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New podcast out with Erica Komisar on what children really need & the irreplaceable role of mothers. Her insights challenge the status quo and remind us of the profound power of presence, sacrifice, and love in raising emotionally healthy children. 👍 dogoodpodcast.co.uk/ep-87-erica-ko…

We are overstimulated and we don't even notice. Netflix while eating. Reels in the bathroom. Music while cooking. Podcasts on walks. We consume by default, not by intention. You keep filling every gap, then wonder why you feel foggy and unmotivated. Boredom and silence are the real growth drivers. They give you space to think and create. That's when solutions show up for problems that have been stuck for months. Leave some room.

New project: creating @chesterzoo digital magazine for their members. We had a blast working on this over the past 3.5 years. weareraw.co.uk/work/chester-z…

@maltburger85 @BGatesIsaPyscho which JRE epsiode out of interest?

@BGatesIsaPyscho They're definitely pushing globe imagery hard at the moment I think the recent JRE episode has got them scared!

🚨 “Japanese astronaut has shared spectacular footage of a dazzling Aurora filmed from the International space station” Anyone else see the problem here?

OK M&S just dropped something actually genius: their new 'Only… Ingredients' range 😍 Everyday staples like baked beans, sausages, burgers, ketchup, yoghurts, cereals... made with 3–8 recognisable ingredients MAX. No weird additives, no artificial colours, no preservatives, no ultra-processed nonsense. Just proper food, back to basics. 👏🏻

@elonmusk Just like you, Elon

Most politicians are just the actors on the stage. You don’t see the scriptwriters, directors and producers who control them.

A quite unbelievable and, frankly, stupid line of defence from Petey. His innocence until proven guilty granted, but this line is simply dumb. It assumes that male pedophiles don’t also procure underage boys for gay men.

Celebrating New Year on January 1st, in the dead of winter, has felt off with me for quite a while - turns out 1st April used to be day... brucestambaugh.com/2010/04/01/no-…

How the City of London is not part of the UK. For those who have not seen this before it’s important you watch and listen. The City of London, Washington DC and the Vatican City all have special status. This gives special rights and protections to those in these areas. The speaker is Professor Richard Werner. One if not the most important video in the history of the 20 century!

This is a long 🧵 on digital ID in the UK, but I hope people read it because it seems there is a fundamental misunderstanding as to what digital ID actually is. Some people think it's only anything with new biometrics, others think it's just "Britcard" & others think it's 1/

I am actually a huge fan of the BBC or at least what it used to be. This recent scandal and the new information that is being revealed about BBC bias on other matters such as immigration, gender ideology etc explain very clearly why our country is where it is. The simple fact is that journalists, civil servants, politicians, activists, comedians and other cultural and political commentators live in a bubble in which they are not only naturally insulated from the views of the man or woman in the street, they are also deliberately insulating themselves from the views of the plebs whom they despise and look down on. On every common sense issue (illegal immigration is wrong, men can't become women, lying about Trump & Farage is wrong, no matter how much you hate them, Net Zero is economic suicide etc) they have taken the wrong side every single time. But not only were they wrong, they gaslit everyone else into believing we were the immoral ones for being right. This isn't about the BBC, it's about the entire social milieu in which smugness and certainty have triumphed over curiosity and humility. This is the truth about why Britain is where it is: the people who are meant to lead us do not serve the people, they serve themselves. This is a rotten way to do politics, to debate ideas, to run a country. Is it any surprise that the wealthy (who can leave) and the young (who are flexible enough to leave) are fleeing in their droves? People don't like to hear it but it is true: Britain has slipped into an economic, cultural and demographic crisis from which it will be nigh on impossible to recover. Our GDP per person is lower today than it was in 2008. Our cultural and political debates are phony. We argue about what a woman is while our country is going bankrupt. The best and brightest leave while the government stuffs hotel after hotel with illegal immigrants at our expense. Britain has one electoral cycle left to change course. We won't survive 5 more years of elite failure after this useless Government limps out of office. We're running out of road.

Watch out for the sneaky stealth taxes in the upcoming budget. Good insight here in how they keep shafting us year after year 👇👇👇 financialinterest.com/stealth-taxes/

The mob is out in force. The more I see of this cruel “activism,” the more convinced I am that I do not want them anywhere near me or my music, however that may affect my career. I won’t be held to ransom—no more blackmail. What I see more than anything is a spoiled and entitled childishness. I am not interested in being their “mother” or “queen”; these babies need to grow up and allow artists like myself the dignity of opinion and the space and freedom to create. Or let them have AI pop star avatars that never question them. Let the music industry do its worst; let it continue to infantilize and exploit them. Let them have a hologram, perfectly designed for an insular, echo-chamber culture. Perhaps I’ve lived through the last moments of the best period in popular music and, in fact, it’s over—or at least it is at the beginning of the end. If that is so, I have nothing to lose. Just for the record, I have zero hate toward trans people; I do not deny anyone’s existence. The post that has caused such frantic panic among the trans activist mob is a graph that shows a steep decline in trans and non-binary identity in young people over the past few years in the USA. My declaration “it was never real” refers to the contagion that was undoubtedly aided by the submission of the media, captured medical institutions, and social media derangement. Recently, this wilfully blind and irresponsible behavior has been curtailed to some degree, as more and more people affected by it stand up and demand a long-needed audit of trans ideology, which continues to stamp its boot across anyone who decries its negative consequences. Children, families, women, and gay people have all been adversely affected by the insane belief that one can change sex—the core hallucination of this destructive and insidious movement—while bad faith actors have lined their pockets. The arts as a whole are a shadow of their former free and inclusive selves. I’ve had the most free and fun time possible making the music I believe in over the past 30 years. If being a compassionate artist is to be my downfall now, then so be it. I know in my heart that one day, I will be remembered as a brave person, both morally and artistically uncompromising. In the long run, that will be my legacy.

I’m turning 41, but I don’t feel like celebrating. Our generation is running out of time to save the free Internet built for us by our fathers. What was once the promise of the free exchange of information is being turned into the ultimate tool of control. Once-free countries are introducing dystopian measures such as digital IDs (UK), online age checks (Australia), and mass scanning of private messages (EU). Germany is persecuting anyone who dares to criticize officials on the Internet. The UK is imprisoning thousands for their tweets. France is criminally investigating tech leaders who defend freedom and privacy. A dark, dystopian world is approaching fast — while we’re asleep. Our generation risks going down in history as the last one that had freedoms — and allowed them to be taken away. We’ve been fed a lie. We’ve been made to believe that the greatest fight of our generation is to destroy everything our forefathers left us: tradition, privacy, sovereignty, the free market, and free speech. By betraying the legacy of our ancestors, we’ve set ourselves on a path toward self-destruction — moral, intellectual, economic, and ultimately biological. So no, I’m not going to celebrate today. I’m running out of time. WE are running out of time.

It’s now 27 years since I was made redundant and given a few grand. I decided that if I was careful, I could live off the money for 6 months trying to become a comedian before I had to get another job. I was 37. Worth a punt.

Neil Oliver: "And so, back, one last time, to digital ID and why I say it won't work. It won't work because it's not built and never was intended to make any of us safe but, on the contrary, to make the oligarchs safe, safe from us. It won't work because in the end, as always, it's only about money, money taken from us the many and seized by them the few." "It won't work because, on account of their hubris, the oligarchs have actually revealed to us what they're all about. Bad actors, bad scripts, bad special effects, disastrous production values all round. Digital ID won't work because the sales pitch is supposed to be able to make this country and the people living in it safe." "But too many people see that the directors of the disastrous bad acting have nothing but contempt for this place and for this people. Too many see that those who loathe us and our ancient homeland, those who would replace it and us with something without meaning, just a stepping stone to money and control, those that are committed to a new world order in which the mass of us are nothing more than captive slaves, captive to an anti-human ideology. Too many people see it." "Digital ID was supposed to be their grand finale, the big finish, but it's never about what they say it's about. Bad actors, the lot of them, acting in bad faith and with malice in mind. I'm telling you now, on account of all I've just said, digital ID, it won't work."

Interesting perspective, as always, from @alchemikpharmd on the Charlie Kirk Assassination with a real-time analysis through the three-narrative framework unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/the-charlie-…

“Working hard for something we don't care about is called stress: Working hard for something we love is called passion.” - Simon Sinek

Can you think of any proposal or policy which was pushed by Tony Blair which actually benefited the people of our country ?

I built my dream office in the forest behind my home. Art studio, workspace, podcast set, library, lounge, kitchen, bathroom, sleeping loft - all in one! It took 4 months to build, start to finish. Want to see inside the nook? 🧵