8 September 1886 | A Dutch Jew, Meijer Smeer, was born in Amsterdam. A musician, conductor. He arrived at #Auschwitz on 27 January 1944 in a transport of 948 Jews deported from #Westerbork. He was among 689 of them murdered in a gas chamber.

Maybe lighter chocolate boxes will make people realise so much of this is down to the climate crisis...those bad cocoa harvests didn't just happen. theguardian.com/business/2025/…

Oh someone bring out the smallest violin in the world for the scumgluencers...they got a free ride and now AI showed up to make them unnecessary. theverge.com/news/773567/vo…

The Times is a lost cause 🙄

So naive

Temu flags in Conwy

Another example how the US is accelerating backwards...with his mad tariffs they will never see affordable EVs from China and Europe especially as Renault and VW are finally getting their shit together theverge.com/news/773492/gm…

Of course Emily installed a phone with six ear horns to listen to an opera in 1881, but we need to know the rep 😉 dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wal…

You just never know what lies unexhibited in institutional collections bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Instead of working to replace a fossil fueled power station, we are offered the modern fig leaf that is "carbon capture" some people will get very rich by selling this largely pointless technology instead of spending it on renewable generation. nation.cymru/news/low-carbo…

Leni Riefenstahl is one of those sick brains that somehow I don't want to know more about. Her lack of contrition in her promotion of evil with the filth she produced is one of the low lights of the 20th century. theartnewspaper.com/2025/09/08/len…

We've reached such an insidious moment of flag shagging that even light brown sugar carries this meaningless badge. Feels like a joke @LidlGB I'd rather know which Caribbean country produced the sugar not who bagged it 🤣

Sometimes reality is more surreal than AI slop 🤣 incredible this is a real cover.

When will people stop giving their money to shit companies like Shein? retailgazette.co.uk/blog/2025/09/s…

Nice to see Countryside Alliance lobbying didn't work. This idiotic Victorian practice has lasted too long. Well done the government. theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/s…

A long overdue reaction by the NG, they have to do something about the very many dull religious works that have so little attraction to younger audiences. But they will discover quickly how unaffordable collecting 20C works is theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…

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