Just Thinking 🤔

Just me, musing and cogitating and waiting for the world to catch up.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

If you walked up to Mike Tyson in a bar and punched him in the face, I doubt ‘you can’t hit back because I’m so puny!’ would save you from consequences.

Same on X. If you want to punch me in public but don’t want to risk a brain injury in return, stick to your own weight class.

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

This is a male with a woman’s swim suit on. A very average male swimmer incapable of doing anything substantial on the national platform in men’s racing. Yet beat 3 USA Olympic female medalists! It is cheating the same way allowing a 15yr to race 10yr olds is. Its cult stupidity

[Just Thinking 🤔 @itsutsunokata]

Zionism

[Benonwine @benonwine]

What do you think is the ONE thing that Andy Burnham stands for?

[Ashton Forbes @AshtonForbes]

In case something does happen to me, there’s only one thing the world needs to know.

The United States has teleportation technology.

It seems impossible but it’s true.

[Just Thinking 🤔 @itsutsunokata]

@cryptocornpoan @MmisterNobody Agreed. Stopped using sunglasses years ago.

[Just Thinking 🤔 @itsutsunokata]

@MmisterNobody I always try not to use it.
But i have been on holiday in 35deg full sun waiting in line at a water park with no shade, t shirt or hat and had to apply it simply to stop me burning and my head becoming a lobster. Not ideal. I do what I can.
Ordinarily never.

[Jamie Andrews @JamieAA_Again]

British Farmer Mark Purdey spent his life proving that BSE/CJD was not caused by "contagious folding proteins" but instead by the harmful Industrial Chemical Organophosphates mandated to rid cattle of pests.

[tag 🇬🇧 @tag4UK]

I am married with a young daughter, both myself and my husband work.

-We are not entitled to housing benefit, or any other benefit for that matter.

-We do not get free eye tests, free dental care or free prescriptions.

-Our daughter is not entitled to free school meals, or free breakfast clubs, or free wrap around care, no help with her uniform.

-We don’t get council tax discount, or any other discount.

-We don’t get help with our energy bills, or low cost broadband.

-We don’t get help with the cost of going to the cinema, or days out at theme parks.

-My daughter is unable to play outside unsupervised, because you have failed to secure our borders and the streets aren’t safe.

-If I work more hours, I fall into the higher tax band.

Why should someone like me, vote for someone like you? @UKLabour @andyburnham

What are you offering my family?

[Just Thinking 🤔 @itsutsunokata]

@AvonandsomerRob Lega agel for drinking alcohol in UK = 5 years old in private settings.

[Christopher Lupine @LupineLives]

Ann Widdecombe is a high profile member of an insurgent right wing party

Her last interview she talked about the establishment that pull the strings behind politics

The next day she is brutally murdered in her remote home

Yet they’ll look you in the eye and say random attack

[Denis Rancourt @denisrancourt]

<< “For the past 35 years, I’ve been exposing fake diseases and fake disease labels. AIDS, autism, Alzheimer’s, COVID, all 300 psychiatric mental disorders. And more. Fake, fake, fake. And now: CANCER.”¹
--Jon Rappoport wrote that in August 2025. He died on July 8, 2026.² >>
H/T @Unbekoming

[Together @Togetherdec]

5 REASONS - Why a national Digital ID is nothing like your passport❌

1. Passports prove who you are, a government Digital ID could create a record of where you go, what you do, and when📍📲

2. Passports are for travel, a government Digital ID could become essential for banking, healthcare, housing, work, and everyday life🛂🏦

3. Passports can’t monitor your movements, a Digital ID could make tracking people’s activities faster, easier, and more widespread 🚫📡

4. Lose a passport, replace it. A hacked Digital ID system could expose sensitive personal data that can’t simply be reissued🔐⚠️

5. Passports stay in your pocket, a Digital ID lives online, increasing opportunities for data collection, tracking, and cyberattacks🧳🌐

#ScrapDigitalID #together

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

🚨BREAKING: UK GOVERNMENT TO TAKE CONTROL OF YOUTUBE ALGORITHM

This is pure authoritarianism

Keir Starmer's/Andy Burnham's Government is set to control the YouTube algorithm by LAW stipulating that they must push "APPROVED CONTENT" to UK Citizens

And independent voices who criticise the government will be pushed to the back of the queue making it harder for people to find

YouTube has acknowledged this is happening

This must be stopped

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

Starmer did not shed a tear for the girls in Southport
He did not shed a tear for Wayne Broadhurst or Rhiannon Whyte.
He did not shed a tear for the women attacked by migrants he brought here.
He did not shed a tear for Henry Nowak.

In the end he only shed a tear for himself.

[Urlofcork @urlofcork]

Waiting to board our flight in Washington and there are 3 Scotland fans in kilts walking past. An American lady says" I love your skirts"
"They're nae skirts lassie they're kilts , We're Scots not Trannies" I genuinely Lol #tartanarmy #fifaworldcup @jk_rowling

[Utkarsh Sharma @techxutkarsh]

If you use Windows, you need to read this.

Microsoft's AI takes screenshots of your screen every few seconds, your banking, your messages, your passwords as you type them. It stores everything you've looked at, searchable.

Here are 5 moves to shut it off, and check if it's already been recording:

[PeterSweden @PeterSweden7]

And so it begins.

Swedish media is now calling for a ban on X.

All because they are losing control of the narrative.

This is where their lies are exposed.

[Just Thinking 🤔 @itsutsunokata]

Reminds me of the 10,000 steps rule and the 'old' food pyramid.

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

You have been told to drink 8 glasses of water a day.

A Dartmouth physiologist traced the rule to a single sentence in a 1945 federal report.

The very next sentence said "most of this is already in your food."

Marketers cut that line. You have been hydrating against an invented number for 80 years.

Here is the full story.

The expert is Heinz Valtin. He spent his career as a professor of physiology at Dartmouth Medical School. He wrote two of the standard textbooks on the kidney and water balance. He is one of the most cited water scientists in the country.

In 2002, the American Journal of Physiology asked him to write an invited review. He took the assignment seriously. He read every study on water intake he could find. He went back through the citation chain on the "8 glasses a day" rule, paper by paper.

He could not find the source. There was no study. There was no clinical trial. There was no medical body that had ever set the rule.

So he kept digging.

He traced it back to one document. A 1945 report by the Food and Nutrition Board of the National Research Council, published during the Second World War. The board was writing dietary advice for a rationed country.

Tucked into the report was this line:

"A suitable allowance of water for adults is 2.5 liters daily in most instances."

2.5 liters is about 8 cups. The math was clean. The phrasing was authoritative.

Then came the next sentence.

"An ordinary standard for diverse persons is 1 milliliter for each calorie of food. Most of this quantity is contained in prepared foods."

That second sentence does all the work. It says the 2.5 liter number is a total intake target. Not a drinking target. Every glass of milk, every bowl of soup, every apple, every cup of coffee counts. The water inside your food counts. Once you subtract the food, the actual glass-of-water number is closer to 1 liter. Sometimes less.

The second sentence disappeared. The first one became the rule.

Valtin published his findings in August 2002. The paper is titled "Drink at least eight glasses of water a day. Really? Is there scientific evidence for 8 by 8?"

His conclusion, in his own words: "I have found no scientific proof that absolutely every person must drink at least eight glasses of water a day."

Two years later, the Institute of Medicine, the top US body on nutrition, published its own review. The 2004 report said adult men need about 3.7 liters of total water a day. Adult women need about 2.7 liters.

But here is the key line in the same report, which most people never see.

About 20 percent of that water comes from food. The rest comes from any fluid. Coffee counts. Tea counts. Milk counts. Soup counts. Juice counts.

The Institute also said this: "the vast majority of healthy people adequately meet their daily hydration needs by letting thirst be their guide."

That is the official guidance. From the same body that sets every nutrition rule in America. Trust your thirst.

So why does the 8 glasses rule keep coming back.

Look at who profits when you follow it.

The global bottled water market was worth $364 billion in 2024. It is projected to hit $677 billion by 2035. Every wellness brand, every gym, every influencer with a tracker app has a reason to keep you reaching for one more glass.

Drinking extra water when you are not thirsty is not just unnecessary. In rare cases it is dangerous. Forcing fluids beyond thirst can cause a condition called hyponatremia, where blood sodium drops too low. It has killed marathon runners who drank too much during races. Valtin flagged this risk in his 2002 paper.

So how do you actually hydrate. 3 rules.

Rule 1. Drink when you are thirsty. Your body has a 200,000 year old hydration sensor. It works.

Rule 2. Check your urine color. If it is pale yellow, you are fine. If it is dark, drink more. If it is clear all day, you might be drinking too much.

Rule 3. Count every fluid. Coffee, tea, milk, juice, soup, fruit, and yes, plain water. They all count. The "caffeine dehydrates you" myth has also been debunked by the same Institute of Medicine.

The bigger lesson.

A rule everyone repeats is not the same as a rule that is true. The 8 glasses rule has been printed in school textbooks, on bottled water labels, on doctor's office posters, and in your phone's wellness app. None of those sources went back to check the original.

One physiologist did. He found one sentence. The sentence the marketers dropped.

If you have been forcing down water you did not want, you can stop.

Your thirst is the science. It always was.

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

You have been told to drink 8 glasses of water a day.

A Dartmouth physiologist traced the rule to a single sentence in a 1945 federal report.

The very next sentence said "most of this is already in your food."

Marketers cut that line. You have been hydrating against an invented number for 80 years.

Here is the full story.

The expert is Heinz Valtin. He spent his career as a professor of physiology at Dartmouth Medical School. He wrote two of the standard textbooks on the kidney and water balance. He is one of the most cited water scientists in the country.

In 2002, the American Journal of Physiology asked him to write an invited review. He took the assignment seriously. He read every study on water intake he could find. He went back through the citation chain on the "8 glasses a day" rule, paper by paper.

He could not find the source. There was no study. There was no clinical trial. There was no medical body that had ever set the rule.

So he kept digging.

He traced it back to one document. A 1945 report by the Food and Nutrition Board of the National Research Council, published during the Second World War. The board was writing dietary advice for a rationed country.

Tucked into the report was this line:

"A suitable allowance of water for adults is 2.5 liters daily in most instances."

2.5 liters is about 8 cups. The math was clean. The phrasing was authoritative.

Then came the next sentence.

"An ordinary standard for diverse persons is 1 milliliter for each calorie of food. Most of this quantity is contained in prepared foods."

That second sentence does all the work. It says the 2.5 liter number is a total intake target. Not a drinking target. Every glass of milk, every bowl of soup, every apple, every cup of coffee counts. The water inside your food counts. Once you subtract the food, the actual glass-of-water number is closer to 1 liter. Sometimes less.

The second sentence disappeared. The first one became the rule.

Valtin published his findings in August 2002. The paper is titled "Drink at least eight glasses of water a day. Really? Is there scientific evidence for 8 by 8?"

His conclusion, in his own words: "I have found no scientific proof that absolutely every person must drink at least eight glasses of water a day."

Two years later, the Institute of Medicine, the top US body on nutrition, published its own review. The 2004 report said adult men need about 3.7 liters of total water a day. Adult women need about 2.7 liters.

But here is the key line in the same report, which most people never see.

About 20 percent of that water comes from food. The rest comes from any fluid. Coffee counts. Tea counts. Milk counts. Soup counts. Juice counts.

The Institute also said this: "the vast majority of healthy people adequately meet their daily hydration needs by letting thirst be their guide."

That is the official guidance. From the same body that sets every nutrition rule in America. Trust your thirst.

So why does the 8 glasses rule keep coming back.

Look at who profits when you follow it.

The global bottled water market was worth $364 billion in 2024. It is projected to hit $677 billion by 2035. Every wellness brand, every gym, every influencer with a tracker app has a reason to keep you reaching for one more glass.

Drinking extra water when you are not thirsty is not just unnecessary. In rare cases it is dangerous. Forcing fluids beyond thirst can cause a condition called hyponatremia, where blood sodium drops too low. It has killed marathon runners who drank too much during races. Valtin flagged this risk in his 2002 paper.

So how do you actually hydrate. 3 rules.

Rule 1. Drink when you are thirsty. Your body has a 200,000 year old hydration sensor. It works.

Rule 2. Check your urine color. If it is pale yellow, you are fine. If it is dark, drink more. If it is clear all day, you might be drinking too much.

Rule 3. Count every fluid. Coffee, tea, milk, juice, soup, fruit, and yes, plain water. They all count. The "caffeine dehydrates you" myth has also been debunked by the same Institute of Medicine.

The bigger lesson.

A rule everyone repeats is not the same as a rule that is true. The 8 glasses rule has been printed in school textbooks, on bottled water labels, on doctor's office posters, and in your phone's wellness app. None of those sources went back to check the original.

One physiologist did. He found one sentence. The sentence the marketers dropped.

If you have been forcing down water you did not want, you can stop.

Your thirst is the science. It always was.

[Just Thinking 🤔 @itsutsunokata]

Restore please

[Restore The Empire @empire_res66190]

If a general election was held tomorrow who would you vote for?

Please vote &amp; repost.