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Turkey is making fake honey on an alarming scale – DW – 02/16/2025 Turkey is one of the biggest honey producers in the world. Increasingly, though, honey is being adulterated with sugar syrup or other ingredients — and the fake honey is almost certainly being sold in...

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"Elon Musk Wants What He Can’t Have: Wikipedia

"Musk and other right-wing tech figures have been on a campaign to delegitimize the digital encyclopedia. What happens if they succeed?" (gift article)

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/02/elon-musk-wikipedia/681577/?gift=4TO5wg2qVxF

Before and after street transformations in Amsterdam.

Before and after street transformations in Amsterdam.

If you think Amsterdam managed to avoid being overrun by cars, you’re wrong.

They too surrendered their streets to cars for many decades.

But the people fought back, and forced leaders to see their mistake.

There's nothing magical about #Amsterdam.

They just saw their mistake, and changed it.

Shortened from the article: Wikimedia Foundation is building new tools that will help Wikipedia editors stay anonymous to avoid harassment & legal threats by Musk & Heritage Foundation. Some of the tactics have been pioneered by Wikimedia in countries where editing Wikipedia is illegal or dangerous.

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

I'm even confused what the complaint from Elon is here. That writeup is accurate and unbiased. It is *simply true* that "the gesture was compared to a Nazi salute." The writeup isn't even taking a side. It's pointing out that people did compare it to such a salute. It also includes his denial.

Fighting for facts in the era of Trump and Musk EDITORIAL. The alliance between Donald Trump and social media platform bosses such as Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg represents a global threat to free access to reliable information. Le Monde has ther...

One of France's most prominent newspapers, Le Monde, is abandoning Elon Musk's X

“The alliance between Donald Trump & social media platform bosses such as Elon Musk & Mark Zuckerberg represents a global threat to free access to reliable information”

www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...

A photo of big tech ceos at the inauguration. Then a tweet from Tim Miller @Timodc that says: Row 1 of the inauguration: The richest men in America who own all of the communications platforms. Row 2: The cabinet.

this is what is happening

all I ask is that when you mention the oligarchs, please also mention that they own the communications platforms

NEW: Trump says Jan 6th insurrectionists will be pardoned and released tonight.

He keeps referring to them as "hostages"- while in the same room as the families of actual October 7th hostages.

Excellent NYT interview with the outgoing U.S. ambassador to Hungary. This is a key insight!

Blue Monday is a piece of crap pseudo science originally part of a travel company's press release to sell holidays.

Can we all try to avoid rewarding marketeers, using this term, which tries to sell goods by parasiting on the back of real mental health campaigns.

Mediamacro melodrama The UK macroeconomy was one of the big stories of the previous two weeks, so you might think this blog post should have covered it earlier...

New post: Mediamacro melodrama
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Just a week ago the UK media was speculating that Reeves was about to be sacked and who might replace her, all because of largely global movements in interest rates. How and why did the media get things so wrong?

Janey being spoken to by a police officer while holding her Trump Is A Cunt sign in front of Trump's golf course

Good morning Bluesky. Today would have been Janey Godley's birthday. In tribute to her, let's make #TrumpIsACunt trend.

Just so I don’t forget tomorrow, happy Janey Godley Day

It was just as cold for Obama's inauguration in 2009, fyi.

Petition: Apply for the UK to join the European Union as a full member as soon as possible I believe joining the EU would boost the economy, increase global influence, improve collaboration and provide stability & freedom. I believe that Brexit hasn't brought any tangible benefit and there ...

#Brexit “the Petri dish for Trump”
“#Brexit hasn't brought any tangible benefit and there is no future prospect of any, the UK has changed its mind and that this should be recognised.”
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

The Brexit consensus is wobbling Ed Davey makes an interesting move (no, stay with me here)

The (unloved) Brexit consensus across the Westminster parties is wobbling. Why Ed Davey's speech calling for a UK/EU customs union is a big moment.

Me on Substack

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The Trouble with Elon I didn’t set out to become an enemy of the world’s richest man, but I seem to have managed it all the same.

samharris.substack.com/p/the-troubl...

The media didn't care to do its job here; it's part of the ongoing fox newsification of Canadian media. But that aside, the bigger reason that PP is able to get away with blaming inflation on crime and the carbon tax is that the libs didn't care to hold corporations to account for greedflation.

This sort of absolute BS needs repeatedly calling out. These people are not serious about the truth, governance or the public good. They're not holding anyone's feet to the fire. This isn't hard-nosed accountability in action. It's an embarrassment of hyper partisan banana skins.

#sophiefromromania says be careful out there - that was our iciest walk ever

Absolute garbage of a headline - what just happened is that a bill to protect vulnerable young people was voted through www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']:

Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.

Trump has surrounded himself with Federalist Society freaks and literally the richest people in the country and still gets granted the "tear down the establishment" framing that's key to duping working class people

Some on the British right are all jostling to get retweeted by Elon Musk - to the point where nothing else matters.

It's as dignified as a naked mud slide at a vodka promotion... but then Mackenzie didn't have much in the first place

Still looking for an organisation to help us do something which should be simple – show an inspiring video about Parkinson’s to a live audience without charging us £4000 youtube.com/playlist?lis...

How Elon Musk seized on baseless memo claim to create wave of misinformation The X owner shared false claims that a Home Office memo urged police not to intervene in child grooming cases.

A useful article by the BBC on Elon Musk and his interventions on child sexual abuse. Produced by the Verify, rather than the news arm, and currently situated fairly low down on the BBC News site... A report like this should be given prominence, considering how Musk's claims led the UK's news agenda

This is an astonishingly ill-informed and amoral assessment for the political editor of the BBC to have reached, about someone spreading extremist conspiracy theories and using them to whip up hatred against elected politicians. I'd say I'm surprised, but sadly I'm not.

Greenland/Denmark, Canada, UK and EU are all under threat from the new US administration.

It really is that simple - and Europeans need to wake up to this reality quickly.