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It blows my mind that, although compound interest appears in GCSE maths, most UK kids still leave school without any real sense of how it grows wealth in the real world. I’ve set up Junior ISAs for my kids. When they reach the right age we’ll grab lunch once a month, review a few stocks or ETFs, debate the merits and - crucially - they make the final call. By 18 they’ll understand the compounding game first-hand. Why isn’t this kind of practical compounding literacy mandatory in every school? Small gains in early asset allocation dwarf many other life-skills in lifetime-wage terms. @RachelReevesMP has floated measures to shift more savings from Cash ISAs to Stocks & Shares ISAs, and @MartinSLewis has a solid “starter investments ISA” idea. Surely giving kids a working knowledge of this simple concept would be the real catalyst. If U.K. financial or investor professionals / influencers like @MartinSLewis @StevenBartlett @HarryStebbings were up for recording a handful of shorts that could be shown in business / personal finance classes that would surely move the needle… 🤔

~1000X harder*

@libsoftiktok The time it takes for someone, anyone, to put down their phone and help this poor person actually sickens me.

🚨GRAPHIC: Video shows a student at North Atlanta High School getting STABBED in the FACE by another student with a pair of scissors. The student armed with scissors appears to shout "WHITE B*TCH" during the attack. The injured student, who can be seen with blood gushing from his face, was taken to the hospital.

Your talent for writing is in essence, magic. It is tragic that much like in the beautiful realm you created, in the real world your magic also bears a cost. On behalf of everyone that has ever had the joy of immersing themselves in your work, thank you for your sacrifice. If we could Skill your pain away, we would! ❤️

At the end of a writing evening, my hands hurt so much I want to rip them off the ends of my arms and throw them out in the yard. I realize this is neither logical nor possible.

This seems like a pretty big deal. arstechnica.com/space/2025/10/…

@nonewthing No. You are blinded by agenda. x.com/UprioG53032/st…

@Wanalyst007 That might prove impossible with the constant tactical tweaks Pep x Mikel will be making on the pitch! Either way, praying your first visit will be a fruitful one 🤙🏻 enjoy.

@ChrisAIxIQ Thanks brother. I'm just gonna be a normal fan for today (try to, at least 😂)

First time watching Arsenal at the Emirates today Regular goers, any tips/things I should be aware of about getting to the stadium, etc? Mutuals if you're there hmu

@thepatwalls Hmmm. @elonmusk…the people want bots flagged / eradicated.

Fuck man it seems like 60-70% of replies on my posts are AI generated now. I hate this.

@ippvch Stay strong ❤️

I miss my husband so much every day. Even simple things, like buying groceries, feel so dull to do alone.

@realkarenjean I hope your kids are ok Karen, you should be proud of how you’ve raised them ❤️

My children are having a hard time with the assassination of our Charlie Kirk. My daughter shut off her phone on the day it happened because she couldn’t bear to see the gruesome video. My son left his friend group because they celebrated what happened. I was a teen parent from the ghetto and I STILL raised them right. All glory to God. #FridayVibes

…and that person is in custody, will be charged soon, and will be held accountable. And yet, all of us have an opportunity right now to do something different. I want to thank my fellow Utahns. You know, this bad stuff happened. Um, and for 33 hours, ha, I was praying that if this had to happen here, it wouldn't be one of us. That somebody drove from another state. Somebody came from another country. Sadly, that prayer was not answered the way I hoped for, just because it would make it easier on us if we could say, hey, we don't do that here. And indeed, Utah is a special place. We lead the nation in service every year. But it did happen here. You look at how Utahns reacted the last two nights. There was no rioting. There's no looting or cars set on fire. There is no violence. They were vigils, prayers, people coming together to share humanity. That, ladies and gentlemen, is the answer to this. We can return violence with violence, and we can return hate with hate. That's the problem in political violence—it metastasizes, because you could always point the finger at the other side. At some point, we have to find an off-ramp, or it is going much worse. But see, these are choices that we can make. History will dictate if this is a turning point for our country. Every single one of us gets to choose right now if this is a turning point for us. We get to make decisions. We have our agency. And I desperately call on every American—Republican, Democrat, liberal, progressive, conservative, MAGA—all of us to please follow what Charlie taught me. I'll just conclude with words that I share often from a friend who was asked if he was optimistic about our country. And he said, I'm not optimistic. Said, I hate optimism. God, that sounds bad. But he said, optimism is a vice. It's this idea good things are just going to happen. In the history of the world, things have never just happened. Not. I'm not optimistic, but I am hopeful. And hope is the virtue that sits between vices of optimism [and] pessimism. Hope is the idea good things are going to happen because we can make them so. I still believe in our country. Charlie Kirk believed in our country. I still believe that there is more good among us than evil, and we can change the course of history.”

Governor of Utah, @GovCox, with possibly the most important speech of his life. We’ll likely look back on this a critical cross-roads in American history: “Thank you again to our incredible law enforcement team who has worked so hard. Sheriff, I got a solid 90 minutes last night. So I'm probably the most well-rested person up here. Ladies and gentlemen, I uh, I get the microphone. So I hope you'll permit me a moment just to share a few more thoughts about where we are, and how we got here, and maybe a little bit of where do we go from there. Um, I don't want to get too preachy, but I think it's important that we, with eyes wide open, understand what's happening in our country today. I've heard people say, well, why are we so invested in this? There is violence happening all across the world, and every life taken is a child of God. This is certainly about the tragic death—assassination, political assassination—of Charlie Kirk. But it's also much bigger than an attack on an individual. It is an attack on all of us. It is an attack on the American experiment. It is an attack on our ideals. This cuts to the very foundation of who we are, of who we have been, and who we could be in better times. Political violence is different than any other type of violence for lots of different reasons. One because in the very act that Charlie championed—of expression—that freedom of expression is enshrined in our founding documents. Having his life taken in that very act makes it more difficult for people to feel like they can share their ideas, that they can speak freely. We will never be able to solve all the other problems, including the violence problems people are worried about, if we can't have a clash of ideas safely and securely, even—especially—those ideas with which you disagree. That's why this matters so much. Over the last 48 hours, I have been as angry as I have ever been. And it was as anger pushed me to the brink, it was actually Charlie's words that pulled me back. I'd like to share some of those, and specifically right now, if I could, I need to talk to young people in our state—my state—and all across the country. As President Trump reminded me, he said, you know who really loved Charlie? The youths. He's right. Um, young people love Charlie, and young people hated Charlie. And Charlie went into those places anyway. And these are words that have helped me. Charlie said, “when we stop talking, that's when you get violence.” He said, the weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive. Welcome without judgment. Love without condition. Forgive without limit. Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much. A few months ago—I referenced this last night—Charlie posted to social media: When things are moving very fast and people are losing their minds, it's important to stay grounded. Turn off your phone. Read scripture. Spend time with friends. And remember, internet fury is not real life. It's going to be okay. He again said, when you stop having a human connection with someone you disagree with, it becomes a lot easier to commit violence. He said, what we as a culture have to get back to is being able to have reasonable agreement, being able to have reasonable agreement where there is no an option. Now again, to my young friends out there, you are inheriting a country where politics feels like rage. It feels like rage is the only option. Through those words, we have a reminder that we can choose a different path. Your generation has an opportunity to build the culture that's very different than what we're suffering right now—not by pretending differences don't matter, but by embracing our differences and having those hard conversations. I think we need more moral clarity right now. I hear all the time that words are violence. Words are not violence. Violence is violence. There's one person responsible for what happened>

@Thehullboy1 I don’t know you - but seriously well done - you should be incredibly proud.

First time under 100KG in over 3.5 years. On 19th march 2024 I weighed in at 145.6KG/23 stone. Today I stepped on the scales and now at 99.15Kg/15 stone. Since I began the fitness journey my main goal was to get back into double figures and feel more comfortable in my clothes. Today after a year and a half of training we’ve ticked the goal off. After the UK run I weighed in at 107. Went back up to 112 after a month of a BAD binge eating- so spent the last few months really locking in to my diet again. I have no plan to stop training, the gym and running truly is a beautiful thing and hopefully I can keep ticking the pounds down in the process. It’s a slow journey but one I’m excited to keep plodding at🫡

CNN’s Jake Tapper: “It’s so easy in this world. Everybody just demonizes everybody else. And — and look, Charlie was in — in the battle. He was in the political rough and tumble too but these are human beings. And, you know, they don’t eat, breathe and sleep politics. I mean, Charlie had a wife, and Charlie had two little kids. And again, you could disagree with every word that Charlie Kirk ever said. And still think those kids deserve to have a dad and I don’t know where we’ve come in this country that this kind of thing is becoming so commonplace.”

In the last few years we've seen: - The plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer - The Storming of the Capitol and pipe bombs left at the RNC and DNC - The break-in to kidnap Nancy Pelosi and the brutal on Paul Pelosi - Multiple assassination attempts against Trump - The assassination of Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband and the shooting of on State Senator John Hoffman and his wife - Luigi Mangione's assassination of Brian Thompson - The assassination of Charlie Kirk Political violence is contagious. It is spreading. It is not confined to one side or belief system. It should terrify us all. The foundation of a free society is the ability to participate in it without fear of violence. Political violence is always an attack against us all. You have to be so blind not to see that.

its so insane they turned Charlie Kirk into an actual martyr for free speech. not to glaze Kirk as I really didn't agree with anything he stood for but who else in history was killed sitting in front of a crowd, allowing anyone at all to step up and debate him for fun

In this age of de-sensitisation to violence, absence of critical thought, extreme polarised views with minimal good faith debate…. …. Charlie Kirk’s murder is an absolute travesty for Western civilisation, regardless of where you land on the political spectrum.

@Dinho_dv @nonewthing Did you even read what I wrote?! “I love Kai.” FFS.

@ChrisAIxIQ @nonewthing But can I ask you this though why don't you like havertz??

For you to understand the gap between Gyokeres and Havertz, here is Havertz’s first game for Arsenal at No. 9

@Dinho_dv @nonewthing “You guys watch football but don’t acknowledge what you watch.” This is the kind of vacuous, high-minded nonsense, devoid of any rationality or substance, I’ve come to expect on FT.

@ChrisAIxIQ @nonewthing That is because you guys watch football but don't acknowledge what you watch He does so let him have his opinion I've never criticised havertz too Ever