Toady

Posting pictures I've taken of things I like.

[Toady @Toady99999]

@CerisePink4302 @declassifiedUK Fuck off. 'Israel' is going soon. Genocidal monsters. Can't happen too soon. The whole world hates the murderous excuse for a state.

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@Peston Yeah, change candidate my arse.

[Adam Hibbert @adhib]

The £2.25bn, 13,000 employee Environment Agency has no resource available to act when illegal landfill sites are reported to it, but does have time to threaten volunteers who act to clean up its mess...

https://t.co/pqwguMNFJF

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@CerisePink4302 @declassifiedUK That's my fucking point. Jury convicts for criminal damage but the judge sentences them for terrorism FOR WHICH THEY WERE NEVER ON TRIAL.

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@BlokeOnWheels Wealthy Unionists living on Deeside.

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@David__Osland What message of change is coming from Andy Burnham though?

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@MhairiHunter It's also the Labour unionist vote collapsing and going to Tories.

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@cuillin_glen @MarkGilles5627 Aberdeen South is a mix of some of the wealthiest and poorest parts of the area. Deeside is affluent, Torry is not. Unionist vots outweighs nationalist if you aggregate the votes. Here's 2024 result.

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@DollidarityArmy Burnham got more than the others added together so that's bullshit.

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@ElectionMapsUK Looks like Tories benefited from Labour collapse. Both are Unionist parties.

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@BareLeft @KaliBilli What did the govt expect when people are getting sentenced for crimes they were never found guilty of. Obvious this would happen.

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@SmollettMatthew @MrJ9_FFC @declassifiedUK Yes of course. The government has undermined the entire legal system.

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@jmhorp

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that numbers of people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war, and millions have been killed because of this obedience. ... Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves, and all the while the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem.”

— Howard Zinn

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@SkyNews It's not social media making children unhappy. It's society.

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@MartinSLewis I wonder whether you realise how unbelievably patronising you sound.

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@Helen_Whately Economically illiterate crap.

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@sciantificnew I wish I lived in your naive little world. It sounds nice.

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

Before & After…

If anyone doubts the power of community action over the @EnvAgency’s spineless inertia, you can walk to the outskirts of Ilford & walk along an ancient lost river to see for yourself.

With 10 days of intense effort by dedicated volunteers, the river River Roding Trust managed to clean up & restore 250 metres of the Aldersbrook (about 1/3 of the brook). This allows a direct comparison between the parts of the brook we restored & those we haven’t got round to yet.

These photos & videos are all from May 2026. The first is on a part of the Aldersbrook still to be restored & shows the old flood defences which are no longer needed & are killing the river but which the EA won’t remove unless we volunteers pay them £50,000 just for surveys. These defences have caused 2-3ft of stinking sludge & silt to build up over 70 years, such that the water in the brook is just a few centimetres deep. Combine with huge amounts of rubbish & and out of control knotweed infestation & the river ecosystem is essentially dead. A river that is older than England destroyed by official indifference.

A hundred metres away, and it’s a different story. The rubbish & the invasive species (I sprayed the knotweed myself last autumn) are gone. The silt that used to clog the river is now spread on the banks & rapidly providing fertile ground for native plants. Instead of sludge, there’s 2-3ft of water, so fish have returned to the brook for the first time in decades, along with dragon flies, herons & a nesting moorhen. We river guardians knew our intervention would make a difference, but have been shocked at quite how quickly nature has come back. The restored Aldersbrook is now a rare jewel: pretty much the last fully natural tidal brook in London.

The EA now has a choice. It can salvage some good from this situation & work with us to restore the remaining sections of the brook, or it can continue to do nothing. If the latter, river guardians *will* be back this winter to finish the job & the EA can see how well prosecuting volunteers for restoring a river without permission goes for them.