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Meta has added yet another Trump advisor to the board, this time Dina Powell McCormick. Like TwitterX, just another part of the propaganda arm of the MAGA Reich now.

Grifters A Dartmoor village is paying Prince William £1.5m-a-year for an abandoned prison - and former inmates say it gave them cancer www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

The number of Europeans travelling to the US has plummeted by up to 35% because of Trump Everything.

Now do water; Rail and electricity Starmer steps in to seize control of British Steel with nationalisation likely www.theguardian.com/business/202...

How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia? Before you open this thread, take a guess. Settle on a number and then compare it to what you'll learn in this thread. 🧵

Never work with kids, animals or cutting edge 200 year old technology.

Oodles. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekOforOodles 📷

#Duck feathers are naturally hydrophobic—water just rolls right off. It’s nature’s built-in waterproofing at work

Kurt Vonnegut man

The name's Bond Bond market

Seems like a fitting sculpture for the BBC 🙄 Tone fucking deaf! BBC reinstalls sculpture by paedophile Eric Gill with new protective screen

A Chinese Daoist maxim from the third century BC: ‘Govern a great empire as you would cook a small fish’ — i.e. don’t keep poking it and stirring it up.

Dandelions, Bertha Wegmann, 1847-1926.

"You boy! What tariff is it today?"

The top five egg producers own roughly half of all U.S. laying hens. The biggest of those corporations is Cal-Maine, which just announced quarterly profits of $509 million — more than 3x what it made a year ago. Corporate concentration + bird flu = a price-hiking free for all.

How to be more alive – artist and philosopher Rockwell Kent on breaking the trance of near-living

Appropriately called, Bird of Paradise Flower catching last sunrays. Also known as: Crane flower, Mini craneflower, Mzimvubu craneflower, Queen's bird-of-paradise. Thanks for reposts and comments and have a good night. #Bloomscrolling #Flowerphotography #Photography #TropicalGarden #PhotoHour

Every single Thatcher/Major era privatisation, from steel and water to railways, has ended in failure. Tell me I'm wrong.

'Dandelions,' was painted by the Danish artist Bertha Wegmann around 1910. It wasn't an arbitrary choice of a plant to paint: the dandelion was used to promote the women’s liberation movement in Scandinavia because of its capacity for uncontrolled, strong-willed growth.

Big Mama... The Queen of Camouflage. Early evening. My big feathered sweetheart, Ophelia the Great Horned Owl (Mother of Owlets Oskar & Oksana, Wife of Otto), keeping a watchful eye on her children. So beautiful. 🦉📸🇨🇦 #GreatHornedOwl #Birds #Owls #Raptor #Photography #Wildlife #OntarioParks #Canada

This. We must not let them normalise what's happening in Gaza, as if Palestinian lives are cheaper.

The mastery of artist Harry Wingfield. ‘Onions’ (Fourth Picture Book, 1971)

Bid to build Europe’s first research station on Atlantic temperate rainforest in Cornwall A great project by Merlin Hanbury-Tenison’s Thousand Year Trust, of which I’m a trustee: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

It is with profound sadness that we relay news of the passing of our beloved friend and bandmate Clem Burke following a private battle with cancer. (1/7)

I can only imagine the bailout package they are drawing up for themselves. As the saying goes, privatize the profits, and socialize the losses.

One of the very bad people we've investigated has placed us on an obscure blacklist. So if you use Norton, you probably can't access our website. Quick thread:

Watched this last night. Highly recommended. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Journalists are being blocked from entering a London youth court, by a team of security guards, a list caller, and a legal adviser. One reporter has been made to ‘sign in’ twice already. For no obvious reason. There’s a security guard who is particularly adamant it’s his job to keep us out

People on benefits will be poorer this year. Working age and disability benefits rise 1.7% from this week. Most by less than the price of a 1st class stamp. Inflation (CPI) is 2.8% and OBR forecasts a rise to 3.2% this year and Bank of England forecasts CPI to be 3.7% by Autumn

Karma-flavored ice cream is sooo delicious.

Sophie Grandval, 1990.

Shiny shoes Artist: Harry Wingfield (Helping at Home, 1961)

Oh ho ho

I'll be very surprised if this even goes to court. Ten Britons accused of committing war crimes while fighting for Israel in Gaza www.theguardian.com/law/2025/apr...