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Disney was a lot more active in World War II. Propaganda and other war-related films aside, some of the nose and patch art were official and donations from Disney.

https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/Museum-Exhibits/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/196132/disney-pins-on-wings/

Walt Disney Productions created approximately 1,200 designs during World War II for both American and Allied military units. Designs were also created for other organizations such as civil defense and war industries. All of this work was done by the studio free-of-charge as a donation to the war effort.

Walt Disney Productions created over 1,200 unit insignia during World War II for all branches of the U.S. armed forces. In addition to U.S. military units, designs were also accomplished at the request of Allied military units from Britain, Canada, China, France, New Zealand, South Africa and Poland. Individual units were allowed to request designs directly from the Disney organization and accept finished work without having to go through any higher headquarters.

Virtually all of the Disney characters appeared in Unit insignia. The most requested was Donald Duck who appeared in at least 216 unit designs. Donald's quick temper and fighting spirit had universal appeal to all services. Pluto appeared in 45 designs, Goofy in 38 insignia, and Dumbo the Elephant in 20. Mickey Mouse was featured in 37 designs, but none associated with combat units. Mickey's nice-guy persona seemed better suited to represent home front and defense industry activities. Snow White, while unofficially utilized in aircraft nose art, was used only once for a medical unit. Additional Disney characters appearing on insignia included Jiminy Cricket, Pinocchio, the Reluctant Dragon, Flower, Daisy Duck, Huey, Dewey & Louie, Little Hiawatha, all of the seven Dwarfs, Ferdinand the Bull, Peg Leg Pete and others. The only major Disney character that did not appear in any insignia designs was Bambi.

EDIT: Looks like people are still making patches with the designs today:

https://popularpatch.com/walt-disney-patches

EDIT2: Walt Disney personally drew some of it, like this bomber nose art:

https://cowboystatedaily.com/2024/04/07/casper-wwii-pilot-flew-b-29-bomber-with-nose-art-drawn-by-walt-disney/

Based on current polling the conservatives would be lucky to get third place. Reform on track to get second or third place depending on the pole, Labour and the lib Dems are fighting for the top spot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_next_United_Kingdom_general_election

This graph has the Liberal Democrats at ~14%, the Conservatives at ~16%, Labour at ~20%, and Reform at ~32%.

A Liberal Democrat-Labour coalition might just edge out Reform, but Reform's also rising, and Labour's been getting hammered.

EDIT: Though, of course, this is just showing proportions of popular support, and first-past-the-post may cause that to not directly translate to seats.

Judging from the facial sores in the mug shot, I'm guessing that the gentleman in question has a history of meth use.

I'm not familiar with the software situation there, but on the hardware side, if you don't mind permanently disabling it, you can probably just open it up, find the LED, and snip the lead that runs to it. Or, if you don't mind soldering, swapping in LEDs is possible. I once swapped an infrared LED in on a trackball that used a translucent ball and a red LED when I used the thing in a dark room.

Could be. Liz Truss said something similar, and she's also very much on the "loose" side of things

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/liz-truss-margaret-thatcher-similarities-b2159085.html

When Liz Truss was asked at the very first Conservative leadership hustings in Leeds which of the party’s past prime ministers she most admired, she had a very definite answer: Margaret Thatcher.

As Paul Johnson, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies pointed out just last week, her plans to increase the national debt in order to lower taxes “could not be further from Thatcher who...took the very unpopular decision to raise taxes in 1981 to manage deficit and inflation”.

Rather, the economics expert said, such a policy had “clear echoes of Ted Heath in 1973”.

Conservative MP Robert Jenrick expressed a similar concern. “It is antithesis of Thatcherism,” he said, “to be going around making unfunded tax pledges merely to win a leadership contest.”

I haven't been using instant messaging programs much for some years, but checking https://old.reddit.com/r/xmpp/ I see:

https://www.glukhov.org/post/2025/09/xmpp-jabber-userbase-and-popularity/

This has an estimate of 13–20 million users globally for 2023, but warns that because many servers don't publish information about their userbase, there's necessarily uncertainty. According to it, Germany is the country with the largest userbase, followed by Russia, followed by the US.

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"Uncle Bob's" bills that it's grown in Canada.

https://www.ontariopoppingcorn.com/

Organisers are reportedly blaming the mistake on a “printing error” and have since removed the chocolate from the bags

Wait a minute. So the organizers dick it up and get rewarded with a bunch of chocolate? This doesn't seem like proper incentivization.

EDIT: Also, based on recent polling, isn't Reform the largest opponent, not Labour?

An estimated 1.4 million adults in Britain have a gambling problem

Put more optimistically, that's 67.8 million Britons who don't have a gambling problem.

Takaichi, who says her hero is Margaret Thatcher, Britain's first female prime minister, offers a starker vision for change than Koizumi and is potentially more disruptive.

An advocate of late premier Shinzo Abe's "Abenomics" strategy to boost the economy with aggressive spending and easy monetary policy, she has previously criticised the Bank of Japan's interest rate increases.

I mean, I guess there's nothing necessarily wrong with both having Thatcher as your hero and adopting said policy, but Thatcher was a deficit hawk and advocated for tight fiscal policy, which is kind of the opposite of this.

jabber.org is a major server.

https://jabberworld.info/servers/

https://www.joe.co.uk/news/brits-in-disbelief-as-new-refillable-drinks-ban-implemented-across-uk-508201

An original consultation took place during 2018 as part of the previous government’s Child Obesity action, and legislation was finally passed in Parliament in December 2021.

The rules only came into force on Wednesday (1 October 2025).

The legislation was actually passed under the Johnson government:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Johnson_ministry

I suppose that Labour could have passed a law canceling implementation, though.