ThickAsBrexit

Thread🧵 on the importance of balance in politics... For a long time I've been subtly pushing a message of the importance of balance in politics. How very far left or far right views will so often be met with a reaction and/or play into the hands of the opposition 1/

Every August, the children of a small island off the south coast of Iceland stay up past midnight to save baby birds. The island is called Heimaey, part of the Vestmannaeyjar archipelago. It is home to the largest puffin colony on earth. More than a million adult puffins nest in burrows along the island's grassy cliffs each summer, and when late August arrives, their chicks are ready to leave for the ocean for the first time. The problem is the lights. Baby puffins, called pysjas in Icelandic, navigate by moonlight. When they take their first flight in the dark, the streetlights and harbour lights of the town confuse them. Instead of heading out to sea, they veer toward land, landing in car parks, wandering down streets, huddling under vehicles, and exhausting themselves among the houses of a town that has no idea what to do with them. Every year, the kids of Vestmannaeyjar form what they call the Pysja Patrol. They go out after dark with cardboard boxes, chase down the disoriented chicks by hand, and bring them home. In 2024 alone, the children of an island with 4,500 inhabitants rescued more than 4,200 pufflings. Roughly one bird for every person who lives there. The next morning they take the boxes to the cliff edge, reach in, and throw each bird gently into the wind toward the sea. The tradition has been running for generations. Since 2003 every rescued puffling is first taken to the local natural history museum to be weighed, measured, and tagged before release. The data collected by children with cardboard boxes has contributed to decades of scientific research on one of the world's most important seabird populations. Iceland is home to sixty percent of all the world's puffins.

@Merchimaaa Why the fuck did you post this? If you actually did pull this bullshit and it's not a joke, you need to be sterilized so that you can never murder another child. I am sick of seeing this bullshit on my timeline. Grow the fuck up and act like a damn woman. OMG.

So essentially, we're back in 2014 and the US is telling Ukraine to give up some territory without a fight and then Russia will stop invading and everything will be alright, trust me bro.

This is not just terrible for Ukraine, it is bad for America. The United States must be a nation whose strength shapes outcomes in our favor. History shows that trading land for promises of peace has a long record of making conflicts worse, not better.

@FireNewz The religion of peace my arse. Fucking animals.

@GadSaad And yet leftist women overwhelmingly vote to empower that. It’s absolutely silly.

Look at her eyes, and the fear that she expresses. This is what you are importing at an industrial-scale level. This POS should receive good old-fashioned street justice. She can't be protected because all of the men in her life support this treatment.

@Riley_Gaines_ @Moms4Liberty

Nutjob.

A couple of things: 1) nothing the American government under Trump says can be trusted and 2) voluntarily surrendering the most heavily defended territory in Ukraine to Russia would be a strategic catastrophe. I believe the Ukrainian government understands both of these points.

⚡️🇬🇧 Keir Starmer has given the Royal Navy permission to board Russian oil tankers in UK waters! "Putin is rubbing his hands at the war in the Middle East because he thinks higher oil prices will let him line his pockets. That’s why we’re going after his shadow fleet"

@ABridgen Ukraine is taking back land so no need to even consider it.

BREAKING: The ‌U.S. has made its offer of security guarantees needed for a peace deal in Ukraine conditional on Kyiv ceding all of the country's eastern region of Donbas to Russia, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told Reuters in an interview.

@Poppy_Teryy Love how ziggers got butthurted by the fact, that Ukraine was Rus 💖 Moscow was still a swamp with frogs, while Kyiv was one of centres of Europe

@Poppy_Teryy true, Ukraine gave the russians pigs faith, language, culture, and a name.

Reminder👇

Nicola Sturgeon can tell you where Margaret Thatcher went wrong, where Tony Blair went wrong, where Gordon Brown went wrong and where Alex Salmond went wrong. Yet Sturgeon can't bring herself to admit she was so clearly wrong about this cowardly rapist being a man!

Nobody says anything about the girl committing domestic viol*nce 😅🤦🏻‍♂️

Trump's demand that Ukraine hand their own land to Russia is a shameful betrayal and a gift to Putin. Giving in to Putin would threaten Ukraine, Europe, and the United States. America must stand with the brave Ukrainian people — not reward Putin for his unprovoked brutality.

For the love of God.