Randolph de G-P

International Playboy and Jetsetter. Collector of Starbucks coffee cups. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇩🇪Cymru am byth!!!

[Randolph de G-P @ColinTSM]

@rihyseh Point Hill in Greenwich. Stunning pic.

[Randolph de G-P @ColinTSM]

@ukdragon @fesshole I’m with @ukdragon, what was it?

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

Elon just called Hitler a socialist again, and every time he does this, Grok corrects him and points out that Hitler was a fascist.

Never deleting this app.

[Marine Tondelier @marinetondelier]

Mr. @elonmusk,

Since yesterday, a lot of people have been asking me the same question, so let me ask you directly.

What exactly do you mean by “I demand that she be shut down”?

I know what it means to « shut down X »

But what does it mean to « shut down » a person?

Could you explain, in concrete terms, what you are calling for?

And while you’re at it, I’d also appreciate an explanation of what you mean by my alleged “treason against France.”

Do you even know what you meant?

Still, I’d genuinely like to understand.

After all, I feel just a little bit concerned.

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Monsieur @elonmusk,

Depuis hier, beaucoup de gens me posent la même question, alors permettez-moi de vous la poser directement.

Que vouliez-vous exactement dire par : « I demand that she be shut down » ?

Je vois bien ce que signifie « shut down X ».

Mais que signifie « shut down » (fermer / éteindre) lorsqu’il s’agit d’une personne ?

Pouvez-vous expliquer, concrètement, ce que vous appelez de vos vœux ?

Tant qu’à faire, j’aimerais également que vous précisiez ce que vous entendez par ma prétendue « trahison envers la France ».

Savez-vous seulement ce que vous vouliez dire ?

Quoi qu’il en soit, j’aimerais sincèrement comprendre.

Après tout, je me sens tout de même un tout petit peu concernée.

[Marine Tondelier @marinetondelier]

Dear @elonmusk ,

I’m the French candidate to the French presidency you want to «  shut down for treason against France » (what does that even mean …).

France does not need lessons in patriotism from a foreign billionaire who thinks he gets to decide which European political leaders should be silenced.

Democracy is not for sale. Not even to the richest man in the world.

I’d rather be accused of defending democracy than of trying to buy it.

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Cher @elonmusk,

Je suis la candidate française à l’élection présidentielle que vous souhaitez « faire taire pour trahison envers la France » (Ça n’a même pas de sens … ).

La France n’a pas à recevoir de leçons de patriotisme d’un milliardaire étranger qui estime pouvoir décider quels responsables politiques européens doivent être réduits au silence.

La démocratie n’est pas à vendre. Pas même à l’homme le plus riche du monde.

Je préfère être accusée de défendre la démocratie que d’essayer de l’acheter.

[Damian Low @DamianLow3]

Is this the same Jeremy Clarkson?

[LubnanBoi🇵🇸🇱🇧 🇮🇷 @AgitatorAK]

Dear @JeremyClarkson I saw this on my feed on another platform and instantly thought you needed to see it.

"Jeremy Clarkson thinks people who receive benefits should have to send a weekly thank you email to a randomly chosen working person, explaining what they did with the money, or have their payments stopped.

So here is mine. If you’d like to give it a share to help Jeremy see it, that would be great.

Dear Jezza,

Thank you for your concern about my contribution to society.

I should say first that you were aiming this at young people you believe are sitting at home doing nothing.

But you wrote it as a blanket rule applying to everyone whose benefits are paid.

That includes more than thirteen million pensioners, millions of people who receive benefits while working, who may find themselves being ordered to thank another benefit claimant, and me.

I receive PIP.

That money goes towards the Motability car I use to travel to work.

It is not a free car. It is not even my car. I exchange the mobility part of my PIP to lease it.

The car takes the lot.

Which is awkward, because that same payment is also meant to help cover the additional costs of being disabled, including a wheelchair that is actually usable for my job and hearing aids that allow me to do it.

There is nothing left for either.

I chose the thing that gets me to work.

That car enables me to work and, because I can work, I now pay considerably more in tax than I have ever received in PIP.

But my contribution does not end with my own tax bill.

I have built programmes that hundreds of people now use to earn a living.

They pay tax too.

Those programmes have helped thousands of people overcome anxiety, return to their lives and, in many cases, return to work.

Then there are all the people supported by the coaches and practitioners I have trained.

That is what disability support can do when it is designed to enable people rather than humiliate them.

My PIP did not disappear into some great benefits black hole.

It helped provide the transport that allowed me to work, build a business, create opportunities for other people and contribute far more than I could ever have done without it.

But as we are exchanging thank you letters, perhaps you could send me one too.

I paid my television licence throughout the years the BBC gave you the platform that made you famous.

I now pay for Amazon Prime, which helps fund the television programme about your farm.

I do not choose to watch it.

But that is how society works, Jeremy.

We all contribute towards things we may never personally use because the entire country would fall apart if every payment had to provide us with an individual benefit.

Perhaps you could also thank the taxpayers whose public services and infrastructure support your businesses.

And while you have the stationery out, perhaps you could explain the farm.

In 2021, you told The Times that avoiding inheritance tax was “the critical thing” in your decision to buy land.

In 2024, when that became rather inconvenient, you said it had never been true. You claimed you had actually bought the farm because you wanted somewhere to shoot and that tax avoidance had simply sounded like a better story at the time.

I am not sure which version helps your argument.

It is funny how public support and clever tax arrangements are treated as perfectly respectable when they benefit wealthy people.

Yet when a disabled person receives help to leave the house, go to work and participate in society, you think they should be made to perform gratitude.

So thank you for your concern, Jezza.

I hope my licence fee, Amazon subscription, taxes and contribution to the economy have all been gratefully received.

Please send your thank you letter weekly, along with a full breakdown of how you spent the money.

If it is not sufficiently fulsome and effusive, I assume your income will be stopped.

That is only fair."

[Damian Low @DamianLow3]

Reform are lying when they moan about Farage not being invited.

Farage is no longer a sitting MP so cannot be invited to these discussions.

Now, let's go back to why he called a by-election. Was it something to do with finances?

[Brian Cox @ProfBrianCox]

Jodrell Bank is the most visible causality of UKRI’s short sighted ‘vision’ for science, but as you’ll see below, there are many other valuable UK facilities and collaborations at risk. We became aware of the problem in the autumn of last year. It is not a result of the overall funding settlement for science after the spending review, which was quite generous I would say in the circumstances. Neither as far as we can tell is it a direct decision by ministers (all of whom have now gone in any case). Rather the problems appears to have been caused by senior management at UKRI focusing on short term economic ‘impact’ (whatever that means) rather than doing their job as custodians of the foundations of science. What must happen now is that the new ministerial team make the time (and space ;-)) to review the upcoming catastrophe, and instruct UKRI to do their job and focus on making Britain the best place in the world to do science, now and in the future.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

BBC Breakfast report that on BBC Newsnight Zack Polanski did not apologise for accepting a collab post on Instagram

They don't mention the 4 times BBC Newsnight interrupted live TV to read out messages from Reform UK live on air

Nor include the section where Zack Polanski says, "The point is that Nigel Farage or whoever that was, says I committed incitement to murder. That's an absurd claim, that's why I haven't given an apology. Reform UK have just proven my point"

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

There is no such thing as a ‘senior Reform UK source’. They’re not a ‘source’, they’re either a politician or their spin doctor. Cloaking this nonsense in the language of investigative journalism is an insult to everyone. They should be named or told to shut the fuck up.

[Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @MayorofLondon]

Wildfires are raging across France and Spain, engulfing green spaces, threatening homes and forcing evacuations.

This isn’t a faraway crisis. It's already happening on our doorstep.

The climate emergency is here. And the need for action has never been clearer.

https://t.co/t4k5LGN16n

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

He didn’t accuse Jews of genocide, he accused Israel of genocide, which is what Israeli human right groups have done too.

You’re an antisemite if you’re conflating Israel with all Jews.

[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

Toby Young makes a healthy living trying to undermine climate science and the need for action.
He’s on holiday in Bordeaux - a city which may have to be evacuated because of the record breaking wildfires after record breaking heatwaves.
What else could be more symbolic of the greed, stupidity and recklessness of these times.

[Nicky Clark @MrsNickyClark]

To anyone with an autistic child this means the world not just for Marc and Mateo but for all of us. 💜

[💙 Sophie Socket ♠️ @Socket1Sophie]

When you see the 'Farage in Clacton' gaslighting today, remember these things:-

1) He was already the MP for Clacton before he resigned.
2) He's competing against a bin from Sigma XI.
3) He will win the by-election.
4) A bin from Sigma XI will come second.
5) After he's won, he will still face justice for his corruption.

[Stuzi 🐝🐝 @stuzi_pants]

The costs involved here are astronomical for starters
Just to run the fans alone in a smoking room costs the earth
Maybe a campaign to try and encourage people to quit might be a healthier alternative but then again Rupert is planning to find around £25 billion to fly all the brown people out of the U.K. so there’s that…

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

If we’re going to play this stupid racist game, who wants to see the same done to Melania Trump under a future Democratic administration?

[Nick Reeves #RejoinEU #NAFO #FBPE @nickreeves9876]

This post on Farage, Cottrell and Nathan Gill us being suppressed by the X algorithm. It's popular, with 335 views, but it has only been allowed 3.5k views. That's strange given that social media algorithms are supposed to favour posts that get high engagement rates.

[Gary Peterson 🇺🇸 @GaryPetersonUSA]

Now the left has sent cannibals to torment Andrew Tate. There is no bottom.