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@DogmaCentral_ @newstart_2024 Loss of 25-40% of fat free mass is what has occurred on average with pretty much every diet throughout history. The way to minimise this is youth, weight lifting and lots of protein.

@newstart_2024 The muscle loss concern is real and documented. GLP-1s reduce appetite broadly, not selectively. Without adequate protein intake and resistance training, roughly 25-40% of weight lost can come from lean mass. The drug works. The protocol around it matters just as much.

Piers Morgan raised some real concerns about Ozempic. Significant muscle loss. Struggle to put weight back on after stopping. Depression. Loss of interest in socializing. He’s heard it from doctors, from friends — including Sharon Osbourne. People on it long-term are seeing these effects. These drugs are everywhere now, pushed hard as an easy fix. But the downsides sound heavier than most admit. Quick results are tempting, but we need to be honest about what they might cost long-term. Have you or anyone you know dealt with unexpected side effects from Ozempic or similar drugs?

@edna1234 @newstart_2024 Have heard many similar stories. Everyone should be cynical and wary of Big Pharma but these new drugs are helping many millions. Big Food won’t be happy.

@newstart_2024 My partner took the jabs. No side effects. Lost 5 stone. Stopped the jabs now just healthy diet and exercise.

@newstart_2024 Correct. If a few of Pier’s mates and some “people he knows” say it’s a problem, you can take that to the bank. Stick to overeating donuts, burgers, fries and developing diabetes, heart disease and premature death. Far better than losing weight.

@MichaelRosenYes Impossible. The best and brightest run these institutions.

The UK's university system is about to collapse. Discuss.

@AaronBastani Proof-by-picture

I know it's pointless, but still.

@AaronBastani Indeed. One recalls in particular a recent survey in Nature of farmers’ opinions on the long term (Y>>100) chaotic non-linear effects of multivariate difference equation solutions when applied to atmospheric modelling. Or perhaps it was City AM.

I’m yet to meet anyone involved in food production - in a hands on sense - who doesn’t readily admit the climate is getting warmer and that this has consequences for their game. A campaign by farmers? Really?

@peterrhague That’s what they want you to think 🤔

Quotes from Alan Moore, Friedrich Hayek, and Richard Dawkins that suggest a commonality between conspiracy thinking, socialism, and creationism. There is no Great Controller, there couldn’t be one, and trying to will one into existence is a bad idea.

@scorsesepoint Yeah. Just burns.

In Goodfellas (1990), Paulie slices garlic so thin that it would “liquefy in the pan.” This is a subtle reference to Scorsese having no idea how cooking works.

@BellaWallerstei It’s not that complicated. If you can’t buy porn in the local shop under a certain age you shouldn’t be able to access it online under the same age.

Big day in tech policy.....the government’s consultation on whether to introduce a minimum age for social media closes today, with ministers also considering measures like switching off features such as infinite scroll and autoplay. After having images of me manipulated online using AI into sexually explicit material I’ve found myself thinking a lot about what social media is becoming, particularly for young women and girls. I still haven’t landed firmly on one side of the social media ban debate. But I do feel strongly about this: whatever government decides, it has to keep pace with technology, something governments around the world have struggled to do for years. We cannot legislate in isolation. Policymakers need to work directly with the tech companies building these platforms and create rules that are enforceable, realistic and flexible enough to evolve alongside innovation rather than becoming outdated within a few years as we saw with the Online Safety Act. So any serious approach has to be adaptive by design with regular reviews, proper transparency and genuine collaboration between government, industry and wider society. And despite everything I remain optimistic. I’ve seen firsthand the extraordinary good social media and AI can do - I’ve run brilliant campaigns online & met wonderful folk because of it. But optimism without courage is not enough. We have to be just as serious about confronting the risks as we are about embracing the opportunities

@scunny_rod @paullewismoney Well, yeah. That’s why God invented passports and the Internet.

@paullewismoney Oh, now the English know all about tipping in the USA, if you don't tip you won't get served.

If you can’t afford to pay your staff properly, you can’t run a restaurant!

@labourlewis Both Labour and Tories were wilfully asleep at the wheel A country massively underserved by its politicians.

That’s right John. Since 1989, no major new reservoir has been built in England by privatised water companies. Indeed, at least 35 reservoirs have been sold off since 2017. Maybe even you can see it’s now time for public ownership? ICYMI that’s not nationalisation.

@premnsikka Can’t they just sell more expensive courses to wealthy Asians?

UK universities cut jobs, research, teaching amid squeeze in overseas students. 30,000 job losses, less student choice. Local economies shattered due to obsession with 'foreign'. Govt can exclude them from immigration statistics during period of study. archive.ph/L0iEn/again

@newstart_2024 Fella’s an addict. Glad he found a healthier addiction.

Gordon Ramsay was burning out hard at 40. Overweight, exhausted, Michelin stars flying everywhere, but zero time for himself. So he forced 90 minutes, 5 days a week back into his schedule. Started triathlons. Did an Ironman. Now he says training is his reset — where he processes life and gets his best ideas. This one hit me. The world’s most intense chef protects his training time like it’s sacred. Real success isn’t just grinding at work. It’s protecting the time that keeps you sharp and sane. Do you protect a non-negotiable block of time for yourself each week?

@InterstellarUAP Yeah but … why the anal probes?

🚨Ross Coulthart BOMBSHELL: "The White house are briefing religious leaders for UFO Disclosure to prepare the people for ontological shock" 👽🛸😱 "They are preparing to tell the public - We are not alone" He says the Trump administration is soliciting advice about how to tell the public we are not alone. White House officials are consulting religious leaders on the ontological shock of disclosure. Coulthart has spoken with administration insiders and warns the bigger shock would be the betrayal of trust if the government doesn't follow through and tell the whole story.

The Arab slave trade started centuries earlier, enslaved millions more Africans, and lasted longer than the European/Atlantic slave trade. So why are we only taught about the latter in school?

@AndrewGold_ok Ditto China

Extremism expert, Charles Asher Small, says there's a 100-year plan and we are 50 years in... It's terrifying! 👀

The Indian Ocean slave trade conducted by Arab merchants lasted twelve hundred years, moved an estimated seventeen million people from East Africa to Arabia, Persia, and India, castrated the majority of male slaves in transit, and has received less than one percent of the scholarly attention devoted to the Atlantic slave trade. The Indian Ocean slave trade — conducted primarily by Arab, Persian, and Swahili Coast merchants from approximately the 7th century AD through the early 20th century — operated across a longer time span and involved comparable numbers of enslaved people to the Atlantic trade, yet occupies a fraction of the space in global historical consciousness, public discourse, and museum representation. The reasons for this asymmetry are themselves historically significant — the Atlantic trade's direct connection to the economic foundations of Western Europe and North America, the survival of large descendant communities in the Americas, and the moral and political urgency of 20th-century American civil rights discourse all oriented historical attention toward the transatlantic system in ways that left the Indian Ocean trade relatively unstudied in Western scholarship until the late 20th century. The East African coastal peoples — primarily from the regions of present-day Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya, Somalia, and Madagascar — were the primary source population for the Indian Ocean trade, captured through a combination of Arab-led slave raids, the operations of Swahili Coast intermediary merchants, and the inland expansion of slave-raiding networks that penetrated deep into the African continent. The castration of male enslaved people during the trade — documented in Arab, Persian, and European sources across multiple centuries — was practiced at rates that historians including John Lovejoy and Abdul Sheriff have estimated affected the majority of enslaved African men transported to Arab markets, creating a demographic pattern in which the descendant populations in receiving societies are far smaller relative to the number of people transported than in the Americas. The mortality rate during castration, performed without anesthesia or antiseptic technique, was estimated by contemporary observers at between 75-90%, meaning that the number of people who died in the castration process alone represented an enormous additional casualty figure beyond those who died during capture, transit, and enslavement. The trade was formally suppressed in Oman in 1970 — within living memory of people still alive today.

@AndrewGold_ok @RachelSJohnson If only the Tories had had a chance at power and taking control of immigration FFS.

The last words the Queen said to Boris. Revealed by his sister @RachelSJohnson (who walks off [sort-of] because I keep asking about him) Rachel is one of the best speakers on the rise of Islamism and the British decline we've had on Heretics. Pls like / share & watch full video on Spotify & YT.

@jamesblack1986 @Neil_ipstown True. Some Irish pubs in Kilburn even held elocution classes 😆

@Neil_ipstown 1950/60s rural Ireland was a million miles away from 1950/60s Manchester. Big reason why there were Irish clubs etc.

Johnny Marr and the Gallaghers were all children of immigrants. Marr even changed his name from the Irish Maher.

@FraserNelson From a nation of shopkeepers to a nation of shoplifters.

Mary Wakefield also superb on this: do 25mph on a new 20mph-zone and Sadiq’s cameras will catch you. Rob a shopkeeper and your chances of conviction are tiny. spectator.com/article/crime-…

“Our capacity to uphold order has declined at exactly the time it is most needed; to convince people that the rules are fair and fairly applied” Jenni Russell nails one of the most important trends of our time. thetimes.com/article/d47e0e…