Derek van Flannelman

@r0ck3t23 “Might” doing all the work here. I fucking hope aliens do make themselves known. It’ll fuck all the wrong people right up.

Elon Musk said something that should keep every person on this planet up at night. Musk: “I think we need to assume that life and consciousness is extremely rare, and it might only be us.” 13.8 billion years of physics. Trillions of galaxies. Billions of trillions of stars. And one planet opened its eyes. One. The universe ran for nearly 10 billion years before anything looked up and asked what it was. 10 billion years of stars forming and dying with no one to witness any of it. No one to name it. No one to wonder why. Then we showed up. And for the first time in the history of everything, the universe had a witness. Musk: “The image in my mind is of a tiny candle in a vast darkness. A tiny candle of consciousness that could easily go out.” That’s not a metaphor. That’s a status report. Stars don’t know they burn. Black holes don’t know they consume. Galaxies don’t know they spiral. We do. We are the only part of the universe that has ever experienced it. Every law of physics we’ve uncovered was already running. Silently. For billions of years. With no one to find it. We didn’t create meaning. We’re the first thing that could recognize it was missing. That’s what makes Musk’s point so much deeper than most people realize. He’s not arguing that humanity matters because we’re special. He’s saying we might be the only reason “mattering” is a concept at all. Without consciousness, the universe still runs. Stars still burn. Planets still orbit. But none of it means anything. Not because it’s meaningless. Because meaning requires a mind. And there might only be one. Musk isn’t building rockets because he likes engineering. He’s building them because he realized the only thing that ever gave the universe a name has a single point of failure. One asteroid. One war. One century of wrong decisions. And the witness goes silent. The atoms keep moving. The physics keeps running. But nobody is there to call it anything. The universe doesn’t end. It just goes back to not knowing it exists. The most profound thing about what Musk said isn’t that the candle is small. It’s that without the candle, there’s no such thing as darkness either.

@_HenryBolton If it had been Boris at the helm I bet we wouldn’t be hearing from you.

I can’t help but wonder what on Earth is wrong with the people involved in this. Someone commissioned them. Someone designed them. Someone approved them. Someone thought it appropriate to spend public money on them. None of those people - including Sadiq Khan - has the slightest sense of aesthetics, style or taste, and none should ever be involved in designing the environment we live in ever again.

@matt_horncastle Imagine spending your valuable time defending the richest people in the country and their money. It’s almost as if they can’t do it themselves. And it’s hardly likely they’re going to pay you back. Doing shit like that wouldn’t make them any money.

I am talking to some to some of the richest people in our country. The conversation is how they move their assets overseas. That is gross. A New Zealand citizen should feel safe with their money in their country. Fuck the socialists. You are losers destroying our country.

@Nina_Power_ Nina should have just said I’m baffled with London, and be done with it. Cities are amazing inventions of humans, perhaps the greatest things we’ve made. Are they perfect? No Are they horrible? Absolutely. But are they all things to its inhabitants? No.

Walking around London is largely a baffling experience, filled with a litany of questions. I'm sure if you live somewhere rich you largely think everything is a-ok and you can afford to be a "good person", but vast swathes of the city are just....baffling: poor, dirty, sketchy, deracinated and disconnected.

@zoeharcombe You’re a Doctor!!!!???

Today was the hottest May day in the UK since 1944. So if today’s temperature is due to global warming, what was the deal in 1944?

@cra46159 It’s 50c in much of India today. Stop it with your inane questions.

@Rainmaker1973 I’ve seen it! I’ve seen it!

"Crown Shyness" is a natural phenomenon where the uppermost branches of certain tree species completely refuse to touch one another, creating a perfectly defined, puzzle-like canopy.

@SpencerHakimian You missing the point. It’s not that he’s making their lives demonstrably better. It’s that he’s making the lives of those MAGA now* hate demonstrably worse. *Trump is naturally a divisive person. Like most arrogant people.

If you’re still one of those MAGA cucks, I have a genuine question. Has Trump actually done something for you these past 10 years. Like has he personally made your life better?

@heidi_snow95670 @Daily_MailUS @cjgofs Nice try, Heidi. You may, however, want to look for a new quote for your bio.

@benonwine 55C in India.

Hottest May day ever recorded in UK as temperature reaches 32.9C at Heathrow. How’s everyone coping in the heat!

@Mollyploofkins Just unfortunate suckers and losers, aren’t they?

Wishing people a Happy Memorial Day seems misguided

@implausibleblog It’s 55deg Celsius in parts of India today.

An odd report on the heatwave on BBC News Say its the hottest May on record Say it's down to climate change Say many are enjoying the weather Mention the heat warning for children and the elderly

@duriansneedluv2 @KimDotcom @HunterBiden Cunty is being polite. Personally both of them could drown in a tub of lard and I wouldn’t care less. But I think Kim’s absence would be missed less.

@KimDotcom @HunterBiden Would you say that to another person face to face or just from behind a keyboard? I couldn't give to shits about ANY politician or their families but this sort of reply just comes off as cunty.

Almost seven years clean and sober. Not a victory lap. Just a fact. To anyone in the fight right now: it gets quieter. Not easier. Quieter. In the quiet, you find out who you actually are. That’s the part they can’t take from you.

@KimDotcom @HunterBiden And you’re fat, in my opinion.

@HunterBiden Your art is shit. In my opinion.

@heidi_snow95670 @Daily_MailUS @cjgofs Heidi has yet to get to R as she encounters a dictionary for the first time in her life.

@Daily_MailUS @cjgofs Routine physicals do not constitute a health storm.

@vwapx @Daily_MailUS If it helps America and its standing in the world, yes.

@Daily_MailUS What would you guys rather the POTUS ignore his health and forego the hospital?

@BrettErickson28 The girls/women raped by Trump and his peers on that fucking island are still waiting . . . But as if you give a shit, right?

At the end of the day, the War in Iran comes down to one thing, and one thing only: Regime Change. The utter ridiculousness of people trying to claim “victory” by destroying the ever so notorious Iranian Air Force, replacing an old Khamenei with a young Khamenei, or any other hollow “victory” is just deflecting the core failure that underscores the challenges we are seeing in the current negotiations. We don’t trust them. They don’t trust us. And nothing but regime change will fix that, and it is a fantasy to think it can be achieved at this point for the United States. Is the Iranian regime a radical group of terrorists that want nothing more than to kill every Israeli and American, or are they not? The Iran Hawks don’t believe they’d adhere to a nuclear deal. They’d cheat. They won’t stop funding their terrorist proxies, they’d cheat. We can’t trust them on anything because they’re religious radicals that only want to destroy the world, right? So why are we simultaneously taking the position that “just a little bit more pressure” is going to be what forces them to make concessions? For the Iran Hawks in the Trump Administration, no concession will be acceptable. Because the Iranian regime, in their view, wants nothing more than to wipe out the entire planet. They’re radicals. But here’s the reality: They hold are the cards right now, and we HAVE TO make concessions if we want the Strait of Hormuz to be opened. Wipe out their water desalination plants? They don’t care about their own people, right? More bombing clearly will not fix the problem. Target their energy infrastructure? They’re radicals! They don’t care, right? Assassinate the current leadership? They welcome martyrdom, right? We can’t decide if the Iranian regime is fanatical or methodical, and that has us chasing our own tail at the negotiating table. Nothing short of a full-scale ground invasion will be enough to fix this core trust issue we have with the regime. An invasion that, mind you, would come at an exceptionally high cost to American lives. An invasion that has zero public support. An invasion not even guaranteed to succeed. “But what is the price of Iran having a nuclear weapon, Brett?” The reality that Washington needs to come to accept is that we are cornered. We don’t have an arrow left in the quiver. It doesn’t MATTER if the Trump Administration believes that the regime is fanatical religious zealots. Iran holds the leverage. Iran holds the cards. And there is not a thing that we can do about it at this point. We need to shift from the asinine hypotheticals, and start operating in the realm of reality.

@truthbearing @BBCRosAtkins @BBCWorld Working hard to achieve nothing accept looking like a disaster is very lovable.

@BBCRosAtkins @BBCWorld No one works harder than Trump. Got to love him. Defund the BBC!

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@highfivedave @BBCRosAtkins @BBCWorld @X Where’s the hatchet job, bruv? It’s just Ros telling us/you what you could find out for yourself? If you take offence, you can hardly be considered as a neutral observer. Stop licking Trump’s balls.

@BBCRosAtkins @BBCWorld Another hatchet job on Trump 😂You guys are twisted,in other words you don’t like Trump having freedom of speech on @X.Nothing about 45,000 Iranians killed by the terrorist regime and he hasn’t gone bombing mad like Bush & Blair. Nothing about Biden era fraud being uncovered now.

@BBCRosAtkins Alzheimer’s has the best poster child it could ever dream to have.