James Whetlor
@jameswhetlor.bsky.social
Cook & occasional food writer. Writing a 4th. Eventually.
Lucky enough to live by the sea.
Lucky enough to live by the sea.
Or "Era of tax cutting for the wealthy and corporations has destroyed the publics health and living standards.' but I guess thats too much to ask from a Bezos mouthpiece.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
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Europe’s high quality of life is getting hard to afford. Just ask France.
The cost of Europe’s way of life — health care, affordable education and a dignified retirement for all, through high social spending — is becoming unbearably high.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 6, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Or "Era of tax cutting for the wealthy and corporations has destroyed the publics health and living standards.' but I guess thats too much to ask from a Bezos mouthpiece.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
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Just spitballing here, but cryptobros throwing sex toys at WNBA players on the court and other cryptobros and male sports commentators calling it funny and telling the women and their coaches to 'lighten up' both explains the 'male loneliness epidemic' and why I don't care about it.
August 8, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Just spitballing here, but cryptobros throwing sex toys at WNBA players on the court and other cryptobros and male sports commentators calling it funny and telling the women and their coaches to 'lighten up' both explains the 'male loneliness epidemic' and why I don't care about it.
This is a really beautiful story, if anyone’s needing a little pick me up…
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15 teens. 300 miles. One mighty ancestral river, running free.
The removal of four dams finally made a descent of the Klamath possible. These Indigenous kayakers became the first to attempt it.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 8, 2025 at 6:02 PM
This is a really beautiful story, if anyone’s needing a little pick me up…
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/inter...
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/inter...
Found a very happy plate today.
July 14, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Found a very happy plate today.
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I’m biracial (US dad, Ethiopian mom US born) and moved to Kenya at 4, had lots of Kenyan Indian friends, families there generations. When I moved to the states I didn’t know I was Black or have any idea of the American binary concept of race until someone called me the n word.
July 4, 2025 at 5:54 AM
I’m biracial (US dad, Ethiopian mom US born) and moved to Kenya at 4, had lots of Kenyan Indian friends, families there generations. When I moved to the states I didn’t know I was Black or have any idea of the American binary concept of race until someone called me the n word.
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the Star Tribune just called me and told me they would not be publishing the obituary I wrote for my father as it is “unfair to him” and “in poor taste” so here it is and fuck the strib ✌🏻
June 28, 2025 at 6:20 PM
the Star Tribune just called me and told me they would not be publishing the obituary I wrote for my father as it is “unfair to him” and “in poor taste” so here it is and fuck the strib ✌🏻
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british fan chat
![cartoon for the guardian by Stephen Collins - script as follows:
[Scene is a darkened LOFT. Amongst the boxes and junk are FOUR KNACKERED OLD FANS - three tower fans and one circular, with cracked grey plastic and buttons missing. One fan, TOWER FAN 1, is a bit taller than the others, and is addressing them]
1
TOWER FAN 1:
Right lads, get ready.
2
TOWER FAN 1:
This is our time.
3
TOWER FAN 1:
The time when we remember who we are, and why we’re here.
4
TOWER FAN 1:
We are the four crap fans in a British person’s loft,
and we are here to make absolutely no difference whatsoever.
5
TOWER FAN 1:
I know what you’re
thinking, lads:
6
TOWER FAN 1:
Surely this will be the year they finally replace us?
7
TOWER FAN 1:
Our plastic’s gone all brown... I haven’t oscillated since 2018...
8
TOWER FAN 1:
Dave here sounds like a spitfire and blows like a sad cat’s sigh…
TOWER FAN 2:
Cheers mate
9
TOWER FAN 1:
But no. These people are British, and every year, they forget the sun exists.
By the time they remember,
new fans will cost *four million pounds* on Amazon.
10
TOWER FAN 1:
So we’ll be back down there... shovelling thick air across the moaning faces of a species that cannot comprehend the concept of air conditioning, or even just closing the curtains when it’s hot out...
11
TOWER FAN 1:
...while they incessantly bang on about normally hot countries which this country is now temporarily a bit hotter than.
12
[The loft hatch opens and a person comes up the ladder]
PERSON:
APPARENTLY IT’S HOTTER THAN GREECE, LISA](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreidbpfu2ioghspjcg4xitzv655jzjwp5lgxk5hi3ag7sechgh222ze@jpeg)
May 14, 2025 at 12:20 PM
british fan chat
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This is the last thing the BBC needs
June 17, 2025 at 5:44 AM
This is the last thing the BBC needs
Offer a good list of places to never spend your money.
Wonder why the Ivy Collection and other restaurants owned by the billionaire Richard Caring need to demand a 2.5% retrospective discount from all its suppliers...
(Source: LinkedIn post)
(Source: LinkedIn post)
June 13, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Offer a good list of places to never spend your money.
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Dear Democrats in the Senate,
Please get ready amendments ready for reconciliation bill that will at least:
- defund Starlink
- defund all maters related Space X
- defund DOGE (calling it a Deep State)
And that's just the start. There can be lot lot more.
Thanks.
Please get ready amendments ready for reconciliation bill that will at least:
- defund Starlink
- defund all maters related Space X
- defund DOGE (calling it a Deep State)
And that's just the start. There can be lot lot more.
Thanks.
June 5, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Dear Democrats in the Senate,
Please get ready amendments ready for reconciliation bill that will at least:
- defund Starlink
- defund all maters related Space X
- defund DOGE (calling it a Deep State)
And that's just the start. There can be lot lot more.
Thanks.
Please get ready amendments ready for reconciliation bill that will at least:
- defund Starlink
- defund all maters related Space X
- defund DOGE (calling it a Deep State)
And that's just the start. There can be lot lot more.
Thanks.
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in Ireland, Supermac’s will sell you 100 sausages in a party bucket
June 3, 2025 at 11:46 AM
in Ireland, Supermac’s will sell you 100 sausages in a party bucket
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If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, then you’re not in business.
You’re in organized crime.
You’re in organized crime.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
May 26, 2025 at 9:09 PM
If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, then you’re not in business.
You’re in organized crime.
You’re in organized crime.
Nothing could encapsulate better what the Michelin has become.
www.restaurantonline.co.uk/Article/2025...
www.restaurantonline.co.uk/Article/2025...
Gordon Ramsay partners with Michelin to produce new TV show following star-chasing chefs
Gordon Ramsay’s production company has partnered with Michelin for a new eight-episode documentary series exploring ‘the high-stakes world of international fine dining’.
www.restaurantonline.co.uk
May 14, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Nothing could encapsulate better what the Michelin has become.
www.restaurantonline.co.uk/Article/2025...
www.restaurantonline.co.uk/Article/2025...
May 7, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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His backpack held sex toys and Vaseline, officials say.
Naked man with sex toys gets address wrong, enters stranger’s home, FL cops say
His backpack held sex toys and Vaseline, officials say.
bit.ly
May 7, 2025 at 12:00 PM
His backpack held sex toys and Vaseline, officials say.
The current tennis world number 1 is a drugs cheat.
The premier league champions 4 of the last 6 years are financial cheats
Snooker is about to crown as world champion a match fixer.
Sport isn’t well.
The premier league champions 4 of the last 6 years are financial cheats
Snooker is about to crown as world champion a match fixer.
Sport isn’t well.
May 5, 2025 at 7:09 PM
The current tennis world number 1 is a drugs cheat.
The premier league champions 4 of the last 6 years are financial cheats
Snooker is about to crown as world champion a match fixer.
Sport isn’t well.
The premier league champions 4 of the last 6 years are financial cheats
Snooker is about to crown as world champion a match fixer.
Sport isn’t well.
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Fuck this and fuck Sam Altman.
May 4, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Fuck this and fuck Sam Altman.
😂😂😂
via @tombaldwin66.bsky.social
"when I walked around one of the constituency’s more well-to-do areas last week a woman told me she was backing Labour for the 1st time because of what the reputational damage of having a Reform MP 'might mean for our property prices'
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"when I walked around one of the constituency’s more well-to-do areas last week a woman told me she was backing Labour for the 1st time because of what the reputational damage of having a Reform MP 'might mean for our property prices'
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
It’s a mistake to inflate the danger of Farage
Starmer may lose this week’s by-election but there are ways to bring Reform down to earth
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April 28, 2025 at 9:01 PM
😂😂😂
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Motion passed by doctors at the British Medical Association refers to the recent Supreme Court ruling as ‘scientifically illiterate’: ‘sex and gender are complex and multifaceted aspects of the human condition and attempting to impose a rigid binary has no basis in science or medicine’.
Passed by the BMA conference today.
Here it is with ALT text.
April 28, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Motion passed by doctors at the British Medical Association refers to the recent Supreme Court ruling as ‘scientifically illiterate’: ‘sex and gender are complex and multifaceted aspects of the human condition and attempting to impose a rigid binary has no basis in science or medicine’.
This is pretty irresponsible from the usually excellent @financialtimes.com. The article spent 2 paragraphs explaining how the Spainish power outages are a mystery, then implied it was down to renewables.
April 28, 2025 at 8:16 PM
This is pretty irresponsible from the usually excellent @financialtimes.com. The article spent 2 paragraphs explaining how the Spainish power outages are a mystery, then implied it was down to renewables.
This is based on land usage, not the amount of nutrition derived, so it’s, at best meaningless at worst deceptive.
4. Almond milk sucks up the world’s water. Yes, there’s a big problem with almonds’ water demand in California. But guess what? More than twice as much irrigation water is used in California to grow forage plants to feed livestock, especially dairy cows. www.bloomberg.com/view/article...
Cows Suck Up More Water Than Almonds
Cattle use a lot more of California's water than almonds.
www.bloomberg.com
April 28, 2025 at 3:04 PM
This is based on land usage, not the amount of nutrition derived, so it’s, at best meaningless at worst deceptive.
Winning two league titles in five years against a bunch of cheats is a great achievement.
April 27, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Winning two league titles in five years against a bunch of cheats is a great achievement.