Two articles adjacent on the Guardian homepage about how two men allegedly abused women, including by strangulation.

Scientists create plastic that completely dissolves in seawater within hours Researchers developed a plant-based plastic, cmcsp, that stays strong during use but dissolves safely in seawater in hours.

www.earth.com/news/breakth...

A lot of places are about to be bombed in a country far away and a good many people killed because Donald Trump cannot make anyone forget or ignore the accusations of what he did with young girls.

That is now the foreign policy of the United States.

At the unveiling of the Reform "shadow cabinet", the press asked the group 25 questions. Farage answered all of the questions himself. Tell me again that this isn't a one-man band...

A devastating read.

It feels like we are on a path where in a few years, "this product was made without any use of AI," will command a premium. Sort of like high end, hand-made products vs. cheap, mass-manufactured products now.

Mainstream is overrated!

Niche!

this is the question.

This is an excellent question for @thetimes.com. What would be the threshold racism had to cross for you to recognize it as racism, and not as “racism”?

Hey @thetimes.com what is ’racism’ - surely depicting the Obamas as monkeys is just old fashioned racism?

Police search properties related to Peter Mandelson investigation - UK politics live The police said they were carrying out search warrants at two addresses, one in Wiltshire and another in north London

Do you know what would be even more shocking, if the Met police believed women and acted on crimes not on the front pages

A subscription to @bylinetimes.bsky.social is justified by this article alone! #Palantir isn’t simply a software provider it’s a political ideology, it’s founder #PeterThiel has an agenda that’s completely at odds with a progressive society Labour claims to represent.
@carolecadwalla.bsky.social

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

If the Epstein files are scary now, imagine what was in them before months of editing and deleting.

Not in the Epstein files:
- trans people
- migrants and asylum seekers
- people who arrive in small boats
- benefits claimants

In the Epstein files:
- rich white guys who tell you (or pay people to tell you) to hate the people above

Peter Thiel has been open about this for a long time. Trump is a way to break the republic, which can then be replaced by “free economic zones” with oligarchs as dictators and tech as a taskmaster for helpless humans without any rights. (1/2)

slide shows the 20 early warning signs of fascism and that the US has met all but 2 of them, and those are 2 are partially met. 20 signs from WhatIsFascism.org

After a year of Trump's second term

It might sound silly, but I mean it: The easiest and most potent way for Europe to hurt Trump this year is to once again use its cultural soft power and to threaten a boycott of the World Cup. It would become a completely meaningless event and would hurt him where he is most vulnerable - his vanity.

Palantir was a warning sign.

Keir Starmer choosing to hand our data and security to US tech companies is an outrageous failure of judgment.

All in the name of "investment." What about national security?

That's awful. Hope it's fixed quickly.

"The system is brittle as hell... people are resilient as hell". Loved these words from Andrew.

Oak tree on the banks of a stream, from a summer walk a couple of years ago.

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We had four days without water. We appear to be due no compensation as SE Water have blamed it on "storm damage" for a storm that barely registered in this part of the country. This is a get-out clause to cover for an appallingly-run company. Bring it back into public ownership.

"Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow".

This is the insanity of the current Labour approach. You are kneecapping the economy by slashing immigration to appease voters who hover between Tory and Reform, and yet they don’t even believe your numbers anyway…plus you’ve just alienated your actual supporters

Sad we missed out on the Narnia topic! The school is lucky to have you, and is wise to foster creativity in teaching and learning.

YouTube video by neilyoungchannel Neil Young - Ohio [Live At Massey Hall 1971] (Video)

Tin soldiers and Nixon coming
We're finally on our own
This summer I hear the drumming
Four dead in Ohio…
https://youtu.be/YdVMGKOFIwY?feature=shared

Starmer and Farage both drape themselves in flags but once again it's really clear where their loyalty really is.

It's Trump first. They will always be on the side of the super rich and powerful - no matter how heinous the crime.

This is not patriotism. It's subservience.