Capitansam

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[Capitansam @capitansam]

27 Club the #newsingle out now check it out 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾

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[Jason | 🇬🇧 🇿🇦 🇮🇱🇺🇲 @Ajaon_of_All]

Let me categorically Debunk this utter rot. @sainsburys.

I am a poultry Breeder. The hens that lay white eggs (Amberline/White Star) DO NOT have a lower carbon footprint.

Yes they eat a bit less and produce roughly the same amount of eggs as the Brown egg layers (Bovan/Lowman/ISA Brown) but they live shorter lives, are prone to dying suddenly when startled, a flighty and nervous and because they live shorter productive lives (12 -18mnths) vs brown 18/24mnths (both commercial farmed), you have to incubate more which is increased (Electricity/gas costs) and their eggs are not the same quality.

I breed and keep 20+ different breeds, including: ISA Brown hens and White Stars. All my hens are 100% free range, Not a single barn kept bird, I have ISA browns that are 5yrs old and still laying beautiful Brown eggs, I have not seen a White star live beyond 3yrs and certainly none have laid eggs past 18-24mnths.
White stars Lay themselves to death. They are slender birds and because they dont eat a lot, it drains their personal vitality to keep up laying the eggs you want to sell because of the nonsensical lie that they are "More Carbon Neutral"

You want to know about eggs, come talk to someone like me, Don't rely on some hairbrained imagination of a buyer who's trying to squeeze the profit margin for a few extra pennies at our expense and to the poor hens detriment.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

The UK now hosts more than 500 active data centres (the third largest in the world). They have been rammed through despite huge local community concerns about the impact on their local landscapes and energy and water consumption.

These enormous data centres are giant industrial facilities consuming vast quantities of electricity, water and land while placing increasing pressure on the UK’s energy infrastructure.

▪️Water consumption by data centres is expected to reach 9.3 trillion litres, while CO2 emissions will rise to 399 million tons.

▪️Annual power consumption from data centres is projected to double to 945 TWh by 2030, around ‌the ⁠same as the whole of Japan’s energy consumption, with AI accounting for 40% of the total.

▪️The rise of AI is accelerating this trend. The UK Government's Compute Roadmap notes that AI data centres can devote up to 40% of their energy consumption to cooling systems.

▪️It is estimated that data-centre power and water consumption could double by 2030 due to AI growth.

▪️Emerging research suggests large AI facilities can create localised warming effects around their sites, sometimes described as a “data heat island” effect.

Numerous campaigns against these data centres are being organised by local communities. No one voted for this. If you are involved in any of these local campaigns, please DM me and I’ll try and help you amplify your campaigns.

[Capitansam @capitansam]

@lucymatthews13 I'm sorry for your loss 🧡 my dad went a quieter way in his car. I hope for a world where we can own our grief without judgement and without the awkwardness that follows when no one knows what to say or do which leaves us more alone than before! Well done for all you are doing 😊

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

A motorway distribution park in the Midlands has 1.2 million square metres of empty roof.

A solar developer drove past it last Tuesday on his way to lease a field.

The field grows grass. Cattle graze the grass. The cattle become beef. The beef has been the only food on that land for 600 years and the only food it has ever been capable of producing.

The roof grows nothing. The roof has produced nothing in its entire existence. It was built to be a roof, on an industrial estate, on land that was already concrete.

The developer is going to the field anyway.

The reason is administrative. Leasing one field from one farmer takes one solicitor and one afternoon. Leasing a thousand roofs from a thousand logistics firms, supermarket chains, manufacturers, and local councils takes years of negotiation, ten thousand emails, and a planning application for each one.

The roofs are physically more suitable. The roofs are economically less convenient.

The planning system has been designed to optimise for convenience.

The pasture is the path of least resistance.

The leader of Lincolnshire County Council has called his county a dumping ground for projects that benefit other parts of the country. On 14 October 2025, the largest solar farm ever approved in the UK, 1,214 hectares of best and most versatile agricultural land, was waved through by the Secretary of State on appeal. The local council had objected. They were overruled.

The roofs are not full. The roofs are hard. The difference is being paid by the supermarket, by the family that used to eat the beef from that field, and by every village downstream of every field that follows.

The field cannot send a letter to the Department.

The solicitor already has.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

Labour has responded to the petition stating that a Digital ID will be introduced within this Parliament.

A cross-party effort in Westminster to resist that is now an absolute necessity.

I'm pleased to report even more signatures on our letter.

We will fight it in Parliament.

[Jim Ferguson @JimFergusonUK]

🚨 DIGITAL ID IS NOW COMING TO THE UK

I joined Redacted to discuss the UK Government’s proposed Digital ID system following King Charles’ speech to Parliament.

Why many Britons are raising concerns about privacy, governance, and digital infrastructure.

How Digital ID could reshape access to services and financial systems in the years ahead.

And why this debate is becoming one of the most important public conversations in Britain today.

This isn’t about panic.

It’s about awareness, transparency, and understanding where these systems may lead.

Watch the interview below.
@natalimorris @ClaytonMorris @RedactedNews

[Proudofus.uk @ProudofusUK]

There is a door in England that has been open since 1132. 🏛️

It was built during a civil war. The Anarchy. Villages burned. Crops destroyed. People starving.

Legend says it began with a peasant girl. She stopped a Bishop on his winter walk by the river outside Winchester. She begged him to help her people.

He didn't turn her away.

He was Henry de Blois. Grandson of William the Conqueror. Brother of King Stephen. One of the most powerful men in England. He could have done anything with that power.

He built a place where any stranger who knocked on the door could be given bread and ale. No questions asked.

It was called the Wayfarer's Dole. 🍞

And once it began, it never stopped.

Two hundred years later, the Black Death came. Half of England died. The bread kept being given.

When Henry VIII closed every monastery in the country, he left this one standing.

When Cromwell's army surrounded Winchester, the door stayed open through the siege.

Through the Wars of the Roses. Through the Civil War. Through both world wars.

Whatever Britain went through, the bread kept being given. ⏳

Today the place is called the Hospital of St Cross. It sits just outside Winchester, the oldest charitable institution in England.

Twenty-five elderly Brothers still live there, in robes that haven't changed since the medieval period. The Wayfarer's Dole is still served on a wooden tray at the porter's lodge to anyone who walks up and asks.

The same bread. The same ale. The same open door.

894 years later.

Whether or not the girl was real, every hungry stranger who has knocked on that door has stood in her place.

A Bishop said yes to a girl in 1132.

The British people have been saying yes ever since.

Be part of us.👇

👉 https://t.co/rih7iKwnvf 🙏

Be Proud Of Us.🇬🇧

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Switzerland is turning the unused space between train tracks into solar power plants.

A startup called Sun-Ways is piloting removable solar panels that roll out like a carpet between the rails.

No new land needed, easy to maintain, and they feed clean energy straight into the grid.

If the US scaled something similar across its massive rail network, it could generate enough clean, homegrown electricity to power millions of homes.

This is the kind of smart, low-impact idea that gets more clean energy online without paving over more fields or wild spaces.

Innovations like this show we can produce the power we need while leaving more room for wildlife and nature.

Pretty cool engineering with a big upside if you ask me.

[Capitansam @capitansam]

@educationgovuk It's not inclusion it's segregation. SEND hubs funded in the white paper are buildings (portacabins) for SEND students. Separate building/education, different quals, timetable. Integrate with mainstream 1,2 times a week for P.E, P Arts.They are happy in SEND schools and colleges!

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Mariangela Hungria, a senior scientist at Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation, was named the 2025 World Food Prize laureate for her decades of work in soil microbiology. Her research focuses on using beneficial bacteria to naturally supply crops with nitrogen, reducing dependence on synthetic fertilizers while boosting yields, especially in soybeans.

Her biological technologies are now used on more than 40 million hectares in Brazil, helping farmers save billions of dollars each year and significantly cutting greenhouse gas emissions. Hungria’s work has played a major role in making Brazilian agriculture more sustainable and offers a scalable, low-cost model for improving food production worldwide.

[Defend Our Juries @DefendOurJuries]

BREAKING: An elderly man with a walking stick is arrested again for holding a sign in support of Palestine Action.

The police know the ban was ruled unlawful, yet they are wrongly arresting hundreds of peaceful protestors.

https://t.co/VvG6tJnqRO

[American Songwriter @AmerSongwriter]

49 years ago, Glen Campbell was in his second and final week at No. 1 on the country chart with “Southern Nights.” It was also Campbell’s fifth and final song to reach the top of the Hot Country Songs chart. It also brought him crossover success, topping the Hot 100 for a week earlier in the year. Campbell reportedly knew he needed to record “Southern Nights” after hearing it once.

Allen Toussaint, a highly influential musician, songwriter, and producer in the New Orleans R&B scene, wrote and originally recorded “Southern Nights.” He released his version on his 1977 album of the same name. However, it wasn’t a single. It was, on the other hand, a song he held near and dear to his heart.

Read more below:
https://t.co/zF5B9e8gtJ

[Steve Sweeney @SweeneySteve]

It must be tough work for BBC headline writers to find so many creative ways to avoid saying “occupy”

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Operation Rolling Thunder.

From 1965 to 1968, the United States conducted a sustained bombing campaign against North Vietnam.

The goal was to break the will of the North Vietnamese government and people.

To make the cost of continuing the war too high to bear.

They dropped 864,000 tons of bombs.

The will was not broken.

So they escalated.

Operation Linebacker.

Operation Linebacker II, the Christmas Bombings of 1972: twelve days of around-the-clock bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong, described by some U.S. generals as trying to "bomb them back to the Stone Age."

Hospitals were hit.

Residential areas were hit.

Bạch Mai Hospital, the largest hospital in North Vietnam, was hit repeatedly.

After the Christmas Bombings, the North Vietnamese negotiating position at the Paris Peace talks did not weaken.

It strengthened.

They bombed us into refusing to surrender.

Every bomb that fell on a hospital, every family killed in their home, every village erased from the map created ten more people who would die before they accepted foreign domination.

This is what American strategists, with all their degrees and all their think tanks and all their war games, failed to understand about the people they were trying to break.

You cannot bomb dignity out of people who have decided they would rather die than give it up.

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

⚠️ Bookmark this moment, it will come back to haunt this govt.

@timfarron exposes Brexit impact on our food security:

Britain produces barely half the food it eats and the government still isn’t taking food security seriously.

All European farmers receive subsidies to encourage them to grow food apart from English 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 farmers.

Trump’s Iran war is about to unleash huge food emergencies as fertiliser becomes scarce which will see yields plummet by at least half.

Since Brexit, food production is collapsing and the supposed farming minister prefers to deflect with absurd ramblings about local markets.

[Capitansam @capitansam]

Yet this money has never and will never be spent on these things! There is only ever 1 thing government find money for in such numbers!

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

The war in Iran has already cost $22.8 billion.

For $22.8 billion, we could:

• Provide Medicaid to 6.8 million kids
• Build 2.6 million public housing units
• Fund Head Start for 1.3 million
• Hire 240,000 teachers
• Cancel $20,000 in student debt for 1 million borrowers

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸🇮🇱 US Counterterrorism Director Joe Kent just resigned, blaming Israel’s pressure for dragging Trump into the Iran war.

🇬🇧The Guardian reports: British Diplomats viewed Witkoff & Kushner as “Israeli assets” who pulled the President into a conflict he wanted out of.

I’m starting to worry I was wrong about Israel’s influence over the U.S… It’s worse than I thought

[Stephen G. Rae @BardCumberland]

The UK's war on nature continues: insurance company Direct Line in a bid to cut down a 100-year-old oak tree in Cowfold. Another insurance company, AXA UK in bid to cut live roots of two protected oaks in Horsham. When will this madness end?
https://t.co/o2KF6wecaD

[Defend Our Juries @DefendOurJuries]

Postmasters' lawyer quits over David Lammy's 'tyrannical' jury reforms

Flora Page KC, who has represented some of those wrongly convicted in the Horizon case, accuses ministers of 'hijacking the suffering of victims'

Read to room, Labour. This isn’t on.

https://t.co/NbaJGGROPO