Karen Graf

Living life in the middle of a shit show

[Karen Graf @MyWayOfThinking]

Lettuce

[DK🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸 @1Nicdar]

I think there’s more than one possible answer.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

SpaceX is actively hiring world-class engineers/physicists for SpaceXAI, even if you have zero prior experience in AI. Smart humans figure it out fast.

Please send an email with ~3 bullet points demonstrating evidence of exceptional ability to [email protected].

[Alexandra @Alexandr4Denman]

Please keep the pressure on about the Dartmoor pony cull these have been apart of our country since the ice age ! They are going to get rid of them no doubt to put more houses in their place for foreigners stop this !

[Mark Evans 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @MarkEvans121974]

Petition: Ensure access to non-whole meal flour without folic acid fortification

We call on the Government to amend the law to ensure there are at least one non-wholemeal flour option without folic acid fortification, and to exempt organic flour from mandatory folic acid fortification requirement from December 2026.

https://t.co/3bk5xh9CTc

[Commonwealth War Graves @CWGC]

A burial service with full military honours has taken place at our London Cemetery and Extension in France for Second World War pilot, Squadron Leader George Marley Fidler from Great Ayton, North Yorkshire.

In 2022, work on the Seine-Nord Canal at Oisy-le-Verger in northern France, unearthed a Hurricane with the pilot still inside near to where Sqn Leader Fidler’s aircraft was last seen. Our Recovery Unit recovered his remains and DNA testing then proved this pilot was Sqn Leader Fidler. You can read more on his recovery on our website.

“It is an honour for the Commission to pay our respects to Sqn Ldr Fidler, following the 2022 discovery of his Hurricane along the route of the future Canal Seine-Nord Europe. That another commemorative service will be held today at his local church - in Great Ayton, Yorkshire - shows the power and impact of his war experience eight decades on. Now resting amongst fellow airmen at London Cemetery and Extension, Longueval, his grave will be cared for in perpetuity.” Dr James Wallis, CWGC Head of Commemorations.

[Stu thats all you get🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Boldyboy1975]

So you think you want a Malinois...it will be fun, they said 😳🤪🤣🤣😍

[Karen Graf @MyWayOfThinking]

@RupertLowe10 @JeremyClarkson

[Sara C 🤗 @SaraCube]

@DrTimothyKelly This petition closes in a few weeks and doesn’t yet have enough signatures https://t.co/pA8dDa3Gqw

[Sara C 🤗 @SaraCube]

@DrTimothyKelly This petition closes in a few weeks and doesn’t yet have enough signatures https://t.co/pA8dDa3Gqw

[Proudofus.uk @ProudofusUK]

In 600 AD, an English king wrote the first law in our language.

He priced your thumb at 20 shillings and your finger at just 9. 🤯

He gave women the right to own property. 🇬🇧

He bound himself, the king, by the very first judgement.

Six hundred years before Magna Carta.

Three hundred years before England was a nation.

His name was Aethelberht. King of Kent.

He wrote it in English. Not Latin. Not the language of the Church.

Around 90 judgements. From the hair on the head to the nail on the toe — every injury had a price.

Knocking off a man's hat cost 6 shillings. Twice the price of a punch on the nose. 🎩

And then it did something extraordinary. ✨

A widow could keep half her husband's estate.
She could leave with her children.
She could choose.

In the year 600.

The original was lost. ⚖️

But one English monk at Rochester saved it in 1120.

UNESCO calls it the birth of English as a language of the page.

The English have been writing their own laws ever since. 🙏

If you want to preserve the past and help write the next chapter 👇

👉 https://t.co/rih7iKwnvf 👈

Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧
Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

[Harman Singh Kapoor @kingkapoor72]

Masked protesters set fire to the entrance of a Yorkshire church in broad daylight
They are not scared of being seen

[Proudofus.uk @ProudofusUK]

🇬🇧 Caesar called them barbarians. They had already made THIS. 🛡️

In 1857, dredgers clearing the Thames near Chelsea Bridge pulled something from the silt 🌊

They washed it clean.

A bronze shield. 27 red glass studs. Worked by hand 🛡️

The dredger had never seen anything like it.

This is the story of the Battersea Shield 🇬🇧

It was sent to the British Museum 🏛️ The curators dated it to the late Iron Age. 2,000 years old. Older than England. Older than Rome's arrival here.

Who made it?

Britons did. At a workbench in a roundhouse, by firelight 🔥 They beat the bronze. They set the red glass. It took months.

But this shield was not for battle ⚔️ The bronze was too thin to stop a blade.

It was made to be given.

Their rivers were sacred. At dawn 🌅 they raised the shield. And gave it to the Thames 🌊

It sank.

The Romans wrote them down ✍️ Julius Caesar 📜 wrote that the barbaric Britons painted themselves blue. But this shield was already centuries old when he wrote that. Its makers knew how to set red glass into bronze.

2,000 years passed. Rome came. And went. Saxons came. Normans came. England rose. Britain rose. The shield stayed where it was.

Until 1857.

Now it hangs in the British Museum 🏛️

It is one of many.

Stone by stone. Shield by shield 🛡️

Made by Britons. Inherited by the British 🇬🇧

Will you help us spread our history to those who need to hear? 👇🙏

👉 https://t.co/rih7iKwnvf 👈

Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧

Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

[Raylene - Undercover Indie ® @UndercoverIndy]

Okay folks from the UK ... it's your time to step up and make a difference ... I hate thieves! 😡

"Please could you keep an eye on here or other forums for my stolen Les Paul R9 from 2014.
It was stolen from West Yorkshire.
The suspect is trying to off load it locally and police are aware.
It might even turn up as a new guitar day post." ~ Yorkshireman David

[Polly Motley Am Yisrael Chai @MotleyPolly]

80 combat sorties. 'I'm no ruddy hero' he said. 104 years old with no surviving relatives to attend his funeral, which is at Bodmin Crematorium tomorrow at 11.30. Please spread the word it's the least we can do 🙏🇬🇧 https://t.co/DdyxJWq3hV

[Supersonic Redhead🛫 @Supersonic_Red]

There’s a generation a lot of people forget exists. We were born at the tail end of the Boomers, but we are not culturally the same as people born in the 40s and early 50s. We are Generation Jones.

And honestly, it explains a lot.

We grew up in a world that still felt fundamentally analog, but we were young enough to be dragged headfirst into the digital revolution. We are the bridge generation between rotary phones and smartphones, between slide rules and AI, between Walter Cronkite and algorithm driven media.

We remember when there were only a few television channels and the entire country watched the same thing at the same time. We also adapted to the internet, email, forums, social media, streaming and now artificial intelligence. We lived before and after the technological singularity hit everyday life.

That is not a small thing.

People born in the 40s came of age in a post World War II America that was still industrial, deeply hierarchical and institutionally stable. Their formative years were shaped by the Cold War, Vietnam, the civil rights era and a society where information moved slowly.

Generation Jones came later. We inherited the aftermath of all of that.

We were the kids who watched Watergate destroy blind trust in government. We watched manufacturing begin to collapse. We saw divorce rates explode. We were the first truly latchkey generation in massive numbers. We learned independence early because many of us had to.

We grew up with one foot in old America and one foot in whatever this new thing was becoming.

We played outside until the streetlights came on but we also learned DOS commands. We learned cursive and keyboarding. We had card catalogs and Google searches. We went from vinyl records to cassette tapes to CDs to MP3s to streaming in one lifetime.

We remember maps. We remember memorizing phone numbers. We remember life before GPS and before every human interaction became filtered through a screen.

And because of that, I think Generation Jones developed a very unique perspective. We are adaptable because we had no choice but to adapt. We learned technology as adults instead of being born into it. We remember a slower world but were forced to survive in a rapidly accelerating one.

That creates a very different mindset than either older Boomers or younger Gen X and Millennials.

A lot of us also reject the caricature people now associate with “Boomers.” We were not buying houses for the cost of a sandwich in 1965. The interest rate on my first house was over 14% and that was after buying down a point. Many of us got hit by recessions, outsourcing, pension collapses and economic instability just like younger generations did. We watched promises evaporate in real time.

We understand older generations because we were raised by them. We understand younger generations because we had to evolve alongside them.

That’s why the Jones generation often feels culturally homeless. We are rarely discussed, rarely defined and usually lumped into categories that don’t actually fit us.

But we exist.

We are the human transition point between the industrial age and the digital age.

And frankly, there will probably never be another generation quite like us again.

[Karen Graf @MyWayOfThinking]

Everywhere

[Grinton smallholder @Sharpr1966]

Have a craving for mint sauce as I knew it as a child. Loads of fresh mint chopped with sugar, boiling water added followed by salt and vinegar.

Is that just a Dales thing or was it everywhere?

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

Full article of unbelievable stupidity.

https://t.co/OsXyCG79tN

[Restore Edinburgh @RestoreEdi]

Make sure everyone you know in Makerfield sees this clip from September 2025. Burnham saying he will put the UK back in the EU.
Share this like crazy people 👇

[Alexandra @Alexandr4Denman]

Did anyone know this was about to happen?? They are going to kill off Dartmoor Hill Ponies? This is for what These wild ponies have always been free in Dartmoor forever! This is why we must protect them because they probably want to build on this land for foreigners to be housed

[WeGotitBack 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇺🇸 @NotFarLeftAtAll]

If you thought you were ALONE you are NOT .. there are millions upon millions of us that think the same .. the media and the government want you to believe the way you think isn’t Normal..

Unite the Kingdom - Be Proud of your heritage, your culture and your Christian values

[habibi @habibi_uk]

The "anti-racist" wonders we are all supposed to revere. “Follow your leader, shoot yourself like Adolf Hitler!" "What do we do with Tommy’s crew? String them up like Mussolini.” “Shoot them in the neck like Charlie Kirk!”

A celebration of murder in London, today.