Lukey

Nothing special.

[Dan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Kingbingo_]

My politics is to do whatever it takes to be able to leave a bike visibly unlocked anywhere in the country and it doesn't get stolen.

[Yuan Yi Zhu @yuanyi_z]

No apology no contrition.

[Guy Larri @glarri]

Alastair, if you had a even a single atom of integrity in your body you would have withdrawn from public life after throwing Dr. David Kelly to the wolves as part of selling an illegal war to the public, leading to a million deaths. But still you blather on. Just play the Beatles song “I see through you” every morning, to remind yourself of your complete hollowness.

[Wilfred Reilly @wil_da_beast630]

Wild case.

[Annunziata Rees-Mogg @zatzi]

Another legacy of Gordon Brown is PFI* - which he loved because it kept spending “off the books” (as @Camlowandslow reminded me).

We are still paying the costs. Some contracts signed under Brown’s regime run until the 2040s or 50s.

Hundreds of billions of pounds he shoved onto future chancellors of the exchequer - and future taxpayers.

Labour loves spending other people’s money.

* Approximately £50–55 billion in capital value for PFI deals signed in 1997–2010, with total lifetime unitary charge payments (the full cost to the public sector) estimated in the range of roughly £220–300 billion

[Ben Ramanauskas @BenRamanauskas]

Britain spends over 5 times more on Welfare (including for pensioners) than we do on Defence.

[Bovril-Gesellschaft @BovrilG]

Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst,
Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst;
For the temple-bells are callin', an' it's there that I would be
By the old Moulmein Pagoda, looking lazy at the sea

[Christopher Lupine @LupineLives]

This explains so much about the British mindset...

[Tomas Mones-Cazon @tomas_mones]

Christianity is a religion for women falls apart the moment you find out how the Church actually defines effeminacy.

Aquinas gave it a name. Mollities. Softness. He was not talking about a soft body or a gentle temperament. He was describing a man who will not surrender a pleasure or endure a difficulty for the sake of something higher. A man who folds the second the work stops feeling good.

Sit with that definition and think about who it describes. The man who cannot fast for one day. Who cannot get up when the alarm goes. Whose word dissolves the moment keeping it costs him something. That is effeminacy in the Catholic tradition, and it usually belongs to the loudest man in the comments telling you the faith is for women.

The Stoics wanted the passions dead. Augustine went after them for it, because a man with no anger in the face of real evil has not achieved mastery, he has gone numb. Aquinas says the same thing. The absence of anger where anger is owed is a defect in reason, not a sign of holiness. Your aggression, your appetite, your drive to conquer something are all meant to stay alive and stay under command.

So the training, the fasting, the rule of life you keep when nobody is watching, all of it is you taking the reins of something already strong and aiming it at the highest good. That is the whole project. Nothing about it is soft.

[William Clouston SDP @WilliamClouston]

Too many journalists think ‘comms’ is the purpose of government - as opposed to houses, energy, transportation, industry and national security. Superficial…

[polybore @polybore]

@Osinttechnical Bring back the Boulton Paul Defiant. Way ahead of your time it seems, finally, your time has actually arrived!

[Charlie Walsham @CharlieWalsham_]

Perhaps it doesn’t suit your political point-scoring post to acknowledge the raw anger that still exists around this case.

Many people don’t understand why, when given sanctuary in this country, a couple of Rwandan immigrants produced a son who became radicalised, engaged with terrorist material and went on to commit one of the worst atrocities this country has seen in recent years. Perhaps the answer is obvious. Perhaps he was carrying the inherited trauma of his parents. After all, they came from a country that, within living memory, experienced a horrific genocide in which hundreds of thousands of people were killed with machetes.

People are also angry about the authorities’ response. Initially, the emphasis was on the fact that he was a Cardiff-born teenager rather than the son of Rwandan immigrants. That made many people feel they were being misled about the perpetrator’s link to foreign shores.

And it’s no wonder people feel like they’re lied to about the less positive impacts of immigration, is it? There are more than 10,000 foreign national offenders in Britain’s prisons, and because of overcrowding there’s talk of releasing criminals back onto the streets.

Your post rather illustrates the left’s response to such heinous crimes and terrorist attacks. Something unspeakable has happened, and it’s happened in the context of our immigration policies. It’s not the first time something like this has happened, yet the left so often focuses less on the terrible event itself and more on condemning any expressions of public anger, posting that “hate won’t divide us”.

What happened in Southport was hate embodied. Yet here you are, having another pop at “right-wingers”. That says it all.

[Bovril-Gesellschaft @BovrilG]

He'll have theoretical access. In actuality, as a prisoner with a history of attacking wardens, he'll be put on a high enough dose of heavy antipsychotics to render him morbidly obese, functionally Parkinsonian and with no working memory and he'll stay like this until he dies of heart failure aged forty or so. Hanging would be kinder for everyone involved.

[Magical Spain @Magicalspain]

Is Miguel de la Quadra-Salcedo the most based man in history?

>from a Navarrese, Carlist, aristocratic family with claimed ties to El Cid

>1.90 m tall; 96 kg of pure strength

>inspired by the life of Saint Francis Xavier

>ran with the bulls in Pamplona

>Olympic athlete

>set a javelin world record using a revolutionary throwing style — banned for being too dangerous

>worked as a whaler; hunted 44 sperm whales

>sailed down the Amazon

>caught an anaconda with his bare hands

>gold prospector in Brazil

>ethnobotanist in Colombia

>parachuted into the Congo to bury martyred Dominican nuns and recover the consecrated hosts; in gratitude, Dominican convents worldwide offered him food and lodging for life

>war correspondent — witnessed Vietnam, Israel, Eritrea, Cambodia, Bolivia and Chile firsthand

>TV personality

>lion tamer

>wounded countless times in the field

>travelled to almost every country on Earth

>founded Ruta Quetzal to train new generations of adventurers

>devout Catholic; enjoyer of the Traditional Latin Mass

>owned an 8,000-volume library; obsessed with Spanish conquistadors, Jules Verne, and Homer

>his national ID literally listed his profession as “wandering traveler” (giróvago)

>received countless medals and state honors

The definition of a legend

[Pinkerton's Ghost @PinkertonsGhost]

The high priest shoulder deep in the entrails of a cow: "I dont actually believe this stuff, and neither does anyone else, you know? Ooop! Theres the liver! Lets see... Yeah poseidon isnt real so do whatever. Pay me."

People actually believe no believes anything. Like them.

[شرق‌زده sharghzadeh @sharghzadeh]

Third worlders have no notion of how value is produced.

They think people are rich because of sheer luck (oil, gems), exploitation (peasants), or looting (colonization).

This is why they're so obsessed with reparations. It's also why they dream of being a beneficiary of rents (as opposed to doing anything useful for humanity).

[Lukey @Lukey19186583]

@BovrilG

[Scott Goetz @ScottGoetz_]

There was recently a sustained investigation, in several major newspapers, into whether Nigel Farage was a rude child in the 1980s.

[Lukey @Lukey19186583]

@WalmartThomist No meat Fridays are still in effect in the UK, and my priest has made a point of pointing it out, but boomers tend to just ignore it when you tell them.

[Andy @PositivFuturist]

She used AI to write a post about how local solar panel projects will solve all our energy problems.

I’m speechless tbh..

We’re going to become an economic backwater completely beholden to the US to consume non-frontier models over the wire.