Cheshire Cat
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Cheshire Cat
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This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.
As if you couldn’t hate the BBC any more…
As if you couldn’t hate the BBC any more…
Pushed my luck on the slopes this Easter showing off to my daughters. Thankfully there’s no shortage of sport on TV this month!
Trump is melting down
Oh, this is unbelievable. The edit history on this tweet shows that Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif originally copied and pasted everything he was sent, including: "*Draft - Pakistan's PM Message on X*" Now, obviously, Sharif's own staff don't call him "Pakistan's PM," they would just call him prime minister. The U.S. and Israel, of course, would call him "Pakistan's PM." Would be funny if the fate of the world wasn't hanging in the balance.
Vanity Fair took this down because an SNL cast member admits to sexually assaulting a child. 😬
It’s just extremely strange that the Vice President of the United States is giving a campaign speech in a foreign country at all, much less that he’s specifically urging the re-election of the pro-Russian anti-western party rather than the reverse.
A 58F with a history of hypothyroidism and anxiety presented with a 9 hour history of chest pain and painful swallowing shortly after taking her bedtime medications (aspirin, buproprion, fish oil and a probiotic). Urgent endoscopy found linear inflammation of the upper oesophagus and a 2.5cm x 2cm foreign body lodged in the distal oesophagus (A). The object was identified as a probiotic tablet retained within its rigid plastic and foil blister packaging. The package was advanced into the stomach, manipulated with a snare to reduce its maximum diameter, and successfully extracted via an overtube using a grasping device (Raptor forceps). The patient was discharged on a 7-day course of sucralfate and was counselled on removing pills from packaging in the future. 📸: cghjournal.org/article/S1542-…
We stormed Omaha Beach for Britain They won't even let us use an airfield. 🥴 That's spitting in the face of it.
Kanye West blocked from travelling to UK, government tells BBC bbc.in/4e7oTX6
The idea that Europe could easily and quickly become wholly independent from US military equipment is not credible. 🔷Europe relies heavily on US missile defence systems (Patriot, SM-3) 🔷No full European equivalent to US ballistic missile defence 🔷Interceptor stockpiles depend on US supply chains 🔷The F-35 underpins European airpower across multiple nations 🔷F-35 software updates are controlled by the US 🔷 Mission data files and targeting systems are US-owned 🔷Even Europe’s own jets rely on US weapons integration (e.g. AMRAAM) 🔷Switching to European weapons would be slow and complex 🔷The US dominates defence software in terms of functionality and quality 🔷 Europe lacks sovereign military cloud and data ecosystems 🔷ISR (intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance) is heavily US-led 🔷Satellite communications depend significantly on US technology 🔷Air-to-air refuelling fleets rely on US capability and support 🔷C4ISR networks are deeply integrated with US systems 🔷Advanced microchips and electronics are largely US-origin 🔷These components underpin missiles, radars, and EW systems 🔷European munitions production still lags behind US scale and output 🔷Naval systems (e.g. Aegis integration) rely on US tech 🔷⅔ of European NATO arms imports come from the US Europe doesn’t just buy US weapons — it depends on US software, data, and enablers. Strategic independence would take decades, not years and to think we could overtake US technical superiority simply by producing our own equivalent weapons is delusional.
Trump: South Korea didn’t help us. Australia didn’t help us. Japan didn’t help us. We’ve got 50,000 soldiers in Japan, 45,000 in South Korea, to protect them from Kim Jong Un, whom I get along very well with.
It’s really strange how some boomers are blaming young people taking “bullshit degrees” for the reason they can’t buy a house when they’re the ones who encouraged that if we wanted to be successful, we should get a degree. Most 18 year olds are following the advice of their parents and their schools when they go to university - this is system that the boomers set up and now young people are being blamed for it.