Benjamin something

Fan of the common ground

[Benjamin something @BenjaminLMNOP]

I naturally left Italy with a host of criticisms and recommendations. Too many churches, not enough madrasas. (satire) https://t.co/XgIaKtiZ0t

[Eylon Levy @EylonALevy]

The United Nations is waging disinformation warfare against Israel, then exposing itself in the footnotes.

@Unicef reported acute malnutrition among children in Gaza is even LOWER than it was before the war, and far lower than Egypt or Jordan.

The "Gaza Famine" was a hoax.

[UN Watch @UNWatch]

Congratulations to the Eritrea regime on being appointed Chair of the U.N. Human Rights Council's 2026 Social Forum.

Eritrea's credentials:
🇪🇷 No elections
🇪🇷 Rape and torture
🇪🇷 Forced labor and slavery
🇪🇷 Jails critics and journalists
🇪🇷 Known as “the North Korea of Africa”

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

BREAKING: Abdul El-Sayed has won the Michigan Senate Democratic primary, the AP reports.

When a Hezbollah-inspired terrorist attempted to bomb 140 Jewish preschoolers in Michigan, El-Sayed said it was a “risk” for him to condemn it and that the terrorist acted out of hurt.

Now, he’s one step closer to representing those preschoolers in the Senate.

[Benjamin something @BenjaminLMNOP]

I don’t understand how the Guardian has survived so long being so brain dead.

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

Translation: “it’s the people noticing and talking about the bad thing that are the problem!

If they keep noticing and talking about it, it will happen again!"

🤡

[Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan]

Her argument collapses on contact. Desperate to find SOMETHING to apologise for despite its role in the forefront of the abolitionist movement, the Church of England discovered that for part of the eighteenth century, a sum set aside for poor clergymen and known as Queen Anne’s Bounty had been invested in the South Sea Company, which was involved in shipping enslaved people.
The investment was made by accountants acting on behalf of the church, almost certainly without instruction. Its vicars were, at the time, demanding abolition from the pulpit; its bishops were voting for it in the Lords; its congregants were raising money for anti-slavery campaigns; its missionaries were touring Africa trying to persuade local chiefs to manumit their slaves.
None of that matters, though, because, across the period when the shares were held, they lost money. The Church of England’s profit from the South Sea Company? Zero.

[Benjamin something @BenjaminLMNOP]

This point cannot be made enough.

[Magatte Wade @magattew]

Socialism and Marxism are colonialism too.

I know that sounds strange to people who were taught the opposite, but think about it. 

Marx was not African. That ideology came to us from outside, dressed in the language of liberation.

It spoke against colonialism, then gave the post-colonial state even more control.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

As it’s my birthday, I’ve taken it easy today: only three penises and just the two vulvas. Apologies to those waiting. Normal service will resume tomorrow. No need to keep everything exposed while queuing.

[Benjamin something @BenjaminLMNOP]

@AlbertinGlasgow Must be the far right

[Benjamin something @BenjaminLMNOP]

@Flat_Bertha Thank you so much 🙏

[Benjamin something @BenjaminLMNOP]

@andrewdoyle_com Assigned furry at birth

[Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 @jkenney]

Quite the chutzpah for Turkey to open this kettle of fish.

If Turkey is now committed to "decolonization," does that mean they will give back the lands taken from the many ethnic and religious minorities who have been victims of Ottoman & Turkish imperialism?

Will the Armenians have their ancient lands restored to them, or receive reparations for the genocide inflicted on them in 1915?

The Kurds given the right of self-determination?

The ancient Greek regions returned?

Will the 1974 Turkish invasion and occupation of Northern Cyprus be reversed?

Will the descendants of Jewish families who fled Kemalist policies of forced assimilation be given compensation?

Will the Hagia Sophia be returned the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate, from whom it was stolen?

Will there be a truth & reconciliation project recognizing the millions of slaves taken & trafficked by the Ottoman Empire, particularly the countless boys kidnapped from Balkan Christian families for forced military service?

Will compensation be given to Christians for the hundred of Churches and monasteries destroyed?

The possibilities for Turkish decolonization are endless.

[Benjamin something @BenjaminLMNOP]

@JDHaltigan @BBCNews One of the most disturbing things I’ve seen online—and confirms I was right to cancel my BBC licence. What a horror show.

[Benjamin something @BenjaminLMNOP]

@gumptionology Nice piece, huge respect to you for all you have managed to produce, and thank you so much for the mention!

[Benjamin something @BenjaminLMNOP]

I spent 18 months pitching to fiction agents and can confirm it’s this bad, even when the “don’t takes” are less explicit. There’s also the requirement that only “marginalised” writers can imagine the minds of “marginalised” characters.

[Marc Wheeler @mcwheeler]

I can’t imagine dealing with an agent or publisher with lists like this. It makes me want to write a novel featuring every freaking thing on here. 😂

[Justine Bateman @JustineBateman]

- First comedy and satire was targeted. The elements that keep a society largely in check.
- Next was masculinity. Men were shamed as “toxic” for being manly.
- Then it was women who complain, and they were labeled “Karens.”

So if appropriate mockery is out, the most ridiculous concepts actually see the light of day.
If men aren’t permitted to defend what they know they should, the most harmful and dangerous concepts see the light of day.
And when older women are shamed for speak against what they see as wrong, the most outrageous behavior sees the light of day.
Comedy, satire, mockery, masculinity, and female wisdom. Restore it all now.

[Justine Bateman @JustineBateman]

These people are ridiculous.
They have lost all tethers to a sense of self. Their entire identity now relies on this treasonous hate of America. They make up fantasies of how horrible America never was to justify their need to "fight tyranny." They have no identity but this. And they cling to it with a death grip, because they have nothing else.
None of it is true. Not the fantasy about America about which she is shrieking, not her identity of believing herself to be some "hero" in a movie about an oppressive government, and not the resulting congress-free, senate-free, President-free, childish (and completely chaotic) future she sees for this country.
She is an infant.
She and others like her will not get their way. Not even close. If you have a modicum of common sense, it's time to let your line in the sand about tolerance be made known.
Myself, I have a limit to tolerance.
I have a limit to patience.
I know there is a limit to free speech.
If your plan is to tear down the United States of America, if your plan is treason, I will not tolerate you, I will have zero patience for you, and I will not defend your right to free speech.
@FBI @FBIDirectorKash

[Hussain Abdul-Hussain @hahussain]

And Gaza is a British Labour issue exactly why?
Why not Syria’s Suweyda or Rojava? Why not the 30k Iranians gunned down in the streets in January?

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

Alpine glaciers were ice-free 6,000 years ago, long before industrial CO2. Known as the Holocene Thermal Maximum, the period was far warmer than today.

Then, during the Little Ice Age, 1300 to 1850, glaciers advanced dramatically. Villages, farmland, even churches were swallowed by ice.

The glaciers' retreat since 1850 simply marks a return to pre-Little Ice Age conditions, nothing more.

The biggest driver of glacier melt is sunlight. Direct solar radiation causes sublimation - ice turning straight to vapor. And sunshine has been increasing worldwide as cloud cover has declined.

Satellite data confirm more incoming solar energy reaching Earth's surface over the last few decades.

This extra sunlight has resulted in modest melt in the Alps and elsewhere, while also boosting crop growth and photosynthesis.

The real warning sign wouldn't be retreat. It would be sudden advance. Glaciers growing again would mean colder, harsher conditions returning. And history shows that's when life suffers most.

[Benjamin something @BenjaminLMNOP]

@ShutupLyle Omg the vocal fry 😳