A pastry lid does not make a pie

I just met you and this is crazy
but you brought my dinner
pie chips and gravy

[James Dreyfus @DreyfusJames]

Peter & Alan.

Many of us LGB have been warning you for YEARS that this was happening.

We told you there are huge problems ahead, as gender ideology is in direct contradiction to being same-sex attracted.

We told you to stop involving other people’s children.

We told you SO MANY LGB people are sick & tired of being tethered to ideological cheerleaders for Queer Theory.

We told you the homophobia was coming from within the house.

We told you the blatant misogyny would have repercussions.

You all turned a blind eye.

You didn’t listen.

You said “No Debate.”

You branded us ‘bigots’.

Why are you NOW feigning surprise that there is a renewed backlash?

You CAUSED this.

2015. What changed??

Think hard.

[A pastry lid does not make a pie @ManAtBAndM]

@orlacsm Bit premature but ....

[Daniel Lambert @dlLambo]

Israel having killed every child, every sheep, every dog and cat. Having destroyed every tree, every road, every building in southern Gaza

Is now bulldozing the remnants.

Every gravestone, every sign that anyone ever lived here.

It's a holocaust

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Hasan Picker and Cenk Uygur were banned from the UK for criticising Genocide, Isaac Herzog was invited to No.10 for committing it.

[Thomas Niblock @thomasniblock]

Richie Sadlier on RTE tonight…

[Happy birthday ..❤️💋❤️ @StefanBlakeman]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[David Sheen @davidsheen]

The new state TV report that triggered the above admission by Gush Etzion, the West Bank settlements south of Jerusalem, that their religious and political leaders have long created child pornography by filming when they gang-rape kids in the community https://t.co/TRHkl9GLqu

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Israel has been gradually expanding its "kill zone" in Gaza. Its army has now officially seized 70% of the territory. In a few months, 2 million Palestinians will be crushed into 20% of Gaza. Then 10%.

The "ceasefire" is a cover for genocide, not an end to it.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

These headlines are both form today.

🇮🇱: Says
🇷🇺: Threatens

[barney farmer @barneyfarmer]

Every single Labour individual who participated in the ugly factional struggle against their own membership 2015-19 - as sordid an exercise in attacking the basic principles of democracy as I’ve seen in UK politics - will be torn down in identical fashion by the same coalition.

[Laura Pidcock @LauraPidcock]

Starmer’s job was to extinguish socialist left organising in Labour, to block any future prospect of a left fightback, to ensure there could be no socialist left leader in the near future & to create distance from the trade union movement- irrespective of the electoral consequences.

[Diane Abbott @HackneyAbbott]

There is a myth, very widely held in Labour, that we achieved an huge popular victory in 2024 under Starmer.
In fact we won 9.7 million votes, over 3 million fewer than in 2017 and half a million less than the 'disastrous' 2019 poll.
We won because the Tories imploded in 2024.

[Aboo Hafsah @AbuHafsah1]

2 Israeli soldiers KILLED.

400 Lebanese DIE.

🙄

[Michael Walsh @thatbloodyMikey]

I am so fucking tired of this Israel Occupied Government. Turn on the Telly & you'll hear no solutions to rising Bills, Food costs or Cost of living.
All you'll get is this relentless, Manufactured bollocks to remove our rights & Criminalise anyone Critical of Israel.

[Aaron Maté @aaronjmate]

Victims of the Nazi Holocaust faced similar conditions. The Jewish state continues to emulate the Nazi state.

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

Same day, same outlet (the BBC):

Somalis "hijack" ships.
The US merely "boards" them.

This is how consent is manufactured in real time.

[Save Gaza @Alee93ale]

Retweet if you think the world will be better without them

[Mick Moran @Mick_Moran_]

Here’s all 6 incase you fancied a nice bit of viewing. 😎

[No Context Everton @Evershite]

Evening Blues 👋🏻 👋🏻 👋🏻

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A parasite that has been eating people for 3,500 years is about to be wiped off the planet. It infected 3.5 million people in 1986. Last year, it infected 10. And I have not seen it make a single front page.

It is called Guinea worm. You drink contaminated water from a pond in a poor village. A year later, a worm up to three feet long starts coming out of your leg through a burning blister. There is no pill that stops it and no surgery that works. You wrap the worm around a stick and pull it out slowly, over days or weeks, inch by inch. If you rush, the worm breaks inside you and causes a fresh infection.

Guinea worm is ancient. Preserved worms have been pulled out of Egyptian mummies from around 1000 BCE. The Ebers Papyrus, an Egyptian medical scroll from 1550 BCE, describes pulling the worm out with a stick. For three and a half thousand years, that was the best humans could do.

Then in 1986, public health workers decided to kill the parasite off. They had no vaccine and no drug. What they had was cheap cloth water filters and a small army of volunteers willing to walk from village to village for decades.

The plan was simple. Give everyone who drinks from a pond a cloth filter to strain out the tiny water fleas that spread the parasite. Then send volunteers walking house to house, year after year, teaching people how to use the filters and keeping anyone with an emerging worm out of the water.

It worked. From 3.5 million cases a year to 10. Four were in Chad, four in Ethiopia, two in South Sudan. The other four countries where the worm used to be common, Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and Mali, had zero human cases for the second year in a row. The World Health Organization has already certified 200 countries as Guinea worm free. Six are left.

The last hurdle is dogs. Cameroon had 445 infected animals last year and Chad had 147, so a lot of the remaining work is on animals, not humans. Strays get leashed, and crews treat ponds to kill any remaining worms. The campaign keeps watching until the number hits zero.

When Guinea worm hits zero, it becomes the second human disease ever erased from the planet. The first was smallpox. It will also be the first parasite humans have ever wiped out, and the first disease ever ended without a single dose of medicine. Volunteers walked village to village with cloth filters for 40 years. Now a plague from the age of the pharaohs is about to be gone.