D. Harrison

It never gets easier......

[Tibor Del Grosso @tibordelgrosso]

Arenberg deserves at least 7 stars

[GBX @GBX_Press]

Vladimir Putin:

​"If Russia had done only 10% of what Israel has done in Gaza, NATO would be at the gates of Moscow by now.

​The West has taught us that human rights begin and end at the borders of Israel's interests."

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

This needs to be reposted 100 times a day.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Best leader in Europe.

[Mark Seddon @MarkSeddon1962]

Just remember that it took 3.5 trillion dollars and 20 years to replace the Taliban with the Taliban. Let that sink in.. https://t.co/EXX9hVa85g

[Nehr_who? @Nher_who]

President of Spain Pedro Sanchez:

"Spain doesn't have resources like Oil reserves or Nuclear bombs but that doesn't mean we will not fight against imperialist Israel and try to stop them"

Some wars are fought to be on the right side of History!!

Man with a spine !!

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

Twenty million barrels of oil passed through the Strait of Hormuz yesterday.

Today the number may be zero.

Not because Iran mined the water. Not because a tanker was hit. Because Lloyd’s of London picked up the phone.

War risk underwriters began canceling policies for strait transits hours after Operation Epic Fury launched. The Financial Times confirmed premiums surging 50 percent. Baseline war risk sits at 0.25 percent of hull value. For a hundred million dollar tanker that is 250,000 dollars per voyage. At peak escalation rates, one million per transit. Vessels linked to American or Israeli interests are becoming uninsurable entirely. No price. No policy. No passage.

The KHK Empress was loaded with Omani crude heading for Basra when it executed a U-turn mid-strait and redirected to India. The Eagle Veracruz halted at the western approach carrying two million barrels of Saudi crude bound for China. The Front Shanghai stopped off Sharjah with Iraqi crude destined for Rotterdam. Nippon Yusen ordered its entire fleet to avoid Hormuz. Greece told its merchant armada to reassess passage. Hapag-Lloyd suspended all transits.

None of them were fired upon. Every one of them got the same call.

More than fifty million years ago the Arabian plate collided with the Eurasian plate and compressed the Persian Gulf into a basin that drains through a single geological bottleneck twenty one miles wide. Twenty one percent of global petroleum. Twenty percent of all seaborne LNG. One fifth of industrial civilization’s energy supply forced through a tectonic accident narrower than the English Channel, bordered on one side by the country whose supreme leader was killed yesterday morning.

The USS Abraham Lincoln carries enough Tomahawks to sink every IRGC patrol boat in 48 hours. Operation Praying Mantis crippled Iran’s operational naval forces in eight hours in 1988. The Fifth Fleet has rehearsed this scenario for decades.

None of that matters. Aircraft carriers cannot force an underwriter to rewrite a policy. Tomahawks cannot lower a premium. The most powerful navy in human history cannot make a Lloyd’s syndicate decide that a VLCC transiting Iranian coastal waters represents an acceptable risk on a Saturday afternoon when missiles are landing in Dubai.

Goldman Sachs estimates Brent could peak at 110 dollars per barrel. JP Morgan projects 120 to 130. At those levels every airline bleeds cash. Every central bank watches three years of inflation fighting reignite overnight. Bypass pipelines from Saudi Arabia and the UAE handle roughly three million barrels. Hormuz handles twenty million. The math does not close.

Iran figured out something the Pentagon still has not.

You do not need to close a strait. You just need to make it uninsurable.

https://t.co/BrzGRrU3VW

[Pistachio 🇮🇷 🇵🇸 @HarleyShah]

Iran has not attacked a country unprovoked in it's 5000 year old history. Israel has attacked six in one year. Who is the threat here?

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Spain’s MEP, Irene Montero:

“They say Iran has nuclear weapons — sounds like what they said about Iraq.”

“But it is Israel that has nuclear weapons.”

“The U.S. is the only country to ever drop a nuclear bomb.”

“Today, Israel and the U.S. are the greatest threat to humanity.”

[John Sutherland @policecommander]

Robert - your Conservative govt:
- cut 44,000 officers & staff from policing in England & Wales
- closed hundreds of police stations
- decimated neighbourhood policing
- crippled frontline crime fighting resources
You’re the cause of the problem, not the answer to it…

[Mihai Simion @faustocoppi60]

Happy birthday to Peter Sagan, one of the greatest artists ever to ride a bike! 😍 We miss him.

📽️ @ikgallas

[Nick Perkins @NickyPerkss]

This is legitimately one of the greatest accomplishments in the history of Humanity

Everyone needs to see this

[James Woods @RealJamesWoods]

This photograph is one of mankind’s greatest achievements. It is breathtaking.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The math on this image is insane.

New Horizons transmitted at 2,000 bits per second from 3 billion miles away. Slower than a 1990s dial-up modem. It took 16 months to download all the flyby data.

The spacecraft had to hit a target box 100km wide, arriving within 150 seconds of schedule, after 9 years of flight. Miss it and the preloaded observation commands point at empty space.

Ten days before arrival, the spacecraft crashed and went into safe mode. Engineers had 72 hours to restore everything.

The probe is now 5 billion miles out, still whispering data back to Earth. We got 50 gigabits of Pluto photos using technology slower than your phone’s bluetooth.

[Anonymous @OpDeathEaters]

The Epstein files on the DOJ website allow you to highlight the redacted text, copy it, and paste it into another document, which reveals what was hidden. You can also press Ctrl+F and search for “Trump ” (with a space) to see his name appear more than 600 times. #OpDeathEaters

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

Dutch inventions

1. Microscope (1590) – 🇳🇱
2. Telescope (1608) – 🇳🇱
3. Artificial Kidney (1943) – 🇳🇱
4. Heart-Lung Machine (1953) – 🇳🇱
5. Pendulum Clock (1656) – 🇳🇱
6. Fahrenheit (1724) – 🇳🇱 🇩🇪
7. CD (1979) – 🇳🇱 🇯🇵
8. DVD (1995) – 🇳🇱 🇯🇵
9. Wi-Fi Standards (1990s) – 🇳🇱
10. Bluetooth Standards – 🇳🇱 🇸🇪
11. ASML Machines (Advanced Microchip Technology) – 🇳🇱
12. Electron Microscope – 🇳🇱 🇩🇪
13. Clapskate (Speed Skates) (1996) – 🇳🇱
14. Submarine (1620) – 🇳🇱
15. Polder Technology (16th century) – 🇳🇱
16. Delta Works (1953-1997) – 🇳🇱
17. Stock Exchange (1602) – 🇳🇱
18. Fluyt (Large Sailing Ship) – 🇳🇱
19. Greenhouse Technology – 🇳🇱
20. Oil Painting Technique (15th century) – 🇳🇱

[Benji Naesen @BenjiNaesen]

Many of you know, I am a post-Brexit legal migrant in the UK, since 2023, but I've never told you the story of that process.

In 2023, I married a British citizen, and decided to move to the UK. After some research, we were lucky to have been married as the only way for me to move the UK legally, was by obtaining a Spouse Visa.

I spent approximately £6,000 including visa fees, NHS surchage, language test and legal fees to obtain my first spouse, visa which lasts 2.5 years.

But, applying for, and receiving a visa doesn't happen overnight, and during that time, I was not allowed to enter the UK to visit my wife as I was told this would reset my visa application. Meanwhile, her work obligations prevented her from visiting Belgium during that time, so the only way we could see each other was through a screen. A pretty rough time, but knowing that we'd finally be able to live together kept us from losing our minds.

In September 2023, my Spouse Visa was granted for 2.5 years, and the next day, I drove my parents' van with my podcast and recording set-up, indoor trainer and bicycle through the Eurotunnel into the UK.

In the first month, I created my own limited company to run my social media business, in so doing, paying my taxes in the UK instead of Belgium. Ironically, I've paid more taxes in the UK than I've ever have in Belgium.

In 2026, I will spend approximately £4,250 including visa fees, NHS surchage and legal fees to obtain my first spouse, visa which lasts 2.5 years.

After 5 years, I will have to pay another £3,029 for indefinite leave-to-remain, basically, to be able to stay in the UK indefinetely.

To summarise, I have paid significantly more into the NHS than the average UK citizen, I pay my taxes like any UK citizen. I have used the NHS once or twice across 2 years, donated over £3,000 (in money and equipment) to local cycling clubs and charities.

I have objectively given more to this country than I have taken.

Meanwhile the current Labour government, and Reform, are trying their absolute best to incentivise people like myself to leave. 🤷‍♂️

[Protect the Wild @ProtectTheWild_]

This is Richard Smith. He probably wouldn't want you sharing this everywhere. It's him striking a poor horse over the head with a riding crop at the weekend.