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Oracle geek, cat person, music fan, gamer, jewellery maker, 45 percenter, Gaelic learner. Retweets interesting things, doesn't necessarily agree with them.

[Joni Askola @joni_askola]

Is it the smell of burning oil after Ukrainian drone strikes?

[dominic dyer @domdyer70]

Exploiting animals for a photo op is NEVER a good look.

Animals at tourist traps are often abused, imprisoned, & separated from their families 💔 There are so many fun excursions you can take that don't involve animals! Don't be that kind of tourist!

[Dr Peter Caddick-Adams #StandwithUkraine @militaryhistori]

Factually incorrect. Numerous French Resistance women enabled D-Day, and reporters such as Martha Gelhorn were present. The landings continued for all of June, July & August, which saw numerous female staff landing in Normandy.

[Joanna Cherry KC @joannaccherry]

Allegations of cash for seats coming on top of serious questions for the Crown & the Police make it increasingly likely there will be a Westminster inquiry. Scottish public life will be fixed from above unless the Scottish Government has the guts to set up an independent inquiry.

[🇬🇧King 🇬🇧 @King0243_PJC]

A brutal reminder: Not one person in this photo will ever apply for a job, scrape by on a wage, or fear the taxman.

They were born with a divine right to rule over you. You were born to fund their palaces, private jets, and security, generation after generation.

Your children and unborn grandchildren are already signed up as taxpayers so the kids in this picture never have to lift a finger.

This isn’t conspiracy. It’s the system working exactly as designed.

[UNN @UnityNewsNet]

These are the planned Data Centres for Scotland alone!

The average centre consumes up to 5 MILLION GALLONS PER DAY which is why they want to locate them to water rich Scotland.

[Volcaholic 🌋 @volcaholic1]

Be afraid!

[VisionaryVoid @VisionaryVoid]

The Mother Who Smelled Something Wrong.

In the spring of 1934, a Norwegian woman named Borgny Egeland walked into Oslo University Hospital with a question that no doctor in the country had been able to answer. Her two children, Liv, age six, and Dag, age four, had been born normal and then stopped developing. They could not speak. Dag could not sit without support. She had taken them to doctor after doctor for years. None of them could tell her why.

What none of them had noticed, or asked about, was the smell. Borgny had been noticing it for years: a sharp, musty odor in her children's urine. She mentioned it to a physician colleague of her husband, who happened to know of an unusual doctor at the university hospital. His name was Asbjørn Følling, and before becoming a medical doctor he had trained as a chemical engineer. He agreed to see the children mainly, as he later admitted, "because I did not want to be hostile to the mother."

Følling ran the standard battery of urine tests in his improvised attic laboratory. All came back normal. Then, almost as an afterthought, he added a few drops of ferric chloride, a routine reagent used to detect diabetic ketones. The solution was supposed to turn purple. It turned a vivid, unprecedented green. He checked the medical literature. No one had ever recorded this reaction before. He checked both children's samples again a week later. Green again. Over the next six weeks, working mostly alone, Følling processed twenty-two liters of the Egeland children's urine under an inert nitrogen atmosphere, filtering, isolating, purifying, until he identified the unknown compound: phenylpyruvic acid, a substance never previously found in a living human body.

He then screened 420 intellectually disabled patients at institutions across Oslo. Eight more tested positive, including two siblings. Five months after Borgny first walked through his door, Følling published his paper identifying a previously unknown inherited metabolic disease. He called it oligophrenia phenylpyruvica. The world would rename it phenylketonuria, PKU. Today, every baby born in the developed world is tested for it in the first days of life, and a simple dietary adjustment begun at birth prevents the intellectual disability entirely. Untreated, the condition destroys the developing brain. Caught in time, children with PKU grow up without any impairment at all.

Asbjørn Følling received the Fridtjof Nansen Prize, the Anders Jahres Award, and the Kennedy Foundation Award. He received honorary degrees and state honors across Europe. He did not receive the Nobel Prize. In the words of his field, he is "by many considered the most important medical scientist never to receive the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine."

He found the answer in the smell no one else had asked about.

[Prez @PrezLives2022]

So Ivanka claims she came across this island swimming in the Mediterranean and she came ashore barefoot to explore the islands😂😂

Here is the problem with this: First, the island is in the Adriatic Sea. Secondly, the Albanians say the island is full of snakes making her barefoot story implausible. Lastly, in the words of Steve Schmidt, the island is full of landmines thus making her extremely lucky or a liar. I’m going with liar.

[Malcolm Clark @TwisterFilm]

The Murrell conviction isn’t the end of the story but only the start. The fact no-one is allowed to openly discuss this more momentous scandal tells you all you need to know about the corruption at the heart of the Scottish Establishment. 👇

[Simon Schama @simon_schama]

This is a special kind of loathsomeness: a blend of historical deafness , grotesque stupidity, and comically ludicrous self- importance . As if the little people's rage against immigration somehow is superior to the war against the 3rd Reich and entitles this comic book nobody to lecture the actual heroes

[Dischord @Prae54Rae]

A wee lesson on how colonialist economics work for all the gullible yoons who support and defend another country who are asset-stripping us. I suspect this will go right over their brainwashed heads, but we live in hope.

[Joni Askola @joni_askola]

MAGA and pro-Russian influencers love to claim that Europe has become a dangerous wasteland while their own countries are perfectly safe.

The actual data completely exposes this narrative as a ridiculous lie.

Data proves that Europe is significantly safer than both the United States and Russia. While Western European nations maintain an average intentional homicide rate of around 1 per 100,000 people, the United States and Russia suffer from violent crime rates that are five to seven times higher (!!!). The claim that Europe is an unsafe warzone is completely detached from statistical reality.

Xenophobic influencers push this false narrative primarily as an excuse to attack immigration and Islam. However, their arguments fall apart under basic scrutiny because their own domestic demographics completely contradict their talking points.

For instance, pro-Kremlin accounts completely ignore the fact that Russia houses the largest Muslim population in Europe by far, numbering up to twenty million citizens. Similarly, MAGA commentators attack immigration despite the United States being a nation entirely built by immigrants and their descendants. The idea that Europe is uniquely dangerous is a stupid deception, as the numbers show it remains the safest of the three by a massive margin

[Dr. Catharine Young @DrCatharineY]

A reminder that pasteurization is the process that gently heats milk for….checks notes…15 seconds to…checks notes again…kill pathogens while retaining nutritional value and flavor.

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

Absolute nonsense

AZT saved lives

[Volcaholic 🌋 @volcaholic1]

More video of today’s eruption from Russia’s Shiveluch volcano in Kamchatka.

The volcano sent ash up to around 12 km into the atmosphere, triggering a red aviation warning.

📹 Марина Коллегова

[Bruce Bowman @boswelltoday]

The headline below does not name Airdrie and Shotts.

But it does make @theSNP’s history of candidate-selection rows look even more deserving of scrutiny.

In Airdrie and Shotts, Cllr Paul Di Mascio reportedly believed local SNP members would have backed him. Instead, he says he was put through a process involving Kirsten “Everest” Oswald, told he had failed and Anum Qaisar - daughter of a millionaire businessman - was selected, later becoming MP.

Di Mascio alleged the process reflected influence from Peter Murrell and Nicola Sturgeon. The SNP said Qaisar was selected by a ballot of members.

Fine. Then let’s see the process, the scoring, the minutes and the decision-making.

What I do not understand is why @JohnSwinney, supposedly trying to restore trust, has promoted Oswald when her name has also been linked to complaints about NEC scrutiny, finance questions and party governance.

Maybe it is all coincidence.

Maybe every uncomfortable question around SNP democracy just happens to pass the same desk.

But Scotland is entitled to ask why someone so close to so many disputed internal processes has been rewarded with ministerial office rather than subjected to proper scrutiny.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

It’s D-Day. Trump’s first post on Truth Social is a bizarre AI video about how much people love Donald Trump. Not a word about the heroes who stormed the beaches of Normandy.

That tells you everything you need to know about Trump.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

In 1975 companies in the UK paid out an average of 72% of their money in wages.

Now it is just 59%.

But wages are 'too high'.

So they say.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

The UK is spending £369m refurbishing Buckingham Palace for King Charles, who has £22bn and gets £500m more a year.

He can pay for his own renovations, £369m is more than England spends on building Social Housing in an entire year for the whole country.