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@BobGresley @MichaelRosenYes With your surname you’re French Bob. When are you going back to Normandy? Sorry, I mean, Quand retournez-vous en Normandie ?

@MichaelRosenYes British people have British ancestry. Where are most of your ancestors from?

Ha! I’ve just been refused entry onto a plane from Stansted to Bologna because my passport issue date is March 2016. The expiry date is August 2026 but the rule is 10 years from issue date. Another Brexit benefit. Apparently. Go home now.

Just Trump being a life-guard.

This picture is sad. You could not better capture the quintessential disconnect of America if you tried: “Billionaire in gilded office gives Grandma $100 tip, to help pay for her dying husband’s cancer treatment”

Orcas eat great white sharks. They hunt seals, dolphins, and baby whales. They have never killed a single human in the open ocean. Not once, in all of recorded history. An orca's brain weighs up to 15 pounds. Yours weighs about 3. They have roughly double the brain cells we do in the regions that handle complex thought. A neuroscientist at Emory named Lori Marino put an orca brain in an MRI and found these animals can tell different species apart underwater. They do it by sending out clicks that bounce off everything around them and come back as a kind of 3D sound map (this is called echolocation). From 500 feet away, an orca knows you're a human and not a seal. It skips you on purpose. The answer is culture. Orcas around the world are divided into at least 10 separate populations, each with its own food rules, its own language, and its own way of hunting. All of it learned from their mothers. One population eats only fish. Another eats only marine mammals like seals and sea lions. These two populations can live in the exact same water and never swap a single meal. A baby orca learns what food is from its mother, and that list stays the same for life. In the Pacific Northwest, one population called the Southern Residents eats almost nothing but Chinook salmon. Scientists have documented them killing harbor porpoises 78 times over six decades, carrying the dead porpoises in their mouths, and never once eating them. Even when the group was starving. A 2023 study in Marine Mammal Science looked at all 78 cases and concluded it was play. These orcas would rather go hungry than eat something their culture says isn't food. Researchers studying whale behavior in 2001 found that orca cultural traditions "appear to have no parallel outside humans." Each family group has its own dialect, its own version of the language. Calves spend about two years just learning how to make all the sounds their family uses. Mothers will slow down a hunt on purpose so their young can watch. In 2005, a 12-year-old kid was swimming in Helm Bay, Alaska when an orca came at him full speed. At the very last second, the orca seemed to realize it was charging a human. It bent its entire body in half and turned back to open water. In captivity, it goes differently. SeaWorld's Tilikum killed three people during his life in a concrete tank. Research from 2016, published in the journal Animals, traced it to psychological collapse from being locked away from the family bonds orcas need to stay stable. I think calling this a "mystery" undersells the science. Orcas decide what to eat based on culture, not instinct. No orca mother has ever taught her calf to hunt humans, so no orca hunts humans. Only about 75 of those salmon-eating Southern Residents are still alive. Their pregnancy failure rate is 69% because we've destroyed their salmon runs. They won't break their food culture to survive. Whether we care enough to protect theirs is the part that actually matters.

A perfect image of the Trump era: A grandmother has to work at DoorDash in order to get by, while the president decorates his office in gold accent pieces.

Has anyone else just reached the end? I’m 62 years old. Since Thatcher there has been a meaningless rotation of one neoliberal gang after another. War after bloody war. Cuts after cuts after cuts. Crisis after crisis and an ongoing corporate crime wave. It has to be stopped.

The Pope removed his shoes in a mosque and people are outraged? That’s not compromise. That’s basic respect. If you enter someone’s home or sacred space, you honor their customs. We expect it in our churches. Why pretend not to understand it anywhere else?

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Leader of Reform UK Nigel Farage publicly purchased £2 million in Bitcoin today for Stack BTC, a firm chaired by Kamikaze Kwarteng who tanked the UK economy in day. This is who is running Reform.

In the UK, Millie Taplin was attending her first nightclub on her 18th birthday when she was handed a drink by a stranger. The stranger handed her a vodka lemonade “Try this” Millie took a sip. Seconds later, her face went numb, her fingers curled into claws and her entire body stiffened like she was possessed. She stayed fully conscious, trapped inside herself, writhing in agony and screaming in her head that she couldn’t move her body. Rushed to hospital, doctors said she was likely dosed with two unknown drugs: one to paralyse her, one to knock her out. Tests couldn’t identify the substance. Her mother later released footage as a warning: never accept a drink from stranger.

“Moaning minnies” “Juvenile delinquents” “Organ grinder” “Monkeys” Just a few e.g. of the vile language @wesstreeting has used to publicly insult resident & senior doctors Dear Wes - here’s a reminder of the NHS workplace bullying criteria…it seems you’re ticking a few boxes

@SaulStaniforth Been seeing Olivia's Labour-Right vapidity for nearly a decade now, so this is no surprise whatsoever. No doubt the Labour press people are congratulating her for this performance, completely unaware of how stupid it makes them look.

They're selling off the NHS, burdening it with more PFIs, paying out vast sums for 'insourcing,' running on too few doctors and nurses and canceling training - oh, but let's give them a biiiiiig round of applause for the the 'specialist teams' dealing with their mess.

@JennyAThatcher The @guardian have got a cheek posting this article. They did their part in thwarting a leader who would’ve stopped this as soon as he could. How dare they pretend to care now.

More than a fifth of UK’s ‘austerity children’ scarred by poverty The University of Oxford study said the austerity-era growth in children exposed to poverty for most of their formative years was a “significant social problem” theguardian.com/society/2026/a…

A worker died in a Amazon warehouse in Oregon. For more than an hour the workers in the facility were ordered to continue working as the man lay dead. One worker tried to help, but a manager told him “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work.“ EVIL.

Trump: People are living under harsh conditions in Cuba, we will change the government. Meanwhile, the streets of America:

Just a reminder that Mandelson is still a lord, Reed is still in the Cabinet, and Simons and Reid are still MPs. Despite the sequence of scandals hiting the party this year alone, @UKLabour has done nothing. Let's say that again so we're all clear: nothing.

You can't trust Wes Streeting with our NHS.