The Heartland Institute – one of the organisations involved in the radical Project 2025 agenda for a second Donald Trump term – has been at the forefront of denying the scientific evidence for man-made climate change, and received at least $676,000 between 1998 and 2007 from U.S. oil major ExxonMobil.

Heartland is known “for its persistent questioning of climate science”, according to Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, and it has received tens of thousands in donations from foundations linked to the owners of Koch Industries – a fossil fuel behemoth and a leading sponsor of climate science denial.

A Union of Concerned Scientists report in 2007 alleged that nearly 40 percent of the total funds received by Heartland Institute from ExxonMobil since 1998 were designated for climate change projects.

They seem very intent on selling us oil until the world burns. Not really sure what their plan is after that though.

You do know you can go into another room and read a book if your mum wants to watch her dancing show?

Seems like a gap in the market. Lemmy.us?

But this trademark is clearly them establishing themselves as not-milk and plenty of vegan products term themselves like this (“No Steak Pie”) without issue, it’s only dairy products that this ridiculous standard applied to them.

I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter seem to have no bother. Perhaps it’s just Big Milk at work.

Well that’s shit.

Seems like a case for Holly Fairhead, Northern Detective, in The Case of the Unsavoury Savouries. The blockbuster sequel to Trouble at Treacle Mine.

Coming soon: What’s Up Me Duck? A thrilling tale of drug smuggling using waterfowl.

And you’d know all about profit.

I’d suggest they are taking the piss but that is part of their job.

They’d usually release the name when it goes to court, often when someone is charged. As they’ve only been arrested its’s a bit early.

The figures make Reddit the fastest-growing large social media platform in the UK and represent a growth of 47% on the same period in 2023. The leap took Reddit above LinkedIn and X into fifth place on the table of UK social media platforms, which is now topped by YouTube after it overtook Facebook, reaching more than 44 million adults.

Reddit, renowned for its devoted user base who refer to one another as Redditors, appears to have been boosted by updates to Google’s search engine this year.

Farhad Divecha, the managing director of the UK-based digital marketing agency AccuraCast, said: “Google’s latest algorithm update in the first half of 2024 gave Reddit a big boost in organic search traffic. I think that has probably contributed a lot.”

That’s intriguing. Google sign an agreement with Reddit to mine it’s content to feed to it’s AI, then boost it in search results, driving more people to it, increasing the amount of content that it can mine. Nothing sinister going on here.

Even if she kept the kids out, her partner can’t have missed it, even if the it’s a lie about leaving the drawer open. After all, a visitor heard the child from downstairs.

The court was told the mother concealed the baby’s presence from her siblings by hiding her in the drawer of her divan bed, and kept her secret from her partner, who often stayed at the house.

So no-one else in the house knew? That seems unlikely.

Probably Bandcamp.

OnlyFeds - new instance funding model: Admins gone wild. The feddit.uk one would be a bit like Calendar Girls meets Austin Powers.

There’s this:

Connor Jackson, co-founder of the charity Open Cages, said: “We are in touch with companies that can supply KFC with the slower-growing chickens it needs to fulfil its commitment. The fact that KFC has made less than 1% progress on removing Frankenchickens from its supply chain is very concerning.”

Since 2019, Natural England has told 74 local planning authorities with polluted rivers that they may not grant permission for new homes unless they were “nutrient neutral.” The Home Builders Federation estimates that the policy blocked the building of more than 160,000 properties.

That’s pretty outrageous.

Ya spanner!

Happens a lot in Liverpool. You are also allowed to say “go 'ed lad, giz a header!” and they are obliged by tradition to punt it to you but you’d better be sure you can nod it in or they’ll follow down the street calling you all sorts.

40% think they are overweight or obese, 64% actually are.

When asked about their own body image, four in 10 told the survey they think they are overweight or obese.

Government stats from January 12th, 2023:

26% of adults in England are obese and a further 38% are overweight. This briefing covers statistics on obesity among adults and children in the UK