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Remember August and the eclipse? Feels ages ago dunnit. Anyway scroll to the end for a jump scare, promise you won't regret it.

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🎤When Iggy Pop’s a fan, you know it’s going to be good!

👀Come see for yourself - Edinburgh Fringe, 7–22 August (link in bio)

🙏And big thanks for the John Strachan samples from the Alan Lomax Collection at the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress. Courtesy of the Association for @culturalequity

#edfringe #scottishmusic #sandsiltflint @visitabdn @edfringe @culturalequity @scottish.studies.archives #beautifulabdn #visitabdn @greensidevenues @madeinscotland_showcase @bbc6music

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A few shots from our recent film in Laos about the illegal wildlife trade with @robynvinter - link in bio to watch on YouTube

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Andy Burnham has just become Britain’s seventh prime minister in a little over a decade – but what does he actually stand for?

Burnham has promised ‘early moves’ to help people with the cost of living, with more policy announcements expected to come this week as he appoints his cabinet.

The Guardian’s North of England correspondent, Robyn Vinter (@robynvinter) breaks down what Burnham has said in the past about what he believes in – watch to find out more.

And to watch Burnham’s first speech as prime minister – and the reaction to it – head to the link in the bio.

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Evidence of a growing illegal wildlife trade has been showing up in videos on social media with tourists in Laos holding bear paws, buying ivory and even eating pangolin.

But it’s not just online. More pangolins than ever before are being found roaming the streets of major cities after escaping from shops and restaurants.

We went to Laos to investigate what’s going on and found out how budget tour groups are taking Chinese tourists to illegal wildlife shops and pressuring them into buying these endangered species.

Watch the full film here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dyW4sk6vS4&t=1s&pp=0gcJCU8LAYcqIYzv

Reporter: @robynvinter
Produced, filmed and edited: @frances_rankin_
Editing: @bettinawaked
Translation: Yu-Chen Li, Lillian Yang
Motion graphics: @joseph_h_pierce
Additional production: @amyhawk_, @patrickgreenfield6, Yu-chen Li and Lillian Yang
Executive producer: @kate_arno

With huge thanks to @daria.animalvet @lctwildlife @nutbros @wulaobai @zhbzzzz

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#journalism #documentary #pangolins #laos #china

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Got to spend six weeks making videos with this bunch of babes

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after a raaather challenging few months this was so needed 🙏🏾sunsets, sea, skepta + the best company a gal could ask for 💛🌊☀️#grateful

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🎲 Innovation in journalism is not defined by novelty alone. It is defined by impact.

The European Press Prize Innovation Award Shortlist recognises projects that apply new methods with precision and purpose. These works uncover stories that would otherwise remain hidden, while maintaining the highest standards of verification, independence, and accountability.

Each project demonstrates how rigorous journalism can evolve without compromising its core principles.

Congratulations to the Innovation Nominees for redefining what rigorous journalism can achieve!

Link to the full Shortlist in bio!

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‘What’s not to Lava?’ A wonderful piece on British-made Lava Lamp inventors @mathmos_originals, where readers get a glimpse behind the scenes, as @robynvinter visits the factory to explore how and where the original @mathmos_originals Lava Lamp is still made.

‘Rising sales would suggest a third wave of the lava lamp phenomenon is on the horizon, thanks to the trend towards mid-century interiors and gen Z’s fascination with the late 90s and early 2000s. Cressida Granger, the managing director of the British lava lamp pioneers Mathmos, said the company’s lamps had seen a surge in interest. “It feels like they’re in the current conversation in a way they haven’t been,” she said. “They’re sort of nostalgic, aren’t they? So that’s comforting when the world’s changing”.’

Image 3 shows Mathmos’s managing director, Cressida Granger, holding an uncapped lava lamp bottle at the factory in Poole, Dorset.

Thanks to @robynvinter at @guardian.

Photography by @peterflude

#lavalamps #mathmos #nostalgicdesign #colourfulinteriors #retroaesthetic

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Are you going to read this @robynvinter @guardian piece published yesterday, go, oh, that's terrible, and move on?

Or are you going to support and help fund the solution?

Here’s what’s missing from the discourse around this.

It’s not about banning potentially harmful depictions of sex in performative produced entertainment. It’s about doing the opposite: celebrating and showcasing beneficial practices in sex in the real world.

For 13 years now, my business, @makelovenotporn , has operated as the only real world counterpoint to porn. MakeLoveNotPorn is the badly-needed documentary to porn’s Hollywood movie - a unique window onto the funny messy loving wonderful sex we all have in the real world. We’re on a mission to help end rape culture globally, by showing how wonderful great, consensual sex is in the real world, and making THAT what people aspire to do in bed. Yet we are still tiny and struggling, because investors refuse to fund us, philanthropists aren’t supporting us, and governments aren’t giving us grants.

Be very clear about why MakeLoveNotPorn is the more effective solution. What we are turned on by, and what we masturbate to, shapes our sexual script. MakeLoveNotPorn arouses through the power of love, intimacy and human connection. That’s the sexual script WE imprint.

Men write saying they’ve been moved to tears by our real world sex videos - because for the first time, they’ve been able to see men like themselves being open, emotional, loving, and vulnerable around sex.

One man said, I watched a video where the woman said to her man ‘I love you’ while they were making love. I started crying when I heard that.

Another young man wrote, ‘Your website makes me want to have sex in a more grown-up, honest and respectful way.’

We have the solution. The only thing holding us back is lack of access to this kind of national coverage, and to funding and support.

Grantmakers/investors, hit me up.

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Evil beyond words.

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🖤 June

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