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[Stephenson @ItsjustKarlos]

Legend RIP King Kev 🥺

[Newcastle United @NUFC]

Kevin Keegan, 1951-2026 👑

[Stephenson @ItsjustKarlos]

@StonedApe Great tune downloaded :)

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

The England football team lost for the same reason the country is losing: the people in charge fear taking a risk and try to hold on to what they have instead of being ambitious about the future.

This attitude permeates everything and it needs to change.

[dilemma @actuallyimthe]

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[Stephenson @ItsjustKarlos]

@unidentifiedta1 🩶

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

The heat capacity of the entire atmosphere is equal to just the top 3.5 meters of the world's oceans.

Below this surface lies Earth’s true thermal vault. Earth is a water planet, and the oceans cover 71% of the surface to an average depth of 2.3 miles. Global ocean currents carry warm waters from the deep tropics to the northern hemisphere, before returning after a round trip of 1,000 years.

Without these currents, northern Europe would be a glacial wilderness, just like Greenland.

The scale is colossal. Warm waters from the Roman warm period (240 BC to 400 AD) are still returning to the mid-latitudes. The atmosphere, by comparison, is a gaseous envelope that retains almost no thermal energy, holds a tiny fraction of the planet's carbon, and is largely controlled by ocean dynamics.

The deep Pacific itself is so massive that only now it is receiving the cold waters from the Little Ice Age. We aren't starting from scratch; we are mid-cycle in a 4.6-billion-year-old time machine.

We’ve also reinvented 'climate'. Once, it was a word for the local weather of robins and sparrows. Now it's a global ideological abstraction. We’ve lost our admiration for the natural world. We count CO₂ in parts per million while ignoring the satellite-proven greening of the Sahel.

It’s time to move past the light breezes and offshore winds and look into the ocean depths for answers. Ask yourself, is the 1.4°C warming since 1850 really an unprecedented crisis?

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

Dear Mr Starmer,

You say you have made Britain a better place. I beg to differ, let’s have a look at how you have made Britain better shall we?

▪️tried to cancel elections
▪️arrested 12,000 ppl a year for posts
▪️300,000 businesses closed
▪️125,000 increase in unemployment
▪️Unemployment up to 4.9%
▪️Vacancies at lowest level since 2021
▪️Borrowing higher than forecast
▪️Inflation rose again after falling
▪️NHS waiting list still over 7 million
▪️Record Channel crossings
▪️Heat pump rollout stalled
▪️AI data centres priority grid connections
▪️Offshored emissions
▪️increased subsidies to wind farms
▪️Lied to Trump about free speech
▪️27 More quangos and regulators
▪️Expanded facial recognition policing
▪️Online Safety Act censorship
▪️operation scatter of illegal migrants
▪️Winter fuel allowance cancelled
▪️highest tax in 70 years
▪️highest electricity in the world
▪️fake £22 billion black hole
▪️ 22.3% pay rise for doctors
▪️15% pay rise for train drivers
▪️attempts to join EU by stealth
▪️ Closed the migrant barge
▪️4 more years of hotels for illegals
▪️NI tax rises for businesses
▪️£500 million to foreign farmers
▪️£3.4 BILLION on consultants
▪️Two tier policing at protests & riots
▪️crackdown on free speech
▪️No deportations for foreign criminals
▪️let prisoners out early
▪️net zero madness spending
▪️Carbon capture experiment
▪️solar factories on green belt
▪️oops had to cancel non Dom policy
▪️VAT on private schools backfired
▪️Softer sentences, prisons are full
▪️Free clothes for MPs
▪️Free tickets for MPs
▪️Rent free house for MPs
▪️free Pass for Ali for Downing Street
▪️introducing pay per mile
▪️Ended steel production
▪️Stopped oil and gas licenses
▪️ refused to use huge new gas field
▪️Spaffed £8.3b on British energy
▪️Energy bills went up TWICE
▪️Palestine marches out of control
▪️Ended free speech in universities
▪️Increases in fuel duty
▪️Said “free the sausages”
▪️Fired his chief of staff
▪️Fired his energy minister
▪️gave Peter Mandelson a job
▪️Chancellor isn’t an economist
▪️Gave £millions more to Ukraine
▪️Gave £50 million to Syrian militants
▪️Richest pop star got free police escort
▪️made up some ‘science’ on fly wheels
▪️stopped Rwanda
▪️largest number of illegal migrants ever
▪️Didn’t change his ‘special’ pension
▪️Gave away the Chagos Islands
▪️lost Rosie Duffield
▪️let Ukraine use Storm shadow
▪️revoked land wind farm ban
▪️announced Pylons near houses
▪️Banned Elon from ‘Investment Summit’
▪️misogyny would be classed as terrorism
▪️ investigated by Electoral Commission
▪️ Lord Ali under investigation
▪️Inheritance tax on farmers
▪️Lied to WASPI women
▪️Attempting to bring in blasphemy laws
▪️Gave £500 million to foreign farmers
▪️Chancellor turned out to be unqualified
▪️highest government borrowing in 34 yrs
▪️MP investigated for corruption
▪️Banning parents from seeing curriculum
▪️ Anti Muslim blasphemy law
▪️stabbing up
▪️Called ordinary people far right racists
▪️Rapists allowed out of prison early

Have I missed anything? Apart from taxpayers now funding free school breakfasts?

[Neil Oliver @thecoastguy]

Folic acid to be added into UK food supply. Folic acid more than doubles risk of prostate cancer. The NIH warns cancer patients to steer clear of folic acid. Any of this making sense?

[Maxine Pye @LiveAncestral]

Calories do not exist in food.

They exist in a laboratory. A calorie is the amount of heat required to raise one litre of water by one degree. Scientists burn food in a sealed chamber and measure the heat released. That number gets printed on a packet and sold to you as the foundation of healthy eating.

That ain’t nutrition.

Your body does not respond to numbers. It responds to food. And food is a signal.
Eat sugar or starch. Insulin spikes. Fat stores lock shut. Two hours later you are starving again. You eat again. You blame yourself.
You should not. You are following a hormonal instruction.

I eat meat, eggs, butter and liver. Twice a day. No snacks. No calorie counting. No hunger between meals.
Fix the signal. Everything else follows.

[Al Carns @AlistairCarns]

THE FIVE TESTS

For weeks I've argued that this party, and this country, needs a proper debate about where we go next. Not a reshuffle. Not a few degrees of course correction. The big, difficult, honest choices we've spent thirty years avoiding.

A few people have asked me what that debate should actually be about. Fair enough. I spent 24 years in the Marines and two in government, and I resigned because I couldn't win the argument I believed in from the inside. So let me make it here, plainly.

This isn't a manifesto, but a set of five tests. Anyone asking to lead our country should be able to look down this list and say yes to all five.

1️⃣ ⁠The Frontline Test
Do we give the people on the frontline the kit they need to do the job, and stand by them when the job is done?

I joined the Marines at 18. I've buried friends. So I do take this one personally.

I sat in government and watched us write a defence plan for a world that no longer exists, discussed in rooms I was kept out of. A 100k drone is now sinking warships that cost a billion. That is the reality of the wars being fought right now.

Passing this means 3% of GDP as the floor, not the ceiling. Buying for the next war, not the last. And fixing the Legacy Act so blokes in their seventies aren't back in the dock for what they were cleared of decades ago.

2️⃣ The Next-Generation Test
Are we handing the next generation a better deal than the one we inherited, or a worse one?

I'm a lad from a tough part of Aberdeen. My mum raised five of us through some bleak years. The only reason I got out was because I was given an opportunity. That cannot be said for young people today.

Nearly a million young people, around one in eight, are now outside work, education or training. That isn't their failure. It's ours.

Fixing this means a NEETs and youth unemployment target with a date, the youth guarantee delivered not just announced. Restoring the link between work and a decent life for the under 30s, on housing, wages and opportunity. Skills and apprenticeship numbers that beat the last government, not just match it.

Talent is everywhere in this country. Opportunity isn't. Fix that and you fix half of everything else...

3️⃣ ⁠The Trillion-Pound Test
Is the plan to add a trillion pounds to what Britain earns, or to manage the decline more politely?

Here's the lesson I learned from Ukraine and in government, and it never changes. We invent things. Other countries build them. Other countries decide. We're brilliant at the first mile and absent for the next ninety nine.

So set a target and be judged on it. A trillion pounds added to our GDP within a decade. Yes, it's ambitious. We should be ambitious!

Getting there means backing the high tech inventors just as much as the high street traders. Your local coffee shop shouldn't be paying more tax per cappuccino than Starbucks does. So why on earth do they?

It means an industrial strategy worth the name. Things to make and things to sell, in Barrow, in Derby, in every region. Our industrial base is national security, so we should fund it like it.

And it means building the chips and the compute here, not inventing the breakthrough and watching someone else scale it. Data is the new gunpowder.

4️⃣ The 10% Test
Can we make the country work 10% better, instead of only ever asking for 10% more?

I saw this from the inside. We patch the symptom this year, but the bill grows next year, and we end up paying for failure at the most expensive end of every system.

A 10% improvement in outcomes across a handful of our biggest problems, ill health, reoffending, wasted potential, would free up somewhere between £40 and £60 billion a year. We're already paying those costs. We just pay them too late, when they're at their worst.

Passing this means investing early instead of paying far more later, and having the honesty to admit that not every pound we spend today delivers an immediate return.

5️⃣ ⁠The Lights-On Test
Does our energy policy keep the lights on, the bills down and factories open, or do we keep chasing a target and hope the rest sorts itself out?

For years we've treated net zero as the only goal, and everything else, your bill, our industry, whether the grid even stays up, as a problem for later. That’s the wrong way around.

Make energy security the goal. Power that people, businesses, and industry can afford, and a grid that stays on when someone tries to switch it off. Do that and net zero follows. Chase the target on its own, and you end up with neither.

Passing this means a serious baseload, nuclear and the North Sea, built in time to matter. Strong countries have cheap, secure energy. Weak countries don't.

None of this is complicated. It's the oldest deal there is. You serve the country, the country stands by you. In uniform, in a hospital, in a classroom, on a building site. Right now that deal is broken, and everyone keeping our country going can feel it.

That broken deal is the real reason for the frustration out there. It's why trust has drained out of politics. And it's why our party that won a landslide is, halfway through the term, already arguing about who leads it.

But changing the person at the top fixes nothing if we don't fix the deal underneath. Swap one leader for another and leave the deal broken, and we'll be right back here in eighteen months, asking the same question all over again.

So I'm not interested in who gets what job. I'm interested in whether we've got the courage to pass these tests.

We've been promised a debate. This is my opening offer to it. And if that debate ever becomes a contest, it should be fought on this ground, not on personalities.

I know where I stand.

[AltarOfEgo 🪐 @unidentifiedta1]

What is a Nobody?

“The Nobody is a figure alive today who has extraordinary spiritual powers, including the ability to control reality with their conscious and unconscious mind...”

...thread...

[Maxine Pye @LiveAncestral]

The government is adding folic acid to all UK flour by law this December. They call it a public health win. What they are not telling you is that folic acid is not folate.

Folic acid is the synthetic oxidised form of vitamin B9. To become usable, the body has to convert it using an enzyme called DHFR into 5-methyltetrahydrofolate, the active form your cells can actually work with.

A significant portion of the population carries variants of the MTHFR gene that impair this conversion. Enzyme activity can drop by up to 70 percent. Unmetabolised folic acid accumulates in the blood instead.

I carry an MTHFR variant. Most people who do have no idea. They eat their fortified bread and assume they are getting folate. They are not. They are accumulating a synthetic compound their body cannot process efficiently.

No screening.
No individual consideration.
No acknowledgement that the conversion pathway exists. Just mandatory fortification for every single person in the country.

Real folate is found in food. Liver is the most concentrated source and it delivers folate already in the active 5-MTHF form.
No conversion needed.
No gene variant problem.

They are adding a synthetic vitamin to a food that drives metabolic dysfunction and calling it progress.

I don’t eat bread anymore but if you still eat bread, choose 100% wholemeal, rye, or ancient grain varieties like spelt or einkorn. These are exempt from the law. White and standard brown bread are not.

Do you know if you carry an MTHFR variant?

[Jacob King @JacobKinge]

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says that to fix Europe’s energy crisis, people should stay home, not drive, and not use electricity.

Let me guess: next week’s update to solve the food shortage will be, stay hungry, don’t chew, avoid calories.

Groundbreaking stuff from the European Commission.

[Stephenson @ItsjustKarlos]

@alx @SkyNews this was way better than the official broadcast. 👏@alx

[Stephenson @ItsjustKarlos]

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[Polymarket @Polymarket]

BREAKING: Trump says Obama made a "big mistake" by revealing "classified information" that aliens are real.

[Mindy MF Robinson 🦄 @iheartmindy]

If we returned to our original 13 month calendar with the New Year starting on Sunday, April 1st like it's supposed to....every month would have a Friday the 13th.

But instead they've convinced people that it's April Fool's Day and the 13th is "bad luck."

We need a return to the natural ways..... 💗

[Stephenson @ItsjustKarlos]

@Ry4nJ4m3s123 @NUFC

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

Disagree.

The tranche of Epstein emails is an unfiltered peek behind the velvet curtain of elite power plays where billionaires, politicians, fixers, and fixers' fixers unveil their raw thoughts and swap favors. It's basically high-stakes palace intrigue detailing a web of influence that shapes our world in ways we rarely see.

You almost certainly have caught whiffs of it in your orbit being adjacent to many of the people who have crossed paths with and emailed Epstein, but most people have zero access to this world. So this is their only window.

But, and here's where I see where you're coming from, while it's packed potential scandals, cover-ups, and clues to how some elites operate, the signal-to-noise ratio is, admittedly, abysmal.

The dump is basically fodder to feed whatever preconceived notions already installed. If you hate Trump or the Clintons? You got ammo. If you loathe Bannon or Mandani or Chomsky, there's your red meat. Despise Hollywood elites, Silicon Valley moguls, Wall Street tycoons and Jews? You hit the jackpot. Even Putin, Gulf royals and Pakistani power brokers have somehow been ensnared.

You can basically supercharge any grudge but it doesn't mean that there's nothing to see here. Just look at revelations surrounding Lord Mandelson's correspondences with Epstein.

There are real signals here that need to be sifted from the noise. But this is time consuming and requires one to be objective, truth-seeking and detached from the people involved.

[Stephenson @ItsjustKarlos]

@LukeEdwardsTele On another note. Fussy no cheese! What’s that’s about 🤣

[Big Brother Watch @BigBrotherWatch]

🆔"We are being blatantly LIED to" about digital ID

@silkiecarlo exposes the real reason behind the Government's plan for a mandatory digital ID...and it has nothing to do with illegal working.

Tell your MP to stand up for your rights at the debate on digital ID next Monday⤵️
https://t.co/ooqvDaqTq8