amanda busby

Now on Bluesky as amandabusby19. See you there.

[amanda busby @amandabusby19]

...and it's inside the NHS

[Michael Anderson @Slothenater]

CIA can't operate without it.
Pentagon can't function without it.
And Wall Street can't trade without it.

Yet most people have no idea what Palantir does behind closed doors.

Here’s how the U.S. government allowed a $300B surveillance company to track your every move: 🧵

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

The bull was shocked for a moment.

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

A traditional technique practiced by young shepherds of Ethiopia’s Banna tribe.

They walk on stilts to watch over their livestock in tall grass, navigate wetland areas, and stay safe from snakes and predators such as lions and leopards.

It demands strength, balance, and training starting from childhood.

[Callum Lyon @CallumLyon]

Bank: "Sorry, you can't afford a £750 a month mortgage."

Also bank: "But paying your landlord £1,200 a month so he can pay his mortgage is fine, no problem at all."

Make it make sense.

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

A sea lion in Argentina climbed onto a fishing vessel, found a bed, and passed out.

The fishermen only realized it when they heard loud snoring.

Guess they've got a new deckhand. 😂

[Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 @joncoopertweets]

🚨Iran and Oman finalized a deal to control the Strait of Hormuz, charging ships fees for passage & potentially blocking ships from “hostile countries.”

Trump plans to accept a deal on Iran’s terms. This would be America’s most blatant loss in war ever.
https://t.co/4wi0ZIQFhd

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Wow. All the chickens are coming home to roost. To everyone who believes the current story about Farage’s £ is magically different from the one I was destroyed over - & a large chunk of UK press remained completely silent about - please take a long hard look at yourself

[Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree]

Suddenly the White House ballroom has a new name after a federal appeals court panel found that President Trump demolished and built something at the White House without authorization or funding from Congress

[GBC @GBC_Press]

🚨 BREAKING:

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi:

“Egypt charges between $200,000 and $700,000 for each transit through the Suez Canal; for large container ships or tankers, the amount can exceed $1 million.

Turkey charges transit fees for the Istanbul Strait.

Canada charges fees for the St. Lawrence Seaway.

Panama collects between $100,000 and $450,000 for each transit; the cost for large Neopanamax vessels passing through the Panama Canal can reach $500,000.

The United States charges fees for the St. Lawrence Seaway.

Iran, however, has refused for decades to charge fees for transit through the Strait of Hormuz. It has made passage free! Despite all the accusations, sanctions, and isolation it has faced, it did so.

And you still expect me to believe that Iran is the ‘bad guy’ here?”

[tim russ @timruss2]

Grift and racist all in one!!

[Paul Lewis @paullewismoney]

Every easyJet flight will carry a burden of debt - and passengers will pay the price https://t.co/EZO1Stvv7J as private equity takes over a cash rich, profitable, and successful airline.

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

$4 BILLION. That’s how much the Trump Administration has now spent paying companies to cancel offshore wind projects that would have lowered your electric bill.

Yes, you heard that right: they are PAYING to keep more energy off the grid and your bills higher.

The latest deal hands a foreign energy company $1.2 billion to abandon offshore wind projects off New York, California, and Louisiana.

And we've seen them pull this scam before. They paid a company nearly $1 billion to invest in gas projects, and it turned out the company was already planning to make those investments anyway. Trump got nothing for you in return.

He hates wind power so much that he has now spent nearly $4 billion of your money making it disappear.

Twelve leases canceled, billions of taxpayer dollars gone, and power for millions of homes wiped away just like that.

You’re paying for this twice: once when the government spends your tax dollars to block the cheapest energy available, and again on your electric bill when utilities have no choice but to keep running expensive coal instead.
https://t.co/t2Z2DpbNDZ

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

So while 26 million people in England and Wales are living under a hosepipe ban last night this is happening on a golf club in north London.

What am I missing?

[love @writessandra9]

Bee removal ,the second clip got me 😂 laughing really hard .

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

EasyJet agrees to £5.7bn takeover by US private equity firm.

What could go wrong?

It would be loaded with debt, likely to face staff/wage cuts.

Expect rise in stealth charges.
https://t.co/iP3YN2Q6Tb

[We Assess and Draw Cats 🐾 @WeAssessCats]

This is the level of unbothered I'm striving for

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

All is not well with the US dollar: The US will oppose foreign banks using their dollar reserves as the house of cards can collapse
https://t.co/ShuWEx182Z

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is what it has come to. He’s now ripped up the South Lawn to build a $5 million granite helipad, and wants it torn out and redone because the ground is slanted.

Weeks of work, all being dismantled because he doesn’t like the slope of the lawn.

Just the latest in a string of embarrassing examples.

He demolished the entire East Wing for a $400 million unauthorized ballroom. A federal judge ordered him to stop, ruling that no statute comes close to giving a president the power to build there without congressional approval, and reminding him that he is the steward of the White House, not the owner. While he fights the ruling in court, the East Wing is already gone.

And who can forget $15 million in no bid contracts for a Reflecting Pool that peeled and grew algae within weeks, which he blamed on imaginary vandalism so outrageous even his own sycophants pointed to rushed and botched work.

The Constitution gives Congress control over federal property for a reason. The people’s house is not his to bulldoze on a whim.

It is all so pathetic, and the country deserves better.
https://t.co/Z4eTLPe3WP

[Lady Barbara |Founder & Data Scientist @data_barbs]

The world is going mad.

I purchased a £540 HP printer for work, I subscribed to the HP ink plan (it forces you to) and then realised I wasn’t printing as much as I needed so had a backlog of ink at home. I go to cancel the plan, because why not.

Turns out because I am no longer subscribed to the HP ink plan I can no longer use my printer (even if I bought ink from Amazon).

This is the wildest thing known to man. So I have not had to subscribe albeit only £3 for 10 pages 😅. But it’s the principle. I bought a printer, I didn’t lease a printer. WTH

[Jody McIntyre @jodymcintyre_]

🚨I have now received further information on Wes Streeting’s financial arrangements.

Labour Defence Secretary’s cabinet position is becoming increasingly untenable.

The Streeting Receipts Pt. 2, published here tomorrow.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Raleigh bike brand faces chop, Dutch owner enters insolvency.

Accell bought Raleigh in 2012. Bought by private equity KKR in 2022 for $1.8bn, loaded it with debt

Cut staffing/investment. Product recalls increased. Creditors suffered write-offs in 2025.
https://t.co/hVfmIbadnZ