Alison Tonï 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇨🇱🇪🇺 🩼🪡🧶

The right answer doesn’t fit!

Inside the cutthroat competition for the best baguette in Paris The Grand Prix de la Baguette de Tradition Française, Paris’s most revered bread competition, saw dozens of bakers competing for the title of best baguette.

I feel like #Chile should do this with #Marraquetas

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I’ve had an idea.
What if we doubled up all Parliamentary constituencies, combining the neighbouring ones, and each party had to put up a male and a female candidate duo.
We would still have the same number of legislators but we would have a gender balance.

Imagination Index | Discover Your Imagery Profile Measure mental imagery across six senses and uncover how imagination shapes your life, work, and creativity.

Woah this is weird. I’ve always thought I could see things with my mind’s eye. But I don’t, I’m not seeing or visualising, I describe things to myself with words. Not the same thing at all. imaginationindex.co/assessment?s...

Well now I know where my @washingtonpost.com subscription money is headed. Hello @scotnational.bsky.social

A screen from the Alexa app that says “ you’ve reached the end of Alexis’s knowledge just kidding this skill no longer exists. Click here to go back“

Is this for real? Alexa won’t play Apple Music?

Kristen Kroll (@kristenkroll) So. Turns out some absolute internet hero did what the FBI apparently couldn’t be bothered to do properly. They took all the released Epstein emails and turned them into a fully searchable Gmail-styl...

I’m not going to look, but i know there are people with the investigative and journalism skills who can use this for good.
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My knitting basket has been appropriated.

Who was the one rocket buyer? I’d like to have a word

A screenshot from the Graham Linehan Facebook page, dated January 26, 2017. "Here's something to watch for: sub-par entertainers/hacks etc smelling that sweet right wing sucker money and making their move."

Nine years to the day since Graham Linehan foresaw his own fate.

Let’s keep it like this please.

Worth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power

This is such a bizarre photo.

The thread about “why did Edinburgh become the home of Hogmanay” (and why it never did) In a news article the other day, the BBC’s Edinburgh and East Reporter sought to answer the age old question of “Why did Edinburgh become the home of Hogmanay?” without really get…

The thread about "why did Edinburgh become the home of Hogmanay" (and why it never did) threadinburgh.scot/2025/12/31/t...

It’s like @vanityfair.com has given permission for everyone to use non-retouched, non-flattering photos now. Long may it continue.

The cable, sent to all U.S. missions on December 2, orders U.S. consular officers to review resumes or LinkedIn profiles of H-1B applicants - and family members who would be traveling with them - to see if they have worked in areas that include activities such as misinformation, disinformation, content moderation, fact-checking, compliance and online safety, among others.

Holy shit.

Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.

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Phew!

That’s my usual vote.

Does it count as #Whamageddon when it’s a wee girl singing it on the bus?

MAGA: "Ha ha ha ha! New York City just elected a socialist. We are going to turn Zohran Mamdani into the face of the Democratic Party, a bogeyman, and a weight around the necks of all Democrats! Stupid play, suckers!"

TRUMP: "Mamdani is wonderful. He's going to make a great mayor."

MAGA: "What???"

Trans people could be barred from services based on appearance The new code of practice on access to single-sex services cannot gain legal force until it gets sign-off from ministers.

Trans people could be barred from services based on appearance www.bbc.com/news/article...

The EHRC seem to be concerned with neither equality nor human rights. Tens rights are human rights. And trans women are women. Which persecuted minority is next?

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#StillYes

How big a piece of shit would you have to be to buy the confiscated jewelry of asylum seekers at a government auction?

Contrary to Pam Duncan-Glancy’s claims Scottish colleges are TWICE as well staffed as those in England Professor John Robertson OBA From STV News yesterday: Scottish Labour has criticised the SNP of “robbing young people of opportunities” as college staffing levels fall to their lowest point since t…

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But it’s not inefficiency, rest is a tool. It should be built in to the system as essential.

Dammit. You told the administration. They might not have read the rule book.

Chief prosecutor reassures victims of sex abuse after Supreme Court judgment Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain KC said that sex abuse of women and children was 'the single greatest challenge our justice system faces'.

Once again, Scotland takes a step in the right direction, and the UK shoots it down.

‘the UK’s highest court ruled the approach taken by courts in Scotland, by restricting questions on a victim’s history, “risks depriving a defendant of their right to a fair trial”.’
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