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I Joined OnlyFans To Fight The Climate Crisis
Half of my OnlyFans inbox is men asking me if they can watch me orgasm (answer: not yet, but keep spending and we’ll see). The other half is men asking me why governments are so inept when it comes to acting on imminent climate threats.
Replying to all of these messages is time consuming. But it’s what I signed up for when I decided to join a platform known for porn to talk about the existential threats being faced by humanity; specifically, the climate crisis.
My decision to join OnlyFans feels, in some perverse way, like a hunger strike. If my body is the only thing extractive capitalism hasn’t yet taken from me, I will use it as a form of protest, for attention in a way I never anticipated when I first started working in climate communications.
My job as a narrative strategist involves understanding the stories people believe about climate change, and unfortunately many of those stories are incorrect. Even the stories about the stories are incorrect.
For example, people think that there are a huge number of people who don’t believe climate change is real, but that’s not true. Most people – 89% across 125 countries – want stronger climate action.
Climate change is a very particular comms challenge. It is something that most people in the world believe is an issue that we must prioritise solving, but that governments refuse to act on with the immediacy required.
It is a problem that impacts all of us regardless of our political belief, and a slow-moving existential threat that, psychological research shows, our brains cannot fathom, so we tend to switch off when we should be leaning in.
Even if we do get people engaged, the only solution is an immediate transition away from fossil fuels and to renewable energy – something that is achievable but presented as impossible by Big Oil corporations and the governments who are not holding them to account.
For normal people, the lack of agency leads to a general feeling of despair.

If nobody is listening, how do we make them?
I felt like giving up on my work, until I saw Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up on Netflix back in 2021. It’s a dark satire about scientists who have infallible evidence that a meteor is coming to Earth, but are faced with a world who simply will not listen.
Watching that film was my life’s work reflected at me. If nobody is listening, how do we make them?
I did a deep dive into recent examples of effective communication to reach the masses and found myself fixated on how Trump’s voter base had been activated on a platform of fear and dissatisfaction.
I saw how the primary messages, which present more as ‘feelings’, were shared and cultivated through entertainment built upon parasocial relationships – the ones developed through long, conversational podcasts, and a presence alongside daily life on social media.
It was a new form of trust and intimacy that was incredibly effective at narrative shift.
That word – ‘intimately’ – sparked a solution. I am lucky to have genius OnlyFans friends Meg Prescott and Bree Essrig, and they have shared their experiences building sincere relationships with followers who are there for comfort and connection as much as masturbation.
It seemed absurd to think that a platform known for selling nudes could be home to climate messages, but it also seemed absurd to not try absolutely everything when our window for meaningful action is closing.
It was through another work project that I met Staci Roberts-Steele from Yellow Dot Studios, the nonprofit set up by Adam McKay. Together, we created Headline Newds, a comedy porn series made for OnlyFans.
The videos would reach people who would typically scroll past anything with “climate” or “science” in the title, through entertainment and intimate parasocial relationships.
The production – working with eight brilliant OnlyFans creators – showed me that women who know their value are the perfect people to advocate for our planet, and for everything natural and human we are trying to protect in a world being mined to make machines.
As climate narrative strategy goes, this was something completely new, and I realised that waking up the comms industry to the fact that we need new ideas was as important to me as the public response to the videos.
I set up my own OnlyFans account – and was inundated with DMs
That’s when I decided to start my own OnlyFans account. I may not have the body or the beguiling nature of the creators we worked with, but I’d learned that OnlyFans was about so much more than boobs.
When we launched Headline Newds, I opened my OnlyFans DMs to men who wanted to talk about climate change. And I have been inundated.
Many people said the videos had taught them something new, but many more said that they were worried for the future of the planet, frustrated with their governments, but didn’t know what to do with those feelings.
No one told me to shut up and get my tits out.
Though not true for many women I know, sex work has a reputation as being the “last resort” for women who have exhausted every other option and simply must pay their rent.
There is a stigma attached to it, although in any sane world the stigma should be on the systems creating the conditions in which vast numbers of people cannot afford to live.
But this is not a sane world, which is why I joined OnlyFans as a signifier that we must try every possible “last resort” when it comes to communicating about the climate.
What this experience has shown me is not just that people are willing to engage with climate content in unexpected places, but that the problem was never a lack of care. It was a lack of connection.
For years, we’ve tried to communicate urgency through facts, fear, and authority – but attention today is built through intimacy, trust, and presence.
If the climate crisis demands that we rethink everything about how we live, it should also demand that we rethink how we speak.
Jessica Riches is a climate-focused filmmaker and narrative strategist, and co-creator of Headline Newds, a short-form series produced with Adam McKay’s Yellow Dot Studios. She explores how attention, intimacy and unconventional storytelling can be used to engage new audiences with the climate crisis.
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Green Candidate In Makerfield By-Election Quits After 12 Hours
Former Green Party Candidate Chris Kennedy poses for a portrait at Low Hall Nature Reserve on May 21, 2026 in Wigan, England.The Greens’ candidate for the Makerfield by-election has quit after less than 12 hours in the role.
The party said Chris Kennedy, a nurse and children’s safeguarding specialist, stood down for “personal and family reasons”.
The Greens are now looking for nominations for new candidates before the by-election on June 18.
Shortly after the news broke, The Times reported Kennedy had shared social media posts describing an attack on Jewish ambulances in north London as a “false flag” operation.
An Instagram video described the attack as “total bullshit to keep the false flag flying” and included an image where parts of the word “Jewish” had been blacked out.
Kennedy also shared a post from Hugh Anthony, who describes himself as a “proud ethno-nationalist”, which claimed the Golders Green terror attack made “no sense”.
A Green Party spokesperson told The Times that Kennedy “apologises for the offence caused” and had deleted the posts.
A party representative told the BBC the posts “don’t reflect the views of The Green Party”.
When announcing Kennedy’s decision to stand down, a Green spokesperson said: “We wish Chris the best and understand that family has to come first.
“As a party, we are re-opening nominations now because we believe people in Makerfield deserve a real choice at this by-election, and the Green Party will be standing to offer exactly that.
“Across the country, more and more voters are turning away from the old parties and looking for politicians who will genuinely stand up for their communities.
“We will also be redoubling our efforts on campaigning to expose the risk of Reform, a party who seeks to divide our communities.
“This election has to be about how to make the super-rich pay their fair share, how we tackle the cost-of-living crisis with lower bills and affordable housing, and how we protect our public services and our green spaces.
“It has to be about offering Makerfield hope over hate.”
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Quentin Tarantino Confronted Brad Pitt On Set Of ‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’, Co-Star Says
In an interview with People magazine published on Thursday, the longtime actor – who shared the screen with Pitt in Tarantino’s 2019 film – detailed a heated exchange the pair had while filming.
During the scene where Dern, who plays blind ranch owner George Spahn, is awoken by Pitt’s Cliff Booth, Dern said that Pitt made a move that sparked the spat between him and Tarantino.
“When Brad Pitt wakes me up in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’, I’m in the bed and I get up and I’m a little groggy and stuff and I just say, ‘I’m not really sure what’s going on’,” Dern recalled.
“I’m looking at him. [Pitt] cut the camera, [and told the crew to stop recording].”
Dern said Tarantino looked “insanely grave” before asking Pitt, “what did you just do?”.
He continyed: “[Pitt] said, ‘Well, I cut the camera.’ [Tarantino] said, ‘Never again in your life will you ever cut a camera or you’ll be dead in this business. That’s my domain. Don’t stop behaviour’.
“So then, we went on and did the scene, and all Brad did was say to him, ‘Well, that wasn’t in the script what he said’.”

After the crew continued filming, Dern improvised a new line: “I don’t know who you are, but you touched me today. You came to visit me, now I gotta go back to sleep.”
Both Pitt and Dern have both worked with Tarantino before.
Pitt won an Oscar for his performance in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, having also starred in Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds in 2009 and appeared briefly in Tony Scott’s 1993 True Romance, which Tarantino wrote.
Dern previously appeared in Tarantino’s Django Unchained in 2012, as well as The Hateful Eight in 2015.
Reps for Pitt and Tarantino didn’t immediately respond to HuffPost’s requests for comment.
Coming up, Pitt is set to reprise his Cliff Booth character in a Netflix spin-off to Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, written by Tarantino and directed by David Fincher.
The Adventures Of Cliff Booth will premiere on Netflix on 23 December. Watch a trailer for the movie below:
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Politics Home | Creating the right conditions to unlock UK infrastructure investment and growth

Unlocking private investment will be critical to delivering the UK’s infrastructure ambitions and driving regional growth. From de-risking projects to reforming funding models, the challenge now is turning political intent into investor confidence.
The UK stands at an important moment in its pursuit of economic renewal. Plans and policies agreed in the next few months will determine the pace and progress of infrastructure development over the next decade.
Against that backdrop, the King’s Speech yet again reinforced the role of infrastructure in supporting economic growth across the UK. In the days following UKREiiF, as the public sector, industry, and investors reflect on discussions, the task now is to turn intent into confidence.
That confidence is essential if private investment is to be attracted at the scale and pace required.
Recent research among over 100 institutional investors shows clear appetite: 90 per cent rank the UK as an attractive destination for infrastructure investment in the next three years, and 71 per cent see UK projects as low-to-medium risk. These are encouraging signals, reflecting the shift in the government’s approach to planning and regulation, reinforced by new mechanisms such as the National Wealth Fund and pension fund reforms.
Beneath this optimism, however, the window of opportunity is narrowing. Only 19 per cent of investors firmly prioritise the UK over other regions, and nearly two-thirds have walked away from UK projects in the past where business cases failed to stack up. If we do not address the barriers – uncertain returns, planning delays, and delivery risk – we will lose momentum and capital to more competitive markets.
De-risking: building confidence through early integration
Investors are not averse to risk, but they demand clarity, predictability, and robust governance.
Early integration of public bodies, investors, and delivery organisations ensures that projects are both well-conceived and deliverable from the outset. This integrated approach must extend across the asset lifecycle, embedding risk management at every stage.
Collaborative contracting models have proven to reduce cost and schedule overruns through this approach, with the Construction Leadership Council estimating it can achieve savings of up to 20 per cent.
The East West Rail Alliance demonstrates this in practice: Phase 2 planning was completed 30 per cent faster than Phase 1 despite being twice the size. This is the kind of outcome that builds investor confidence – and it is replicable.
Incentivising: funding models that work
The government’s commitment to mobilise £3 of private capital for every £1 of public funding and the £50bn Mansion House Accord are a step in the right direction, but these must be underpinned by credible delivery plans and viable business cases.
To mobilise private finance, we need funding models that provide investors with the clarity and returns they require. Public-private partnerships remain central, with 37 per cent of investors citing their importance. However, 30 per cent are willing to pilot new funding models and participate in blended finance initiatives – provided the rewards outweigh the risks.
Thames Tideway illustrates what that looks like in practice. Its financing structure ensured returns during construction and provided the government as the insurer of last resort, giving investors the predictability they need.
Success depends on clear risk-sharing – reflected in models such as the Regulated Asset Base – well-defined governance, and policy stability that transcends electoral cycles.
Delivering: place-based partnerships
Regional and place-based investment programmes are pivotal to delivering impact at pace. Nearly 80 per cent of investors are interested in regional growth programmes, and a third are actively exploring options. This appetite now has a more enabling policy framework behind it, laying the foundation for regional delivery with place-based business cases.
Long-term, bundled regional programmes can open new funding pathways and turn complex, fragmented projects into stable propositions for institutional investors. These are the delivery mechanisms for the government’s growth mission: regional rail links, industrial clusters, science and manufacturing corridors.
However, such programmes could reveal capability gaps in public bodies and stretch them further, previously highlighted as a key lesson in the National Audit Office report, Lessons learned: private finance for infrastructure. In our research, investors acknowledged their experience of local bureaucracy as a barrier to invest, from perceptions of slow planning and difficulty securing approvals to the pace of local government.
Deploying digital tools such as AI and spatial data can accelerate delivery and reduce uncertainty. Additionally, integrators can fill local government capability gaps.
AtkinsRéalis is already working with a number of Mayoral Combined Authorities to plan and structure their regional growth programmes, including supporting national Green Book pilots that are demonstrating how place-based appraisal can unlock infrastructure value at scale. Scaling these pilots has the potential to get more cranes in the sky.
A window of opportunity
Policy conditions are better aligned than they have been for years. Place-based business cases, new funding models, and National Wealth Fund pilots together provide a credible platform for the ten-year infrastructure pipeline to attract the private investment it needs. The next step will be to move from strategy to delivery.
Programmes that succeed share common characteristics: early integration of the right stakeholders, clear risk allocation, and a commitment to collaborative delivery. Financial clarity, policy stability, and coordinated public-private effort are the conditions for unlocking investment and driving growth across every region.
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People Aren’t Buying Trump’s Excuse For Missing Jr.’s Wedding
Trump Jr. is set to marry model-socialite Bettina Anderson this weekend in the Bahamas, but it doesn’t look like his dad will be in attendance based on what he told reporters on Thursday.
Spoiler alert: If you’re looking for enthusiasm, you’ve come to the wrong place.
“He’d like me to go, but it’s gonna be just a small, little, private affair, and I’m gonna try and make it,” Trump said. “I said, you know, this is not good timing for me. I have a thing called Iran and other things.”
He added that if he does attend, “I get killed. If I don’t attend, I get killed. By the fake news, of course.”
The president’s waffling over whether he’ll attend his son’s wedding inspired a tizzy on social media among people who couldn’t believe he’d miss an important family event.
Donald Trump Jr. had not commented on his Dad’s inability to commit to attending his wedding as of Thursday evening.
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Netflix Announces Emily In Paris Season 6 Will Be Its Last
After six seasons and séjours in two major European cities (so far!), Emily In Paris will be saying au revoir for good at the end of its next run.
On Thursday, Lily Collins shared that her upcoming return as social media exec Emily Cooper will be her last, with production on the new episodes already underway.
In a video shared on Netflix’s socials, the Golden Globe nominee explained: “After six unforgettable years of playing Emily Cooper, I’m here to share that this upcoming sixth season will be our final.”
She continued: “Season six will bring you everything you love about the show, and serve as the final chapter in Emily’s adventure of a lifetime. Our entire cast and crew are pouring our hearts into making this a fantastic farewell season, which we’re now filming.
“I can’t wait for all of the magic ahead, and to celebrate our final season with you in the most chic way yet. We’re so incredibly grateful and we love you.”
Following her previous trip from Paris to Rome, Netflix has teased that Emily’s next trips will take her to Greece and Monaco.
Creator Darren Star said: “Making Emily In Paris with this extraordinary cast and crew has been the trip of a lifetime. As we embark on the final season, I am so grateful to Netflix, Paramount, and, most importantly, the fans who have taken this incredible journey with us.
“We can’t wait to share this last chapter with you. Thank you for letting us be a part of your lives, inspiring your dreams of travel and your love of Paris. We will always have Emily In Paris!”

Although Emily In Paris has never exactly gone down well with critics, its low-stakes drama has made it a consistent hit with Netflix users since it launched in October 2020.
Emily In Paris’ first five seasons are now streaming on Netflix.
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Politics Home Article | Living with obesity needs more than medication

Our recent launch of a unique in-person GLP-1 support service emphasises the essential need for compassionate, evidence-based support to sit alongside weight loss medication for sustainable results.
We recently announced the launch of a new suite of dedicated GLP-1 support, designed to help people using weight loss medication build the healthy habits they need to achieve and, crucially, sustain their weight loss long-term.
We steadfastly believe our methods can help anyone to lose weight, and for more than 55 years, our mission has been to support anyone and everyone who wants help to do that, with no judgement. The dawn of weight loss medication has not changed this.
We understand the hurt and desperation that overweight can bring. No matter which route people take to lose weight and improve their health – especially through surgery and injections – the decision is unlikely to have been made lightly.
Evidence shows that these medications don’t work long-term on their own, and from speaking to members who have joined us since starting medication, regaining weight when they stop taking it is a worry. The emotional impact alongside the physical toll of regaining weight is why weight loss medication must be partnered with evidence-based wraparound support delivered with empathy and compassion.
Over the past five decades, through our healthy, balanced eating plan, active lifestyle programme and behaviour change support, we’ve helped millions of people reduce their risk of long-term health conditions, improve their weight, fitness and overall metabolic health, and develop healthier habits that last. Our body of evidence doesn’t just show effective – and cost-effective – weight loss, though; it also demonstrates improvements in our members’ self-esteem, confidence and mental wellbeing.
Slimming World’s newly launched GLP-1 support reflects our clear and consistent belief: while medication can play a role in weight loss, lasting success comes from getting the support to make changes around food, drink and exercise, develop strategies and resilience, and build positive lasting habits for life – not medication alone. The GLP-1 support offers an additional layer to our existing programme of tailored guidance specifically for people who are using weight loss medications. It provides practical, evidence-based guidance on nutrition, muscle strengthening activity and appetite management, alongside the emotional and behavioural support people need – areas increasingly recognised as critical for long-term GLP-1 outcomes.
We’ve made a conscious decision not to follow others in the weight management sector in offering a weight loss medication prescription service, and we believe our in-person model sets us apart from those offering digital-only or short-term, medication-led solutions.
Our 12,000 groups are located in the heart of communities across the UK and run by expertly trained consultants who have all been members themselves. They’ve walked in their members’ shoes, they’ve made the decision to lose weight, and they know what it feels like to regain weight. I became a Slimming World member myself in my 20s after putting on weight while at university, and I truly believe the personal understanding and empathy that our consultants have makes all the difference.
Whether members lose weight with Slimming World alone or alongside medication, our commitment is clear: to help people not just lose weight, but stay healthy, confident and at the size and weight they want to be for life.
We share the same ambition as policymakers: a healthier population, reduced pressure on the NHS and lives transformed for the better for the long term. We wholeheartedly believe Slimming World is more relevant than ever in our ability to support the government and the NHS in achieving these goals.
We would welcome the opportunity to meet with the government to discuss our commitment to supporting its efforts to help people whose lives are adversely impacted by obesity and introduce them to our members, some of whom are using weight loss medication, who have lost weight and created lasting healthy habits.
For more information on our latest research and outcomes or our programme, please visit slimmingworld.co.uk.
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Tucker Carlson Eviscerates Trump’s MAGA Creed, And There Is No Going Back
Tucker Carlson used Donald Trump’s MAGA motto to tear down the president amid their wrecked alliance.
“The last year has not made America great again,” the former Fox News host said Wednesday on “The Tucker Carlson Show.” “The last year has diminished American power at a rate some of us thought was unimaginable. We couldn’t have foreseen, less than a year and a half ago … the damage that this administration, led by that president, for whom we campaigned and liked personally, could do to this country.”
Fast-forward to 8:55 for those remarks and more:
Carlson spring-boarded on Trump’s boast that he had “99%” approval in Israel to lash out at the war the president initiated in Iran after pledging not to get entangled in overseas conflicts.
“The president of the United States bragging about his popularity in a foreign country,” he said, repeating Trump’s 99% boast. “Unmentioned is the fact that he’s 35% in the United States. Thirty-five percent support from Americans, the people he pledged to represent, to fight for, whose side he promised to take in every conflict, foreign and domestic. And yet, there he is, bragging about how popular he is in a foreign country, the same country that got us into the war that is causing, to some extent, his unpopularity in this country.”
“Now you could say, ‘Well that’s just Trump, searching for affirmation wherever he can. Unpopular at home, he retreats into the fantasy of his popularity in another country,’” Carlson continued. “Well, yes, true. But it’s not a one-time exhibition of this. That president has spent the last year looking outward toward the approval of other nations. That president has spent the last year fighting for people who are not his voters, and in many cases not even Americans, and allowing his own country to languish.”
A new Reuters poll indicated that a huge majority of Americans is not pleased with Trump’s job performance.
Carlson, who earlier this month said that Trump “could be the Antichrist” and then denied it, is still giving him hell.
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Lupita Nyong’o Addresses Racist Backlash Over The Odyssey Casting
The Oscar winner is among the star-studded cast of Nolan’s upcoming epic, in which she’s set to play the dual roles of Helen Of Troy and her half-sister Clytemnestra.
Over the last few months, Lupita’s casting in these roles has been met with some controversy among far-right critics, exacerbated by comments from conservative political commentator Matt Walsh and tech billionaire Elon Musk, who criticised the decision to cast a Black woman as characters from Ancient Greece.
During a new interview with Elle magazine, Lupita reminded her racist critics that The Odyssey is “ mythological story”.
“I’m very supportive of Chris’s intention with [The Odyssey] and with the version of this story that he is telling,” she continued.
“Our cast is representative of the world. I’m not spending my time thinking of a defence. The criticism will exist whether I engage with it or not.”
She also enthused: “It’s quite something to be a part of The Odyssey, because it is so grand. It spans worlds. So that’s why the cast is what it is. We’re occupying the epic narrative of our time.”
Nolan and the film’s production company Universal are yet to respond to the backlash.
The Odyssey is due to hit cinemas in July, with Matt Damon taking on the lead role of Odysseus.
Joining him in the movie will be Nolan regulars like Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson and Elliot Page, as well as Tom Holland, Zendaya, Mia Goth, Travis Scott and Oscar winner Charlize Theron.
Nolan is already dismissing critics who’ve taken issue with the historical accuracy in his latest film, insisting: “Hopefully they’ll enjoy the film, even if they don’t agree with everything.
“We had a lot of scientists complain about Interstellar. But you just don’t want people to think that you took it on frivolously.”
Help and support:
- Tell MAMA supports victims of anti-Muslim hate.
- Young Minds offers information on racism and mental health for younger people.
- SARI (Stand Against Racism and Inequality) provides help to victims of hate.
- Stop Hate UK works to challenge all forms of hate.
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Parents Told To Send Letters To Schools To Get Kids’ Images Removed Online
An online harms expert and therapist has urged parents to contact their children’s schools to get any images of them removed online.
Catherine Knibbs shared earlier in the week that cyber criminals are taking photos of children from school websites and social media, and then manipulating them with AI to make child sexual abuse material (CSAM).
Schools are then being blackmailed to send money to stop the images from being shared.
“I’ve personally worked on cases like this as a child trauma and online harms expert – and the cases are sickening,” said Knibbs at the time.
And she warned it’s not just photos uploaded to school websites that are at risk of being taken and manipulated, it’s family photos shared on social media, too.
Her warning came after the National Crime Agency issued an alert in late April to hundreds of thouss of teachers over a “considerable increase” in financially motivated sexual extortion (sextortion).
After her first video was viewed over six million times, Knibbs shared an update urging parents not to wait for the government or tech companies to do something to tackle this growing problem.
“I have been inundated with requests for this … in the United Kingdom and Europe, you have the right to withdraw consent for your child’s images to be used by a setting, which includes schools, gymnastics, scouts, rugby, football, dance, you name it,” she explained in a new video.
“It also includes removing the permission to post on social media and the website and in advertisements and local newspapers.”
Parents urged to fill out letter to give to schools
The expert has created a free template of a letter parents can fill in and hand over (physically, not via email unless it’s encrypted, she advised) to their children’s schools.
In response to her video, lots of parents commented on how, when they refused consent for their child’s images to be shared online, they were treated as “awkward” for doing so.
One parent said: “We never gave consent for pictures of our children to be used by any organisation and were treated as insane and awkward and difficult by most of them!
Another commented: “I have four children and I never gave consent for their pictures to be on Facebook or on the school website… some teachers did comment that this made taking photos of events very tricky and thought that I was overreacting… always been a bad idea.”
One parent noted how, after opting out of having images shared from day one of their child attending school, the headteacher “couldn’t understand my reasoning at all”.
They ended: “Schools do not need to use images of children’s faces to promote their settings.”
Some parents have already tried to tackle the issue. One mum created Aidos – a safeguarding platform that makes every pupil in a school photograph permanently unidentifiable before the image is shared online.
She previously shared on HuffPost UK: “Schools can keep sharing everything they have always shared. The difference is that those images can no longer be used to harm the children within them.”
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3 Reasons Not To Wear Perfume Outside This Summer
I like a great fragrance as much as the next person. But if you’re planning on treating everyone to a noseful of your most prized perfume this summer, some experts advise doing so indoors.
That’s partly because of pests, UV rays, and efficacy; basically, sun and scents don’t always mix.
Here are three reasons why:
1) Certain perfumes attract wasps
At least, that’s according to BBC Gardener’s World, which said you shouldn’t wear it in your garden because wasps are sometimes drawn to the smell.
Dazed reported that fruity and floral scents might be especially tempting. Look out for ingredients like linalool, phenylacetaldehyde and benzyl acetate, which essentially act like nectar signals for our flying friends.
These, they say, are commonly found in the following scents:
- jasmine,
- tuberose,
- ylang‑ylang, and
- orange blossom perfumes.
White flowers and summer fruit scents, like strawberry, are typically draws for wasps.
2) Perfume might make your skin more reactive to sunlight
In a Facebook video, dermatologist Dr Niki Ralph said that you shouldn’t put perfume on skin you’re going to expose to the sun, like your neck.
“Fragrances… particularly certain oils, such as bergamot, lemon, lime… can exacerbate the effect of UV [ultraviolet rays],” she said. This is called photosensitivity, a condition which is triggered by sun exposure – citrus oils are usually the culprit here.
The result of this reaction is called phytophotodermatitis. Over time, that can lead to sun damage and even create broken capillaries and hyperpigmentation.
Applying it to your inner wrists may be safer, Dr Ralph added, because you don’t typically face those towards the sun.
3) Sunlight can make your perfume weaker
GQ said that heat makes perfumes evaporate faster, meaning the smell doesn’t last as long. Sweat also makes it harder for the smell to cling in the first place.
Some smells, like citrus scents, vanish faster than others, too.
Moisturising your skin and spraying a little on your fabric instead of your dermis can help them to last a bit longer.
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