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@thewimssaidno @ZeeZee7 @SholaMos1 You don't want to listen to other people praying? Tough. You have no right to silence people who want to pray. I'm an atheist too btw.

@SionScone @ZeeZee7 @SholaMos1 None of those things are praying. They are cultural traditions and only the church bells actually have a religious root. Easter and Christmas were actually pagan festivals before Christianity came to Britain, and part of our cultural heritage

👏🏾30,000 Muslims gather for Eid prayer in Birmingham to end #Ramadan. If 7000 British Jews can gather to pray in Stamford Hill public space not in synagogue, pray in diff language, in diff clothing, take over streets and this isn't 'not integrate' or 'dominate' then British Muslims can do the same💅🏾

@thewimssaidno @ZeeZee7 @SholaMos1 Does it annoy you when church bells ring? Does it annoy you when children do an Easter parade? What about Christmas markets? It's a public park and the public were using it peacefully. Find a hobby and make some friends.

@ZeeZee7 @SholaMos1 Muslims are entitled to practice their religion freely but non Muslims are also entitled not to have to listen to Muslim prayers in a public space. I’m an atheist and I don’t want to listen to anyone else’s prayers or sermons when I’m in a park.

@LaurenWitzkeDE @thecurioustales Which god? Thor? Zeus? Ra?

“Nobody built this consciously” lmao yeah okay This is an inside look at the intricacy of God’s handiwork. Every part of this is by design of our almighty creator! The SAME exact God who created the moon and the stars designed human biology. Amazing amazing. What a mighty God we serve!

The science of fetal microchimerism should have broken the internet by now. It hasn’t. When I read about a research I was so curious to know what’s actually happening. Fetal cells — carrying the child’s own DNA — cross into the mother’s bloodstream during pregnancy and never fully leave. They embed into her organs. Her heart muscle. Her brain tissue. Researchers have found a child’s living cells inside mothers in their 90s, from pregnancies six decades old. The child left the womb. The cells didn’t. And they don’t just sit there. They migrate toward damage. Women with heart injuries show fetal cells concentrated at the wound site. Women with thyroid disease show their children’s cells inside the affected tissue. The body that built the child gets tended to, in return, by the child’s own cells. Nobody designed this consciously. Evolution quietly built a repair system out of the mother-child bond itself. The brain side of this is equally staggering. Pregnancy triggers gray matter reorganization — a structural rewiring that sharpens threat detection, deepens empathy, fundamentally alters how a mother processes the world. These changes persist for years after birth. Possibly permanently. A mother’s nervous system doesn’t return to its factory settings. It was updated by the experience of carrying another person, and that update sticks. The part worth sitting with longest — women who experienced pregnancy loss carry fetal cells too. The cellular merging doesn’t require a birth. It doesn’t require years of raising someone. Those cells remain regardless of what happened after. A mother grieving a child she never brought home is grieving someone biologically still present inside her. The world consistently underestimates that grief. The science says we have no business doing that. Mothers always knew the connection didn’t end at birth. Turns out it doesn’t end at the cellular level either.

@Mr_Pink13 @jimthegiant "Legal" doesn't mean "absolutely fine" either. There are warning labels on tobacco for a reason. Banning things drives them underground and gives an income stream to criminal gangs.

@SionScone @jimthegiant So 'children' means toddlers now? Why don't you own the consequences of a policy that says heroin and cocanine usage is absolutely fine?

We’re at the “just say absolutely anything” stage of the americanisation of British politics

@Mr_Pink13 @jimthegiant Tobacco is legal. Alcohol is legal. Decriminalising drugs doesn't mean toddlers will be able to use them.

@jimthegiant It's literally Green Party policy, decriminalising all drugs. You're at the Democrat and US media point of lying about everything being done.

@SamaHoole Or, hear me out, restore this space to nature instead of rearing livestock. It's not good grazing, it's only used for livestock because it can't be used for any other farming as you rightly point out. Britain is one of the most nature depleted countries on earth. We need to act.

"Just grow crops on that land instead of raising cattle." Right. Yes. Absolutely. Have you been outside? Not outside in a city. Outside outside. Countryside outside. Have you looked at what 65% of Britain's agricultural land actually looks like? It looks like the side of a mountain in Snowdonia with soil the depth of a paperback novel and an annual rainfall that would make a rainforest feel overdressed. It looks like the Scottish Borders at 400 metres elevation, where the wind comes in horizontal for nine months of the year and the frost doesn't fully leave until June. It looks like the Devon coastline on 40-degree slopes where no tractor has ever successfully operated without becoming a story people tell in the village pub for generations. It looks like the Brecon Beacons, where the peat bog comes to meet the acidic grassland and the nearest thing to an arable field is someone's daydream. These are not fields that have been selfishly hoarded by farmers for cows while perfectly good crop-growing sits unused. These are fields where the cattle ARE the only possible food production. Where the grass grows because it evolved to grow there, and the cow eats it because it evolved to eat grass. Plant quinoa in mid-Wales and it will stand briefly in the wind, look confused, and die. Plant wheat on a Cumbrian fell and the sheep will watch it fail with the quiet satisfaction of animals that know how this works. The people saying "just grow crops instead" have confused a topographic map with a menu. The land does not offer what the spreadsheet requires. The cow is not blocking a better option. The cow IS the option. It is, in fact, the ONLY option. Go outside. Have a look. Bring a coat.

1. Tesla paid $0 federal income tax in 2025 on $5.7B US income; $48M over 2023-2025 on $12.58B (ITEP). Global: $1.2B in 2025. 2. Govt support to Tesla: ~$4B+ in subsidies/loans/tax credits (e.g., $1.4B Nevada, $471M DOE; WaPo). Plus $11.4B from regulatory credits. 3. Musk personal taxes (known): 2014-18: $455M total; 2018: $0; 2021: ~$11B. Full yearly data not public. 4. Musk effective rate ~3% on wealth growth vs avg American 14-30% on income (ProPublica, CBS).

@tempesttdenise He's like 3 years old and can do a perfect Stalder press... WTAF.

Parents make their children have a dance off when they fight. 😂😂 I should have done this 😂😂😂

@YellandSimon @implausibleblog Which of your human rights are you willing to give up?

@implausibleblog Hardly extreme is it

Zack Polanski, "When Nigel Farage says jump, Labour ask, how high. You will never appease the right, they will just get more extreme" "In Reform UK we see an extreme political party" "You just had Zia Yusuf on. People will be disgusted by his views on poverty" "People up and down the country who can't pay the bills, can't feed their kids' "To hear Zia Yusuf, who is a millionaire, sit in this chair and say there's only small pockets of poverty in this country" "I wonder how people in Gorton and Denton will hear that"

Don't you hate it when fighting age men flee their own country, leaving their families behind and expect other people to give them a handout.

@afcbbeachboy @UKLabour I had a root canal on the NHS and it cost £46.

@KatieKeithBarn2 The biggest problem is that senior management thinks they can just replace the human experts who make it work. There's going to be a huge backlash when companies realise they have no idea what their tech stack is doing, no control, no audit trail, etc

I feel like I’m living in a parallel universe where my developer friends are doing amazing things with AI, but whenever I try to use it for anything beyond chat, it can’t even manage the basics. I think this highlights the growing gap between the superpowers that AI is unlocking for developers 🦸 vs. mere mortals 🙇 Or maybe I’m the only person incapable of vibe coding a secure, well-architected app or setting up the WooCommerce MCP (which developers say is easy but involves terrifying things like running an MCP server from the command line). Most developers don’t realize how much of what they’re doing with AI is powered by their own expertise. AI isn’t replacing them - it’s amplifying skills the rest of us don’t have. Their jobs are safer than they think.

@MarkusWhitman @BKforBernie @jtimsuggs Isn't this why they have shields? To protect them from asteroids etc... I thought the failure was that the ship moving at light speed didn't just disintegrate against the shield

It's not implausible, but it seems to me that it creates obvious plot holes in the same way that using a starship to warp into a star destroyer does or using the force to pull down a fleeing ship. The display begs the question, why don't they do that all the time? Which practically requires an entire reworking of the story and lore filling books with excuses, technicalities, and beggars the imagination. Or at least mine.

This moment where Luthen Rael destroys and escapes from an Imperial Acclamator in Season One of ANDOR is still one of the coolest things to happen in that entire series IMO. Not only does it show how clever and prepared Luthen really is, but it’s also a brief moment in such a serious show where the more pulpy side of Star Wars is able to shine through brilliantly.

@Larryjamieson_ @RoyalEndeavour Pensioners?

@RoyalEndeavour the problem is not with people contributing to productivity, it is with the ever growing ocean of people taking from it

Working from home gives people an extra 1-2 hours of sleep in the morning and an extra 1-2 hours to spend with their families in the evening. It also allows you to avoid ever having to interact with HR cat ladies, diversity hires, or other such cretins. This is a good thing. But of course, establishment conservatives like Farage only care about squeezing a little more GDP out of people and not their well-being. What a worthless political ideology they have.

@MrPitbull07 I had an abscess that required a root canal a few weeks ago. It cost me £47.90 on the NHS.

My friend had an abscessed tooth. Dental insurance denied the root canal. "Maxed out benefits for the year." He couldn't afford the $1,500 out of pocket. So he waited. The infection spread to his blood. Sepsis. He was rushed to the ER. Spent 4 days in the ICU. Total bill: $56,000. Medical insurance paid it instantly. They refused to pay $1,500 to prevent the problem, but happily paid $56,000 to fix the near-death experience caused by the problem. The system isn't just cruel. It is mathematically stupid.

@Deffusible @LabourfutureUK I presume you have been in a coma for the last 15 years. Great to have you back with us. There's a lot for you to catch up on.

@LabourfutureUK As long as Reform only take Conservatives. Not Conservative in Name Only, we've had enough of Labour & Labour Lite. The UK is a Conservative country, the Tories lost their way chasing to the Left. We, the people, want a truly Conservative Gov't for a change.

Every single senior Reformer has been a former Conservative. Reform are nothing more than Turquoise Tories. Voting Reform and voting Conservative are the same thing. Only Labour offers a credible alternative and only Labour can build a fairer Britain. telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/…

If America was being bombed day and night because of something horrific our government did, and many innocent Americans and American children were being killed and traumatically injured, and we begged for mercy, but the rest of the world said, “Americans voted for their government so they deserve it, their government is bad so all Americans are bad, therefore this is what they get and must be done” And the world was silent to our suffering. And no one came to our aid. And our cities and homes were bombed and turned to rubble. And our infrastructure was destroyed, no farms, no grocery stores, no more organized society. And no one helped our injured and hungry children. How would you feel? What would you think? What would you do? This is what is happening to Gaza where in spite of what we have all been told, many innocent people and children are being killed and they are not Hamas. Does Hamas deserve it? Yes. Do innocent people and children deserve it? No. The innocent people in Gaza did not kill and kidnap the innocent people in Israel on Oct 7th. Just as we spoke out and had compassion for the victims and families of Oct7, how can Americans not speak out and have compassion for the masses of innocent people and children in Gaza? Is one type of innocent life worthy and another type of innocent life worth nothing? For me, I think God sees all innocent lives the same and he loves them all. As a matter of fact, He sent his own son for all people, that’s how much He loves us. America funds Israel $3.8 billion annually for military aid. Actually correction. U.S. taxpayers fund Israel $3.8 billion annually for military aid. That means every U.S. tax payer is contributing to Israel’s military actions. I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to pay for genocide in a foreign country against a foreign people for a foreign war that I had nothing to do with. And I will not be silent about it.

@Fiat__Justitia @UHoepp @RussInCheshire You seem unfamiliar with the history of the British Empire

@UHoepp @RussInCheshire Correct. My culture which denies the killing of our adversaries and the rape of their women and children plus enforcement of equality before the law is superior. I make no apology for this view.

@RNLI You do amazing work and are loved by most people. Ignore the trolls. Keep doing what you're doing 💪

The facts behind our work in the Channel. In 2024, our crews launched 114 times to Channel crossings – that's just 1.2% of our total launches. Our core purpose is to save lives at sea. Anyone can drown, but no one should.

@JGillRay @hdemott3 @terrychristian Socialist *principles*. The point above is sound about companies needing to be allowed to fail, the problem is why on earth are non-competitive industries like rail and water under private ownership in the first place?

@SionScone @hdemott3 @terrychristian Dictionary definition of socialism is public ownership or control of production, distribution & exchange. I oppose that. I do not oppose redistribution. Although current debate - challenging any fiscal change that doesn’t help the poor - is one way ratchet that goes too far.

Trouble with Capitalism it needs Socialism to constantly bail it out ie The Banks, Water Companies, Train companies , Steel , Car manufacturing ( even USA where govt bailed out Chrysler) now shuffle off and do some reading research before making yourself look a div on a public forum again