Simon Twiss, CMT

@PonderHart @Pontifex Jesus tells his disciples to buy swords, and they respond with "Look, Lord, here are two swords," to which he replies, "That is enough"

Exciting times! What to do? Christ prepared us for this: “You will hear of wars and reports of wars… see that you are not alarmed.” (Matthew 24:6) “When these things begin to happen, stand erect and raise your heads, because your redemption is at hand.” (Luke 21:28) So we don’t respond with fear or anger, but with trust. We lift our heads. We stay close to Him. And quietly, faithfully, we do the work of an evangelist (2 Timothy 4:5), bringing His peace to others right where we are. That’s how the Church has always walked through troubled times, with steady hearts and eyes fixed on Christ.

We turn our gaze to Jesus, who reveals himself as King of Peace, even as war looms abounds him. He remains steadfast in meekness, while others are stirring up violence. He offers himself to embrace humanity, even as others raise swords and clubs. #GospelOfToday

@Pontifex Jesus tells his disciples to buy swords, and they respond with "Look, Lord, here are two swords," to which he replies, "That is enough" Luke 22:38.

Selling millions of metric tonnes of coal annually to China to power their ~1,200 coal plants (and growing) is fine. 18 coal fired plants in Australia is an emissions problem. Hit ♥️ if you think Australians are being scammed

@AvidCommentator I love this… back to your roots of picking property bull market tops 🤣👌🏻

With next weekend being Easter, there will be no truly useful signals to gleam from my auction results data. We will have to wait until the 11th of April for the next proper read. Things could start to look quite different by then.

Spot on‼️‼️ Anika Wells ➡️ IF she worked for a private company she would be sacked & charged with theft Yet our govt is quiet Our media is quiet And Aussies sit back ⬇️⬇️

No comedy movie can beat this one 😂 © The Dictator (2012)

@CatholicSat I struggle with this while Christians are being massacred in Syria. "Look, Lord, here are two swords,”… "That is enough"

Pope Leo XIV on Palm Sunday, forcefully denounces those who use God to justify war: “Brothers and sisters, this is our God, Jesus, King of Peace, who rejects war, whom no one can use to justify war. He does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them saying “Though you make many prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are full of blood.”

Just pushed a major mobile update for ⛽️ checkpetrol.com.au > Improved reporting UI > UX bug fixes > Better maps & loading Public fuel API data is very patchy. If you can share this with friends and report fuel prices/outages it’ll help massively with data coverage.

Sun Tzu: you can’t just put the tip in.

@simon_ree 🪟

There will be no boots on the ground Any ground invasion will not be full scale

So this guy asked an interesting question, and I think it warrants an honest answer as many say a variant of this and a valid request. So i'll explain. Security is a unique field different from almost any other simply because of how we have to approach things. The core mistake in the logic of the question is the expectation that we need certainty before action. In almost every other field, we operate to certainty. Is the bridge going to stand? Prove it to me in calculations the structural integrity to X weight. In security we operate very differently, because the stakes are so high, and we are dealing INTER tribally meaning outside of our group. The same rules and standards do not apply. You are applying INTRA or within the tribe standards, like a warrant for arrest for this to occur. In security the concept is do they have the means and the possible capacity to carry it out. If yes then we need to take action, because the risk reward is so high, we lose entire cities and countries if we are wrong. Iran has fulfilled all and more of these criteria. They have the nuclear facilities, rebuild them. They have the delivery mechanisms, and an expanded defensive bunker structure to protect it. And they have said repeatedly in their public statements they INTEND on using nuclear weapons when they get them. They rejected all proposals by us to try and have a diplomatic solution to this. No matter how good. We do not want to go to war, we would much prefer to do this diplomatically. But THEY refused. They have agency in this as well. We don't take risks with nukes in security, the downside risk is simply too high. They fulfilled all reasonable criteria to act and more.

Well that ends the debate on deaths in Gaza. Hamas itself is admitting that 80% of casualties were combatants. There was never a genocide. You have been lied to and manipulated.

Come on Albo. Sort this out. #auspol

@Gaurab This is awesome… I was today years old when I learnt this. 👌🏻🙏🏻

The world's liquid helium depends on 16 plants. Building a new one takes 3 to 6 years. Why? Helium is different from most other gases. When extracted from natural gas, every other component freezes out during cryogenic processing. But above −228°C, the standard industrial method of expanding gas through a valve to cool it makes helium hotter, not colder. So liquefaction at −269°C requires turboexpanders spinning at up to 250,000 rpm. Getting helium to 99.9999% semiconductor grade means concentrating it 1,250 times, then purifying it through 7 stages across a 900-degree temperature range. The final stage uses zirconium alloy cartridges at 700°C to chemically bind impurities below 1 part per billion. The turboexpanders are built by less than five companies worldwide, the zirconium cartridges by even fewer. Lead times for either: 12 to 24 months. The US sold its strategic helium reserve in January 2024. Semiconductor fabs carry about one week of inventory.

Patient attends A&E with a chest infection… standard stuff. Decides to pop outside for a vape and a bit of fresh air because, let’s be honest, the waiting room atmosphere could finish anyone off quicker than the illness. Next minute… casually clocks a bloke acting a bit off outside the maternity ward. Not aggressive, not shouting… just that “something’s not right here” vibe every frontline worker knows all too well. So what does he do? Doesn’t walk away. Doesn’t ignore it. Goes over for a chat. Two hours later… 🧠 Talked down a “lone wolf” terrorist 🎒 Convinced him to open the bag (yeah… that bag) 💣 Found himself staring at a pressure cooker bomb 📏 Asked about blast radius like he’s doing a dynamic risk assessment 🚪 Moved the whole situation away from the hospital entrance 🤝 Built enough trust to keep the bloke calm 🤗 Given him a hug when asked 📞 Got him to agree to call police before he “changed his mind” All while his own phone’s dead and there’s not a single staff member in sight to wave over. Genuinely the most British de-escalation imaginable: “Alright mate… talk to me… what’s going on?” No PPE. No backup. No radio. Just vibes, empathy, and absolute nerves of steel. Meanwhile inside: Crews stacked 8 deep Handover delays hitting biblical levels Someone asking “can you clear please” every 30 seconds And this guy is outside single-handedly preventing a mass casualty incident like it’s just another shift problem. Police turn up, job gets wrapped up, and he just wanders back in like: “Yeah I’m back… still got that chest infection by the way.” Probably still had to wait for discharge as well. Massive respect though. That’s not luck, that’s character. Calm under pressure, compassion when it mattered most. George Medal couldn’t have gone to a more deserving person. Proof that sometimes the difference between a normal day and a major incident… …is just one person deciding to step forward instead of walking away 🚑

@FirstSquawk @magicbus70 🤣👌🏻 🤡

Trump: Iran hit ‘world's biggest aircraft carrier from 17 angles we ran for our lives it was over' Pentagon had claimed laundry fire put USS Gerald Ford out of action

Australia spent approximately $680 billion on social security and welfare over the past five years. I propose that we instead spend $600 billion to build 30 publicly owned nuclear reactors - capital costs should be fully socialised by the government in the manner of Gaullist France’s nuclear program. This way you would cut the wholesale energy retail price by 60-70%, completely revitalising the manufacturing sector. Right now manufacturing is at a record low share of our GDP (5% - 130 billion). Partial re-industrialisation back toward 10–12% of GDP from 5% would add $130–180 billion in annual economic output. Manufacturing has one of the highest economic multipliers of any sector, typically 1.5–2x, because factories buy inputs, employ workers who spend locally, and create supply chains. A reasonable multiplier puts the total economic impact closer to $270–360 billion in annual GDP uplift. This creates an additional 100 billion in tax revenue each year. So it would pay for itself in under 10 years. To do this you need to create a sovereign nuclear authority with its own balance sheet, borrowing capacity, and statutory insulation from political interference. France did this with their EDF, making it structurally independent from annual budget cycles. It actually works

Ignore what they say & just watch what they do…

I'm out of diesel. All the farmers are out of diesel. This is it. We're done for. Albanese and Bowen are directly to blame. This is serious. I promise you. All other countries have diesel, and it averages $1.80 per litre in most countries in the Asia Pacific. But not Australia. Albanese is up to no good. This is crippling.