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Why have these filled croissants never caught on in the UK when they are such obviously delicious processed food?

There really is no moral justification whatsoever for mined blood diamonds now, on an environmental or humanitarian level. As technology advances, industries die. There would be nothing sad about De Beers or Rio Tinto doing a Blockbuster. www.ft.com/content/2a8d...

Self sufficiency is achievable if you lock in

What's going on with my "mallards" and, in some cases, "grebes?"

Forget Drake's fake abs - a gin collection of Bombay, Hendricks, Plymouth and Tanqueray for a man worth half a yard is funny to me

Raye should headline in 2027 #Glastonbury

Perhaps a boring decision but a great one. Not only the right direction with nuclear but Rolls Royce being a British company for investment and infrastructure security.

Utrecht is how cities should be

Truly one of the dumbest people ever to hold public office

Make politics fun again

I thought this mandatory 2 pits would make it more exciting but somehow it's worse haha. I mean personally I'd just scrap Monaco, but if not, can the solution to avoid a situation like last year just be that teams can't pit during a red flag? #MonacoGP

I find the difference between X and Bluesky on the topic of AI truly staggering. On X, I can't scroll for a minute without seeing someone talking about AI. The lastest models, comparisons, job losses, benefits, covering all companies from Google, OpenAI or Anthropic. On Bluesky? Crickets.

Turns out a predatory business model of pushing loans on broke people might not be most stable www.ft.com/content/6c4b...

With every fibre of my body I hope this is true. It's almost too on the nose for the Onion.

I remember when any reusable water bottle was the 'Eco-friendly' option. I am massively pro-environment, but where does the purity end? I fear a constant push for eco-perfection puts swathes of people off doing anything altogether.

Sorry but look at the size of this asparachungus

*very* cheeky of the Guardian to illustrate this with a picture of Farthing Down, a site of special scientific interest and thus absolutely not the sort of horrible scrubland the mayor's talking about here

I don't know if I am just getting older or what but when I saw that the new pope was 69, my first thought was "lol nice" but my second thought was "damn, that's a young pope."

A lot of discussion about what name the new Pope will take. A small part of them must be tempted to go with Pope Muhammed for chaos purposes.

Omg Starmer on the phone constantly name checking him Donald is toe curling

BREAKING: US-UK trade pact will leave the 10% US tariff in place - CNN These tarriffs are not a bargaining tool, they are an ideology. Trump genuinely believes a trade deficit with another country is always a bad thing. At some point in the coming months Americans will face the music on this.

Much of this article is bleak but this part might actually be the worst. Just people asking ChatGPT who they are lol nymag.com/intelligence...

“When you’re ready for your child to stop being a child, give them a smartphone” We face a mammoth task as a society trying to reduce smartphone use in children, but I not only think it's possible, I think it's a societal necessity. #smartphonefreechildhood www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Places I didn't expect the strongest condemnation of Israel and it's allies? The FT. Excellent wording. Should be common place across most media outlets. www.ft.com/content/f5fd...

For 580 days we have wondered if our club will still exist when we wake up. For 1,395 days we have been under an embargo in one form or another. Our Women’s Team had to go part-time, we lost our Cat 1 Academy status, we very nearly lost our training ground. #readingfc

Russell Brand here, facing charges of sexual assault, arriving at court dressed like a sex pest

This has been the best week for drying washing in recent living memory

FPTP is simply not designed for a 5 party system. A general election with this split would be absolute chaos. That said, I think it's easy to blow these results out of proportion. 2029 is a long way away and I think the Labour Gov will last until then (Starmer perhaps not). #LocalElections

What's your favourite woodland and why is it deciduous in spring?

"relax, it's just for a stock photo - they'll probably use it for a new herbal tea brand or something"

Latest Sport England physical activty data. Fantastic that the number of active adults has increased by 1.6%, but IMO the number we should really be focussing on is inactivity, which has remained fairly constant at 1 in 4 adults for nearly 10 years. Inactivity has huge societal costs.

At long last someone has identified RFK Jr.'s support base: the 9% of people who have a favorable opinion of the Black Plague

Someone on Threads noticed you can type any random sentence into Google, then add “meaning” afterwards, and you’ll get an AI explanation of a famous idiom or phrase you just made up. Here is mine

When I was hoping for more non-Trump news stories I didn't mean India and Pakistan going to war thanks

I love that there are acronyms for items we use super regularly and we don't know what they stand for. I had to look most of these up, how many do you know? PIN ATM USB SIM card PDF doc GIF Radar M&Ms CAPTCHA (this one is great) MDF wood Any more?

"Art of the Deal" by Donald Trump

If you don't like weather-thrashed doors in old walls, we might find a way to get on, in some superficial sense, but we will never truly see eye-to-eye.

The Pope met JD Vance & was like "I have seen enough."

The People's Pope

Absolutely huge day for stoner Christians

This why I lean towards accelerationism on the need to just burn down/automate most of the “news” clickbait factories. If you can barely afford to pay graduates minimum wage to miserably rewrite eight Martin Lewis tweets a day why pretend it’s an industry worth saving, socially or economically.

When I was young we called them washing machines

I might make a pro World Economic Forum account called Davos Yields and see how long it takes to get banned

I read the Lizz Truss article so you don't have to. It's a level of delusion I wasn't sure possible In it she argues that people like Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, are misunderstanding Trump's genius with the economy Yes BlackRock. $11.5tn in assets. Famously part of the woke anti-growth coalition

There is one aspect of The Masters which really struck me this year and I think is underreported - phones are banned! 📵 🙌 Every single person in these has the shared experience, a connection to each other and a story to tell. They don't need a terrible video to prove it. More of this please.

Honestly that took years off my life!! The absolute best result, I'm so pleased for him. Huge credit to Justin Rose as well. Amazing to not have an American win. #themasters

have a blep

I refuse to let it ruin my weekend if not but I really really really want Rory to win. #themasters