‘The beady-eyed, pokemon-like leaf sheep’ 🤷♂️
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 39m ago‘You’d want one as a pet’: the irresistibly cute solar-powered sea slug
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The Little Book of Second Mentions, out now https://amzn.to/43oYehw | secondmentions.com | secondmentions@gmail.com
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"BP’s chief executive has urged Andy Burnham to make use of the UK’s oil and gas resources even as the oil company prepares to sell its North Sea business after 60 years in the ageing basin." @secondmentions.com
Whey to go! Could the cheese byproduct heat our homes and fuel our cars?
Whey to go! Could the cheese byproduct heat our homes and fuel our cars?
British cheesemakers have struggled to find a use for the 95,000 tonnes of salty whey they produce every year. But researchers may have come up with a solution
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Gianni Infantino - "the haunted cue-ball" @secondmentions.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A World Cup with no participants – it could be Gianni Infantino’s boldest move yet | Marina Hyde
You’ve got to admire the Fifa president’s chutzpah in trying to flog off football’s greatest prize. If only Uefa wasn’t being so pesky about it all, says Marina Hyde
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featuring Infantino as 'the haunted cue-ball' 😆
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 5d agoA World Cup with no participants – it could be Gianni Infantino’s boldest move yet | Marina Hyde
"the ginger giants" (bonus points for alliteration)
The Guardian@theguardian.com · last wk.Make the kids’ summer holidays go with a bang – play together like orangutans | Helen Pilcher
I came for the "flaccid fantasies"; I stayed to read about Teddy Roosevelt's neurasthenia, all while catching this glorious second mention: "The Trump administration’s preening, strutting, wanna-be he-man". A behemoth of @secondmentions.com, if I may. 🎣
Nick Turse@nickturse.bsky.social · last wk.Hegseth believes you can measure manhood by testing testosterone, the same way he believes you can kill your way to victory on the battlefield. It’s part of a mélange of flaccid fallacies and fantasies that seem to dominate [his] worldview..." theintercept.com/2026/07/25/p...
Penis. Penis. Penis. Not even one humdinger, python or dangling participle. BBC News - Penis count debate rages over Bayeux Tapestry - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Penis count debate rages over Bayeux Tapestry
A podcast has again investigated the penises on the embroidery, which has a replica in Reading.
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1. Incredible new title given to me by the Financial Times 2. This is a great piece about how AI skepticism feels like the consensus now ftav.substack.com/p/this-is-nu...
