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Happy Birthday Tom Petty! New Screen Print “Tom Petty: I Won’t Back Down,” Available Thursday, Oct. 22nd at 10AM PT

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Today is Tom Petty’s birthday. I’ve been a big fan of Tom Petty since I first heard “Refugee” and “Don’t Do Me Like That” on the radio as a nine-year-old kid. My Appreciation for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers has only grown over the years as I’ve come to understand the power of Tom’s empathy for the underdog in his storytelling and the band’s dynamic chemistry in their musical arrangements and performances. I was lucky enough to work with Tom on several projects before he passed, and I was honored when Adria Petty reached out to me to illustrate a portrait of her dad for the cover of the “Tom Petty: An American Treasure” box set. With this year marking 50 years since the release of the first Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers album, Adria approached me again to create an early career portrait of Tom as a young man hungry to break through with his music and voice. I made this portrait of Tom to capture the intensity, attitude, and vigor of his early career. Those traits persisted and were eventually widely recognized as a tenacious working-class ethic, but the Heartbreakers’ debut album wasn’t an immediate hit, despite featuring the now-classic “American Girl” and “Breakdown.” I’ve always admired independence, determination, and vision, and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers had all those things in spades. Through this collaboration with Tom Petty’s estate, we are proud to support ACLU in their efforts to ensure that every eligible voter has the information and the right to cast their ballot and have their vote counted. Thanks, Tom, for 50 years of music and mojo, and for never backing down!

PRINT DETAILS: Tom Petty: I Won’t Back Down. 32″ H x 24″ W. Screen print on 100% Cotton Custom Archival Paper with hand-deckled edges. Signed by Shepard Fairey. Numbered edition of 150. Obey publishing chop in lower left corner. $225. Available on Thursday, October 22nd @ 10 AM PDT at the Obey Giant Store and Tom Petty Online Store.

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Microsoft Abandons UK AI Supercomputer As Grid Struggles to Keep Up

Microsoft has reportedly abandoned plans to serve as the anchor customer for Britain's largest proposed AI supercomputer after learning that the project's Essex data center might not receive sufficient grid power until the early to mid-2030s. "Its departure leaves Nscale without a publicly announced customer for the site, although the neocloud insists the project is still going ahead," reports The Register. From the report: When the deal was announced in September 2025, the plan was to pack 23,040 Nvidia GB300 GPUs into a 50MW facility, with room to expand to 90MW. Microsoft would use the computing power for its Azure cloud services, with the first chips expected in early 2027. One important detail remained: how to power it.

As The Guardian reported last month, UK Power Networks warned Nscale that the grid capacity needed might not be available until the 2030s. A UK Power Networks spokesperson told The Register it could not discuss individual connections due to obligations under Section 105 of the Utilities Act. "However, in general, many datacenters, whilst they can connect to our distribution network, are awaiting works on the national transmission network which we do not own," the spokesperson said.

Nscale, meanwhile, isn't letting the small matter of losing its biggest customer dampen its enthusiasm. "We remain committed to both the Loughton project and the UK and we are exploring alternative power sources for the site, in addition to other expansion sites in the UK. Our relationship with Microsoft remains strong and long-term, and this unfortunate London-wide grid issue has no impact on our other contracts," Nscale told The Register.

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‘If the lion does not tell its story, the hunter will’: a century of thrilling Cameroonian art

Key players in the country’s art history feature in a hefty new tome that covers everything from royal-carvers to bronze-smiths to work inspired by a horrific video smuggled out of a torture chamber

One Sunday last year, the Cameroonian-Guadeloupean-French artist Roxane Mbanga was relaxing in bed when she received a message that made her sit up. It was about working on an art history project.

Growing up in Paris, she had been a regular at Maasai Mara, the now defunct restaurant owned by her father, where Africans in the diaspora, including the artists whom he helped organise exhibitions, convened to eat and chat. Thus the concept of a book, attempting for the first time to comprehensively compile and document key players in Cameroon’s vast visual art history, made obvious sense to her.

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Fridge or not? What’s the best way to store bread?

Our experts have some airtight advice on stopping your loaf from going stale – and even freshening it up again – but whatever you do, keep it out of the fridge

What’s the best way to store bread? Beeswax wraps, plastic bags, fridge – I’ve tried everything except a bread bin.
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“When bread is baked, what happens is that all the starch in the flour expands and takes in all the water,” says Sophia Handschuh, co-founder of Sourdough Sophia in London. That’s why the crumb turns all soft and fluffy. “When you pull the bread out of the oven, as soon as it touches any surface it will start to dry up, which is why bread goes stale; the starch doesn’t like being kept in the air.”

To combat this, Handschuh stores her loaf at room temperature in a greaseproof paper bag (ie, the one you bring it home in): “That’s probably the best way – no plastic. And, yes, you can use beeswax wrap, but that’s expensive and you shouldn’t have to go and buy some just for storing bread.”

Got a culinary dilemma? Email feast@theguardian.com

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Giving £2 a day to people in the Amazon helps protect rainforest, pilot project finds

Researchers say almost 90% of participants in unconditional basic income scheme in Peru adopted environmentally beneficial practices

A pioneering project to provide Indigenous people in the Peruvian Amazon with an unconditional basic income has contributed to the protection of the rainforest, according to a study.

The analysis from the University of Bath is expected to contribute to a growing debate about the role of direct payments to communities that maintain globally important ecosystems.

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Children of the Wicker Man review – how the folk-horror classic haunted a family that made it

Director Robin Hardy’s children lay bare the sometimes agonised family background to a movie that went from ruinous flop to cult favourite

This documentary is a collaboration between Justin Hardy and Dominic Hardy, two of film director Robin Hardy’s children (he had seven in all, and was married five times), and it delves into the legacy of both their father and his most enduring work, 1973 folk-horror classic The Wicker Man. The latter still stands today, for all its imperfections and peculiarities, as one of the most unsettling and paradoxically influential British films of all time, despite being a box-office flop on its initial release. This latest work is partly an account of The Wicker Man’s troubled production – a story that’s been told in books and journalism a fair few times already – and its strange reemergence as a cult movie-cum-fetish object, and partly a therapeutic exercise for the brothers themselves, full of raw feeling that’s sometimes painful to watch.

However, while the brothers’ willingness to share their pain remains admirable, their film feels hampered by omissions and silences. On some level it is haunted by the ghosts of significant players in the story who have passed away, including Hardy himself and screenwriter Anthony Shaffer, as well as other key figures who are alive but aren’t interviewed here. Where, for example, are the brothers’ other siblings? Allan Brown, author of Inside The Wicker Man: How Not to Make a Cult Classic, is mentioned in several juicy anecdotes but is also absent, while somewhat bafflingly there’s a fair amount of an interview with Scottish actor Bill Paterson, who was almost cast in the original film but wasn’t.

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Tom Cruise’s Digger is a commercial flop – but also the perfect climate film for our time

The movie follows Digger Rockwell, whose drilling triggers a vast iceberg that’s five times the size of Washington DC

Digger, the new Alejandro González Iñárritu film, is bombastic, misanthropic and an epic, critically savaged flop. It is also the near-perfect climate change film for our era.

Digger Rockwell, the eponymous protagonist played by Tom Cruise, is a bluntly caricatured Texas oilman blase about the environmental ruin of his drilling, even as it triggers a disastrous splitting of the Arctic ice sheet. This causes a vast iceberg, five times the size of Washington DC, to barrel towards Europe and threaten a devastating tsunami.

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RJ Mitte obituary

Film and TV actor with cerebral palsy who played Walter White Jr in Breaking Bad and was a staunch disability rights campaigner

The actor RJ Mitte was a natural choice to play Walter White Jr, the son of Walter White (Bryan Cranston), the high school chemistry teacher turned meth dealer, in the television series Breaking Bad (2008-13), generally regarded as one of the greatest shows of the streaming era.

Walt Jr, also known as Flynn, was modelled by the show’s creator, Vince Gilligan, on the son of a friend who had cerebral palsy. Mitte had been diagnosed with cerebral palsy as an infant, and told the Guardian in 2015 that when he read the character summary he thought it “pretty much described me. ‘Dark hair, big eyebrows, cerebral palsy … ’ I was, like, ‘I have this covered.’”

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Scientists Discover A Strange Particle Explains the Origin of Reality

Scientists Discover A Strange Particle Explains the Origin of Reality

Scientists have discovered that an exotic particle that existed at the birth of the universe might solve one of the biggest mysteries in cosmology and help explain reality as we know it, according to a new study in Physical Review Letters.

Our modern universe is dominated by matter, but it also contains fleeting amounts of antimatter, which is like a bizarro version of matter made of particles with the same mass, but opposite electrical charges. For instance, matter contains positively-charged protons and negatively-charged electrons, whereas antimatter is made up of the inverse: negatively-charged antiprotons and positively-charged positrons. 

As a result of these opposite features, matter and antimatter particles annihilate each other when they meet. This mutual destruction is the source of a major cosmic mystery, given that equal amounts of matter and antimatter are predicted to have formed in the split-seconds following the Big Bang. Yet somehow, matter emerged as the far more dominant substance in the cosmos, an asymmetry that has yet to be explained.

Now, a pair of scientists have pinpointed an overlooked particle, known as the heaviest decoupled right-handed neutrino (RHN), as a solution to this problem—plus, they predict that their hypothesis could be experimentally tested in the future. 

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“No one talks about this decoupled right-handed neutrino,” Rishav Roshan, a research fellow at the University of Southampton and a co-author of the study, told 404 Media. “We realized that this decoupled right-handed neutrino could alter the expansion of the universe and affect the matter-antimatter asymmetry of the universe.”

“This thing was present in the literature for a very long time, and for some reason people did not pay that much attention to this particular point,” he added.

Scientists Discover A Strange Particle Explains the Origin of Reality
A graphic summary of the new study. 

This particle is the heaviest of a trio of hypothetical decoupled RHNs that existed briefly after the Big Bang, and are key to the “minimal seesaw model” that explains the origin of modern neutrinos, which are extremely lightweight particles that are abundant in the universe today.  

“The heaviest decoupled right-handed neutrino is a particle that exists in the minimal seesaw model but interacts very weakly with regular matter, making it nearly invisible to current experiments,” Roshan told 404 Media. For this reason, he noted that this particle has been “overlooked because many researchers focus on the lighter neutrinos” and view “the heavy states as irrelevant due to their minimal influence on observable physics.”

Roshan and co-author Sudipta Show, a postdoctoral researcher at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, had a hunch that this exotic heavy particle could have played a role in the domination of matter in the early universe. In their new study, they included the particles in models of the primordial universe, which suggested that the particle could have slowly decayed, creating an imbalance in particles known as “leptons”—a class that includes different “flavors” such as electrons, muons, and neutrinos—that was then amplified into the larger matter-antimatter imbalance. 

“In the early universe, when this heavy neutrino was produced, the temperature of the universe was extremely high, much greater than the mass energy of this neutrino, and it behaved as radiation,” Roshan explained over email. “As the universe began to expand, its temperature slowly decreased.” 

“Once the temperature fell below the mass energy of the heavy neutrino, the particle became non-relativistic and started to behave like matter due to its extremely weak interactions, influencing the dynamics of the universe's expansion and affecting the creation of matter versus antimatter,” he continued.

Scientists have already pinpointed the process of uneven lepton and antilepton formation—known as leptogenesis—as a leading explanation for how matter dominated the universe. Roshan and Show now demonstrate that the heaviest decoupled RHN is key to this hypothesis and should be included in future models.

Moreover, the team noted that a new generation of observatories could potentially detect this process hidden in gravitational waves, which are ripples in spacetime. Current detectors, such as the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) can pick up gravitational waves made by cataclysmic events, such as mergers between black holes. But a spate of advanced detectors, due to come online in the 2030s and 2040s, are designed to tune into “primordial” waves from the split-seconds after the Big Bang, which may contain spectral signs of the heaviest decoupled RHN. 

“Future detectors like SKA, LISA, DECIGO, and ET could potentially observe these signatures. These instruments are being developed to detect gravitational waves, with some expected to come online within the next few years. If successful, they could pick up signals related to the heavy neutrino’s effects on the early universe,” Roshan wrote over email.

“Solving the matter-antimatter asymmetry question could transform our understanding of cosmic evolution and the fundamental laws of physics,” he added. “It may challenge or refine the Standard Model and influence theories of the universe's formation and structure. A new understanding of this asymmetry could also lead to insights about dark matter and the early moments of the universe, potentially reshaping our view of cosmic history.”


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Wachtgeld Kamerlid of jouw WW? Het verschil loopt op tot €175.000

De Tweede Kamer trekt voor dit jaar 8,7 miljoen euro extra uit voor wachtgeld. Veel Kamerleden namen na de verkiezingen van oktober 2025 afscheid. Hun uitkering valt een stuk ruimer uit dan de WW die jij krijgt als je je baan verliest.

Wachtgeld of WW: zo groot is het verschil

Een oud-Kamerlid krijgt het eerste jaar 80 procent van zijn salaris, daarna 70 procent. Een werknemer krijgt twee maanden 75 procent en daarna 70 procent, met een plafond.

Oud-Kamerlid Werknemer met WW
Eerste periode 80% (eerste jaar) 75% (eerste 2 maanden)
Daarna 70% 70%
Hoogste bedrag per maand, begin €8.326 €5.055
Hoogste bedrag per maand, daarna €7.285 €4.718
Hoe lang even lang als de tijd in de Kamer, minimaal 2 jaar, hooguit 3 jaar en 2 maanden 1 maand per gewerkt jaar, vanaf jaar 11 een halve maand, hooguit 24 maanden
Totaal, hooguit ruim €289.000 bijna €114.000

Alle bedragen zijn bruto, zonder vakantiegeld, bij de langste duur en zonder ander inkomen. Voor het Kamerlid is de basis de schadeloosstelling, zoals het salaris van een Kamerlid officieel heet, van €10.407,54 per maand. Voor de werknemer rekent UWV met een maximumdagloon van €309,91, zo’n €6.740 per maand. Verdien je meer, dan telt dat deel niet mee.

Het verschil in duur is nog groter dan het verschil in geld. Na twee jaar in de Kamer heeft een politicus volgens Parlement.com recht op twee jaar wachtgeld. Een werknemer met twee jaar werk krijgt drie maanden WW. Voor de volle 24 maanden heb je 38 jaar werkervaring nodig, blijkt uit de rekenregels van de Rijksoverheid.

“Tijdens het eerste jaar bedraagt de uitkering 80 procent van het loon”

Zoveel verdienen Kamerleden en ministers nu

Een Kamerlid verdient sinds deze zomer €10.407,54 bruto per maand, staat in de Wet schadeloosstelling leden Tweede Kamer. Met 8 procent vakantiegeld en 8,3 procent eindejaarsuitkering komt dat op ruim €145.000 per jaar. Begin juli stond in het stuk over wat een Kamerlid verdient nog ruim €141.000: dat was het bedrag van juli 2024. Het salaris stijgt mee met de cao van ambtenaren bij Binnenlandse Zaken.

In cijfers

  • €211.552 bruto per jaar verdient een minister. Premier Rob Jetten krijgt hetzelfde. Dat is zo’n €17.629 per maand, vakantiegeld en eindejaarsuitkering inbegrepen ( Rijksoverheid).
  • €197.608 bruto per jaar krijgt een staatssecretaris.
  • 34 procent extra krijgt de Kamervoorzitter. Een fractievoorzitter krijgt 1 procent plus 0,3 procent per fractielid, tot 11,5 procent.
  • €4.900 per jaar is er voor reizen buiten het woon-werkverkeer, naast een kostenvergoeding van €3.532,82 per jaar.

Volgens Panorama kunnen Kamerleden voor het woon-werkverkeer kiezen uit een ov-jaarkaart eerste klas of een reiskostenvergoeding. Die vergoedingen zijn bedoeld voor kosten van het werk.

Krijgt een oud-Kamerlid dat geld zomaar?

Oud-politici moeten solliciteren en nieuwe inkomsten gaan van het wachtgeld af, schreef minister Uitermark van Binnenlandse Zaken in juni 2025 in antwoord op Kamervragen. Het wachtgeld stopt bij een nieuwe functie, bij terugkeer in de Kamer of het Europees Parlement en op de AOW-leeftijd.

Voor ministers en staatssecretarissen geldt hetzelfde percentage, berekend over hun laatste salaris. Zaten ze korter dan drie maanden op hun post, dan krijgen ze zes maanden wachtgeld.

Het blijft een flinke post. De kosten van wachtgeld voor oud-politici werden in tien jaar ruim vijf keer zo hoog, schreef WEL in februari in het stuk over de kosten van wachtgeld. De Kamer verwacht dat meer vertrekkende en niet herkozen Kamerleden er een beroep op doen.

“Het budget voor de wachtgeldregeling dient verhoogd te worden met € 8,7 mln. in 2026”

Zo check je hoeveel WW jij zou krijgen

  • Tel je gewerkte jaren. Elk jaar tot en met het tiende levert een maand WW op, elk jaar daarna een halve maand. Je krijgt minimaal drie maanden.
  • Kijk naar je brutoloon. Verdien je meer dan zo’n €6.740 bruto per maand, dan rekent UWV met dat maximum.
  • Reken het uit. De rekenhulp van UWV geeft een schatting van je eigen uitkering.
  • Zoek in je cao naar de private aanvulling. Doet jouw sector mee aan de PAWW, dan kan je WW-duur aangevuld worden tot 38 maanden. Die aanvulling betaal je zelf, via een kleine inhouding op je loon.
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Bronnen: Panorama, Parlement.com, Tweede Kamer


Inspectie kreeg sinds 2016 meldingen over gezinshuis in Spanje

DEN HAAG (ANP) - De Inspectie Gezondheidszorg en Jeugd (IGJ) kreeg sinds 2016 meldingen over de jeugdzorginstelling 'Huize Soria' in Spanje. Dat bevestigt een woordvoerder van de inspectie na berichtgeving van Nieuwsuur. Het gezinshuis kwam in opspraak vanwege de extreme behandelmethodes die er zouden zijn toegepast voordat de instelling begin deze maand haar deuren sloot.

Huize Soria, een instelling voor jongeren met gedragsproblemen, is opgericht door een Nederlands stel. Via Nederlandse jeugdhulporganisaties werden jongeren gedwongen of vrijwillig in het gezinshuis opgenomen. Halverwege september kwamen zorgen over de locatie voor het eerst naar buiten. Aan Nieuwsuur vertellen oud-cliënten dinsdag over de vernederende en vrijheidsbeperkende maatregelen die er plaatsvonden.

Sinds 2016 kreeg de IGJ "over de jaren heen af en toe een melding over de kwaliteit en veiligheid in de zorginstelling", laat een woordvoerder weten. Ondanks die meldingen bleven verschillende jeugdzorgorganisaties toch jongeren naar het huis sturen.


EU-parlement stemt in met duidelijkere informatie voor passagiers

STRAATSBURG (ANP) - Met 652 voorstemmers stemde dinsdag bijna het hele Europees Parlement in met regels die ervoor moeten zorgen dat passagiers betere en duidelijke informatie krijgen over hun reis. De regels scheppen met name duidelijkheid over waar reizigers recht op hebben als hun reis geannuleerd wordt als ze hebben geboekt bij een derde partij, zoals een reisbureau of online-boekingsplatform.

Als bijvoorbeeld een vlucht wordt geannuleerd via zo'n partij, hebben passagiers recht op volledige terugbetaling binnen veertien dagen, zo wil het Europees Parlement. Een luchtvaartmaatschappij moet in zo'n geval binnen zeven dagen het bedrag overmaken aan het tussenbedrijf, dat het bedrag binnen zeven dagen overmaakt aan de passagier. Die tussenbedrijven zijn volgens de nieuwe regels ook verplicht om passagiers op het moment van boeken te informeren over de terugbetalingsregelingen.

Voordat de regels van kracht worden, is eerst nog een keer akkoord van de EU-lidstaten nodig.


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Nu zitten er nogal wat haakjes aan het verhaal dat kerken asielzoekers willen opvangen. Het haakje 'huuu stop eerst de moskeeën maar eens vol' bijvoorbeeld, probleem is alleen dat in Nederland de moskeeën ook daadwerkelijk vol zitten, en de kerken steeds minder. Ander haakje natuurlijk wel: asielzoekers zijn voor het overgrote deel islamitisch en die hebben het niet zo op kerken - ze doen in ieder geval heel dramatisch als ze over de kerkdrempel moeten stappen en over het algemeen is het makrooh (afgeraden) of mubah (toegestaan onder bepaalde voorwaarden). Het laatste haakje komt van mensen die tijdens Pasen 2004 voor het laatst in een kerk zijn geweest en die gaat zo: 'ASIELZOEKERS IN ONZE KERKEN??!?!?! LANDVERRAAD, ONMOGELIJK, IS NEDERLAND ONS NEDERLAND NOG WEL?' Dat haakje mag u venten in de comments.

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Kremlin Hopes Witkoff Will ‘Brief’ Putin on Talks With Ukraine and Europe

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