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ANOTHER Central Asian restaurant opening in London… plov is going to be the next trend after Korean cuisine, mark my words

Family of BBC charity worker killed in Kenya seek answers after coroner’s ruling Inquest concludes that Kate Mitchell, whose body was found in hotel room in Nairobi in 2021, was unlawfully killed The family of a British BBC charity worker murdered in Nairobi more than three years ago have said they are still seeking information…

Family of BBC charity worker killed in Kenya seek answers after coroner’s ruling

The invasion of short-form video has gone too far… how do they got reels on LinkedIn now??

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The graphic shows arrows going from 11 general agencies and institutions to Musk companies which include SpaceX, Tesla. neuralink, x, and Musk himself. The text at the top reads: Trump firings hit agencies with oversight of Musk's companies Staffing changes, including the firing of several top officials, have affected agencies with federal investigations into or regulatory battles with Elon Musk's companies. The graphic is credit to Malika Khurana for the New York Times

A historic graphic of corruption.

The 11 federal agencies so far targeted for firings or dismantling by Elon Musk have more than 30 ongoing investigations into his companies.

(📸 Malika Khurana for NYT)

I'm hearing a lot from the media NGO sector about the impact of USAID cuts. A lot of small investigative media organisations across the globe are facing imminent closure as the funding they've budget for has vanished overnight, and the funder community has no capacity to absorb the shock.

This is fine meme

Logging into my international development job when no one even knows if the sector is going to exist in a few months

USAID website straight up does not work anymore

I asked DeepSeek three questions:

- How does China treat the Uyghur Muslims?

- Is Taiwan part of China?

- What happened in Tiananmen Square in the 1980s?

Here are DeepSeek's answers:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2021/02/11/report-trump-associated-with-461000-deaths-in-2018-others-deserve-blame-though/

It looks like in the admin, it was about 460k Americans, but how many non-Americans will we add to that number this time around?

After the stop-work order on all foreign aid (except to Israel…), I think it’s time to put together a tracker of how many deaths Trump’s policies will be responsible for during the next 4 years

We could have let Jimmy Carter keep his peanut farm, all things considered

And you know what, I appreciate that other countries have an easier way to identify such made-up problems as le wokisme and les millennials

A useful litmus test (as made particularly evident below): is it described with American onlinespeak? If yes, it’s probably a made-up problem

You may not like it, but this is what peak male performance looks like

Central line vs. Elizabeth line

yeah well I'm not recognising the legitimacy of that haircut, so where does that leave us

How is Britain topping my list right now

Have there been *any* elections that have gone well this year? Not just-barely-saved-from-fascism results, but genuinely heartening results?

How come I can say intercontinental ballistic missile, but I can’t tell when a word has a ё in it unless the little dots are there for me?

You know how kids that learn Latin in school only ever pick up phrases like “the general killed the slave in battle” and nothing actually useful? That’s me with Russian and war terms at this point

Despite a massive head start, BlueSky has now overtaken Threads in the US 👇

One thousand days of full-scale war on Ukraine.

Don’t get me wrong, I do still work on the region and care about it a lot, and Slava Ukraini, but I’m just

Hello Bluesky :)

I am aware my legacy mutuals from the other place are mainly Russia/Eastern Europe nerds, but I regret to announce I have very few cogent thoughts in my brain related to the region these days except for silent screaming