Claudine Gay’s ousting reveals that the messenger is still an easier target than the message | Kenan Malik (www.theguardian.com)
Flowers become incels due to climate change. (www.theguardian.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/10458716...
YouTube’s video games are almost impossible to find – but once you do, you’ll wish you never looked | Dominik Diamond (www.theguardian.com)
I assumed I would boot up the app and there would be a big red button saying GAMES … but no. I have to sign up to PREMIUM. Then find the YOUR PREMIUM BENEFITS section. Then find EXPERIMENTAL FEATURES and select TRY EXPERIMENTAL FEATURES. Then find the TRY GAMES ON YOUTUBE part therein and tap on TRY IT OUT.
African elephant populations stabilise in southern heartlands (www.theguardian.com)
Carrefour pulls PepsiCo products in four EU countries over price hikes (www.theguardian.com)
For context, Carrefour is one of Europe’s largest retailers. And French; they take no shit
Nintendo’s design guru Shigeru Miyamoto: ‘I wanted to make something weird’ (www.theguardian.com)
Value of X has fallen 71% since purchase by Musk and name change from Twitter (www.theguardian.com)
Nintendo’s design guru Shigeru Miyamoto: ‘I wanted to make something weird’ (www.theguardian.com)
Brexit has completely failed for UK, say clear majority of Britons – poll (www.theguardian.com)
Only one in 10 feel leaving the EU has helped their finances, while just 9% say it has benefited the NHS, despite £350m a week pledge according to new poll...
Spotify made £56m profit, but has decided not to pay smaller artists like me. We need you to make some noise | Damon Krukowski (www.theguardian.com)
Meta censors pro-Palestinian views on a global scale, report claims (www.theguardian.com)
Iceland’s ‘bike whisperer’: the vigilante who finds stolen bicycles – and helps thieves change (www.theguardian.com)
Many prehistoric handprints show a finger missing. What if this was not accidental? (www.theguardian.com)
scientists led by archaeologist Prof Mark Collard of Simon Fraser University in Vancouver say the truth may be far more gruesome. “There is compelling evidence that these people may have had their fingers amputated deliberately in rituals intended to elicit help from supernatural entities,” said Collard.
Britain to send patrol ship to Guyana amid Venezuela border dispute (www.theguardian.com)
Revealed: how US residents are funding illegal settlements in the West Bank (www.theguardian.com)
How inflation stole Christmas across Europe (www.theguardian.com)
Wind turbines generate more than half of UK’s electricity due to Storm Pia (www.theguardian.com)
‘Busiest Christmas I have seen’: families turn to food banks in Australia’s cost-of-living crisis (www.theguardian.com)
British teenager behind GTA 6 hack receives indefinite hospital order (www.theguardian.com)
French city of Montpellier makes public transport free for all residents (www.theguardian.com)
Cross posted from: lemmy.nz/post/4701018
The curious case of Epic Games: how the developer beat Google but not Apple (www.theguardian.com)
Award ceremony suspended after writer compares Gaza to Nazi-era Jewish ghettos (www.theguardian.com)
A German foundation has said it will no longer be awarding a prize for political thinking to a leading Russian-American journalist after criticizing as “unacceptable” a recent essay by the writer in which they made a comparison between Gaza and a Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Europe.
‘The sprites clearly do not look like actual lemmings’: the inside story of an iconic video game (www.theguardian.com)
Paris mayor plans to triple SUV parking tariffs to cut air pollution (www.theguardian.com)
‘Substantial volume’ of clothing tied to Uyghur forced labour entering EU, says study (www.theguardian.com)
