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@PedroRivie95096 @MuseZack It is common knowledge that Ukraine has been sent older munitions and vehicles that have been replaced by procuring newer visions of the same, therefore improving the stockpiles. So, with respect, this sounds like pro Putin propaganda.

@MuseZack We're also not nearly as prudent or necessarily parsimonious as we've been spending the last 5 years greatly depleting our stockpiles by sending so many weapons to Ukraine, Israel, and now splurging them on Iran Clearly we didn't learn our lessons from Pearl Harbor

I'm reading about the Two Ocean Navy Act of 1940 & how the fleet needed to defeat Germany & Japan was already under construction when Pearl Harbor happened & from today's perspective it's impossible to imagine America's political establishment being that strategic & prescient.

@Sam_Dumitriu @mttjon Am v happy owning the freehold of my Edinburgh tenement main door flat and not having to pay a service charge to anybody. Bills get paid for what needs doing when it needs doing, for the amount required and no more.

@mttjon The alternatives are also really unpopular in the countries they exist.

Very bad take — in apartment blocks free holders have zero accountability... None... At all... It's a terrible system and there's a reason why it only exists in England and Wales, and nowhere else in the world

@FaultyMotivator @Pluscachange201 @ProudofusUK A refinement.

@Pluscachange201 @ProudofusUK Lego invented the cylindrical extrusions on the underside that allow them to clamp tightly together with more holding force.

🇬🇧 Every diesel engine on earth is named after the WRONG man. 🇬🇧 And here's the worst part. They took the real inventor's own engine and called it a "semi-diesel." Named after the man who came second. In 1890, a British engineer from Halifax filed a patent for a compression-ignition engine. Three years before Rudolf Diesel. Built it. Sold it. FORTY-FIVE THOUSAND engines running before Diesel had even built a working prototype. The first compression-ignition locomotive? British. Woolwich Arsenal, 1896. An Akroyd engine. But Diesel had better marketing. A bigger name. A louder voice. So history gave him the credit. His name was Herbert Akroyd Stuart. He moved to Australia. Died in obscurity. Buried back in Halifax where he started. Next time you see the word DIESEL at a petrol station, remember the name it should say. Akroyd. Be part of us 👉 proudofus.co.uk 👈 Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

@NathanpmYoung @HarmanSmith64 Pretty sure she is from Dundee.

@HarmanSmith64 She's east asian though.

The new Harry Potter show focuses on increasing black representation even though the south asian population in the UK is twice the black population.

@MaxKendix How do you sleep at night. I pity you.

Exc: Councils forced to spend £20k a year for a single child to receive horse therapy to help with special educational needs EHCPs used for therapy alpacas, dogs, angling, and aerial arts. Costs of horse-related spending alone is £1.9m across 22 councils this year, for 119 cases

@RaptureR16550 @CrimeLdn British people look at the 2nd amendment and your gun violence and mass shootings with despair and pity. We feel so sorry for you.

Exactly as I suspected. Bystanders doing nothing and not calling the police, but rather filming. I mean at this point, if they had called the police or tried to stop the criminals, the bystanders would likely get arrested for filming crime or trying to stop them. Lose, lose situation I suppose. 🤷🏼‍♀️😂 What I know is that business should be allowed to keep a weapon in there for protection purposes. Need a 2nd amendment like America. How can Brits protect their homes, families, businesses without it? All Brits have the ability to do is use reasonable force against criminals trying to invade their homes and businesses to my knowledge right? 🤦🏼‍♀️

A jewellery robbery in Richmond London this morning ( ahcomeridewithme )

@MuseZack Where is my Culture series!

I'm simultaneously a bit sad that Avatar's spectacular VFX wizardry isn't being put to use on something thematically richer & more ambitious (Simmons' Hyperion! Brin's Uplift saga!) while recognizing that Cameron was correct in keeping things simple to play to a broad audience.

@TurnLeftMediaUK She still planning on handing our country to Putin? Thanks I'll pass.

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@MuseZack Definite The Associates vibes.

Someone told me that Ricky Gervais was the singer for a New Wave band in the early 80s called Seona Dancing so I went to find their songs expecting them to be the worst thing ever, but...no lie, they were actually quite good! youtube.com/watch?v=Kuy1Z4…

@JimMFelton Polanski and Farage would both sell out Ukraine in a heartbeat, albeit for completely different reasons. Everything else there is no comparison.

@MojoSw17 @ABattlesbridge She is not going to have one after 2029, so she may well be out on that basis.

@ABattlesbridge @GBPolitcs @GBNEWS No, she has a job. That’s the point.

🚨NEW. A Labour minister has suggested children born in Britain to immigrant parents could be deported as part of the Government's asylum reforms [@GBNEWS]

@Noodlepig @talkSPORT Exactly it's easy to lend your support to a diddy team when your team are world beaters. If our roles were reversed and England fans had to endure watching their neighbour excel while your team scraped along the bottom, they would feel exactly as Scotland fans do.

@talkSPORT It’s called bitterness. It’s easy to root for an underdog. It’s easy for the English to support Scotland/wales/ireland etc because they are minnows. The underdogs never root for the powerhouse that’s why. Same reason people love seeing Man Utd’s demise, Liverpool struggle etc.

🤷‍♂️ "English fans are not hateful towards the Scots!" 😡 "The Scottish fans are so hateful and venomous... they push hate!" This England fan tells Jim White why he'll never lend his support to the Scotland football team! 👀

@AndyPeacock999 Complete bollocks, not useless team scores four goals like that. If you have nothing good to say keep your trap shut.

@HLTCO Perfect illustration of why soccer is the best sport. Scotland were useless but scored 3 extraordinary goals against a team that completely outclassed them in every department from start to finish even with 10 men. Glorious madness 😁

One of the most entertaining international matches I’ve ever watched. That’s no exaggeration; just ridiculous.

@unbowedheretic Assuming you are a bot as otherwise an actual person thoughtful enough to ask this question would know that immigrants contribute more tax than they take out. So why am I responding to an obvious bot - no effing idea?!

@JimMFelton My main problem is paying a massive amount of tax for an increasingly useless set of public services. How does adding more net beneficiaries help me?

@LukePollard You still demonising migrants and as a direct result ushering in a Reform government? Jog on then.

Here’s eight things Labour’s Plan for Change has delivered in England this week:

@mr_james_c @Sam_Dumitriu Ornament (done well) costs money that nobody is prepared to pay for.

@Sam_Dumitriu I'm convinced that most modern design is incredibly boring because "minimal" is synonymous with Scandi design and most architects lack the self-confidence to know how to do ornament.

"In total, 87% preferred the less innovative two options at the top of figure... "We are aware of nine architectural or planning prizes awarded to the two least popular two options. We are not aware of any architectural or planning awards garnered by the most popular option"

@MuseZack Except in Scotland and Ireland of course where it originated. Halloween has always been a big holiday here with our own non Americanised traditions. In England historically bonfire night dominated, though less so now for the reasons you give.

"This thing we saw in a movie looks like fun, let's do it for real" happens more often than you might realize. Halloween as a global holiday with costumes and trick or treating was pretty much entirely a product of people in other countries seeing it in E.T.

@MuseZack Looks more like an Orbital to me.

Uh, why is Homeland Security patrolling Larry Niven's Ringworld?

@mary53739812 @RepLuna TBF America did all it could to stay out of WW2. Remember Germany declared war on the US. But also to be fair when the US eventually turned up, it turned up big time.

@RepLuna They bomb kindergartens! I’m so glad people like you weren’t in government during WWII you’d be having milk and cookies with Hitler and talking about how he’s just misunderstood 🙄

America should be embracing trade opportunities and peace vs. advocating for the neocon agenda of war with Russia. Why would we alienate a superpower when we could have open dialogue for peace and negotiate trade that would benefit all Americans?

@theobertram Betfred: "If gambling tax rises we'll close all our shops". Everyone: "We already said we are in favour of a gambling tax, you don't have to convince us".

There is a co-ordinated push-back from the gambling industry against a gambling tax. Last couple of weeks saw Entain (Coral and Ladbrokes) and Evoke (William Hill) both say that a tax rise would drive people to illegal websites. Today it's the turn of Betfred.