Maria Anthony 💙

My daughter’s oil painting again, this time enlarged and framed above a sofa with the help of AI. It will be for sale soon.

Winston Churchill fought his depression with bricks. He'd lay them for hours at his country home in Kent. He joined the bricklayers' union. And in 1921 he wrote about why it worked. It took psychology another 75 years to catch up. He called his depression the "Black Dog." It followed him for decades. His method for fighting it back was as basic as it sounds: laying brick after brick, hour after hour. Churchill spelled out his theory in a long essay for The Strand Magazine. People who think for a living, he wrote, can't fix a tired brain just by resting it. They have to use a different part of themselves. The part that moves the eyes and the hands. Woodworking, chemistry, bookbinding, bricklaying, painting. Anything that drags the body into a problem the mind can't solve by itself. Modern psychology now calls this behavioral activation. It's one of the most-studied depression treatments out there. Depression sets a behavior trap. You feel bad, so you stop doing things, and doing less means less to feel good about. Feeling worse makes you do even less. The loop tightens until you can't breathe inside it. Behavioral activation breaks the loop from the action side. You schedule the activity first, even when every part of you doesn't want to. Doing it produces small rewards: a wall gets straighter, a painting fills in, a messy room gets clean. Those small rewards slowly rewire the brain. Action comes first, and the feeling follows. Researchers at the University of Washington put this to the test in 2006. They studied 241 adults with major depression and compared three treatments: behavioral activation, regular talk therapy, and antidepressants. For the people who were most severely depressed, behavioral activation matched the drugs. It beat the talk therapy. A 2014 review of more than 1,500 patients across 26 trials backed up the result. Physical work like bricklaying does something extra on top of this. It crowds out rumination, the looping bad thoughts that grind people down during the worst stretches of depression. Bricklaying needs both hands and gives feedback brick by brick: each one is straight or crooked. After an hour you can see exactly how much wall you built. No room left for the mental chewing. The line George Mack used in his post, "depression hates a moving target," is good poetry. The science behind it is sharper. Depression hates a brain that has somewhere else to be.

SHOCKING DUTCH COURT BOMBSHELL: COVID JABS OFFICIALLY LABELED BIOWEAPONS in Historic Case Against Bill Gates & Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla! For the FIRST TIME EVER, a Dutch court is hearing sworn evidence that the mRNA “vaccines” are **military bioweapons** — not medicine. The late Professor Francis Boyle — the world’s top bioweapons expert who literally **drafted the U.S. Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act** — was set to testify against Gates, Bourla and the rest of the “Architects of the Great Reset.” In his damning affidavit, Boyle called the COVID injections **“franken-shots”** — synthetic biological weapons packed with illegal gain-of-function spike proteins and Pentagon/DARPA nanotechnology delivery systems designed to cause **massive injury and death**. **Then, just days after agreeing to testify under oath in this very case… Professor Boyle was found dead.** Coincidence? Or convenient silencing of the one man who could legally define these shots as bioweapons under international law? His final testimony is now **court evidence.** Plaintiffs injured (and one now dead) from the jabs are suing Gates, Bourla, former Dutch PM Mark Rutte and others for **crimes against humanity** under the Rome Statute. The court has ordered Gates and Bourla to appear and answer for this. **WHAT WAS CALLED “CONSPIRACY THEORY” IS NOW OFFICIAL COURT EVIDENCE.** This is Nuremberg 2.0 unfolding in real time. The Great Reset is crumbling. The architects are being dragged into the light.

@winghalf6 It looked beautiful when you were in charge. You cared. Now a shambles.

This was the clubhouse I ran in Blackheath. It was compulsory purchased and I was evicted. bottom pic is how it looks now.

@Realneo101 Free Iran.

عزیزان نمی‌دونم چه بلایی دارن سر اکانتم میارن اگر براتون مقدوره لطفا منشن بذارید. با سپاس. They're attacking my account and my reach is dead. I’m not leaving until the regime falls. Say “Free Iran” if you see me. 🇮🇷

Former CIA officer John Kiriakou dropped the scariest sleeper agent story you’ll ever hear. The Russians (and others) take kids basically from birth, rip them from their families, and raise them in fake American towns deep in Russia. American food, American TV, perfect American accent — the whole thing. Then they steal the identity of a dead American baby, get them a legit passport and Social Security number, and drop them into the U.S. They live normal lives for decades — travel agent, dad, neighbor, until one day they get “activated.”A coded radio message. Or a stranger whispering in their ear on the subway: “Report back… or I have to kill you.” One guy turned himself in to the FBI the second his daughter was born. He couldn’t do it anymore. This stuff is happening. How many “Americans” around you right now are actually waiting for that call?

INCREÍBLE: El inmigrante ruandés Emmanuel Abayaisenga vio rechazada su solicitud de asilo en Francia en repetidas ocasiones desde que la presentó en 2012. A pesar de las órdenes de deportación, permaneció en el país de forma ilegal. Los sacerdotes le confiaron las llaves de la catedral, encargándole el cierre y el cuidado del edificio. Después de que incendiara la catedral, destruyendo el órgano y el coro, el padre Maire lo acogió en su casa, ofreciéndole refugio mientras esperaba el juicio. Luego asesinó al padre Maire. Europa en pocas palabras: el suicidio moral de una civilización.

My Brother tragically suffered a cardiac arrest last Sunday at mile 25 of the @LondonMarathon he’s currently fighting for his life in hospital. Please if anyone sees this please share so we can raise funds to help at this really tough time. @age_uk gofundme.com/f/gareth-and-h…

@BarryBanker_ @Jenny_1884 I’m not an expert in this field. I understand the problem, not sure of the solution. Before, people would pass on without having to sell their homes for care home fees. You could leave your children an inheritance and nowadays it’s much harder.

@Imnotquiet @Jenny_1884 Exactly. But what’s the answer?

Why does it cost upwards of £1K a week for someone to live in a care home? This is an extortionate amount of money. Why is this never investigated? Considering care workers earn a relatively low wage then there’s a lot of people out there making a lot of money out of people suffering.

@BarryBanker_ @Jenny_1884 The thing is, the cost of staying in a care home per night is like staying in a hotel 🏨 every night. Savings easily evaporate and property ends up being sold. I can see why families feel resentful.

@Imnotquiet @Jenny_1884 You’re right - it’s not 1:1 always. But even shared care requires multiple staff on 24 hour shifts, plus management, nurses, and compliance staff, not to mention the costs of medicine. The real question is: are homes efficient, or are costs inflated elsewhere?

@BarryBanker_ @Jenny_1884 The bedrooms can be small, my late stepmother’s room had no shelving for books or pictures. You do get 24 hour care, but it’s not on a 1:1 ratio so works out cheaper. £1,000 a week is about double the rate people can earn.

@Jenny_1884 Private bedroom, 24 hour care, 3 meals a day, activities, nursing, medical supplies. £1K per week is cheap. Do you think nursing homes are cheap to run?

This is the sad reality of a normal day in the NHS. No strikes, No excuses. Yet we’ve got fully qualified doctors sitting unemployed while patients are left waiting 21 hours in A&E. Years of mismanagement and catastrophic workforce planning failure. What a betrayal to patients

Un terrorista musulmán marroquí incendió una iglesia en Villastanza, Italia, destruyendo el belén y el órgano de 600 años de antigüedad. Europa se ha suicidado.

@CapitanBitcoin Climate change my foot! 🦶

🚨Hoy, 1 de mayo de 2026, se ha incendiado la Catedral Anglicana de Liverpool, la más grande de Reino Unido. El cambio climático no da tregua y sigue incendiando iglesias y catedrales europeas.

It drives me absolutely insane that this expensive house in a leafy area housed three illegal migrants, of which: • all are rapists • one is a convicted murderer The British state hates Britain with a passion.

This should be exploding on every front page worldwide.

The Islamic Republic murders teenagers. The UN hasn’t said a word.

Se ha revelado un hecho impactante: la enfermedad de Alzheimer no es simplemente un trastorno cerebral, sino que en realidad es causada por una infección bacteriana en la cavidad bucal. No se trata de un deterioro de la función cognitiva debido al envejecimiento, sino de un fenómeno en el que las bacterias periodontales invaden el cerebro desde las encías y destruyen continuamente las neuronas durante un período de 20 años. Hemos resumido el panorama completo y los métodos de mejora en tres puntos. 1. La "Operación" de Invasión: Se han detectado bacterias periodontales, el agente causal, en el 90% de los cerebros de pacientes con Alzheimer. Se ha confirmado un mecanismo por el cual las bacterias orales viajan a través del torrente sanguíneo, penetran físicamente el sistema de defensa del cerebro y causan daño directo y continuo a las células nerviosas. 2. La "Cadena de Destrucción": Las bacterias que invaden el cerebro forman placa durante un largo período. Esta acumulación silenciosa durante 20 años destruye estructuralmente la infraestructura cognitiva del cerebro, lo que finalmente conduce al inicio de la enfermedad. 3. El «hackeo autónomo» de la defensa Cabe destacar la eficacia de la goma de masilla (1 g al día) para eliminar esta bacteria. En lugar de intervenciones médicas complejas, un simple método de masticación diaria puede prevenir errores potencialmente fatales en el cerebro y optimizar la salud en general.

@LangmanVince Tom Selleck.

Can you figure out who Bachelor Number Two is from this episode of "The Dating Game" (1967)?

This is insane. The historic Église Saint-Cyriaque church in Montenach, France, was just set on fire. Survived both world wars but couldn’t survive diversity.