Welsh Not Walsh

🇧🇧🇬🇧 Ashes and diamonds, friend and foe, we’ll all roast together when we go. #coys #thfc

[The Best @TheBestqueenx]

You're part of the elite if you know this couple…

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Just incase you don't know the NHS isn't being 'badly run'.

It is being deliberately destroyed by the people in charge of it who are making massive profits from Private Healthcare.

[Undiscovered History @HistoryUnd]

John Travolta and Marilu Henner in 1979

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

The Strait of Hormuz is not closed. It is sorted.

Iran has built a three-tier access system for the most important waterway on earth. Tier one: allies transit free. Malaysia cleared seven vessels through diplomacy at zero cost. India negotiated zero-fee passage. Pakistan secured clearance for 20 ships. Iraq transits without charge. These countries proved geopolitical alignment and the IRGC waved them through the Larak corridor without collecting a rial.

Tier two: compliant neutrals pay. At least two tankers, likely Chinese-linked, paid up to two million dollars each in yuan through Kunlun Bank intermediaries. COSCO container ships attempted the corridor, were turned back on first approach when documentation was incomplete, then succeeded days later with revised paperwork. These are the vessels that prove the system works. They submit IMO numbers, ownership chains, cargo manifests, and crew lists to the IRGC’s Hormozgan Command. They receive clearance codes. They are escorted by pilot boats through the five-nautical-mile channel between Qeshm and Larak. They pay in a currency that does not route through SWIFT. Every successful yuan transit is a live proof-of-concept for non-dollar energy settlement.

Tier three: adversaries are denied entirely. The committee plan bans American vessels, Israeli vessels, and vessels from any country participating in sanctions against Iran. These ships do not get vetting. They do not get codes. They do not get escorts. They get the AL SALMI, burning off Dubai, as illustration of what the corridor looks like without permission.

But the toll is not the real cost. War-risk insurance is. Premiums have surged from $40,000 per VLCC transit before the war to $600,000 to $1.2 million today, a 30-fold increase, now running five to ten percent of hull value. A VLCC carrying $50 million in crude oil can absorb a combined $3 million in toll and insurance as a fraction of cargo value. A container ship carrying $5 million in manufactured goods cannot. The insurance premium alone exceeds the profit margin on non-oil cargo. The strait has become an oil-only VIP lane. Crude flows selectively for those who can pay the combined cost. Everything else waits, reroutes around the Cape of Good Hope, or does not move at all.

And the US Navy is not inside the strait. The Abraham Lincoln strike group operates from standoff in the Arabian Sea. Three Littoral Combat Ships sit in the Persian Gulf. Marine expeditionary units are positioned for contingency. But zero American warships have transited the strait or escorted commercial traffic since the war began. The Navy told the shipping industry it has “no availability” for Hormuz escorts. The world’s most powerful fleet keeps respectful distance from a waterway controlled by a country whose navy is 92 percent destroyed because the mines, drones, and shore missiles that remain make close-in presence prohibitively risky.

The result is a geopolitical sorting algorithm operating at the molecular level. One hundred and eighty-one vessels transited in all of March. Pre-war traffic was 138 per day. Of those 181, roughly 70 percent were Iranian-affiliated. The remaining 30 percent were vetted allies or yuan-paying neutrals. The 20 percent of global oil that once flowed freely through this strait now flows selectively, conditionally, and in currencies chosen by Tehran.

Iran lost its air force. It lost its navy. It lost two thirds of its production capacity. It retained the only thing that matters: 39 kilometres of coastline on both sides of the narrowest point. The US Navy will not enter. Chinese tankers will. And the sorting algorithm processes another vessel, collects another yuan payment, and demonstrates once more that geography is the one military asset that cannot be degraded by precision strikes.

The strait is not closed. It is under new management.

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[DepressedBergman @DannyDrinksWine]

Susan Sarandon & Geena Davis at the 70th Annual Academy Awards, 1998.

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

What's your favourite movie weapon?

[Chris Nineham @ChrisNineham]

So, Ben Jamal and I have been convicted for organising a peaceful protest against genocide in a bizarre decision by one judge.

This is a big attack on civil liberties.

We will appeal. We call for a massive mobilisation in support of the Palestinian people for Nakba on 16 May.

[Bardi @BardiTEI]

Proud of Italy for boycotting Russia, Qatar and the USA.

[Sk Akram @akramcodez]

nobody asked, but here’s the aerodynamics of a cat

[The Rt Hon Lady Matildamog @Jc62Matildamog]

One terrorist gets a warm handshake. The other “terrorist” gets arrested.

[The League Magazine @Theleaguemag]

White Hart Lane

[Chris Fralic @chrisfralic]

Apple turns 50

In my opinion this is the most beautiful computer they ever made, the 1996 20th Anniversary Macintosh

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Now your 'NHS' hospitals will be owned by Blackrock forever and the money you spend on Healthcare actually goes in rent payments to Blackrock.

Not a thing to boast about, but I'm sure it has very nice kickbacks.

[Dr_Rebecca @Dr_Bekka_UK]

As of today, Labour’s welfare cuts mean if you become sick or disabled, you get 50% less support. These are people medically unfit for work, being punished for jobs that don't even exist. When In opposition Labour said they would protect the vulnerable. Heartbreaking.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Granny holding a cardboard sign = terrorist.

Former al-Qaeda leader wearing a suit = honoured guest of the British government.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

41 years ago today, singer, songwriter and Motown legend, Marvin Gaye was shot and killed by his father, a day before his birthday.

A THREAD!

[Zucker Doctor @DoctorLFC]

"Where do you see yourself in 10 years?"

[𝙆𝘼𝙄𝙉/カイン @Y2KKAIN]

The analog horror aesthetic of the computer interfaces in the 1986 film ALIENS.