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silent observer

[Stuzi 🐝🐝 @stuzi_pants]

It’s Adolf Sniffler

[Lime🍈 @indentleft]

You just need a little dash of oil mate

[Volcaholic 🌋 @volcaholic1]

France 🥵

[Catherine Warr @HiddenYorkshire]

the way gobsmacking is a primal response

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

The weirdest flex has to be "it's vegan leather."

You mean plastic. It's plastic.

[Lime🍈 @indentleft]

@anLFCfan Saw someone wearing one the other day. The best kits are always simple.

[Lime🍈 @indentleft]

Also went to see @AllahLas at Moth Club on Tuesday and that was fantastic too. Back-to-back brilliant gigs

[Lime🍈 @indentleft]

Went to see @superchunk last night the @ICALondon. One of my fave bands, and they were bloody brilliant.

[Zoey 🌤️ @Zoeycialist]

Neoliberals after 50 years of neoliberalism: 'this country has become ungovernable 😔'

[Lime🍈 @indentleft]

The only thing I’ve learned from this World Cup, is that @emmahayes1 is absolutely *light years* ahead of the male pundits.

Shearer, Rooney are legends on the pitch but they are as thick as mince, and add absolutely no insight to a game of football whatsoever.

[Tony Dabell @TonyDabell]

Hey @ITV @ITVSport read the fucking room will you, nobody and I repeat nobody wants to see or listen to Emma fucking Hayes, Karen Carney or Farah Williams talking about men's football, thanks 👍🏻

[Mouin Rabbani @MouinRabbani]

In the coming week we may witness the first diplomatic agreement in Israel’s history it will be forced to scrupulously respect.
This would be an unprecedented achievement, the more so because Israel is not a party to this agreement but will be forced to implement its terms.

[Xavi Ruiz @xruiztru]

On the longest day of the year, the sun sets in eastern Brazil before Ireland or Scotland.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

In England, you're allowed to clear about 20 metres of silt and rubbish out of a river on your own. Anything past that needs a permit from the Environment Agency. Paul Powlesland's volunteers cleared a 250-metre stretch of the River Roding with a hired digger, which is why a barrister who hauled out 200 bags of trash is now under criminal investigation.

The Roding runs through east London. Powlesland lives on a boat moored on it, and for years he and a group of volunteers have pulled out shopping trolleys, needles, old appliances, even weapons. Kingfishers, herons and dragonflies came back to water that used to be buried under junk. This one job took 10 days and a digger that cost £1,000 to hire.

The rule that caught him is oddly specific. Under England's water rules, scooping silt off the bottom of a river the agency officially manages counts as a "flood risk activity", and the law treats that the same as building a structure in the water. Do it without a permit and the offence carries up to two years in prison. The agency says it is also looking at waste the volunteers left on the floodplain. Powlesland is an environmental lawyer who has used these exact laws to protect rivers and trees, and a conviction could cost him his licence to practise.

The agency's reasoning isn't unreasonable. Dredging done badly can push flooding onto people downstream and wreck the habitat that protected animals need, which is what the permit is meant to prevent. The 20-metre allowance is there for small jobs. And no decision to prosecute has actually been made.

While investigators were knocking on a volunteer's door within a week of his cleanup, water companies discharged raw sewage into England's rivers and seas for a combined 3.6 million hours in 2024, more than 400 years of spilling packed into a single year. Only 14% of English rivers are in good health. Between 2015 and 2025, the Environment Agency investigated water companies for pollution 11,474 times. Fifty-eight of those ended in a prosecution. For serious pollution over the last five years, the number of water companies actually taken to court and convicted is zero.

So the message comes out backwards. Spend ten days and a thousand pounds making a river cleaner and an officer turns up within the week. Pump sewage into that same river for years and the chance of seeing a courtroom is close to zero.

[Nandi 🤍💜🤍 @pallnandi]

Watching a heron use bread to catch fish has me questioning reality.

[Iran in English @Iran_in_Eng]

A math teacher in a northern Iranian city made a bet with his students: “If I score this goal, we have an exam. If I miss, we all go home!”

Result:

[Jay @FerrazzanoJay]

Paraphrasing John Mearsheimer: If Israel were any benefit to the US, they wouldn't need a lobby.

[Lime🍈 @indentleft]

@shornKOOMINS A real page turner but not enough happy endings.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

I have never heard of a country invading a neighbor and then calling it unfair that their soldiers died in that invasion. I don’t think any other country ever even thought to make that complaint.

On top of that, Israel now wants to retaliate for its soldiers being killed while invading their neighbor.

This is pure madness. Just leave Lebanon.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The machine used to print the world's most advanced computer chips weighs 180 tons and is about the size of a school bus. Moving one takes 40 shipping containers, 20 trucks, and 3 Boeing 747 cargo planes. Even then it does nothing until an ASML team flies in, rebuilds it from roughly 100,000 parts, and stays on site for the rest of the machine's life to keep it running.

This is the object US officials suspect may have slipped into China. ASML's answer was close to a logistics lecture. The company says it knows the exact location of every one of these machines it has ever built, 314 of them running worldwide right now, and that none sit in China. It also says the machines stay connected to ASML. If one loses its signal or gets moved, ASML can see it, and a buyer cannot quietly unplug one and haul it somewhere else.

The hardware is almost impossible to fake or hide. One company on earth makes it. The mirrors inside come from Zeiss and are the most precise objects ever built. Blown up to the size of Germany, the tallest bump on one would be a tenth of a millimeter. To create its light, the machine fires a powerful laser at drops of molten tin 50,000 times a second, heating each drop to roughly 200,000 degrees, almost 40 times hotter than the surface of the sun.

So far no public proof of an actual machine in China has appeared, and ASML flatly denies it. A single one costs about $200 million, and the newest version closer to $380 million. It might be one of the only machines on earth that is too complicated to steal.

[Lime🍈 @indentleft]

Come on Scotland

[Magpie Media @MagpieMediaX]

Liverpool fans appear to be flocking in their masses to my profile after tonight’s game, so I’m resharing this. Any contributions would mean the absolute world to this little boy and his adoring family. That target of £393,000 is getting closer! 🙏🏽