Oliver Neilson

@toryboypierce @Keir_Starmer @HMSDragon Defense spending slightly higher under the current gov't (2.3% of GDP, than the last one 2% GDP. Still a long way short of the 5+% in the early 70s though. pa.media/blogs/fact-che…

More humiliation for @Keir_Starmer @HMSDragon,which took 3 weeks to get to the Gulf, is now in dry dock being repaired. The decline of a great maritime power

@jasonosada @AnthonyTutcher @ABridgen ...and the Apollo 9 photo?

@OliverNeilson @AnthonyTutcher @ABridgen that particular photo you presented is a fake photo

It’s a remarkable coincidence that the Earth was exactly the same orientation to the moon with exactly the same cloud coverage when these two pictures were taken 68 years apart. Am I now a coincidence theorist ?

@PeaknikMicki @AnthonyTutcher @ABridgen Yep, and if you are in the business of faking space flights, reposting the same photo 58 years apart would have been a bit dumb.

@OliverNeilson @AnthonyTutcher @ABridgen They are two separate images. So Grok believes the one to the right is recent whilst the left one if from 1968. It could also be that the AI engine is confused by the text and now possibly even being trained. Best would have been to get a source link to the right hand image

@PeaknikMicki @AnthonyTutcher @ABridgen So sentence one Grok says it was not taken by Artemis, then sentence 2 says it was. I can't find anything to back that up. Grok refs NASA, but nothing there either. nasa.gov/gallery/lunar-…

@OliverNeilson @AnthonyTutcher @ABridgen According to Grok

@jasonosada @AnthonyTutcher @ABridgen Its a separate debate. They haven't republished the Apollo 8 image as was suggested.

@OliverNeilson @AnthonyTutcher @ABridgen if you believe this is a real photo then you are a fucking dipshit

@AnthonyTutcher @ABridgen OMG that is a coincidence...except that this is the shot Artemis took, and its obviously not the same....and its 58 years not 68, but apart from that you're bang on. apnews.com/article/nasa-a…

@ABridgen @Grok. Are these images the same?

@Artemisfornow What's the lowest dollar value you are willing to take to compromise principals? Obviously at 37m they are up for grabs.

🚨 Wireless festival now cancelled ! Keir Starmer just wiped out an event worth about £37 million to the UK economy and about £4–7 million in tax revenue. Brilliant. Hotels, transport, staff, small businesses all suffer! He believe he should decide how private businesses should run. He isn’t a socialist he’s an idiotic communist.

@AvonandsomerRob Important stuff on toast.

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. What did you have this morning?

@ThrillaRilla369 My leg fell off.

What’s the fastest way you have ever lost weight?

@VelonCC Please don’t encourage this sort of thing, I live in the mountains of Mallorca and it’s currently full of middle aged men clip clopping around in white Lycra, it’s making my eyes bleed. What happened to the ‘any colour as long as it’s black’ rule?

One of the best looks in pro cycling 😍🇪🇺 Demi Vollering showed off a superb full-white Euro champs outfit as she rode to a strong Tour of Flanders solo victory 💪🏼 📸 Getty Images

@C130GuyBNA @ianmiles Aren't the ships in range of drones that can be launched up to 1,000 miles away? Can't protect that with a few planes.

I’m still not clear why the US doesn’t just escort ships through the street as well as use A10/AC130 to enforce a no go zone along the Iranian coastline in the chokepoint of the straits and just force it open. I get the issue of the mirror threat of attack keeping ships out since they are slow moving and undefended but we could fix that very easily. There has to be some aspect not being discussed such as putting pressure on the nations who depend on goods coming through the straight, which is predominantly not USA.

Many people are under the mistaken belief that Iran owns the Strait of Hormuz. They do not. It is international waters and they have absolutely no right to blockade it or demand a transit fee.

@JeremyDBoreing So the most powerful man on Earth with sole authority to wage nuclear war if he choses to saying 'a whole civilisation will die tonight' doesn't worry you at all?, not even a bit? Granted he does have a rich history of talking bollocks and not following up on threats and promises

Donald Trump has been a national politician for a decade. Anyone still reacting to the guy’s negotiating tactics and hyperbole with this sort of hysteria ten years in should be disqualified from political commentary. If he nukes Tehran at 8pm, I’ll admit I’m the crazy one. When he doesn’t, this crew will admit nothing and find some other comment to be scandalized by.

@stelzner_n1150 ...and everything so far has not been stupid?

Nothing will happen tonight because Trump knows it would cause a global recession and $200 oil. He isn't that stupid.

@mumwhocares @SandyofSuffolk I'm not denying that people deserve a few years of rest after they have finished their working lives, I'd like to myself, I'm just questioning whether its ethical to push the debt for paying for it onto our unborn grand children who don't get a say in the matter.

@OliverNeilson @SandyofSuffolk OK but my husband has just retired at age 68. He had a manual job for 53yrs. So have many others his age. Retiring at 66 with a State Pension and a bus pass sounds like a normal world to me. You’re welcome 🤷‍♀️

In all my 46 years of working, I never once heard anyone complain about old people getting a state pension. We just knew the older generation deserved looking after when they couldn't look after themselves after all their years of hard work.

@happyBrit17 Its not dying everywhere, its thriving in Spain where I live.

The death of the high street is being done by design once everything goes online you will no longer be able to use cash.

@fineatfive @JamesMelville ...obviously.

@OliverNeilson @JamesMelville It’s only genocide if trump does it

Shame on you Donald Trump. Absolutely disgraceful.

@afneil Here is a fun read, apparently POTUS has the right to decide on his own, to launch nukes, no need to refer to congress, other military minds or anyone, and his order MUST be carried out. congress.gov/crs-product/IF…

President Trump threatens to wipe out Iranian civilization if Tehran doesn’t cede to his demands by 8pm New York time (1am London) tonight (Tuesday). “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will,” Trump writes on his Truth Social platform. Is there anybody, any group capable of staging an intervention in the White House?

@spbrando1 @TVKev I think the undwhelming nature of the return to the moon, at least in popular opinion that can't be arsed to spend two minutes on Google is probably the fault of Sadiq Khan or Gary Lineker or someone anyway.

@OliverNeilson @TVKev You’re confusing Angry Kev with an actual journalist here. He probably would find that “boring” as well, since that’s his stock answer for anything too complicated for him to understand.

What has this current space probe not achieved that the US space programme rather famously achieved half a century ago? Er... actually landing on the Moon. Sorry, but for all the ooing and ahing, Artemis 2 seems like a repeat performance that's not as good as the original.

@_HenryBolton A few years ago it did allow this genius to post this photo caption.

This really is the most bizarre thing I’ve seen for a very long time - It’s like the Mad Hatter’s tea party 💐🐰