Nicholas Alexander

Digital ID is contentious because Tony Blair's son's company will supply it and because it resonates with fear of state control of your data. These fears are compounded by the distrust of government and the vulnerability of centralised control. We have a solution. It is fairly obvious.

@TaintKamal56926 @palmolive899441 @CuriosityonX And some are close by. And many still exist.

@palmolive899441 @CuriosityonX Still, those planets are millions of light years away. What we can see actually occurred millions of years ago.

There has to be life on one of these dots.

@palmolive899441 @CuriosityonX Or is it hard to detect living cells from so far away? What does life radiate?

There are over 100 billion galaxies… each with billions of stars—and many of those stars have planets. What most people don’t realize is we’ve already confirmed thousands of exoplanets, some sitting in “habitable zones” where liquid water could exist. But here’s the part that’s rarely talked about… Even with those numbers, we still haven’t found a single confirmed sign of life. Which raises a deeper question— Are we early… or are we alone?

@KAnderson6217 @CuriosityonX Maybe you do not understand scripture. It is a way of explaining the role of life in the creation of all things. The universe exists because of life. We are just a drop in a vast ocean. A Creator would not risk all on human kind. We are a terrible risk to ourselves.

@CuriosityonX You tremendously underestimate the improbability that random events could ever create life. The only reason there is life on Earth is because there is a God who created it. And the only way there could be life any place else is if He decided to create it.

@EtienneCote4 @nxt888 @Alaska_Dee The American jingoistic blaring loudly. Lacking humility and objectivity. What did America fight the Vietnam war for? They did not win. They did not know why they were there. A bit like Russian soldiers pushed into the "meat grinder". Politicians are so guilty.

@nxt888 @Alaska_Dee Umm you get these are AMERICAN FILMS not DOCUMENTARIES? You want an accurate documentary? Watch 10,000 days of Thunder. Americans are going to center on the AMERICAN experience.

Do you know what was happening in Vietnam in 1968, the year Full Metal Jacket depicts? The Tet Offensive. 77,000 PAVN/VC fighters launching coordinated attacks on more than a hundred cities and outposts simultaneously. A military operation of extraordinary coordination and courage that shocked the American military establishment, devastated American public support for the war, and effectively broke the political will that was sustaining the U.S. intervention. Seventy-seven thousand fighters. Coordinated across a hundred cities. Against the most powerful military on earth. Planned and executed by Vietnamese people with names and minds and histories and families and a strategy that ultimately worked. Stanley Kubrick's film, set in that same year, depicts Vietnamese people as: a teenage sniper and a sex worker. And when I make this observation, your contribution to the conversation is to quote the sex worker's line. The gap between what Vietnamese people were doing in 1968 and what American cinema allowed them to be, that gap is the argument. That gap is the erasure. That gap is what three million dead look like when they've been processed through a cultural machine that needed them to be less than they were. You quoted the gap. You thought you were making a point.

@otokyo__ Borders. We are all the same, only different makes us interesting.

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@WKirkrpx @LizWebsterSBF Never

@LizWebsterSBF Ffs will you stfu about Brexit we voted for it and it was years ago you boring fossil 🤷‍♂️

🇦🇺 🇪🇺 The EU has just secured a far better trade deal with Australia than the UK which exposes the truth about Brexit. 👉 The EU negotiated from strength 👉 The UK rushed to prove a point This is what happens when you go from negotiating as part of a bloc of 450 million…to going it alone. The former environment secretary George Eustice says the best thing about the Australia deal is that it can be scrapped and renegotiated with six months’ notice. So why is the government still sitting on a bad Tory deal that undercuts British farmers? politico.eu/article/anger-…

@Ivankatrumpne I am not sure, Putin is really awful. Responsible for more death. Thus far.

Actor Mark Ruffalo recently called Donald Trump “the worst human being in the world”. What would you like to say to Mark?

@chefsevenn Most service workers do not get tips but it is a fine tradition to keep restaurants functioning. We do not tip a cashier in a supermarket or a salesperson, or the crew that pick up your rubbish. But someone serving food is part of an experience.

YES or NO?

@Electroversenet I am all for eliminating climate interference by burning oil and causing pollution. I am opposed to this sort of intervention too. Nature is a set of balances and governments explode bombs and fail to regulate pollution by oil companies and industry. And now this? No.

Britain's new innovation agency, ARIA, funded with £800 million of taxpayer money, is now planning to dim the sun to fight 'climate change'. Projects include spraying salt water into the sky and even building a giant sunshade in space. ARIA is exempt from freedom of information laws, answers to no one, and just burned 56 million on sun-dimming experiments that could disrupt global weather and agriculture. While Britain's real economy buckles under high taxes and energy costs, its leaders are funding crackpot schemes to block out the sun. The UK, where ideology, not science, drives policy.

@BBMagaMom How exciting for him.

🚨BREAKING: President Trump is appointing Mark Zuckerberg to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). Zuckerberg will join the White House’s top science and technology advisory board alongside other tech leaders. What do you think about this pick? 🤨

@SamCKx @ProfSteveKeen Multicultural celebrations are part of a shared present culture. I think it matters more where you are than where you were or what your grandparents did. Interesting read. The Commonwealth and the BE before it kept a door open to the world.

I can no longer hold my tongue seeing the utter lies being spread about Britain, our history of migration, and how this country was built into what it is today. For those so deeply buried in fake news, manufactured outrage and billionaire‑funded propaganda, I’m going to lay out the truth – and exactly why you’re being fed all this poison. Britain was never a sealed white island. From Roman times there were African soldiers stationed on Hadrian’s Wall and living in British towns, people from across the empire walking these roads nearly 2,000 years ago. Through the Middle Ages and Tudor England you still find Black people in the records – sailors, craftsmen, servants, musicians – even Black musicians at the royal court and Africans being baptised, marrying and being buried in English parishes like anyone else. This isn’t some modern experiment; it’s older than half the castles people visit on their bank‑holiday tours. As Britain went out into the world, the world came here. Sailors and traders from India, Yemen and beyond were arriving in British ports from the 1600s. Some of those men were practising a new faith to most Britons at the time, praying quietly in boarding houses near the docks while they worked brutal shifts in the engine rooms of British ships. Over the centuries, more people from North Africa, the Middle East and South Asia passed through and settled, bringing their languages, foods and beliefs into port cities that were far more mixed than today’s nostalgia merchants like to admit. After two world wars, the truth is simple: this country asked the Commonwealth to come and rebuild it. People from the Caribbean, Africa and South Asia didn’t sneak in; they were recruited. They came to drive buses and trains, staff the NHS, work in mills and foundries, clean offices, run corner shops, open takeaways and small businesses, and yes, build prayer spaces and community centres alongside churches and temples in the neighbourhoods everyone now pretends were always “traditional” and “unchanged”. They did the work that kept Britain going while being told to go home, refused housing, and treated as permanent outsiders. And what have they been paid back with? Scandals where people who’ve lived, worked and paid taxes here for decades get told they don’t belong. Policies designed to make life so hostile that some give up and leave. A media that uses their names, accents, clothes or places of worship as props in endless scare stories. The message is always the same: you might toil for this country, but you will never fully be of it. So when you hear that “Britain was white until recently” or that the country has been “overrun”, understand that you don’t arrive at that belief by accident. You get there because your history has been deliberately ripped out and replaced with a comforting myth: that “real” Britain is white, homogenous, and constantly under siege from people who look, speak or pray differently. Now look at when this myth has been turned up to max volume. Wages frozen. Housing a sick joke. Energy and food prices out of control. Public services hacked to pieces. At the same time, the number of people hoarding unimaginable wealth at the top has exploded. Funny, isn’t it, how every front page is about boats and “swarms” and “our culture”, and almost never about the landlords, hedge funds, private equity and offshore trusts quietly buying up your city and your future. That’s because this isn’t just prejudice; it’s a strategy. If you’re sitting on a mountain of wealth, the last thing you want is ordinary people – of every colour and background – realising they have the same problems and the same enemy. Much safer if the factory worker is furious at the new family down the road. Much safer if the person who can’t see a doctor blames the nurse with an accent instead of the minister who cut the funding. Much safer if a man who can’t afford his rent spends his rage on the woman in a headscarf at the bus stop instead of the billionaire who owns half his city. Racist rhetoric, religious dog‑whistling, all of it, exists to break solidarity. It turns neighbours into enemies and stops people seeing that Black, brown and white working‑class communities have far more in common with each other than any of them will ever have with the people flying in on private jets. It keeps you so busy policing skin colour, passports and prayer mats that you never get round to asking why your kids can’t afford a home, why your parents can’t get a hospital bed, why you’re working harder and standing still. The real story of Britain is this: a crossroads, not a fortress. Africans on Hadrian’s Wall. Black people in Tudor courts and city streets. Sailors, traders and workers from South Asia, the Middle East and beyond in the ports. Caribbean, African and Asian workers rebuilding the country after the war, staffing surgeries and hospitals, driving cabs, running shops, cooking food, teaching kids. Today’s multi‑ethnic, multi‑faith working class is not a glitch; it is Britain. It built this place and it keeps it running. If you’re genuinely angry about what’s happening to this country, good. You should be. But aim it where it belongs. Britain was never pure, never untouched, never “theirs” to take back. The people ruining your standard of living are not the ones risking their lives to get here, or the ones whose names you struggle to pronounce. They’re the ones buying politicians, owning media outlets, writing the story of this country so you never learn your own – and never realise who is standing beside you.

I think this is inaccurate. The war in Iran was started by a military build up in a society that had a revolution against an imposed brutal dictator in the 1950s after a leftist government started to nationalise their oil being exploited by American companies (who invested in drilling for it). It is a war of choice, but one that I think Trump was dragged into by Israel who was constantly under threat from proxies of Iran. And it was not necessary after the actions taken last year which I think were appropriate to stop Iran from developing a nuclear arsenal. War is a terrible consequence for all. If the US wanted partners to go to war with it, that is something that had to be negotiated beforehand. The war planning was too shortsighted, it was always obvious that Iran would have to be stopped from controlling the Persian Gulf. The problem is that the war preparation and investment in Europe is not attuned to the action of defending the Gulf, the only military in the world that has that kind of capability is the US who has invested so heavily in defense but has failed to renew important treaties so another arms race seems likely. The UK has been supportive but was initially against the action as there is no endgame to win. The war was started too quickly. I hope it can be resolved and I think Europe may be important in negotiating a long term settlement. I do not think that propaganda will win this war.

That “war of choice”you are talking about is one that has major capitals of Europe within striking distance by Iran. Are you saying you are looking forward to a nuclear bomb? Or how about being at their mercy for fuel and electricity? All your green work has rendered most of you unable to supply your own nation’s electrical needs. You want to dance at the end of Iran’s chain for petrol? Go no where? Starve because food can’t be produced and brought to market? Americans have had enough of the petulance. We ask you to help pay for your own defense and you whine and pout. We have worked 40+ a week so you didn’t have to. We paid higher drug prices so you didn’t have to. We sent our warriors in so you didn’t have to. We are fed up doing for you. Should we pack up our bases and take all our equipment and the money we drop into your local economies and go home? You really want that?

That’ll hurt 🙄

@JamesLucasIT HFCS has not yet been consumed by the vat.

This is a New York City newsstand in the 1930s Genuine question: why no overweight people?

Nuclear weapons as deterrent works for North Korea but did it work for Israel? Both developed their weapons in secret but they are constrained by common sense from using them. And yet missiles are fired at Israel despite their nuclear arsenal. The Cold War was a tragedy of investment of wealth into something beyond pointless. If there was no arms race but a sensible limit of 6 nuclear weapons for every country in the world, I think then we would have a mutual deterrent effect. But that is not the intention of superpowers. They want to control everyone to their own advantage. The real limit of war is that destruction accomplishes nothing. Why do invaders want to rule other lands? With open borders, they can just move there. North Korea's investment in arms is a war on itself. It has starved its own progress in order to parade its power when it could have invested in a futre.

@nalex @TweetCat666 @ModaalJos @AlexBarnicoat_ Nuclear weapons don’t erase the limits of war. Falklands, Ukraine, Vietnam, Afghanistan — all show the same pattern: nuclear states avoid escalation unless their survival is at stake, and nukes don’t win conventional or asymmetric wars.

Iran can bomb London. Is this what it will take for Keir Starmer to wake up? A Missile attack on a UK Base? Keir Starmer needs to quickly realise that helping the Americans only threatens everyday British People. British People will die if Starmer follows the path he's on.

@megha_lilly I love English. But I also love to hear Italian and French. French literature is a wonderful tradition. I also love to listen to German singing (Nina Hagen and Rammstein) - it is so expressive. Language is I think the most significant human invention.

English is still the most beautiful, versatile, logical, poetic and wonderful language in the whole world. I speak six languages. Many writers from many other languages say this about English. Because it has been perfected over millennia of discourse, poetry and debate.

@4gottnHistory Maybe a fertility symbol?

What do you think this is?

@SamaHoole New Zealand lamb is so vastly superior to English. Why? The local product should be far better.

Britain is 110% self-sufficient in lamb. Let that sink in for a moment. Not "pretty good." Not "mostly fine." One hundred and ten percent. We grow more than we eat and export the rest. We have done this on permanent upland pasture that cannot be used for anything else, managed by farmers whose families have worked the same ground for generations, using animals that have been optimised for these conditions over centuries. 85% self-sufficient in beef. 100% in milk. 90% in eggs. The animal products on your plate, if you're eating in Britain, are almost certainly British. The supply chain is: farm, abattoir, butcher or supermarket. Measured in miles. Sometimes in tens of miles. Now. Your January strawberries are from Egypt. Your year-round peppers are from Spain or Morocco. Your salad leaves are from Israel in winter. Your green beans come from Kenya. Your blueberries are from Peru or Chile. They travel by refrigerated air freight, which is roughly fifty times more carbon-intensive per kilogram than road transport, to sit in a plastic clam shell next to a small flag and the word "fresh." The environmental argument against British animal products is not an environmental argument. It is a geography argument made by people who have not checked where their food comes from. Check where your food comes from.

@otokyo__ It is barely a tyre. But as you use American spelling lets call it "Tired".

HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE THIS TIRE IN JUST ONE WORD

@otokyo__ I think the corridor looks better without those oddly placed white numbers. But the black floor suits the austere decor and black door. The green floor works with the walls but is too much. Wooden floors work everywhere. The red floor, just no.

Please help, I can't make up my mind 🤔