mattb.74

Coco’s Dad. London(ish). Liverpool(ish). Human(ist). Creative Agency owner. Labradoraphile.

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@BBCBreakfast wanna hear the one about British Airways disappearing flight (BA2621). Diverted to Munich due to weather, fair enough. But the coach that took us there from Innsbruck stranded us (all passengers and bags) at 11:45pm in Munich with no plane and no information….

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@90sfootball R9 twice

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@Rainmaker1973 cheese rolling got out of hand again...

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

He’s 100% right.I heard nothing but complete truth here. looks like an American Revolution, made in China! American government works for billionaires and wars while the Chinese government work for their people …that’s the difference.

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@gunsnrosesgirl3 Avocado

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@orthodoxluigi @ashkosko86 lol daily mail and ‘facts’ are not comfortable bedfellows #dailyfail

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@TheProjectUnity Welcome to wacko town in the comments here 😂🤡

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@RealAlexJones Pipe down with this absolute nonsense

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@Chris481808 @maddenifico

[PoliticsJOE @PoliticsJOE_UK]

Everyone Hates Elon activists have stuck an ad on a London bus stop reading "Elon Musk is a bellend, signed, the UK."

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@AuntSassyAss 🇺🇦

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

As Trump THREATENS Canada, I'm just embarrassed.

On one screen, you’ve got Trudeau effortlessly discussing quantum computing like he’s your favorite science teacher on a caffeine high;

On the other, Trump’s over there mangling a uranium briefing so badly, you half expect the periodic table to file a restraining order.

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@TheCinesthetic

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@tomfgoodwin Amen, but the CFO demands measurement or budgets will decrease so they gotta measure something

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@gunsnrosesgirl3

[JonnyUtd @Fx1Jonny]

Old but gold. Akala absolutely incinerates Tommy Robinson.

He got fully BBQ’D 😭😭

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Wow! Must watch car crash interview with Nadine Dorries

Nadine Dorries, "I'm a victim of child sexual abuse as well, through the Church of England"

Victoria Derbyshire, "When did you realise you wanted another inquiry?"

ND, "When the call came for one"

VD, "From Elon Musk?"

ND, "I wasn't aware the problem was as widespread as it was... The inquiry was more further reaching than the grooming gangs.. A national inquiry on the grooming gangs and the people who knew"

VD, "So why didn't the Conservatives do that?"

ND, "That's a good question"

VD, "You were in government"

ND, "No, I was Culture Secretary, this didn't go anywhere near my desk"

VD, "You were sat around the cabinet table"

ND, "The entire time I was in cabinet this was never discussed"

VD, "Why?"

ND, "I.. I.."

VD, "Because there are a number of Conservatives who were in government who are calling for it now"

ND, "I can't answer the question.. A good person who can answer the question would be Suella Braverman and Priti Patel"

VD, "There's no record of you speaking in the parliamentary chamber about any of the local inquiries or ever calling for a national inquiry"

ND, "You don't have to stand up in the chamber and speak about something to support something.. I attended meetings in committee rooms"

VD, "Tomorrow the Conservatives are calling for another inquiry.. That's despite the Conservatives setting up that 7 year £200 million independent inquiry on child sexual abuse.. And then the Conservative government didn't implement any of the 20 recommendations.. Isn't calling for another one the very definition of political opportunism?"

ND, "Frequently inquiries take place and none of the recommendations are implemented"

VD, "The same people who didn't implement those recommendations calling for another inquiry, isn't that the definition of political opportunism?"

ND, "Its a definition of what we need to do to fix how government deals with inquiries"

VD, "You had 14 years to do that"

ND, "Dealing with recommendations made from people outside of Westminster, the people who put them in place are civil servants"

VD, "So it's the civil servants fault?"

ND, "No, what I'm saying your dealing with something outside of the normal processes so maybe it can't be delivered by government"

VD, "Well the Conservatives didn't deliver any of the 20 recommendations"

Narrator: Nadine Dorries blames the process for why the Conservatives didn't deliver, while Labour use the process to start delivering, make it make sense

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@goddek

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This is again a project of an unfathomable scale that's just been completed in China and barely anyone has heard of it in the rest of the world https://t.co/US51aTcbK0

China has just finished constructing a continuous 3,046-kilometer (1,892-mile) green barrier - made of plants and trees - completely encircling the Taklamakan Desert, the world's second-largest shifting sand desert which is about the size of Germany (!).

To put this in perspective, this is like building a living wall from Paris to Istanbul, or from Los Angeles to Chicago – except they built it in one of the world's most inhospitable environments.

They spent about 40 years building this "green wall". The final 285 kilometers was completed in 2024 on November 28. They built the "wall" with desert-hardy plants like Populus euphratica (desert poplar), Haloxylon (saxaul), and Tamarix (salt cedar), along with innovative sand-control engineering and solar panel installations.

The objective of the project is to contain the desert's expansion and to protect surrounding agricultural areas and cities from sandstorms. Before this project, many towns in the region had to be relocated multiple times due to encroaching sand. For instance, the town of Qira in Xinjiang had to move three times in its history, with sand dunes once approaching as close as 1.5 kilometers from the town center.

This is easily one of human history's most ambitious and grandest ecological engineering projects. It's insane when you think about it: completely containing a desert the size of Germany!

And it's also insane how little attention this has received globally: sadly we've apparently lost the capacity to be impressed by such a project, let alone have the boldness of vision to conceive of one ourselves. All resulting in the fact that whilst China is out there completing 40-year missions to tame entire deserts, we can barely fix potholes in our roads.

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@STARFORCEHH @neiltyson What’s the connection between moral law and a moral law giver? Why does moral law have to be given by a higher power? This is nonsense…