Piano Cake

"Be curious, not judgemental."

[Piano Cake @pianocake]

If you haven't yet seen "tick, tick ...BOOM!",
try some Therapy.

https://t.co/eFy5rNSlK3

[Piano Cake @pianocake]

@Michell05480657 @X That's why Starmer wants to age-verify everyone: absolutely nothing to do with protecting children, everything to do with identifying who is aware and angry.

[Piano Cake @pianocake]

"The risk with Burnham is that he’ll join the long, depressing line of recent politicians of middling-to-minor talents and little aptitude for power who thought they were good enough to be prime minister – and quickly discovered they were not, to all our costs."

[Tom Gallagher NEW book Portugal & Western Turmoil @cultfree54]

Devastating assessment from Andrew Neil of Andy Burnham who has emerged from an intense bout of Labour infighting with no idea how to take a country crippled by lengthy misrule forward:
'The risk with Burnham is that he’ll join the long, depressing line of recent politicians of middling-to-minor talents and little aptitude for power who thought they were good enough to be prime minister – and quickly discovered they were not, to all our costs. Theresa May, Liz Truss, Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer all fit into this category...
Nearly every attempt to carve out distinct policy positions – from a cavalier attitude to government debt to rejoining the European Union to the billions for the Waspi women – have ended in screeching U-turns.
His whole schtick is based on a false narrative. He rails against ‘40 years of neoliberalism’, whatever that means, forbearing to mention he was comfortably embedded in Westminster for 16 of these 40 years, enthusiastically climbing the greasy pole, making it to the Cabinet.
Yet there is nothing in his track record to suggest he can be more of an agent for change than Starmer. Being mayor of Manchester with very limited powers and a £3billion budget does not prepare you for being prime minister with immense power, a £1.4trillion budget and a nuclear deterrent...
British politics has been hijacked by the internal machinations of the Labour Party in its desperate bid to hold on to power...
Labour is taking us back to the early 19th century when politics was largely determined by a small political class of the posh and privileged.
Now it’s a small, privileged political class of Labour MPs, activists and union leaders calling the shots.'

https://t.co/jVg7GrfFpo

[Piano Cake @pianocake]

"When we leave behind those who came before us we are not evolving."

[Piano Cake @pianocake]

Heart-breaking incident; what hell the parents must be going through. But, why is anyone allowed to keep crocodiles in a tiny enclosure in the UK. They need warm climates and their natural range is anything from a mile to 100 square kms. Horrifying story in every way.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: The man arrested on suspicion of throwing a 3-year-old boy into a crocodile enclosure at a Cambridgeshire zoo has been released on bail after being deemed "unfit" for interview

[wealthmoose @wealthmoose]

🚨🌎 14 governments.

Same social media ban.
Same timing.
Same language.
Same justification.

🇬🇧 United Kingdom
🇫🇷 France
🇩🇪 Germany
🇪🇸 Spain
🇮🇪 Ireland
🇳🇱 Netherlands
🇧🇪 Belgium
🇩🇰 Denmark
🇳🇴 Norway
🇸🇪 Sweden
🇫🇮 Finland
🇦🇺 Australia
🇳🇿 New Zealand
🇨🇦 Canada

Your government didn’t dream this up.

It received it.

Carney sat at Davos before he was PM.

He called Canada part of the "new world order."

Then called that speech meaningless.

The laws aren’t meaningless.

They’re arriving on schedule.

Video: @BlendrNews

#CdnPoli #Carney #WEF #BillC22

[Svetlana Lokhova @RealSLokhova]

📰 What is a D-Notice?

The UK government doesn’t want you to know something important?

They send a quiet letter to every major newspaper, TV station and website saying:

“Please censor this story for ‘national security’”

It’s called a D-Notice (now DSMA-Notice).

Here’s the dirty truth:

It’s “voluntary”… but almost everyone obeys

No court, no vote, no public debate

Just a cosy club between spies and editors deciding what YOU are allowed to read

Real stories about war crimes, spying on citizens, or government lies get killed in secret

It’s not a law. It’s self-censorship by gentlemen’s agreement, the most British form of censorship ever invented.

They call it “protecting the country.” In fact, they are protecting the powerful from the public.

This system has been running since 1912. Still going strong in 2026.

The “free press” isn’t as free as they tell you.

[Piano Cake @pianocake]

"To this day, Dr David Kelly is the only person in England and Wales in living memory to have died in unexplained circumstances without receiving a full coroner's inquest."

There were no finger prints on the knife he is supposed to have committed suicide with.

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

22 YEARS LATER AND NOBODY HAS ANSWERED FOR WHAT HAPPENED TO DR DAVID KELLY

His name was Dr David Kelly. Most people have forgotten him. They shouldn't.

He was a quiet, mild-mannered scientist who spent his career inspecting weapons facilities around the world.

He knew more about Iraq's arsenal than almost anyone alive.

In 2003, Tony Blair's @InstituteGC government published a dossier claiming Saddam Hussein could deploy chemical weapons within 45 minutes. That claim was used to justify a war.

Kelly knew the intelligence behind it was being exaggerated. He said so, privately, to a @BBCNews journalist.

That one conversation destroyed his life.

The government found out he was the source. Instead of protecting a man who had served his country for decades, they quietly let his name reach the press. He was publicly identified, dragged before two parliamentary committees, and grilled by his own employer.

His wife said he came home a broken man.

On the afternoon of 17 July 2003, he left his house for a walk in the Oxfordshire countryside. He was 59 years old. He never came back.

His body was found the next morning in woodland. A knife beside him. A blister pack of painkillers nearby.

Here is where it gets worse.

Tony Blair personally intervened to replace the normal coroner's inquest with a private inquiry run by Lord Hutton.

The original inquest was suspended before it even properly began. It was never resumed. To this day,

Dr David Kelly is the only person in England and Wales in living memory to have died in unexplained circumstances without receiving a full coroner's inquest.

Lord Hutton concluded suicide. Case closed.

Except eight senior doctors and a former coroner wrote to @thetimes saying the verdict was medically unsafe.

The wound found on Kelly's wrist, a severed ulnar artery, would not cause fatal blood loss in a healthy person.

There were no fingerprints on the knife. The painkillers found were not in a quantity that experts considered lethal.

The government's response, delivered by Attorney General Dominic Grieve in 2011, was essentially: the Hutton Inquiry was good enough, stop asking questions.

Think about that. A man quietly raised concerns about the biggest political deception in modern British history, a war that led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. He was publicly exposed, professionally destroyed, and found dead days later and the government personally made sure there would never be a proper independent investigation into how he died.

Tony Blair went on to become a Middle East Peace Envoy. He has a knighthood.

Dr David Kelly got a private inquiry, a rushed verdict, and a sealed post-mortem report that was not released to the public for years.

Nobody was ever held accountable. Not for any of it.

This story should be on the front page every single year. Share it if you think it matters.

Sources: @BBCNews @guardian @thetimes @PrivateEyeNews

[Dr Philip Kiszely @KiszelyPhilip]

We’re at the stage now where beheadings are regrettable, but tweets are unforgivable.

[Darren of Plymouth @DarrenPlymouth]

“I never thought I’d live to see the day when the right wing would become the cool ones giving the middle finger to the establishment, and the left wing becoming the snivelling self-righteous twats, going around shaming everyone.”

- John Lydon, The Sex Pistols

[Sheila of the Most High @sheilatebra]

I finally understand what Machiavelli meant when he said, “Never play fair in a game where others cheat.” It doesn’t mean become evil. It means stop being naive. Stop bringing honesty to people who study manipulation, stop giving access to people who weaponize closeness, and stop expecting clean hands from people who already showed you they’ll throw dirt. Sometimes wisdom is not revenge. Sometimes wisdom is learning the rules of the room before the room uses your goodness against you.

[Paul Embery @PaulEmbery]

Here’s the problem. The liberal political class wants us to treat atrocities like Belfast as single, random, isolated incidents. “Yes, it’s horrific, but don’t overreact,” they say. “Let the police do their job. Justice will be delivered. Let’s remain united,” and so on.

But the public can see that such incidents *aren’t* random or isolated. They are, in fact, all the consequence of massive state failure in the area of asylum and immigration. All roads lead back there.

That’s why people are angry.. They are sick of the platitudes that get trotted out after each fresh incident. They don’t want to hear them anymore. They know that the decisions of establishment politicians have brought us to this current pass, and they don’t trust those same politicians to fix things, especially when some of them refuse to even recognise that the public’s anger is justified.

There has been a huge vibe shift in recent years. Imagine - God forbid - there were another 7/7. Does anyone think the public response would be anything like as restrained as it was then? We are in really dangerous territory.

The public don’t want flowers and candles and “Don’t let them divide us.” They want someone who says, “I recognise that the state has failed abjectly. We have allowed far too many people to settle in the country without knowing who they truly are. It has disrupted your communities. Your anger is justified. And I will do everything in my power to put things right.”

Any politician unwilling to articulate that message, fully and sincerely, is effectively sanctioning more years of growing social disharmony and discord. Things cannot heal until those in power recognise the extent of the problem and what it will take to fix it. And, on both counts, most of them don’t.

That’s why the next few years are going to be very, very turbulent.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Rubiks cube and graph theory.

[🎞️ jagarikin]

[Luai Ahmed @JustLuai]

In honor of Pride month, here’s a list of countries in the Middle East that recognize same sex marriage:

1. Israel

[Piano Cake @pianocake]

@pensandpoison Doing it isn't pretentious but feeling the need to tell everyone you do it is.

[Sarah G @norfolkmum1]

If a single use cubicle with a lockable door renders it safe for women in a mixed sex changing room why does the same lockable single use cubicle make transwomen unsafe in men’s changing rooms?

[Kristen Mag @kristenmag]

This is a real photo of university students in Iran in 1971. A few years later the government forced all women to cover their heads with hijabs.

It happened so fast.

So forgive me if I’m not amused by AOC and Mamdani wearing garments that represent this oppression of women.

[Mathonymics @Mathonymics]

Why does the bell curve show up everywhere? Whether in heights, test scores, stock returns, and measurement errors?

If you Roll a single die. You get 1 through 6 with equal probability.

That's a flat, uniform distribution — nothing special.

Now roll two dice and add them. Suddenly 7 is more likely than 2 or 12, because there are more ways to make 7. The distribution starts forming a triangle shape.

Roll 5 dice and add them. It starts looking like a hill.

Roll 10 dice and add them. It looks almost exactly like a bell curve.

You never changed the die. Each die is still perfectly uniform. But something remarkable happened when you started adding them together.

This is the Central Limit Theorem.
It says - take any random variable — it doesn't matter what distribution it follows and add together a large number of independent samples from it. The distribution of that sum will always approach a normal distribution.

Always. Regardless of the original shape.

Whenever a quantity is the result of many small independent effects piling on top of each other, the CLT kicks in and forces a normal distribution to emerge.

CLT is one of the most beautiful results in all of mathematics. And it's hiding behind almost everything.

[Robin Monotti @robinmonotti]

THE SUN IS WHAT DRIVES TEMPERATURE ON EARTH, NOT CO2!
The warming from the Sun is cyclical, it's NOT constant. The distance of where you are from the Sun is constantly changing because both the Earth's orbit around the Sun is irregular and the Sun itself wobbles due to the combined gravitational pull of all the planets together. Look at the Schwabe solar cycle of 11 years, the Jose solar cycle of solar Inertial Motion of 179 years, Eddy Solar Cycle of 1000 years, the Bray-Halstatt Cycles of 2300-2500 years, then look into the three Milankovitch Cycles.

Short to medium term climate change:
Solar Inertial Motion: the combined mass of the planets also moves the position of the Sun through their combined gravitational pull, meaning the Sun moves around following the ever moving barycentre of the Solar system rather than being in a fixed central point in the middle Solar System. That is the key thing to understand: the Sun is moving around, wobbling in spiral like motion as it travels, it is not stationary. Once you understand that all medium term climate change can be explained simply because of the Sun's changing distance from the Earth.

None of this has anything to do with humans. None of this has anything to do with CO2. The models of the Solar System you grew up believing as a child were gross over simplifications. They conditioned you to believe that the Solar system has a fixed Sun position with a regular Sun activity with regular orbits, of which the Earth is one. Yet that is not the reality: not only the earth both tilts and wobbles as it orbits, but the orbit is a changing ellipse not a perfect circle, meaning the distance from the Sun is not constant. These are the three Milankovitch cycles. Also other planets have irregular orbits.

The combined effect of all these irregular orbits together pulls the Sun off centre of the solar system into the barycentre. A wobbling Sun is the real reason for short to medium term climate change, and an irregular earth orbit, tilt and wobble is the reason for long term climate change.

And this is just the beginning of the story of irregularity in the Earth's orbit around the Sun, then there are cycles of Sun activity, making it stronger and weaker according to how close to the 11 year cycle of magnetic poles flip it is, next being in 2024, and how many Sun spots & Solar flares we are exposed to.

Then you need to factor volcanic activity, the Hunga-Tonga Hunga underwater volcanic eruption of January 2022 increased the water vapour in the stratosphere by 10%, this in itself will cause considerable warming of the planet in most regions.

It's definitely not a simplistic neat black and white story of CO2, a minor greenhouse gas, as 95% of the earth's greenhouse gases are constituted by water vapour instead.

Humans have no power to determine either the orbit of the Earth around the Sun or the Sun's internal & external activity, or the water vapour in the atmosphere.

Life adapts much more easily to higher temperatures and increases in CO2, particularly plants, vegetation, trees, plankton& phytoplankton, than it does to decreases in CO2.

The real danger is a decrease of CO2, and a decrease in temperature, not an increase in either.

Once again, we have been deceived by a systematically corrupt scientific funding system linked to oligarchs interests.

CO2 was always a control knob for economic prosperity, not climate.

[Piano Cake @pianocake]

"The models of the Solar System you grew up believing as a child were gross over simplifications ... not the reality: the earth both tilts and wobbles as it orbits ... the orbit is a changing ellipse not a perfect circle ... the distance from the Sun is not constant."

[Robin Monotti @robinmonotti]

THE SUN IS WHAT DRIVES TEMPERATURE ON EARTH, NOT CO2!
The warming from the Sun is cyclical, it's NOT constant. The distance of where you are from the Sun is constantly changing because both the Earth's orbit around the Sun is irregular and the Sun itself wobbles due to the combined gravitational pull of all the planets together. Look at the Schwabe solar cycle of 11 years, the Jose solar cycle of solar Inertial Motion of 179 years, Eddy Solar Cycle of 1000 years, the Bray-Halstatt Cycles of 2300-2500 years, then look into the three Milankovitch Cycles.

Short to medium term climate change:
Solar Inertial Motion: the combined mass of the planets also moves the position of the Sun through their combined gravitational pull, meaning the Sun moves around following the ever moving barycentre of the Solar system rather than being in a fixed central point in the middle Solar System. That is the key thing to understand: the Sun is moving around, wobbling in spiral like motion as it travels, it is not stationary. Once you understand that all medium term climate change can be explained simply because of the Sun's changing distance from the Earth.

None of this has anything to do with humans. None of this has anything to do with CO2. The models of the Solar System you grew up believing as a child were gross over simplifications. They conditioned you to believe that the Solar system has a fixed Sun position with a regular Sun activity with regular orbits, of which the Earth is one. Yet that is not the reality: not only the earth both tilts and wobbles as it orbits, but the orbit is a changing ellipse not a perfect circle, meaning the distance from the Sun is not constant. These are the three Milankovitch cycles. Also other planets have irregular orbits.

The combined effect of all these irregular orbits together pulls the Sun off centre of the solar system into the barycentre. A wobbling Sun is the real reason for short to medium term climate change, and an irregular earth orbit, tilt and wobble is the reason for long term climate change.

And this is just the beginning of the story of irregularity in the Earth's orbit around the Sun, then there are cycles of Sun activity, making it stronger and weaker according to how close to the 11 year cycle of magnetic poles flip it is, next being in 2024, and how many Sun spots & Solar flares we are exposed to.

Then you need to factor volcanic activity, the Hunga-Tonga Hunga underwater volcanic eruption of January 2022 increased the water vapour in the stratosphere by 10%, this in itself will cause considerable warming of the planet in most regions.

It's definitely not a simplistic neat black and white story of CO2, a minor greenhouse gas, as 95% of the earth's greenhouse gases are constituted by water vapour instead.

Humans have no power to determine either the orbit of the Earth around the Sun or the Sun's internal & external activity, or the water vapour in the atmosphere.

Life adapts much more easily to higher temperatures and increases in CO2, particularly plants, vegetation, trees, plankton& phytoplankton, than it does to decreases in CO2.

The real danger is a decrease of CO2, and a decrease in temperature, not an increase in either.

Once again, we have been deceived by a systematically corrupt scientific funding system linked to oligarchs interests.

CO2 was always a control knob for economic prosperity, not climate.

[Piano Cake @pianocake]

@domdyer70 @Common_SensePod @MatthewWielicki So what made Heathrow as hot in May 1922 as it is today?
Are you suggesting the planet would have, could have, should have got colder in the last 100 years?