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A.C
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blackpill enjoyer, terminal ballistics afficionado
Surfing the Web Katılım Kasım 2022
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@AllForProgress_ Was pretty excited to hear they had cracked fusion propulsion, then did a bit more research instead of taking your words at face value.
Pretty disappointing. Quite a large misrepresentation you make here.
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In a workshop on the outskirts of Bletchley (it had to be there, didn't it), on the 26th of March this year, a small British company called Pulsar Fusion did something that has not been done by any other company or government on Earth.
It ignited a controlled plasma inside the test chamber of a working nuclear fusion rocket engine.
The plasma held, along with the chamber. The fusion reaction was the kind of reaction that, contained inside a sufficiently engineered magnetic bottle, will one day take a crewed British vehicle to Mars in 30 days rather than 8 months, and that will, within the working lifetime of the engineers presently building it, make the outer planets of the solar system accessible to anyone with a British passport.
The geography of the achievement deserves a longer moment of pause. Bletchley, in 1942, was where Alan Turing and his colleagues broke the Enigma cipher and almost certainly shortened the war in Europe by two years. Pulsar Fusion's headquarters sits roughly 600 yards from the Hut where they did it.
The country that did the maths inside that hut has just, less than a mile down the road, ignited the plasma that could power the next century of human space travel. There is a continuity of British scientific lineage here that is, on the face of it, almost embarrassingly providential, and it is almost completely unreported in the British press.
It's not quite Kitty-Hawk-to-the-moon in 61 years, but it's close.
Like so many great companies of profound importance, Pulsar Fusion is pretty small. It was founded in 2013, and employs around 50 staff. Its chief executive, Richard Dinan, is a working British physicist who has spent the last decade quietly assembling the team and the capital to do what the world's national space agencies have been promising for 60 years and consistently failing to deliver.
The competing American programmes, principally at NASA's Glenn Research Center and at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, are years behind on the propulsion side. The competing Chinese programmes are obscure but, on what is known publicly, also behind. The European Space Agency is, as ever, organising a workshop. Pulsar fired its plasma in March and has been preparing the next-stage tests in the months since.
What this kind of capability means, when commercialised, is genuinely vast.
The economic argument for getting a payload to Mars in 30 days rather than 8 months is not principally about the human passengers, though there is one. It is about cargo. Given a 30-day transit, Mars becomes a logistically tractable destination for the kind of infrastructure-build that turns it from a flag-planting science mission into a working industrial site.
The argument for the outer planets is even larger. The asteroid belt alone, on conservative mineralogical estimates, contains more economically viable platinum-group metals than the entire crust of the Earth has been mined for in industrial history. The first country with reliable fusion propulsion is the first country with reliable access to that supply. The country that holds that capacity, fifty years from now, will be holding the most consequential industrial advantage of the 21st century, and there is no obvious second prize.
The standard British response to this kind of thing is to either ignore it entirely, sell the company to an American buyer at series B (the DeepMind path) for fire-sale prices, or fund it at the level of a Whitehall departmental tea and coffee budget (the Skycutter and Orbex paths).
The standard British response will not be sufficient. Pulsar Fusion needs the kind of patient capital that turns a working demonstration into an operational engine, and that, in turn, into a manufacturing capability. The British state, on present form, is structurally incapable of providing it, British pension funds are structurally incapable of investing in it, and the British political class will, on present form, only notice if it somehow manages to swing a leadership election.
I wantt= Pulsar Fusion treated as a national-strategic asset, and beyond that as a potential subject of national destiny.
The Sovereign AI Fund that backed Ineffable Intelligence has a clear template. The Prosperity Zone programme we designed at Progress that anchors heavy industry at SaxaVord and Teesside has the geographic flexibility to include a fusion-propulsion cluster in Buckinghamshire, six miles from the most evocative site in modern British scientific history.
The procurement architecture of every major British defence and space agency should, from this autumn, be writing offtake contracts contingent on Pulsar's milestones. There's nothing extreme about these ideas. We could have been doing it decades ago.
I always conceived of Britain as being as much among the stars as it is on Earth. To buy into the idea of Britain as a culture and polity is necessarily to buy into the concept of the human being as an illimitable force. Our history is littered with happy instances of people of great fortitude hitting upon obstacles and, with a cry of "This will not stop us", clearing the way for our brothers and sisters to follow through.
A small British company in Bletchley has, while nobody was looking, extended that arm of our tradition, by accomplishing one of the most important pieces of scientific engineering of the decade.
The country that produced them is, in a measurable sense, the same country that produced the Bombe, the Colossus, the jet engine, the structure of DNA, and the World Wide Web. The capacity is intact. The political class capable of recognising it must catch up, and will.
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@AllForProgress_ I would love that too. But, in my opinion it’s not the political class that’s the problem. It’s much, much more endemic than that; see my reply to a post about British successes :
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An important and incredible list. My thoughts on a few notable omissions as I was reading it: Arthur C. Clarke, Concorde, The Sanger Institute (Human Genome Project), Oasis. But I also saw something, which I think, is both quintessentially British and a reason for our current mire, wrapped up in the sentence: “given freely to mankind…” As a nation, we see profit as beneath us. We see charity as the moral and greater good. From Tim Berners-Lee, The Sanger Institute, and “our” NHS, to retrospective windfall taxes on banks and energy companies, IHT, ending the slave trade, the ECHR; all symptoms of a singular, cultural, cause: Nobility. While other countries do what is best for their people - allow for the benefit for all to be derived through a profit motive - we prefer to shun this as beneath us. Making money - especially vast sums of money - is viewed as ‘morally repellent’, as are the incentives of ambition and greed. We readily give peerages and knighthoods as rewards for hard work, but turn up our noses in disgust at monetary profit being the reward for hard work. We see it as far more noble to give the fruits of our labour away, to open our arms to all those who might need help and sacrifice our own, for the good of the many. We revel in stories of Robin Hood, D-Day, and the ones who “went over the top” in the Somme. We glorify criminal redistribution, human sacrifice and noble failure, but we denigrate great success. And I’m not saying that the driving cause of nobility is bad. But in my opinion, it’s only half of the picture. It’s noble to want the best for society at large, yes, but it’s also noble for the white van man to want to earn more than “just getting by,” for his family. It’s noble to be so proud of where you come from, you would fly your nation’s flag out of your upstairs’ windows. It’s noble to want success for yourself. It’s noble to want to reward that success through wealth. This is the Essex Man, Mondeo Man, or more latterly, the Alarm Clock Generation. Our elites look down on these people, because the image of nobility is what matters to them; looking as if you are doing good for society; building a ‘noble’ legacy. They ignore that that is their profit motive (and gladly ignore it when that legacy provides monetary profit as a byproduct). They are protected from the harsh tides of economic reality in the ivory towers which they lord over us. This is why we get a disconnect between civil servants - who sneer at White Van Man, with his England flag on his 3-bed terraced - while the taxpayer views the civil servant as vainglorious parasites. I think we, as a culture, need to teach that nobility is broad. Wanting what’s best for yourself and your family makes society better as a whole. We can all benefit as a society, even if one, or few, profit from the fruits of their labour. That’s because those people grow the pie from which we all eat. Anyway, hot take. Mad ramble. Hopefully some of it makes sense to someone.
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After years of gay retarded politics has the time finally come to have an actual gay or retard as PM?
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🚨You cannot make this up.
Angela Rayner just got HMRC clearance on her £40k stamp duty dodge… and in the very next breath she’s quietly raking in another £50k from the same Oldham “fridge company” (Refrigeration House Ltd).
That’s £150k total from one local business since she quit as Deputy PM in Sept 2025.
All registered as “towards staffing costs for the Office of Angela Rayner Limited”.
But here’s the kicker: she doesn’t have to tell anyone how a single penny is actually spent.
No receipts.
No breakdown.
No public audit.
Just “trust me bro, it’s for the office” while she builds what looks suspiciously like a leadership war chest.
Normal?
Considering IPSA provides MPs with a staffing allowance to cover salaries, National Insurance, pensions, and related costs for staff who support parliamentary and constituency duties.
Or just another day in the Westminster cash-for-questions merry-go-round?
#Rayner #Labour
MULSKI100#@Mulski_
@WasAcop Who coincidentally has just benn given £50K for 'ahem' staff costs by a newly formed company
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The Man Who Wants To Lead Labour Just Described Its Lost Voters As A Threat To The Nation.
Wes Streeting resigned as Health Secretary this morning and launched his leadership bid with a letter that deserves to be read carefully. Not for what it says about the NHS. For what it says about how he intends to fight.
Reform UK, Streeting writes, represents dangerous English nationalism and an existential threat to the future integrity of the United Kingdom. Reform won 27 percent of votes cast in local elections across England a week ago. Millions of working class people in Labour's former heartlands, people whose parents and grandparents voted Labour for generations, chose that party. Describing their choice as dangerous English nationalism is not a strategy for winning them back. It is the attitude that drove them away in the first place, restated with greater confidence the morning after the worst local election result in Labour history.
The NHS claims in the letter require equal scrutiny. Streeting describes a fastest improvement in waiting times in history. The Nuffield Trust's deputy director of research told the Telegraph that the apparent progress owes more to administrative removals than genuine increases in patient care. The number of patients waiting over 12 hours for emergency admission in March 2026 was 141 times higher than before the pandemic. The waiting list remains above seven million. The letter presents stabilisation as transformation and expects nobody to check.
Then there is Angela Rayner. HMRC has cleared her of wrongdoing over the stamp duty affair that ended her Cabinet career in September. The clearance itself is more complicated than her team is presenting. Tax Policy Associates, an independent expert body, states it cannot understand why HMRC decided not to charge a penalty. Both of Rayner's advisers explicitly told her to obtain specialist tax advice. She did not. Independent experts say a penalty of around 20 percent was the likely and legally correct outcome. HMRC reached a different conclusion without explaining why.
A £50,000 donation to the Office of Angela Rayner Limited from Refrigeration House Limited arrived on 24 March 2026, declared on the parliamentary register and described as towards staffing costs. Weeks later Rayner paid the £40,000 stamp duty bill. Whether any connection exists between the donation and the payment cannot be asserted. The questions the timing raises are entirely legitimate and entirely unanswered.
Over 100 Labour MPs have now called for Starmer to go. The threshold to trigger a leadership contest is 81. The numbers exist. What has been missing is a serious candidate willing to step forward and bear the consequences. Streeting has now stepped forward. Rayner is positioning. Burnham remains without a seat.
The succession is underway. The candidates are the products of the same political culture that produced the Mandelson appointment, the three line whip, the undeclared Palantir meeting and the systematic accommodation of interests that do not align with Britain's. Streeting's letter describes Reform voters as nationalists. Rayner's clearance raises questions her supporters are not asking. Burnham's record on grooming gang accountability in Greater Manchester has never been satisfactorily addressed.
None of them has identified the culture as the problem. None of them has proposed dismantling it. The country is being forced to accept the same arrangement with different names attached. The questions are already forming. They will not wait for the leadership contest to conclude.
"Reform UK, Streeting writes, represents dangerous English nationalism and an existential threat to the future integrity of the United Kingdom."
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STATEMENT: THE MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS IS ATTEMPTING TO SILENCE ME
The Manchester Evening News has contacted me with a list of allegations it intends to publish. I am making this statement because the public has a right to know what is happening and why.
The allegations are false. Every one of them. They were put to me without a named source, without a single document, and without any indication of who commissioned them or on what evidential basis they were prepared.
The communication was not even signed. A major regional newspaper, demanding a right-of-reply response by Monday 2pm, did not put a name to its own email. That tells you everything you need to know about the confidence this newspaper has in what it is about to publish. That is not journalism by any recognised standard. It is a smear, constructed and delivered under the procedural cover of a right-of-reply request.
The @MENnewsdesk has form. This newspaper has spent the better part of a decade looking away from the institutional failures I have spent the better part of a decade exposing. It did not break the Oldham grooming gang story. It did not demand the national inquiry. It did not stand with survivors when doing so was costly and unpopular. I did. The people of this town did.
Now, at the precise moment Reform UK has destroyed Labour in Oldham and the national inquiry is formally underway, this newspaper has chosen to come for me.
The timing is not accidental.
Andy Burnham is manoeuvring toward a parliamentary return. Labour's grip on Greater Manchester depends on controlling the political narrative. My campaigning, eight years of documented, sourced, legally tested investigative work, is a threat to that narrative. A threat to the project that would see Burnham as Prime Minister. The MEN has historically functioned as a press office for Labour's Greater Manchester operation. What is happening now is the continuation of that function by other means.
I am a decorated anti-racist. I hold an MBE. I have sat in rooms with Prime Ministers and Secretaries of State. I have designed and implemented counter-extremism interventions at the highest levels of government. I have faced down Nazis, white supremacists, Islamists and jihadists. The idea that this man is a racist, peddling hatred for profit, does not survive thirty seconds of contact with my public record. Any journalist who had done the most basic due diligence would know that. The MEN knows that.
They are proceeding anyway.
I have sent the MEN a formal warning letter. I am already conducting active High Court proceedings in the King's Bench Division. I have solicitors engaged. Any publication of these allegations will be treated as an actionable wrong and pursued accordingly.
There is one further matter I am placing on public record.
I am a known figure in a town with a documented history of communal tension. Publishing content that portrays me as a racist because I spoke out against the Pakistani Rape Gangs does not merely damage my reputation. It creates physical risk. If the MEN publishes this piece and I or my child are attacked as a result, the question of editorial recklessness will be answered in court.
I have not been silenced by arrests. I have not been silenced by false charges, by de-platforming, by blacklisting, or by years of coordinated harassment. I will not be silenced by a politically motivated hit piece from a newspaper that spent a decade refusing to report what was happening to the children of my town.
Raja Miah MBE
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Whilst this government continues to hammer the workers of this country, let’s not forget that Starmer has a unique tax-unregistered pension scheme from his time as Director of Public Prosecutions that’s exempt from the £1.07m lifetime pension allowance cap.
This ensured that HIS pension increased with inflation, allowing him to avoid the 25% tax charge that ordinary savers face if their pensions exceed the lifetime savings cap.
Neil McCoy-Ward@NeilMcCoyWard
🚨Your pension is about to be raided and HMRC just confirmed how.... From April 2027, pension schemes will be allowed to withhold up to half of your retirement savings to cover inheritance tax. They can hold onto that money for up to 15 months while they work out what is owed Pensions used to sit outside inheritance tax entirely. From April 2027 they get hit with the standard 40% rate like everything else So your family loses up to 40% of what you spent a lifetime saving. The pension company sits on the other half for over a year before anyone sees a penny. Funeral costs, mortgage payments, school fees, none of it can be covered while the money is locked up The policy was announced by Rachel Reeves in the 2024 Budget. The operational detail confirming the 50% withholding rule was quietly published by HMRC this week, with final guidance not due until spring 2027, weeks before the deadline 10,500 estates will be dragged into inheritance tax for the first time. Another 38,500 will pay more. Average extra bill, £34,000 And this is how these things always work. The threshold starts high, the public is told it only affects the wealthy, and the numbers stay frozen while everything else rises The inheritance tax threshold has been stuck at £325,000 since 2009. House prices have nearly doubled in that time Every year, more ordinary families get pulled in without a single rule changing The government calls this closing a loophole. What it actually does is treat your pension like another revenue stream for the Treasury. Money you saved out of taxed income gets taxed again on the way out If you have a pension, this affects you. Check what your scheme is planning before April 2027 arrives Follow me to stay informed
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The English won the American war of independence.
Composition of American forces (left) v British (right).
Ramin Nasibov@RaminNasibov
What historical fact sounds fake but is true?
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🚨Breaking News
Naz Shah becomes first muslim to move royal address in parliament and jokes about the far right having a meltdown about it online and about it being an act of domination.
This was recieved with roars of laughter across the house.
Shah once retweeted this.
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Reading this morning how the Pakistani Government is refusing to take back two Rochdale child rapists. This shouldn’t be a negotiation, there is no need to negotiate with the Pakistanis.
If they don’t comply? £133 million in foreign aid, gone. Send them a bill for previous years too.
Tax remittances. 25% sounds fair. In 2021, there was £2.94bn sent to Pakistan. Tax it.
Enforce tariffs on Pakistani goods. We have a trade deficit with the Pakistanis. Use it.
Suspend visas. Use it as leverage - be cold and calculating.
I like the idea of doing it all alongside like-minded nations. A ‘deportation NATO’.
I’m sure the Americans would join the effort, with plenty of others. Do it swiftly, brutally, and as one.
The Pakistanis would fold by lunchtime.
We don’t need to negotiate. We hold all the cards. Use them.
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Yes, lore absolutely does matter.
In fact I think Warhammer 40K lore is the single most valuable asset that Games Workshop possesses.
They've lisenced out the IP for a few things - a handful of video games and board games.
But if someone with serious money and serious vision were to come along and use it...
You could have multiple, full-length feature films and TV shows. With big Hollywood names. Maybe even its own streaming platform.
It could be bigger than Star Wars, bigger than Marvel.
Marshal Bohemond ⚔️⛨ | Space Marine Vtuber@HMBohemond
Let me regale you with a tale. Diaclone was a Japanese toy line of cars that transformed into robots. They released it in the US in the early 80's as just "cars that turn into robots." It flopped. No one was interested. So they went back to the drawing board. They hired Marvel writers to create lore and context for the cars that transform into robots. They're aliens from a machine world embroiled in a vicious civil war that has spilled over to Earth. They created two factions for this story, heroic Autobots and villainous Decepticons. They renamed the franchise, "Transformers." It's one of the biggest, most successful multimedia franchises in human history. Why? Because LORE MATTERS. Lore gives us the reason that the toys (or for Warhammer, model kits) are worth collecting. It makes them more than shaped plastic. It turns them into heroes, villains, monsters, and gods with meaning and purpose. And in the process creates stories. Stories that draw people in, get them invested as much as the toys themselves. People write, film, or draw the stories of the characters these toys represent. These stories are then consumed as much as the toys themselves. Lore matters. Lore is just as important for a franchise's health as the toys it's built around. Discounting the lore shows a general disdain not only for the toys, but the franchise built around both. The toys are the modern form of the idols made of mythological figures. Saying "lore doesn't matter" is the height of ignorance and you just out yourself as a tourist. No amount of displayed consumption can save you from this accusation now.
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Nuclear held up by onerous regulations.
No battery manufacturing.
No grid storage.
Literally anyone in the industry could point out this won’t work.
We will continue importing fossil fuels from others while shooting ourselves in the foot.
This man should be in jail.
The Telegraph@Telegraph
Labour is to ban new oil and gas fields in Britain, making it far harder for any future government to reopen the North Sea. 🔗: telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/…
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During the Cold War, the CIA sided with the communists in Indochina to force out the French in favor of Ho Chi Minh, then worked closely with the communist allied and supported Mugabe and Nkomo to destroy free and functional Rhodesia and implement communism
Ramin Nasibov@RaminNasibov
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I will say it loud and proud, for those at the back of the room.
When Keir Starmer was head of the CPS he was embroiled in the rape gang scandal.
He was part of the team, no, headed up a team that intentionally turned a blind eye to children being groomed and raped.
That is a fact.
He was also responsible for trying to prosecute one of the victims. Because better that than be seen as racist hey?
Just ask @MaggieOliverUK
So yes, the Prime minister and everyone else involved in this scandalous cover up enabled child rapists and pedophiles.
So screen shot all you like.
Make as many reports to the police and probation as you like.
I would rather go back to prison than defend anyone that enabled child grooming and rape.
He was also in charge of the team that refused to prosecute the Drs for murdering my son. This isn’t my first rodeo with the CPS and our infamous human rights lawyer.
Have a fabulous day 😘
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@kikisknees It's not a conspiracy, they published an article about the ethics of doing this last year.
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We didn’t need video footage to know this was happening but it’s always helpful to have evidence to convince the naysayers (though they’ll no doubt still pretend it’s not happening + accuse everyone of being far-right conspiracy theorists).
Most SIA urban scarecrows you encounter in supermarkets and elsewhere can barely speak English, so obviously they can’t understand or pass the training (without a little help, by which I mean cheating).
There was a private stewarding company working the State Opening of Parliament this morning - I asked one of the stewards a very simple question and he didn’t understand me and called his colleague to help!
UB1UB2 West London (Southall)@UB1UB2
Footage circulating online appears to show students cheating on the UK SIA security badge - the mandatory licence for every bouncer and door supervisor in the country. In the next room, friends huddle around a phone feeding answers through a hidden AirPod 😳 🎥 Submitted by @ali_600z #UB1UB2 #UK #SIA
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This needs our full attention as a nation!
Norman Brennan@NormanBrennan
BREAKING NEWS; The Bodies ‘believed’ to be Three young girls have been found on Brighton Beach in Sussex; there are currently no further details at this time Brighton beach LIVE: 'Bodies of 3 girls' found on shore as police swarm area | UK | News; Express express.co.uk/news/uk/220491…
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David Lammy,
You stand there in your ceremonial robes, a fat, bloated wanker draped in gold and silk, pretending to be a man of honour. You call it an "honour" to stand in the King's presence, a historic tradition you claim to cherish, while the country you pretend to serve burns around you.
You talk of "security, fairness, and opportunity" for working people. Security? The borders are open, and your Home Office is a joke. Fairness? You tax the struggling to pay for the hotels where illegal migrants sleep while British veterans are on the streets. Opportunity? Your government has crushed the very people you claim to represent, turning their hopes into a punchline.
You are not a Lord Chancellor. You are a court jester in a wig, dancing on a stage while the building collapses.
You are a man who has sold his soul for a title, and now you wear it like a shield, but it is no shield at all. It is a target.
You are a symbol of everything that is wrong with this country. You are a silly fat wanker who thinks he can trick us with a bit of pomp and circumstance. You are not. You are a fraud, and your time is up.
So take your robes, your title, and your hollow promises, and know this: we see you. We know what you are. You have no place in a nation that demands honesty, integrity, and action.
Your days are numbered. And when they end, you will be remembered not for your robes, but for your shame.
David Lammy@DavidLammy
The King’s Speech set out Labour’s plan to deliver change faster and give security, fairness and opportunity to working people across Britain. It was an honour to take part in this historic tradition as Lord Chancellor.
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