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PhD student. #thfc She/her

[Áine @1066Anna]

@mir_ocall Actually, I'm not seeing it on their website 😬. I'd still recommend M&S for good value perfumes though!

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

i’ve been fighting the far right for a decade plus. i never would’ve imagined a labor govt would ban me from entering the uk. dark times ahead for the west. liberalism is dead, maga fascism and it’s corrosive influence is felt everywhere.

[Áine @1066Anna]

@River7Botherer @MatthewStadlen I know, but unfortunately those ignorant hateful idiots include the president of the US, the PM of Israel and the chief rabbi of the UK.

[Áine @1066Anna]

@spaceghost Someone said recently that Gen Zs seem to be becoming more obsessed and hostile to aging as getting older is no longer as strongly correlated to financial stability. I'm a 34yo millennial and definitely take your approach to aging but I empathise with their anxiety.

[Markos Mom @Markos_mom]

The Station Nightclub fire happened in 2003. No smartphones. No Instagram.

100 people still died because they stood watching the flames, thinking it was part of the show.

I've retrofitted fire safety for some of the largest property portfolios in the UK post-grenfell.

You are confusing stupidity with biology, physics, and catastrophic design failures.

Here is the actual science of what you are watching:

1. When the music keeps playing and staff don't panic, the human brain overrides flight instincts to fit the threat into a normal context. This is called normalcy bias. These kids froze to process conflicting social cues, not to post for likes. They were likely already filming. They were also likely drunk.

2. We explicitly design buildings to account for this hesitation (pre-movement time). Fire safety codes assume people will wait before running. In a compliant building, you can assume up to a minute or two before egress commences. Sprinklers and detection systems are designed specifically to buy that time.

3. The reason the time buffer didn't exist here is the material. That ceiling is polyurethane foam. It doesn't burn linearly; it hits flashover (1,100°F) in under 90 seconds. It's essentially solid gasoline. The room would have exploded for all intents and purposes. Way before anyone could reasonably evacuate.

4. We calculate exit widths based on how many people can physically pass through a door per minute (flow rate) versus how fast a fire spreads. With foam fires, the available safe egress time drops to almost zero. Even if they had reacted instantly, the crowd density would have choked the exits before the room cleared.

5. In any normal building fire, especially one that starts off small, you expect a responsible adult to put it out, or sprinklers to do the same. When there's a pan fire in a restaurant, you don't run out in case the entire building suddenly explodes. No reasonable person should have expected this unless they were the owner and knew how the building was designed.

Those poor teenagers likely passed out from smoke inhalation soon after this video. If they didn't, they would have been caught in a catastrophic explosion as they crammed into the single tiny exit.

They didn't die because of Instagram.

They died because the physics of the fire moved faster than human bodies can physically squeeze through a door, and a catastrophic disregard of safe design principles meant they never stood a chance.

[matt bernstein @mattxiv]

the feminist magazine cover to voting for a renowned sexual predator pipeline… liberal zionism is a scourge on the earth

[The Cork Coypu @CorkCoypu]

Poor Patricia Routledge kicked the bouquet.

Rip

#patriciaroutledge

[matt bernstein @mattxiv]

there it is.

[Roberto DiNero™ @2022Hewson]

@muntazer_zaidi I don’t support what happened to Charlie Kirk, but Charlie Kirk supported what happened to Charlie Kirk

[Áine @1066Anna]

@acchris101 Absolutely! We should all, rightly, strive for equity and disability access everywhere but, as someone who works with the public, a dickhead is still a dickhead!

[Áine @1066Anna]

@postoctobrist I'm visiting London at the end of September and I'm staying on Brick Lane, so I'll be low-key keeping an eye out for you anytime I'm walking around!

[Áine @1066Anna]

@InfantaRaquel I still haven't seen it but I want to! Yours is a good vote of confidence!

[Ennui Go @Dragkonias]

I believe that the fixation on the idea that people who do evil will face divine punishment is a way to placate the masses and keep them from taking matters into their own hands.

[Áine @1066Anna]

@nikicaga @Megsplains I'm going to Paris in September and I'm most looking forward to the very fancy macarons and the very unfancy Vietnamese food.

Some people were born without taste buds and see that deficit as a personality trait!

[Ruqaiya @ruqaiya_h]

They want us to believe Gary Linekar and the guy from Kneecap are terrorists while we are watching a genocide unfold before our very eyes, live-streamed in 4k

[Áine @1066Anna]

@AyoCaesar Same, didn't think I would but had a little weep too! COYS!

[No Context Brits @NoContextBrits]

“What is the charge? Winning a trophy? A succulent European trophy?”

[Tottenham Hotspur @Spurs_ES]

Segunda temporada. Lo dijo y cumplió.