✪ LinkedIn Joins The Parade Of Cowards: Quietly Strips Anti-Trans Protections To Appease MAGA Mob www.techdirt.com/2025/08/0…

✪ The cult of the ‘Spoons’: Inside the spartan, cavernous pubs that divide Britain www.cnn.com/travel/we…

Wetherspoon pubs are an institution in the UK. They enjoy cult-like status both among admirers, lured in by real ale and “pub grub” sold at astoundingly low prices, and detractors, who see them as emblematic of everything that’s wrong with modern Britain.

More than 800 Wetherspoon chain pubs freckle the country – from The Muckle Cross in Scotland to The Tremenheere in Cornwall. In just a few decades, “Spoons” have become so ingrained into British daily life that they probably now deserve to be up there with Stonehenge on the list of UK cultural institutions.

✪ Our crisis is not loneliness but human beings becoming invisible. Too many people feel that nobody sees them as a fellow human being. aeon.co/essays/ou…

✪ A History of Crisps. Or, as we say here, potato chips. deserter.co.uk/2022/05/a…

✪ British pubs have their own set of rules. Here’s what you need to know www.cnn.com/travel/br…

✪ “What few realize is that the KKK of that decade was not like the 1870s terrorist group, it was actually a pyramid scheme based on selling robes, membership fees, and life insurance to racists. It had a PR agency. It was big business. And it fell apart in 1925 when the key leader, the “Grand Dragon” of Indiana fell in a sexual assault scandal.”
— www.tumblr.com/jimstares…

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John H. Johnson, publisher of Jet and Ebony magazines, confers with his assistant June Rhinehart via picturephone, 1970.

Buick Questor Concept, 1983

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