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Phyllis Ring

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Author: THE MUNICH GIRL: A Novel of the Legacies that Outlast War. Balance-seeking investigator of Reality.

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Deutscher Schäferhund
Deutscher Schäferhund@DeutscherSchfe3·
Der Neumarkt in Dresden ist voll! 🔥 Hier findet die Gedenkkundgebung der „Trauerewache Deutschland“ statt. Sie erinnert an alle Opfer von Gewalt seit 2015 – insbesondere durch Attentate und extreme Gewalttaten. An alle, die heute hier sind: Danke, dass ihr gekommen seid. 🖤
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Phyllis Ring@phyllisring·
"Fujitsu knew about the bugs from 1999. The Post Office knew. They prosecuted people anyway. Then they destroyed the evidence, sacked the forensic accountants when they got too close to the truth, and deleted social media comments from victims."
Artur Nadolny@ArturNadol7566

THE MAN THEY CALLED A NUTTER JUST GOT A KNIGHTHOOD In 2003, the Post Office fired Alan Bates from his small branch in Llandudno, Wales. The reason? He refused to repay £1,200 that the Horizon computer system had invented out of thin air. He invested £65,000 in that post office. He made 507 calls to the helpline. He kept meticulous records proving the software was broken. The Post Office's response was to terminate his contract and walk away. Their own internal documents called him "unmanageable." People at industry conferences called him a nutter and a thief. He couldn't afford a hotel room at one protest event. He slept in a tent. So naturally he spent the next 20 years building the Justice for Subpostmasters Alliance, dragging the Post Office into the High Court, winning a landmark judgment in 2019 that proved Horizon was riddled with bugs, errors and defects, and triggering the overturning of more than 900 wrongful convictions. Over 900 people were prosecuted. Around 700 convicted. 236 went to prison. The scandal was linked to at least 13 suicides. The compensation bill has now passed £1.2 billion. Fujitsu (@Fujitsu_Global) knew about the bugs from 1999. The Post Office (@PostOfficeNews) knew. They prosecuted people anyway. Then they destroyed the evidence, sacked the forensic accountants when they got too close to the truth, and deleted social media comments from victims. Paula Vennells, the CEO who presided over much of it, collected a CBE. She kept it for years. Bates turned down an OBE in 2023 specifically because of that. He finally accepted a knighthood in 2024. After the ITV drama. After the public inquiry. After the nation had caught up with what he'd been saying since 2003. Twenty years. Sleeping in a tent. Called a thief by the people who were supposed to represent him. Sir Alan Bates was right from the start. The institution was lying from the start. That is the whole story. Sources: @ComputerWeekly | @BBCNews | @ITVNews | @guardian |

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Artur Nadolny
Artur Nadolny@ArturNadol7566·
THE MAN THEY CALLED A NUTTER JUST GOT A KNIGHTHOOD In 2003, the Post Office fired Alan Bates from his small branch in Llandudno, Wales. The reason? He refused to repay £1,200 that the Horizon computer system had invented out of thin air. He invested £65,000 in that post office. He made 507 calls to the helpline. He kept meticulous records proving the software was broken. The Post Office's response was to terminate his contract and walk away. Their own internal documents called him "unmanageable." People at industry conferences called him a nutter and a thief. He couldn't afford a hotel room at one protest event. He slept in a tent. So naturally he spent the next 20 years building the Justice for Subpostmasters Alliance, dragging the Post Office into the High Court, winning a landmark judgment in 2019 that proved Horizon was riddled with bugs, errors and defects, and triggering the overturning of more than 900 wrongful convictions. Over 900 people were prosecuted. Around 700 convicted. 236 went to prison. The scandal was linked to at least 13 suicides. The compensation bill has now passed £1.2 billion. Fujitsu (@Fujitsu_Global) knew about the bugs from 1999. The Post Office (@PostOfficeNews) knew. They prosecuted people anyway. Then they destroyed the evidence, sacked the forensic accountants when they got too close to the truth, and deleted social media comments from victims. Paula Vennells, the CEO who presided over much of it, collected a CBE. She kept it for years. Bates turned down an OBE in 2023 specifically because of that. He finally accepted a knighthood in 2024. After the ITV drama. After the public inquiry. After the nation had caught up with what he'd been saying since 2003. Twenty years. Sleeping in a tent. Called a thief by the people who were supposed to represent him. Sir Alan Bates was right from the start. The institution was lying from the start. That is the whole story. Sources: @ComputerWeekly | @BBCNews | @ITVNews | @guardian |
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn@AI_Solzhenitsyn·
"[T]he essence of Communism is quite beyond the limits of human understanding. It is hard to believe that people could actually plan such things and carry them out."
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Cameron Khansarinia
Cameron Khansarinia@khansarinia·
After Prince Reza Pahlavi’s press conference, I stood next to the parents of the victims the Prince refers to. I was supposed to translate. I reminded the journalists of who these brave parents were. The journalists still ignored them. I had no questions to translate. Shame.
Reza Pahlavi@PahlaviReza

Whether or not Europe stands with us, whether or not your journalists do their jobs, whether or not your politicians demonstrate the courage to act, I will fight for my people and my country.

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Wolf Reuter 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇮🇱
1/2 Was ist da eigentlich passiert? Der iranische Kronprinz Reza Pahlavi gibt eine Pressekonferenz in Deutschland, auf die ich – ehrlich gesagt – lange gewartet habe. Und dann passiert etwas, das mich mehr beschäftigt, als ich erwartet hätte: Er sagt die Dinge ziemlich klar, man kann es im Video jederzeit nachhören, und trotzdem wird er in Teilen der Berichterstattung beleidigt, lächerlich gemacht oder schlicht falsch wiedergegeben. Der Punkt, der mich am meisten irritiert: Pahlavi betont, dass er für eine demokratische Lösung im Iran steht. Nicht verklausuliert, nicht ausweichend, nicht als Nebenbemerkung – sondern als Kern seiner Aussage. Und dennoch liest man stellenweise, er sei Fragen nach Demokratie ausgewichen. Das ist nicht nur schräg, das ist nachprüfbar falsch. Wenn jeder nachhören kann, was gesagt wurde: Warum wird dann so getan, als sei etwas anderes gesagt worden? Ich stehe hier selbst in einer Zwickmühle. Mit der Berichterstattung über Israel habe ich mich aus persönlichen Gründen viel beschäftigt, ich kenne dort die Mechanismen, die Muster, die Reflexe – und ich kenne auch die typischen Erklärungen, warum bestimmte Dinge so laufen, wie sie laufen. Über den Iran hingegen weiß ich deutlich weniger, zumindest nicht genug, um mir da dieselbe Sicherheit anzumaßen. Umso plötzlicher trifft mich die Erkenntnis, dass ähnliche Phänomene offenbar auch hier greifen. Woher kommt diese Abwehr? Eine mögliche Spur ist die alte, tief verwurzelte linke Ablehnung der königlichen Familie. Manche verorten sie historisch, etwa seit dem Besuch 1967 in Berlin, andere sehen eine längere Linie: marxistische Prägungen, anti-royale Reflexe, Denkmuster, die aus einer anderen Zeit stammen, aber in Teilen – gerade auch im Journalismus – irgendwie konserviert wurden. Es gibt da vielleicht sogar Berührungspunkte zu dem, was man aus der Geschichte antizionistischer Propaganda kennt: nicht als identische Sache, aber als verwandte Mechanik. Ich beobachte das, ich behaupte nicht, dass ich damit schon die ganze Landkarte verstanden habe. Was ich aber ziemlich klar benennen kann: Mir hat Reza Pahlavi gerade deshalb gefallen, weil er anders auftritt als das, was hierzulande oft als „politische Kommunikation“ durchgeht. Er spricht nicht in Sprechblasen. Er wirkt eher wie ein Intellektueller oder Autor als wie jemand, der auf jedes Mikrofon mit einer fertigen Floskel reagiert. Seine Sätze sind abgewogen, er setzt historische Bezüge, er erklärt Zusammenhänge. Das klingt banal – aber genau diese Art von Sprache und Denken existiert in der Tagespolitik oft kaum noch. Und hier liegt vielleicht das eigentliche Problem: Wenn man wissen will, was er will, muss man ihm zuhören. Man muss zulassen, dass eine Aussage mehr ist als ein Schlagwort. Doch vieles in Medienlogik und politischer Routine funktioniert anders. Da braucht es einen Slogan, der in einen Titel passt, in einen Tweet, in ein kurzes O-Ton-Fenster. Und dann wird dieser Slogan wiederholt, bis er „sitzt“ – ob er passt oder nicht. Wer nicht so spielt, wirkt schnell „schwammig“, „ausweichend“ oder „nicht klar“, obwohl er in Wahrheit nur nicht im Werbemodus spricht. Das Tragische ist: Genau das, was ich an diesem Mann bewundere, wird ihm offenbar zum Nachteil. Er ist keine dieser Figuren, die eine Botschaft auf zehn Wörter eindampfen und dann den ganzen Tag dieselbe Zeile aufsagen. Er wirkt eher wie eine Führungsfigur im klassischen Sinn, eine Identifikationsfigur, jemand, der seine Rolle ernst nimmt – in seinem Fall eben als Kronprinz, der versucht, Verantwortung zu zeigen, ohne sich als machtgieriger Heilsbringer zu inszenieren. /2
Maral Salmassi@MaralSalmassi

While more than 150 journalists attended Prince Reza Pahlavi's press conference during his trip to Europe, not a single one asked about executions, massacres, or the current reality inside Iran. So no—this isn't vague "bias." It's a lens. Let's call it what it is: Third-Worldism. Look at the contrast. Nothing has changed since the 1970s. Back then, Khomeini was welcomed in Paris and romanticized by Western intellectuals like Michel Foucault, who framed his Islamist revolution as "political spirituality." Today, a press conference with Prince Reza Pahlavi—a figure speaking about regime change, repression, and the future of Iran—is met with suspicion, trivialities, and ideological vetting. Instead of asking: What is happening inside Iran right now? How many are being executed? What do the Iranian people want? You get: "Are you an asset?" "What did your wife retweet?" "Let's relitigate your father." That's not journalism. That's filtering reality through a preconceived narrative. Prince Reza Pahlavi represents something deeply inconvenient to that lens: a secular Middle Eastern country, aligned with the West and Israel—not imposed, but chosen—by a population rejecting an Islamic regime in favor of liberal democracy and pluralism. That doesn't fit the script. So instead of engaging with it, they try to disqualify it before the conversation even begins.

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Beatle 🍏
Beatle 🍏@Beatleradio·
El nuevo video de Ringo Starr es verdaderamente extraordinario. ¿Cuántas referencias a su vida pueden identificar? LONG LONG ROAD ♥️
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Right To Life UK
Right To Life UK@RightToLifeUK·
Baroness @Tanni_GT conveys Baroness Finlay’s apologies for missing today’s debate. She is attending the funeral of a patient once told by four doctors he had just three months to live... Baroness Finlay knew him for 35 years.
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Let Us Now Praise... The Beatles
"The reason I like the Beatles so much is that to me they really were an Elizabethan music group. Their melodies, their harmonies — so much of it was 500 years of music coming home, but this time with echoes of the blues and rock & roll with which they grew up. They couldn’t escape the expressive modalities of their own traditions, and whether they knew it or not, it’s all there in the Lennon-McCartney songs. "But when I listen to those tunes today, what I am constantly hearing is Shakespearean music and songs — music that comes from the Elizabethan court." --#MichaelTilsonThomas Rest in peace, #MTT. A genius with voracious appetites, a joyously open mind and a devotion to teaching, sharing and spreading great music. #RIP #Conductor #Composer #Pianist #SFO #LSO #NewWorldSymphony #KennedyCenterHonors #Grammys #TheBeatles #Songwriting
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Alan@A1an_M·
Two sticks of seed potatoes in the ground. 👍 Champion! as my Cumbrian great uncle used to say. 🙂 Potatoes are as cheap as chips 🙄 in the shops but there's nothing to beat home-grown ones. And the way things are going they might not be cheap in the shops for long...
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Right To Life UK
Right To Life UK@RightToLifeUK·
⚡DEVASTATING FROM LORD DEBEN! The former Cabinet Minister tells Peers that the assisted suicide Bill is the only Bill he can remember in FIFTY years in politics opposed by every member of the disabled movement. It is disturbing that Bill supporters are so unconcerned about this.
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ColonelTowner-Watkins@ColonelTowner·
Anyone else think it’s weird that we just sat through Savannah Guthries’ mom missing wall to wall coverage (where did that go?) and we have 12 scientist either killed or missing and it has gotten almost no coverage?
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Mahan Esfahani ن
Mahan Esfahani ن@MahanEsfahani·
There is Iranian ice cream with saffron and pistachios in Munich, so my weekend has started exceptionally well.
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Camus@newstart_2024·
Andrew Huberman dropped a brutal truth on Bill Maher’s podcast: Even if your phone is off and face-down on the table, it’s still quietly stealing your focus and draining your brainpower. The only way to get your full cognitive ability back? Get the phone completely out of the room. It’s not that removing it gives you superpowers — it just returns you to the normal baseline every generation before smartphones had. Success today is increasingly about what you don’t do. This one really hit me. How often do you keep your phone completely out of the room when you need to focus deeply?
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Megha@megha_lilly·
When I read the Biography of Dostoevsky by Joseph Frank, the main thing that stuck out to me was that Dostoevsky, being middle class, was seen as beneath the other upper class writers because he was so devoutly religious. They made fun of him for it in the "sophisticated literary circles". It was seen as lower class, peasant behaviour to be truly Christian rather than just go through the motions for ritual/tradition at Christmas and Easter and they jeered and blasphemed among their friends without compunction. This is when I really started realising how our modern problems are not so modern after all.
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Stonehenge U.K
Stonehenge U.K@ST0NEHENGE·
Sunrise at Stonehenge today (25th April ) was at 5.52am, sunset is at 8.21pm ☀️
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Schumann Resonances
Schumann Resonances@schumannbot·
2026-04-25 03:00 UTC 🌓 K-INDEX: 3 Active
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snoopy@realsnoopys·
In the 1980 film Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!!) , the "baguette scene" (often called the "bread scene") occurs when the gang's rental car breaks down in the French town of Le Héron. Hungry while they wait, Peppermint Patty sends Charlie Brown into a local bakery to buy bread for sandwiches. #snoopylover #snoopy #cartoon #explore #funny
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