Giraffe 🦒

Keeping it metric, United and galactic.
Clinging on to the last vestiges of common sense, before it goes extinct.

[Giraffe 🦒 @p13grf]

“Societies that put equality before freedom get neither. Societies that put freedom before equality get a measure of both.” https://t.co/9EdvmAVkcP

[Terence Corcoran @terencecorcoran]

Attention Canada and America: Free Markets are Revolutionary, Liberating, and Democratic--Matt Ridley https://t.co/Wq9cOviZbw via @feeonline

[Giraffe 🦒 @p13grf]

We must not let a “social media ban” become Digital ID by the back door.

Protect privacy. Protect the open internet.

#DontIDTheInternet

https://t.co/0uAVERzA8M 

@DaveDooganSNP

[Giraffe 🦒 @p13grf]

@StellarArtoisGB Good morning Stellar! Hope that coffee is giving you all the boost you need 😄 ☕️☕️

[Giraffe 🦒 @p13grf]

@StellarArtoisGB Glad to hear you're improving Stellar. I've missed your positive postings but hope you continue to get better. You deserve it, you're stellar ⭐️💪🫶

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Insane

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

You can smell the net zero scam. It was never about ‘saving the planet’

We get higher bills, petrol car bans, carbon taxes and heat pumps…

Whilst AI datacentres are preparing to burn gas on site because the grid can’t cope with demand.

fossil fuels are unacceptable for us… but perfectly fine for Big Tech server farms powering our digital prison 🔥

[🇺🇸Hot Pepper @Hot_Pepper76]

One of the biggest gospel-rock songs of all time came from a songwriter who admitted he was inspired after watching Porter Wagoner sing gospel music on TV.

"Spirit in the Sky" by Norman Greenbaum exploded in 1969 with that unforgettable fuzzy guitar riff, and Christians across America embraced it so strongly that many people assumed Greenbaum had grown up writing gospel music himself.

Instead, he simply wrote a song that connected with people on a deep level, and it became one of the most recognizable songs of the entire era.

Funny how some of the most iconic songs come from the most unexpected inspirations.

[Sonny @rawespresso]

The UK personal allowance has been frozen at £12,570 since April 2021.

That's the bit of your salary you keep before HMRC starts taking 20% off everything above it.

In 2021, £12,570 was a reasonable tax-free bracket. Inflation since then has been roughly 25% cumulative, and the price of basically everything you actually spend money on has gone up — energy, rent, food, council tax, fuel.

If the personal allowance had simply tracked inflation, it would now be closer to £15,700.

Instead, the threshold sits exactly where it did when Sunak set it five years ago, and is locked there until 2030.

The cost shows up everywhere except on your payslip. Every shop, every bill, every bit of your monthly budget feels tighter — while the threshold that's supposed to protect the first slice of your wages from tax just sits there at 2021 levels.

The official line is that they 'haven't raised taxes.' They haven't needed to. Inflation does the job for them, every single year, until 2030.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 JUST NOW: President Trump demands UK PM Keir Starmer CRACK DOWN on illegal migration and to open up oil drilling

"Open up your oil in the North Sea and get tough on immigration. Europe is being very, very hurt by immigration."

He's right!

Keir is a failure and should resign.

[Giraffe 🦒 @p13grf]

@StarrBellex13 I must have missed you the other day. I'm still here too 😀✨️

[Belle @StarrBellex13]

I wish all of you a happy day whatever you are doing. im not on here often but when I am, I appreciate those who have staid with me. 🥰

[Giraffe 🦒 @p13grf]

@StarrBellex13 Good morning Belle! Some nice words of wisdom for a sunny spring day. I find the rising sun wakens me before my alarm at this time of year 🌞
Onwards and upwards 💪

[Belle @StarrBellex13]

Rise with the sun, not just your alarm.
Today is a fresh page—write it with courage, kindness, and a little bit of magic.
Good morning! ☀️

[Giraffe 🦒 @p13grf]

@StellarArtoisGB Oh no! You see and concentrate on getting fully better Stellar 🙏🥲

[Giraffe 🦒 @p13grf]

@TheMikeHenning @StellarArtoisGB @soulriderSLM The lightning beer strike! 😆

[Michael Henning @TheMikeHenning]

@StellarArtoisGB @soulriderSLM Beautiful scene. love the green waterfall.❤️
I went with a Florida beach scene looking into the Gulf during a lightning storm.
I added some sounds in CapCut. Thanks for tagging me in this.🥰

[The Majority #ScrapHolyrood @themajorityscot]

@Glinner Remember when UB40 sang, 'I am the one in ten'? Now youth unemployment is one in six and not a single musician says anything. Too busy talking about Gaza.

[Stellar @StellarArtoisGB]

#Prettypicture Time
Share or QP your own

Theme: Lightning

No Politics Please

add other creators
@soulriderSLM
@TheMikeHenning

[Giraffe 🦒 @p13grf]

@StellarArtoisGB @soulriderSLM @TheMikeHenning That is striking Stellar!

⬇️⬇️

[Net Zero Watch @NetZeroWatch]

High energy costs driven by green levies have left Britain £30bn poorer, experts have said, as UK businesses face the highest electricity costs of anywhere in the developed world. The surge in power costs have crippled the UK’s energy-intensive industries, such as cement, steel, glass and ceramics. Factory chiefs have repeatedly called on ministers to urgently address net-zero-related costs and green levies lumped onto energy bills.

#CostOfNetZero