David Collins

Carer. Doomer. Wobbly.

"I don't want to kill time. I want it to live." @underworldlive

Picture from danna § curious tangles on Flickr - see url below.

[David Collins @David_Collins_]

"... go slow, go local, rewild & reintegrate all human activities into our shared biosphere"
@sum_social

[Roger Gall @Shambles151]

[Andy] "Burnham declined to describe the catastrophe on the ground in Gaza as a genocide."

Please RT this -until the man who expects to be PM - no longer declines to describe the IDF's crimes in Palestine & Lebanon as a GENOCIDE.

Thank you.

[Middle Eastern Affairs @OpsHQs]

Brazilian legend Ronaldo Nazário drops a bombshell:

'What is happening in Gaza is not a war... it is a systematic extermination of a people trapped in a cage.'
'The silence of the world is frightening... and staying silent about this brutality is a moral failure.'
'I will not be silent... I will never be silent. I stand with Gaza.' 🔥🇧🇷🇵🇸"

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

I think one of the healthiest things a person can do is become easy to delight. To still stop for weird clouds and dogs wearing bandanas and the smell of garlic cooking somewhere down the street. The world already has enough cynicism. Be the person who still points at the moon.

[Tamer Nahed @Tamer_Alnoaizy]

I don’t even know if the world is still listening to us anymore…

But right now in Gaza, diabetic patients are injecting themselves with insulin pens that expired more than a month ago. They know full well that the medicine is expired. They understand the risks, yet they have no other choice. They take their doses with trembling hands, hoping it will help them survive another day.

Every day, the health crisis collapses further. Medicines are disappearing, medical supplies are running out, and hospitals are struggling to function. For countless patients, treatment is no longer guaranteed it has become a daily uncertainty.

Cancer patients endure unbearable pain as treatments and painkillers become scarce. Kidney patients fear missing the dialysis sessions that keep them alive. War wounded civilians continue suffering from injuries that cannot properly heal because the healthcare system is on the verge of collapse.

If medicine is not allowed to enter immediately and this suffocating siege continues, Gaza may witness one of the largest silent mass deaths in its history. Not death caused directly by bombs, but death caused by deprivation, neglect, and the denial of basic medical care.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

BREAKING - A Swiss Tribunal recognises the legitimate right to peacefully oppose the ongoing genocide in Palestine.

One again: justice for Palestine starts at home. It only takes people caring and applying Intl Law. And persevering.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Libraries: free.
AI: subscription.

Libraries: written by humans with expertise.
AI: trained on whatever was on the internet.

Libraries: staffed by professionals.
AI: confidently wrong.

Go to the library.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Dr. Muhammad Mashali, lovingly known across Egypt as “The Doctor of the Poor,” never owned a car or a cellphone. He lived without luxury, but spent over 50 years quietly healing thousands of lives.

Every day, he walked the streets of Tanta in Egypt’s Nile Delta to his modest clinic, where patients, rich or poor, were always welcome. Many paid nothing. Some days he treated 40 to 50 people, often covering the cost of their medicine himself.

After graduating with honors in 1967, he made a solemn vow: he would never turn away anyone who couldn’t afford treatment, a promise inspired by watching his father sacrifice everything for his education.

“My reward is not money,” he once said, “it’s the smile of someone whose suffering has ended.”

When a wealthy businessman once gifted him $20,000, a car, and an apartment, Dr. Mashali sold it all and used every penny to buy medical equipment for his patients.

He treated everyone with equal dignity, regardless of religion, status, or background. For more than ten hours a day, he offered not just medicine, but compassion and hope.

Dr. Muhammad Mashali passed away in 2020 at the age of 76, leaving behind no wealth, no grand possessions, only a profound legacy of kindness.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Polite reminder. Trump & Brexit are not 2 different things. They are the same thing. Same companies. Same data. Same Facebook. Same Russians. Same Cambridge Analytica. Same Robert Mercer. Same Steve Bannon. Same Breitbart. Same Alexander Nix. Same Donald Trump. Same Nigel Farage.

[JmRoyle #LFC #YNWA #BLM #RejoinEU @MyArrse]

Swiss court shames UK by refusing to criminalise anti-genocide protest
A court in Geneva has ruled that peaceful opposition to Israel’s genocide in Gaza is a legitimate right in a landmark decision and that nothing justifies sanctioning peaceful activists.
https://t.co/lBxwMUeRui

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is so insanely corrupt, I can’t even believe it.

More than half the donors to Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months.

And here’s the part that should make your blood boil.

Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. Many of those cases have been quietly dropped or scaled back since Trump took office. You write a check, your legal problems disappear. That’s not a coincidence.

The White House won’t even release the full donor list. They’re hiding it on purpose, because daylight is the one thing pay-to-play can’t survive. A federal judge already ruled ballroom construction has to stop until Congress authorizes it.

Government is supposed to serve the people, not auction itself off to the highest bidder. When access goes to whoever pays the most, working families always end up paying the price.

We either end the corruption, or the corruption will end us.

https://t.co/4MGFzSseFl

[Filthy Commie 🚩🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @chriscom77]

So sick of hearing the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians described as a ‘war’.

A war requires statehood, standing armies,the ability to defend yourself.

A nuclear power armed to the teeth with US military hardware slaughtering civilians in an open air prison is not a war.

[Sana Saeed @SanaSaeed]

Remember how everyone rushed to use his photo, of his walking toward an IDF tank to advocate for the lives of his patients? Rushed to plaster it everywhere, rushed to make AI edits, art, whatever. That was in December 2024.

How often is he mentioned today? He is alive, he is being tortured and slowly killed - he, alongside every Palestinian hostage, must be freed.

[EuropeanPowell @EuropeanPowell]

Data centres use PFAS, "forever chemicals", in cooling systems and fire suppression. In 2024, the EPA determined there is no safe level of exposure to PFAS. Some are classified as carcinogenic by the WHO. They are linked to kidney and testicular cancers, thyroid disease, immune disruption. They do not break down. There is no specific PFAS standard in UK Water Quality Regulations. Operators are not required to register with a regulator. There is no mandatory water use reporting for data centres

[Harriet Williamson @harriepw]

BREAKING: Four Palestine Action activists found guilty of criminal damage are applying to remove the judge in their case on the grounds of bias. Mr Justice Jeremy Johnson is expected to sentence them as terrorists – despite being convicted of an ordinary criminal offence – in a move kept secret from the jury

[Jason | 🇬🇧 🇿🇦 🇮🇱🇺🇲 @Ajaon_of_All]

Let me categorically Debunk this utter rot. @sainsburys.

I am a poultry Breeder. The hens that lay white eggs (Amberline/White Star) DO NOT have a lower carbon footprint.

Yes they eat a bit less and produce roughly the same amount of eggs as the Brown egg layers (Bovan/Lowman/ISA Brown) but they live shorter lives, are prone to dying suddenly when startled, a flighty and nervous and because they live shorter productive lives (12 -18mnths) vs brown 18/24mnths (both commercial farmed), you have to incubate more which is increased (Electricity/gas costs) and their eggs are not the same quality.

I breed and keep 20+ different breeds, including: ISA Brown hens and White Stars. All my hens are 100% free range, Not a single barn kept bird, I have ISA browns that are 5yrs old and still laying beautiful Brown eggs, I have not seen a White star live beyond 3yrs and certainly none have laid eggs past 18-24mnths.
White stars Lay themselves to death. They are slender birds and because they dont eat a lot, it drains their personal vitality to keep up laying the eggs you want to sell because of the nonsensical lie that they are "More Carbon Neutral"

You want to know about eggs, come talk to someone like me, Don't rely on some hairbrained imagination of a buyer who's trying to squeeze the profit margin for a few extra pennies at our expense and to the poor hens detriment.

[Cllr Tanisha Bramwell @tanishabramwell]

In Finland school meals are free for all children until the age of 16.

In Japan, only qualified nutritionists are allowed to prepare and serve school meals.

Meanwhile in the UK, we’re arguing about whether kids deserve to be fed at all.

FREE school meals for all children!

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

There's only 2 countries in the world with illegal unchecked Nuclear Weapons.

North Korea and Israel.

One of these countries has attacked 9 countries in the last 2 years and is committing a genocide.

It isn't North Korea.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Pro-Israel organisations now insist that not only must the perceptions, or feelings, of Jews about racism be accepted without question, and without the need for actual evidence, but that these same organisations must alone decide what constitutes racism towards the community.

The result is a massively expanded definition of antisemitism that, unsurprisingly, makes a priority of ring-fencing Israel from meaningful criticism.

This has been formally codified by a preposterously wordy definition from the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance that reduces antisemitism to a “perception” that “may be expressed as hatred toward Jews” – but equally, it seems, may not. Jew hatred can also, according to the IHRA, be directed to “non-Jewish individuals”.

The reason for this unnecessary convolution is clarified by a set of 11 potential “examples” of antisemitism offered by the IHRA – the majority of which relate to Israel. Antisemitism, defined in this way, may as often as not be expressed, not as hatred towards Jews, but as opposition to the actions of Israel, such as its current genocidal rampages in Gaza and south Lebanon.

Because “non-Jewish individuals” support Israel and its Jewish supremacist ideology of Zionism, the IHRA makes sure to enfold these individuals prominently in its definition.

All UK police forces, like the main political parties, have adopted the IHRA definition. Which presumably explains why the Met are currently investigating as an antisemitic incident a man being rude to actress Helen Mirren, who is not Jewish, over her support for Israel.

What the Israel lobby has managed to do so triumphantly is, first, wrongly associate a political outlook with an ethnic community – the false, indeed antisemitic, assumption that all Jews identify with Israel and its crimes – and then classify any kind of meaningful criticism of Israel as an attack on the Jewish community. As racial hatred.

This is the Macpherson Principle on steroids. It treats perceived Jewish feelings – a perception entirely confected by the Israel lobby – as proof of a hate crime.

The campaign to corrupt the definition of “race hate”, and thereby criminalise certain kinds of political speech about Israel, was honed by the political and media class during Jeremy Corbyn’s years leading the Labour party. Corbyn and the majority of Labour members who supported him were quickly vilified as antisemitic over their critical stance towards Israel.

Any attempt to push back, rejecting the idea that criticising Israel equates with Jew hatred, was, of course, cited as proof of antisemitism.

The left’s long-standing criticisms of Israel, particularly over its apartheid nature and brutal colonisation of Palestinian lands, have sounded ever more credible in the wake of Israel’s sustained genocidal assault on Gaza since late 2023.

Israel has killed many tens of thousands – possibly hundreds of thousands – of Palestinian civilians there, destroyed almost the entirety of the enclave’s homes, schools and hospitals, and starved the population.

When hundreds of thousands of Britons began regularly turning out to march against British complicity in the genocide, and students organised encampments on university campuses across the country, the logic was already firmly in place to condemn these protests as “antisemitic”.

Soon even anti-genocide chants – calling for Israel’s apartheid rule to end and urging global support for Palestinians as they struggled to liberate themselves – were denounced as hate crimes.

The Met has been visibly taking a leading role, along with the Labour government and rightwing parties, in steadily criminalising expressions of solidarity with Palestinians as they are annihilated with western munitions, intelligence and diplomatic support.

The police force now arrests people over anti-genocide chants, and is using a heavier and heavier hand to disappear the protests, from limiting their regularity to strictly circumscribing permitted march routes.

The direction of travel can be seen in the government classifying as a terrorism offence any support for efforts to stop Israeli factories in the UK from arming Israel’s genocide. Thousands of Britons, many elderly, have been arrested by the Met and other forces simply for holding up a placard.

This is an extract from my latest article UK policing culture – from the Nowak murder to crushing protest – grows ever more rotten. Find a link to the rest in the reply post ⬇️

[Save Our Citizenships 🔻 @LetsStopC9]

Children Were Kept In Outdoor Cages During Snowstorms

This is a clip from Stone Cold Justice, John Lyons’ investigation for Four Corners (ABC, 2014). It exposed Israel’s industrialised cruelty way before Oct 7th 2023.

At Ofer Military Prison, Palestinian children are dragged through hearings that last seconds. Shackled, silenced and convicted without being looked at.

Israel’s military courts brag about a 99.74% conviction rate. That’s not law, that’s a rigged machine. A conveyor belt designed to crush children until guilt becomes inevitable.

UNICEF called it systematic, institutionalised abuse: threats of death, beatings, isolation, sexual violence.

This is Israel’s legacy in full view: a state so afraid of Palestinian children it has to break them, then call it justice.

And the world still calls this a democracy.

[Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson]

I'm sorry, I didn't realize Israel had now escalated to the "quadruple tap" where they just keep killing and killing as people try desperately to help the wounded