Darragh

Heart Of Midlothian 🇱🇻

[bug girl @buggirl]

in nature if a monkey hoarded 1 trillion bananas the other monkeys would beat that monkey to death and take his bananas

[Will Manidis @WillManidis]

we live in age of great moral panics about things that don’t matter and zero moral outrage over some of the most egregious societal sins we’ve ever seen

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

A Chinese robot wearing a clown wig kicked a child in the stomach.

[ً @wynrosei]

Do you realize how badly you have to treat a mammal to stop it from reproducing?

[Josh Hunt @iAmJoshHunt]

"UK risks 'lost generation.'"

Risks… present tense.

As if it's still out there in the distance, something we could still avoid.

I hate to break it to people, but it isn't coming. It arrived in 2008 and never left.

The cohort that hit working age during the crash is pushing 40 now. They have watched real wages do precisely nothing for 17 years, the longest pay squeeze since the Napoleonic Wars.

Then the next lot showed up. Same deal, but at this point we’d accepted it as just the way things are. And the next, facing the same thing.

Here are the numbers…

- 957,000 people aged 16 to 24 were NEET at the end of 2025. The last time it brushed a million was 2011, in the long hangover from the same crisis.

- 57% of them aren’t even looking for work. Not unemployed. Disengaged from the labour market altogether.

- Productivity growth has fallen from 2.2% a year before the crash to 0.4% after it. The economy simply stopped getting better at anything.

- The typical household is roughly £11,000 a year poorer than the pre-2008 trend implied, and we have quietly slipped four grand a year behind Germany, having started level.

So no. This is not a risk. It is a settled outcome, three cohorts deep and counting, to which Whitehall has responded by launching an investigation into why a generation stopped looking for work. I wonder how many millions that’ll cost.

You can’t lose a generation you’ve already lost. But you can keep finding fresh ones to do it to.

[ruva🌼 @ruviexo]

And it’s made no difference to any of our lives so it’s almost like immigration was never the problem?

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

We are at this stage of capitalism.

[Stuart Kenny @StuartKenny]

the fairytale story of the team who have won 13 out of the last 14 titles trying to win another title (despite having a bad manager for 30 days)

[Freddie New @freddienew]

Reminder - this is how civilisations typically collapse.

There's usually no dramatic 'fall of Rome' or cataclysmic event.

Just a slow grind downwards as you gradually notice potholes aren't filled in, roads collapse and are washed away, you can never see a doctor or a dentist and eventually muddle on with a missing tooth or held together with painkillers and tubigrips...

Where casual petty theft becomes normalised and is unpunished, and everything goes up and in price (except your wages, so you can't keep up). Where an asset-owning elite is largely immune to all this, but gradually retreats behind walls, gates and private security.

Next step might be rolling blackouts, which you'll get used to as well, as your children do their homework by paraffin lamps and candlelight.

And you suddenly realise quite how far we have fallen.

[Kyle Kushblasta @SkinnyTuna]

there are really people who wake up every day, get dicked all the way down to the prostate by the government, and say to themselves “this is because of immigrants” and mean it

[Nora Loreto @NoLore]

There's a reason why we are getting "what consumers can do" stories and not "what the government can do" -- to take the focus off the massive profits that corporations are making off this moment.

[Anon Opin. @anon_opin]

More wealth is currently held by the top 1% of society than at any point in history. That includes the French revolution where the poor revolted and murdered the hoarding 'elites'. Is this the reason most of us can't afford to live? No, it's the migrants obviously.

[Hasan 👁‍🗨 @flackospalace]

The working class has all the power and it’s time people finally realize that

[Jackson @Jacksonsrule]

Billionaires don’t have bank accounts like you and me. They have art collections,Yachts,Mansions,Stocks. None of it gets taxed until they sell it. So they just never sell it. They borrow against it instead. Live off the loans. Pay almost nothing. Then when they die, their kids inherit it all tax-free. The wealth never gets taxed, It just gets passed down.
And we wonder why the gap keeps getting wider.

[Huey @HAv2RtrnVdeoTps]

Charging people for the air they breathe? Interesting!

[LindyMan @PaulSkallas]

People are beginning to notice stuck culture

[D @_Unknown_D_]

I don't think anyone under the age of 35 should factor the state pension in to their retirement planning. Best to assume it won't exist.

[Anti-Senpai𒉭⛓️🪚👨 @RockMuncher67]

Voting has generated 0 dollars for the proletariat

Shooting people has generated 1.5 million dollars for the proletariat

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Let me explain exactly why every new subdivision in America looks like the top photo, because the math is wild.

A mature tree increases a home's value by 7 to 19 percent. On a $400,000 house, that's $28,000 to $76,000. A single shade tree produces the cooling equivalent of ten room-size air conditioners running 20 hours a day. One tree on the west side of a house cuts energy bills by 12 percent within 15 years. The bottom photo is worth more, costs less to live in, and sells faster. This has been documented by the University of Washington, Clemson, Michigan State, and the USDA. The data is not in dispute.

Removing those trees saves the builder roughly $5,000 per lot. Concrete trucks need twice the dripline radius of every standing tree. Utility trenches need flat ground. A bulldozer flattens 200 lots in an afternoon. Preserving trees adds weeks and thousands per home.

So the developer pockets $5,000 in savings and the buyer eats $50,000 in lost value for the next two decades. The person making the decision and the person paying for it have never been in the same room.

The Woodlands, Texas is the proof of what happens when they are. George Mitchell bought 28,000 acres of Houston timberland in 1974 and preserved 28% as permanent green space. He forced McDonald's to build behind the tree canopy. That McDonald's became one of the highest-volume locations in Texas. The first office building, designed to reflect the surrounding forest so you couldn't see it from the street, leased completely.

The Woodlands median home price today: $615,000. Katy, a comparable Houston suburb that clear-cut: $375,000. Named #1 community to live in America two years running.

Fifty years of data. The trees are worth more than removing them saves. Developers clear-cut anyway because they sell the house once and leave. You live in it for 30 years.

[Auguste Prompt @augusteprompt]

No one under 50 is getting a pension. I hope you all know that.