Dominic Wood

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

“You want to park here? Scan this QR code on the parking machine, and pay”

Millions per month have been made on the QR Code scam.

[No Context Brits @NoContextBrits]

The people of Clacton when @Nigel_Farage turns up.

[No Context Brits @NoContextBrits]

Being British is wanting to move to America as a child then thinking “fuck that” as an adult.

[No Context Brits @NoContextBrits]

James Corden says he will return to the UK if Donald Trump wins the election.

Americans, I beg you.

[Christian Foley @cfoleypoetry]

Here's me teaching @MichaelRosenYes 'Nursery Grime' - remixing nursery rhymes at 140bpm, at the Barbican for the Week Junior Book Festival. His rap name is MC Mike.

[Norma Ballingall 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇵🇸 @Balr0g]

This is clever.
@mrjamesob

[NHS Million @NHSMillion]

We will never get tired of sharing this

NHS porters rarely get a mention, but they are doing an absolutely heroic job right now to keep our hospitals moving

Please spare a RT for all of them

[Trygve Olson @trygveolson]

Seven Rules for Dealing with Autocrats and their enablers.

I wrote these when working with those worldwide fighting for Democracy in their nations, and they are just as applicable today with what we face in America in the coming months.

- Rule #1: Play the Game You Are in, Not the One You Wish or Want to Play - This means when one side is playing the zero-sum, illiberal game, there is no win-win to be played. You will either win, and democracy survives, or you lose to the autocratic forces.

- Rule #2: Always Speak Truth to Power Because You Never Know the Tipping Point - You must confront the Big Lies of illiberal forces by speaking truth to their base of power -- the people. There is a tipping point where your Truth or the Big Lies prevail.

- Rule #3: Don't Hand the Autocrats Battering Rams with Which to Beat You - The game you are in, the battle you are fighting, isn't about policy or ideology. They will use what you say to divide you from your allies, who you need to win the battle for democracy.

- Rule #4: Understand Authoritarians Must Live in a Truth-Free Present - The past presents truths about the big lies and fear the illiberal forces use. The future for autocratic forces only matters for maintaining power at the moment. They only care about keeping/gaining power.

- Rule #5: Practice Zero-Sum Judo - Use their tactics against them -- Big Truths, Marginalization, make them dependent, mock the disinformation, divide and conquer their power structure. Use their desire for the legitimacy of democracy against them.

- Rule #6: The Stalin Rule: Stand Together with Anyone Who Will Join You to Disturb, Disrupt, and Diminish the Illiberal Structures. Even if you share nothing in common beyond a love of democracy and how much you loathe their politics in normal times, you fight side-by-side with them.

- Rule #7: Wake Up Every Day Thinking Where Can the Vertical Power Structure Be Exposed, Confronted, and Destabilized - Each of us and all of us on Team Democracy must wake up every day and ask what can I do to be on the side of restoring faith and confront the fear they use.

Ultimately, I am an optimist. When the fear of the illiberal autocrat erodes because people show they are not afraid, faith takes hold, and others want and will join the fight. It is one we must win in America. It is one we will win because more Americans stand for Democracy that has made us great than Autocrat who is constantly tearing us apart and down.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

It would be a real shame if this tweet by Elon Musk (in 2022) saying that Trump is too old to be president went viral.

You know what to do.

[Ian Sams @IanSams]

Strong closing argument from Trump

[The London Economic @LondonEconomic]

What has the ECHR ever done for us?

[Solidarity @1WhiteRabbitt]

-Eugene V. Debs

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Thames Water boss says it’s an “unfortunate truth” that bills will have to rise to save the company from collapse.

I’ve got a different unfortunate truth: privatisation has been a complete and utter failure.

Enough is enough — put water back into public hands!

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

If you spent $500 a day, 1 million dollars would last you 5 and a half years.

If you spent $500 a day, 1 billion dollars would last you 5,500 years.

If you spent $500 a day, Elon Musk's $261.8bn would last you 1,434,521 years.

[Prof. Christina Pagel - @chrischirp.bsky.social @chrischirp]

Prof @Kevin_Fong giving the most devastating and moving testimony to the Covid Inquiry of visiting hospital intensive care units at the height of the second wave in late Dec 2020.

The unimaginable scale of death, the trauma, the loss of hope.
Please watch this 2min clip.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Tax Evasion is 360x Benefit Fraud.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Father with dementia explains how he struggles to recall his family
https://t.co/0XiHCJmTxQ

[Carl Bovis @CarlBovisNature]

As it's Friday, I'm asking all my followers to please retweet (and comment) on this post if you see it, to help my bird account be seen! 🙏😀
To make it worth sharing, here's a Great Spotted Woodpecker in my Somerset garden. 😍🐦
Thank you very much! 😊♥️

[Black Hole @konstructivizm]

A continuous zoom from the Milky Way into the Pillars of Creation using images from Hubble

[Rutger Bregman @rcbregman]

The great thing about money is that people can spend it on things they need instead of things that other people ('experts') think they need.

Amazing talk by @RoryStewartUK on the power of cash to eliminate extreme poverty.

Worth 13 mins of your time -->