miro.R

Old 🇵🇱 Fart in The 🇬🇧
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[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Egypt forgot how to build the pyramids.

Rome forgot how to build the aqueducts. Some still carry water today. What they built still stands. Neither civilization remembers how they did it.

Musk: “You look at great civilizations like ancient Egypt, and they were able to make the pyramids, and they forgot how to do that.”

Musk: “And the Romans, they built these incredible aqueducts. They forgot how to do it.”

No army invaded them. The knowledge just stopped getting used, and the moment it did, it was gone.

Same collapse. Compressed into fifty years instead of a thousand.

Musk: “In 1969, we were able to send somebody to the moon… Then the space shuttle retired, and the United States could take no one to orbit.”

Musk: “People are mistaken when they think that technology just automatically improves… it will, by itself, degrade.”

Capability doesn’t sit in a vault. It only exists inside the people doing the work right now.

The second they stop, it doesn’t pause.

It disappears.

That should not scare you. It should focus you.

Nobody loses a civilization to war. They lose it the moment they stop building.

Nobody is owed the future. It belongs to whoever keeps building it.

[miro.R @MirroRach]

If only this could be shared with all Reform voters.
Credit: David Holland
Reform UK claims 268,000 members. Each pays £25 a year. That's potentially £6.7m in annual subscription income. Before you pay, there's something you should know about what you're actually buying.
Reform UK is not a traditional political party in any constitutional sense. It is a private limited company. Two private limited companies, in fact, are nested inside each other.
Understanding the structure matters because it determines who controls the party, who benefits from your money, and what rights you have as a paying member.
The main vehicle is Reform 2025 Ltd, company number 11694875, incorporated in 2018. It is a company limited by guarantee, meaning instead of shareholders, it has guarantors who effectively own and control it. The two guarantors are Nigel Farage and Zia Yusuf. They are also the sole directors.
Sitting above Reform 2025 Ltd is a second company, Reform UK Party Limited, incorporated on 18 February 2025, company number 16260766. This is listed as the Person of Significant Control of Reform 2025 Ltd. It controls the main party vehicle. Reform UK Party Limited itself claims it has no Person of Significant Control. Nobody formally owns the company that owns the party.
In a traditional political party, Labour, the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats, the Greens, membership means something. Members vote on policy. Members elect the leadership. Members have constitutional rights enshrined in a rulebook. The party is an unincorporated association collectively owned by its members.
Reform's structure is fundamentally different. When you pay £25 to join Reform, you are not becoming a member of a democratic organisation. You are subscribing to a private limited company. Your £25 buys you no vote on policy. No vote on the leadership. No right to stand for internal office. No constitutional protection if the leadership decides to change direction overnight.
In February 2024, Farage announced he was handing over control of Reform. A new constitution was published. But the Companies House filings tell a different story. Under that constitution, Farage retained the power to appoint the majority of Reform's executive committee. The governance reform was announced publicly. The control was never actually transferred.
Farage is the sole person with the power to select candidates for elections. There is no primary system, no member ballot, no democratic selection process. The candidate in your constituency is whoever Farage decides it will be.
The 268,000 members have no formal mechanism to challenge or change that.
This matters in Makerfield specifically. Robert Kenyon was selected as Reform's by-election candidate. His record, the comments about women, the electoral roll discrepancy, and the Manchester Arena post all emerged after his selection. Under a traditional party membership structure, members would have a mechanism to raise concerns, call for a review, or trigger a recall. Under Reform's structure, there is no such mechanism. The leader selects. The membership subscribes.
Reform claims to be the voice of ordinary people against an out-of-touch establishment. But its own internal structure concentrates absolute power in two individuals at the top of a private limited company, with no democratic accountability to the people paying £25 a year for the privilege of calling themselves members.
Labour members elect their leader. Conservative members elect their leader. Liberal Democrat members elect their leader. Green members vote on policy. Reform members elect nobody and vote on nothing.
268,000 subscribers. £6.7m. Zero democratic rights.
That is what Reform membership actually is. The receipts are on Companies House.

[Politi_Rican 🇵🇷 𝕏 🇺🇸 @TheRicanMemes]

Elon and the translator help Trump bid farewell to Keir Starmer 🪈😂

[mynextchapter @Deeteem1]

While Poland was being starved and shot in the streets of Warsaw, Ukrainians in the same city were eating German rations, running Jewish businesses, and staffing the jails. This is not Russian propaganda. It's a classified American government report from 1941.

The document is titled "Poland Under Nazi Rule 1941." The author is T.H. Chylinski, United States Vice Consul, who spent nearly two years physically inside Nazi-occupied Warsaw. He filed it from memory on November 13, 1941 — he couldn't risk carrying written notes past Gestapo checkpoints. It was classified CONFIDENTIAL. Declassified under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act. Now sitting in the CIA's public reading room. Page 25. "German-Ukrainian Relations in Poland."

Here is what an American diplomat witnessed with his own eyes.

"The Ukrainian element in Poland constitutes a privileged class on an equal basis with the Volksdeutsch."

For those who don't know what Volksdeutsch means — those were ethnic Germans living outside the Reich. The most privileged civilian class in all of occupied Europe. Chylinski is placing Ukrainians on that exact tier. Not second class. Not tolerated. Privileged. Equal to Germans.

Now understand what that meant in practical terms for the people living alongside them.

German occupation authorities assigned food ration cards by ethnicity. The numbers are documented in postwar historical records. Germans received 2,613 calories per day. Ukrainians received 1,000. Poles received 699. Jews received 184. Chylinski's report confirms that Ukrainians in occupied Poland were receiving food cards identical to Reichsdeutsch and Volksdeutsch — meaning they were eating at the German table while Polish families around them were being deliberately starved toward death on 699 calories a day. Two people on the same street in Warsaw. One eating. One starving. Determined entirely by ethnicity and who you chose to serve.

It did not stop at food.

Chylinski documents that Ukrainians were employed in German administrative offices in Krakow, Warsaw, and throughout the provincial districts. A large number were appointed as Treuhanders — the Nazi legal term for administrators placed in charge of businesses confiscated from Jews. Ukrainians were handed Jewish property to manage under German authority. While Jewish families were being expelled from their businesses and homes, Ukrainians were installed as the new operators, backed by Nazi law.

The Ukrainian press in Poland, Chylinski notes specifically, was "loud in its praise of Hitler and the Nazis."

This is not a Soviet document written after the war to discredit Ukrainian nationalism. This is an American consular officer being shadowed by the Gestapo, writing from memory, before anyone knew how the war would end, stating as documented fact that the Ukrainian press inside occupied Poland was enthusiastically praising Hitler.

Then comes the passage that should end every argument about what the UPA's predecessors were doing in Poland.

"It is well known that most of the jails in the southern part of the General Government are staffed by Ukrainians. They treat the Poles even more harshly than do the Germans."

A United States diplomat. Writing in 1941. Stating as established fact — not allegation, not rumor, established fact that an American official considered common knowledge — that Ukrainian jailers in occupied Poland were more brutal toward Polish prisoners than the Germans themselves.

And they were trained for it. Chylinski documents that Ukrainians were given instruction in special police schools opened by the Germans across occupied Poland. They were drilled and armed by German military authorities. Large numbers were embedded in the Polish police force, on the railways, and on the trolley systems — woven into the infrastructure of occupation at every level.

This document was written in 1941. Two years before UPA units went village to village across Volhynia and massacred 100,000 Polish civilians with axes, pitchforks, and fire. The apparatus that made Volhynia possible — the police training, the armed detachments, the culture of brutality toward Poles that exceeded even German standards — was already built, already running, and already documented by American eyes before the massacres began.

Now connect it to today.

Poland took in nearly one million Ukrainian refugees after 2022. Provided billions in military aid. Served as the primary logistics corridor for every Western weapon that reached Ukraine. Did all of this knowing the history. Did it anyway because Russia is the common enemy.

In return, Zelensky signed a decree naming an active Special Operations Forces unit "Heroes of the UPA" — the direct organizational descendants of the men Chylinski documented running Nazi jails and treating Polish prisoners worse than Germans. When Poland's President Nawrocki revoked Zelensky's Order of the White Eagle in response, Ukraine's government called it a gift to Moscow and mailed the medal back without apology.

The document is not Russian. It is not Polish. It was written by an American, classified by an American government, and declassified by an American law. It describes what one American diplomat saw with his own eyes in a city where the Gestapo was following him personally.

History doesn't negotiate. It just waits to be read.

Primary Source:
CIA Declassified Document — "Poland Under Nazi Rule 1941"
Author: T.H. Chylinski, U.S. Vice Consul
Filed: November 13, 1941 | Declassified under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act
Page 25 — "German-Ukrainian Relations in Poland"

https://t.co/0cgMvtm9Qz

[Slavic Networks @SlavicNetworks]

🚨HERE ZELENSKY SIGNS FLAG OF 14TH WAFFEN-SS “GALIZIEN” DIVISION — UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT HONORS SS UNIT WITH POLISH BLOOD ON ITS HANDS 🔥🇵🇱🇺🇦

A video shows Ukrainian President Zelensky signing the flag of the 14th Division Waffen-SS “Galizien” a volunteer Ukrainian SS division.

Zelensky is seen signing a flag belonging to the Galizien SS Division — a Ukrainian unit that fought under Nazi command during WWII. This comes shortly after Poland revoked the Order of the White Eagle from him over Ukraine’s decision to honor UPA/Bandera figures.

When will more leaders finally stop pretending this is normal and demand that Ukraine stop glorifying units responsible for war crimes against Poles and others?

[Inevitable West @Inevitablewest]

🚨BREAKING: Miguel Bosé, the biggest Spanish-language pop star of the last few decades, has just released a video taking a knee and putting his hand over his heart in honour of Henry Nowak

This has now spread like a wildfire. Europe has never been more UNITED! 🇪🇸🇬🇧

[miro.R @MirroRach]

@M_Christo1410 @grok give us more please

[Rock History Live! @KTrain939913]

Today in Rock History

May 15, 2001
Tool released their third studio album, Lateralus. The album debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart and was certified triple platinum by the RIAA in April 2021, indicating sales of over 3 million copies in the United States . The first single, “Schism,” won a Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance in 2002.

[🥀🦇Eireen Violet🦇🥀 @EireenViolet]

Iron Maiden: "Fear Of The Dark"
Piano Cover by Margarita Sipatova
Official Music Teaser
#EireenVioletShortMusic
#PianoGirl
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[☢︎☠︎︎aim × megadeth obsessee☠︎︎☢︎ @pullingteetth]

Aw I don't think I've ever seen Dave so moved on stage before :( if he's emotional now what's he gonna be like at the end of the tour 😭

[Punt Road @punt_rd]

Early Metallica with Dave Mustaine on guitar playing ‘Mechanix’. Metallica and then Megadeth, born and diverged likes warring siblings!

[Just Rock Content @JustRockContent]

“Them Bones” - Alice In Chains https://t.co/kBDA03XjnH

[internet archiva @internetarchiva]

No phones, no filters, just 200,000 ravers and The Prodigy in their prime (1997)

[Not Elon Musk @ElonMuskAOC]

Beijing with the BOYS

[Jonny Mitchell @jonnyrmitch]

Firestarter by The Prodigy (1996)
One of the most epic songs from the 90’s!

[revolvermag @Revolvermag]

MARILYN MANSON released 'The Golden Age of Grotesque' on this day in 2003.⁠

Featuring the single "This Is the New Shit."

[稲妻のぺぺ(語り継ぎたい洋楽垢) @sukepon2021]

初期のスリップノットで好きな曲。

彼らの登場で、ヘビーロックやハードコアを聴く人口が一気に増えたのを覚えている。

レイジアゲンストザマシーンやコーンやマリリンマンソンが好きなリスナーは一部にはいたが、かなり限られていた。

ハードロックやヘビーメタル、ハードコア、プログレの美味しいところを凝縮させた様なスリップノットの登場は衝撃的だったなぁ🙄🤔

Slipknot - The Devil In I

[WeGotitBack 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇺🇸 @NotFarLeftAtAll]

Miss them days… my body couldn’t take it nowadays

[みなこ・フルシアンテ @randebu]

この時のSlipknot によるThe Blister Existsは最狂

[Deftones @deftones]

melbourne nights 1 + 2

auckland tonight. japan next week.

🎥: @audiomassacre