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[Morgan Barrett @MorganBarrettX]

Jeremy Clarkson’s Farm show on Amazon is the most radicalizing piece of mainstream media I’ve ever seen

Just one example (bear with me):

Badgers became a protected species in Britain 40+ years ago.

The population has exploded and now frequently transmits tuberculosis to cows

But farmers can’t cull the badger population to protect their cattle because the government still considers them to be endangered

Instead of addressing the root cause, the UK has the most batshit testing regime for cattle

There’s no TB vaccine. So the cattle have to get tested. The vets administering the test have to measure welts on the cows neck. Whether a cow lives or dies comes down to a vet trying to discern 1mm on a caliper (reactive vs non reactive).

If a cow tests positive, the farm (already running on super thin margins) is quarantined and starts hemorrhaging money.

Jeremy Clarkson’s cow (pregnant with twins) has an inconclusive test so it’s separated from the herd. It receives a second inconclusive test so they have to kill it (before it can give birth to the twins).

Now here’s the kicker: the autopsy reveals no sign of TB. It was a healthy cow needlessly killed

So - silver lining the farm should be removed from quarantine, right? WRONG - it’s still under quarantine and has to keep testing and can’t sell its beef

Kafkaesque doesn’t even begin to describe how f’d up it is for British farmers

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Inconvenient truths. He points out the harsh reality about the enormous scale of materials (and horrendous environmental impact) required for net zero.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

“I have a brilliant plan for GB Energy. We are surrounded by natural energy resources, but let’s ignore that and buy £40 billion of oil and gas from Norway, which comes from the same sea that we share with them. Let’s spend £11.6 billion on overseas climate aid. Let’s pay wind power companies millions of pounds to turn the wind turbines off. Let’s spaff away £30bn on carbon capture machines. Let’s ban gas boilers and put in heat pumps. Let’s end new coal mining licenses and spend millions of pounds for foreign coal to keep Britain's last steel plant running. Let’s plaster solar panels on farmland, but also spend £50 million on sun dimming experiments. We will do this in a country that has the fifth least annual sunlight hours. And we will end up with the most expensive industrial electricity prices in the developed world.“

[Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11]

You can tell a lot about a person by how they react when someone dies.

[Everyday Astronaut @Erdayastronaut]

If you showed me this video 5 years ago, you couldn't convince me it was real, let alone a shot our team could capture. So proud of the Everyday Astronaut / @considercosmos team for continuing to up our game every launch to capture these historic moments @SpaceX @elonmusk

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The tower has caught the rocket!!

[carl 🥦 @NightlifeMingus]

nothing quite like pulling up a heavy hitter on wikipedia, WWII or The Renaissance or China, and just tucking in for the long haul

[magnus 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇦🇷 @mvgnus_]

anyone slagging a tennents would be all over one if it was called san tennentino with a picture of some daft italian shepherd on it

[Ben Phillips @benphillips76]

I clicked sort by age. There are 6 pages of these before you get to the one year olds.

[Goggsy 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @GoggsyNineNine]

This isn't a post I'd ever thought I'd make, but my dad Andy Bonnes has gone missing. If anyone sees him please get in touch me, or the police.
He doesn't have his phone and was last seen at 9am on Tuesday. I hope social media can rally together and find him and get him home safe

[neural net guesses memes @ResNeXtGuesser]

Image prediction: ping-pong ball
Confidence: 100.0%

[Eddie Hearn @EddieHearn]

Amazing! 🔥

[Police Scotland Fife @PSOSFife]

We are appealing for help tracing Paul Johnston, 74, #missing in St Andrews.

Around 5ft 9in tall, slim build with grey hair. Last known wearing a blue rain jacket and light coloured walking trousers.

Any info - call 101, quoting inc 0266 of 16 Sept.

[wee caits @ccaitstewart]

ITS BEEN 33 HOURS SINCE MY GRANDAD LEFT OUR HOUSE IN ST ANDREWS AND WAS LAST SEEN. PLEASE SHARE AND HELP FIND HIM

[Josh Taylor @JoshTaylorBoxer]

U•N•D•I•S•P•U•T•E•D 👑 🌍 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[calumgm @Calmgm]

Vaccine passports are a kick in the teeth for young people https://t.co/GNEhKvUZfU via @spectator

[T✨ @sosedated__]

Ironic the royal family speaking gaeilge like they didn’t make it illegal for Irish people to speak their mother tongue and it’s now a dying language🥱🥱