PuddyPad #FBPE @puddypad.bsky.social · 16/02/2025www.dw.com/en/turkey-is...dw.comTurkey is making fake honey on an alarming scale – DW – 02/16/2025Turkey is one of the biggest honey producers in the world. Increasingly, though, honey is being adulterated with sugar syrup or other ingredients — and the fake honey is almost certainly being sold in... 010
Reposted by PuddyPad #FBPElisabelle123.bsky.social @lisabelle123.bsky.social · 15/02/2025"Elon Musk Wants What He Can’t Have: Wikipedia "Musk and other right-wing tech figures have been on a campaign to delegitimize the digital encyclopedia. What happens if they succeed?" (gift article) www.theatlantic.com/technology/arch… 011
Reposted by PuddyPad #FBPEBrent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 12/02/2025If you think Amsterdam managed to avoid being overrun by cars, you’re wrong. They too surrendered their streets to cars for many decades. But the people fought back, and forced leaders to see their mistake. There's nothing magical about #Amsterdam. They just saw their mistake, and changed it. 20673178
Reposted by PuddyPad #FBPEDr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Shortened from the article: Wikimedia Foundation is building new tools that will help Wikipedia editors stay anonymous to avoid harassment & legal threats by Musk & Heritage Foundation. Some of the tactics have been pioneered by Wikimedia in countries where editing Wikipedia is illegal or dangerous. 5596247
Reposted by PuddyPad #FBPEjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/02/2025the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president 53019721821158
Reposted by PuddyPad #FBPEMike Masnick @masnick.com · 22/01/2025I'm even confused what the complaint from Elon is here. That writeup is accurate and unbiased. It is *simply true* that "the gesture was compared to a Nazi salute." The writeup isn't even taking a side. It's pointing out that people did compare it to such a salute. It also includes his denial. 1312289280
Reposted by PuddyPad #FBPEPeter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 20/01/2025One of France's most prominent newspapers, Le Monde, is abandoning Elon Musk's X “The alliance between Donald Trump & social media platform bosses such as Elon Musk & Mark Zuckerberg represents a global threat to free access to reliable information” www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...lemonde.frFighting for facts in the era of Trump and MuskEDITORIAL. The alliance between Donald Trump and social media platform bosses such as Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg represents a global threat to free access to reliable information. Le Monde has ther... 502536611
Reposted by PuddyPad #FBPERebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 20/01/2025this is what is happening all I ask is that when you mention the oligarchs, please also mention that they own the communications platforms 251812453
Reposted by PuddyPad #FBPELewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 20/01/2025NEW: Trump says Jan 6th insurrectionists will be pardoned and released tonight. He keeps referring to them as "hostages"- while in the same room as the families of actual October 7th hostages. 1225355
Reposted by PuddyPad #FBPECas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 19/01/2025Excellent NYT interview with the outgoing U.S. ambassador to Hungary. This is a key insight! 4938341576
Reposted by PuddyPad #FBPEMartin Lewis @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com · 20/01/2025Blue Monday is a piece of crap pseudo science originally part of a travel company's press release to sell holidays. Can we all try to avoid rewarding marketeers, using this term, which tries to sell goods by parasiting on the back of real mental health campaigns. 681858444
Reposted by PuddyPad #FBPESimon Wren-Lewis @sjwrenlewis.bsky.social · 20/01/2025New post: Mediamacro melodrama mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/01/medi... Just a week ago the UK media was speculating that Reeves was about to be sacked and who might replace her, all because of largely global movements in interest rates. How and why did the media get things so wrong?mainlymacro.blogspot.comMediamacro melodramaThe UK macroeconomy was one of the big stories of the previous two weeks, so you might think this blog post should have covered it earlier... 85727
Reposted by PuddyPad #FBPESomersetWhovian 💙 🇺🇦 @clairecopperman.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Good morning Bluesky. Today would have been Janey Godley's birthday. In tribute to her, let's make #TrumpIsACunt trend. 8353137
Reposted by PuddyPad #FBPEMorag Martin @momartin.bsky.social · 19/01/2025Just so I don’t forget tomorrow, happy Janey Godley Day 011945
Reposted by PuddyPad #FBPEKeith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · 19/01/2025It was just as cold for Obama's inauguration in 2009, fyi. 1017344845846
Reposted by PuddyPad #FBPECornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.wsocial.eu · 17/01/2025#Brexit “the Petri dish for Trump” “#Brexit hasn't brought any tangible benefit and there is no future prospect of any, the UK has changed its mind and that this should be recognised.” petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...petition.parliament.ukPetition: Apply for the UK to join the European Union as a full member as soon as possibleI believe joining the EU would boost the economy, increase global influence, improve collaboration and provide stability & freedom. I believe that Brexit hasn't brought any tangible benefit and there ... 13518
Reposted by PuddyPad #FBPELewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 16/01/2025The (unloved) Brexit consensus across the Westminster parties is wobbling. Why Ed Davey's speech calling for a UK/EU customs union is a big moment. Me on Substack open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...open.substack.comThe Brexit consensus is wobblingEd Davey makes an interesting move (no, stay with me here) 521343321
PuddyPad #FBPE @puddypad.bsky.social · 16/01/2025samharris.substack.com/p/the-troubl...samharris.substack.comThe Trouble with ElonI didn’t set out to become an enemy of the world’s richest man, but I seem to have managed it all the same. 032
Reposted by PuddyPad #FBPEGay Bitterskeets @gaybitterskeets.bsky.social · 16/01/2025The media didn't care to do its job here; it's part of the ongoing fox newsification of Canadian media. But that aside, the bigger reason that PP is able to get away with blaming inflation on crime and the carbon tax is that the libs didn't care to hold corporations to account for greedflation. 24811
Reposted by PuddyPad #FBPEDr Katie Pruszynski @katiepruszynski.bsky.social · 14/01/2025This sort of absolute BS needs repeatedly calling out. These people are not serious about the truth, governance or the public good. They're not holding anyone's feet to the fire. This isn't hard-nosed accountability in action. It's an embarrassment of hyper partisan banana skins. 35514
Reposted by PuddyPad #FBPERory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 10/01/2025#sophiefromromania says be careful out there - that was our iciest walk ever 21167334
Reposted by PuddyPad #FBPETorsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Absolute garbage of a headline - what just happened is that a bill to protect vulnerable young people was voted through www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukTory bid to force national grooming gangs inquiry voted down by MPsMPs rejected a Tory amendment calling for a grooming gang's inquiry by 253 votes. 1212563729
Reposted by PuddyPad #FBPESusie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 10/01/2025Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']: Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind. 427133362923
Reposted by PuddyPad #FBPEmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 04/01/2025Trump has surrounded himself with Federalist Society freaks and literally the richest people in the country and still gets granted the "tear down the establishment" framing that's key to duping working class people 13528118
Reposted by PuddyPad #FBPEOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Some on the British right are all jostling to get retweeted by Elon Musk - to the point where nothing else matters. It's as dignified as a naked mud slide at a vodka promotion... but then Mackenzie didn't have much in the first place 119931167
Reposted by PuddyPad #FBPERory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Still looking for an organisation to help us do something which should be simple – show an inspiring video about Parkinson’s to a live audience without charging us £4000 youtube.com/playlist?lis...youtube.comYouTubeShare your videos with friends, family, and the world 1216177
Reposted by PuddyPad #FBPEHardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · 09/01/2025A useful article by the BBC on Elon Musk and his interventions on child sexual abuse. Produced by the Verify, rather than the news arm, and currently situated fairly low down on the BBC News site... A report like this should be given prominence, considering how Musk's claims led the UK's news agendabbc.co.ukHow Elon Musk seized on baseless memo claim to create wave of misinformationThe X owner shared false claims that a Home Office memo urged police not to intervene in child grooming cases. 19543323
Reposted by PuddyPad #FBPEIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 07/01/2025This is an astonishingly ill-informed and amoral assessment for the political editor of the BBC to have reached, about someone spreading extremist conspiracy theories and using them to whip up hatred against elected politicians. I'd say I'm surprised, but sadly I'm not. 1622775817
Reposted by PuddyPad #FBPEMike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 06/01/2025Greenland/Denmark, Canada, UK and EU are all under threat from the new US administration. It really is that simple - and Europeans need to wake up to this reality quickly. 461625426
Reposted by PuddyPad #FBPEPeter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 06/01/2025Absolutely this from Ed Davey 👏 21576432127
Reposted by PuddyPad #FBPEPaul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 06/01/2025Is NYC's congestion fee a regressive tax? No. Driving into Manhattan is expensive even w/o the fee, so very few low-wage workers do it. Plus the money will be used to improve the transit systems they *do* use paulkrugman.substack.com/p/lessons-fr...paulkrugman.substack.comLessons From New York’s Congestion Fight“Car brain” is part of a broader syndrome, which we can’t ignore 40798122
Reposted by PuddyPad #FBPEAllan Paterson #FBPE FB99% #UBI #YNWA 🐟 @allangpaterson.bsky.social · 05/01/2025Should be done to those standing to be an MP in the first place 🤔 news.sky.com/story/parlia...news.sky.comParliament urged to begin mandatory DBS criminal record checks on new MPs and peersMany local authorities already run DBS checks on elected officials but it's not standard practice in parliament. 2112741
Reposted by PuddyPad #FBPEPippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social · 05/01/2025Life comes at you fast 1892971420
Reposted by PuddyPad #FBPEblasphemisla @wekillinit.com · 04/01/2025It’s a lot of good questions 22717
PuddyPad #FBPE @puddypad.bsky.social · 05/01/2025slate.com/business/202...slate.comHow Paris Pulled Off What New York and London Can Only Dream AboutOne parking structure pivoted to growing mushrooms and endives. 010
Reposted by PuddyPad #FBPEIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 04/01/2025I worry about this quite a bit. 54703116
Reposted by PuddyPad #FBPECarlton Reid @carltonreid.com · 03/01/2025For me, the penny dropped a few years back when Musk’s wilful ignorance become impossible to ignore. Viz: www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...forbes.comElon Musk Dismisses Induced Demand, A Phenomenon First Witnessed In 1866Elon Musk has once again used Twitter to air a controversial opinion, this time dismissing the well-understood urban theory of induced demand. 4184
Reposted by PuddyPad #FBPEGabrielius Landsbergis @glandsbergis.bsky.social · 31/12/2024"Hybrid attacks" look like war, but we act like they are not even attacks. news.sky.com/story/russia...news.sky.comRussia's 'hybrid attacks' against NATO 'look like war' and allies must draw 'red lines'Russia is accused of a campaign of so-called hybrid attacks which are designed to sit in a grey zone under the threshold of conventional war - something Moscow denies. 23582175
Reposted by PuddyPad #FBPEOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/01/2025Amazing how many Brexiters who wanted to take back control from unelected bureaucrats and foreign billionaires - are suddenly totally in thrall to an unelected billionaire, huh 261248261
Reposted by PuddyPad #FBPEMayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 03/01/2025As the capital braces for snow and freezing temperatures this weekend, it's crucial to stay safe and look out for one another. Plan your journeys carefully, check for weather updates, and where appropriate support vulnerable neighbours.standard.co.ukSnow and cold weather warnings for London as 'severe' amber alerts issuedSnow forecast for London on Saturday as health bosses warn of risks of freezing temperatures 29019
PuddyPad #FBPE @puddypad.bsky.social · 01/01/2025www.dw.com/en/germany-p...dw.comGermany: Police and doctors urge national fireworks ban – DW – 12/31/2024German police and medical associations have repeated calls for a nationwide ban on the private use of fireworks, citing their reckless and dangerous use around New Year celebrations. 000
Reposted by PuddyPad #FBPEThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/12/2024Netanyahu: "You can't be president of 🇺🇸 last time I checked right?" Elon Musk: "Not officially." Netanyahu: *laughs* — "OK, so you're the unofficial president..." 1552044853
Reposted by PuddyPad #FBPEMax B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 30/12/2024This just in. Wikipedia donations spreadsheet. I'm now giving them £5 (plus costs) every month. You could too. donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php 0115
Reposted by PuddyPad #FBPEKent Parkstreet @kentparkskeet.bsky.social · 30/12/2024Every time a corporation or a billionaire complains about red tape and regulation, remember that we had to write laws because they behaved so unethically, and we had to enforce those laws because they insisted on breaking them. #AusPol 14576201
Reposted by PuddyPad #FBPEAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 30/12/2024"Probe reveals hundreds logging in from abroad..." There are over a million council staff (900k FTE). Hundreds could be abroad at any point for all sorts of reasons - including work, study, compassionate grounds, etc. This is a ludicrous non-story designed to attack public servants. 105618101
PuddyPad #FBPE @puddypad.bsky.social · 30/12/2024Interesting www.cnu.org/publicsquare...cnu.orgExposing the pseudoscience of traffic engineeringWes Marshall’s new book, Killed by a Traffic Engineer, reveals the profession’s shaky, unscientific foundations—and points the way to safer, healthier streets. 000
PuddyPad #FBPE @puddypad.bsky.social · 30/12/2024Not just me then - was puzzled why there was a wall after the end of a runway. news.sky.com/story/south-...news.sky.comSouth Korea: Expert says concrete wall plane crashed into is 'verging on criminal'There were just two survivors, while 179 people were killed in the country's worst aviation disaster. 010
Reposted by PuddyPad #FBPERoland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 27/12/2024In case you missed it, a Telegraph columnist is calling for the UK to join a federal superstate with a single currency and free movement of people. 1912261617
