Dave Brookfield

[Dave Brookfield @bot57298]

@elonmusk @BasilTheGreat @neuralink he would be a great early blind sight patient.

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@aaronjcash @PalmerLuckey Dam I hope it’s next year

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@LeftCoastFella @agraybee This is not Star Wars, it is an abomination.

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@RealEmirHan Fuck JJ Abrams

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@TruthFairy131 So that’s why you don’t want your nationality to become indigenous.

[Dave Brookfield @bot57298]

@TruthFairy131 According to the UN indigenous peoples has a different meaning than indigenous.
Indigenous of course are animals and plants from a specific region, whilst indigenous people are people who have been conquered and become a minority in the land that they lived in before conquest.

[Dave Brookfield @bot57298]

@TruthFairy131 So indigenous people are Māori, American Indians, Canadian Aboriginals or Australian Aboriginals.
But non indigenous people are Chinese, English, Russian, Indian, etc.
India was colonised by the British but they didn’t become a minority so that is why they aren’t indigenous.

[Dave Brookfield @bot57298]

@cjj_sun @stevenmarkryan I’m in Australia, they told me they don’t do American IPO’s, only Asian IPO’s if you have a HongKong account.

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Not Done Yet https://t.co/hQvNFiwpkE via @YouTube

[Dave Brookfield @bot57298]

@stevenmarkryan In Australia IBKR will let me proxy vote my TSLA but they don’t participate in American IPO’s

[NASA @NASA]

As communities gather this weekend, @AstroVicGlover reflects on the shared spaceship we all call home: Earth.

[Dave Brookfield @bot57298]

@TheBabylonBee Yep that’s me

[Proudofus.uk @ProudofusUK]

Britain called her a housewife. 📰

She’d mapped the molecule that saved the war.

Dorothy Hodgkin’s hands were destroying themselves. Rheumatoid arthritis twisting every joint, locking every finger. The instruments she needed were the size of pins.

She kept working. 🔬

1945. Soldiers dying of infected wounds. Penicillin could save them — but no one knew its molecular shape. Without that, you can’t mass-produce the drug.

Hodgkin mapped it. Seventeen atoms. Four years. With hands that could barely hold the equipment.

Penicillin went into mass production. Millions survived. 🌍

Then she went bigger. Vitamin B12. A hundred and eighty-one atoms. The most complex molecule ever mapped at the time. Eight years. They said it couldn’t be done.

She did it anyway.

1964. Nobel Prize in Chemistry. 🏆 The only British woman ever to win a science Nobel.

The Daily Mail headline? “Oxford housewife wins Nobel.”

She’d solved the molecule that saved the war. Cracked the one they said was impossible. And they called her a housewife.

But she wasn’t finished. Insulin. Seven hundred and eighty-eight atoms. She started in 1935. Finished in 1969. Thirty-four years. By the end, her hands were almost useless. ❤️

She taught at Oxford for half a century. One of her students was a young chemist named Margaret Roberts. Who became Margaret Thatcher. Thatcher hung Dorothy’s portrait in Downing Street.

Every antibiotic you’ve ever taken. Every insulin injection. Every life saved by understanding the shape of a molecule. That traces back to a woman whose hands were failing her, and who never stopped.

Stories like hers get buried. We put them in front of millions.

Help us keep these stories alive → https://t.co/rih7iKwVkN

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Be proud of us. 🙏🇬🇧

[Kaizen D. Asiedu @thatsKAIZEN]

No, the war in Iran is not about Israel.

Here's the history of U.S. - Iranian relations, and the current dilemma.

[Jammles @jammles9]

After the Islamic Republic of Iran was established in 1979, one of its earliest and most invasive policies was the enforcement of a mandatory hijab for women, implemented gradually through legal measures, workplace regulations, and public directives.

By 1980, the regime had intensified pressure on women to conform to this dress code, sparking a historic wave of resistance.

In a landmark protest that year, Iranian women of all backgrounds, Muslim and non-Muslim, veiled and unveiled, took to the streets, joining hands to assert their autonomy and challenge the state’s imposition.

The demonstration was not without its tensions: among the crowds were men who vocally supported the law, chanting slogans such as “death to the unveiled,” aiming to intimidate women into submission.

Yet despite this hostile environment, women stood together in solidarity, their diversity of attire becoming a powerful symbol of unity.

They collectively protested not only the mandatory hijab law but also the broader forces of reactionism that sought to curtail personal freedom and impose rigid control over their bodies.

Unfortunately, despite their courage and unity, the protest did not succeed in overturning the policy.

The mandatory hijab law was fully enforced, marking a painful setback for women’s rights in Iran.

[Proudofus.uk @ProudofusUK]

Before this, they decided if you were guilty by making you hold a red-hot iron bar.

If you burned, God had spoken.

You were guilty.

They called it trial by ordeal. It lasted centuries.

Then in 1215, on a riverbank in England, they wrote something down that changed the world forever.

No free man shall be imprisoned except by the lawful judgement of his peers.

Not the king. Not the church. Not a lord. Twelve ordinary people.

In 1670, a judge locked up a jury for refusing to convict. Starved them for two days. They still refused. One juror, Edward Bushel, took it to a higher court. And won.

From that moment, no judge in England could ever punish a jury for its verdict.

Over fifty countries use trial by jury today. All because eight hundred years ago, ordinary people decided that guilt was too important to leave to kings.

If you think this should be taught in schools, help us reach more people: https://t.co/rih7iKwVkN

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[Proudofus.uk @ProudofusUK]

In 1707, two thousand sailors DROWNED.
Not because of a storm.

Because nobody could tell where they were at sea 🇬🇧

This was the longitude problem. The deadliest puzzle in science.

Parliament offered £20,000 to anyone who could solve it.

Nearly four million today.

Every great scientist in Europe tried. Newton. Halley. The finest minds alive.

All of them failed.

The man who solved it was a carpenter from Yorkshire.

His name was John Harrison.

No formal education. No university. No wealthy patron. He taught himself clockmaking.

Built timepieces out of wood.

His idea was “simple”. If you know the exact time at home and the exact time at sea, you can calculate exactly where you are.

The problem?

No clock could keep accurate time on a moving ship. Heat warps metal. Cold contracts it. The ocean never stops moving.

Harrison spent DECADES on it.

H1. Twenty years of work. Not good enough.

H2. Better. Still not enough.

H3. Seventeen years. Over 700 parts.

Still not enough.

Then he did something nobody expected. He stopped building clocks.

He built a watch.

H4. Thirteen centimetres across. The most important watch ever made.

They sent it across the Atlantic. Eighty-one days at sea.

When they arrived, it had lost five seconds.

Five seconds. In eighty-one days. The problem was solved.

But here's the uncomfortable part.

They didn't give him the prize.

The Board of Longitude was run by astronomers.

The very men who'd been trying to solve it their own way.

The Astronomer Royal was both judge and competitor.

They changed the rules. Demanded his designs. Refused to pay.

A working-class carpenter had beaten every astronomer in Europe. And the establishment couldn't accept it.

Harrison was nearly EIGHTY before he got justice.

He went directly to King George III.

The king tested the watch himself and told Harrison to petition Parliament with the king's full backing.

Parliament paid. Harrison died three years later.

After his death, every ship on earth carried a chronometer based on his design.

Every GPS satellite. Every ship's navigation. Every flight path. All of it traces back to a carpenter from Yorkshire who taught himself to build a watch.

His watches are still at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich. Still ticking.

Still perfect.

The establishment tried to bury him once.

We're not letting it happen again 👇 https://t.co/rih7iKwnvf

Be part of us.

Be proud of us. 🇬🇧

[Dave Brookfield @bot57298]

@JNampijinpa Just found this British initiative you might be interested in, @ProudofusUK

[Proudofus.uk @ProudofusUK]

They STOPPED teaching the 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 ANGLO-SAXON 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 STORY.

Here’s a brief introduction to it. 🧵

Fifteen hundred years ago, England didn’t exist.

Angles. Saxons. Jutes. Open boats across the North Sea. They carved the island into seven warring kingdoms. ⚔️

But they built. Churches. Laws written in English, not Latin. Shires, your county was drawn by their hands over a thousand years ago.

Then the Vikings came. And nearly ended everything.

By 878, every kingdom had fallen. Every king had fled or died.

Except one. A 28-year-old hiding in a marsh called Alfred.

He fought back. Built fortified towns. Retook London. Wrote a legal code. Translated books into English.

He wanted a nation that could think, not just fight.

His daughter commanded armies. His grandson became the first King of all England. 927 AD. 👑🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

In 1066, the Normans destroyed them. For 200 years, the English were ruled by people who didn’t speak English.

But the Normans couldn’t kill what the Anglo-Saxons built.

The language survived. The shires survived. The common law survived.

The idea that a king answers to his people.

That survived.

It became Magna Carta. Parliament. The jury. Us.

Every word you’re reading right now is rooted in Anglo-Saxon English.

Next year, England turns 1,100. Most people don’t even know it has a birthday. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

We’re going deeper.

Follow so you don’t miss it. 🇬🇧🙏

What were you taught about the Anglo-Saxons at school? Or were they just… skipped?