Fatal longing for the picturesque

1. FCC To Investigate TV Shows Where The Mom Has Job

(tags:tv politics satire usa fascism patriarchy )

2. How Spain Avoided the Global Populist Backlash

(tags:inequality spain politics )

3. Opinion: It's only funny when the joke is about things I don't like

(tags:humour funny )

4. Cheap, Fast DNA Synthesis

(tags:genetics )

5. What happens if Japan takes in zero immigrants?

(tags:migration japan doom society )

6. Queen bees emerge from special wax chambers

(tags:bees )

1. Good to see the Lib Dems on the right side of the EHRC Transgender Awfulness

(tags:bigotry libdem uk politics transgender lgbt )

2. Please stop calling them the 'Farage Riots', demands man behind the Farage Riots

(tags:riots satire UK politics )

3. Phone signal on UK trains not good enough most of the time

(tags:UK phones trains fail )

4. Putin's war on UK streets: The criminal networks sowing mayhem for Russia

(tags:Russia UK sabotage )

5. U.S. to Dismantle System Tracking Atlantic Currents That Are at Risk of Collapse

(tags:usa globalwarming ocean OhForFucksSake research )

1. Pigeons literally rely on gut feeling for their homing ability

(tags:magnets birds )

2. Lifelike biochemistry continued to unfold in sterilized soil for six years, pointing to a metabolic theory for how biology began.

(tags:biology chemistry earth nature metabolism )

Intermittently I would like to bring forward a single instance of a regular payment.

Normally transfer money from A to B on the 17th, but this month you want to do it 2 days early? Tough, you have to make the early payment, wait for the later payment to go through, and then get it transferred back.

Children are having a very loud conversation with each other on the bus about where babies come from.

I'm hiding three rows back.

1. EU fines Temu €200m over sale of illegal products

(tags:europe china trade regulation safety )

2. US healthcare still stupidly expensive, with pathetic outcomes

(tags:usa healthcare epicfail )

1. UK Medical Academies respond to the government consultation on Growing Up In An Online World

(tags:children internet health safety )

2. The Great Depopulation - how drastic is our population decline going to be?

(tags:population thefuture )

3. Starmer bans Labour councillors from doing deals with Green Party, happy to work with Tories

(tags:Labour GreenParty politics UK OhForFucksSake )

4. Ukrainian intelligence tricked Russian troops who wanted to activate Starlink terminals, got cash and precise locations out of them.

(tags:Ukraine Russia fraud intelligence war communications )

5. The Strange Melancholy of Slaying Monsters

(tags:games morality art violence )

6. Green sector is 5% of Scotland's GDP

(tags:scotland economics renewables )

7. Six search engines worth trying now that Google isn't really Google anymore (I use Kagi and it's great)

(tags:search web recommendation )

8. Owner's relief as escaped tortoise found yards away

(tags:tortoise pets headline )

1. I would also report this to the flight attendant. There are times when it pays to be security conscious. (It is funny to me though)

(tags:airplanes security wifi viaPatrickHadfield funny )

1. Labour continue to try and cherry pick an EU deal, with as much success as you'd expect

(tags:UK Europe Labour )

2. What effect will global warming have on the UK? (figure 2 is terrifying)

(tags:globalwarming UK doom )

3. Why Do Our Fingers Get Wrinkly In Water? An Evolutionary Biologist Explains

(tags:water bodies evolution viaPatrickHadfield )