MazG 🦁🟦

Previously a Hospo serf now attempting to educate . . .

[DaVinci @BiancoDavinci]

A fish swims gracefully above the breathtaking mosaics of a 2,000-year-old Roman palace that has been submerged beneath the sea for over 500 years. Baia, Italy.

[Sam Bowman @s8mb]

Is there an explanation that doesn’t make this sound psychopathic?

[Wolf of X @WolfofX]

They saw a 77 year old woman standing alone at an ATM in Bromborough, England, and thought they had found an easy victim.

Winifred Peel was withdrawing money when three teenagers moved in to rob her. One pushed her aside while another tried to take cash from the machine. They expected fear. Instead, they got resistance.

Winifred grabbed one of the attackers, 19 year old Felix Stoica, by the collar and slammed his head against the ATM three times. The injuries he suffered, along with CCTV footage, later helped police identify the gang.

Within days, all three suspects were arrested. Felix Stoica, Florin Geblescu and Piper Dumitru eventually admitted their roles in the robbery and were sentenced to prison.

Afterward, Winifred revealed she regularly went to the gym and believed that staying active had helped her defend herself. The attack shook her confidence, but she refused to let the men take her money without a fight.

The three teenagers believed age made her an easy target.

They walked away discovering that courage is something no one can measure by the number of birthdays a person has lived.

[Omid Djalili @omid9]

This speech is precisely what 90 million Iranians have been screaming into the void about for the last 47 years. Post what ever you like about ‘western imperialism’, Trump, Israel, Netanyahu - and by all means advocate for the Palestinian people - but if the Islamic Republic of Iran is your hero then you have negated all human rights advocacy you claim to stand for. If the regime is “beautiful resistance” because you think they are “standing up for Palestine” - which most have now worked out is a political tool to keep them in power and keep them supported by idiots in the west - then you have unequivocally shown that you have the intellectual capacity of a gnat.

[Rémi Kasprzyk @KasprzykRemi]

Cette photo mérite absolument tous les prix. Elle a même sa place au Louvre.

Elle relate précisément l’inertie de l’individu face à l’effondrement.

Regardez la composition. Un chef-d’œuvre involontaire.

Au premier plan, le sable doré, les tongs abandonnées, la glacière. Le décor ordinaire du bonheur estival. Deux personnages assis, de dos, comme dans un tableau de Caspar David Friedrich. Sauf que Friedrich peignait des hommes contemplant le sublime. Ici, ils contemplent la catastrophe. Et ils ne bougent pas.

Au centre, le parasol. Publicitaire, criard, dérisoire. Un pastis face à l’apocalypse. C’est presque trop parfait : la France qui prend l’apéro pendant que le monde brûle. Aucun scénariste n’aurait osé.

Et puis le ciel. Les deux tiers de l’image. Cette muraille de fumée qui avale la lumière, ce dégradé d’ocre et de noir digne d’un Turner. La nature qui reprend la palette des maîtres pour peindre notre propre fin.

La femme photographie l’incendie avec son téléphone. Mise en abyme totale : nous documentons notre disparition au lieu de l’empêcher.

Cette image dit tout. Le déni, le confort, l’habitude. Nous sommes tous sur cette plage. Nous voyons tous le nuage. Et nous restons assis, parce que l’eau est bonne et qu’on a posé nos congés.

Les historiens de l’art parleront un jour de cette photo comme on parle du Radeau de la Méduse.

Sauf que cette fois, le naufrage, c’est nous qui le regardons depuis la plage.
💔🌍

[WeRateDogs @dog_rates]

This is Alfie. He is a professional opera singer with some of the best vibrato in the industry. Some have even called him the next Paw-varotti. 13/10

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

Ten more Iranian protesters scheduled to be executed tomorrow. Two protesters were hanged in Iran today.

You all watching war headlines but no one talks about the war being imposed on us Iranians by our own regime that hanging its own people in silence.

They are people who said: we want freedom.

If no one speaks, they kill more people.

Share this. Scream.

#StopExecutionsInIran

[RS Archer @archer_rs]

"OOO you are awful . . . . . But I like you"

[MazG 🦁🟦 @MazGc2]

@HaggisAdele This looks absolutely stunning!!!!

[Antidepressant Content @depressionlesss]

At a Japanese aquarium, these baby otters have an end-of-day routine: clean up the toys with grandpa, then collect their well-earned ice cube reward.

[BinfaceFanComm @BinfaceFanComm]

On Our way to Clacton. It's time to take out the trash.

Bindipendence day is upon us.

Vote binface for clacton.

[Miss Ally @MissAlly_01]

So if Farage wins, he won against a bin, & if he loses, he lost against a bin.

It’s a bin bin situation.

[MazG 🦁🟦 @MazGc2]

@LouiseWalton78 This is so cool !! The legs 🥹

[Dr Juliet Turner @juliet_turner6]

I gave Ajax this ball and in exchange he gave me one of my gel earplugs that has been missing for a week that he *somehow* knew was hidden in that specific plant pot under that particular leaf.

[MazG 🦁🟦 @MazGc2]

@LouiseWalton78 What a beautiful colour ! 💜

[Michelle Cowbourne @Glastomichelle]

I chose a nice morning for my first trip up Glastonbury Tor for a little while. I took it slowly but it was so worth it. Sunburst welcome.

[Jon Jones @JonJonesSnr]

Count Binface wants water bosses to swim in rivers to prove they’re clean.

He could win a by-election on that policy alone.

[MazG 🦁🟦 @MazGc2]

@LouiseWalton78 This is stunning!

[Hasan @Hasan368384]

Morning light in Glen Coe #Scotland    #GlenCoe #Highlands

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

Britain has managed a piece of foreign-policy incoherence so neat it almost deserves study. In September 2025, the UK formally recognised the State of Palestine as part of its declared commitment to a two-state solution. At a time when the UK is facing a £15 billion black hole in Defence funding, the government has now announced another £23 million for UNRWA, the separate UN agency built around the category of “Palestine refugees”, which includes millions across the region and civilians in Gaza.

If Palestine is a state, why are Palestinians still administered by a permanent refugee agency rather than by the institutions of the state Britain says it recognises?

UNRWA is more than a relief mechanism. It preserves a political architecture in which refugee status is passed down the generations, with descendants of Palestine refugee males eligible for registration. That is the core absurdity: the refugee question has not been treated as a problem to be resolved through statehood, compensation, resettlement, or a final-status compromise. It has been kept alive solely as a permanent claim against Israel.

The “right of return”, when understood as mass return to Israel rather than to a future Palestinian state, is a demographic veto on Israel’s continued existence as a Jewish state. No two-state settlement can survive that demand. You cannot simultaneously claim to support two states and continue to subsidise the institutional machinery of a maximalist refugee claim that points back into one of them.

Then there is UNRWA’s record. UN Watch has documented hundreds of UNRWA employees connected to terrorism, including 12% of UNRWA’s Gaza staff who are members of Hamas or other designated terrorist organisations. In any other theatre, an agency under that kind of cloud would not be treated as the default, indispensable vehicle for British aid.

None of this requires indifference to the suffering of civilians in Gaza. Food, medicine, shelter, and clean water should reach civilians. The question is why British policy keeps choosing a channel that entrenches hereditary refugeehood, sustains the fantasy of return to Haifa and Jaffa, and has repeatedly been compromised by the very forces that made Gaza ungovernable.

Recognition of Palestine should have meant a move towards normal statehood: institutions, accountability, borders, and responsibility. Instead, Britain is funding the maintenance of exceptionalism while telling itself it is buying peace. The result is incoherent, sentimental, and shameful.