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[Ross @RossWBright]

Better than all the billions of £££’s spent by supermarkets and big brands, the little things really do matter! Happy Christmas! 🎄

[Greg Murphy 🤓 @TheGregMurphy]

This Christmas ad for a pub in Enniskillen is better than anything John Lewis has ever put out

[Cary Cooper @ProfCaryCooper]

Good metaphor for managing your stress

[Adam Vaughan @adamvaughan_uk]

Gotta love the presentation choices made on some of the water firms' new sewage spill maps.

Yorkshire Water's is a marvel. On the zoomed-out default view, things look basically fine, a sea of green ticks.

Zoom in and you see the green ticks are just hiding recent spills!

[Sumanth @Sumanth_077]

How LLMs work, clearly explained with visuals:

[Ross @RossWBright]

#UkraineRussianWar

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

WOW.

History Dr. Timothy Snyder just completely debunked and embarrassed Marjorie Taylor Greene after she kept pushing the narrative of Nazis in Ukraine.

“On the question of Nazis, I’ve written two books as a historian about Nazis and the holocaust. On the question of Ukrainian nationalism, I am the leading scholar of that subject in North America. I’ve been writing about it for 20 years.

"If the chamber is interested in the degree of far right participation in Ukrainian politics, you can be assured that no far right party has every surpassed 3% in a Ukrainian election. So of course there are bad people in any country but by any comparative standard, it’s a very small phenomenon.

"In Russia, on the other hand, the army includes openly Nazi formations… The government, itself, is fascist in character, and is carrying out a war that includes the deportation of children by the 10s of thousands, the open intention of destroying a state, as well as mass torture.

"So if we’re looking for fascism, and if there is anyone who is sincerely concerned about halting fascism or racism, you’d look to halt Russia."

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

This is mainly just another chart showing the strength of the dollar.

Here’s how it changes once you adjust for purchasing power.

Left is why now is a great time for Americans to go on foreign holidays, and right compares what someone in each country can buy with their wages.

[Ross @RossWBright]

Where can I buy this!?

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Planting seeds with precision
https://t.co/DuBQZEFSrU

[NOAA Climate.gov @NOAAClimate]

The amount of CO2 in the atmosphere today is comparable to around 4.3 million years ago, when sea level was about 75 ft higher than today, the average temp was 7 degrees F higher than in pre-industrial times, & large forests occupied areas of the Arctic that are now tundra.

[Ross @RossWBright]

Show me resilience.

[Ross @RossWBright]

Whether it is what people want or not, social media has moulded the media landscape around getting attention instead of reporting quality information.

[Ellie Phillips 🎬 @ElliePhillipsUK]

It’s a very strange time to work in media…

Radio stations are signing reality stars over broadcasters/DJs

Newspapers are hiring TikTokers rather than journalists

Presenting gigs are going to influencers instead of, well, ya know, presenters

Is that what audiences truly want?

[Sky News @SkyNews]

The government has written off £9.9bn of the £13.6bn it spent on personal protective equipment (PPE) in the pandemic due to the gear being unusable or having lost its value

Read more 🔗 https://t.co/6pOzOGYsYx

[Ulrich Speck @ulrichspeck]

Now imagine Russia had conquered Ukraine -- (from Politico)

[Ross @RossWBright]

Everything wrong with public transport summed up here!

[Ross @RossWBright]

#GDP 👏🏻

[Dave Vetter @davidrvetter]

👀 Watch Aotearoa New Zealand MP Chlöe Swarbrick deliver the most formidably cogent summary of the 20th century economic order - and how it ruined everything.

[Ross @RossWBright]

This a great snippet of a discussion on the belief of religion and science.

[The Ricky Gervais Clips @gervaisclips]

If only everybody was able to have debates with each other like this.

[Ross @RossWBright]

Making our lived environment more fun benefits us all!

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

Would you take the stairs? 😊 https://t.co/6S981SE75s

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Your coastal sewage dumping map for Monday, 11th Dec 2023 brought to you courtesy of the water industry, @ofwat and @EnvAgency

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

1 in 5 (!!!) young americans thinks the holocaust is a myth

tiktok, twitter surely helping

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

NEW: Does the American Dream foster inequality?

Let’s start with a shocking stat:

These two things are simultaneously true:
• The richest Americans are the richest in the world
• Food poverty is more severe in America than in any other developed country

[Tom Clark @prospect_clark]

Devastating @UNICEF league table on changes in child poverty over 7+ years up to 2021: UK in the bottom spot

Report: https://t.co/cbMIKYpSZ4

[Ross @RossWBright]

Humanity has peaked!

[Funk Butcher @FunkButcher]

FFS!! …..this person has won Xmas. 🎄

WOW!!