Timothy Bull

52% of women 20-39 are child less. All the money All the accolades All the fame All the success All the compliments for being in shape Won’t come close to the high you experience of having kids. Great gift God gave us is to experience that love. Congrats to the 48% group!

UK households to face steepest summer rise in energy charges in four years as government’s energy price cap for Great Britain rises 13%. The average gas and electricity bill will increase to the equivalent of £1,862 a year from July until the end of September, largely (but not entirely) to take account of the rise in global energy market prices caused by the war on Iran. The cost of living is now back at the top of the political agenda.

In 1975, more than 90% of milk in Britain was delivered to the doorstep by a milkman before seven in the morning. The float was electric. The bottles were glass. The pint left on the step was waiting for the kettle to go on. By 2025, doorstep delivery had collapsed to under 3%. The British milkman, at his peak, was one of the most visible faces of national life. He knew every customer on his round by name. He left bottles in the porch, on the wall, in the rack by the gate. He picked up the empties. The bottles made, on average, more than twenty round trips before being retired. The milk came from a local dairy. The dairy was supplied by farms within a few miles. The milkman, the dairyman, the farmer, and the customer were, very often, on first-name terms. Several things broke this between 1980 and 2000. The fridge had arrived in nearly every British home by the late 1970s. Daily delivery became unnecessary. The supermarkets moved into milk. Tesco, Asda, and Sainsbury's began undercutting the doorstep on price. The local dairy was bought out, consolidated, or closed. The glass bottle was replaced by the plastic jug. Plastic doesn't get washed and reused. Each plastic container of milk now generates a piece of single-use waste that takes hundreds of years to break down. What disappeared, with the milkman, was a piece of daily British life. The same person at your door every morning for twenty years. The clink of bottles at half past five while the rest of the street slept. The conversation when you were in. The note left under the bottle on the day of the funeral. The milk is still being produced. It is just being produced further away, by fewer and larger farms, shipped further, sold in plastic, by people you will never meet. A small British revival has been quietly building since around 2015. Milk & More now serves around half a million doorsteps. Independent dairies in Devon, Somerset, Yorkshire, and the Scottish Borders are running their own glass-bottle rounds. Slightly more expensive. Whole milk. Washed bottles. A man at the door who knows the dog's name. If there is one in your area, sign up. The system died because nobody fought for it. It's coming back, in the same way, by the same people.

"You can do it, son."

This is what actual range looks like because this dude has been in Marvel, Star Trek, LOTR, The Boys, Doom, Judge Dredd and somehow none of his characters feel like the same actor

Isn’t it ironic that Dave Filoni has more power than he’s ever had before at Lucasfilm, and yet his public perception and reputation is at its lowest point?

An enchanting characteristic of the glorious British countryside is rural lanes covered in lush green tree tunnels. The most beautiful and natural of carbon capture machines. It’s certainly more pleasing on the eye than Ed Miliband’s £30bn carbon capture machine monstrosities. 🌳

"Give it your best guess."

Last week I posted this about my wife. I have to point out that when we got married, I was in school to become a zoologist. The whole game design thing came out of left field. She loves it though. Last Friday out of the blue she told the poor cashier at the grocery store that I helped Doom and Age of Empires. When we're together, she'll buttonhole random strangers and ask them if they've heard of Cthulhu, then credit me with Lovecraft's popularization (with some justice). It's embarrassing but it's also neat to have a wife so proud of you. Particularly with the modern age's general (not universal) attitude towards husbands.

So they’re not “refugees”, which was the term upon which they were let in Enemies of the West weaponise our generosity And the failure of European elites to deal with this will have terrible consequences for our continent

On the evening of May 23, Daniel C. Green created an image that created a ripple effect across the internet—and possibly the American patriotic landscape as we know it. In response to a post online requesting an image portraying Lewis and Clark in the style of J.R.R. Tolkien's Amoranth (as popularized by the early 2000s movies). Before doing so, Green researched what it would take to make such a monument and how to make the design correctly. He then fed a detailed prompt into an AI model and shared his photo response. Little did he know the reaction that the public would have to this photo. Over a span of 24 hours, the post amassed hundreds, thousands, and ultimately millions of views, creating a bipartisan fervor for the concept: Two 300-foot-tall copper statues of Lewis and Clark along the Missouri River in Montana, hollowed on the inside for defense, tourism, the private sector, research, libraries, or a multitude of other purposes. The idea spread rapidly, drawing people wanting to put money towards the project, debating on the best way to do it, and questioning why America no longer raises such emaculate, megalithic monuments to the American past any longer. Upon reading dozens—and then hundreds, to thousands—of these responses, many from notable figures, Green began to ponder if there was a legitimate tailwind behind this conceptual project. Early on Monday morning, Green learned that multiple people of note had taken an interest in this concept, requesting that the project actually be started. These included a political reporter with a multi-million-person following, the CEO of the American Conservation Coalition, and Senator Eric Schmitt (who publicly endorsed the idea). The idea was further popularized by a notable foundry in France—Atelier Missor. All of these factors combined caused Green to start floating an idea—that he could personally spearhead the project. This idea gained instantaneous popularity to the extent that, within hours, he had been connected with famous monument makers, connected with hundreds of potential donors and contributors, and witnessed the idea spread like wildfire. Progress has happened rather quickly. Green has created a landing page for this project, directing people to follow the page closely as he secures a 501(c)(3) sponsor to begin taking donations for the project. These donations will fund an artistic rendering, a small clay model that will be reproduced through a 3D company run by a supporter of the project, a 10-foot scale model of the statue, surveying of the land, and ultimately funding the construction of the megalithic statue. This is a massive undertaking from Daniel C. Green, his company, The Eagle Eye, and the undertaking to preserve America's past for the future. To follow the daily and weekly updates, see the page on The Eagle Eye's official site: The contribution link is now live (non-tax-deductible) theeagleye.net/lewis-and-clar…

Hey lazy people: the Vatican made infographics for you

"Over 20,000. Not even Reagan had a midi-chlorian count that high."

Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Two new AI data centres proposed for Edinburgh would require 2 million litres of water per year & a continuous power supply of over 400 megawatts combined - the equivalent amount of energy as building five cities the same size as Edinburgh. But hey, let’s blame cow farts for destroying the planet.

Britain is a place where the government spends £30bn on carbon capture machines, bans new oil & gas licences in the North Sea and yet imports £billions of oil & gas from Norway (from the same sea), spends £57m on sun geoengineering research & plasters farmland with solar panels.

Supergirl prediction

@Grummz It looks like an actual Ferrari!

Duuuude. So much better than what they shipped.

Huge W

Maajid Nawaz from Italy on the Pope's encyclical address warning about Ai: “Peter Thiel’s Palantir as a company, using the UK as a case study, already has, due to Prime Minister Keir Starmer, already has contracts to manage the nation’s, all of the nation’s health data unified on one platform and that health data being interpreted as it is by Palantir’s autonomous AI, making life and death decisions on the nation’s health. Palatir also separately has a contract with the Metropolitan Police using a combination of not just facial recognition but predictive programming to determine crime and to set the police’s priorities. This is something that, they already have this deal with the Metropolitan Police, but in addition, if you add Palantir’s contracts with the Ministry of Defence in the UK, like it has in the Department of Defence in the United States of America, you can see how a combination of health data, domestic crime surveillance and foreign war-mongering, being all under the auspices of one private company called Palantir, in the UK and in the US, it’s the same, it is a particularly worrying scenario.”

Everyone reads the Prodigal Son as a story about a rebellious boy who came home. It isn't. Jesus told this parable to show us what God is actually like. And the portrait He paints of the father is so scandalous, so undignified, that it offended every person in His audience. It should offend us, too. A thread on the father nobody talks about. 🧵