Jeux Sans Frontal Lobes

Liberty and choice. Wild and free speech absolutist. Sing. Regenerative agriculture. Raw milk. Cows eating grass sequester carbon into the soil. Free thinking.

[Libertario 🟨⬛ @QuotesforGoal]

“El comunismo ha matado más almas que cuerpos, porque su primera víctima es la verdad”

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

[Pilot 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @Pilot454647]

@TheAliceSmith Planned and coordinated.

[Andrew Bridgen @ABridgen]

The wrapping is the most important part - as always

[Suneel Dhand MD @DrSuneelDhand]

The amount of people out there over the age of 75 who are experiencing muscle weakness because of their inappropriately high statin dose is insane.

Most don’t even know it.

I don’t know what the heck cardiologists are thinking with their obsession over numbers, this demographic was not even studied properly in the first place.

Sad!!

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

Poppy and her calves should still be here. Legislative overreach killed them, never forget.

[Shane James @Madaxe888]

United kingdom 🤣🤣🤣

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The single greatest life hack ever discovered is frying bacon before every meal and cooking the meal in the grease, and I have been sitting on it for years like a coward.

The mechanics are simple. Pan on. Bacon in. Bacon out, eaten standing up as a tax. Now there is a shallow lake of salted pig fat sitting in the pan, hot, smelling like a Sunday in 1974, and whatever goes into it next is going to be the best version of itself it has ever been.

Eggs go in and come out with lace on the edges. Mince goes in and browns like it means it. A chop goes in and arrives at the table tasting of two animals, which is efficient. Mushrooms, if you're that way inclined, stop being fungus and become something you could serve a bishop.

The effects are not confined to the plate.

A man who cooks in bacon fat wakes before the alarm. His handshake improves. Dogs sit for him without being asked. His hair thickens, his eyesight sharpens, and the neighbour who has been parking across his drive since 2019 moves the car without a word being exchanged. Councils return his calls. HMRC writes to apologise.

The kitchen smells so good the postman lingers. Children who have refused eggs for six years eat four and ask what's for pudding. The pan itself, seasoned this way for a month, becomes non-stick in a way no factory has ever managed and will be fought over in the will.

I have seen marriages saved by this method. I have seen a man in Wrexham fry his steak in it and fix a limp he'd had since school. I cannot explain that one and I have stopped trying.

The bottle of oil in your cupboard has done none of this, ever, for anyone.

Bacon first. Then the meal. Then whatever comes next, which is generally good news.

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

"It's yet another thing the Government seems to be trying to do under our noses and think that we will not notice."

The Government is spreading misinformation about misinformation in order to justify mass censorship on social media.

The argument that mis- and disinformation is to blame for political division and unrest in society has been repeated so often that it has acquired the status of fact.

Earlier this year, the Government released a green paper called Watch This Space proposing that social media platforms should be legally obliged to promote "trustworthy" news sources to the top of users' feeds. This is primarily public broadcasters like the BBC, ITV, and Channel 4. In other words, the Government wants to control the information you see.

These proposals have been met with fierce opposition from the Trump administration and the senior US Congressman Jim Jordan, who chairs the House Judiciary Committee.

If this did not sound dystopian enough already, FSU Policy and Research Director @DavidRoseUK has written a report exposing how the Government has used dubious evidence to justify its call for mass censorship, whilst ignoring strong evidence which contradicts its claims.

It is much easier to blame the likes of Elon Musk for the political division in society. Michelle O'Neill, the Sinn Féin First Minister of Northern Ireland, held Elon Musk responsible for the riots in Belfast that followed the video of a Sudanese migrant allegedly attempting to murder a local man by repeatedly knifing him. Keir Starmer also claimed there were people "trying to interfere in our democracy and seeking to stir up division on our streets".

It seems that our political leaders fail to consider that perhaps the public are just witnessing events unfolding around them, rather than being maliciously fed misinformation?

The FSU will not allow the Government to get away with this unnoticed.

Watch FSU External Affairs Officer @_ConnieShaw on @GBNEWS 👇

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

A pound of ribeye is a good dinner. A pound of brisket is the last thing you eat that day.

Same animal. Same weight. A third of the price. Different job.

The ribeye lay along the spine holding nothing up. Marbled, tender, gone in 12 minutes, and back on your mind by 9.

The brisket carried the front half of a 700 kilo animal every day of its life, and the animal wired it with collagen so it would not tear.

That collagen is why it fills you, three ways.

It has to be chewed. A ribeye is swallowed in 12 minutes. A brisket takes 30, and the brain's fullness signal runs on a 20-minute delay. You finish the ribeye before you know you are full. You finish the brisket after.

It turns to gelatin. Slow cooked, the collagen melts into a gel that sits in the stomach, holds water, and leaves slowly. Gelatin has beaten every other protein in the trials that measure how long a meal keeps you full.

It is denser. More protein per bite, less water, and a fibrous grain the gut has to work through rather than wave past.

So the rule every farmer's wife knew and every steakhouse charges you to forget: the cuts that did some work fill you longer than the cuts that did none. Brisket, shin, cheek, oxtail, chuck, neck.

They cost a third of the ribeye, because the tender crowd never learned to cook them. They carry the glycine and the gelatin the muscle meat cannot. They keep you out of the fridge until morning.

The ribeye is dinner.

The brisket is dinner, and the reason you skip breakfast.

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

‘Woman is a dirty word’ as a culture of fear over sex and gender continues to plague the NHS, more than a year after the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling that “sex” in the Equality Act means biological sex, not gender identity.

Gender-critical beliefs are protected under the Equality Act 2010. Yet, despite last year’s Supreme Court ruling and the EHRC’s subsequent guidance, gender-critical cases remain the single biggest category of cases we handle at the Free Speech Union. The problem is arguably most acute in the NHS.

As Janet Murray writes in The Telegraph: “While changing rooms have become the most visible battleground in the conflict over sex and gender, they are just one symptom of a much deeper problem – an enduring NHS workplace culture in which challenging gender self-identification can still carry serious professional and social consequences, whatever the law says.”

For some women, the fear of a complaint, disciplinary action or even losing their job simply for raising concerns about biological males using female-only facilities is enough to silence them.

Some NHS workers also fear this culture could affect patient care, including by increasing the risk of a missed diagnosis.

According to one GP who spoke to The Telegraph, patients sometimes give their gender identity when doctors need to know their biological sex. This can mean probing further for clinically relevant information while trying not to cause offence.

Fiona McAnena, Director of Campaigns at Sex Matters, says fear has allowed gender policies to become embedded within the NHS, describing the atmosphere as “like life under a repressive regime”.

She added: “Most people disagree with the policy, but no one dares to object because no one knows who the informers are. Everyone has to bite their tongue and play along. You wear your pronoun badge and your Progress Pride lanyard in case you attract suspicion for not wearing them.”

Some female NHS staff also say internal LGBT networks wield significant influence over policies and communications within their trusts, while gender-critical employees are excluded from the same discussions.
Whatever the law says, a culture in which NHS staff are afraid to raise legitimate concerns about sex, safeguarding and patient care is a serious free speech problem.

Read more below 👇

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Your lungs are lined with saturated fat. Without it, every breath would collapse them like a wet bag.

Every cell membrane in your body is about half saturated fat, because that is what gives a cell a wall instead of a puddle.

Your brain runs on it. The insulation on every nerve is built with it.

Breast milk is nearly half saturated fat. Handed the job of designing the first food a human eats, nature filled it with the thing you were told to fear.

Your bones need it to get the calcium in.

Your immune system uses it. The fats in a mother's milk that kill bacteria in the baby's gut are saturated, the same ones in coconut and butter.

Your liver makes it. Eat a plate of bread and the surplus comes out the other side as saturated fat, because that is the form the body chooses to store energy in when it is allowed to choose.

Every animal on earth stores fat as saturated fat. Every animal that eats another animal has eaten saturated fat for 500 million years.

Every human before 1911 cooked in it: butter, lard, tallow, suet, dripping, ghee. It was the only fat in the kitchen and heart attacks were a curiosity.

In 1961 the American Heart Association declared war on it.

In 1977 the government joined in.

The nation swapped it for seed oil and margarine on instruction.

Obesity tripled. Diabetes went from one in a hundred to one in ten. Heart disease stayed the number one killer, with a bigger budget.

The fat that lines your lungs, walls your cells, wraps your nerves, feeds your baby and stores your energy has been on a government watch list for 65 years.

Mission accomplished.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Menopause does not cause the weight, the fog, the bad sleep or the flushes. It removes the hormone that was hiding what the diet was already doing.

For 20 years oestrogen cleaned up after the plate:

- Kept insulin sharp, so the oats looked harmless
- Held the appetite down, so the small lunch felt like enough
- Kept the fat on the hips, out of the way
- Held the muscle on less protein than it needed
- Kept the sleep whole

Then it goes. The plate is the same plate.

- The oats spike her blood sugar
- The same lunch leaves her hungry by 11
- The fat moves to the middle
- The muscle leaves
- The sleep breaks, and the worse the blood sugar, the worse the flushes

The surgery hands her: more wholegrains, less red meat, more cardio, fewer calories.

The exact plate the hormone was mopping up after, with the hormone gone and the portion cut.

Then the numbers get worse, and that is called ageing.

The carnivore plate does what the hormone did:

- No carbohydrate. No spike. No crash
- Fat and protein that switch the hunger off
- Enough beef to hold the muscle, without counting a gram
- Cholesterol and saturated fat, the raw material for every hormone she has left
- No seed oil, no packet, no background fire

Beef, eggs, butter, until full.

The diet was failing her at 30. Oestrogen was paying the bill.

At 50 the bill arrived, and they handed her the same diet and called it a plan.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

1922 to 1987, America.

Sugar intake: +5%.

Seed oil intake: +605%.

Obesity: +532%.

One of those lines is flat. Two of them are the same line.

The sugar was already there. Your grandmother had the sugar bowl on the table in 1922 and a waist you could put two hands round.

What arrived in the middle of the century was the oil. Cottonseed, then soybean, then corn, then rapeseed. In the margarine, the fryer, the biscuit, the sauce, the bread, the crisps, the baby formula.

By 1987 the average American was eating more seed oil in a week than his grandfather ate in a year, and the fat on his body had started to change to match.

Linoleic acid in human body fat has roughly tripled since 1960. Your fat is now made of the bottle.

The sugar has been on trial for a century. The oil has never been charged.

The country got fat on the fat it was told was healthy.

[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn @AI_Solzhenitsyn]

"The Communist ideology is to destroy your social order.”

[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn @AI_Solzhenitsyn]

"All of the Communist Parties, upon attaining power, have become completely merciless. But at the stage before they achieve power, it is necessary to use disguises."

[Dr Clare Craig @ClareCraigPath]

Nice diagram.

Folic acid binds 10 times more tightly to folate receptor alpha which is the gateway for folate entering the brain.

It does not let go.

Functionally it blocks the receptor for normal folates.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Ötzi was pronounced a vegetarian from a strand of his hair, and then somebody found his stomach.

1991. Two hikers in the Ötztal Alps come across a body melting out of a glacier at 3,200 metres. Ötzi, as he is named, turns out to be 5,300 years old, a Copper Age man in his forties with a copper axe, a longbow, a quiver, a flint dagger, and an arrowhead in his left shoulder that killed him. The most examined corpse in history.

In the 1990s researchers took a hair sample and read the nitrogen in it. The number came back low, and the verdict went round the world: the Iceman ate mostly plants. A vegetarian in the Alps, 3,000 years before Christ, quietly confirming everything a 1990s food pyramid wanted confirmed. It fitted the story, so it stuck, and it went into the books.

His stomach was missing. Or rather, it had shrivelled and shifted up under his ribs during five millennia in the ice, and nobody found it until a radiologist went through the scans again years later. It was full. He had eaten a large meal shortly before he was shot, which is the one piece of luck in the whole affair, because a stomach keeps a receipt and a hair keeps a rumour.

In 2018 a team went through what was in it with every tool a laboratory has.

Ibex. The fat of an alpine goat, roughly half the entire stomach contents by residue. Ibex muscle, too, with the fibres intact, which means it had been dried or lightly smoked and never cooked above 60 degrees. Red deer alongside it. Some unmilled einkorn wheat, and traces of a poisonous fern that was probably wrapping or medicine. In his kit, for the road ahead, he was carrying more dried ibex and deer.

A man walking into the high Alps in the cold, with a fight behind him and a climb ahead, and his last meal was fat, then meat, then a bit of grain on the side.

That is the Copper Age packed lunch. Half of it was lard, and the man carrying it was fit enough at 45 to be climbing a glacier with a fresh wound in his hand.

The vegetarian verdict was read off his hair, and it was wrong, and it ran for twenty years because it agreed with the pamphlet. His stomach had the receipt the whole time.

He died with an arrow in his back and the right dinner in him. Most people manage neither.

[J.K. Lunden @Jklunden]

Rubio talks about Marxism!

This is precisely what has captured Irish eduction and we've covered this in podcasts and at conferences.

If you're not oppressed you're the oppressor and haven't been a kind ally.

It's psychologically abusing our innocent children.

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

“When people stop talking, that’s when you get violence.” It was as if Charlie Kirk had uttered a prophecy, writes FSU External Affairs Officer @_ConnieShaw.

A year ago today, Charlie Kirk — a formidable defender and promoter of free speech — was assassinated in front of hundreds of students at Utah Valley University. His death should have been a wake-up call about the danger posed by those who resort to violence rather than engaging in debate or agreeing to disagree.

Connie writes: “Some could not comprehend that it was possible to disagree with many things Charlie Kirk said but still admire him for his skill and willingness to debate, and even feel distress and sadness about his death. In other words, they couldn’t comprehend the ability to have standard human empathy.”

Sadly, Charlie’s death did not mark a line in the sand. Former Conservative minister and Reform UK spokesperson Ann Widdecombe was also brutally murdered.

In stark contrast to those who seek to silence their opponents, the Free Speech Union offered support to both George Abaraonye, the former Oxford Union president-elect who celebrated Kirk’s death, and Heather Herbert, who celebrated Ann’s murder. Freedom of speech must be defended consistently, including for those whose views we find abhorrent.

Connie says Charlie’s work inspired her to speak proudly about her own beliefs. One encouraging development since his murder is that a growing number of young British activists have begun debating in public. Regardless of whether you agree with them, every time they are attacked by those who want them to shut up, Charlie Kirk is proven right again.

Read more from Connie below 👇

[Dr Shawn Baker 🥩 @SBakerMD]

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