Amazing: of all the books in all the world Mr Free Speech Zuckerberg wants to ban, it’s the one about him | Marina Hyde Whether the Meta boss and his ex-lieutenant Sheryl Sandberg are truly beyond awful is neither here nor there. I thought he was done with factchecking, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

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FOOT-IN- MOUTH ANOTHER Brexit "control of our borders" success story last month, with the entry into the UK of animal food products banned after an outbreak of foot and mouth disease in Germany. The cause was the failure of an IT system called "import of products, animals, food and feed system" (IPAFFS) - one of many border controls that had to be created when the UK left the EU and lost the use of existing IT systems (ie the EU's food safety Traces platform). When Germany declared its foot and mouth outbreak on 10 January, the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) immediately banned the import of cattle, pig and other animals and associated products. But it took a week for controls to take effect "due to failings in Defra's communications and IT systems, specifically IPAFFS" , according to a letter last week from Commons environment and food committee chair Alistair Carmichael to the Defra minister responsible, Baroness (Sue) Hayman. "As a result" , testimony from port operators showed, "prohibited German goods made it through the UK border" The head of health and public protection at the Dover Port Health Authority explained that the banned imports had gone through due to another feature forced on borders thanks to Brexit: the timing out of checks if they're not completed within a certain number of hours. Oh dear, another unreliable IT system necessitated by that great victory for the sovereign right to cock things up.

Brexit: “that great victory for the sovereign right to cock things up”… give ourselves food poisoning, lose control, swamp ourselves in red tape, pay more for stuff and stubbornly isolate ourselves from our own continent…

A relentless, ruinous stupidity.

(Private Eye)

Tweet from Scott Jennings, saying "um, yes, that's really a problem," with a quoted image saying "The problem with left-leaning media is they're intrinsically more strict with their propaganda to only using verifiable sources so it's really hard to poke holes in their ideology and arguments in comparison to a lot of low quality right-wing content. That makes attacking their points with fact checkers not very effective unless the fact checkers use misinformation tactics as well. In essence, people on the right have to work harder and more creatively to push their agendas as statistics and studies frustratingly aren't usually on our side."

This is why they're attacking science and education: if you can only win with disinformation, data become a threat.

I was pronouncing it "doggy"... as in style. Which is what Apartheid Clyde is doing to the US.

I’m looking for light chair (seated) yoga video/Youtube recommendations - for myself (so an older woman with mobility problems from fibromyalgia & muscle/joint issues from that plus oestrogen blockers/aromatase inhibitors). Any ideas, or should I just try them all?

Well, fuck. My Blue Badge is due to expire. To renew it, I need to provide my current PIP grant letter with my mobility score. DWP have had my PIP renewal in “processing” since March 2024, it technically expired July 2024. Or I get letters from multiple doctors to document my mobility problems. Grrr

My son’s fiancée says that if there were an apocalypse, she’d have to kill herself. No way could she manage to eat any food beyond its “best before” or “use by” dates.

Oh, great. GB Bake Off. The showstopper challenge had better be something useful.

Called out by my daughter when she was on Hobby Maker TV today (her business, Katrilee, was being showcased - 4pm Sat 4th Jan) 😂 I can’t complain, every word was true. Even the bit about my craft room being the bane of her stepfather’s life!

In case you had any doubts on the subject…

My therapist told me "write letters to the people you hate and burn them." Dude that, but now I don't know what to do with letters.

Good morning!☕️✌️

Food in the Japanese-American Internment Camps of World War 2 YouTube video by Tasting History with Max Miller

We recently watched Tasting History’s discussion of the food available & recipes used. He interviewed George Takei for it & will have the interview up on his website next week, I think. youtu.be/IJY9RvSdv5Q?...

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An engraved & highly decorate sewage manhole cover reading THE WHITECHAPEL FATBERG WAS DEFEATED HERE IN 2017

Did you know there is a commemorative manhole cover in Whitechapel celebrating the defeat of the 2017 fatberg?

To find it: head west out of the station along the north side of the High Street, it's by the pedestrian crossing in-line with the far end of the hospital opposite.

w3w bond/fame/agents

Manners. Please & thank you aren’t just for other people. Just because you sleep together doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be polite when appropriate.

Specialist has ordered a genetic test. Sent me form for my GP surgery (I already had diff blood test booked) to speed things. GP nurse looked at form, got all confused face, says “dunno how to do this” (take blood, send vial & form to the lab) and flat out refused. Specialist is annoyed. So am I.

Well, that's not good.

I made the mistake of just asking for “dos cafés negros, por favor” in Spain. I got “surprise espressos” instead. Should have asked for “americano cafés” or something 😂 Considering I usually hate espresso, it was actually pretty good.

I spend time on a global breast cancer support group and it’s infuriating to read what US patients have to go through just to get properly treated. We take the NHS for granted in the UK, we shouldn’t. We should fight to protect & preserve it.

I started reading Mills & Boon/Silhouette romances at age 11 - 30mins/book. Pretty sure they fucked up my expectations of what a relationship/love was for a very long time, just as much as my parents' dysfunctional, abusive marriage did. That said, I still like a good romance tale, just not those.

Man in custody after cars damaged | Avon and Somerset Police If you saw what happened or have any dashcam or other footage which could help please get in touch.

Any people in or around Easton, Bristol in the early hours today (Dec 3rd)? www.avonandsomerset.police.uk/news/2024/12...

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At this point it’s been said in a hundred different ways, so I think people are being intentional about not getting it.

Robocop is a movie about a guy who gets killed on the job and they still made him go back to work

Is it just me or is this staircase actually a stone brontosaurus hiding in plain sight?

Truly snail mail, then?