EU: The European Union will require sale of mobile phones with “user-replaceable and longer-lasting batteries” starting in 2027.
The regulation demands “availability of spare parts and manuals for 10 years to curb planned obsolescence”.
I very much enjoy it. Dialogue is great and it's fast paced with a nice meaty conspiracy story.
Very incisive from Alex Wickham, UK political editor for Bloomberg
“Sources say Olly Robbins felt bound by the rules of the security vetting process NOT to tell the PM, No10 or the foreign secretary about the concerns raised about Mandelson”
Nobody talks about the time when Razorlight got radiation poisoning from the polonium meant for Litvinenko.
Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.
Yes is winning on 58%
Mail is running a poll on whether the UK should rejoin the EU.
Takes seconds to vote and it's going hilariously well...
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
bsky.app/profile/cold...
Hungarian election results.
Péter Magyar victory rally.
One way that Orbán sought to entrench power was adopting a new Hungarian constitution in 2011 that classified many policy areas as 'cardinal laws' that require a two-thirds majority vote to change.
With almost 100% of votes counted, the Hungarian opposition has just achieved what seemed impossible.
My first post university job in 2004 on the BOE grad scheme paid £24,500. Full time minimum wage was (at 35 hours at a week) £8,190.
BOE grad scheme today pays £33,525. Minimum wage at 35 hours a week: £23,132.
A real terms collapse and a real terms surge.
The Telegraph just gave a convicted criminal a two-page spread to explain why he's pumping £4 million into Reform UK. They tucked his criminal record away in the small print. So as a former financial crime specialist I’ll do their job for them👇
There's no doubt the 90s and 00s to the financial crisis were years largely of optimism, as the world and many individual markets opened up, and before demographics hit too much.
The period isn't replicable.
White America voted to elect this buffoon all three times he ran for president.
NOT MY WORDS DAWN, THE WORDS OF TOP GEAR MAGAZINE
Trump is asked, "What is the one leadership trait the world is missing?"
"I always like to hang around with losers, actually, because it makes me feel better. I hate guys that are very successful and you have to listen to their success stories. I like people that like to listen to my success."
i promise you that whatever you think will happen next won't
Tories had a chance this week to go for Farage's jugular over his dodgy extra curricular moneymaking activities (recording Cameos for assorted far right nutters, pumping crypto etc) which old school Tories find tacky & Trumpian. Instead, they're all in on Muslim-bashing.
Jesus. Paying a French company a billion dollars *not* to build a wind farm.
Utterly damning on the extent of US strategic failure giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
That Inside the Manosphere is a Theroux masterclass. Speaking to one guy who said he didn’t believe in depression, even when his brother died he was sad but he moved past it. Then he was asked how his brother died and his answer was “he took his own life.”
Absolutely staggering.
Donald Trump letting you know how the authoritarian capture of the media is going, in case you missed it. Unlike other authoritarians in places like Hungary and Poland he has no worries about advertising his authoritarian take over of the media.
Trump on 28 Feb: Regime change in Iran!
Trump on 5 March: I have to choose the next Supreme Leader!
Trump on 6 March: Unconditional surrender!
8 March: Iran appoints Khamenei's hardline son as Supreme Leader.
Trump on 9 March: The war is very complete.
Thanks to @vennart666.bsky.social for introducing me to the unique moves of Luigi Primo, the pizza throwing wrestler
after absolutely eviscerating Kristi Noem and calling for her resignation, Tillis is applauded. He thens threatens to hold up nominees if she doesn't stop stonewalling him. My God.
LOLOL
Thanks, will do.
@unroll.skywriter.blue unroll
I swear to god these idiots *want* us to vote Green 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
