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[Pennyroyalty @Fatfennelface]

@ChrisGPackham @FarmersWeekly @FarmersGuardian @AnimalAid This bloke talks some sense
https://t.co/pxDUwKHciN

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Gerald is standing in green grass this August, and the field across the lane has gone the colour of a paper bag, and the only difference between the two of them is a plough.

You can see the line from the gateway. It runs along the hedge like somebody drew it with a ruler. One side is pale and cracked wide enough to put a finger in and it crunches when you walk on it. The other side gives underfoot, and it is green, and there is a nine hundred kilogram Hereford working across the middle of it at the speed of a man reading a newspaper he has already read.

The lane field was ploughed and reseeded four years ago. New ley, high yield, drilled for a heavy first cut, and it gave one, and it has given less every year since, because the roots on it stop about four inches down where the drill left them. Four inches of soil in a dry August holds nothing. The man who owns it has had the bowser out twice this week and is buying feed in the middle of summer, which is the thing no farmer wants a neighbour to watch him do.

Gerald's forty acres have not had a plough on them since some time in the eighteenth century. Nobody planted that sward. It arrived over two hundred years of being grazed and dunged and rained on and otherwise left alone, and it is about forty different things growing in among each other, half of which have no commercial name, several of which have gone down after water past two metres. There is no dry spell in the recorded history of this country that reaches two metres.

So the grass keeps coming in the worst month of the year, and the bull keeps eating it, and what he leaves behind goes back in and the beetles have it buried inside a week and the roots go down after it again.

He came down a ramp there at five months old, looked at the whole forty acres for about ninety seconds, and walked to the south corner. He has never revisited the decision. Not in a drought, not in a hailstorm, not in the eleven days of horizontal rain, not at minus six with the trough iced solid. Same corner, same hour, same pace, for four years, in a country where everything else has an opinion about the weather.

The south corner has seven wildflower species in it now, and a bumblebee count, and a dung beetle population, and none of that was anybody's project. It is just what happens to ground that has one animal standing on it who has never once been talked out of anything.

There is no scheme paying for any of this. No contractor, no invoice, no line in the paperwork, because in the paperwork this field is classified as unimproved land, which is the official term for ground nobody has got round to wrecking yet.

The hedge is thick. The wall stands because the bottom of it is grazed. The swallows are over the middle of the field at seven every evening working the flies that follow him about, and they are not over the lane field, because there is nothing over there to work.

Half the country is being told the animal in that field is the reason the weather has gone wrong.

The animal in that field is the reason it is still green.

Gerald has not been informed that he is unimproved. Gerald is in the south corner. The south corner is fine.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Gerald is standing in green grass this August, and the field across the lane has gone the colour of a paper bag, and the only difference between the two of them is a plough.

You can see the line from the gateway. It runs along the hedge like somebody drew it with a ruler. One side is pale and cracked wide enough to put a finger in and it crunches when you walk on it. The other side gives underfoot, and it is green, and there is a nine hundred kilogram Hereford working across the middle of it at the speed of a man reading a newspaper he has already read.

The lane field was ploughed and reseeded four years ago. New ley, high yield, drilled for a heavy first cut, and it gave one, and it has given less every year since, because the roots on it stop about four inches down where the drill left them. Four inches of soil in a dry August holds nothing. The man who owns it has had the bowser out twice this week and is buying feed in the middle of summer, which is the thing no farmer wants a neighbour to watch him do.

Gerald's forty acres have not had a plough on them since some time in the eighteenth century. Nobody planted that sward. It arrived over two hundred years of being grazed and dunged and rained on and otherwise left alone, and it is about forty different things growing in among each other, half of which have no commercial name, several of which have gone down after water past two metres. There is no dry spell in the recorded history of this country that reaches two metres.

So the grass keeps coming in the worst month of the year, and the bull keeps eating it, and what he leaves behind goes back in and the beetles have it buried inside a week and the roots go down after it again.

He came down a ramp there at five months old, looked at the whole forty acres for about ninety seconds, and walked to the south corner. He has never revisited the decision. Not in a drought, not in a hailstorm, not in the eleven days of horizontal rain, not at minus six with the trough iced solid. Same corner, same hour, same pace, for four years, in a country where everything else has an opinion about the weather.

The south corner has seven wildflower species in it now, and a bumblebee count, and a dung beetle population, and none of that was anybody's project. It is just what happens to ground that has one animal standing on it who has never once been talked out of anything.

There is no scheme paying for any of this. No contractor, no invoice, no line in the paperwork, because in the paperwork this field is classified as unimproved land, which is the official term for ground nobody has got round to wrecking yet.

The hedge is thick. The wall stands because the bottom of it is grazed. The swallows are over the middle of the field at seven every evening working the flies that follow him about, and they are not over the lane field, because there is nothing over there to work.

Half the country is being told the animal in that field is the reason the weather has gone wrong.

The animal in that field is the reason it is still green.

Gerald has not been informed that he is unimproved. Gerald is in the south corner. The south corner is fine.

[BanksyCat @Banksycat]

If THIS is progress, I dread to see what FAILURE looks like. He stood on the cliffs on 2 August telling us this was PROGRESS.

22 DAYS in office. 3,003 CROSSINGS. Nearly a THIRD of that in the last four days alone. A RECORD 230 on one boat.

Then yesterday came the lecture that we all need to play our part.

Oh, we are.

The British ARE more than playing their part in this, you absolute T*SSER.

£14 MILLION a year, one boat. £186 MILLION since you took office. That’s OUR bit. We’ve been doing it for years.

What more exactly do you want from us?

230 people. ONE boat. £14 MILLION a year just from THEM.

We’ve done our bit.

Do YOUR bit and STOP THE BOATS.

Three roofs. Three prices. Hotel, £14 MILLION a year, for 230 people. HMO, £1.95 MILLION. Barracks, £13.4 MILLION. One of these isn’t like the others, and it’s not the one costing less.

They told you barracks would save money. That’s not a saving. That’s the same bill in a different building.

HOTEL

Per night: £39,100
Per month: £1.17 MILLION
Per year: £14 MILLION

MILITARY BARRACKS

Per night: £36,800
Per month: £1.1 MILLION
Per year: £13.4 MILLION

HMOS

Per night: £5,347.50
Per month: £160,425
Per year: £1.95 MILLION

A national rollout, still growing.

Wethersfield’s ceiling is 1,700. Crowborough’s being extended. RAF Scampton already cost £60 MILLION before being scrapped, never even opened.

Three more sites, Barnham, Bicester, Linton-on-Ouse, are planned for 3,750 more people.

Parliament’s own library has reported plans involving thousands of additional bedspaces, while the Home Office has been operating asylum accommodation across hundreds of sites nationwide.

Parliament’s own Public Accounts Committee has criticised the Home Office’s long-term planning and its reliance on hotels.

The Shadow Home Secretary’s own words, “built on an assumption that the hotels magically empty themselves, they still have no plan for where these people will go.”

THE WIDER SYSTEM

At the end of 2025, 107,003 people were receiving asylum support.

30,657 were still in hotels.

46,824 were members of family groups.

The Government says the asylum support system cost around £4 BILLION last year.

FOUR BILLION.

But apparently WE need to “do our bit”.

We are.

We’re doing it every time the bill lands.

BRITISH WORKER

Median salary, take home after tax is £2,391 a month. Rent, bills, food, all comes out of that.

ASYLUM SEEKER

Accommodation provided if eligible, with utilities included.

For people in self-catered accommodation, £49.18 a week PER PERSON for food, clothing and toiletries. That’s roughly £213 a month in cash support and that’s before the extra payments.

Pregnant mother: +£5.25 a week.
Baby under 1: +£9.50 a week.
Child aged 1 to 3: +£5.25 a week.

£300 ONE-OFF maternity payment for eligible mothers.

If meals are provided in the accommodation, the weekly cash allowance is lower. So yes, there are different rates depending on the accommodation.

HEALTH

Eligible asylum seekers can receive NHS healthcare.

HC2 support can also cover NHS prescriptions, dental treatment, sight tests and help towards glasses or contact lenses where the eligibility rules are met.

EDUCATION

Children can attend free state schools.

And there are specialist sanctuary scholarships too. One University of the Arts London postgraduate scholarship, for example, is worth up to £50,000 and covers tuition, course costs and living expenses.

LEISURE

Driving lessons, £20,143 in Kent, in one year alone. Dance classes, £14,125, running until 2028. Free gym access, five leisure centres in Richmond. 70% off everything in Edinburgh.

LEGAL

Legal aid is available for asylum and immigration matters where the eligibility rules are met. Interpreters can also be provided where required.

And people wonder why Britain is seen as a SOFT TOUCH.

France has been saying it for years.

Even the UK Government now openly talks about PULL FACTORS and making the asylum system less attractive.

Funny how the rest of Europe can see the problem while Westminster keeps explaining it to us as though WE are the problem.

More people. Less capacity. Higher bills. Fewer services left for the people who built this country and paid for it their whole lives. Our tax bills rise. Our services shrink. Our own vulnerable go without.

That system belongs to British people first. We built it. We funded it. We’ve done our part.

So no. Don’t stand there telling us to do more.

Stop telling us to do ours and start doing YOURS.

YOU and your machine, stop this.

STOP THE BOATS.

Different face but the same MACHINE behind him.

[Claire Adams @claire_adams694]

There’s method to my madness. I am deliberately posting every illegal migrant rape reported by the mainstream media, alongside cases involving offenders of Muslim heritage.

The Government refuses to publish the data, so those of us in the background are collating it from the media and court records. If they refuse to publish the truth, we will publish ours. Sweden, Denmark and Germany are acting, whilst Britain does nothing. Andy Burnham says he understands the concern about illegal immigration, yet still refuses to act.

Labour and the Conservatives are complicit in what is happening. Every woman and child raped by an illegal migrant is another failure of the political establishment to protect them.

[Pennyroyalty @Fatfennelface]

@thombone @RealXavier011 Its just so sexy watching a man sort out a problem and clean up afterwards. Don't ruin it for me with your cynicism.

[Pennyroyalty @Fatfennelface]

Duh. Literally the definition of a lesbian is being only attracted to a certain type of genitalia. When did homophobia become acceptable?

[courtlyn ⋆˚꩜｡ @rosecourtzzz]

being a lesbian does not mean you’re attracted to a certain type of genitalia like are y’all ok

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

A fantastic idea!

[Just Right Frank @justrightFrank]

Remember Shabir Ahmed?
He was the leader of the Rochdale Rape Gang.
King Burnham said he wanted him to be deported.
In 2012 Ahmed was sentenced to 19 years in prison for raping lots of little white girls.
The following year he was sentenced to 22 years for raping a little brown girl "repeatedly over more than a decade (he treated her as a “possession” for sexual gratification)."
She must have been disgusted when the judge made the sentence "concurrent" which meant that he would not serve an extra day for ruining her life.
Then he got another year for beating up a fellow convict in prison.
Now he is free.
And it appears that the King of the North is powerless to do anything about it.
The most powerful man in the country outsmarted by a violent child rapist.
Has King Andy made a Tik Tok video about this?
https://t.co/TV2S909ih6

[Suzanne Quinn @AnotherQuinn1]

@sappholives83 12 months? What happened to 'halving violence against women & girls'? It's increasing week by week, and sentencing is risible.
What the hell are you doing @UKLabour @andyburnham @YvetteCooperMP
@AlexJJNorris

[Kodiak76239 @Kodiak76239]

Wow 😆🤣🤣🤣

[Raja Miah @recusant_raja]

Greater Manchester Police arrested Chaudhry Rukhsar Ahmed at Manchester Airport in July 2024, over allegations that he raped and trafficked two girls in council care in Rusholme in the 1990s.

They learned in the cells that he held elected office in Kashmir. They let him go anyway. No travel restrictions. Passport in hand.

He has spent two years on pre-charge bail. Last month he failed to answer it, too unwell to fly, and in the same weeks he was photographed campaigning in Mirpur. He won the seat with 22,376 votes.

There is no extradition treaty with Pakistan. Without one, the only route back is a special arrangement in this single case, and section 194 of the Extradition Act gives that power to the Home Secretary. Nobody else can start it.

So @ShabanaMahmood can answer this. Has @gmpolice asked the Home Office to bring this man back, and if not, why has she not asked them why?

We forced the national inquiry because we understood that outrage was never enough. We needed to understand how to force the outcome.

This is why Labour politicians describe me as a dangerous man. This is why the Pakistani heritage Home Secretary must be forced under the spotlight.

Dare Shabana Mahmood demand Islamabad puts this Pakistani politician on a plane to the UK to answer his bail for allegations of child rape and trafficking?

Maybe, some of you might want to ask her, or ask your MPs to ask her.

Raja Miah MBE

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[Homer Pavlos @HomerPavlos]

In Greece, we hate Islam more than anything. But there is a reason for that. It's called: Greek history.

Lebanon and the entire Middle East have experienced for centuries the true face of Islam. That Islam which does not hide behind the lies it needs in order to invade the West as a religion of love and wisdom, but as what it really is: a political ideology full of death, hatred, and destruction.

I know many of you will wonder how I can know the true face of Islam. Well, of course all Greeks know, because all of our ancestors suffered martyrdoms for their faith and their origin. That is why the Greeks love and care for the Christian communities of the Middle East, and you should know that if it were in our hands, Greece would protect these peoples from barbaric Islam at the first opportunity.

Reading @GadSaad 's post, I could not help but think of the countless moments of modern Greek history, when from the fall of Constantinople until 1821 the Greeks lived through the worst period of their lives. Enslaved for almost 400 years under the monster of Islam, which stole, raped, murdered, and tortured in the most horrific ways the Greek Christians who lived throughout Asia Minor (Anatolia), Pontus, Greece, and Cyprus.

For 300 years the Muslim Turks were stealing kids from their mothers. They were waiting for women to birth, raise their kids, and then at the age of 8 were collecting them. The devşirme known as "collection of children" or "blood tax" or in Greek as "paidomazoma", was a systematic practice that forced the recruitment of young Christian boys, typically aged 8–18.

Historians estimate the total number of Christian boys taken across the entire Ottoman Empire around 300.000 kids. From those kids 150.000 were Greek kids (over 300 years). It means the half of the total kids that were stolen were only Greek. For example in 1540, a levy in the Greek regions of Thessaly & Macedonia took 1.000 Greek boys in one season and in Chios (the Greek island) 200 boys taken in 1567 alone. The peak was 5.000 kids/annual from Greece.

The most common torture inflicted by the Muslims during the Ottoman period was whipping. The usual victims were the Christians. It was the introductory torment in every other torture, so common in the persecutions of Christians that the phrase became proverbial: "I will whip you until you change your faith."

During that period, Muslims enjoyed performing all kinds of mutilations. Ears, noses, lips, tongues, breasts, and genitals were primarily cut off. Not just those, though. Let's recall here the Saint Raphael of Mytilene, who was hanged from a tree and had his lower jaw cut off, while the twelve-year-old martyr Irene was roasted in a barrel on the Tuesday of Easter in the year 1463, ten years after the fall of Constantinople.

In many cases, the severed body parts "adorned" the warrior collection of the janissary. The pashas gave bakshish (tips) to every "brave" Muslim warrior according to how many ears of "infidel" Christians he brought back. He himself confirmed his bravery and "manliness" among his peers by having a "komboloi" (worry beads) made from the nipples of breasts he had cut off from women. The bravest man was the one with the longest komboloi after a massacre and looting.

Blinding with various sharp objects was also common. This was particularly frequent during periods of massacres and atrocities. Many unfortunate Christians remained blind for the rest of their lives because they had the misfortune of a horde of janissaries passing through their land. The Egyptians under Ibrahim Pasha were especially notorious for this crime.

Many times Christian captives were placed in front of cannons that were fired, turning them into human shreds of flesh. In other cases, they were tied to galleys that sailed in opposite directions and were torn apart. Dismemberment of victims also occurred with horses.

After the Ottoman conquest of Crete (1669), local officials and governors began to oppress the Christian population in every way: killing, abducting and abusing women, demanding money, and preventing the performance of the subjects' religious duties.

We Greeks, called the Muslim Turks, "The grand masters of torture." In 1821, in Patras, they captured a father and son and, after impaling them, lit a fire and forced the other captives to roast them like lambs. Ali Pasha at that point was more inventive: When he impaled Christians, he forced their relatives to turn the spit, threatening that otherwise he would impale them too.

Immediately after the hanging of Patriarch Gregory V in Constantinople, the Turks hanged three metropolitans at various points in the city. However, one of them, the very elderly Metropolitan of Nicomedia, breathed his last before reaching the place of execution. Such, however, was the Turks' mania for revenge that they punished even the dead man by hanging his corpse.

Just 65 years after the Fall of Constantinople, Sultan Selim I Yavuz, grandson of Mehmed the Conqueror and father of Suleiman, decided to definitively abolish the Patriarchate of Constantinople during the patriarchate of Theoleptos I, and to slaughter all the subjugated Christians (rayah) of the empire who refused to convert to Mohammedanism. Just 65 years after the Fall of Constantinople, the Greeks of Thrace were collectively placed before the forced dilemma of either converting or being wiped off the face of the earth, that is, to suffer ethnic cleansing or genocide, as we would say today. Between those two barbaric options, the Greeks of Thrace (the ancestors of today’s Muslim Greeks of Thrace) chose ethnic cleansing at their own expense; that is, they chose to convert in order to survive as an ancient indigenous people, in the hope that at some point in the future their descendants would regain their national self-awareness and their religious independence, and would then voluntarily return to the bosom of the Greek Nation and of Greek Orthodoxy.

When the Greek Bishop Dionysios the Philosopher of Larissa organized a revolt against the Muslim Turks in 1611, which ended in failure, the Turks flayed him alive, stuffed his skin with straw, and paraded it from city to city. Three days later, the Turks also discovered -the Greek rebels- Deli Giorgos and Lambros. They burned Lambros alive, while they crucified Giorgos and, instead of a crown of thorns on his head, they drilled holes into which they placed feathers. Dionysios’s skin, together with the heads of 85 Greek Christian rebels, was sent to Constantinople, where it was thrown into the Sultan’s stables.

After the failure of Daskalogiannis’s uprising in Sfakia (Crete, 1770), the Turks captured him and flayed him alive, cut him in pieces and throw them in the fire and the dogs.

The Muslim Pasha of Thessaloniki, Abdul Abud, who had set as his goal the extermination of the Greeks, burned 120 villages and wiped out their inhabitants to the last one.

5.000 Greeks were massacred in Naousa, the rest were sold in slave markets, and the entire city was reduced to ashes.

The Janissaries faced no restraint in their behavior toward the Christians. They would even enter churches and desecrate them. And if they discovered a beautiful Greek girl, they would seize her from her parents in order to satisfy their lewd desires. For this reason, anyone who had a pretty daughter was forced to keep her locked inside the house, while most Greek women who lived in towns would wear a burqa when they went out, just like Muslim women.

The Janissaries also exterminate Christians without any reason, simply because they were Christians. Sometimes they executed them in cold blood in the middle of the road, just to test the accuracy of their weapons; other times to watch them writhe in their own blood; sometimes to make the abduction of a bride, right after her wedding, more dramatic; other times simply because the Christians were manly-looking, relatively well-dressed, or on horseback. In the latter case, the rayah would hurry to dismount upon seeing a Janissary, but the latter would draw his pistol and say: “Why did you dismount, you infidel dog? So you could make me ride instead?” And the rayah, Greek Christian, would fall dead.

On December 18, 1803, at Zalongo in Greece, a group of Greek Souliote women jumped from the cliffs, holding their children. They chose death over falling into the hands of Muslims, where they would face rape, abuse, and enslavement.

On March 30, 1822, the Chios Massacre took place. The Muslim Turks slaughtered (Greeks) 42,000 women, men & children. Additionally, 52,000 were sold as slaves in the markets of Smyrna & Constantinople. Young girls were raped publicly in the streets, and newlyweds in front of their husbands, who were then slaughtered. Others were raped in front of their parents, after which the men's genitals were cut off. Women over 40 were set on fire and left to burn alive. Pregnant women had their bellies ripped open and their fetuses pulled out, while small children were thrown forcefully against rocks. The frenzy of the Muslims was unprecedented.

In 1822, Muslims also captured the wives of Zafeirakis and Gatsos. The wife of Zafeirakis was built into the wall up to the neck in the church of Hagia Sophia in Thessaloniki. Maria Karatasou, daughter of a priest refused to change faith, and for this Ebub Lubut enclosed her in a sack with deadly snakes, where she martyred. Pouqueville describes in the darkest colors to the civilized world the dramatic scenes he saw with his own eyes there: "Many women naked were put up to the neck in sacks with cats, snakes, and mice…".

The Greek Christian Woman, during the years when Greece was enslaved to the Muslim Turks, in order to avoid -as much as she could- the abhorrent dishonor from the barbaric Muslims, would destroy the youthful beauty of her face, or create a family from the age of fourteen, believing that she would not give birth to slaves.

On September 1, 1821, Samothrace was devastated by the Ottomans through a general massacre led by the Turkish Kara Ali. Approximately 10,000 men & boys were slaughtered. Women & children were sold in the markets of Constantinople & Smyrna (Holocaust of Samothrace).

On June 4, 1821, the Turks carried out a massacre against the Greeks of Kydonies in Asia Minor (modern-day Ayvalık). They did pogroms at shops and homes, looting them, while seizing women and children to sell as slaves. Simultaneously, they conducted a general massacre of the population, and the town was set ablaze and completely destroyed.

On September 1955 in Constantinople 4,348 Greek businesses, 110 hotels, 27 pharmacies, 23 schools, and 73 churches were damaged or destroyed. The exodus of Greeks from Turkey, reduced the community of over 150.000 (who have already left from the Fall), to fewer than 2.000 today.

Muslims commited GENOCIDES and Islamized the Anatolia, Antioch and Seleucia.

From the Hellenism of the East (Thrace, Asia Minor, Pontus), around a million people were exterminated (1914-1924). In the Pontus region alone, 353,000 people were slaughtered. Because they stole our lands. Smyrna, Aydin, Kydonies, Prousa, Nicaea (Asia Minor region), Trebizond, Kerasounta, Samsounta, Oinoe, Paphra, Ordou, Amaseia (Pontus), provinces of Derkon, Metron, Herakleia, Myriophytou, Kallipoleos, Ainos, Tyrolois, Saranta Ekklision, Adrianople (Eastern Thrace).

I hate Islam with all my heart because I am Greek and because I know my own history.

I strongly suggest that you study my history so you can avoid these atrocities becoming your history too.

Thank you for reading me,

Homer Pavlos

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

The Government Office for Science has commissioned a report that should concern us all.

It is framed as a document designed to help tackle the spread of “misinformation”, but what it really seeks to achieve is the neutralisation of independent thought.

The report’s Orwellian proposals include “psychological inoculation”, “pre-bunking” and game-based “interventions” designed to steer the public towards state-approved political messages.

It’s truly sinister.

Full episode with Lord Young and @andrewdoyle_com is available on the FSU YouTube channel 👇

[TAFKAMacM @TAFKAMacM]

Fair warning, local road-users. I've concluded that the Highway Code is unworkable and will no longer be following it.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

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The world’s largest offshore wind farm has been approved by the Scottish government despite concerns from conservationists that it could kill tens of thousands of seabirds and diminish local fishing industries.

The wind turbines will cover a huge part of the iconic East Scotland coastline across Fife & Angus.

307 colossal wind turbines. Taller than the Eiffel Tower - reaching a maximum tip height of roughly 355 metres (1,165 feet).

Yet another corporate asset grab under the auspices of net zero that is being rammed through despite huge local community and conservation objections.

[…𝐆𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐞: 𝐒𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐆𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐞 @SonOfGeorge11]

@JamesMelville @jemmm85517813 https://t.co/WeoNjYeCGx

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

Landfill is becoming the default graveyard for the fading renewable-energy green dream.

Millions of solar panels are already hitting their end-of-life cycle, and the world is completely unprepared for the toxic avalanche due in 2030. By 2050, the International Renewable Energy Agency says it will get much worse, with more than 200 million tonnes of cumulative solar panel waste globally. Plus, there will be additional tens of millions of tonnes of decommissioned wind turbine components. Turbine blades are virtually indestructible.

The industry has claimed solar panels and turbines were ‘95% recyclable’. Technically, they are—because they are made of glass, aluminium, and copper. But the reality is a different story. In the US, it costs roughly $20 to $30 to properly disassemble and recycle a single panel, compared to just $1 to $5 to dump it in a landfill.

Because there is little financial incentive to disassemble and recycle parts, around 90% of decommissioned panels in the US and a large share of turbine blades worldwide go straight into the ground.

These devices are highly complex. A solar panel is an industrial ‘sandwich’ bound tightly by heavy polymers. Extracting the microscopic amounts of valuable silver and high-purity silicon requires energy-intensive chemical and thermal processing.

When crushed or left to fracture in landfills, heavy metals like lead and cadmium leach into surrounding soil and groundwater, turning ‘clean energy’ into a multi-generational hazardous waste problem.

The crisis is accelerating faster than models ever predicted. As solar cells degrade and newer, cheaper panels hit the market, consumers and solar farms are ripping out functional systems a decade early to repower and upgrade.

The dream of renewable energy from sunlight and wind has, in reality, created an endless loop of unrecyclable industrial trash.

[Queen Bee @KingBobIIV]

This weekend is Newquay Boardmasters. A lot of people will need taxis, so here is a list of the ones I know are reputable.

- Never be shy to ask to see the drivers taxi licence,

- Check their rear plates to make sure they're Cornwall Council registered - this will ensure they're heavily vetted.

- Turn on your phones GPS or Location

TRURO, PERRANPORTH, FALMOUTH AND PENZANCE

🚕 AndyCab
Truro (covers Truro, St Agnes, Perranporth): 01872 276496
Falmouth: 01326 352126
Penzance: 01736 272126

PERRANPORTH

🚕 KXR Cars — Brett
07444 694925

🚕 Go2Cabs
01637 222888

🚕 KC Taxis, Truro
01872 272999

🚕 Glyns Taxi, Truro
07895 224658

NEWQUAY

🚕 1-2-3 Taxis
01637 851234

🚕 10-11 Taxis
01637 871011

FALMOUTH:

JJs Taxis – 01326 755576

These are my personal recommendations.

Boardmasters is one of the busiest weekends of the year, so please book early, expect delays and support Cornwall’s local taxi drivers where possible.

Other firms include:

🚕 Abacus & Falmouth Taxis
01326 212141

🚕 A2B Taxis Cornwall
Truro: 01872 272989
Falmouth: 01326 317898
St Austell: 01726 606060

[Patrick Christys @PatrickChristys]

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This is 25 year old Thomas Martel. He kills kittens for fun. After his girlfriend found a Snapchat video of a living kitten captioned “Right before I murdered her,” police got involved.

They found out that Martel had been buying identical-looking 8 week old kittens online, naming each one “Shelly” to conceal the fact that he was killing them, and that he had been drowning, mutilating, decapitating, and microwaving them to death in his Chicago apartment. He’s been doing it since he was eight.

Here’s where it gets really scary. He was sentenced to four and a half years for animal torture and aggravated cruelty, but Illinois law counted the 1000-plus days he’d been on electronic monitoring as time served behind bars. He reported to prison and was released the same day, back to his family’s Northbrook home with just six months of supervised release between him and no supervision whatsoever. And that’s a huge problem.

See, torturing animals is one of the biggest behavioral predictors for violence against humans, especially sexual violence. He got off on what he did to those cats. He liked it — and he’s almost certain to act out again.

Studies have shown that the rate of animal abuse among serial killers and men who commit sexual homicides is shockingly high, and Martel’s behavior already reveals a cyclical pattern of violence, with build up and cooldown periods. This pattern is an enormous red flag, and increases the already high chances that Martel will reoffend in some way. Guys like that dream of bigger prey than kittens, and to add another layer of awfulness to Martel, he enjoyed taunting animal rights activists during his trial.

If you live in Northbrook, Illinois, be aware that this man is in your town. If he tries to approach you, get away from him. Don’t go anywhere with him, or believe anything he tells you, no matter what it is. You don’t want to be around him when he decides to move on from kittens.