Mod Magus
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Low-carb, real food. Nutritionism is not the answer. Increasingly compelled to comment on the state of the world.
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Remember: Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants.
Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.
Do not.
Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.
Do not.
December 21, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Remember: Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants.
Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.
Do not.
Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.
Do not.
Greenland part of the US?
Stop the world; I want to get off.
Stop the world; I want to get off.
December 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Greenland part of the US?
Stop the world; I want to get off.
Stop the world; I want to get off.
Sadly, the natural and good-meaning position of comfort for our PM is to sit on the fence unless pushed. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
China has set a bear trap for Keir Starmer – and our naive PM is walking straight into it | Simon Tisdall
The conviction of Jimmy Lai in Hong Kong is another hostile act. How can Britain ignore Beijing’s provocations and human rights abuses, asks Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Sadly, the natural and good-meaning position of comfort for our PM is to sit on the fence unless pushed. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
When people stop taking the drugs, the most likely outcome is that they regain all of it. A recent study showed that reduced blood pressure and lower 'bad' cholesterol, were also lost once you're off the drugs. To use the US phrase, “there may not be an off-ramp”.
www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...
www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...
Fat jabs UK: the year we got thinner — and what it means for our future
This was the year overweight Britons, from parents at the school gate to members of the shadow cabinet, fessed up to taking Ozempic and Mounjaro. Will our fervour for fat jabs save the nation’s health...
www.thetimes.com
December 21, 2025 at 7:34 AM
When people stop taking the drugs, the most likely outcome is that they regain all of it. A recent study showed that reduced blood pressure and lower 'bad' cholesterol, were also lost once you're off the drugs. To use the US phrase, “there may not be an off-ramp”.
www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...
www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...
"It's like a switch that goes on and you're instantly starving."
Tanya Hall has tried to stop taking weight loss medication multiple times. Every time she stops, the food noise comes back. Loudly.
But you can't continue taking them forever, can you?
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Tanya Hall has tried to stop taking weight loss medication multiple times. Every time she stops, the food noise comes back. Loudly.
But you can't continue taking them forever, can you?
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Weight loss jabs: What happens when you stop taking them?
You may have lost the weight you wanted to lose - but now you've stopped the jabs, how easy is it to keep it off?
www.bbc.com
December 21, 2025 at 7:23 AM
"It's like a switch that goes on and you're instantly starving."
Tanya Hall has tried to stop taking weight loss medication multiple times. Every time she stops, the food noise comes back. Loudly.
But you can't continue taking them forever, can you?
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Tanya Hall has tried to stop taking weight loss medication multiple times. Every time she stops, the food noise comes back. Loudly.
But you can't continue taking them forever, can you?
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Well played Bart de Wever. Good politics from a nearly united EU, finding a way through their unanimity clause.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
EU’s Ukraine loan may have been Plan B, but don’t underestimate its significance to the bloc
This €90bn agreement won out over a plan to use frozen Russian assets, but has been hailed a ‘huge deal for the EU’
www.theguardian.com
December 20, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Well played Bart de Wever. Good politics from a nearly united EU, finding a way through their unanimity clause.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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The Epstein disclosures are much like dark matter....
They theoretically exist.
And they're dark.
And that matters.
They theoretically exist.
And they're dark.
And that matters.
December 20, 2025 at 12:12 AM
The Epstein disclosures are much like dark matter....
They theoretically exist.
And they're dark.
And that matters.
They theoretically exist.
And they're dark.
And that matters.
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Bluesky reaches 41 million users
bsky.jazco.dev/stats
bsky.jazco.dev/stats
a blue and gold butterfly with a purple tail
Alt: a blue and gold butterfly with a purple tail
media.tenor.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Bluesky reaches 41 million users
bsky.jazco.dev/stats
bsky.jazco.dev/stats
Despite many past promises and pledges, methane emissions from the energy sector continue to grow... a binding EU methane regulation will ban flaring and leaks, but requires robust measuring, monitoring, reporting and verification.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This is another ‘ozone layer’ moment. Now, we must urgently target methane | Mia Mottley
The oil and gas industry must be legally bound to cut methane emissions. With climate tipping points approaching, time is running out, says the prime minister of Barbados, Mia Mottley
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Despite many past promises and pledges, methane emissions from the energy sector continue to grow... a binding EU methane regulation will ban flaring and leaks, but requires robust measuring, monitoring, reporting and verification.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Scared? Just a little bit?
December 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Scared? Just a little bit?
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Ailing wannabe dictator yelling at his people and insisting that they're getting richer and safer when all the evidence demonstrates the opposite.
This is Gaddafi-levels of lunacy.
This is Gaddafi-levels of lunacy.
December 18, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Ailing wannabe dictator yelling at his people and insisting that they're getting richer and safer when all the evidence demonstrates the opposite.
This is Gaddafi-levels of lunacy.
This is Gaddafi-levels of lunacy.
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When you’ve lost Matt Walsh…
December 18, 2025 at 4:03 AM
When you’ve lost Matt Walsh…
Know your audience? Feed your bubble? Who says it's social media feeds that drive the re-inforcement of your values. Should the Daily Mail be banned for under 16 year olds?
December 18, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Know your audience? Feed your bubble? Who says it's social media feeds that drive the re-inforcement of your values. Should the Daily Mail be banned for under 16 year olds?
Please take a few days off and calm down Mr Trump.
December 18, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Please take a few days off and calm down Mr Trump.
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Invasion alert:
Quagga mussels are among the planet’s most potent invasive species. They reproduce at astonishing speed, are known to survive for 30 years in the deepest parts of American lakes, breed all year round and spawn in temperatures as low as 5C.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Quagga mussels are among the planet’s most potent invasive species. They reproduce at astonishing speed, are known to survive for 30 years in the deepest parts of American lakes, breed all year round and spawn in temperatures as low as 5C.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘It’s an open invasion’: how millions of quagga mussels changed Lake Geneva for ever
The molluscs are decimating food chains in Switzerland, have devastated the Great Lakes in the US, and this week were spotted in Northern Ireland for the first time
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Invasion alert:
Quagga mussels are among the planet’s most potent invasive species. They reproduce at astonishing speed, are known to survive for 30 years in the deepest parts of American lakes, breed all year round and spawn in temperatures as low as 5C.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Quagga mussels are among the planet’s most potent invasive species. They reproduce at astonishing speed, are known to survive for 30 years in the deepest parts of American lakes, breed all year round and spawn in temperatures as low as 5C.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
As Starmer's Brexit approach unravels, the UK remains semi-aligned to a US extracting compliance vs building alliances. We lack leverage and protection. The EU has power; the US uses it while an exposed Britain has to concede on standards Labour promised to defend. moderndiplomacy.eu/2025/12/17/u...
UK Growth Stalls as Brexit Constraints Limit Economic Options
Britain’s Labour government faces a slow-moving economy with limited levers to stimulate growth.
moderndiplomacy.eu
December 18, 2025 at 6:40 AM
As Starmer's Brexit approach unravels, the UK remains semi-aligned to a US extracting compliance vs building alliances. We lack leverage and protection. The EU has power; the US uses it while an exposed Britain has to concede on standards Labour promised to defend. moderndiplomacy.eu/2025/12/17/u...
Additives often used in ultraprocessed foods include preservatives to resist mold & bacteria; emulsifiers to keep incompatible ingredients from separating; artificial colorings; fragrance & flavor enhancers; anti-foaming, bulking, bleaching, gelling & glazing agents.
edition.cnn.com/2025/12/14/h...
edition.cnn.com/2025/12/14/h...
December 18, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Additives often used in ultraprocessed foods include preservatives to resist mold & bacteria; emulsifiers to keep incompatible ingredients from separating; artificial colorings; fragrance & flavor enhancers; anti-foaming, bulking, bleaching, gelling & glazing agents.
edition.cnn.com/2025/12/14/h...
edition.cnn.com/2025/12/14/h...
The clip was captioned:
“Jingle bells, jingle bells,
Jingle all the way!
Oh, what fun it is to ride
on a free flight out of our country”
Trump supporters praised the video, but critics snapped back, some writing that “cruelty is the point” and that the clip was “very far beneath the White House.”
“Jingle bells, jingle bells,
Jingle all the way!
Oh, what fun it is to ride
on a free flight out of our country”
Trump supporters praised the video, but critics snapped back, some writing that “cruelty is the point” and that the clip was “very far beneath the White House.”
December 18, 2025 at 6:15 AM
The clip was captioned:
“Jingle bells, jingle bells,
Jingle all the way!
Oh, what fun it is to ride
on a free flight out of our country”
Trump supporters praised the video, but critics snapped back, some writing that “cruelty is the point” and that the clip was “very far beneath the White House.”
“Jingle bells, jingle bells,
Jingle all the way!
Oh, what fun it is to ride
on a free flight out of our country”
Trump supporters praised the video, but critics snapped back, some writing that “cruelty is the point” and that the clip was “very far beneath the White House.”
"For all the talk of Trump being a strongman-fancier, it is not clear that he, much less Witkoff, has the first clue how deep and almost mystical are the ideas that drive a Putin or a Xi Jinping. He could scarcely be less suited to dealing with them."
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
December 18, 2025 at 6:10 AM
"For all the talk of Trump being a strongman-fancier, it is not clear that he, much less Witkoff, has the first clue how deep and almost mystical are the ideas that drive a Putin or a Xi Jinping. He could scarcely be less suited to dealing with them."
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
Hardly damning?
For persons at low CVD risk, reducing or modifying saturated fat intake has little or no benefit over a 5 year period. For those with higher risk, low to moderate-certainty evidence was found with respect to replacement with polyunsaturated fat.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41397264/
For persons at low CVD risk, reducing or modifying saturated fat intake has little or no benefit over a 5 year period. For those with higher risk, low to moderate-certainty evidence was found with respect to replacement with polyunsaturated fat.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41397264/
Effect of Interventions Aimed at Reducing or Modifying Saturated Fat Intake on Cholesterol, Mortality, and Major Cardiovascular Events : A Risk Stratified Systematic Review of Randomized Trials - PubMed
None. (PROSPERO: CRD42023387377).
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
December 17, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Hardly damning?
For persons at low CVD risk, reducing or modifying saturated fat intake has little or no benefit over a 5 year period. For those with higher risk, low to moderate-certainty evidence was found with respect to replacement with polyunsaturated fat.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41397264/
For persons at low CVD risk, reducing or modifying saturated fat intake has little or no benefit over a 5 year period. For those with higher risk, low to moderate-certainty evidence was found with respect to replacement with polyunsaturated fat.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41397264/
Alternative headline:
"Junk food company finds new junk food manager to run ultra-processed food business."
www.ft.com/content/61da...
"Junk food company finds new junk food manager to run ultra-processed food business."
www.ft.com/content/61da...
Kraft Heinz taps ex-Kellanova boss as new chief for looming break-up
Ketchup maker says current CEO will not have management role when group splits next year
www.ft.com
December 16, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Alternative headline:
"Junk food company finds new junk food manager to run ultra-processed food business."
www.ft.com/content/61da...
"Junk food company finds new junk food manager to run ultra-processed food business."
www.ft.com/content/61da...
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I'm glad Keir Starmer has listened to our calls for this inquiry following the Reform Russian bribery scandal.
Nigel Farage should be the first to give evidence.
Nigel Farage should be the first to give evidence.
🚨 BREAKING: Keir Starmer has launched a formal investigation into foreign election interference
It comes after former Reform UK Welsh Leader Nathan Gill was sentenced to over 10 years in prison last month for making pro-Russia statements for bribes
It comes after former Reform UK Welsh Leader Nathan Gill was sentenced to over 10 years in prison last month for making pro-Russia statements for bribes
December 16, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I'm glad Keir Starmer has listened to our calls for this inquiry following the Reform Russian bribery scandal.
Nigel Farage should be the first to give evidence.
Nigel Farage should be the first to give evidence.