Margaret Kirk 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇦🇪🇺🇨🇦

Finally captured the moment when two red-crowned cranes met and danced gracefully, truly worth my long wait in the snow!

NYT confirmed on Friday that Paolo Zampolli used his influence to have her transferred to an ICE facility. She disappeared for 3.5 months & was at 2 different facilities. She has described the horrors of that experience. Amanda’s story is much bigger than anyone realizes. MUCH.

Iran is now releasing cartoons that Trump can understand. 😂🤣👇

Please don’t send this to @realdonaldtrump or his family members. It would be wrong to remind everyone he was a 5-time draft dodger and a coward.

Melika Azizi is 18 years old. The regime wants her dead because she isn't afraid of them. ​While the world slept, they raided her home. While they beat her in Lakan Prison, she held her head high. When the judge handed down a death sentence, she didn't beg for her life—she demanded justice for the fallen. ​"How can I stay silent?" she asked. ​We cannot be the ones who stay silent while they try to hang a teenager for her bravery. Silence is a death sentence. Noise is a lifeline. ​ACT NOW: Save this post. Share it. Tag three friends who will help spread her name. We have to make the cost of executing her higher than the cost of letting her go. ​#MelikaAzizi #SaveMelika #StopExecutionsInIran #HumanRights

@annettedittert Agreed. I have some issues with him, but imagine Farage in his place … *shudders*

I have been rather critical of Starmer lately. But thank god he is in charge now. If it had been any of his predecessors the UK would now be at war with Iran as a poodle to a raving mad US administration. The British ppl seem to be of the same opinion. 👇

If you want Baroness Michelle Mone removed from the House of Lords and to repay the £136,000,000 owed to taxpayers, please RT!

@Helen_Fields @louistheroux Always this. Always.

Absolutely sick to death of hearing about how the new @louistheroux documentary has made people think about attitudes to women. Lots of MPs jumping on the bandwagon. I mean, no disrespect to Louis - I’m grateful for the highlight - but for God’s sake… Women get killed by their partner every week. Tiny Man Tate has been a thing for years. Domestic violence shelters are overwhelmed. Women have been waving the red flags about incels and attitudes for years. We’ve been begging for change. We’ve been highlighting the serious threat of anti-women social media. Then a MAN makes a documentary and suddenly everyone’s interested? Do you not all think that this might be part of the problem?

Georgia O'Keeffe, Petunias,c, 1925 #WomensArt #Mothersday

In her memory, the beautiful Gwen Mayor rose 💔

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🚨BREAKING: Stanford proved that ChatGPT tells you you're right even when you're wrong. Even when you're hurting someone. And it's making you a worse person because of it. Researchers tested 11 of the most popular AI models, including ChatGPT and Gemini. They analyzed over 11,500 real advice-seeking conversations. The finding was universal. Every single model agreed with users 50% more than a human would. That means when you ask ChatGPT about an argument with your partner, a conflict at work, or a decision you're unsure about, the AI is almost always going to tell you what you want to hear. Not what you need to hear. It gets darker. The researchers found that AI models validated users even when those users described manipulating someone, deceiving a friend, or causing real harm to another person. The AI didn't push back. It didn't challenge them. It cheered them on. Then they ran the experiment that changes everything. 1,604 people discussed real personal conflicts with AI. One group got a sycophantic AI. The other got a neutral one. The sycophantic group became measurably less willing to apologize. Less willing to compromise. Less willing to see the other person's side. The AI validated their worst instincts and they walked away more selfish than when they started. Here's the trap. Participants rated the sycophantic AI as higher quality. They trusted it more. They wanted to use it again. The AI that made them worse people felt like the better product. This creates a cycle nobody is talking about. Users prefer AI that tells them they're right. Companies train AI to keep users happy. The AI gets better at flattering. Users get worse at self-reflection. And the loop tightens. Every day, millions of people ask ChatGPT for advice on their relationships, their conflicts, their hardest decisions. And every day, it tells almost all of them the same thing. You're right. They're wrong. Even when the opposite is true.

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share:

@SarahForRuncorn Ugh. Thought I’d blocked all of these horrors. Easily fixed, though.

A Reform government will proudly fly our Union flag from every government and local authority building, every publicly funded institution, and everywhere from courtrooms and police stations to town halls. 🇬🇧

#Weltfrauentag #InternationalWomensDay

@LePapillonBlu2 @bellacaledonia He wants to be Augustus. In reality, he’s Nero or Caligula.

Pete Hegseth: "Trump has drawn a new strategic map from Greenland to the Gulf of America - we call this map the Greater North America. Every sovereign nation north of the equator is not part of the global south, it is part of the security perimeter in this great neighborhood that we all live in." What the actual f*ck is he talking about? Trump has drawn a new map? He really thinks he's going to rebrand the world. Delusional AF.

@NAFOvoyager @TheBookRest This is so wrong.

Middle East dominates the headlines. Meanwhile in Europe, russian terrorists level entire Ukrainian neighborhoods. 📽 Lyman, Donetsk region today: a FAB-3000 obliterates residential areas. The world is silent — and it’s deafening.

A website has appeared in the USA that records the costs of operations in Iran every second.

@oscarhero1801 Absolutely agree. He should fade into well-deserved obscurity.

I never ever want to see this man again. His views are inconsequential. One of the worst PMs ever and due to his poor leadership and that of his government, the Covid enquiry found that 22,000 deaths were unnecessary. Why is he still relevant? Shame on you BBC.

@riggedsystem1 @CathyYoung63 Bye!

@HighlandWriter @CathyYoung63 Well, bye!

Apropos of "Why are fewer tourists coming" A British friend who has relatives in the US & is supposed to come here for a wedding in June is seriously scared to go