Dr Mike Rennie

@KEriksenV2 @LucyGoBag Its also the way that a lot of children in the care system get their belongings packed when they are moved between placements.

I went to the care home today to retrieve my father’s belongings. This is what was presented to me. I had to ask twice for a private place to sort through it. I said nothing, nor will I name the “care” home. My father’s life was not garbage.

@LucyGoBag There will not only be consequences for Iran if he follows through on this, but will also cause a global fuel ceisi which will crash the global economy

Crikey

@sharpe_le In my case because its easier snd more effective with my hearing aids, because for dome reason the software on my work iphone that links the phone to my hearing aid bluetooth isnt available on my personal android phone....sort it out Samsung / Oticon!

Why the fuck do people think it's ok to have a phone call with people over their loud speaker in public. It's fucking rude and fucking annoying. His headset is literally next to his phone. And the wanker next to him is even worse. FFS. 😡

@antigaslight @LucyGoBag Jail violent people...

@LucyGoBag Jail violent men?

There has been concerns FOR YEARS in the HEI sector on how to manage scenarios like this. My despairs only grows

@rcbregman @amendlocke The group dynamics and cultural backgrounds are completely different. This is undergraduate introduction to social psychology stuff, maybe you should have researched that instead.

The BBC just released a new adaptation of Lord of the Flies, the classic novel by William Golding. It's beautifully made, but it's still telling the wrong story. A few years ago, I went looking for the *real* Lord of the Flies. I wanted to know: has it ever actually happened? Have kids ever been shipwrecked on a deserted island? It took me a year of research, but I found it. In 1965, six boys from a boarding school in Tonga stole a boat, got caught in a storm, and drifted for eight days without food or water. They washed up on 'Ata, a remote, uninhabited island in the Pacific. They stayed there for 15 months, and what happened on that island was the exact opposite of William Golding's novel. These boys set up a small commune. They built a food garden, stored rainwater in hollowed-out tree trunks, created a gym with improvised weights, and built a badminton court. One of them, Stephen (who would later become an engineer) managed to start a fire using two sticks. They kept it burning the entire time. Of course they fought too. But then they argued, they had a rule: go to opposite ends of the island, cool down, then come back and apologize. As one of them told me: ‘That's how we stayed friends.’ Back home, everyone assumed that the boys – Luke, Stephen, Sione, David, Kolo and Mano — were dead. When they were finally discovered by an Australian captain named Peter Warner, he radioed their names to Tonga. After twenty minutes, a tearful response came back: ‘You found them! These boys have been given up for dead. Funerals have been held. If it's them, this is a miracle!’ Peter commissioned a new ship, hired all six boys as his crew, and named the boat the Ata, after the island where he found them. They remained friends for the rest of their lives – Peter and Mano even became soulmates. I tracked them down, and it became one of the central chapters of my book Humankind. Here's what struck me most: William Golding (the author of Lord of the Flies) was a troubled man, an alcoholic who once said ‘I have always understood the Nazis, because I am of that sort by nature.’ I think he was projecting his own darkness onto children. And we turned it into a lesson about human nature that we teach to millions of kids around the world. I think the real lesson is the opposite. When real children found themselves alone on a real island, they didn't descend into savagery. They cooperated, they took care of each other, they survived. I'm not saying that the Tongan castaways were representative of all kids everywhere. But I am saying that every kid who has to read or watch the fictional Lord of the Flies also deserves to know what actually happened when it played out in real life. Stories are never just stories. We become the stories that we tell ourselves.

@robbell @supertanskiii More links to Scotland than England.

@supertanskiii Someone tell him the Knights Templar were French and that’s the flag of Genoa, that should shut him up.

“Siri, show me a picture of man that’s never touched a fanny”

@DanDacey1 @footballconfid1 @juneslater17 I was paying tax and serving in uniform when I was 16. Maybe paying tax after 70 should be considered paying for all the decisions you imposed on the younger generation.

@footballconfid1 @juneslater17 So being > 70, would I also stop paying income tax as in effect I would have no say in how it’s spent.

Labour have reduced the voting age to 16 🤷🏻🤦🏻 I do not want the future of my country being decided by people who have Never bought a house, never paid a bill, never known responsibility never had a job never run a business never had a child, never had a boss in some cases! These desperate characters in Labour know they are screwed this is their solution ffs

@sweasel @DiggleDYOR @LucyGoBag There was some very interesting social identity psychology underpinning this. A precursor to Nudge.

@DiggleDYOR @LucyGoBag To make you feel like you're cooking. My mother told me that decades ago, so I guess it was common knowledge.

If you didn’t know that many supermarkets use pretend farms in their marketing, why you need an egg in a cake box recipe will blow your mind 😮

@SapperGeologist Is that also true of Beijing, considering the substantial SubT infrastructure being developed there?

How much earth does an entire city move vs a mine? Turns out, even after centuries of excavation for buildings, subways, & utilities, some of the largest open-pit mines have moved far more earth than the world’s biggest #urban centres.

@richjohnston @afneil Also the colonies rather than being taxed, we're heavily subsidised. Colonial merchants had difficulty making a profit due to the low cost, especially of tea, so created a shortage by throwing goods in to the local harbour. In reality people in London had a heavier tax burden.

@afneil Don't forget the desire to expand into Native American territories against the orders of the British. But they always put it down to tea tariffs in the chants.

Actually it’s only because of the French that you won your war of independence against the Brits. If not for the French you’d have remained a British colony. So you became a Republic only with the aid of an absolutist French monarchy — and, of course, by not challenging Southern demands to retain slavery after independence. Great as the American Republic is, it owes its foundation to French absolutist monarchy and acceptance of slavery. What’s your next question?

@RealHFegelein @AMontfort1036 @rglucks1 And Hitler had basically given up trying to invade Britain when the Germans declared war on the US forcing them to finally join the fray. Before that Roosevelt was trying to get the British allies like Canada and other imperial countries to abandon Britain as a lost cause.

@AMontfort1036 @rglucks1 Germany had already been beaten, but by Russia. The D-Day invasion prevented not German, but Russian hegemony over Europe. Now Russia has taken over America without firing a shot.

Dear Americans, Since the White House press secretary is attacking me today, I wanted to tell you this ⤵️

@OldmanTran @trout_kilgour @Liz_Cheney So the exact values Ukraine wants...?

@trout_kilgour @Liz_Cheney Liberty, self-reliance, & national sovereignty! I believe putting American citizens first - our security, jobs, way of life. I cherish the people's right to free speech and the right to bear arms, because they are the bedrock of individual freedom. I wish this for all people.

Here is some truth: Putin invaded Ukraine. NATO is the most successful military alliance in history. Since 1945, American leadership has ensured freedom and security for ourselves and millions of others around the world. Together with our allies, we defeated the Soviet Union—an empire so evil it had to build gulags and walls to keep its own people in. Destroying America’s alliances and abandoning the cause of freedom is morally and strategically indefensible. Putin will pocket Trump’s naive concessions and demand much more. Appeasement makes a wider war more likely, not less. @realDonaldTrump, @JDVance, and @elonmusk have made clear who they are. Only fools—or Kremlin tools—would abandon NATO, side with Russia, and demand Ukraine surrender in the face of Putin’s brutal aggression.

As a young soldier based in Germany in the 1980s. I never thought I'd ever see a US president side with a Russian president over an invasion on European soil.

@Filbert631 @NotSoFoolish @BenWallace70 Actually...the US was, and it's why the UK was still paying off the debt until 2001.

@NotSoFoolish @BenWallace70 Money shouldn't come into something like this. Nobody was counting the pennies in WW2. You either want freedom and democracy to be upheld in Ukraine, or you don't.

Here are some genuine fake news that the Whitehouse now spouts: 1. We have given over double what Europe has to Ukraine. ❌ In fact Europe has given more. 1/3

@betontheday @Kompressor_btc @MyDeathRay The figure that also included the budget for the VA in its amount. No other country does that.

@LucyGoBag WTF!!!!?

A new tactic in govt disaster counter-advocacy is to tell families who ask to meet researchers and activists that they are actually “government plants” and they should keep away. There are 🪴 (think Spycops) but more frequently it’s next level nudge to stop families getting info

Don’t ignore Red warnings. If you are in the zone get in somewhere and encourage others to do the same. Stay away from roads, trains, rivers,flood water and coast lines if you can. Have torches and charged lights and charged phone and powerbank to hand

I'm not going to discuss the wider politics, but I think this is an interesting piece discussing contemporary subT operations. Sharing for my friends who work in this field and may not be aware of the article mwi.westpoint.edu/israels-new-ap…

@Sandford_Police It's a Harry Potter movie... the hero spends all their time running around a tower hiding from Alan Rickman

To solve an argument we’ve been having Die Hard, is that a Christmas movie or not?

@TheMendozaWoman @Sam__McBride Over a twenty day working month thats an extra £40 to find from the budget for each person that travels by bus in the household.