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The aesthetics of the @bsky.app UI is like an airy, scandi-chic café to X’s smelly, teenage-boy bedroom

“This has nothing to do with ethical coffee sourcing,”...It’s about profit maximization through a tax loophole.” CICTAR's Jason Ward quoted in a great new article in Republik on Starbuck's 'ethical sourcing' from investigative reporter Karin Wenger: cictar.org/news/republi...

What an episode of #24HoursInPoliceCustody this is going to make #Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c7...

Following the Four Corners and ABC reporting based on CICTAR's research cictar.org/news/abc/chi... it's good to see the Australian Government cracking down on 'unscrupulous early childhood education and care providers' www.facebook.com/story.php?st... And from our comrades at UWU:

"It's not like they're roasting coffee or researching the different types of beans or anything," Ward said. "There's nothing like that going on there." Business Insider covers CICTAR's latest research on the cosy relationship between Starbucks and Switzerland, here: cictar.org/news/busines...

Why is Starbucks using a programme it promotes to improve conditions for growers in the Global South to reduce its declared profits in the countries where it sells its drinks?

Our latest report finds that Starbucks seems to have used its ‘ethical sourcing’ programme for coffee beans to route $1.3bn of profits through Switzerland, likely substantially reducing its tax bill cictar.org/all-research...

Property speculators extract €2.5 bn annually from the French health and care system, finds the new report from CICTAR and @cfdt-sante-sociaux.bsky.social That's enough to pay for the salaries of over 82,000 nurses 🤯Read the findings at cictar.org/all-research...

A moving and sobering piece from @nesrinemalik.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Which section of a #Wikipedia article do you jump to first? If the answer is not “Controversies” or “Personal Life”, you’re lying.

The trailers inform me that Robbie Williams has made a biopic in which he is portrayed by a CGI chimpanzee. This is why I don’t come to the cinema more

i ❤️ brutalism

Can’t help but feel that the 1918 election would have been less dramatic if done under STV… #ge24

There needs to be a word for the frustration of knowing the right word in another language but not being able to think of the equivalent in your native tongue (Me pasó ayer con “vigente”…) #langsky

I get the political calculation here. I'm just gonna point out that the predominance of research into European parties' efforts to outflank the far right like this has found that they merely legitimised the far right's political framing and led voters to opt for the "full fat" version.

Thyme is always an adequate substitute for rosemary, but never the other way around. Discuss.

We need occupational licensing for using the word ‘neoliberal’ immediately

Is there a word, in any language, for that sinking disappointment when you want to recommend a particular book to a specific person only to find out it hasn’t been translated into a language they speak? Saudade literária? Übersetzunglosschmerz? Chagrin du traducteur? #langsky

Mood lifts in Labour HQ, as party leadership fully detaches itself from objective reality.

Rent controls now. (Starting as we mean to go on).

Or placed on a women’s ward in an NHS hospital…

Hostile environment, Windrush, botched EU settlement were not an experiment in open borders, Keir Starmer. £88,500 in the bank to move to the UK is not open borders. £10k+ me and my husband have to find for the privilege of living in the same country isn’t open borders. More nonsense on #migration

Big news from Australia - with a win for CICTAR and our union and civil society allies. A win with truly global implications! cictar.org/news/world-l...