I’d completely forgot about them tbh. You also see it a lot with cheese alternatives, even though they broadly fucking suck so I don’t know why the cheese industry even bothers.

In 2019, Oatly applied to trademark the phrase “Post Milk Generation” but this was rejected by the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) in January last year after ruling that its use of the term “milk” was “deceptive”.

But this trademark is clearly them establishing themselves as not-milk and plenty of vegan products term themselves like this (“No Steak Pie”) without issue, it’s only dairy products that this ridiculous standard applied to them. Guess I’ll just continue to enjoy the two bottles of oat ‘drink’ I have in my fridge.

To be honest I do think calling it “milk” lets them inflate the price when it is essentially porridge water.

Most good oat milks will have stabilisers and vitamins (B12 especially) added to them vs if you just made some at home.

Nah, I did it and that seems to have sent it through to everyone else. Just weird as I checked the logs and slrpnk seems to have not sent the pin activity to feddit.uk.

It absolutely does, https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/skeet-bluesky-slang

Maybe after it arrives in merry old England.

Weird, it didn’t federate.

I concur, that’s all three of us (don’t worry about tom, they’re inactive).

More info: https://www.nuj.org.uk/resource/guardian-and-observer-journalists-strike-on-day-of-the-observer-s-233rd-anniversary-wednesday-4-december.html

Thankfully, I, a true Emacs user, use C-x @ m x so I’m immune to this.

The UK also relaxed its recruitment rules in 2022, allowing citizens with foreign-born parents to join security agencies, to increase the labour pool.

You could have foreign-born parents before 2022, it just had to be from an ‘approved nation’ (no prizes for guessing which nations those were).

Most countries don’t, it’s important to remember that the country isn’t Taiwan but the Republic of China and it continues to lay claim to mainland China, so any recognition would sour relations with the PRC.

This must be what other countries feel when they see stuff like this:

What is this country coming to that you can pressure your adolescent son into doing cocaine and having sex with a prostitute and be called a bad farther? It’s not trauma, it’s character building!

How could Anna Isaac be such a scab /s.

In response to the decision to strike, Tortoise issued a statement saying that it was saving the Observer from its decline into “irrelevance”.

I’m not the biggest fan of the Observer (it’s where the TERFs are), but this is quite the statement to make about an asset you want to buy. It’s also obviously false, the thing James Harding is after here is the prestige of an established and (somewhat) trusted name.

10, because the Bible says the world will end when Rome falls and yet I still have work tomorrow.

I get your point, but this has such “it’s gnu/linux” energy.

Yeah, to go with my Detective Comics Comics comic books.

🤓 ☝️ Actually black and white are shades, not colours.

By launching his illegal and unprovoked full-scale war of aggression in Ukraine 1,000 days ago this week, not only did Vladimir Putin accelerate the largest war on the European continent since the Second World War, he also sought to rewrite the international order.

This is also why we continue to call for a ceasefire in Gaza, the release of all hostages, the massive scale-up of humanitarian assistance, and the cessation of violent settlers’ activities in the West Bank in the interests of both Israelis and Palestinians.

Compare and contrast when a UK/French ally commits ethnic cleansing vs when a UK/French geopolitical rival does it.

Also, real absurd that these paragraphs:

In those exceptionally challenging times, we believe that the most pressing global problems need multilateral solutions. After the Bletchley Park AI Summit last year, we will work together to make the AI Action Summit in Paris a success in February.

We will address the challenges and seize the opportunities of AI, and ensure we narrow the digital divide between developed and developing countries.

Are followed by this:

Protecting our populations also requires protecting our planet. We will step up action on climate change through the implementation of the Paris Agreement. Ten years after its adoption, we will keep pushing for the highest possible level of ambition, on the road to COP30 in Belem. The ocean is one lung of our planet. After adopting the BBNJ treaty, we now need to push the ambition further towards the UN Ocean Conference in Nice, next June.