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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧 The man who invented the equals sign died in a debtors' prison. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧 2 small lines. You have drawn them all your life. A Welshman drew them first. Robert Recorde was born in Tenby around 1512, a merchant's son. Oxford made him a fellow, Cambridge a doctor of medicine. But learning lived in Latin, locked away from people like his. ✍️ So he wrote his mathematics in plain English, as a friendly talk between a master and his pupil. The Ground of Artes, 1543. Arithmetic for anyone. Sailors learned from it. Shopkeepers. Merchants' clerks. Britain kept it in print for over 150 years. The crown noticed and gave him the royal mint at Bristol. Then, in 1549, a powerful soldier came demanding the king's money for his army: Sir William Herbert. Recorde asked for the king's warrant. None came. So the mathematician refused the soldier. ⚔️ Herbert called it treason. Recorde spent 60 days under guard. He was released. The grudge was not. The crown sent him to Ireland to run its silver mines. The mines failed and he came home unpaid. And the soldier he had refused was now the Earl of Pembroke. In 1556, Recorde accused the earl of misconduct at the crown's mints. True or not, it was a fight a scholar could not win. ⚖️ Pembroke sued him for libel. The court awarded the earl £1,000, money Recorde did not have. And with ruin hanging over him, he wrote one last book. The Whetstone of Witte, 1557, the first English book of algebra. Page after page, he tired of writing the words "is equalle to". So he drew 2 parallel lines instead, "bicause noe 2 thynges, can be moare equalle." 🔥 The equals sign. Born on a page in 1557. Within months, they came for him. The King's Bench prison, Southwark. A gaol for debtors. He died there in 1558. The crown itself still owed him £1,000 for Ireland. It paid the debt 12 years after his death. 🏛️ The earl got his verdict. The Welshman got every equation on Earth. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Nobody taught you his name. But you have drawn his 2 lines all your life. That is yours now. Stand a little taller. We are the home of British heroes. There is a place for you in it. 👇🙏 👉 proudofus.co.uk 👈 Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

How to cross a gap safely. This clip comes from a British Army instructional film from the Second World War titled 'Camouflage and Fieldcraft', produced by the War Office in 1943. Film: IWM DRA 476

I need to watch this series in the worst way. It looks so good!

Accents are really hard to catch 😂

Leith is one of our best guys.

ARGELIA tiene operativos dos HIDROAVIONES rusos Beriev 200 que están ahora mismo apagando sus INCENDIOS pero hay en la UE gente que dice que en Europa no valen ... 👇😱 16.000 litros por descarga. Tres veces más que el Canadair 🧐

THIS IS WHAT THE MACHINE LOOKS LIKE WHEN YOU SEE ALL OF IT Over the past few months I have published many posts built entirely from primary government data. AEC filings. ASIC extracts. AusTender contracts. Parliamentary registers. Every figure is verifiable. Every source is named. Here is what the data shows when you put it all together. The tobacco industry paid $14 million into Australian politics while fighting plain packaging through a fake retailers group. Both parties took the money. The structure they invented became the template every industry uses today. One company, Pratt Holdings, paid $3 million to both major parties in a single year. It has done the same thing almost every year since 1998. You get one vote every three years. DoorDash paid $785,000 to the Liberals in the four months before the federal election while publicly opposing Labor’s gig economy laws. The ratio was 8.5 to 1. The gambling industry paid Labor $899,343 while the gambling advertising ban was under active consideration. They paid the Liberals $819,480 in the same period. The ban was dropped. Labor Holdings Pty Ltd has received $322 million since 1998. No donors named. The Liberal equivalent, the Cormack Foundation, has given $9.4 million to the Victorian division. Same architecture. Different colour. The Greenfields Foundation lent the Liberal Party $4.25 million. The party has been repaying it for 23 years. The original source of the Foundation’s capital is not visible in any public document. Vapold Pty Ltd, a 50-year-old Liberal investment vehicle run by the party’s most powerful figures, reported $37.6 million in receipts in a single Victorian election year. The source is not disclosed. The shares are held not beneficially. The beneficial owner is unknown. The taxpayer funds all four party think tanks simultaneously through the Department of Finance. $5.5 million since 2018. You paid for the policy that all four parties are selling you. The ACTU received $20.7 million from government agencies across the dataset while spending $34.3 million on electoral campaigns. The unions that fund Labor have donated $18.4 million directly to the party. The loop runs continuously. A Chinese billionaire whose residency was later cancelled by ASIO on foreign interference grounds donated $5.38 million to both parties over nine years. Neither party has returned the money. And Advance Australia — the right’s parallel campaign machine — received $34 million in three years with zero named donors in the required disclosure. None of it is illegal. That is the whole point. The system is not broken. It is working exactly as the people who designed it intended. The disclosure laws have thresholds low enough to hide what matters. The associated entity structures obscure the origin of capital. The think tank grants flow regardless of who governs. The union loop runs automatically. The front groups run the campaigns that the companies cannot run directly. Every single one of these findings is in a public register. I did not need a whistleblower. I did not need a leak. I needed a spreadsheet and the willingness to read what the government has already published. The question is not whether this is happening. The data proves it is. The question is whether enough Australians are angry enough to demand it stops. None of it is illegal. That’s the problem. Cold hard facts. Sourced. Corrected when wrong. What’s your thoughts…? Peter Lyndon-James 🇦🇺 Sources: AEC Transparency Register bulk download — Donations_Made.csv, Associated_Entity_Returns.csv, Detailed_Receipts.csv, Detailed_Debts.csv, Third_Party_Donations_Received.csv, Third_Party_Returns.csv, Significant_Third_Party_Returns.csv, Detailed_Discretionary_Benefits.csv. ASIC Current & Historical Company Extract — Vapold Pty Ltd ACN 004 957 699. AusTender contract data. All figures computed 25 July 2026 from primary government data. No media reports used as source material.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 On the 24th of July, the Russian MoD carried out two Iskander strikes on a drone exhibition in kiev. Over 300 military and foreign individuals were in attendance. Here's a list of a few names (dеаd) released; 1. Eduard Sirenko, former head of SBU "Alpha" special intelligence unit and advisor to the GUR. 2. Alexander Gordienko, lecturer and drone/AI development expert for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. 3. Valentina Savitska, head of the Centre for International Cooperation and Strategic Communications at the SBU 4. Ekaterina Shalupnya, head of legal department of UAROR (Ukrainian Association of District and Regional Councils). 5. Bogdan Dmytrovych Melinyshyn, a high profile civil leader supplying weapons and aid to the AFU. 6. Two Polish related officials were also kiIIed. One of military status and the other an advisor to the Polish Defense sector. The dеаth toll is in the dozens but Kiev officially reports 10 and 100 injured. Meanwhile Ukrainian journalists are accusing the government of playing down the actual figures. "Casualties are over 300, the death isn't 10, it's much higher, what they counted is bodies still intact. There are shredded unidentified bodies" [Thanks to Ayden for compiling the names found online/posted by families.]

NUCLEAR 101: This nuclear reactor is small enough to fit on a truck but powerful enough to bring electricity and heat anywhere, from military bases to disaster zones to remote towns with no grid connection. Microreactors will be factory-built, plug-and-play, and could change the way we power the world.

Attack on Terrorist Hideout

@justthink1 Tom should retire with his millions to a villa property with a island waterside picturesque view in Greece purchased for the same price as a 3 bedroom apartment with special levies in Western Sydney overlooking another apartment complex. All good times must come to a end.

WHEN THERE ARE NO REGISTERED BIDDERS, THE PROBLEM ISN'T THE MARKET - as much as It's how the campaign is being managed... Panos recently shared a video of several Sydney auctions that attracted ZERO registered bidders. Everyone seems to be asking: "What's wrong with buyers and the market?" I think we're asking the wrong question. Here's mine: If there isn't a single registered bidder days before the auction, why are we still going ahead? Seriously. If a football coach is six goals down at half-time, they change the game plan. If a builder discovers rock during excavation, they redesign the footings. Why do selling agents so often continue with the same campaign, hoping for a different result? Is it strategy, or simply following the process? An auction is one marketing strategy. IT IS NOT THE OBJECTIVE. The objective is to achieve the best possible outcome for the vendor. Which means continuously managing the campaign, not simply managing a timetable. We're currently managing several sales campaigns for our vendor clients across Sydney. On more than one occasion we've instructed our selected selling agents to change tack as the campaign unfolded. Not because the agent wasn't capable. Because campaign management is dynamic, not static. Don't be the next 6 vendors that have no bidders on the day of the auction...

2nd Battle of Fallujah was the bloodiest battle since Vietnam

Our tax dollars - funding a billion-dollar club in Paddginton for Eastern suburbs billionaires michaelwest.com.au/white-city-gov…

One of the men who invented the transistor stood at a Bell Labs blackboard and explained how it works. AT&T kept the film. Almost nobody watches it. Walter Brattain shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in physics for the transistor. Every chip training every model in 2026 descends from what he built with Bardeen and Shockley in 1947. This is 28 minutes of the inventor teaching semiconductor physics himself. Properties, simple model, history, impact, new phenomena, written on the board in his own hand. Watch the section where he draws the crystal lattice and shows what an electron and a hole actually do inside it. The abstraction most engineers carry around, drawn from scratch by the man who found it. An embedded engineer I know watched it twice and said 28 minutes of chalk beat a semester of textbook diagrams. Free on YouTube from the AT&T archives, 10 chapters, black and white. Everyone uses his invention. Almost nobody hears him explain it.

🇪🇸🇷🇺‼️🚨 SANCTIONS CHAOS - FIREFIGHTING HELICOPTERS GROUNDED Spain can’t use its fleet of Kamov 32 Fire Attack helicopters! The Russian firefighter helicopters, designed to drop more than 5,000 liters of water with precision and maneuverability on wildfires, are extremely effective … but European sanctions banned the supply of spare parts and maintenance by Russian technicians. These helicopters are desperately needed NOW, but the Kamov fleet remains grounded. A Spanish parliamentary group has desperately requested an exemption from the sanctions for these firefighter civil security vehicles. The Spanish government responded negatively, saying the decision must be made by the European Council in Brussels and it could not approve for their use. Now Spain is on fire and desperately needs them, and it all depends on Ursula.

只今、走行展示中です。

@EnglandUK If left without a fix, going to see the guys in black berets back on the streets of Ireland with a new anti immigrant ideology

🚨 Ireland 🇮🇪 bus chaos caught on camera: A man politely asks his fellow passenger to turn down the blasting music… and gets aggressively shut down. This isn’t just “bad manners.” It’s a daily reminder that rapid, unvetted mass migration is fracturing social trust in once-peaceful Western nations. When basic courtesy disappears in public spaces, what’s left of community? Share if you’ve seen this pattern. What’s the fix? 👇 #Ireland #MassMigration #CulturalClash #CommonSense​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

@matt_barrie Fancy car

Australia is in big trouble! Working Australians earning 90k a year are having their rental applications rejected by real estate agents across the country because they don't earn enough! With 1 bedroom rentals now priced at a minimum $500 per week anybody paying more than 30% of their wages in rent is considered under rental strain and a risk to landlords. We are going to witness homelessness en masse

IRELAND 🇮🇪 Amid anti-migration protests, the anonymous ICA (Irish Citizen Army) group released a message saying that it was finally taking action against what the Irish and British governments have done: "When tyranny becomes law, revolution becomes duty."