It’s so frustrating. White men getting all the jobs is discrimination, women and minorities getting more is not. Unless you think women and minorities are inherently less capable - which of course is what many of the anti-DEI crowd believe, they just don’t have the guts to say it.
Lukashenko: non-naming, domestically nasty, generally non-aggressive.
It’s also based on the assumption that Putin is always acting on good information. Seems likely that before the invasion he had been told that Ukraine was bought and paid for, and there would be no meaningful resistance. And if so, I’m sure the accounts show the money was paid out.
Business opportunity for struggling sailing schools (ie all of them), re-badge their pool-based sea survival courses
Also cannot sufficiently recommend this book as an antidote to currently political discourse (also excellent on Audible)
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Fish owl
I have just discovered fish owls, which are owls that look like they’ve been out on the razz for an extended period
Yep, any time someone says ‘That’s what they’re all doing’, what they mean is ‘That’s what I would do’
From Tbilisi this week (from a friend not on BlueSky)
That’s very interesting. Which asset managers would you say are the leaders on this?
Agreed, banks are well ahead of the curve on understanding and now pricing physical climate risk, been doing this for years already. Asset managers starting to work on it but still a long way behind banks.
Of course, under maritime law, this situation requires both parties to turn to the right….
QTWTAIN
Wow, we're back to the ecosystem/walled garden thing. I remember Sberbank - sorry, Sber - banging on about that back in 2019.
Yep, I have a family member in this situation. Freelance translator, Russian wife. Can’t see him ever being able to return to the UK to live under current rules, or of his mother being able to see her grandson more than a couple of times a year.
www.euromoney.com/article/27bj... I interviewed him at his dacha in 2019. He was charming and urbane, and cheerfully ignored any questions he didn’t want to answer. Cute cat though.
I mean, yes. Quite fun to see the astonishing range of bizarre stuff that gets advertised. But only a (short) evening’s entertainment at best
I think it works best if there’s something specific you’re into that has good visual content creators eg cycling, funghi, crafts. Also means you get more targeted ads, which is good because the volume of ads is nuts.
View of the beach and sea from Rye Harbour Nature Reserve
Rye Harbour beach
Listening to You Want It Darker. I rest my case M’lud
This is giving real Turkey 2019 / Albayrak at the IMF vibes
I have a colleague who makes a large bag of crisps last a week, eats a few at lunch every day, and has a clip to seal it with between times. Madness.
Damn, must make sure to invite some non-sailors to our sailing WhatsApp group to avoid groupthink.
Guardian corrections can go home now, not topping that
The Insta algorithm urgently wants me to paint thick brown, red and pink stripes all over my face, and then rub them with a brush, after which I will look exactly the same as I did at the start of the video (quite nice, caked in make-up).
These are the names of the 9 children whose lives russia took in yesterday's attack
Their blood is on russia's hands
Tymofii, age 3
Arina, age 7
Herman, age 9
Danylo, age 15
Alina, age 15
Kostyantyn, age 16
Mykyta, age 15
Nikita, age 17
Radyslav, age 7
Nine kids. Killed
Source: U24GOVUA
In my experience, US firms are a lot lesser bothered by CSRD than by the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, which would make them liable for infractions in their supply chains. That is where even sustainability advocates in the US start talking about extraterritoriality.
Whatever you think about mandating disclosure in general, and CSRD/SFDR specifically, it’s not the same as mandating action. Also, most big US companies have been voluntarily reporting under SASB and other regions under GRI and TCFD for years. And APAC is now going big on ISSB.
Like putting consultant on your visa application instead of journalist. Only got called on it once, Belarusian embassy phoned to say ‘we know you’re a journalist, you’ve got a meeting at the central bank on Wednesday’
Sun on the sea, view from Portland Bill
Portland Bill, Dorset
Musk's stake goes to US sovereign wealth fund, Tesla goes to the moon. And then zero.
