Second Mentions

A page from a book, reading 'Politics: Quiz' 1. The big fiscal event 2. The once-in-a-decade statistics survey 3. The powerful political and military alliance between 30 European and North American countries 4. The Swansea-based government agency 5. The controversial drilling practice 6. The weakening greenback 7. The unchecked effluvium 8. The Marxist touchstone 9. The scalded-amphibian treatment 10. The party political prophylactics

It's #Budget2025 Day!

Or rather "the big fiscal event"

Can you identify what is being referred to in these other second mentions?

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Paging @secondmentions.bsky.social ! "The smirking former No 10 aide". 😀

@secondmentions.bsky.social "underrated crucifer"

Paging @secondmentions.bsky.social for "the underrated crucifer".

The underrated crucifer @secondmentions.bsky.social

“the underrated crucifer” @secondmentions.bsky.social

"Scotland's other national drink"

Raccoons have easy access to food in the form of human trash. It could be jump-starting physical and behavioral changes in the masked bandits, new research suggests. https://cnn.it/4ac7cUq

"the masked bandits"

@secondmentions.bsky.social

Superb! 👏🏻👏🏻

That last sentence is definitely worthy of notifying @secondmentions.bsky.social

And just like that, Cosmopolitan cocktail has a comeback Sales of the iconic pink drink — synonymous with Carrie Bradshaw from Sex and the City — are up, reflecting a nostalgic yearning for simpler times

Cosmopolitan cocktail: "the iconic pink drink"

www.thetimes.com/article/e15f...

"the coffee-soaked dessert"

"Donovan's follow up single was not a success"

"subway stowaway"

Also 'the rubbish raiders'

Cuter and closer: Raccoons may be on their way to becoming America's next pet The rubbish raiders are showing reductions in snout length, a sign of early domestication, researchers say.

"the masked mammals"

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"The unusually wind-powered and cycle-friendly Nordic nation" is a particularly long, um, winded @secondmentions.bsky.social. 🇩🇰

Superb

Study: Kids’ drip paintings more like Pollock’s than those of adults The splatter master was more clumsy than graceful in his movements, which are key to his distinctive style.

Pollock the splatter master @secondmentions.bsky.social

arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Buckingham Palace Christmas market: why tourists flocked there – and found just locked gates and big puddles The hot spot seemed the perfect place for Yuletide-loving royalists. But, as with the Eiffel Tower in Beijing and some of the most picturesque windmills in the Netherlands, there was much less to it t...

No. There is no Buckingham Palace Christmas market. Some of you have been conned by AI.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Nice bit of @secondmentions.bsky.social action in there too.

The fermented beverage packed with antioxidants that’s a gut-regulating powerhouse

The fermented beverage packed with antioxidants that’s a gut-regulating powerhouse

@secondmentions.bsky.social the whole headline is a second mention, although is it still a second mention when it’s the first mention?

@secondmentions.bsky.social 'the polarizing spread'

Superb second mention for tomatoes in the FT today
@secondmentions.bsky.social

@secondmentions.bsky.social

Picture of a woman preparing an octopus kebab. Headline reads: The octopus kebab - Camden's fishy twist on the post-pub classic

Kebab: "the post-pub classic" www.thetimes.com/article/6725...

Anyone god anything better than ‘the viral monster toys?’ Surely there’s something out there