Mat O'Marah

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[Independent Birmingham @IndependentBham]

Maaaaaaassive congrats to The Wilderness for being awarded a highly coveted Michelin Star ⭐️

What a terrific accolade for this brilliant restaurant. You’re doing Brum proud. Oh hells yeah! 🤘

[Mat O'Marah @fozzyo]

@StarbucksUK Yes I have again ... You always ask for details to be sent but never seem to reply

[Mat O'Marah @fozzyo]

What is the point of @StarbucksUK advertising pike place and filter coffee when none of the stores seem to have it available.

[Mat O'Marah @fozzyo]

All kicking off at @thenec today ... one woman with a hand painted "no arms sales at the NEC" sign. Took four police officers and six NEC security staff to contain it. I think carrying her out brought more attention. #streisandeffect #gunshow

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

In honor of lasting one full year in office, @CAGovernor Gavin Newsom today awarded Donald Trump the California Peace Prize. Please join us in congratulating Daddy’s Little Helper!

[Liberal Democrats @LibDems]

Tonight's turret meeting will be pretty awkward

[Fesshole🧻 @fesshole]

I have an Irish passport but my partner has a British passport. Going to get a relaxing coffee whilst he's queueing with the Brits is the part of the holiday I look forward to the most.

[Mat O'Marah @fozzyo]

Heard a rumour the Christmas Market in #birmingham is opening next week! Seriously, it gets earlier every year!

[Mat O'Marah @fozzyo]

Fascinating read explaining how people react in these situations.

[Markos Mom @Markos_mom]

The Station Nightclub fire happened in 2003. No smartphones. No Instagram.

100 people still died because they stood watching the flames, thinking it was part of the show.

I've retrofitted fire safety for some of the largest property portfolios in the UK post-grenfell.

You are confusing stupidity with biology, physics, and catastrophic design failures.

Here is the actual science of what you are watching:

1. When the music keeps playing and staff don't panic, the human brain overrides flight instincts to fit the threat into a normal context. This is called normalcy bias. These kids froze to process conflicting social cues, not to post for likes. They were likely already filming. They were also likely drunk.

2. We explicitly design buildings to account for this hesitation (pre-movement time). Fire safety codes assume people will wait before running. In a compliant building, you can assume up to a minute or two before egress commences. Sprinklers and detection systems are designed specifically to buy that time.

3. The reason the time buffer didn't exist here is the material. That ceiling is polyurethane foam. It doesn't burn linearly; it hits flashover (1,100°F) in under 90 seconds. It's essentially solid gasoline. The room would have exploded for all intents and purposes. Way before anyone could reasonably evacuate.

4. We calculate exit widths based on how many people can physically pass through a door per minute (flow rate) versus how fast a fire spreads. With foam fires, the available safe egress time drops to almost zero. Even if they had reacted instantly, the crowd density would have choked the exits before the room cleared.

5. In any normal building fire, especially one that starts off small, you expect a responsible adult to put it out, or sprinklers to do the same. When there's a pan fire in a restaurant, you don't run out in case the entire building suddenly explodes. No reasonable person should have expected this unless they were the owner and knew how the building was designed.

Those poor teenagers likely passed out from smoke inhalation soon after this video. If they didn't, they would have been caught in a catastrophic explosion as they crammed into the single tiny exit.

They didn't die because of Instagram.

They died because the physics of the fire moved faster than human bodies can physically squeeze through a door, and a catastrophic disregard of safe design principles meant they never stood a chance.

[Lucy Easthope @LucyGoBag]

I suspect that the speed at which the Swiss move now is really going to put police, CPS, government and many other shadowy figures that emerged in that terrible summer of 2017 to shame…

[Amanda Killian @eroscestlavie_x]

Will never judge a person for being way too online between Dec 22 & Jan 1. You might be in your childhood home on an air mattress right now these posts might be keeping you alive

[Geoff Norcott @GeoffNorcott]

Massive away win for the little fella.

[Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

#TheCelebrityTraitors

[Trades Union Congress @The_TUC]

Which one is more English?

[Brendan May @bmay]

Absolutely superb effort by all those who voted for this, many of whom are now dead.

[Mat O'Marah @fozzyo]

@colinross1975 Why? Why would someone do that? Why?!

[Wolves Astro Society @wolvasuk]

Here is the Sky Guide for October 2025, Part 2, produced by Society Treasurer Doug Bickley.
Note all timings are based on the Wolverhampton Area @wolvasuk https://t.co/ox9S3RXwKx
Society membership is £10, please see the website for more details.

[Anon Opin. @anon_opin]

That there is a whole subsection of the hot sauce industry who's only reason to exist is to indulge the need for some men - because it's always men - to prove their manliness by basically eating napalm is just bizarre.

[Mat O'Marah @fozzyo]

@RichardBurgon Why? What are the arguments against it please?

[Peter Tatchell @PeterTatchell]

Dutch ban conversion therapy - UK still dithers

The UK Labour government has failed to fulfil its promise to ban conversion therapy 📢

Every country should outlaw this cruel, harmful abuse. #StopDithering

https://t.co/qdvXh4vDSd