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@markhartshorn @Pouriaaa @simon_schama Strange that number goes up with every telling. Not long before it's 70,000 babies?

I just got off the phone with some folks in Tehran. They told me, "You have no idea how much we danced and celebrated last night. The streets were packed with people, jumping up and down in jubilation until dawn." They said "Don't worry about us. We are fine. Americans and Israelis are careful, surgical with their targets." This is how hope takes root. Not in silence, not in fear, but with defiance in streets that refuse to stay quiet. #ThankYouTrump

@Coinvo Be the death of RR, Americans simply don't have the engineering skills for such a complex product

RUMOR: 🇬🇧🇺🇸 President Trump has reached a deal with Rolls-Royce to move its $1.6 trillion jet engine project and 40,000 jobs from the U.K. to U.S!

@lukejcr Except it won't. The fox population is managed to meet the needs of the hunt. Once banned gamekeepers will wipe out the foxes. Learn about the way the counteyside is managed.

Boxing Day hunts using “trail scents” can sadly be used as a smokescreen for fox hunting. Such CRUELTY has no place in the British countryside. It’s telling how many right-wing NPC politicians rush to defend it. Labour will BAN trail hunting for good to PROTECT wildlife. 🇬🇧🐾

@sophia_edw28123 They're fighting for more money, stop with tue gaslighting

Let’s be clear: doctors striking aren’t abandoning patients. They are fighting for safer care and fair conditions. Flu is up, but hospitals are ready, senior consultants are covering, and there’s no reason to panic. Patient safety comes first, despite political fear-mongering.

@gillianthurston @Shr_Nottingham @wesstreeting Nobody believes this you're fighting for more money. At least be honest

@Shr_Nottingham @wesstreeting Make no mistake, doctors are fighting to save our NHS from the clutches of the profiteering Dtreeting, who has accepted ‘donations’ from private medicine.

I thought strike fatigue might kick in?? But the offer made to Resident doctors really was that bad The only thing Wes has achieved with his insults & intransigence is to poke the bear 83% wow! You’ve got a real problem here @wesstreeting

@Grippan65Momi @JimFergusonUK Ok, if you consider giving Putin everything he wants diplomacy then you're deluded. All Trump offered was surrender. The US is not bankrollin the war, Europe are buying weapons from America and supplying them to Ukraine and making American weapon companies rich

That arrangement was never moral — it was just convenient. If Europe truly believes in this war: 👉 Let Europe fund it 👉 Let Europe arm it 👉 Let Europe secure it End the fantasy where: ✔️ Europe postures ✔️ America bankrolls ✔️ Ukraine bleeds You rejected diplomacy in London. You mocked compromise in Washington. Now the responsibility shifts. You don’t get to torch peace — and still invoice America. History won’t remember the bravado. It will remember who refused to stop the fire when the exit was open. #PeaceWasOffered #EuropeOwnsItNow #EndTheForeverWar #Accountability #Geopolitics 🔥🌍

🚨ZELENSKY JUST TORCHED THE PEACE EFFORT — NOW EUROPE OWNS THE WAR Ben Harnwell has put words to what millions sensed but few dared say: Zelensky didn’t just reject Trump’s peace offer — he publicly humiliated him, twice, in two capitals, and deliberately. London. Washington. Back-to-back political theatre. Months of Trump-led back-channel diplomacy… A 28-point peace framework… Hours of negotiation with Putin and Kyiv… Thrown aside so Zelensky can drag America back into a war he cannot win without U.S. blood and U.S. treasure. Europe cheers this bravado because Europe doesn’t pay the price. They strut around with what Harnwell called “gangster swagger” — and why wouldn’t they? America still underwrites NATO. America still guarantees Europe’s security. America still absorbs the cost. So they talk tough while America carries the risk. Here is the turning point: “If Europe wants this fight — Europe can fight it. America is out.” And Harnwell is right. Trump has spent nearly a year pushing against the machinery of endless war. Zelensky just spat in his face politically. Now the logic is simple: If Europe wants a forever war, Europe can fund it. If Europe wants escalation, Europe can own the consequences. If Europe believes there’s victory ahead — Europe can walk into it without America. America gave them an offramp. They chose the battlefield. Now they can stay on it.

@DeepCoherence_ @elonmusk Before building Von Neumann machines I'd recommend Greg Bear's Forge of God and Anvil of stars to understand the ultimate point in this and back away quickly.

Optimus is Tesla's humanoid robot project, a general-purpose bipedal robot designed to perform a wide range of repetitive, dangerous, or tedious tasks for humans. - Self-Replication: Optimus is engineered to handle end-to-end manufacturing, from mining raw materials to assembling components in factories. Musk envisions fleets of Optimus bots building more Optimus bots autonomously, creating a self-sustaining production loop with minimal human input. This mirrors a Von Neumann probe's replication cycle: arrive at a resource-rich site (e.g., an asteroid), extract materials, fabricate replicas, and propagate outward. - Space Exploration: Optimus could deploy to off-world environments like Mars or the Moon. Early units might construct habitats or Starship launch infrastructure; advanced versions could mine regolith for metals, 3D-print solar panels, and replicate themselves to scale operations exponentially. Musk has described this as "the machine that builds the machine," enabling Kardashev-scale projects (harnessing entire planetary systems) without constant Earth resupply. - AI-Driven Autonomy: Powered by Tesla's Dojo supercomputer and real-world AI training (from billions of miles of FSD data), Optimus learns tasks via observation and simulation. Over time, this could evolve into full autonomy for decision-making in harsh, unpredictable space conditions—key for a probe to adapt, repair, and innovate without human oversight.

Optimus will be the Von Neumann probe

@bottomley50 And what do you think comparing Truss to a lettuce was doing? I don't understand why the left can't see that they did all of the same things to the Tory Government that the right are doing now

Can you believe most of the media is openly trying to bring down an elected gov,now the chancellor and the PM.The BBC literally saying if the budget is bad both of them should go,we should be seriously horrified what is happening to our democracy.

@AriReddy We see you, trying to move the conversation on from your pay because the public have no sympathy with your ludicrous demands. We know it's all about the money!

The most revealing part of the UK doctor crisis isn’t the pay. It’s that the UK takes 8–11 years to do what other universal systems do in 5–6; not because the medicine is harder, but because trainees are used to fill service gaps. A system designed like that will always bleed talent. 👇

@CowdryBen @BMAResidents I applied to be an astronaut, seems there aren't any vacancies. I'm going on strike until the Government create enough vacancies for astronauts. You see how ridiculous you are?

Dr Brown spoke with the BBC at our picket. She wants to become an A&E Consultant. However, last year 14 doctors applied per A&E training place and she was unsuccessful. It is a disgrace that patients are waiting hours in A&E, when doctors like Poppy are locked out of training.

@DrNickDalmon @BMAResidents Oh come on, they're on strike for more money

This is Abi and Alex. F1 doctors from Hastings. They are on strike because their patients cant get the care they deserve. We need more specialists to provide that care. Patients need doctors Doctors need jobs @BMAResidents

@ZackPolanski Reform won some local elections, how did that work out?

People have tried to say that the Green surge is just on social media. Or in a bubble that's just about polls and just about new members. Yet up and down the country - Greens are also winning elections. Huge congratulations to Canterbury Greens! 💚🎉 Join.greenparty.org.uk

@ZackPolanski Nobody builds unaffordable homes what would be the point.

Labour say "Let's make despair normal again." They won't build the council homes we need. They are destroying nature for building luxury unaffordable houses. They're trying to conflate these things. But so see through. Join.greenparty.org.uk

@RupraRoshan And of course the only solution is pay me more. We're tired of the lies the doctors are telling. Get back to work, do your job

I'm actually embarrassed to work in the NHS. No dignity for patients, people die before coming to hospital, unemployed doctors, doctor rota gaps filled by anyone who's not a doctor, almost every hospital in the UK can't hit cancer targets yet CEOs are on £150k+ increasing every year. ED attendances are at record highs, outpatient appointments have more than doubled in 20 years. Yet when a patient is cancelled for an operation, I'm the one who has to apologise. When clinic overruns because managers are booking 3x more patients for a 10 minute slot, I'm the one who has to apologise. When a patient is managed incorrectly by a non-doctor, I'm the one who has to apologise. It's no wonder resident doctors are striking for pay to be restored to what it used to be, and to just have a job to become a consultant.

@_Sheryl_H That's fine you sit at home with no pay waiting on the brain bleed. Once it happens you get paid for the time you're fixing it and then nothing until the next one. Is that what your angling for?

If your boiler broke, you’d pay the plumber emergency call out fee. If you have a brain bleed overnight + require emergency surgery you need a surgeon. Doctors aren’t asking for a pay rise, they’re asking for restoration and they deserve to be paid according to their skills.

@KaskaJessica @Thewise02645225 @ZackPolanski It's really easy to popular when giving stuff away. Once people start to look at where the money for the giveaways is coming from, the popularity will evaporate. Note that there aren't enough millionaires to fund his program!

@Thewise02645225 @ZackPolanski Yeah it'll prove he's actually popular, Greens are polling second, above Labour, Tories & Lib Dems

I'm glad @ZackPolanski is getting the tv time he deserves, Greens have got my vote.

@PhilipProudfoot As we move toward the election both of their economic policies will come under scrutiny and be found to be deeply flawed. We'll have the same Tory/Labour battle.

If the next election is Greens vs Reform, then at least that's a real choice: Under Reform, we can be a (more) cruel, bitter, insular country that makes workers poorer — or, under the Greens, a kind, open, outward-looking country where billionaires finally pay their fair share.

@AvonandsomerRob @psyopimmune True but I drove Caen to Bordeaux and back, cost me £90 in tolls

@psyopimmune It's a startling contrast when you get off the ferry at Calais, compared to Kent. It's like driving on carpet.

French roads are amongst the best in the world - I've never once experienced a pothole, even on B roads. But this week the French unveiled their first "Charge as you drive" highway, which keeps your EV at 100% charge while you're driving over it's tracks. It works very much like a charging pad for your mobile phone, using magnets to keep your EV battery topped-up. Would this work in Britain? Or would they just get vandalised or suffer from lack of maintenance? Will they quell your range anxiety, and persuade you to drive electric?

@I_amMukhtar I can't believe your grift is such that you use this tragedy to stuff your pockets with gold. Greedy or what!

Train drivers and staff are heroes. The driver had to call signal control to report that he was coming off the fast track and pulling up at Huntingdon. They then had to clear the track and direct him to a safe platform. Next time they ask for fair pay, remember this.

@JohnWest_JAWS Do you remember when Boris was hounded out? Liz Truss and the lettuce. This treatment is given to both parties. Zack will feel it soon

Today's news. The entirety of the right wing press are STILL going after Rachel Reeves, even though the letting agency have admitted it was their error. Even tax evader Nadhim Zahawi has put his head over the parapet. Why ARE they so scared of her?