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BREAKING: Israel just dropped bombs on the Qaraoun Dam in Lebanon’s Beqaa Valley — a key water reservoir serving civilian populations across surrounding villages. This is not a battlefield target. It is a critical water infrastructure. This is an act of genocide.

@JamesK80P @JamieJo86909968 @GWRHelp Some of us prefer a journey without hearing someone bellow into their phone.

@JamieJo86909968 @GWRHelp Wonderful! Quiet carriages should be scrapped

To the miserable person on the train to BTM this morning who shouted at my daughter for “talking in the quiet carriage” I hope you had a horrible day in Bristol. Thanks to the off duty @GWRHelp staff who stood up instantly and said “Quiet carriage, not silent carriage.” 1\

@mancunianmedic Lovely composition

Anti-AI based Naomi Osaka, the first tennis player in history to call out this. "I kind of like the water we have on earth."

Wow. 36 year-old Sorana Cirstea, playing the last season of her career, gets her first EVER win against a world #1. Defeats Aryna Sabalenka 2-6, 6-3, 7-5 to reach the last 16 in Rome. 25-7 in 2026 -- incredible!

A short history of the great British improvement. They came for beef dripping. We got margarine, then seed oils, then a cardiac ward in every hospital. They came for butter. They told your grandmother it would kill her husband. The replacement was a tub of palm oil emulsified with rapeseed and a yellow dye, and her husband died of a heart attack in 1989 anyway. They came for full-fat milk. We got skimmed milk, a vitamin D deficiency epidemic in children, and a cereal aisle fortified to plug the gap. They came for mutton, the meat that fed every shepherd, miner, and mill worker for six hundred years. We got a chicken breast injected with water and a turkey twizzler. They came for the kipper. We got a Findus boil-in-the-bag, dyed orange, and a fish oil capsule sold at the chemist to make up for the omega-3 nobody is eating. They came for wool. We got polyester fleece, and microplastics in human placentas. Every one tested. Sixty-two out of sixty-two. They came for leather. We got synthetic shoes that delaminate in eighteen months, and a high street with no cobbler. They came for the cotton nappy. We got the disposable, and a landfill that will outlast the child wearing it. They came for the cast iron pan handed down three generations. We got Teflon, and a forever chemical now found in 98% of British rivers. They came for the wooden bowl your grandmother kneaded dough in. We got Tupperware, then BPA, then "BPA-free" plastic containing compounds we have not yet bothered to measure. Now they are coming for the cow herself. The replacement is a textured pea isolate, extruded in a factory in the American Midwest, packaged in plastic, and marketed as the ethical option by a company called Cargill, who happen to be the third-largest meat processor in the United States. Every traditional material we have been told to give up was working perfectly, for free, for centuries. Every industrial replacement has been worse for the body, worse for the land, and considerably better for the shareholders of the company that sold it. The pattern is not subtle, and the people running it are not embarrassed. Your great-grandmother is no longer here to call it. You are.

One of the most terrifying images in history: a transformation from life to death. Gaza in 2023 and 2026!

In 2005 a piano teacher in the United States and her husband were upstairs in their house when they heard the piano going downstairs. The same note, struck over and over. They thought someone had broken in. They ran down and found their cat, a grey tabby called Nora, alone on the bench, hammering at one key with her right paw. She looked up at them, then went back to it. The cat had taught herself. Nora’s owner Betsy gave piano lessons in that room every day. Over the months Nora had watched, and at some point decided she’d have a go. None of the other six cats in the house ever touched the piano. Only Nora. She had preferences. She’d only play one specific Yamaha. She gravitated to a particular range of notes in the middle of the keyboard. She refused to play if she couldn’t sit properly on the bench, and if a student annoyed her Betsy would shift the bench back a foot and Nora would simply quit for the day. A video of Nora went up on YouTube in 2007 and got 17 million views. The Times of London compared her playing to a mix of Philip Glass and free jazz. America’s National Science Foundation, the country’s main scientific research body, put her in a museum exhibit on animal behaviour. In 2009 a composer in Lithuania scored a full orchestral concerto around her recordings. It premiered live with a chamber orchestra in Lithuania, with Nora’s playing on a screen above them. They called it CATcerto. Most animals who do impressive things have been trained. Nora wasn’t. She picked it up by watching, which is observational learning, and it’s rare in cats. Dogs do it more often. Cats usually don’t bother copying us at all. Nora passed peacefully in 2024, on her favourite blanket, aged 19.

A 37-year-old Seattle man allegedly threw a rock at an endangered Hawaiian monk seal in Maui and when confronted allegedly said “I don’t care, I’m rich. Fine me with whatever you want. I can pay for it.” He was detained and the case has been referred to federal investigators

Save this industry

Tucker Carlson just revealed who really pushed for the Iran war. 'No one in the administration was pushing for this. All the pressure came from outside. Donors, influencers, Mark Levin, Sean Hannity. They told Trump he would 'save and redeem Israel.' No one made the case that this would be good for the United States' The war was not about American security. It was a favor. To donors. To influencers. To Israel

Smotrich: 'My son wants me to leave some Lebanon for him to destroy later. I told him don't worry, there will be enough for everyone.' Generational evil

@PolyglotElsa Getting there x

@PolyglotElsa Who drank the last can? With the day I’ve had…..

@UNCisFamily @RangoTheGrump @MrROKinROK @SuperTennisTv When I was a teenager a back flip was what you call a back handspring and a backwards somersault or tuck was done in the air.

@RangoTheGrump @MrROKinROK @SuperTennisTv Back handspring is when you put your hands on the ground. Backflip is when you don't use your hands.

Il backflip della vittoria di Marta Kostyuk ✨

A medieval palace in the English countryside has a small bell mounted by a window, with a rope hanging down to the moat below. Since the 1850s, the resident swans have been pulling the rope to ring the bell when they want to be fed. The tradition began when one of the bishop’s daughters taught it to a single swan in the 1850s, and the swans have been passing it on ever since. The current pair, Grace and Gabriel, are the latest in the line. Each year, after their cygnets hatch, Gabriel walks them up to the bell and teaches them to pull the rope before they leave the moat to start their own lives. The tradition is now 170 years old.

@PolyglotElsa I love sea lions and seals. Have you done any trips off st justinians in Pembrokeshire to see the seals? It’s absolute heaven, they are sea labradors.

@PolyglotElsa He’s certainly gangsta . Bring on the ice cream 🍦 please

Shot of my life🤣