EmBrooks-ish

I wrote a new poem, inspired by Trump's executive order on plastic straws.

Watching The Dog House ... A pooch appears (cocker-cross) with a waggle bum. "Oh it's another waggle bum!" Says the hubby. Cue our own waggle bum waking, and jumping on the sofa to see why we are calling him .🤣

This feels an important take. Is the US essentially changing sides after 75 years?

MPs call for crackdown on booing and jeering in Commons "Antiquated" jargon and poor behaviour is restricting access to politics, says a committee of MPs.

Good idea. It's frankly unproductive and a deterrent to professional government.

BBC News - MPs call for end to booing and jeering in Commons
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Excellently informative thread.

Elon Musk’s Toxicity Could Spell Disaster for Tesla Staggering sales drops, swastika-daubed EVs, companies culling fleet models, and fan-forum owners selling their cars—Elon Musk's alt-right antics are seriously impacting his electric car business.

Staggering sales drops, swastika-daubed EVs, companies culling fleet models, and fan-forum owners selling their cars—Elon Musk's alt-right antics are seriously impacting his electric car business.

These people who say they are the defenders of sovereignty... When it comes to the crunch they will sell anyone down the river 👏👏👏👏👏💥

Thinking it's weird that I've seen no reporting of the impact on US unemployment stats of all these DOGE layoffs. Surely that'll bite them with the electorate in a month?

Fortune magazine, year 2098: "Bob Brooks-ish, whose entire estate comes from a cereal magnate ancestor... Oh, sorry, hang on... No, a rubbish hoarder" 🤣

Spokey dokeys

I have a box of 90s cereal freebies in the loft. I kept them with the intention my grandkids would make a fortune after showing them off on Antiques Roadshow. Seems shortsighted & judgemental to ditch them now. Mainly Kelloggs Frosties. Lots of Simpsons ring squirters and such.

We are obsessed. Such a lovely show.

Is it just me who thinks Haribo jelly babies look like little Medieval pilgrims?

Omg please tell me this isn't real???

How so? Because they are brown skinned not Eastern European? Or because escaping a war zone is only a thing down to a certain latitude?

Here’s an interesting and important study on how fact-checking social media can lead to accusations of bias against right wing discourse - but it’s actually because that discourse is more likely to contain misinformation to start with. Paging @sheencr.bsky.social

Badenoch: “The govt is recruiting a new chief inspector of borders, who lives in Finland & wants to WFH, this is not serious”

Starmer: “He was appointed in 2019 by the last govt, he then worked from Finland. He’ll now be working from the UK full time”

#PMQs #PoliticsLive

Powerful long read.

Intriguing to see Goldman Sachs called out for sticking with DEI, then today the BBC reports they're pulling back. I wonder if they're trying to ride two horses with one arse.

There's got to be a middle ground between US media being completely in the pocket of government and UK media never having anything good to say. Neither is actually supportive of informed democracy.

Despite the fact that Reform MPs are always shouting about immigration, not one of them could be arsed to turn up for the debate on the Border Security Bill last night. Probably exhausted after a hard day cosplaying at being farmers.

93,000...

I emailed the data privacy team at YouGov to execute my right to get all the data they hold on me deleted. I emailed in English. The reply is in German??

Trump says Gaza ceasefire should be cancelled unless all Israeli hostages freed - live updates The US president says Israel should let

So that Nobel peace prize people tried to reassure us he really really wanted (to the point, we were told, it would moderate his behaviour...) that goal is parked, right? Hideous statements. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2...

No ? needed.

Ooh I'm determined to get to see this one. Thank you for reminding me, it had slipped my mind post-xmas?

🤣🤣🤣 Just read a post on linkedin from a Comms person using Zuckerberg's "cool" transformation as a best practice case study. 🤣🤣🤣

Today, we at Google have a new product: what if you could could ask an app a question? Oh, we do that already? Well, what if we were a little bit worse at it? What if we also sometimes gave you egregiously wrong information? And what if it cost a billion dollars? Still not interested? It's mandatory

England wins the Netball Nations Cup... And the BBC sports story is about another country's league game in a sport we don't even play/follow here. WTF. Back women's sports already!
www.englandnetball.co.uk/report/final...

Sorry, what????