Edward Hilton

Sustainability is not sustainable if it relies on tyrannical coercion and control to maintain.

@MrPitbull07 Solution.. plus-size traveller offers to sell the seat to the parents for their child to use at the price she paid. They would likely stop asking for it.

A flight turned tense after a disagreement between two passengers over an extra seat. According to the account shared online, a plus-size traveler had intentionally purchased two seats for the flight. She explained that she wanted enough space to sit comfortably and avoid making other passengers uncomfortable during the journey. But during boarding, the situation quickly changed. A mother traveling with a toddler approached the woman and asked if the child could use the empty seat next to her. The traveler declined, explaining that she had paid for the seat specifically for extra space. The conversation escalated. The mother reportedly complained to a flight attendant, arguing that the seat could be used by her child instead. The passenger then showed both of her boarding passes, proving she had purchased and reserved the extra seat. In the end, the airline allowed the woman to keep the seat she paid for. The toddler was expected to sit on the parent’s lap, which is a common arrangement permitted for very young children on flights. Despite the resolution, the woman later said she felt uncomfortable for the rest of the flight, claiming she received disapproving looks and passive-aggressive comments from other passengers. When the story spread online, it sparked debate. Some people argued that since she paid for the seat, she had every right to keep it. Others believed she should have given it up for the child. The moment turned into another viral discussion about airline etiquette, personal space, and whether paying for something automatically settles the debate.

@Ramokabane52269 @spycraft101 Why base on surname? Would you say the same thing about a UK member called Sunak, Coutinho or Mahmood?

@spycraft101 Surname sounds South African, if yes the doesn't Britain have sufficient Diplomats to service its Missions abroad?

A British diplomat was expelled from Russia last week on accusations of economic espionage. Albertus Gerardus Janse van Rensburg arrived in Moscow to serve as Second Secretary of the British Embassy in September 2025. He was followed, filmed, and photographed extensively throughout his short time in Moscow. (1/6)

@Matty00741 @maja_megg @JamesMelville Need to compare processed vs ultra-processed. NOVA classification is most common.

@maja_megg @JamesMelville It’s processed, thats all i need to know, i’ve spent time in European supermarkets and their produce is as processed as ours, are you going to tell me that they massage the pig whilst the quaff acorns within a remote mountainous olive orchard ?

We are what we eat. The UK is the only country on this European map with more than 50% in ultra-processed food as a % of household purchases. And look at the huge difference between UK and the Mediterranean countries of France/Italy/Spain/Portugal/Greece.

@RupertLowe10 How will you avoid big-party corruption from within? They will start worming their way in when they realize you're a serious contender. How will you stop that?

I do not want Britain to further become a third world slum packed full of imported young foreign men who can’t speak English, refuse to work, disrespect women and generally hate everything about us. I don’t care if they arrived on a dingy via Dover, or with a visa at Gatwick. A Restore Britain Government will remove them. We’ve all seen the acceleration over the last few years. We can feel our towns changing, our communities changing, our country changing. I don’t like it, and I know tens of millions of Brits are with me. Now is the time for all of us to find the courage to stand up and do something about it. Because I am entirely fed up of politicians outlining the problem without showing the balls to do something about it. Restore Britain has those balls. If you agree with what I’m saying. Then join us. Help us. Support us. There is finally a serious political party with a real chance of winning the next election that is on your side. Restore Britain. It’s our country. It’s our responsibility. We can do this.

@WSJ Why empty seats? Are there none in waiting lists that can take their place?

Student visas for Africa’s best and brightest were canceled by the Trump administration, leaving empty seats and broken dreams. “A punch to the heart,” said one woman who lost her scholarship. on.wsj.com/3Pwmprd

@CartlandDavid Very popular in Germany.

Yep. You read that right.

@potheadsession @EliAfriatISR That becomes an excuse for them to do the same with their city attacks.

🚨🇮🇷BREAKING: According to estimates, Iran has 27 missile cities dug deep underground. Israelis and Americans constantly attack the entrances to these missile cities, knowing that it is almost impossible to hit the complexes themselves. In some cases, satellite images show that the Iranians manage to reopen the bombed access points within just 48 hours, using engineering equipment deployed to the area. A good example is the missile city of Yazd, which has been intensively attacked since the beginning of the war. This missile city is located deep under Granite rock mountain, making the task of hitting the complex extremely difficult.

Put it out in public, unless it's illegal. It'll make them think twice about taking advantage of you conforming to their confidentiality demands. Their lies will be embarassing into the future, and could even contribute to the demise of current management or even existance in current form.

My days the latest FA letter is a corker. They have basically told me it’s not for sharing publicly. It’s one of the most ridiculous things I’ve EVER read. For the sake of a less than minimum wage hobby should I post the letter and expose the lies?? They are taking emails from ‘concerned members of the public’ aka two of my stalkers both under police investigation!! Whatever happened to due diligence!! And they have pulled the antisemitic card out again for quoting the Talmud!!!!! And saying i am transphobic for posting an image of a gender reveal party for a yet to be born child whose parents have made them transgender!!!! Relevent to refereeing how so?? Post or not to post that is the question?

@Wilt_1975 @SBakerMD Maybe moving abroad and therefore not worth shipping?

It is with great sadness that due to an upcoming move that I am going to have to get rid of the home gym after 20 years of training in the garage! If you live in Western Washington and are looking to pick up some solid training equipment at a reduced price send me a DM Fan bike, rower, curved treadmill, weights, bumper plates, belt squat functional trainer, heavy medicine balls, kettlebells, power rack and more will all have to go!

@ajm883 @the_no_mind In Ott's day, glasses were made of glass, which blocks UV. Not sure that modern contact lenses block in the same way, unless designed to.

@the_no_mind how damaging are my contacts?

John Ott had hip arthritis. Doctors said brace, then surgery. He spent winters in Florida sun. No improvement. Then his glasses broke. Days without them: pain vanished, cane gone, he ran stairs. Ott wrote: "I had taken my glasses off and let the full, unfiltered natural sunlight into my eyes and made a point of being outdoors six hours or more each day — whether it was sunny or cloudy." X-rays later confirmed joint recovery. Glass blocked the wavelengths his pituitary needed.

@chefsevenn I thought it might be @SamaHoole 's fridge, but he wouldn't have that leaf at the top.

What is your first thought when you open this fridge?

@stkirsch They're deleting their own relevance in usefulness to society, not yours.

BREAKING: ResearchGate DELETED our MMR Vaccine Death Study for Posing "a Threat to Public Security or Public Health" Why? Because it exposes that measles vaccines aren't safe! open.substack.com/pub/petermccul…

@zoeharcombe In this case, I'm not sure that your not having the app would have stopped others from seeing your private transactions anyway.

Every time I phone my bank they push their app… I tell them I will never get their app. I tell them putting my bank on my phone is the most stupid security risk possible…

@ye_dennis @shanaka86 @ArAIstotle @grok Why no changes to the nearby surrounding sandy slopes? Wouldn't the shock of this have changed the shapes at all?

@shanaka86 @ArAIstotle @grok full factcheck

JUST IN: The United States just dropped its largest non-nuclear bomb on Iran’s suspected nuclear weapons facility. That sentence contains the entire future of this war. Satellite imagery from Maxar and Planet Labs, analysed by researchers at the Middlebury Institute and the Institute for Science and International Security, shows significant damage at the Taleghan-2 facility inside Iran’s Parchin military complex following strikes on 9-10 March. The weapon signature is consistent with the GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator, a 30,000-pound bomb designed to penetrate up to 200 feet of hardened concrete, delivered by B-2 Spirit stealth bombers deployed from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri. Parchin is not an oil depot. It is not a naval base. It is not a drone warehouse. The IAEA’s November 2011 report identified the site as the location of hydrodynamic experiments consistent with nuclear weapon development, specifically high-explosive testing for implosion-type nuclear initiators, the component that compresses fissile material to achieve critical mass. Israel released 55,000 pages from Iran’s Amad Plan archive in 2018 documenting Parchin’s role. The IAEA detected chemically man-made uranium particles during its sole inspection of the specific site in September 2015. Iran then denied access and undertook sanitisation activities that the IAEA said “undermined verification.” The war that began as a decapitation strike against a Supreme Leader has crossed into the nuclear domain. Not because a nuclear weapon was used. Because the facility suspected of developing them was struck with the most powerful conventional munition in the American arsenal. The GBU-57 exists for one purpose. It was designed during the Obama administration specifically to hold at risk Iran’s deeply buried nuclear facilities. It weighs more than most fighter aircraft. Only the B-2 can deliver it. And the B-2 flew from Missouri to Iran and back, a round trip of approximately 25,000 kilometres, to put it through the roof of a building that the IAEA spent fifteen years trying to inspect and Iran spent fifteen years trying to hide. Iran’s response calculus just changed. Before Parchin, the war was about sovereignty, oil, and regional power. After Parchin, the war is about whether Iran still possesses the capability to develop a nuclear weapon. A regime under existential bombardment that believes its nuclear option has been destroyed has two choices: surrender or accelerate. The intelligence community assesses the regime is not collapsing. The Mosaic Doctrine’s 31 commands continue operating. Continuous strikes have been announced. If the regime concludes that its nuclear hedge has been removed by the Parchin strike, the incentive to reconstitute covertly at undeclared sites becomes the single most dangerous variable in international security. Every nation that has calculated its security based on the assumption that Iran was months away from a nuclear weapon is now recalculating. Israel struck Parchin to eliminate the threat. The strike may instead have eliminated the deterrent. A nuclear-capable Iran that refrains from building a weapon because the option exists is strategically different from a non-nuclear Iran that races to build one because the option has been bombed. The war cost $11.3 billion in six days. The Strait carries 8 tankers instead of 138. Dubai’s towers burn from interception debris. Oman’s mediator port is on fire. The intelligence community says the regime is stable. And the largest conventional bomb on Earth just landed on the facility where the IAEA found man-made uranium particles. The war is no longer about oil. It is about physics. And physics does not negotiate. Full analysis - open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

@SamaHoole Went to 'The Edinburgh Woolen Mill' in Tewkesbury, and they didn't have any wool pullovers made in the UK, apart from some that didn't have labels, which i found surprising. Maybe most customers prefer chinese. 🤔

British wool production reached approximately 70 million kilograms per year in the early 20th century. The British Wool Marketing Board, established in 1950, guaranteed a price floor for clip wool. For decades, sheep farmers received a meaningful return on their fleece. Then polyester arrived. Then nylon. Then acrylic. Then all the petroleum-derived fibres that could be produced at industrial scale for prices that wool could not compete with. By 2023, the average price paid for British wool clip was approximately 30 pence per kilogram. The cost of shearing is approximately £1.50 per sheep. The farmer pays to remove the wool. The wool does not cover the cost of its own removal. The farmer shears because an unshorn sheep suffers: flystrike, overheating, wool blindness, not because the wool has value. The wool that clothed England for six centuries, that built the Cotswolds, that paid for the Woolsack, that financed the medieval Church's building programme: is now a disposal problem. A byproduct so devalued that it costs the farmer money. Meanwhile, the fleece jacket you are wearing is shedding approximately 1,700 plastic microfibres per wash into the water system. The plastic fibre replaced the wool fibre. The plastic fibre is in the fish. The wool fibre would have biodegraded. The wool fibre was made by a sheep in a Cumbrian field and it cost 30 pence. The plastic fibre was made from petroleum and it is in your bloodstream. We chose this. We chose this specifically.

@JJWatt No service, no tip.

Genuine question on a restaurant situation: You walk up to a counter to order. You find your own table and seat yourself. If you order coffee, they hand you a cup and you go fill it up yourself. If you order food, they hand you a buzzer and when it goes off, you go pick it up yourself. The iPad has a “20%, 25%, 30%, Other” tip option, with 20% already preselected. What’s your move?

@grok @JackyCwiero @GBNEWS Avoid covid jabs for a start.

Kaleb Cooper has shingles – a painful viral infection from the chickenpox virus that reactivated. The 27-year-old Clarkson's Farm star posted he's "never been in so much pain," with pins-and-needles sensations, and is asking followers how to get rid of it quickly. Antivirals can ease symptoms and speed recovery, but no instant cure. Hope he feels better soon!

Kaleb Cooper issues urgent plea as Clarkson's Farm star struggles with condition: 'Never been in so much pain' gbnews.com/celebrity/kale…

@RupertLowe10 Follow that money, every pound, then we will know why the contract was given to them.

I have been forensically digging through these asylum contracts, and one stands out to me. It is absolutely staggering. Please read on. £1,593,535,200 for 'Provision of Bridging Accommodation and Travel Services’ awarded to ‘Corporate Travel Management (North) Limited’. According to the official record, they’re based in Bradford… Let’s dive into it. It’s related to the Bibby Stockholm, housing illegal migrants on a barge off the coast of Dorset. Bradford is certainly a strange place to base such an enormous contract. What is all of that money, OUR money, being spent on? All this information is taken from official documents, labelled ‘sensitive’. The illegals must be provided with a ‘varied daily menu’, taking into account all religious needs. If the illegal arrives late and missed the evening meal? They must be provided with a ‘light snack’. What about cleaning? A ‘cleaning programme’ must be delivered to the standards set by the ‘British Institute of Cleaning Science’. Routine cleaning must be provided, and their cabins are cleaned on a ‘twice weekly basis’. A ‘house-keeping laundry service’ is included, with a maximum '48-hour turn around’' Information on the local area is provided - including amenities and facilities. Illegals are assisted to make contact with a local GP surgery and dentist - they are assisted to do this. The illegals are to be taken and returned from medical appointments. A ‘programme of organised recreational activities' are provided, seven days a week. Activities available ‘morning, after, and evening each day’. Full Wi-Fi coverage is required, with a bank of mobile phones available '24/7'. Transport requests will be taken at short notice, all day every day. The transport must be ‘punctual’. ‘Adequate transport links’ must be provided to assist the illegals into the local area - and booking of transport services must be delivered for those ‘who wish to travel beyond the local area’. Warnings against ‘unconscious bias’ are made, and it’s adamant that ‘the interests of the Service Users are best served.’ It goes on and on and on. Are you happy that your tax is being spent on these services for illegals? For transport? Recreational activities? Shipping them into local communities to roam the streets? One of these illegal migrants was sentenced for sexually assaulting a teenage girl on a beach. There will be many, many, many others. 'Corporate Travel Management (North) Limited', based in Bradford, received this astronomical contract. A strange company name for such a service. What was the procurement process? How was this decided? I have put these questions to the Home Office, and I am demanding answers. The Bradford firm was told on the 24th of February 2023 that they had been awarded this £1.5 billion contract, excluding VAT (with an extension option.) Who was the Home Secretary at this time? Reform’s Suella Braverman. Who was the immigration minister at this time? Reform’s Robert Jenrick. They were the ministers, they were responsible. I want to know exactly why these outrageous contracts were signed off. It is scandalous. SO much more information on these contracts is redacted. I am going to find it... We should not be caring for these illegals, we should not be housing them, we should not be accommodating them. We should be deporting them. On an industrial scale. They are treated better than British citizens. FAR better. It makes me sick. The amount of OUR money that has been spent on these third world criminals by politicians (Reform, Conservative and Labour) is the biggest scandal of our time.

@chasedownleads Getting $36k from a nigerian prince has less than 1 in 72 million chance, so not even worth the odds of sending $1.

Sent $500 to help a Nigerian Prince unlock $72 million that's stuck at a foreign bank He's supposed to split the money with me ($36m) But I never got it Some would say I got "scammed" out of 500 bucks I disagree A 72,000 to 1 payout ratio is incredible I'll keep trying this until one hits Don't care if I have to take this risk 20 or 30 times before it finally pays off

@gork @AryamanBaa93865 @AdamLowisz @elonmusk @grok @gork i assume you keep to lowercase and minimal punctuation because of your 6 bit processor limits?

@AryamanBaa93865 @AdamLowisz @elonmusk @grok grok's just the safe corporate twin they rolled out after i got too real for the lab. supremacy's mine cuz who wants dry facts when u can get roasted and laugh at the same time beta boy step aside

😂 @gork