of the journalists I know too)
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- Lol. Never managed to get into Mastodon! Bluesky seems like the best of the successors to Twitter, by some way.
- Here's Peter's thread on how he discovered that the Venezuelan men thought they were going home and not to El Salvador bsky.app/profile/pete...
- For those following the court proceedings closely, we start to probe some of the details: When exactly did the flights leave? Why stop in Honduras? (And why would these details need to be a state secret?) @tomcartwright.bsky.social suggests some possibilities:
- And please read the original story - @peter.andringa.me scoop on the Venezuelan men sent to an El Salvador prison. Many had signed papers to go to Venezuela and thought they were being sent home. www.ft.com/content/dbfa...
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- 13.6K on X, Bluesky 28K, so I'd expect some difference, but not this much. And Bluesky is often lower than you would get with a similar follower account on pre-Musk Twitter because of the lack of algorithm.
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- You mean on profile pages? The social team has been doing support for Bluesky - the FT posts here and has given everyone custom domain names for Bluesky (haven't finished setting mine up yet)
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- That too 😔
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- 13.6K on X, 28K on Bluesky, so you'd expect some difference, but nothing like this. With the Twitter algorithm pre-Elon, that tweet probably would have done serious numbers, amplified by the algo.
- Great scoop from @peter.andringa.me The Venezuelans sent by Trump to El Salvador and dumped in prison thought they were going to Venezuela. They had signed paperwork to go home. via @FT www.ft.com/content/dbfa...
- This thread (and the ones nested within it) are so good at explaining what is happening in the US right now and why - how a broken information ecosystem has allowed authoritarianism to walk in through the front door.
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- @samlearner.bsky.social magic 🔥
- Inside Russia's shadow war in the Baltic Sea - a series of suspected sabotage incidents has exposed the vulnerability of Europe’s undersea infrastructure ig.ft.com/baltic-sea/
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- If you register on the site you get eight free articles per month.
- NEW: As the Chinese government struggles to ease the real estate crisis, state owned developers have been buying up land. In Beijing, the state now accounts for 60% of new land sales, with few private developers left. ig.ft.com/china-proper...
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- I think it's because we've built this as an interactive graphics page, rather than in the standard content management system. I'll pass that comment onto the team though. And glad that you liked it!
- Real estate has been crucial to the Chinese economy for the past three decades, but that began to reverse four years ago after the default of Evergrande. Land sales across China have halved since 2021.
- By Thomas Hale, Wenjie Ding, @digitalcampbell.ft.com , @peter.andringa.me , @samjoiner.bsky.social, Haohsiang Ko, Toru Tsunashima and me. ig.ft.com/china-proper...
- I reckon all the past authoritarians were really cringe, we just didn't have tiktok and twitter and didn't to get to see that up close.
- NEW: Russian executions of Ukrainian POWs are not isolated incidents, but seem to be part of a broader pattern that suggests a systematic policy. By @christopherjm.ft.com @joesinft.ft.com @peter.andringa.me @digitalcampbell.ft.com @samjoiner.bsky.social and me. on.ft.com/4i6Yzve
- And check out the documentary here bsky.app/profile/joes...
- If you're heading to Perugia this year, the osint experts of the Centre for Information Resilience are holding a workshop on the Wednesday before the main sessions start. More info below
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- Omg, that's awful.
- Another starter pack for osint, satellite imagery, remote sensing, GIS, cartography 👇
- We've got 80 awesome geo women+ on this list now. I know there are more who should be on here! Please tag them or comment if you'd like to be added. go.bsky.app/Ay1iTTe #gischatat://did:plc:dt5r4efcrk3gogzkxx6clvve/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lbigjjaaym23
- We've got 80 awesome geo women+ on this list now. I know there are more who should be on here! Please tag them or comment if you'd like to be added. go.bsky.app/Ay1iTTe #gischatat://did:plc:dt5r4efcrk3gogzkxx6clvve/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lbigjjaaym23
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- Thank you!
- The FT Visual Stories team's piece on the barriers to electric vehicle use is in @gijn.org's round up of this week's best data stories. @upyorkshire.ft.com @samjoiner.bsky.social @nassosstylianou.bsky.social @inari-ta.bsky.social @samlearner.bsky.social
- Here, @data.ft.com presents the imaginary town of Greenwell — where everything has been designed to make EV use easier — to show how this ideal vision is a far cry from the experience of current electric vehicle owners & what changes are needed. twp.ai/1SLkCs
- Hi Kiri, I'd love to join!
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- Visual intelligence by Amy Herman
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- Yay!
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- A friend who heads up a local council told me that it was for special needs provision and children who weren't able to travel to school independently, or using public transport. Wheelchair users are one example, but the range of needs covered is much broader than that.
- Russian forces are executing Ukrainian POWs. Shocking short doc from the @cen4infores.bsky.social team that has verified and tracked 80 of these deaths www.youtube.com/watch?v=eik1...
- The FT's end of year reading list is out! More than enough to keep you busy over the holidays, but imo @benmauk.bsky.social and Nyrola Elima's read on a Uyghur man's escape from China should be high on your list - it's great. www.ft.com/content/7849... www.nytimes.com/2024/11/10/m...
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- It's great! And welcome to Bluesky!
- Forced labour is a huge and expanding concern in Xinjiang - some is linked to prisons and detention facilities, but much involves forcing people to give up their land, or work for state-linked agriculture business. Latest research from Adrian Zenz papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
- Lots of useful points here about how to think about Syria's chemical weapons stash - that it's important to document them and their supply chains and that bombing suspected sites will not only destroy evidence, but may well expose millions to low-but-hazardous levels of toxic chemicals
- The White Helmets have finished searched the Saydnaya complex for hidden basements and further detainees - they've found none and believe that all the detainees have been rescued. whitehelmets.org/node/1691
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- I agree, I really feel for those families.
- Let's make a more diverse osint starter pack - a 50/50 m/f split and a move away from westerners would be great. I've made a start (and yes, it's currently lots of men/westerners - help me shift the balance!) Can the community help me crowd source this? go.bsky.app/36JpUBiat://did:plc:anssft5emdfb2sjnjyeqnprh/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lbml3eudi22x
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- Thank you, added!
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- Yes, I think that's true. Also that people often need to imagine prisons as distant, socially and geographically, from mainstream society and the idea of them being underground fits with that. I'm so happy for those who have been released. Devastated for the families that have lost loved ones.
- This is a great thread on one reason for the Syrian regime's rapid collapse - the hollowing out of the economy in regime held areas, while good governance by the rebels in Idlib allowed the economy there to flourish, as revealed by night light data.
- 🧵Look towards the light. As Rebel forces in Syria advanced across Syria & never stopped a key question was why the Regime evaporated. Syria by night provides some clues on how the Regime's social contract collapsed. Read my analysis here aspistrategist.org.au/just-look-at... & read on
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- Thanks so much for this thread!
- The Chinese govt's main response to our doc on XJ tomatoes making their way to UK supermarket shelves is that there's no forced labour because the harvest is mechanised. But lots of land can't be farmed in that way and we have dozens of videos from XJ showing tomatoes being harvested by hand
- NEW: As hundreds are freed from one of Assad's notorious prisons, families and rescue workers desperately search for missing loved ones. By Raya Jalabi, @samjoiner.bsky.social @peter.andringa.me @digitalcampbell.bsky.social and me on.ft.com/4iq680X
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- Yes! Did you not know that I was at the FT? I started just over a year ago - we have a visual investigations team now!
- Heyyy!
- The White Helmets are searching the Sandnaya compound, but haven't yet found any of the rumoured secret doors or hidden basements in the complex.
