17 Feb 25 Monday Briefing
Penny for your thoughts
News Roundup
Meme edgelords aka Trump’s administration are taking a wrecking ball to foreign policy with the same lightning-speed intensity with which they have dismantled USAID, leading to heaps of prognostications and moaning about the state of Europe, and making fanboys of the military industrial complex cream themselves. O tempora o mores.
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Not the kind of news anyone would’ve thought to publish on Valentine’s Day, but hey, we have a DNA match for… Jack the Ripper. h/t
Soon you won’t even be able to pay for thoughts with pennies, and given the general state of the world, that’s probably a good thing.
If I had to look at a font made out of pubic hair, you do too.
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Imagine holding a grudge for a decade.
Book blurbs are going extinct. Yay?
Art imitates (misogynistic) life in the case of Murdoch vs Murdoch.
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Dr Geordan Shannon and Dev Lewis, whom I had the pleasure of meeting in Chiang Mai last October, have released a podcast episode discussing translocal care chains for planetary health.