Bjørn Einar Bjørk-Eliassen

NEKRO - the pointiest needle in the haystack,
Co-founder of Mensa Rogaland,
Former Activity Officer of Mensa Norway,
Bender of Cars, Rider of Goats.

[Laserbrille 💚 @Laserbrille]

Pro-Tipp von #Haaland:
Wenn du immer einen Gegenspieler mit dir rumträgst stehst du nie im Abseits.

[Muy.Mona/🇪🇸💚 @Capitana_espana]

La situación de Europa explicada en un video 👇

[Right Said Fred @TheFreds]

🤣🤣

[Grifty @TheGriftReport]

Umm...👀

[Matt Casey 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧 @MattCas04807118]

Well done mum! 👏👏

You shouldn’t have to but bloody well done! 😡

[Francesco 🇮🇹 @SaP011]

An Italian girl politely asks an African immigrant to stop bothering the customers.

The response? Hands around her throat.

It’s only going to get worse until we start mass remigration.

[Jack Subpar @SuisizeMe]

In my entire life I've only heard the phrase "boys will be boys" used when like a 7 year old breaks his leg trying to jump off a roof using an umbrella as a parachute

[Robbie @Robbie_Reasons]

The opportunity for a better life is not something we owe immigrants.

It is something we owe our children.

[BanksyCat @Banksycat]

The ZOOMED IN FOOTAGE shows it clearly.

Cody Harper is halfway to his feet, still stumbling up from a beating, when an officer rushes him and pins him against the shutters. She never says she's police. He's in pure fight-or-flight, still thinking it's another attacker.

So he swings to get free.

That's it. That's the whole crime they're taking him to court for.

He's at Birmingham Magistrates Court on JULY 23. That's a first hearing, not the trial. He enters his plea, and if he pleads not guilty, he can take it to a JURY. Twelve ordinary people, watching that same footage.

Prison is unlikely for a first-timer. But that was never really the point. A conviction still leaves him with a criminal record, and depending on how it goes, that can trail him for years, turning up on the background checks employers run before they hand you a job.

For a lad who was jumped in the street, that's the real cost here. Not a cell. A mark against his name he did nothing to earn.

Now the bit that should stop you cold.

Watch the SECOND officer. She walks straight up to the men who beat him, has a word, and lets them stroll off FREE. Then comes back and helps arrest the lad they attacked.

Those attackers? Weeks on. Never even arrested.

1:30am, Broad Street. Cody, 20, is set on by a group. One floors him. Another swings at the back of his head. The police are right there. They don't chase the men doing it. They grab the VICTIM.

Then the officer snarls at him, you're going to walk to the car, you f***ing dick. Try that in the street yourself and see how fast you're nicked.

Then came their statement. No concerns over the officer. And please, stop sharing the footage.

So X's own readers pinned a note under it. The footage disproves the police's account. Share it far and wide, to get justice for the man arrested. Fourteen million have seen it now.

The police asked you to look away, and the public fact-checked them on their own post.

This force is in special measures. Graded INADEQUATE on investigating crime and protecting the public. HALF the investigations inspectors checked had failed. They may have failed to log 46,000 uses of force. Their Chief Constable walked out in disgrace in January. Their crime-prediction tech gets it wrong 8 times out of 10.

It’s not just Birmingham.

Forces everywhere got flooded with green recruits in a hiring rush while the experienced ones walked. Training and vetting couldn't keep up. So now young officers with barely any life experience are making split-second calls they aren't ready for.

Then there's the guidance. After Henry Nowak, the police are reviewing their own anti-racism policies, because officers are so busy second-guessing the optics of race, they miss the job right in front of them. Protect the victim. Arrest the attacker.

Remember Nowak? Handcuffed as he lay dying, because his killer cried racism first and they believed the liar.

Same instinct. Grab whoever looks like less trouble. Miss the actual crime.

That's not one bad officer. That's a broken force, green recruits, and a rulebook with its priorities upside down.

They found time to charge him. They still can't find the men who beat him.

Nobody's had a trial. Cody's owed his day in court like anyone. Say that plainly.

But watch that second officer let his attackers walk, read the note the public stapled to the police's own words, and ask yourself one thing.

Who are the police actually protecting here.

Because it isn't him.

[EuroMaximalist 🇪🇺 @euromaximal]

There was no colonialism in Cape Verde. The island was empty when the Portuguese arrived. It was rightfully Portuguese, and no one else’s.

Cape Verdians wanted independence and that’s fair. Now it’s rightfully theirs. But there was no colonialism involved.

[Sensurround @ShamashAran]

My ancestors were slaves, two hundred and fifty years ago as well.

I'm not going to spend my life acting like history happened to me. It didn't. I'm living a life that my ancestors couldn't have imagined: safer, wealthier, freer, with opportunities they never had. Whatever horrors they endured, they led, eventually, to me standing here today.

You weren't a slave. Neither was I. At some point you have to stop treating inherited grievance like it's a personality.

The reality is that today we all have the opportunity to succeed or fail on our own merits. In some ways, if anything, modern society bends over backward trying to compensate for the sins of people who died centuries ago, people who had no connection to anyone alive today except by accident of ancestry.

Carrying around someone else's chains long after they've rusted away is volunteering to stay in a prison that no longer exists. It's stupid. Stop.

The only thing you're actually being held captive by is your own resentment.

[News Now Yorkshire @NewsNowYorks]

Police in Leeds are now arresting people for insulting Muhammad

[Sensurround @ShamashAran]

I'm continually amazed that we have reached a point where a movie can be both terrible and culturally significant, and people act as though this is some kind of paradox requiring a team of physicists. Conservatives aren't celebrating this film because they think, "Yes! Murder is the ideal public policy." They're celebrating it because it accidentally stumbled into exposing a problem that polite society has spent years pretending doesn't exist.

First, it got you talking about selective excuses for crime. That's more public discussion than many serious reports have managed to generate. Europe, in particular, has spent years trying to smother this conversation under a mattress. You're surprised when someone lights the mattress on fire?

Second, Germany banned it. Governments have spent centuries proving that if you want everyone to see something, the fastest way is to announce that nobody is allowed to see it. This is called the Streisand Effect, which governments somehow keep rediscovering like toddlers discovering electrical outlets.

Third, revenge fantasies resonate with people who believe the justice system has stopped taking their suffering seriously. That doesn't mean revenge is good. It means people naturally fantasize about justice when they stop believing they'll ever get any. This is not exactly groundbreaking psychology.

Finally (and this is the point you keep sailing past like it's a lighthouse) the movie is a warning, not a blueprint. When institutions stop enforcing justice fairly, people don't magically become enlightened philosophers. They don't all become Batman. They become unstable narcissists, psychopaths, gangs, militias, and warlords. History is practically one long documentary about this.

So no, the lesson isn't "be like the psycho." The lesson is "stop creating the conditions where the psycho starts looking like the only guy who thinks anything is wrong."

It's exhausting having to explain that depicting a disaster is not the same thing as endorsing it. If the justice system doesn't punish crime, then murder-by-psychopath becomes the only option. It's still a bad option.

[David Turver @7Kiwi]

So when a heat pump uses electricity to warm your home on a cold evening, it's powered by wonderful renewables. But when it operates in reverse to provide aircon on summer days, at a time of max solar output, it's powered by nasty hydrocarbons? 🤪

[Jack @FFS_WhatNow]

"Fleeing persecution"

[Lucy Connolly @LucyTCWife]

No, no, no!!
You don't get to apologise for a poorly judged Tweet.

Its a serious criminal offence, now known to be a Cat 1A charge.

Straight to prison with you, NO BAIL, no mitigation!

I didn't make the rules! 🤷‍♀️

[Metatron @pureMetatron]

The best World Cup team photo of all time.
Be proud of your ancestors.

[Count Dankula @CountDankulaTV]

Chilling with my daughter and she was getting me to draw stuff for her.

"Draw Santa"

I drew Santa.

"Draw me"

I drew her.

"Draw me getting a present from Santa"

I drew exactly that.

"Now draw Sadie getting a present from Santa"

I drew it.

"Now draw a cow getting a present from Santa"

I said "What? Why do you wa-"

"DRAW A COW GETTING A PRESENT FROM SANTA"