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I reckon this is fine. It's just summer, right? Look it up!

Microsoft are terrible but they've never offered this.

Today is Venn Day, in celebration of the mathematician John Venn, born on this day in 1834. To commemorate the occasion, here’s a poem in the form of a Venn Diagram.

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Certain posters are not beating the allegations that a certain type of British journalist is incapable of extending empathy to anyone other than the 50 or so colleagues they run into at dinner parties, a grace they extend to those 50 people but think minorities & the disadvantaged are unworthy of

On Sunday, South Korea saw 108.5° F (42.5° C), its highest temperature on record. The South Korean weather agency urged people to “immediately stop all outdoor activities,” warning that even “indoor spaces without air conditioning are dangerous.” e360.yale.edu/digest/el-ni...

In an Already Broiling Summer, El Niño Is About to Turn Up the Heate360.yale.edu

Brooker on Littlejohn

If I had very strong views on one subject, I would not post a glowing tribute to someone who shared my views on that one subject - no matter how important it was to me - if simultaneously it was very clear that they were an excruciatingly unpleasant individual in many other areas.

Related: guess where Thames Water pipes are laid and leaking drinkable water under this park in North Oxford!

Very disappointing from the new Prime Minister, very much sounding like the previous PM. These are among the world’s most vulnerable and desparate people. They need safe routes and humanity from responsible politicians, not grandstanding. This isn’t doing politics differently.

When someone is described as "often controversial, never boring" in 2026 it just means: full nazi but also part of the establishment.

Rod Liddle has died. He blazed a trail from international socialist in Labour to the xenophobic "left conservatism" of zombie Social Democratic Party. He wrote for the Guardian until 2003, then increasingly curled out his stale pale male opinions in RW press. He'll mostly be remembered as a nonce.

The worse the person was, the more potent the euphemism required.

Oh this is very cool. The veg yields *increased* under solar panels and/or used less water.

Your empathy is welcome and the kindest response. 29 homes lost in our village. The heartbreak and loss that causes, especially to the elderly is horrible. Souvenires, pictures, all gone.

After the cruel impact of changes to the skilled worker visa scheme, there’s another hostile action from the Home Office, this time directed at EU citizens granted right to remain after Brexit. These life shattering letters disrupt peoples’ lives built in the UK and are are utterly shameful.

Healey profiteering warning on food/uel risks row with retailers. Profiteering everywhere: Water, energy, oil, gas, rents, banks, airports, NHS drugs ... Private ownership of essentials leaves govt fewer economic levers. Regulators required to promote growth of their sectors, don't protect people

Healey’s profiteering warning on food and fuel risks row with retailersChancellor says the government wants to prevent shoppers being ‘taken for a ride’ at the pump or tillwww.theguardian.com

Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s vile national security minister, arguing — having previously defended the fine and ancient cultural practice of arson — that spitting on Christians is just an old Jewish custom. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

I’ve always been very uncomfortable with how ready the consensus is that environmental protestors ought to be policed through spying. The main ‘dangers’ posed by these people aren’t actually real dangers for the most part, whereas the harm caused TO them is horrendous.