Andrew Brown

The UK full new state pension is £11,973 a year. The poverty line for a single adult is around £14,500. You'll work 50 years paying into a system that, by its own definition, retires you straight into poverty.

Karma apparently does exist

"America is not a democracy. You can buy the presidency. Donald Trump did & he buys it from APAC money, from oligarchal money & from donor money. The fact that you’re allowed to pour millions and millions into politics makes it impossible for it to be democratic"- Roger Waters.

@LigadeCampeones @KAKA courage , vision , pace , power , precision , beauty

🎈 El 𝖎𝖈𝖔́𝖓𝖎𝖈𝖔 @KAKA cumple años hoy 🎂 🥳 ¡Felicidades 𝐋𝐄𝐘𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐀‼️👏 #UCL

@BigBearF1 free school milk, chicken pie , marble sponge and custard

Without naming your age, what's something you remember from school that totally dates you? Flying blackboard, chalk filled rubbers….! 😉

@rushicrypto It's slavery

I don’t care if someone works in an office, a warehouse, a restaurant, or cleans floors. If you give 40 hours of your life every week, you should be able to pay rent, buy groceries, cover your bills, and still have enough left to breathe a little. That shouldn’t be some dream. It should be normal. The fact that so many people work full-time and still live stressed, behind, and one emergency away from disaster tells you this system is failing the people who keep it running.

@LensScientific No, heading a purpose is a human construct , it just is , and it's beautiful

Do you think the universe has a purpose?

Wonderful

In 1934, a wealthy New York socialite did something that baffled the locals in rural Pennsylvania. She walked into a real estate office and leased a mountain just to evict them. Her name was Rosalie Edge, and she was 57 years old. At the time, Kittatinny Ridge was known locally as "The Slaughterhouse." Every fall, thousands of hawks, falcons, and eagles migrated along the ridge, riding the air currents south for the winter. But waiting for them were hundreds of men with shotguns and easy targets. It wasn't hunting for food; it was slaughter for sport. The ground was often carpeted with the rotting bodies of magnificent birds, while many others were left wounded to die slowly in the brush. The state of Pennsylvania actually encouraged it, even paying a $5 bounty on goshawks. Predators were seen as "vermin" that threatened chickens and game birds, and the general consensus was that they should be wiped out. Even the National Audubon Society refused to intervene, telling Mrs. Edge that protecting hawks simply wasn't a priority. She was furious. She famously stated, "The time to save a species is while it is still common." But she didn't just write letters—she took action. She founded the Emergency Conservation Committee, and when established conservation groups wouldn't buy the land to stop the shooting, she did it herself. She secured a lease on 1,400 acres of the ridge and hired a warden, Maurice Broun, to guard it. When the hunters arrived that season, expecting their usual sport, they found "No Trespassing" signs and a determined woman and her warden blocking the path. The shooting gallery was officially closed. The hunters were angry. There were threats against her life and promises of violence, but Mrs. Edge stood firm, relying on her legal rights as a private property holder. She turned a place of death into the world’s first sanctuary for birds of prey. She understood the value of predators, the delicate balance of the ecosystem, and the future of conservation. Her sanctuary, Hawk Mountain, later provided the crucial data that proved the dangers of DDT. Without her stubbornness, we might have lost the bald eagle entirely. Rosalie Edge proved that a single citizen with a lease and a backbone can change the course of history.

Quote of the day 👇

@MalaMalamente Fear

Viste “Los Juegos del Hambre” y te pusiste del lado de la resistencia. Viste “La guerra de las galaxias” y te pusiste del lado de la resistencias. Viste “Matrix” y te pusiste del lado de la resistencia. Cuando es ficción entiendes la tiranía, la opresión y el despotismo. Pero te niegas a verlo en la realidad en la que vives.

All true

This is the reason the stock market is completely disconnected from the real economy.

Isreal bombing ambulance crews live on Channel 4. The UK and the USA are still supporting this. Keep sharing, and don’t stop talking about Israel’s war crimes.

Nothing about this dystopia feels natural. We all sense it deep in our marrow. We all know something has gone terribly wrong. If you lived in an alternate reality without wars or poverty, where everyone had enough and governments did what’s in the interests of the people and the ecosystem, it would never occur to you that there was anything odd about this. It would feel completely normal. Things would be more or less how you’d expect them to be. You can’t say the same about the present status quo. The whole thing instinctively scans as weird and counterintuitive. The more you learn about the way the world works, the more insane it all looks to you. Have you ever had to explain war to a young child? It’s terrible. If you’re actually honest with them about what war is and why it is waged, it completely shatters their understanding of the world. They look at you like they’ve suddenly been transported into a strange alien universe where everything is backward. Their reaction is correct. That is the sane and normal way to look at war. All the freakish mental contortions we do to try and normalize it is what’s crazy. Everything about this dystopia is like this. If you could see it all with fresh eyes, you would scream in horror. The only reason anyone finds any of this tolerable is because we have become desensitized and accustomed to the madness. Seeing somebody sleeping on the sidewalk should feel like a punch in the stomach. Seeing children killed by bombs on your social media feed should stop your whole world. The fact that there are plutocrats profiting from war and militarism. The fact that billionaire corporations are integrating surveillance technology into every facet of our society. The fact that we’re destroying our biosphere and driving families into poverty to maximize shareholder value. The fact that oligarchy has turned democracy into a sham where our votes don’t make any real difference. The fact that there are people in the global south who are living like slaves so that those of us in the imperial core can have cheap bread and circuses to keep us docile and distracted. We all know deep down inside that these are intolerable abuses, but they’ve been so normalized and compartmentalized in our psychology that it all just fades into this kind of eerie dissonance in the background of our attention. The more conscious you become of what’s going on in the world, the more that dissonance moves into the foreground, and the less tolerable this dystopia becomes for you. As Terence McKenna said, “The cost of sanity in this society is a certain level of alienation.” And that’s a good thing. Injustice and abuse should not feel tolerable. We should allow our discomfort with this intolerable situation to drive us to action and resistance. And as uncomfortable as it can feel to stare into the unmasked face of the empire in all its beastly fury, this clarity also brings with it a degree of relief, because when it comes online you finally understand why nothing has ever felt right about this civilization you were born into. You understand that your intuitive discomfort and revulsion you felt as a child at the madness you were being indoctrinated into accepting was one hundred percent accurate, and that everyone who taught you to accept the unacceptable was wrong. Trust that childhood intuition. You’ve always had the truth inside you. Let it guide you as you read and inform yourself to help your mind catch up with what you already know in your heart. Let your heart inform your mind, let your mind inform your actions, and let your actions help awaken humanity to the truth we’ve been hiding from ourselves all these years.

@clairebubblepop Corporate Greed , Thatcherism,. Globilisation, Top heavy Nanny State Governments, 9 billion people on a fragile planet

Said this before but I’ll say it again. Just one lifetime ago in the UK, our fathers could buy a home, buy a car, have 3 to 4 children, wives could stay home, take annual vacations, and then retire… all on one middle-class salary. What happened?

Sublime

love it!

@bolt3456 Best solo goal in history no doubt !!

مرت أربعين سنة و لم يستطع أي لاعب في العالم أن يسجل جوووول أجمل من هذا!!! دييغو أرماندو مارادونا و أروع هدف في التاريخ

@okiepatriot_76 @WallStreetApes great news !

@WallStreetApes Here’s her update. Her surgery ended up happening.

Artificial intelligence automatically denies an American’s life saving heart surgery She has a complete breakdown over our healthcare system She pays $10,000 per year for her health insurance and needs heart surgery to save her life. She’s been denied the surgery and told she must pay out of pocket “I have been paying for this insurance for 4 years now. I've never had a problem with it before — I can't have the f*cking heart surgery I need to have in order to literally live — So guess I'll just f*cking die” Her surgery was automatically denied because of artificial intelligence (she posted an update, I was able to confirm) This is a major problem, companies like UnitedHealthcare have been caught using “bad ai” intentionally to automatically deny coverage. This is real and widely reported