Patrick 🇵🇸

The real virus is greed.

RT/favourites not an endorsement and may be from a fat finger.

[Patrick 🇵🇸 @patrick_sgp]

Oh yes, Loyalist mobs always make a point of evacuating women and children before torching their houses.

Hang on, they frequently don't.

https://t.co/p6nM5jn5kC

[Champions of the Ice @ChampionsOTIce]

I like how even at their absolute *worst,* the riotous mobs of angry white men make a point of evacuating the women and children of their *enemies* before torching the building they were living in.

The reason the Muslim women are terrified that the mob would potentially rape and kill her family is because that's what *their* culture does in tribal warfare to *ours,* just like the Japanese who thought American and British soldiers intended to inflict the same sorts of horrors upon them that the Imperial Army did at Nanjing.

The difference has always been that we aren't them.

Not all cultures are equal. Some are clearly better than others.

[Patrick 🇵🇸 @patrick_sgp]

When you're a pacifist, but sometimes shots need to be fired 😂

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

@SteveReedMP

[Patrick 🇵🇸 @patrick_sgp]

@UniStrathclyde flashbacks

[Oscar 🌐 @Tweets_of_Oscar]

The hills do make Chongqing a beautiful city, but navigation is very unintuitive.

I discovered that the best route to my destination involved going through an underground tunnel to a mall, going up to the 6th floor, and exiting onto the road. That mall had 3 "ground floors" depending on which direction you're exiting.

[Patrick 🇵🇸 @patrick_sgp]

Counterpoint: 90 mile flights were an insane concept. Imagine flying Glasgow to Dundee or Dublin to Belfast.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

American Airlines has 77 regional planes sitting in storage because they can't find pilots to fly them. The expected U.S. pilot shortfall in 2026 is 24,000. Training a new commercial pilot takes 2-3 years minimum and costs six figures.

So American found a loophole. Partner with a bus company, brand the bus "American Eagle," sell the seat on https://t.co/mcPOsfKjK5 with a flight number, route passengers through TSA, let them pick a seat, check bags, earn AAdvantage miles. The entire experience is designed to feel like a flight in every way except the part where you leave the ground.

The economics are staggering. A regional jet on a 90-mile route needs two pilots ($100K+ each), a flight attendant, jet fuel, FAA maintenance requirements, and an aircraft that costs $20-30 million. The Landline bus needs one driver and a highway.

South Bend to Chicago O'Hare is 90 miles. That route doesn't make money with a regional jet anymore. It barely made money before the pilot shortage. The bus lets American keep selling connections through O'Hare to every destination in its network without operating a single flight.

This is what the pilot shortage actually looks like. Not cancelled routes. Not smaller airports going dark. The airline just quietly reclassified a bus as a flight and kept charging accordingly. The TikTok exposing it has 13 million views because the passenger cleared security, sat at a gate, and watched her luggage get loaded onto a coach before it merged onto the interstate.

The word "bus" appears once during booking in small text. Google Flights lists it with a tiny bus icon. The airline says customers are "transparently informed." 72% of U.S. airports have already lost an average of 25% of their flights to the shortage, and Landline is expanding, not shrinking. Philadelphia, Chicago, and now five regional airports are on the bus network.

American Airlines is solving a $28,000-per-pilot-shortfall crisis by removing the pilot from the equation entirely. The bus is the product now. The flight number is just packaging.

[Steve Sweeney @SweeneySteve]

@TadhgHickey Wow. It just “landed” near me purely by chance. Not a targeted attack that nearly killed me. I mean this is shite even by BBC standards.

[Patrick 🇵🇸 @patrick_sgp]

If I had sprayed water all over a Lithium electrical fire and caused the destruction of some of Glasgow's iconic architecture, I would simply take the secret to my grave.

Also an important reminder not to try and be a hero in a fire.

https://t.co/4TJ25o6BDv

[Patrick 🇵🇸 @patrick_sgp]

She actually did the meme!

[Heidi Bachram @HeidiBachram]

My Jewish friend told me she went into Oxfam in Brighton to complain about this offensive poster. Staff were hostile, refused to give the name of the manager and threatened to kick her out of the shop. I can see why the former boss says Oxfam has a “toxic antisemitic culture”.

[Patrick 🇵🇸 @patrick_sgp]

Delighted to see @lornagreens vindicated over the DRS.

https://t.co/Cr8gVDj5oZ

[Patrick 🇵🇸 @patrick_sgp]

Who wore it better @GillianMacMSP or @StephenLibby6 ?

[Patrick 🇵🇸 @patrick_sgp]

"honorored" from the galaxy brain that brought you starving disabled people to fix the economy.

[George Osborne @George_Osborne]

Hi, some personal news - I’m changing job. I recently asked myself the question: what’s the most exciting and promising company in the world right now? The answer I believe is OpenAI. So it’s a privilege to be going to work for OpenAI as managing director and head of OpenAI for countries, based here in London. In my conversations with Sam Altman, Brad Lightcap, and other senior colleagues, it’s clear they are exceptionally impressive leaders and that they care very deeply about their mission to ensure the power of artificial intelligence is developed responsibly, and the benefits are felt by all. That’s exactly what the OpenAI for Countries initiative intends to achieve, helping societies around the world share the opportunity this powerful technology brings. Am honorored to join the team.

[Patrick 🇵🇸 @patrick_sgp]

Lots of ex-army types telling on themselves in reaction to Troubles legacy legislation...

[The Jackal… @ToonDazza]

Dear @Keir_Starmer - My Dad was Army and then SAS did 3 tours in NI at the height of the Troubles - He left after 7 years as it affected him so badly.
I served 13 years and My Mother served 6 years.

You disgrace their names and mine also. Youre a coward, youre weak and you and your @UKLabour have powerful enemies in the hundreds of thousands of veterans that gave you your freedoms.

I hate you with every fibre of my being.

[bernoulli_defect @BernoulliDefect]

The notion that this is “value engineered” is completely incorrect . Network rail is a pricy builder, both at a total cost and per sqft basis.

Look at the interior of the new £175m Beaulieu Park station. It doesn’t appear fancy, but a contractor’s eye will see the angled & exposed glue-lam, full height glass wall, multiple interior wall finishes., multiple lighting solutions, and high ceilings.

This all adds up to a higher per sqft cost than a luxury hotel, for near zero aesthetic value

[Patrick 🇵🇸 @patrick_sgp]

Got one. If anyone else needs a code, click here to get £5 off your first booking.

https://t.co/1tugKfd93N

[Patrick 🇵🇸 @patrick_sgp]

Has anyone got a referral code for Seatfrog?

[Patrick 🇵🇸 @patrick_sgp]

Has anyone got a referral code for Seatfrog?

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

So either Labour need to ask candidates to step aside for the Greens to take on Reform....

Or actually bring in a fair democratic process where everyone's votes count equally.

It's time for Proportional Representation.

https://t.co/XipwxXIVFU

[Patrick 🇵🇸 @patrick_sgp]

Anas Sarwar can't be trusted to understand inflation. £1billion in 2006 is not the same as £1billion in 2025.

[Anas Sarwar @AnasSarwar]

The SNP can’t be trusted with your money.

[Madden & Finucane Solicitors @madden_finucane]

R V SOLDIER F - STATEMENT ON BEHALF OF THE FAMILY OF WILLIAM MCKINNEY

Following the judgment delivered at Belfast Crown Court this morning, Mickey McKinney, brother of William McKinney said:

“Today marks the end of the prosecution of Soldier F for the murder and attempted murder of the innocents on Bloody Sunday.

“The families and wounded and our supporters leave this courthouse with an incredible sense of pride in our achievements.

“Soldier F has been discharged from the defendant’s criminal dock, but it is one million miles away from being an honourable discharge.

“Unlike his victims, there has been no declaration of Soldier F’s innocence.

“Soldier F created 2 young widows on Bloody Sunday and he orphaned 12 children. And he deprived dozens of siblings of a loving brother.

“The Bloody Sunday families do not lay the blame for today’s decision with the trial judge.

“The blame lies firmly:

- With the British state;

- With the RUC who failed to investigate the murders on Bloody Sunday properly, or indeed at all; and

- With the British Army who shielded and enabled its soldiers to continue to murder with impunity, and immunity, and also with the office of the then Director of Public Prosecutions who, with a nod and a wink, complicitly signed off on decisions not to prosecute in 1972 without even raising an eyebrow.

“Most importantly however, responsibility lies with the thugs of Frank Kitson’s private army, the 1st Battalion of the Parachute Regiment who opened fire, and those who directed and protected them.

“Despite the heroism, steadfastness and dignity of the Bloody Sunday Families and Wounded, a coward walks free from the dock.

“Not through the front door of this courthouse like every other vindicated, wrongly accused defendant proudly does, but instead, once his curtain has been pulled back for him, creeping out the back door.

“The type of thug, who is well used to special treatment, well used to having important and powerful connections, with his police escort in tow, back over to hide in Palace Barracks, where it all began.

“Thank you.”

[Patrick 🇵🇸 @patrick_sgp]

And miss the chance to have a toxic bunfight for positions 2-10? It'll never catch on!

[Neil Findlay @Neilsocialist]

Here’s my take on ‘Your Party’ - put the crayons and post it notes away, pick 1 credible candidate for each Scottish Parliamentary region and have a 10 point manifesto based on housing, cost of living, public services and anti poverty measures

And get on with campaigning

[Patrick 🇵🇸 @patrick_sgp]

So much wrong with one tweet:

- Direct political policing, so fascism then?
- Conflating Judaism and Israel is antisemitic.

[Danny Kruger @danny__kruger]

Lab, Con & LibDems today all agreed the decision by Weds Mids police to ban the Jewish fans is wrong, disgraceful etc, but nothing they can do because ‘operational independence’. Only Reform UK will change the law to put the police under the control of elected politicians.

[ralph 🏳️‍🌈 @TheRocketRalph]

i’m in tears