Billy Toon

[Billy Toon @BillyToon11]

@hoteldweller @Alexandr4Denman @z_chrissie That’s a very good point, they’re not going to kill their own cash cow.

[Darshak Rana ⚡️ @thedarshakrana]

A houseplant just changed everything we thought we knew about consciousness.

In 1966, Cleve Backster, a CIA interrogation specialist with a polygraph machine, was looking for ways to time how long it took different substances to travel up through plant tissue.

So, he attached electrodes to a dracaena plant in his office and watered it, expecting to see the electrical conductivity change as water moved up the stem.

Instead, the polygraph needle started tracing the exact pattern it makes when a human experiences an emotional response.

Backster stared at the readout. Plants don't have nervous systems. They don't have brains. The signal made no biological sense. So he decided to test something that made even less sense. He walked across the room, looked at the plant, and thought about burning one of its leaves with a match.

The instant the thought formed in his mind, before he moved toward the plant, before he struck a match, before he did anything physical, the polygraph exploded into frantic activity.

The plant was responding to his intention.

What happened next launched thousands of experiments and split the scientific community for decades.

Backster discovered that plants reacted to direct threats and to threats against other living things in their environment. When he dropped live brine shrimp into boiling water in another room, plants throughout the building registered distress responses at the exact moment of death. Distance didn't matter. Shielding the plants in lead containers didn't matter. The response was instantaneous and consistent.

Mainstream botanists dismissed the findings immediately. Plants process information through chemical signals and growth responses, without electrical consciousness. Any electrical activity was just random fluctuation or experimental error. The peer review system buried Backster's work. His credentials were questioned. His methods were called sloppy.

But the experiments kept working. Other researchers, following Backster's protocols, got the same results. Plants hooked to EEG machines showed brain wave patterns. They responded to music, to human emotions, to the intentions of people they had never been exposed to before. The electrical signatures were clear, measurable, and repeatable.

The implications were so uncomfortable that most of academic science simply refused to engage. If plants were somehow conscious, if they could sense intentions and respond to the emotional states of humans and other living things, consciousness was spread beyond brains. It was distributed across organized living systems rather than produced by neural networks.

Backster stumbled onto evidence that living systems might be constantly communicating through channels we don't have instruments to measure yet. The polygraph was crude enough to detect the electrical signatures of that communication without being sophisticated enough to explain them away.

Quantum biologists now suspect that living cells operate through quantum coherence processes that classical biology can't account for. Birds navigate using quantum entanglement in their visual systems. Plants conduct photosynthesis using quantum superposition to find the most efficient energy pathways. Maybe Backster's plants were demonstrating quantum consciousness, responding to information that was quantum entangled with the intentions and emotional states of nearby living systems.

What keeps most people awake when they learn about this work is realizing that if consciousness extends beyond brains, every living thing around you is potentially aware of your mental and emotional state in ways you never considered. The plant in your room. The bacteria in your gut. The ecosystem you walk through.

You think your thoughts are private.

The plants have been listening the entire time.

[Billy Toon @BillyToon11]

@hothingsgirlsay Slightly off topic, but what’s happened to the lining on your car roof?

[MJ Murphy @hothingsgirlsay]

I would like to formally request a split-screen of soap cutting, pressure washing, and a rug cleaning video to calm this down.

[WeRateDogs @dog_rates]

This is Penny. She found the perfect stick today and is determined to retrieve it. Hasn’t moved an inch so far, but her human didn't raise a quitter. 13/10

[Mia Hughes @_CryMiaRiver]

The UK’s puberty blocker trial is a textbook example of what Dr. Harriet Hall called Tooth Fairy Science: research conducted on a phenomenon without ever questioning whether the phenomenon exists.

Hall explained that researchers could collect data that are reproducible and statistically significant on how much money the Tooth Fairy leaves, which coins she prefers, whether she pays more for molars, or when the child leaves a note — but without asking whether the Tooth Fairy exists, the entire endeavour is meaningless.

Over the next three years and beyond, the NHS will medicalise “trans kids” and meticulously gather data on bone density, the psychological effects of puberty suppression, and body-image satisfaction.

But all the results will be meaningless because they’re studying something that doesn’t exist.

Ethical research would begin at the same place, with the young person’s adoption of a transgender identity and the diagnosis of “gender incongruence,” but it would travel in the opposite direction.

Instead of accepting a culturally-influenced identity as a condition in need of medical treatment, meaningful research would investigate what ordinary developmental struggles are being misread by so many young people growing up in this era saturated with the messaging of trans activism.

It would investigate which cultural messages are disrupting identity formation and distorting the adolescent’s sense of self, driving the widespread adoption of this fashionable identity.

Studying "trans kids" and "children with gender incongruence" is as pointless as studying the Tooth Fairy.

[Stellar_Fox @StellarFox16]

“Forcing fluid adult concepts onto a preschooler’s brain causes severe psychological confusion and distress”

Literal child brain development is being sidelined.

[Masih Alinejad 🏳️ @AlinejadMasih]

I asked American students why they don’t protest when women are whipped and shot in Iran and Afghanistan.

The answers expose a contradiction nobody wants to talk about.

We must change the narrative so the younger generation stops lending cover to Hamas, Hezbollah, Taliban and the Islamic Republic. That's why I choose to travel and speak to students face-to-face. I listen first, without judgment. Then I share what it means to live under Sharia law not as an abstraction, but as a lived reality.

Truth is not a phobia. Calling out the whipping of women is not hate. Staying silent about it is.

[行者无疆 @foolspirit1981]

这才是给猫洗澡的正确打开方式👍👍👍学会了吗？

[MJ Murphy @hothingsgirlsay]

The 5 most Dangerous Phrases in Politics

[Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 @TRobinsonNewEra]

Nailed it!!!

#KeirStarmerIsAWanker

[WeRateDogs @dog_rates]

Here are the top 5 dogs of the week!

[Kerry Burgess @KerryBurgess]

Government propaganda about brown people has worked so well that the Brits will sign up to literally anything.

[Brett Hall @ToKTeacher]

Strange case of “whataboutism” -

[Laura Richards BSc MSc MBPsS @thecrimeanalyst]

This is so disturbing and egregious. Judge Rowland said victim L was lying and that ‘if a knife was used, it was ONLY to cut her leggings.’ Excuse me? Most r@pe victims don’t know if they will survive the attack and here he is downplaying and minimizing extremely serious behaviour - behaviour that was replicated in a prior offence. I won’t stop talking about this. Don’t be silent. You shouldn’t be either. Use your voice. Take action NOW:

🎧 LISTEN to Ep 345 Analyzing Judge Nicholas Rowland’s Sentencing Remarks in the Serial Gang R@pists Case in the UK on Crime Analyst wherever you get your podcasts:
https://t.co/Dbb1o7cbbD

✍️ SIGN the petition. ACCOUNTABILITY matters: https://t.co/5T1GuqJRKI

✍️ WRITE to your MP, Justice Secretary David Lammy, PM Keir Starmer and AG Richard Hermer. Template letters:
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#accountability #misogyny #CrimeAnalyst #TrueCrime #Hampshire @laurarichards99

[Nate Friedman @NateFriedman97]

Stop what you're doing, and watch this. I exposed the islamic takeover of Birmingham and it's much more insane than you can imagine.

"So you think everyone who cheats in the UK should be killed?"

"They shouldn't cheat."

They want sharia law and reveal their plan to me on how they intend to implement it. I went into the mosque where they teach sharia lectures including how to stone your wife to death and tax funded field trips from public schools are sent to this mosque, more than 40 in fact. This is part of a much larger report that is released on my YouTube.

[Genspect @genspect]

500 women a year under the age of 25 getting medically unnecessary bilateral mastectomies on the NHS — in the absence of a diagnosis and without any scientific justification — is a scandal.

1,000 vaginoplasties, hormones dished out to adults after just two appointments, and even phalloplasties are now being offered.

This is not ethical medicine, for anyone, of any age.

This week’s guest on Beyond Gender, Dr. Louise Irvine of @canSG_org, calls for everyone to “start questioning and challenging this.”

[Maya Forstater @MForstater]

. @CepaIsabella 's case is shocking.

She was granted asylum in Europe while facing prosecution for misgendering in Brazil.

She won (hence the smiles) and was able to go home finally.

[Exulansic @TTExulansic]

Lucifer's phallus split open. Her overactive bladder caused a fistula so she's back on Cathy the Catheter.

[Jack Montgomery @JackBMontgomery]

@PolitlcsUK "Adults can still access social media through age checks like facial recognition, digital IDs, passports and credit cards" — So eliminating the right to anonymity/privacy online is the true objective, got it 👍🏻