Andrew Bowman

Kiwi, Mangataawhiri NZ

[David Farrar @dpfdpf]

Why do they lie? Road deaths were 341 in 2023, 289 in 2024 and 272 in 2025. That’s a 20% drop. Disinformation is bad.

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

This is real footage from 120 years ago.

None of the people in it knew that the city around them had four days left...

What you are watching is a cable car gliding down Market Street in San Francisco, filmed on the 14th of April, 1906.

The camera was mounted on the front of the car, so you see the city exactly as it was: the crowds, the horse-drawn carriages, the early automobiles weaving through traffic, the men in hats, the great buildings rising on either side. An ordinary spring afternoon in a thriving American city.

Four days later, on the morning of the 18th of April, a magnitude 7.9 earthquake struck. The shaking lasted under a minute, but it ignited fires that burned through the city for days...

By the time it was over, more than 3,000 people were dead and roughly 80 percent of San Francisco had been destroyed. Almost every building you see in this footage was gone.

And the film itself nearly went with it.

The negative was placed on a train bound for New York on the 17th of April, the day before the earthquake. Had it left a single day later, it would have burned in the fire along with the studio that made it.

This entire moving record of a lost city survives because of one day...

[Informal Economy @EconomyInformal]

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[Andrew Bowman @hedge_master]

@itsme_urstruly Zoom in.
Namibia 😬

[Andrew Bowman @hedge_master]

@ReadFitzgerald @cb_doge I can't believe a Yank is trying to school Kiwis about NZ politics 🤪

[Andrew Bowman @hedge_master]

What a move. Go Liam!

[Formula 1 @F1]

Fortune favours the brave 💪

A superb double overtake from @LiamLawson30 🤩

#F1 #AustrianGP

[Javier Negre @javiernegre10]

Si 50 millones de musulmanes llegan a Europa en menos de 20 años le llaman multiculturalismo.

Pero si 50 millones de europeos se van a vivir a África entonces es colonialismo.

Interesante lógica..

[🇨🇭 Swiss Hodler @SwissHodler]

“But who’s gonna build the roads if we don’t pay taxes!?”

Meanwhile, the border between Monaco and France.

Monaco 0% taxes vs France 69% taxes.

Guess which one is Monaco…

[Andrew Bowman @hedge_master]

Would make a great screen saver.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Scientists have created one of the most detailed 3D reconstructions of a human cell (eukaryotic cell) ever produced.

This groundbreaking model, often termed a "Cellular Landscape Cross-Section Through a Eukaryotic Cell," combines data from X-ray tomography, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and cryo-electron microscopy to map molecular structures in extreme detail.

[Andrew Bowman @hedge_master]

@Infideliter2022 💔

[Giga Based Dad @GigaBasedDad]

This

[Mike P @mikepat711]

Amazing V14.3.4 clip that @jtesla47 just sent me and asked me to share from his M3P.

What I love most about this clip is that FSD understands what needs to happen and reacts BEFORE the lead car even throws it in reverse. This is such a critical indicator that FSD isn’t just reacting to objects in its path, but actually understands what happens next before it even needs to start backing up to clear the dodge ram.

This is one of my favorite edge cases in a minute.

FSD IS THE TRUTH

[Andrew Bowman @hedge_master]

@BRICSinfo 🤣

[Andrew Bowman @hedge_master]

I hadn’t thought of it like that.

[Ben Pile @clim8resistance]

In fact, the human body cannot survive below sustained 15 degrees C without clothes.

Central England is only non-fatal to humans in June, July and August.

We live 9 months of the years with fatally dangerous weather, but without extreme weather warnings.

[Creative Deduction @CreativeDeduct]

Amsterdam’s famous canal houses weren’t designed by architects. They were designed by tax avoidance.

In the 17th and 18th centuries, Dutch cities taxed houses according to the width of their street or canal frontage. The wider the façade, the higher the tax bill. In response, builders constructed houses that were deliberately narrow - often just three or four metres wide - but extremely deep and tall, sometimes rising five or six storeys behind the slender front.

This tax-driven design produced the distinctive Amsterdam canal house: tall, narrow, and topped with a large wooden hoist beam on the gable. Because the internal staircases were often too steep and narrow to carry furniture, belongings were lifted through the windows using ropes and pulleys. What looks today like charming historic architecture was, in reality, a rational response to a punitive tax on width.

The results were often impractical. Rooms were long and thin, natural light was poor deeper into the house, and daily life was constrained by the awkward proportions. Yet the tax succeeded in permanently shaping the city’s appearance.

It remains a clear example of how taxes do more than raise revenue - they actively distort the human behaviour and the physical world. When governments tax something as basic as the width of a building, people will build around the tax rather than for livability, beauty or common sense. The elegant façades of Amsterdam’s canals are, in part, a monument to tax avoidance.

[Nicole Lampert @nicolelampert]

This is the UN.
Look at the face of the UN special rapporteur who is meant to stand up for women but has refused, again and again, to speak up for Israeli women.
Look at her face when a former hostage challenges her.

[Inevitable West @Inevitablewest]

Locals are drawing England flags on trash down their street so the council comes and collects it faster.

Genius.

[Simon Elmer @SimonElmer2022]

Since 2016, the Mayor of London has been Sadiq Khan, a second-generation Pakistani immigrant and devout Muslim. The current Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, is also a Pakistani Muslim. The leader of the Scottish Labour Party, Anas Sarwar, is a Pakistani Muslim. There are currently 26 Muslim Members of Parliament, 4 Muslim members of the Scottish Parliament, including the former First Minister of Scotland, Humza Yousaf. 2 members of the Welsh Parliament are Muslim. The Mayor of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, Lutfur Rahman, is a Muslim. The Mayor of the London Borough of Newham, Rokhsana Fiaz, is a Muslim. 2 London Assembly Members are Muslim. 18 peers in the House of Lords are Muslim. And in 2025, at least 8 ceremonial mayors, who do not wield executive power but whose role is to normalise the Islamisation of Britain, were Muslim.

The UK, however, is not only run by its politicians but also by its civil service and the army of administrators at every level of the state apparatus and civil society. Placing a Muslim in charge of Britain’s capital city for a decade is one very obvious way to implement the Islamisation of Britain. Placing a Muslim in the office of Home Secretary is another. Placing a Muslim at the head of Ofsted is another. But the infiltration of the UK state by Muslims goes far beyond the scores of Muslims who now sit at the head of our councils, in the mayoralties of our cities, in our legislature and in the House of Lords.

It’s largely unknown to the general public, but Muslims have created a network of political, civil, military, legal, police, media, educational, health, financial and charitable bodies working towards the Islamisation of the United Kingdom.

Within the UK’s Government and Civil Service there operate today the Home Office Islamic Network (HOIN), the FCDO (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development) Muslim Staff Network, the Civil Service Islamic Society (CSIS), the Civil Service Muslim Network (CSMN) and the Muslim Public Affairs Committee (MPACUK).

Within the UK military there operates the Armed Forces Muslim Association (AFMA).

Within the UK judiciary there operate the Association of Muslim Lawyers (AML), the Muslim Lawyers’ Hub and the Muslim Lawyers Action Group (MLAG).

Within the parallel Sharia judiciary there operate the Islamic Sharia Council (ISC), the Muslim Arbitration Tribunal (MAT) and the Muslim Law (Sharia) Council.

Within the UK’s police forces there operate the National Association of Muslim Police (NAMP), the Association of Muslim Police (AMP) at the Metropolitan Police, the West Yorkshire Association of Muslim Police (AMP), the Scottish Police Muslim Association (SPMA) and the City of London Police Association of Muslim Police (AMP).

Within UK media there operate the BBC Muslim Network, the Channel 4 Muslim Network, the ITV Muslim Staff Network Centre for Media Monitoring (CfMM), Muslim Engagement and Development (MEND), the Islam Channel, British Muslim TV, Muslim Television Ahmadiyya International (MTA International), the Ummah Channel, Ahlebait TV and 5Pillars.

Within the UK’s education sector there operate the Muslim Teachers’ Association UK (MTAUK), the Association of Muslim Schools and Institutes (AMSI), the British Muslim Teachers’ Association and the Federation of Student Islamic Societies (FOSIS).

Within the UK’s health sector there operate the National Muslim Staff Network (NMSN) and the NHS Muslim Network.

Within the UK’s charities there operate the Islamic Relief UK, Muslim Hands UK, Muslim Aid, Ummah Welfare Trust (UWT), Muslim Global Relief, the National Zakat Foundation (NZF) and the Muslim Charity UK.

And within the parallel Sharia financial system there operate 5 fully Sharia-compliant banks (Al Rayan Bank, Gatehouse Bank, the Bank of London and the Middle East, United Bank Limited and the Ahil United Bank), as well as 25 conventional banks which offer Sharia finance alongside conventional finance.

Other nation-wide Islamic organisations operating in the UK include the Association of British Muslims (AoBM), the British Muslim Network (BMN), the Muslim Association of Britain (MAB), the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) and the Islamophobia Response Unit.

In my book I look at how these various Muslim organisations and their financial backers in the Islamic world work together to lobby the UK Government and Members of Parliament to write and pass legislation that furthers the Islamisation of Britain.

The most recent example of the influence of such Muslim groups on UK legislation is the UK Government’s adoption of the definition of anti-Muslim hatred and Islamophobia written by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims. An organisation composed exclusively of Muslims, including 21 Muslim MPs and 5 Muslim Peers, this APPG is funded by the Aziz Foundation, a charity founded in 2015 by Asif Aziz, a Malawi-born Muslim property developer and billionaire whose company, Criterion Capital, has investments worth £6 billion in Britain, and who, since 2024, has been a tax exile in Abu Dhabi.

Another indication of how these Muslim organisations operate closer to the corridors of power — indeed, with the offices stationed off them — is the Civil Service Muslim Network, which lists, among its stated aims, the following:

•Represent, support, connect and champion Muslim civil servants across government.
•Generate a better understanding of Islam within the Civil Service and challenge discrimination and misconceptions.
•Create a network of senior allies who recognise the lived experience of Muslim colleagues and help improve religious literacy and respect.

Doubtless I’m not the only British person who cannot understand why such a network should be required in the UK if Britain is still a secular society rather than one, as I believe, that is already operating under aspects of Sharia law modelled on its implementation in Pakistan; or why it should not only be tolerated but given a place in our civil service, except as a platform — one of many built in Britain and largely with the taxes of the British people — for the Islamisation of Britain.

As for Muslim organisations operating within our police forces and legal system, it is contrary to the principle of police being officers of UK law, the adjudication of courts over sentencing under that law, and of everyone in Britain, irrespective of their religion, being equal before the law. The two-tier policing of the British people, the decades-long cover-up of the Muslim rape-gang network operating in 149 constituencies that we know of across Britain, and the gross travesties of justice handed down by these courts to Muslim rapists, murderers and terrorists is further confirmation that the UK is, indeed, already operating under Sharia law.

Like the UK’s 85 known Sharia Courts, which oversee child marriages in contravention of UK law, these Muslim associations, Muslim societies, Muslim committees, Muslim councils, Muslim non-governmental organisations, Muslim APPGs and Muslim networks have created a civil service, legal system and police force that operates within, but independent from and contrary to, the laws of the UK, which they seek to change through political lobbying of our Parliament and Government. Again, this is consistent with Sections 4 and 14 of Pakistan’s Enforcement of Sharia Act, 1991, according to which ‘Laws [are] to be interpreted in the light of Sharia, and ‘The State shall take adequate measures for the Islamisation of the judicial system.’

Finally — although this list doesn’t approach exhausting the influence of Islam in British society — in addition to these organisations there exists within Britain a terrorist arm with links to the Muslim Brotherhood. This is a transnational Sunni Muslim organisation that was founded in Egypt in 1928 to promote Islam and Sharia Law.

Fronts for the Muslim Brotherhood known to be currently operating in Britain include the Cambridge Education and Training Center Ltd., IMA6INE Ltd., Wembley Tree Ltd., Waslaforall, Future Graduates Ltd., Yas for Investment and Real Estate, Holdco UK Properties Limited and Nafel Capital Partners, all of which have recently been proscribed by the United Arab Emirates as terrorist groups. Indeed, most of the organisations I’ve listed here are linked by varying degrees of separation to the Muslim Council of Britain and the Muslim Association of Britain, which themselves have links to the Muslim Brotherhood.

It is a measure of how far Britain’s Islamisation has advanced that this organisation operates freely in the UK while being banned as a terrorist organisation in many Muslim countries, including Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Syria, Jordan, Kenya, Bahrain, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and the United Arab Emirates, as well as in Russia.

Extraordinarily, in January 2026 the UAE announced that it was excluding UK universities from its approved list for state scholarships, citing the risk of Emirati citizens being radicalised by the Muslim Brotherhood operatng on British campuses. Universities where networks linked to the Muslim Brotherhood are reported to operate include the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London, Queen Mary University of London, the University of Birmingham, the University of Manchester, the University of Leeds, the University of Bradford and the University of Newcastle. The same month, the US Department of State proscribed chapters of the Muslim brotherhood in Egypt, Lebanon and Palestine as designated terrorist organisations.

And there are consequences to harbouring and funding Islamic terrorists in the very country against which they launch their attacks. Six years ago, in 2020, there were 43,000 people on MI5’s terrorist watch list. After the mass migration of half a million Muslims to Britain and more than two-and-a-half years of weekly protests against the war in Gaza, the numbers can only have grown since then.

In 2024, Islamic terrorists accounted for 80% of UK police force’s counter-terror caseload. As of 31 March that year, 63% of prisoners in the UK arrested on terrorist-related charges were Islamic terrorists. Muslims have been responsible for 94% of all terrorism deaths, and 88% of terrorism-inflicted injuries, in Britain over the last 25 years. In the last 10 years, the percentages are even higher. One would never guess it from the relentless references to the threat from the mythical ‘far-Right’ by the UK Government and media, but MI5 today lists Islamic terrorism as ‘the most significant threat to the UK by volume’.

As anyone who has lived in Britain since 9/11 knows, this hasn’t happened overnight, and we have repeatedly ignored every warning to the contrary, as we continue to do today. In 2006, when the UK was led by the New Labour Government of Tony Blair and net migration to Britain had increased to over a quarter a million a year, the think-tank, Policy Exchange, published a report titled ‘When Progressives Treat With Reactionaries’, in which it argued that the British Foreign Office had already, in effect, become a front for The Muslim Brotherhood. Twenty years later, they have been proven right. Today, the UK is run by Muslims.

Extract from my new book, The Great Replacement and the Islamisation of Britain. If you want to know just how far down the path to becoming an Islamic State Britain is, and what we, the British people, can do to stop it, please consider purchasing a copy of my book. The link is below.
https://t.co/kpQBeancvN

[Creative Deduction @CreativeDeduct]

The most dangerous thing in politics is not malice. It's arrogance: the belief that a small group of experts can redesign society better than the countless individuals who actually live in it.

Friedrich Hayek had a name for this mistake: The Fatal Conceit.

In his final book, Friedrich Hayek delivered his most pointed critique of socialism and central planning. The book’s title refers to the fatal intellectual error at the heart of socialist thought: the arrogant belief that human reason is capable of deliberately designing and controlling the complex order of society. Hayek called this “constructivist rationalism” - the idea that we can scrap inherited institutions and traditions and rebuild society according to a rational blueprint.

Hayek argued that this conceit is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of how civilisation actually works. The extended order of the market - our system of prices, division of labour, property rights and moral traditions - was not invented or designed by anyone. It emerged through a long process of cultural evolution. No single mind, and certainly no central planning board, possesses the knowledge required to coordinate millions of individuals with constantly changing needs, preferences, and local circumstances.

The price system, Hayek explained, is a remarkable mechanism that communicates dispersed knowledge far more effectively than any planner ever could. When socialists attempt to replace this spontaneous order with conscious direction, they do not merely cause inefficiency. They destroy the very foundations that make advanced civilisation possible.

The Fatal Conceit goes beyond economics to defend the moral and cultural foundations of a free society. Hayek showed that the socialist project is not just impractical - it is based on a dangerous overestimation of human reason and ability, and an arrogant dismissal of evolved wisdom.

The fatal conceit is still very much alive today in every attempt to centrally engineer society, the economy, or human behaviour. Hayek’s warning endures: civilisation is fragile, and those who believe they are wise enough to redesign it are usually the ones who end up destroying it.