me (in a supermarket’s vegan section, picking up a burger called a vegan burger with a big vegan logo on the packaging and a manifesto about the producer’s mission to provide cruelty free sustainable vegan alternatives to meat products): mmmm I can’t wait to cook and eat this tasty meat burger
Ban on veggie ‘burgers’: plant-based products may lose meaty names in UK under EU law
Ban on veggie ‘burgers’: plant-based products may lose meaty names in UK under EU law
Exclusive: Trade agreement means UK is subject to some food labelling rules, with vote on vegetarian food terms this week
Calling plant-based food veggie “burgers” or “sausages” may be banned in the UK under the new trade agreement with the EU, the Guardian understands.
The Labour government secured a new sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) agreement with the EU earlier this year, which allows British businesses to sell products including some burgers and sausages in the EU for the first time since Brexit. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:26 PM
me (in a supermarket’s vegan section, picking up a burger called a vegan burger with a big vegan logo on the packaging and a manifesto about the producer’s mission to provide cruelty free sustainable vegan alternatives to meat products): mmmm I can’t wait to cook and eat this tasty meat burger
Alright, I will begrudgingly admit it was gratifying to see the hated paracetamol taken down a peg or two, even if the autism stuff was bullshit, but this is a step too far.
JD Vance calls ibuprofen "useless medication" and implies it's not "necessary, safe and effective."
November 12, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Alright, I will begrudgingly admit it was gratifying to see the hated paracetamol taken down a peg or two, even if the autism stuff was bullshit, but this is a step too far.
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lol
November 6, 2025 at 4:47 AM
lol
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Wes Streeting you take this man’s name out of your goddamn mouth
Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.
November 5, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Wes Streeting you take this man’s name out of your goddamn mouth
I’m not a secret Nazi, I’m nothing you’ve heard: I’m you! m.youtube.com/watch?v=tGGA...
October 21, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I’m not a secret Nazi, I’m nothing you’ve heard: I’m you! m.youtube.com/watch?v=tGGA...
NOK is retired psychiatrist
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.
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"The chancellor approved it"
October 14, 2025 at 4:13 PM
NOK is retired psychiatrist
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alan moore hated people like thiel misinterpreting his work so profoundly that he dropped out of public life to become a shaman and worship a snake deity
October 12, 2025 at 1:57 PM
alan moore hated people like thiel misinterpreting his work so profoundly that he dropped out of public life to become a shaman and worship a snake deity
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Old Man's Son Also Old Man
October 1, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Old Man's Son Also Old Man
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I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".
hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.
September 30, 2025 at 3:06 AM
I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".
Hmm, Starmer tricked me in the past, but maybe he really has worked hard and earned a genuine wallet inspector’s license this time…
Starmer condemns Reform's plans to deport people who've been here legally, living and working in our communities.
Quite right, and about time.
But that also means changing course on the government's *own* plans .
ukandeu.ac.uk/immigration_...
Quite right, and about time.
But that also means changing course on the government's *own* plans .
ukandeu.ac.uk/immigration_...
Immigration is down, should the government be happy? - UK in a changing Europe
Jonathan Portes analyses the latest ONS immigration statistics. He argues that net migration has dropped significantly, but that this will expose the...
ukandeu.ac.uk
September 28, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Hmm, Starmer tricked me in the past, but maybe he really has worked hard and earned a genuine wallet inspector’s license this time…
The American mind can’t comprehend the possibility of simply existing as one great power amongst many in the international community of a multipolar world
September 24, 2025 at 2:20 PM
The American mind can’t comprehend the possibility of simply existing as one great power amongst many in the international community of a multipolar world
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CHOTINER: This game you like to play, what's it called?
ME: Slay the Spire.
CHOTINER: And you play it on the computer?
ME: Yeah. Well, I also have it on my phone. I played another 300 hours.
CHOTINER: And these other games in your Steam library. Have you finished them?
ME: Now hold on a second,
ME: Slay the Spire.
CHOTINER: And you play it on the computer?
ME: Yeah. Well, I also have it on my phone. I played another 300 hours.
CHOTINER: And these other games in your Steam library. Have you finished them?
ME: Now hold on a second,
September 23, 2025 at 7:21 PM
CHOTINER: This game you like to play, what's it called?
ME: Slay the Spire.
CHOTINER: And you play it on the computer?
ME: Yeah. Well, I also have it on my phone. I played another 300 hours.
CHOTINER: And these other games in your Steam library. Have you finished them?
ME: Now hold on a second,
ME: Slay the Spire.
CHOTINER: And you play it on the computer?
ME: Yeah. Well, I also have it on my phone. I played another 300 hours.
CHOTINER: And these other games in your Steam library. Have you finished them?
ME: Now hold on a second,
What the hell do these idiots think the Open Society and Gates foundations are lmao
September 10, 2025 at 9:21 PM
What the hell do these idiots think the Open Society and Gates foundations are lmao
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Starmer: Peter has my full confidence and, further, has given me his assurances that he only continued his association with Mr Epstein due to Mr Epstein's possession of the new 'Wii' console, along with Mr Epstein's mother's tendency to order Domino's for Peter and Jeffrey on Two-for-Tuesday.
September 10, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Starmer: Peter has my full confidence and, further, has given me his assurances that he only continued his association with Mr Epstein due to Mr Epstein's possession of the new 'Wii' console, along with Mr Epstein's mother's tendency to order Domino's for Peter and Jeffrey on Two-for-Tuesday.
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Sci-fi fans get annoyed when a lit-fic author tries their hand at sci-fi with another "What if there was a robot?" book.
But if a sci-fi author wrote about their divorce no one would mind.
Double standards
But if a sci-fi author wrote about their divorce no one would mind.
Double standards
August 11, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Sci-fi fans get annoyed when a lit-fic author tries their hand at sci-fi with another "What if there was a robot?" book.
But if a sci-fi author wrote about their divorce no one would mind.
Double standards
But if a sci-fi author wrote about their divorce no one would mind.
Double standards
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New Fukuyama lore
August 19, 2025 at 7:49 PM
New Fukuyama lore
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You don't look so good. Well done.
August 11, 2025 at 6:30 PM
You don't look so good. Well done.
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My life’s work of defending Israel and equivocating about its crimes is starting to feel a bit embarrassing so I’ll be spending more time watching the cricket.
August 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
My life’s work of defending Israel and equivocating about its crimes is starting to feel a bit embarrassing so I’ll be spending more time watching the cricket.
He never watched the breakfast club 😔
August 6, 2025 at 3:34 PM
He never watched the breakfast club 😔
Without meaning to engage in myopic 00s style antitheism, or demean the value of religion in some people’s lives: NHS chaplains at “entry level” being on the same banding as a staff nurse is absolutely insane lmao
August 5, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Without meaning to engage in myopic 00s style antitheism, or demean the value of religion in some people’s lives: NHS chaplains at “entry level” being on the same banding as a staff nurse is absolutely insane lmao