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I know it’s before six on Saturday morning. I know your eyes are too crusted shut to look at this stinky piece of cardstock I’m shoving in front of your face.

But today is Persimmon’s birthday party. I found this invitation among coffee grounds and overripe bananas in the kitchen trash, underneath a pristine paper towel, where it surely must have been crumpled by mistake.

Don’t ask why I was looking through the trash. That’s not important.

What is important is that this invitation makes a baker’s dozen of festivities to which my siblings and I have been invited this month, and I fear you are not treating these occasions with the requisite level of respect.

Why are you still in bed? We have so much to do.

Persimmon’s celebration begins at Wacky Jim’s Trampoline Park promptly at two o’clock today, and you need to help me find my rubbery socks. I own at least four pairs, because four of the seven birthday parties I’ve attended this month have been held at this same trampoline park, yet the socks are always nowhere to be found.

The trade union movement has a proud history of standing together to protect workers. From Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners in the 1980s to more recently, when rank-and-file union members mobilised to support hundreds of workers being fired by P&O, it is clear that ‘an injury to one is an injury to all’ retains […]

The relationship between ministers and civil servants is, by definition, an unequal one – it takes courage to stand up to a minister or offer an opinion contrary to their own, writes former diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall

Shameful attack on Liverpool Community Independents councillor and candidate has backfired on Labour. Skwawkbox has unpicked one of its biggest lies Labour’s shameful use of its sewer-campaign tactics in Liverpool to attack a popular young left-wing councillor has predictably backfired – and managed the unprecedented feat of uniting all the city council’s opposition parties in […]

Affärsbankerna är de opartiska expertbedömarna av den ekonomiska politiken. Men ska man väcka uppmärksamhet ska man vara näringslivets tankesmed. Det är de två mest självklara slutsatserna när svenska medier i måndags rapporterade om vårbudgeten. I en TT-artikel som publicerades redan under förmiddagen intervjuas Nordeas chefsekonom Annika Winsth och Swedbanks chefsekonom Mattias Persson, samt, sist i texten, […]

“I urged Starship against working remotely, but it insisted,” Musk added. “Well, who was right?”

Another classic It’s not likely that this 30-something is riffing on Digby’s 2007 “The Art of the Hissy Fit,” but as a comedian, he’s a close observer of human behavior, too, and he knows one when he sees one.

Virtually all paths to a net-zero-emissions food system rely on consumers in high-income countries shifting to a more plant-forward diet

The former Deputy Prime Minister's bullying behaviour was long tolerated and excused by Rishi Sunak and his media supporters, reports Adam Bienkov

Missy returns and is hot on Doom's trail as the BBC & Titan Comics roll out their chapter in the upcoming Doctor Who 60th-anniversary event.

In Byline Times’ fourth anniversary print edition editorial, Peter Jukes and Hardeep Matharu explore how and why the established media continue to have a monopoly over the damaging narratives shaping our politics and culture – more than a decade after the phone-hacking scandal Culture is Upstream of Politics…  Trump strategist, right-wing ideologue-come-media executive and Cambridge […]

Doctor Who Doom’s Day comic by Jody Houser and Roberta Ingranata from Titan tying into the multi-platform event, will see the return of Missyhttps://previewsworld.com/Catalog/MAY231155

1. Daily ice-water facials / communal wash basins and pitchers of frozen water

2. Detox breakfast bowls with activated charcoal / burnt porridge

3. Dry brushing / uniforms made of rough, itchy fabric

4. Rejuvenating scalp treatments / cropped hair

5. Intermittent fasting plans / malnutrition

6. Co-sleeping / single-bed-sharing with fitful children

7. Stress-relief tapping sticks made from locally sourced wood / a bundle of twigs used to inflict corporal punishment

8. A twenty-four-hour silent retreat led by experienced practitioners / being shunned by your peers for an entire day by order of your professors

9. Cold exposure therapy / relying on body heat because there are no lit fires or central heating

10. Conscious unraveling / trauma

Exclusive analysis by Byline Times uncovers the staggering amounts being paid by forces for public and employer liability claims

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Hikvision released one exculpatory line of a report by a former State Department official and war crimes prosecutor. The new tape tells the whole story.

The post Leaked Tape Reveals How Spy Camera Firm Used Ex-U.S. Official to Cover Up Uyghur Abuses appeared first on The Intercept.

The established media has been determined to stir up concerns that XR's big four-day action will disrupt the London Marathon, writes Stephen Colegrave

All science entails human judgment, and using statistical models doesn’t relieve us of that necessity. Working with misspecified models, the scientific value of statistics is actually zero — even though you’re making valid statistical inferences! Statistical models are no substitutes for doing real science. Or as a famous German philosopher famously wrote 150 years ago: […]