Swiftie over seventy

Family, friends, travel & music especially Elvis & Taylor. Concerts: Fearless x2, Speak Now x5, Red x3, 1989 x6, Rep x4, Lover Fest cancelled x2, Eras x2

[Bryan West @bryanwesttv]

Taylor Swift returns to Tight End University in Nashville.

https://t.co/7rPkYh3IPl

[Taylor Swift Web @tayswiftdotcom]

The lyric video for Taylor Swift’s song “I Knew It, I Knew You” from #ToyStory5 is out now! 🎶 https://t.co/JfvW84Z0gJ

[Swiftie over seventy @Puggles99]

All set for the big match Suns v Hawks

[Justin Wolfers @JustinWolfers]

Exciting news! We're HIRING at Platypus Economics. We're looking for more help in the form of a part-time production assistant, with the possibility of turning into full-time. Check out the job description and apply here: https://t.co/VBftSHie6G

[Swiftie over seventy @Puggles99]

I would love this to happen, Shakira is the artist I have never seen live that I would most like to see.

[Taylor Swift Updates 💎 @swifferupdates]

💬| Shakira shares her desire to collaborate with Taylor Swift while praising her brilliance in her recent interview with The Times:

“Very, very smart [whose] head is where it should be. Collaborating with her would be a dream.”

[Swiftie over seventy @Puggles99]

@melbourneswifty Sorry to see that, don’t be deterred.

[Swiftie over seventy @Puggles99]

@grifology70 Your Blues are horribly consistent. Five of our family had the misfortune to be at the game tonight. #AFLBluesSaints

[Taylor Swift Updates @TSUpdating]

Stevie Nicks praising Taylor Swift:

"She just doesn't stop, and that is what has turned her into this beautiful young woman who makes magic with everything she touches.

[David Hume Kennerly @kennerly]

This is an extraordinary piece of writing. I started reading it and couldn’t stop, and neither should you. @Liz_Cheney @KerryKennedyRFK @mikebarnicle @kathleenparker @AdamKinzinger @gtconway3d @NormOrnstein @JohnJHarwood @BeschlossDC @SykesCharlie @ImprovAmbassadr @ccwhip

[Swiftie over seventy @Puggles99]

@BretBaier As a regular Australian #SpecialReport viewer, I was disappointed that the normally very credible @GillianHTurner on this evening's show wrongly stated that the #AustralianGovernment only acted to assist the Iranian soccer players after intervention by President Trump

[The Curious Tales @thecurioustales]

🚨 JUST IN: A migratory bird just shattered world records — flying 8,425 miles (13,560 km) NON-STOP across the Pacific without landing once.

The bar-tailed godwit doesn’t stop to eat, drink, or sleep during its migration across the Pacific Ocean. Its journey from Alaska to Australia takes roughly 11 days of continuous flight, covering over 13,000 kilometers through storms, headwinds, and open ocean with zero land beneath it the entire time.

Before departure, it does something almost surgical to its own body. It shrinks its digestive organs down to almost nothing, converting the stomach, intestines, and liver into raw fuel. The bird essentially eats its own gut to make room for fat reserves that will power its wings for nearly two weeks straight.

The brain doesn’t fully sleep either. Half of it stays active while the other half rests, alternating in shifts mid-flight at altitude over the open Pacific. The godwit is simultaneously unconscious and navigating with magnetic field sensitivity that no human instrument in the 18th century could replicate.

What makes this genuinely staggering beyond the physical record is the navigational precision involved. The bird leaves Alaska and arrives in New Zealand with accuracy that would embarrass early GPS systems. It reads Earth’s magnetic field, atmospheric pressure gradients, star positions, and potentially quantum-level compass mechanisms inside its eye that literally let it see magnetic field lines overlaid on its visual field.

Evolution spent millions of years building an aerospace navigation system inside a 300 gram animal.

We spend billions engineering machines that do what this bird does on instinct, fat reserves, and half a sleeping brain.
The longest recorded non-stop flight by a commercial aircraft is around 20 hours.

This bird does 11 days.

Without a runway.

[𝔗𝔯𝔲𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰 @politicsusa46]

If this weren’t so tragic, it would be hilarious. This regime just can’t help itself when it comes to blame shifting.

When the US was the manufacturing powerhouse of the world and was getting exponentially richer each year, providing Europe with the materials to rebuild after WWII, the greed of the rich dictated that they wanted yet more profit.

Human labour was their biggest cost and as such was inhibiting their bottom line. So under Reagan, they decided to throw American workers under the bus and ship jobs and in some cases whole manufacturing plants to China. That was a conscious and deliberate decision.

This accelerated under Clinton, as the sole focus of American corporations was on profit. They were happy to destroy US manufacturing to simply make more money.

China said ‘Thanks very much’ and used the American investment to lift 850 million Chinese out of absolute poverty and build the most advanced infrastructure in the world.

They did that with greedy American’s money because they don’t have a shareholder class. As a result, China now has the most advanced automated manufacturing systems and are now the manufacturing capital of the world.

The American response? Play the victim, impose tariffs and attempt to choke Chinese progress and innovation by taxing Americans to do it. The result? China has a $1.2 trillion trade surplus, as well as infrastructure across Africa, Europe and South America. It controls 80% of global rare earth processing and owns almost $700 billion of U.S. sovereign debt.

That’s before we talk about them seeking to dominate the global AI Tech Stack and robotics space, all while leading the world in nuclear technology and cheap renewable energy, outpacing US energy generation capacity.

Don’t blame China for the biggest economic fuck up in history. As a result of Trump’s short sighted imbecilic policies, is far from hot, it’s simply a legend it its own lunch break. His obsession with power and stuffing his own pockets with money is breaking America.

The American people deserve better and above all deserve to know the truth, that this corrupt regime is NOT winning on anything except economic and geopolitical incompetence at which they have become world champions.

Trump’s delusional belief that the U.S. is respected is embarrassing. The world is laughing, in the knowledge that it is rewiring trade and security ties quietly in the background. Inside a decade the U.S. is facing irrelevance in what will be a new world order in which they no longer call the shots.

Empires rise and fall as do reserve currencies. China can smell blood in the water and if it’s one thing China excels at, it’s playing the long game. It doesn’t have to worry about four year election cycles or a fickle voting public. It can wait as the economic lifeblood is drained from a nation eating itself alive.

They’re happy to wait, because they have global infrastructure in place, highly advanced manufacturing and AI capable economy with a pipeline of highly educated graduates. Their shift away from fossil fuel imports dependency with an objective to electrify the nation using low cost renewable and next generation nuclear energy, is all baked into their roadmap.

The days of America dictating the future are receding. The change will not happen overnight, and China is fine with that. They’re prepared to wait as long as it takes for the U.S. to slowly self suffocate.

The sad thing is, because of Trump, and his treatment of longstanding allies, nobody will lift a finger to help the U.S. without the kind of concessions that will further diminish American standing on the world stage.

If Democrats think it just needs a change of government to make things better, those days are long gone. It will take a generation to repair the damage done. People don’t easily forget extortion attempts and arrogant posturing.

We are at a true inflection point, sadly it’s not one recognised by the delusional convicted criminal in the White House.

[Swiftie over seventy @Puggles99]

https://t.co/MvQX4ZYgxH

[Taylor Swift Updates 💎 @swifferupdates]

🎥| Chris Bowen, Minister of Climate Change and Energy, in the Australian Parliament recently:

“To paraphrase my favourite Taylor, it's actually sweet all the time you spend on me. It's actually romantic, Mr Speaker.”

[billboard @billboard]

Shakira Sets Guinness World Record as Hispanic Artist with Highest Grossing Tour of All Time
https://t.co/S0nMBaRWZs

[Swiftie over seventy @Puggles99]

A few of my shots of Aurora last night

[Heather Ewart @heatherewart1]

Pure joy at Cormorant Beach #BawleyPoint

[Antidepressant Content @depressionlesss]

Maybe God made animals silent so we could learn that love is shown through actions, not words

[Abul Rizvi @RizviAbul]

@cheryl_kernot @markburrows74 @ChangeAus Yes an RC on rising levels of all types hate, the perpetrators of that hate and what needs to be done would have merit.

[Swiftie over seventy @Puggles99]

My two musical obsessions 😍😍

[chart data @chartdata]

2 years ago today, Taylor Swift officially broke the record for most weeks at #1 for a soloist in Billboard 200 history, surpassing Elvis Presley.