Patronise me at your peril.

Pink peony club.

Does rather raise the question who theoretically does have standing

Even if governments or companies channeled massive amounts of money into cleaning up PFAS pollution, it would still only reduce emissions by 2%, research finds. Experts say prevention is better than cure, + restrictions on producing PFAS are essential: www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeur...

🍼 #PFAS was found in 100% of breastmilk samples in a Dutch study. Samples were taken from 1.6k women across the Netherlands. RIVM emphasise that the potential harms of PFAS don’t outweigh the benefits of breastfeeding. 👉 More in our #ToxicFree4EU: buff.ly/fifaM5q

Yes, it seems like they did just expect people to take it... 🫠🙄

I love that the most read article today in The Brussels Times is about puppies

Brilliant!

NEW: Meta paid hundreds of contractors to pretend they were kids—and then prompt rival chatbots like Gemini and ChatGPT to talk about subjects like suicide, sex, eating disorders, and self-harm. From @dmehro.bsky.social and @joelkhalili.bsky.social

1/2 Two great policy jobs at a key time. You could work with @ruthcurtice.bsky.social at @resolutionfoundation.org as Director, deputising for the CEO and overseeing the research / policy programme and team (£90k+) www.resolutionfoundation.org/director/

Someone in Sofia's airport decided that today's playlist would be Italian music in Spanish. Right now it's Eros Ramazzotti and I am transported back to high school

okay well if recalling ELEVEN MILLION CARS doesn’t get through to other CEO’s I simply don’t know what will

I had never been in a city that smells as intensely of linden trees as Sofia. It's lovely

On the same day that the UN human rights office called out genocide in Gaza, the European Commission told me there was no public interest in releasing 17 documents it wants to keep secret on the enclave.

I especially love this diagram.

Hong Kong arrests booksellers suspected of selling 'seditious' publications reut.rs/43QPu4D

Sharon Graham is up for re-election as Unite General Secretary, ballot papers drop 14th July. If you are a member like me, work to kick her out. #ClimateChange

Consulting giant Accenture is trying to figure out how to stop non-technical workers from blowing through companies’ AI token budget on trivial tasks like converting PDFs to presentation slides, according to leaked audio obtained by 404 Media. Welcome to the Tokenpocalypse.

Okay. Ai can go bankrupt then. This is not our problem, this sounds like a rich tech billionaire problem.

“Dear migrants, before I say any other word to you, I want to bow before your dignity. “You are not numbers or case files. “You are people — with a family and a home left behind, with dreams that no one has the right to scorn.” — Pope Leo XIV

Today we wrote a letter @vonderleyen, @kajakallas.bsky.social Maros Sefcovic Our message: the EU has both the legal DUTY and the legal POWER to stop trade with Israeli illegal settlements Featured in @financialtimes.com ADD YOUR support docs.google.com/document/d/1...

These are the best ice lollies in the UK

As already warm cities become more and more vulnerable to extreme heat events, or just the “new normal” of hotter and hotter cities every day, here’s just one more reason why more street trees and other greenery are good for streets & cities. It’s just common sense, really. Cooler, cleaner, smarter.

Ten years since Brexit you gave them that and now they’ve moved on to “deport anyone with an immigrant parent who fly-tips” And that folks is why you never give fascists an inch or “listen to their concerns”. What an abject failure

A livable planet or shitty pictures, what a tough choice.

I want these men in jail www.brusselstimes.com/news/2204653...

I am BEGGING people - think tanks, governments, random organisations - to DATE YOUR REPORTS WHEN YOU DO THE PDFS. It should not be THIS HARD to find a BLOODY PUBLICATION DATE. You might think everyone will remember the magical day you published it years later. But you are delusional.

“I carry with me a photo of a Muslim child who, during my visit to Lebanon, was standing there holding a sign that said ‘Welcome, Pope Leo,’ and in this latest phase of the war, he was killed. “As a Church, I say again: as a pastor, I cannot be in favor of war.” — Pope Leo XIV

i have a perfect analogy for understanding an event happening now in public life but you can only understand it if you're the same age as me with the exact same understanding of when the golden age of the simpsons ended

so a friend on a mailing list I've been on forever said he couldn't understand why so many people had wanted Starmer to stand down when he was obviously so much better than those who came before. I did my best to explain

”This spike in consumption will be driven in particular by a rise in the number of data centres in Finland, which currently stands at 35 but could increase to over 100 by the end of the decade.” #Growth yle.fi/a/74-20232681

“Don’t piss off every section of the coalition that elected you” is advice that most political scientists would give you for free

I am so sad that Abelardo de la Espriella was elected as Colombia's new president. I doubt Colombia's international environmental leadership will continue under him. I am also scared about what he can do to our constitution and people's rights.

Whilst other airlines have articles about good restaurants, sunny beaches and new books, this is what Bulgaria Air offers its passengers:

"The pedestrian/cyclist just came out of nowhere!" Babe, if you were doing 30mph, 30 seconds ago you were a quarter of a mile away - if anyone came out of nowhere, it's you.

This is genocidal rhetoric. Israel's National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir declared: "For every tear of an Israeli mother, a thousand Lebanese mothers must weep." "All of Lebanon must burn." A senior member of Netanyahu's government is openly calling for collective punishment.

Top civil servant apologises for breaking lobbying rules over Palantir ft.trib.al/jUt6om8

Quite how did we end up with European and North American politics dominated by unrealistic promises to bring back manufacturing jobs? Just a huge failure to adjust to reality on so many levels.

Two days ago, a man in Hull was sentenced to 26 months in jail (suspended for 18 months) and 250 hours of unpaid work for selling CDs containing "unauthorised remixes of well-known tracks"

Normally the street outside my son’s school is closed to vehicles but today it was not closed and cars were zooming past, incredibly dangerous for children habituated to a closed street

It seems a good day to remind people that in the UK 3 times as many people work in Indian restaurants or for McDonalds as in the whole coal and steel industry. 5 times as many are academic staff at universities. If Labour does not understand its electorate, there is no way to appeal to it.

"The mere existence of trillionaires is a major political and economic problem, probably the defining issue of our time," writes @gabrielzucman.bsky.social. "When the power of wealth is wielded by sociopaths, the consequences are a matter of life and death."

Definitely a rational way to determine how much we spend on defence.

@quietriotpod.bsky.social I looove the new Old news feature!

Can you help with this PhD Research Project on Useful Hedgerow Plants? rhulpsychology.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... 🧵6/6

My hot take of the day is that tango looks better when both people are wearing flat shoes

Equal work deserves equal pay. 3 years ago, the EU agreed that payment of all employees should be clearly indicated, so that men and women receive the same. Now, EU countries are bringing these new rules into national law.

Papua New Guinea has detailed its plans to protect approximately 200,000 km² of Pacific Ocean waters from fishing and all other destructive human activity. Papua New Guinea sits within the Coral Triangle, the global epicentre of marine biodiversity. oceanographicmagazine.com/news/papua-n...

My first balcony berry and this time I got to eat it before the birds discovered it!