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it finally happened

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loving this year’s wrapped

Huge shelves with books behind a glass wall

Intrigued by the People’s Bookshelf at the National Library of Latvia. Each book in the collection has been donated by a member of the public and is inscribed by its former owner, telling a personal story relating to the book.

Those 5 hours of debate on Friday might actually be what decides the fate of the bill.

how is dutch language real

Everyone knows that fact-checking is only acceptable when done by the CCHQ twitter account

Social media use by age in Britain (with newspaper reading thrown in for fun)

Nearly two-thirds of people in their 70s use Facebook!

A huge fan of how the UK political system is seemingly made with the goal of maximising drama. You can argue about efficiency, democracy, all that stuff, but the dramatics are undisputed.

Šis būs neleis tehniska rakstura pavediens.

At-protoklolā, tajā uz kura griežas blūskajs, lietotāju handles (tās kas sākas ar @) tiek organizētas kā domēna vārdi. Šādi var ne tikai skaisti nodrošināt unikalitāti, bet arī gūt pārliecību, ka sociālā tīkla konta turētājs ir šīs lapas īpašnieks. 1/

Catastrophic mistake from Scholz to appear to bring Putin in from the cold, he’s emboldened not ready to compromise. Western leaders should remember this is who we are dealing with.

almost definitely yeah

it might as well be night here, too, the sky is depressingly gray

practicing selfcare by getting baked and baking a full course meal rn

UK’s unhealthy food habits cost £268bn a year, report finds Exclusive: Food, Farming and Countryside Commission added up cost to NHS and economy of diet-linked disease

Before the porridge moralists jump in, pls note, that the report found poorer households would have to *double* their food spend to be able to eat a healthy diet.

Poverty sickens society. Raise benefits & minimum wage, for cost effective benefits to society.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The MPs said afterwards that they staged the protest because they didn’t have a chance to properly oppose the bill, so I looked into it and it’s actually terrible:
- The debate only lasted 60mins
- Debate time limited to just 5mins per speaker
- Only 2 backbench speeches out of 11 overall

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The EU now generates more electricity from wind and solar than from fossil fuels.

Graph from @natbullard.bsky.social using @emberenergy.bsky.social data.

Taiwan's democracy is beautiful and must be defended at all costs

Copy and paste this to every other major US city

Best reader comment so far today...

Support for the death penalty is dropping, with Gen-z clocking in at the lowest rate of support