Michael Banks

@0xDavecryps Lot’s of people work part-time

People love saying, “Minimum wage was never meant to be a living wage.” But if a full-time worker can’t afford the basics like rent, food, and utilities then what exactly is the minimum wage supposed to be for? The entire idea behind a minimum wage is to set the lowest legal pay that still allows someone working full time to meet basic living costs. If it doesn’t do that anymore, it’s no longer serving its original purpose.

@catherinerowett I think you’ll find the June temperature average in 1976 was considerably warmer than this year.

By the way it wasn't this hot in 1976. Not by a long way. Climate change has changed your expectations. It'll soon change them some more.

@RogerHallamCS21 Not the UK’s problem to fix, the larger countries are the ones who will determine future levels of CO2 etc.

MEANWHILE IN THE REAL WORLD ... The UK is about to go over 35C for three days in a row. We are at 1.5C and temperatures are now raising by 0.4C a decade meaning we will be hitting 2C in ten years. Meaning the UK's wiring, roads, railway lines, and housing will be melting, subsiding, and heading under water. Great story to tell. Just Great. "Starmer has a good story to tell." Oh, and yes, to round it off Starmer sat back and allowed judges to give years long sentences to the most courageous members of the younger generation who took proportionate peaceful action to force reality onto the agenda, and who are going to have to spend their whole lives dealing with this shit. At the very minimum, to make any real difference, the UK has to get to zero emissions by 2035. Pretending otherwise is the purist of pure bullshit. theguardian.com/politics/2026/…

@LinkerLife I like hotpot, I like beef, I like pork. I like seafood.

@kingorry032 i mean beef or hotpot? or you like them both?

Do you like it? The Chinese Beef Hot Pot.

@LinkerLife Yes. Had many times.

@kingorry032 you like beef or hot pot?

@Chrisirvine The negative effects of Brexit are much inflated. The bloc is going nowhere until they realign on how to grow.

10 years since #Brexit vote. Reverse the outcome and where we’d be? Richer, less divided, happier possibly. So many of Britain’s current woes stem from leaving EU. And in all my time in Europe since, I’ve not met one person who said, ‘yes, that was a good idea’. A decade of hurt.

@ZackPolanski 25C is the wet trouser threshold for Greens and other far-left types.

This isn't normal. While this government is in chaos, its failure to protect people from extreme heat will cost lives. We need maximum workplace temperatures to protect workers and cool spaces so the vulnerable aren't exposed.

@typeclonghouse It's only $50k for a solid month. Is that a lot?

bruh i didnt realize europeans are actually spending multiple weeks on vacation here for the world cup how can they afford it?

@gov_fails Wars won in my lifetime: England: 1 USA: 0

World Cup championships in my lifetime: England: 0 USA: 0 Yet the English are on here telling me how much better they are at soccer than we are...

@lady_valor_07 it doesn’t need a binder, just chuck it in the bin and eat something decent instead.

For the home cooks out there... What do you use as a binder in meatloaf besides bread crumbs?

@Warzoid No. I've got a firmer grip on reality than you.

Anybody else in the UK lying awake, feeling sick about this weather & what it means? Another heat record. Thwaites glacier & AMOC on the verge of collapse. Mass extinction accelerating. No govt, anywhere, acting at the scale & with the urgency required. Most people oblivious.

@EstebanMathurin @LeonardBriscoe3 He’s a giant something.

@LeonardBriscoe3 Starmer is a giant. He’ll go down in history with other titans who led their countries from the depths to the heights. Mentioned in one breath: Washington, Lincoln, Churchill, Starmer 🧐

You’ve ousted the best Prime Minister we’ve had in living memory, a man of steel, intellect and compassion, a man who always trying. Why? You selfish idiots 🙄 #Starmer #KeirStarmer #StarmerResignation #resignation

@MarkCranfield_ And posting on X is going to change that?

No one wants to think about it. It will never stop getting hotter. Hell on earth is coming. The sooner people understand that, the better. As it stands, we're sitting ducks.

@LukiFrieden What’s the point of these posts? Everyone knows Europe is having more hot weather recently. It’s not news.

Frankreich: 45°C London: 39°C Berlin: 38°C Paris: 41°C Da kommen sogar die Leugner des menschengemachten Klimawandels ins Schwitzen.

@spoonus @British_Airways @BA_USA What sort of flight is flying you from London to Australia in 10 hours?

Well done @British_Airways @BA_USA …in business class (club world) hoping to get a lot of work done on my 10 hour flight from LHR to AUS. Turns out I can’t plug my laptop in! Astonishingly bad design BA191

@JimmyMcd62 The Scots were fully complicit in the deeds of the British empire both great and bad.

Please Boston dont confuse Scottish and English. We are both part of the British isles along with Ireland and Wales. Sometime ago our southern neighbours decided it would be best to colonise the world. We in the devolved nations suffered greatly at their hands.

@simcrowley66 @jesperbkk Only if you eat there

@jesperbkk Very worrying

Iceland's crash in 2009 made McDonalds close all restaurants. This is the last burger meal they sold, which is on display still. What do you notice here, except that bacteria also doesn't want to eat it?

@chefsevenn It's not really Chinese food.some western misrepresentation

Do you like Chinese food or is it overrated? 🤔

@Eddystone506 No. It's driven by ever more delusional and poorly costed legislation that, of course, never addresses the structural issues facing the nation.

Never in its history has the UK had 7 prime ministers in 10 years. This instability is 100% due to Brexit.