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Stoked to announce I'm now an ambassador for @MagicshineL Use code ohgi8 at checkout for a 10% discount. Let's light up the trails! @totalmtb @UKMTB_Chat #mtb #mountainbike #totalmtb #brokenriders #ridemoreworkless #cantquitcartel #magicshine #magicshineUK #ride

@Bebo_Bols02 That's a great museum. Went in on a whim and stayed hours.

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I’m pretty sure Trump really doesn’t want this photo of his bald spot circulating… so whatever you do, do NOT retweet!

If gas prices keep going up it will be cheaper to snort cocaine and run everywhere.

Two stoppage-time penalties. Eight years ago. Madness in Cardiff.

In modern Britain, the most dangerous thing you can be… is normal. You get up, go to work, pay your taxes, don’t rob anyone, don’t smash anything, don’t glue yourself to a motorway… and for your efforts? Congratulations—you’ve unlocked Hard Mode. No perks. No fast-track lane. No “priority support.” Just a direct debit and a polite reminder that you’re funding absolutely everything. Work hard? Taxed. Try to get ahead? Taxed again. Finally breathe out? Careful—someone’s probably drafting a levy for that too. Meanwhile, if you’re loud enough, disruptive enough, or fall into the right category of “needs attention this week,” suddenly the doors swing open, the language softens, and the system bends over backwards like it’s auditioning for Cirque du Soleil. And you’re sat there thinking—hang on… I did everything right. Was that the mistake? Because the quiet, law-abiding, tax-paying majority aren’t celebrated… they’re assumed. Relied on. Squeezed. You’re not the priority—you’re the funding model. And the better you behave, the less anyone notices… until the bill lands. So no—you’re not the enemy of the state. But if you ever stop playing along, you might suddenly realise just how much of it was built on you quietly saying nothing.

@Hotwheels_mtb @UKMTB_Chat @Absolutemtb1 I'm a big fan of Orange bikes. My full suss is a 10 year old Alpine 160 and my hardtail is a P7 I bought a couple of years ago. I love the simplicity. My next full suss will be an Orange too when I'm not skint 😂

Just seen this, are orange as desirable as they used to be, never see one on the trails anymore and while I love the fact there British (still?) feel they have lost there selling point…@UKMTB_Chat @Absolutemtb1

Let me explain something to the MAGA crowd, because clearly someone needs to. They seem to think NATO is cosmic room service. You pick up the phone, say “hello, we’re having a bit of a war here,” and thirty-one countries march to your rescue. A continental Uber for military adventures. That is not how it works. Article 5 is a mutual defense clause. The clue is in the word mutual. And it has been triggered exactly once in NATO’s entire history. After September 11. When America was attacked. Not Europe. America. Every NATO member showed up. They went to Afghanistan. They fought. They bled. They died. In America’s war. On America’s behalf. Now imagine they hadn’t. Over 1,100 allied soldiers died in Afghanistan. British, Canadian, German, Danish, Polish. And yes, even Ukrainian soldiers, who had no NATO obligation whatsoever. Gone. Without them, those are American names on those graves. Sons from Ohio. Fathers from Georgia. Kids from Nebraska who never came home. Then there is the money. NATO allies spent over 100 billion dollars on a war that started on American soil. Without that, Washington pays every cent. On top of the 2 to 3 trillion the war already cost. And without allied bases across Europe and Central Asia, American supply lines collapse entirely. Without British forces in Helmand and Canadians in Kandahar, the Taliban reconstitutes in three years instead of ten. The gaps get filled one way. More American deployments. More American coffins arriving at Dover. Afghanistan was bloody. But NATO took the hit. Without them, every single one of those casualties would have had an American name. Trump called allies like these losers. Suckers. If you are a certain kind of broken person, that probably makes sense to you. But for the rest of us, what those soldiers did has a different name. Honor. The bond between men who have been in the same dirt, under the same fire. Between Brits and Americans, Frenchmen and Norwegians, Canadians and Danes. Not a diplomatic relationship. A blood bond. Brotherhood forged in places most people will never see and cannot imagine. In that culture, you do not mock a fallen ally. You do not sneer at the dead. It is the lowest thing a human being can do. Trump did it to a standing ovation. If you are a MAGA supporter travelling to NATO countries, understand this. There are no friendly pats on the back waiting for you. No one will buy you a beer. The governments who share your worldview sit in Minsk, Moscow and Pyongyang. Brutal dictatorships where journalists disappear, elections are theatre and dissent is a medical condition treated in basements. Not London. Not Paris. Not Rome, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Berlin or Ottawa. You have abandoned the open societies, the free press, the rule of law, the places where people actually want to live. You traded the best of civilization for a very small, very dark room. Frankly, it serves you right.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

Core stage separation of Artemis II. This has to be one of the coolest shots in history.

If you're under 53 years old, you have never once been alive while a human was farther than 250 miles from Earth. Tonight, four astronauts are heading 252,000 miles out. That's a thousand times farther than any person has gone in your lifetime. The 250-mile ceiling is where the International Space Station floats. Every astronaut since December 1972 has been stuck in that zone. Spacewalks, science experiments, cool photos from orbit, sure. But nobody left the neighborhood. The last crew to go farther was Apollo 17. December 1972. Nixon was president. The internet didn't exist. Cell phones were 11 years away. The youngest member of that crew is now 90 years old. The farthest any human has ever been from Earth is 248,655 miles. The Apollo 13 crew set that number in 1970, and they didn't mean to. Their oxygen tank blew up, and the emergency route home took them farther out than anyone before or since. Tonight's crew will break that record on purpose. And the crew itself. Victor Glover becomes the first Black astronaut to leave Earth's neighborhood. Christina Koch becomes the first woman. Jeremy Hansen, a Canadian fighter pilot, becomes the first non-American to do so. When they come home, they'll slam into the atmosphere at 25,000 mph, faster than any human has ever traveled. The Moon's south pole has ice. Water ice, sitting in craters so deep that sunlight hasn't hit them in billions of years. A 2024 NASA study found way more of it than anyone expected. You can split water into hydrogen and oxygen, which gives you rocket fuel, breathable air, and drinking water, all made on the Moon instead of hauled up from Earth. George Sowers at Colorado School of Mines calculated that Moon-made fuel could shave $12 billion off a single trip to Mars. The Moon is a gas station on the road to Mars. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced last week a $20 billion plan to build a permanent base at the South Pole over the next seven years, with landings every six months. China is developing its own lunar lander and spacesuit, aiming for a crewed landing by 2030. The Artemis program has burned through $93 billion so far, and the first actual surface landing is penciled in for 2028. There's a real question of who gets there first this time around. Harrison Schmitt walked on the Moon in December 1972 as part of Apollo 17. He's 90. Asked about it this week, he sounded pretty relaxed. "Mars is attainable," he said. "We're humans. That's what we've always done."

me trying to find the HDMI port on my TV

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My favourite one today. 🙏

Are You This Person: 1. Never gets a "hey how are you" text. 2. Always on your phone 24/7, just to escape your own thoughts. 3. Wants to be alone but doesn't want to be alone. 4. Nice to everyone but gets treated like trash. 5. Insecure about the way you look. 6. Overthink every small thing 7. Gives good advice but can't fix their own life.

Suicidal thoughts don’t always sound like “I want to die.” Sometimes they sound like: • “I can’t keep doing this.” • “I don’t want to wake up tomorrow.” • “I’m tired of being strong.” • “I feel trapped in my own life.” • “I don’t belong here.” • “Everything feels too heavy.” These aren’t attention seeking thoughts. They’re pain and it’s unbearable.

@rushicrypto To stop him filling his nappy

I wonder why Trump always sits on the front of his seat with his elbows on his knees? He never sits back

Voyager hit a 90,000°F wall at the solar system’s edge. NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft crossed one of the most dramatic frontiers in the cosmos: the heliopause, the tenuous boundary where the Sun’s influence finally gives way to interstellar space. What the probe discovered there was astonishing—a turbulent zone of superheated plasma with temperatures soaring between 30,000 and 90,000 °F (roughly 17,000–50,000 °C). This wasn’t a physical wall or barrier, but a dynamic transition region where the outward-flowing solar wind abruptly slows, compresses, and piles up against the incoming pressure of interstellar material. That compression converts kinetic energy into thermal energy, driving the plasma to extreme heat levels far beyond anything found inside the heliosphere. Remarkably, despite the blistering temperatures, this “wall of fire” would pose no danger to a hypothetical astronaut. The plasma is extraordinarily diffuse—far less dense than the best vacuums achievable in Earth laboratories—so there are simply too few particles to transfer meaningful heat. The region is hot in temperature but cold in practical effect. Voyager’s instruments captured clear signatures of the crossing: a sudden plunge in solar wind particles, a sharp rise in galactic cosmic rays, and faint plasma oscillations that revealed the density and temperature of this exotic boundary layer for the first time. These vibrations—analogous to ripples on an unseen sea—provided direct measurements of conditions in a realm previously known only through theory. The heliopause itself serves as a vital shield. The entire heliosphere—the vast bubble carved by the Sun—deflects most of the galaxy’s high-energy cosmic radiation, helping protect life on Earth from constant bombardment. Beyond this protective envelope lies the harsher, unfiltered radiation environment of the interstellar medium. Today, more than 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) from home, Voyager 1 remains the farthest human-made object ever sent into space. Still operational and transmitting precious data, it continues to reveal the secrets of this distant frontier. At the outer limit of our solar system, space is neither empty nor serene. It is a violent, glowing threshold—and humanity has only begun to map its mysteries.