Iain Higgins 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[The Fourth Musketeer @IV_Musketeer]

Smells a dead mouse from a mile away. Eats anthrax for breakfast. Prevents epidemics just by existing.

The turkey vulture — the most important bird nobody respects.

THE NOSE:

→ Best sense of smell of any bird on Earth
→ Can detect ethyl mercaptan (decomposition gas) from 1+ mile
→ Gas companies add the same chemical to natural gas lines
→ Turkey vultures have circled gas leaks — engineers follow them

THE STOMACH:

→ Stomach acid: pH ~1 (nearly pure hydrochloric acid)
→ Destroys anthrax, botulism, cholera, hog cholera
→ Eats diseased carcasses that would otherwise spread epidemics
→ Essentially a flying biohazard disposal unit

THE BALD HEAD:

→ No feathers = bacteria can't get trapped when eating carrion
→ UV sunlight sterilizes the bare skin
→ Same reason vultures sunbathe with wings spread (UV sterilization)

THE FLIGHT:

→ Soars for hours without flapping (uses thermals)
→ Distinctive "wobbly" flight with wings in shallow V
→ Can cover 200 miles per day searching for carrion

WITHOUT VULTURES:

→ In India, vulture populations crashed 99% due to a cattle drug
→ Result: rotting carcasses, feral dog explosion, rabies epidemic
→ Tens of thousands of human deaths attributed to vulture decline

Respect the cleanup crew.

You need them more than they need you.

[Dr Rahmeh Aladwan @doctor_rahmeh]

To make sure British citizens realise what's going on, Palantir can now:

• Build and run the National Firearms Registry, tracking the addresses and medical files of 500,000 gun and explosives holders across all 43 police forces.

• Map your digital footprint by trialling police systems (like Project Nectar) that pull your texts, call logs, emails, and social media data into a single profile.

• Track your physical movements by linking live number plate trackers, CCTV locations, and mobile phone tower pings.

• Process unverified intelligence by feeding anonymous tips and police notes about who you meet into automated linking models.

• Profile police officers using data-matching tools that actively scrape the device logs, vehicle uses, and system logins of a force's own employees.

• Access direct NHS data through a £330 million contract, using admin privileges that let engineers view patient environments before the files are scrambled (pseudonymised).

This is the same Palantir used to coordinate the largest simultaneous terrorist attack in history by the IOF in Lebanon.

This is the same Palantir used by the IOF since 2014 and actively being used in Gaza.

[Venessa MacLeod @NessaMacLeod]

If you like not dying of thirst, it’s time to get organised.

There’s proposed data AI centres all over Scotland. Water is an essential necessity for all human life and the natural resources these things burn through is ridiculous. Reject these monstrosities!

https://t.co/wZpviIR96u

[Mel @Villgecrazylady]

I feel like I’m going to lose my mind. Israel is literally announcing their intention to bomb 2,000 year old Christian heritage sites under the fake ass excuse of “Hezbollah presence” and the whole world is pretending like there is potential merit to this plan.

THIS IS TOTAL BULLSHIT.

Israel wants ALL of Southern Lebanon, up to the Litani River. They have said this a million times. Tyre is part of that area.

THEY ARE GOING TO ETHNICALLY CLEANSE THE WHOLE SOUTH!!!

[Nick Dearden @nickdearden75]

We’ve filed the court papers. We don’t believe the government acted legally when it ripped up NHS price controls at the behest of Donald Trump and Big Pharma. They must bring this deal to parliament.

https://t.co/N17O1pMXJM

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

The government that cut winter fuel payments for pensioners just handed £1.3bn in taxpayer money in infrastructure support to Comcast, a US corporation building a theme park in Bedford.

[Chris Corney @ChrisCorney1]

Things banned from US World Cup:

1. Fans' water bottles👇
2. The Iranian football team
3. The striker for the Swiss team
4. Walking to some stadiums
5. The spirit of football

Switch. It. Off.

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

Mientras tanto, en EEUU, una abuela de 93 años, llamada Mary, que sigue trabajando en un cine AMC para pagar sus facturas, sin poderse jubilar, limpiando la basura que la gente deja atrás en las salas.

Este es el futuro del capitalismo, que trabajes hasta morir sin poder jubilarte para pagar las facturas de los seguros médicos privados.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Packed village hall meeting in the Fife village of Auchtertool to discuss the proposed massive 600MW AI data centre right next to the village and on scenic farmland - that is estimated to consume so much energy - equivalent to half of Scotland’s entire energy consumption. No environmental impact assessment has been provided by Fife Council. This must be stopped, No one voted for this.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

The Guardian reports that Reform UK have got

Another £3m from foreign based crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne

And £4m from another crypto billionaire Ben Delo

[Dr Rahmeh Aladwan @doctor_rahmeh]

Hundreds of thousands of semitic Palestinians murdered by the 'jewish state'.

NHS staff: we oppose mass murder. Free Palestine.

Pro-'israel' lobby: the issue is 'anti-Semitism'. Silence support for Palestine.

UK Government: We will ban Palestine pins.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Robert Gros made £27m selling useless gowns via the VIP PPE Lane, of course he never paid back a penny, he bought 2 mansions instead.

RT and see if we can make him as famous as Michelle Mone.

[Hadi @HadiNasrallah]

“Jesus told us to forgive our killers, but this is too much”

Heartbreaking moments from the funeral of Theodosia Karam, her brother Tony and their father James in Qlayaa, southern Lebanon. James was driving his children home from their exams when an Israeli drone killed them

[David Hamilton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇦 @DvdHmltn]

.@scotgov found to be in contempt of court over their FOI delay. 👇🏻

[Florian Ederer @florianederer]

I believe we now have evidence of FIFA's World Cup ticketing shell game: FIFA is colluding with third-party resale platforms for its own supply management.

Look at this SeatGeek map (secondary market!) for Saudi Arabia vs Cape Verde. The circled areas are not random single resale tickets, but large, contiguous blocks of seats: entire rows and swaths in sections 101/102, 112/113, 119/120, 134–137, 139, ...

The blue circles appeared weeks ago, then the purple blocks suddenly showed up a day or two ago, and the red blocks seem to have appeared recently too.

That's not what ordinary fan or even commercial scalper resale looks like who resell pairs, fours, and scattered seats. Instead, this looks like inventory being dumped in bulk onto secondary markets, at prices below FIFA's official site.

Why doesn't FIFA just lower prices on its own site Probably because official price cuts could trigger refund demands, chargebacks, or consumer-protection headaches from fans who already bought at much higher prices.

Instead FIFA keeps official prices high, avoids openly admitting the market-clearing price is lower, and moves unsold inventory through third-party resale platforms instead.

[Jody McIntyre @jodymcintyre_]

This Labour MP lobbied the Home Office to ban political commentators from entering the UK, and Shabana Mahmood complied.

But did you know that David Taylor received money from Labour Together whilst they had an ex-IDF soldier on their board?

Here’s what the paper trail shows:🧵

[Niall Harbison @NiallHarbison]

Maximus spent his whole life on a changed n wishing somebody would notice him.

This was his whole life and he was about to die alone and sad.

This week he has been on his first ever holidays with his new family (1/6) 🧵

[Clive Wismayer 🇪🇺🥪 @CliveWismayer]

Motorhome driven for only 4 miles. Basically, he never used it. This chimes with my amateur psycho theorem that the diseased kleptomaniac does not get his kicks from using the stolen item but from an inner glee at the cost-free acquisition itself.

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

A message to all sane Republicans:

He pardoned 1,600 violent criminals.
You said nothing.

He bulldozed the East Wing.
You said nothing.

He interfered with the release of the Epstein files. You said nothing.

He took over the Kennedy Center and renamed it after himself. You said nothing.

He accepted a $400 million airplane as a personal gift. You said nothing.

He threatened Canada, Cuba, Denmark, Greenland, Venezuela, Colombia, and Brazil. You said nothing.

He tariffed just about everyone but Russia, causing inflation and instability worldwide. You said nothing.

He attacked a nation during mediated negotiations. You said nothing.

His ill-conceived war killed 175 children on day one. You said nothing.

He alienated and insulted our allies. You said nothing.

His ICE Army terrorized and murdered U.S. citizens. You said nothing.

He committed murder on the high seas. You said nothing.

He co-opted the Justice Department and directed it to prosecute his political enemies. You said nothing.

It’s time to start talking.

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

🙌 👏 OMG watch Lord Spencer Livermore - Treasury Minister - the first serving minister to publicly face Brexit reality!

“Should we in due course re-enter the European Union? My personal view is that that is an inevitability. Of course the UK will re-enter the EU because it is absolutely in our national economic interest.”

He acknowledges Brexit has cost us 4–8% of GDP. Cutting a few tariffs is a drop in the ocean compared to that damage.

The reset is a start, but full rejoin is the logical destination.”