Meta just paid the lowest effective federal tax rate in its history.
Thanks to tax breaks and loopholes, it avoided $13.7B in 2025 federal income taxes.
But now it's planning to lay off 10% of its global workforce (8,000 people) by May 20 — with more job cuts later this year.
Trickle down hoax.
Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?
Heritage means, among so many others things, NOT having illuminated advertising signs anywhere in the city of #Edinburgh.
#WorldHeritageDay #Vulgarity #Crassness
Information about registering to vote, voting by post and other advice is available on our website: www.edinburgh.gov.uk/scottishparl...
Example of a postal vote envelope and papers for the Edinburgh Southern constituency.
Remember if you want to cast a postal vote in the upcoming
Scottish Parliament election you need to first be registered to vote by 11:59pm on Monday, April 20.
Your postal vote application then needs to be submitted by 5pm on Tuesday, April 21 📮
Big part of my musical and political education, and really shifted my horizons 💔
"We're not here to give the public what it wants. We're here to give the public what it didn't know it wanted".
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I've missed his world music show since he's been chucked out of the BBC. He was the best to me. Unlike so many, he wasn't interested in the sound of his own voice, but interested in the music he wanted us to discover. #RIP
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BBC News - Malala's brother Khushal on fleeing the Taliban and facing the manosphere
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Never mind models' colour(mosaics are fantastic, get over it) and the scowling faces, particularly the woman's,what's with the short skirt & the heels? Where we're still at?? #EverydaySexism
BBC News - Team Scotland condemns 'abhorrent' racist abuse aimed at its models
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Ask candidates for the 2026 Scottish elections to sign the Rewilding Nation Charter. Write to them here: actionnetwork.org/campaigns/ca...
UN experts analysis of Decree 12 “criminal rules of courts” conclude they alarmingly escalate the systematic dismantling of human rights protections in #Afghanistan & must be rescinded. Analysis & questions in letter to taliban
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Conservative MP Esther McVey claimed last week that knife crime in London “is up 72% in a year”.
That figure’s not correct, according to police statistics on knife-enabled crime, and we’ve not found any data to support it.
A photo of the front cover of issue 1673 of Private Eye magazine, with the caption “on shelves now.” The main headline reads “HUNGARY: ORBAN LOSES HISTORIC ELECTION.” The central image shows Viktor Orbán standing on stage alongside JD Vance, both raising their arms in front of a cheering crowd with Hungarian and US flags in the background. A speech bubble reads, “Who says America can’t achieve regime change?” A strapline at the bottom reads “HUGE TRIUMPH FOR MAGA (SURELY MAGYAR? ED.).”
Hungary: Orban loses historic election
The new Private Eye is out now.
"The temptation will be to reach for the familiar playbook – more drilling, more subsidies, more supply diversification. These reflexes were built for a world without alternatives. By the time new fossil supply comes online, it will be outcompeted by cheaper electrotech"
We trashed #PrincesStreet throughout the years, and now there are plans to trash it further.
#Edinburgh #PearlCastToSwine
Quick take for @therestpolitics.bsky.social on the fall of Viktor Orban and why it is a loss for far more leaders than just the outgoing Hungarian PM
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This is a really useful graphic.
I wish it also showed the overseas land used to supply the 80% of the timber and forest products that the U.K. imports.
It should be on the wall of every Defra office, and attached to every new tree planting application.
Map of the UK, showing the huge proportion of land used for beef, dairy and lamb production and the tiny proportion used for crops, next to a plot showing that 68% of UK calories and 52% of our protein come from the plants.
Maybe these need to be put on a few menus/supermarket walls. These are from the UK National Food Strategy, showing the proportion of UK land used for different things (huge for beef/lamb, tiny for crops), & where we get our calories and protein (68% & 52% from plants). The difference is staggering.
More #HomeGrownHomes
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This time from Matt Stevenson’s ECOSystem Technologies using Scottish cross laminated #timber
#Forestry
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A Robin perched on a branch, its beak full of food and other material.
To reduce disease, we all need to make some urgent but simple changes to how we feed our garden birds.
See our website for the latest guidance: brnw.ch/21x1t4w
#Brexit, the gift that keeps on taking.
#EU fingerprint and photo travel rules come into force - BBC News
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Our interview with the President of Ukraine is out now.
Alastair speaks with Zelenskyy about everything from the personal toll of the war and his daily calls with his mother, to the bigger picture: Putin’s mindset, US involvement, and the shaping of new alliances.
Link in the replies.
@jonesycartoons3.bsky.social
Or just realised he didn't have any change to make a phone call.
You may wonder why the Europeans aren't responding more forcefully to JD Vance in Budapest
1/ Because Orban looks set to lose & any EU intervention could be counterproductive
2/ Because the US is so far beyond the pale - Greenland, Iran, Ukraine etc. The EU is quietly moving on
You should invite Dominic to replace either Rory or yourself every so often. Adds very valuable and interesting dimension.
@therestpolitics.bsky.social
Will we have the guts/savvy in the #UK?
BBC News - Greece to ban #socialmedia for under-15s from next year
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