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[lapogus @lapogus1]

Bollocks. The puffins in Scotland have been using tools for years.

[CNN @CNN]

Researchers in England and Iceland have released a video of a puffin bird scratching itself with a stick. It's the first time wild seabirds have been spotted using tools. https://t.co/yB0EsXZwrc

[Dr Clare Craig @ClareCraigPath]

There are three ways to answer that:

1. The best case scenario is that 200 babies benefit. That is our of ~600k babies born a year. That means 69.4M of us have no chance of benefit. Therefore the risk:benefit ratio by defintion will be unfavourable for us.

2. There were nine dead babies for every neurtal tube defect "prevented" in the trial the benefit is based on.
https://t.co/tAHlpSeeiX

3. The NHS warns people to avoid it for health reasons.

[lapogus @lapogus1]

Please sign and share if you live in the UK:

[Dr Clare Craig @ClareCraigPath]

There is now a parliamentary petition to oppose this:

https://t.co/XzpiIGIzT7

[lapogus @lapogus1]

@ClareCraigPath Thanks Clare, signed and shared.

[Jim Steele @JimSteeleSkepti]

When Climate Models Contradict Earth's Climate Reality!

To defend their belief in a coming climate crisis, alarmists cherry-pick which models and which predictions have accurately estimated recent climate change. However, they ignore horrific failures of models that are totally untethered to earth’s real climate over the past 11,000 years, the Holocene (graphic B).

All the proxy evidence argues the earth has been cooling since the Holocene Thermal Maximum (10,000-6,000 years ago) (graphic A), but all model simulations suggest a steady Holocene warming. The failure was due to models being driven by CO2 concentrations which were slightly but steadily rising throughout the Holocene (graphic A). As Liu(2014) stated, “The discrepancy between the cooling trend in data and the warming trend in models reflects the “Holocene Temperature Conundrum”, and demands a critical reexamination of the global annual temperature trend in the Holocene.”

Proxy evidence such as treelines in Sweden, found fossils from 9,000 to 6,000 years ago that had been recently exposed by receding glaciers. Those fossil trees grew 600-700 meters above modern treeline positions, implying summer temperatures were at least 3.6 °C higher than present-day (Kullman 2017). Similarly, “over most of Russia, forests advanced to or near the current arctic coastline between 9000 and 7000 yr B.P. and retreated to its present position by between 4000 and 3000 yr B.P.” That suggested “the mean July temperatures along the northern coastline of Russia may have been 2.5° to 7.0°C warmer than modern” (MacDonald 1999).

Despite such warmer temperatures there was no “ecosystem collapse”, no extinctions, no human suffering that climate alarmist now rant about.

Glacier advances and retreat further support estimates of far warmer temperature during the early Holocene followed by cooling that contrasts with the climate model's warming from increased CO2 ppm. More than 90% of Arctic Glaciers and Ice-Caps (GIC) were smaller than present or absent in the middle Holocene at about 7000–6000 years ago. GICs across the Arctic began to regrow as summers began to cool despite increasing CO2 ppm. “Broadly speaking, summer temperatures in the Arctic appear to have peaked ∼1–3◦C above 20th century averages in the first half of the Holocene” (Larocca 2022).

Climate models reporting increasing temperatures during the Holocene, in contrast to all the proxy data, reveal how much climate models put undue theoretical weight on CO2 concentrations while underestimating important natural variables. As revealed in Liu 2012(graphic B), the atmospheric-ocean climate models are untethered to reality, such that those models are prime examples of GIGO, Garbage In Garbage Out!

[lapogus @lapogus1]

@KathrynPorter26 I've been sick of this for years. No, decades.
Come friendly bombs, and fall on Westminster and Holyrood.

[Dr Clare Craig @ClareCraigPath]

Please sign this petition to end the addition of the synthetic drug folic acid to our flour.

It's being added with the claim it might prevent ~200 neural tube defects.

The trial that claim is based on resulted in 9 dead babies per 'saved' child.

https://t.co/XzpiIGIzT7

[lapogus @lapogus1]

@JamesMelville Does no one remember the https://t.co/VH5RKHRfQF bubble? Is there any need in Scotland for 17 hyperscale data centres? How many more AI generated images of the world's biggest macaroni pie do we need?

[lapogus @lapogus1]

@UniqueGav @A1an_M @ScotGovEnergy @energygovuk I don't count how many snow days there are now, because I don't have kids at school, and I work from home. But I think there were a couple here, and many more in Aberdeenshire in Jan. But snow days are a poor metric. Regardless, recent warming is due to AMO/cloudcover, not CO2.

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

Palestinian students at UNRWA schools:

“Stabbing Jews brings dignity to the Palestinians. We have to stab the Jews. They teach us that Jews are terrorists. I am ready to stab a jew and drive a car over them. I am ready to join ISIS.”

Does this seem like a normal society to you?

[Emily Wilding Davison🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Wommando]

🇬🇧 I live in a country where depraved sickos caught with 1000s of the most horrific images and videos of babies and toddlers being r-ped walk free -

And a young man who threw a traffic cone that hit no one, is jailed for 3-5 years.

[lapogus @lapogus1]

@medialens Yes, a 1C rise in the long-term annual average is a massive shift, and the increase in the severity and intensity of summer heatwaves will be totally unprecedented, if you don't count all the severe heatwaves which occurred in the 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th and 17th Centuries.

[lapogus @lapogus1]

@EmblenReal @FraserNelson Correct. Denmark has published data which confirm this. Also some UK Police forces, like Dorset.

[lapogus @lapogus1]

@FraserNelson Aye right.

[Lozzy B 🇦🇺𝕏 @TruthFairy131]

23 year old Sudanese migrant Abubaker Mohamad Awad, stabbed 19 year old Tommie Lindhn to death in his own apartment in Härnösand, Sweden after Lindhn tried to stop Awad from raping a Swedish girl at knife point.

After killing Tommie, Awad continued to rape the young girl next to Tommies dead body.

The Sudanese migrant had already previously been convicted of several crimes, including sexual harassment, drug offences & shoplifting.

Had he been deported, Tommie would still be alive.

The media painted Tommie as Far Right, implied he was racist & that his life didn’t matter.

Tommie’s life DID Matter, all White Lives Matter.

Tommie Lindhn was a HERO

R.I.P Tommie 🤍🕊️

There is no justice without completely overhauling the broken system in the West & without Remigration.

Locking up violent foreign criminals AFTER they kill does not stop the next innocent person from losing their life.

No justice, no peace.

[Alastair McIntosh @alastairmci]

@KathrynPorter26 @nprotagonistx For a major essay on intermittency by Watson (a chartered electrical engineer) see this issue of Scottish Wild Land News (where I also discuss impacts of industrial scale renewables on landscapes and ask whether it is time for the Greens to re-evaluate): https://t.co/CSMPZVDQvP

[lapogus @lapogus1]

@DanielAustin07

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

Wiltshire Police has been taken to court for marching under the Pride flag. Officers didn't simply attend a local event; they marched in uniform, wore trans-themed lanyards, and ran stalls under political banners. This was not policing. It was participation in an ideological campaign. And that distinction matters more than most people realise.

Because what's unfolding here is part of a toxic revolution that has spread through every British institution – one that preaches equality but demands obedience. What used to be the impartial machinery of state has been captured from within by a new orthodoxy: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion – the soft language of the hard Left.

This is how a nation is hollowed out. Not by riots or coups, but by bureaucrats with clipboards and slogans. It begins with the soft phrases – "be kind," "celebrate difference," "diversity is our strength" – the moral lullabies of a movement that masks coercion as compassion. Then come the symbols – rainbows painted across patrol cars, the oath replaced by the lanyard. And finally, the inversion: neutrality becomes "hate," disagreement becomes "extremism," and those who refuse to accept the creed are cast out as enemies of progress.

Pride has become the state's moral test. Refusal to affirm it is treated as heresy. When police forces sponsor Pride zones and hand out stickers, they aren't serving the community – they're serving the creed. They're telling every citizen with gender-critical, conservative, or religious beliefs that their views are now beneath protection.

Sarah Phillimore, a family law barrister and co-founder of the free speech group Fair Cop, has spent years exposing how British policing has drifted from enforcing the law to enforcing ideology. Her challenge to Wiltshire Police is about more than one parade. It's about who governs Britain – the law, or the ideology that has replaced it. When judges have to remind police forces that impartiality is a legal duty, not a lifestyle choice, you know the system is rotting from within.

Every captured institution follows the same pattern: moral cause becomes policy, policy becomes dogma, and dogma becomes law. The NHS waves flags. The BBC manufactures narrative and calls it news. Our universities churn out zealots instead of thinkers. The police enforce feelings. A state once anchored in reason now runs on emotional coercion.

This is what capture looks like in the twenty-first century – not uniforms and salutes, but hashtags and training slides. It's control sold as compassion. And every time the police march under a political banner, the message is clear: allegiance to ideology now outranks allegiance to law.

The revolution happened in daylight. Most people mistook it for kindness. But behind the rainbows lies something colder – a bureaucracy that no longer serves the public, only itself.

It can still be undone, but only if the public stops apologising for wanting neutrality. The police have no business picking sides in moral crusades. Their badge should mean justice, not fashion. Because when the state kneels to ideology, the citizen kneels next.

"Sarah Phillimore, a family law barrister and co-founder of the free speech group Fair Cop, has spent years exposing how British policing has drifted from enforcing the law to enforcing ideology."

[Kathryn Porter @KathrynPorter26]

Another MP who desperately needs my free energy training

Intermittent renewables will NEVER be cheaper

They require backup
They require more expensive real time balancing
They require orders of magnitude more grid infrastructure than conventional generation
And they STILL require massive subsidies

All of that gets added to bills and is the reason bills are going up not down

[lapogus @lapogus1]

@Benleo The idea that migration does not have an impact on housing demand is yet another example of leftist stupidity, as Glasgow City Council has found.