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   Andrew (andrewt@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Aug-2023 09:42:27 JST Andrew

   Hey, look, the BBC are on fedi now — they have an instance at social.bbc

   Please do not yell at them about transphobia or whatever.

   By all means block or defederate — I don't trust the BBC one fucking inch not to fill their instance with transphobic articles propping up various abhorrent Tory policies — but I promise, nobody at BBC News has the slightest clue that BBC R&D even exists. The departments are organisationally separate and well over 100 miles apart. The person running the R&D account is far, far more likely to be trans themselves than to have any way at all to affect News policy, and there's less than no use harassing them about it.

   Not that it matters a damn, this is a BBC R&D project, it'll probably be a roaring success and then get quietly discontinued because nobody outside R&D is willing to take it on.

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     Paul Neave (neave@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Aug-2023 09:42:32 JST Paul Neave

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     @andrewt From my experience of working within BBC, can confirm that the right arm doesn’t know what the left is doing. Maybe that’s for the best, or this wouldn’t be happening at all.

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     Andrew (andrewt@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Aug-2023 09:42:34 JST Andrew

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     @neave haha, yes, like I've seen brilliant sketches on the BBC making fun of BBC News, and we know the BBC knows that's a ridiculous way to run a corporation because they made a whole sitcom about how ridiculous it is but absolutely didn't fix any of it. It's *such* a strange organisation.

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     Mayank (hi_mayank@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Aug-2023 07:14:55 JST Mayank

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     @andrewt see https://tech.lgbt/@jenniferplusplus/110810004825031334

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