Size of that bloody typewriter!

#ToddlerSkincare: the ‘dark and exploitative’ world of children’s beauty videos on TikTok Skincare videos are featuring children as young as two, Guardian analysis finds, prompting fears about the industry’s reach and lack of safeguards

Fuuuuuck this - #ToddlerSkincare: the ‘dark and exploitative’ world of children’s beauty videos on TikTok
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Dundee Courier: DRUNKEN POLICE CHASE TEEN IN COURT.

Grammar is important.

The Car-Crash Conspiracy High-speed accidents, crooked lawyers, and poor people desperate for cash—it was the kind of scheme that could have been cooked up only in the Big Easy.

I read this on my very long train journey, among many other things. Utterly dystopian, like something from the world of ‘Robocop’.

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Magnolia fun fact: they are one of the most ancient flowering plants, having been around since the Cretaceous, when dinosaurs roamed the earth. They are so old they were around before bees evolved - they were (and still are) pollinated by beetles! That's why their blooms are so huge.

Tipperary council seeks new law to compel walkers, cyclists, e-scooter users to don hi-vis Tipperary County Council's elected members have unanimously passed a motion to request the Minister for Transport to make it mandatory for these road users to wear hi-vis jackets or vests in the inter...

Who’s going to tell these councillors that the moment they step out of their cars, they’re pedestrians too? By their own logic, they’d need to be in hi-vis at all times.

Rather than tackling dangerous driving or poor road design, the responsibility gets dumped on the most vulnerable people instead.

If you'd spent a few seconds googling you'd find multiple corroborating reports of this

FDA Reminds More Than 2,200 Sponsors and Researchers to Disclose Trial Results The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has reminded more than 2,200 medical product companies and researchers of the requirements to submit certain clinical trial results information to ClinicalTrials....

If the FDA wants to talk about this, i'm all ears:

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Just checked a few of the airlines I've flown with recently - the rebooking fee ranged from £110 to starting from £250. You've really got that sort of cash to just spaff on not wanting to get there on time?

Another time got bumped from a flight back from Sydney (actually ended up getting last-second un-bumped) - airline would put me up and on next flight but onward cost for new train back from London was over £100 plus missing day of work etc. Often not just cost of flight is my point.

Only someone who doesn't pay for their own flights and travels routes where there are multiple flights a day would ever say this

Only happened once, Edinburgh to Bristol a few years back - more of a booking ballsup than missing flight on my behalf. £150 I think. Never doing that again.

A Scrabble tile holder with the word "queefy" on it

Wasn't allowed this earlier as in "it's getting a bit queefy in here". Apparently queefs don't smell so it can't get queefy. I beg to differ

GB News headline: GP who asked Muslim woman to remove her veil 'because he was struggling to understand her' is struck off.

Was this GP struck off just because he asked a Muslim woman to remove her veil?

How likely does that sound? 🤷‍♀️

Did he actually ask her to remove her veil 'because he was struggling to understand her?'

Let's take a look at what really happened based on the tribunal reports...

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BBCs coverage this week hasn't been about "revealing sham immigration advisers". Yes, they exist and should be combatted, but these deliberately create the misleading idea of people seeking asylum committing widespread fraud. It's been about paving the way for this. 1/
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Sloponomics and the coming storm We're in the era of Sloponomics, and we don't know what to do.

bacon.boutique/sloponomics-... In what feels like an endless sea of AI thinkpieces I enjoyed this (disclosure, Seb's my boss, but this honestly isn't sycophancy)

For the second day, the BBC are running a story that presents itself as providing evidence of endemic abuse of the asylum system based on seemingly a single encounter with someone who is neither a lawyer nor a registered immigration adviser. Words fail. This is reprehensibly irresponsible.

So cheap and so very overclockable though. Perfect fodder for teenage me to dick about with

Doing sterling work drawing out a comprehensive blocklist of utter wazzocks

Love to see it

Are Bike Lanes Actually Ruining Our Cities? YouTube video by Global Cycling Network

Inspired by this video youtu.be/etwt75kYYhk I thought I'd explore some of the statistics around car access and deprivation with some #datavis and analysis.

Usefully, the 2021 Census in the UK asked questions around car ownership as well as many aspects of 'deprivation'. So here is 📊 🧵... [1/8]

Got a manuscript review request for something that's definitely in the field of things that I've worked in the past but it's been so long since I've done any "proper" research (couple of years) I'm not sure if I should accept.

Jess is (as ever) bloody right and well worth reading

Lovely stuff, marra. Makes me homesick just reading it!

My Heart Leaps Up — Beer, Graft and Tourism in Cumbria — Pellicle I first met Matt and Michelle when they worked at Hawkshead Brewery, Matt as the head brewer, and Michelle as the head of marketing. In the 2010s, Hawkshead was the pride and joy of Cumbria’s independ...

When Hawkshead Brewery shed most of its team and closed its tap room, I thought beer in Cumbria would suffer. I needn't have worried.

My latest story for @pelliclemag.com is about the breweries and all the people and pubs that make up this county.

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eh, my past two enduro bikes and my XC bike have been hydraulic discs and they've been totally fine with pretty standard maintenance. Can't imagine going back to rim brakes when sending it down some big stuff

@realfollowers.bsky.social what's this all about then?

That's a UK submarine, not a Russian repair ship

"Drug developers are legally required to post results from many studies on ClinicalTrials.gov [...] But for years, many have not done so: Roughly 30 percent of studies examined in an internal FDA analysis had not reported their results to the database."

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Where's the pointing, Danny? Decent squat but no point - call yourself a lib dem?!