Andy Campbell

[Mario @PawlowskiMario]

Let me explain Russia and Ukraine to MAGA in a language you might actually understand.🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦

Imagine you have a neighbor you don’t like and he doesn’t like you. One morning he doesn’t knock on your door. He kicks the fucking door down with a bunch of armed friends, shoots whoever tries to stop him, moves into your house, takes over half of it, abuses your family, kidnaps one of your kids and starts teaching that kid that your family never really existed and that the house actually belongs to him.

You fight back. You manage to push him out of some rooms, but he still occupies half of your house. Your friends start bringing you guns and ammunition because otherwise this motherfucker is going to take the rest of it too.

Then suddenly some guy from across town shows up and says, “Why are you so pro war? Why don’t you negotiate? People are dying. We need peace.”

So your neighbor offers you his brilliant peace plan: “I keep the rooms I already stole. I keep whatever I took from your family. You promise never to join the neighborhood security organization that might protect you from me. Your friends stop giving you weapons. And then I promise I won’t take the rest of your house.”

Would you call that peace? Would you hand him half of your fucking house?

Would you tell your wife and children that sacrificing them is necessary because fighting back is “pro war”?

Or would you load every fucking weapon you own and tell him to get the hell out of your house?

That is the part I cannot understand about MAGA.

The same people who tell me they would shoot somebody for stepping onto their property suddenly become fucking Gandhi when Russia crosses an international border with tanks, occupies Ukrainian cities, kills civilians, kidnaps children and then demands Ukrainian territory as the price of “peace.”

Russia can invent whatever excuses it wants about NATO, Nazis or Russian speakers. None of those excuses gave Russia ownership of Ukraine.

Peace is not the victim giving the attacker whatever he managed to steal.

That is cowardice and surrender.

And if you wouldn’t accept it in your own fucking house, stop demanding that Ukrainians accept it in theirs.

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

California has officially signed the “Stop Nick Shirley Act” (AB 2624) into law. This bill was created only after I exposed widespread fraud in immigrant communities across America, specifically in California’s Medicaid, nonprofits and other welfare programs funded by our tax dollars.

These politicians need the fraud to continue and they sadly use immigrants to do so often. They fund nonprofits and NGOs with hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars every year for immigration services, including free healthcare and have now made “immigration support service providers” essentially a protected class in California.

For example, if I film a hospice or a “learing center” with no patients receiving millions through Medicaid and the owner gives me a paper saying I cannot publish the video, I cannot publish it. If I publish it to expose them and they claim it caused them “fear” or a third party threatens them, I face a minimum $4,000 civil fine plus the legal fees of the individual or group suing me.

This bill was created by the Attorney General’s wife and co-sponsored by CHIRLA, a nonprofit that has received over $80,000,000 in taxpayer dollars for “immigrant support services.” Do you understand how this works yet? When the fraud is exposed, they create new laws to protect the fraudsters and penalize those who expose it.

By signing this bill, the Governor and California politicians expose themselves as the corrupt politicians they are. This is not the end, the fight has just begun. More to come soon, this is far from over.

[Jesús Osorio @jesus_osorior]

Mi padre odió a nuestro vecino durante 11 años. Decía que era grosero, frío y arrogante. Todas las mañanas, el tipo ignoraba a todos y se marchaba sin saludar. Un invierno, mi padre resbaló en el hielo frente a nuestra casa. Tuvo una mala caída y no podía moverse. ¿Adivinen quién cruzó la calle corriendo primero? El vecino "arrogante". Llamó a la ambulancia, cubió a mi padre con su propio abrigo y se quedó con él durante 40 minutos en un frío helador. En el hospital, mi padre preguntó: "¿Por qué siempre fue usted tan antipático?". El hombre pareció confundido y luego dijo:

[𝟐𝐬𝐦𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐲𝐲 @nomodeath]

I work the front desk at a small doctor’s office, and I wish people could see what happens on the other side of the phone. Every day, older patients call us confused.

They are told to use the patient portal, upload documents, check lab results online, fill out forms before the visit, and confirm everything through a link. Some of them do not know what a portal is.

Some do not have a smartphone.
Some have one, but they are afraid to click the wrong thing.
Last week, a man in his late 80s called about his test results.

He said, “Ma’am, I don’t mean to bother you, but the computer says I have a message and I don’t know how to open it.”
He sounded ashamed.
That broke my heart.

He should not have to feel ashamed for needing a human being.
Technology can be helpful. I understand that.

But when people who built this country are made to feel helpless because everything became a login and a password, we have gone too far.
Not everything needs to be an app.
Not every answer should be hidden behind a screen.

Sometimes people need a voice.
A patient person.
A real human who says, “Don’t worry, I can help you.”
Progress should not leave seniors behind.

Because one day, the world will move faster than us too.
And I hope someone is kind enough to slow down.

[Nixx @NixN1xx]

How will you decide who gets a payout? Will you DNA test all UK taxpayers and work out their family lineage to see if they are descendants of slave owners? Will you also ensure that black people are investigated to see if they descend from slave traders?

Will there be any acknowledgement of the huge cost, both financial & cost of life, we paid by ending slavery?

I'm brown. Will I have to pay reparations on behalf of my white family? Will I get a payout on behalf of my black family?

Please let us know how this will work? We all know it is one huge grift. Every race, religion, creed was involved in slavery. Will we be holding Africans to account too?

[Rebecca Ryder 💙 @rebecca_ryder21]

After the first drop of rain, the water companies immediately discharge human waste along our beautiful coastline.

I'm tired of this.
Why are they not in prison?

@andyburnham

[GylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen]

Here's BBCs News At 10 declaring to the nation that Reform UK promise to slash benefits by £50b if they are elected.

The public need to demand an apology on News at 10 during the week and identifying who was responsible for signing off on the piece. It's scandalous.

1/2

[Ricky Gervais @rickygervais]

This was the first clip Netflix put out for my last special Mortality. There was immediately an online petition to have it removed. Anyway, it went to number 1 & won a Golden Globe 😂

[Cody @ST0RM_B0RN]

I was on the tail end of a 500 mile drive back from Omaha yesterday with my 77 year old dad and we nearly had a very serious accident, possibly deadly for the other driver. Look at this older Toyota Corolla blow this light at 60mph more than 3 seconds after it turns red. If it was me driving, because I could not see the Corolla as it was occluded by the stopped cars, we would have had a head on collision or I'm mid-turn and he would have impacted my dad's side of my @cybertruck. Thankfully @tesla FSD was doing the driving and it has superhuman reaction to brake pedal application time (aka PRT = perception response time) of about 0.25s while very good human is 0.8-0.9s or average human is 1.5-2.5s. This is life saving technology and it may have saved one yesterday.

Thanks to @aelluswamy, @elonmusk, and the whole team behind this.

[Robin @m8nimal]

This is Sweden 🇸🇪 one day after the IF Maffia strike on @Tesla was announced withdrawn.

These are superchargers currently being connected.

Sweden is finally FREE again

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

This was me as a little girl, forced into hijab. And this is me after I broke free.

In Iran, I was told: wear the hijab or be kicked out of school. Resist, and you can be arrested, beaten, lashed, or imprisoned, or killed it in the hand of morality Police.

Then I came to the West and was told: be careful telling your story, it might cause “Islamophobia.”

I am a woman from the Middle East. I have lived under Islamist ideology. I have every right to fear it, criticize it, and speak about it.

Don’t silence us in the name of tolerance. Let us talk.

[Wes @wmorrill3]

@SawyerMerritt Don't forget Cybertruck! it's not on https://t.co/th9ogVJ04L American made index since it's high payload brings GVW over 10,000lbs but https://t.co/lbhH8fJy5u compared all vehicles without arbitrary exclusion criteria and Cybertruck comes in right behind Model 3 and Y

[Gavin Baker @GavinSBaker]

Many thoughts.

Most of all, I think it is great that you are engaging here in such a constructive, thoughtful way. Open dialogue is a great way to build trust with the public and these are difficult, weighty issues that I think deserve to be debated in the proverbial “town square.”

The truth shall set you free but only you can tell your own truth. I think your essays have been great, but given human psychology I think a 50/50 balance between the risks and opportunities is perhaps too weighted towards the risks. But reasonable minds can disagree.

And yes, the best thing the industry can do is “actually cure cancer” and cannot wait for this.

Thank you for your part in making this a realistic possibility in the decades ahead.

[Brian Cox @ProfBrianCox]

We need a major structural review of UK science. A series of government decisions over the last decade (including but not limited to the Brexit referendum and the subsequent fall out) have undermined this vital foundation of our economy - that is unarguable. The problems have been exacerbated by the recent hasty and opaque decision making in UKRI. What links these things together for me is the lack of a coherent analysis of the impact of each small decision on the whole ecosystem, from Universities to industry. Example: It may look reasonable on paper to move money from astrophysics to AI. But is it sensible if that precipitates the closure of a number of physics departments? Do those closures damage our AI industry more than the redirection of funds enhances it? I have seen no evidence of a careful analysis of this and many other questions.

[Tesla @Tesla]

Terafab will be built in Grimes County, Texas

In April, we broke ground on our research fab on the North Campus of Giga Texas – the precursor to Terafab.

Both Tesla & SpaceX will need far more chips than current & future global production can supply.

This is why we're building the largest chip manufacturing facility ever, with the goal of producing over 1 terawatt of compute per year

The future is built in Texas

https://t.co/RQPNlAasdP

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

To those who say "it's her choice" I used to say the same thing about my own Hijab.

I was covered head to toe. Even on the beach. Even with my male relatives. And when people challenged me, I said: this is my choice. You know why? Because the other option was burning in hell, hung by my hair for eternity. That's what they taught me since childhood.

Yes, let me repeat it for you to just understand about our version of “freedom of choice.” I grew up in an Islamist culture that gave me two options. Cover yourself and go to heaven. Or don't cover, and be hanged by your hair and burned in hell.

Like when someone puts a gun to your head and says "you can go left or right", technically, yes, that's a choice.

I picked heaven. I called it freedom. And I believed it, because that's what happens when fear is all you've ever known.

And if you think I shouldn't be telling you my story, I don't care. I really, genuinely, from the bottom of my heart, don't care. The women still living under that "choice"? I care about them.
#LetUsTalk

[Everyday Astronaut @Erdayastronaut]

Woah! It’s happening!!! I’m guessing it’ll just get towed to Australia, but just imagine if they brought it back to the US and put it in a museum!

[Andy Campbell @real_akc]

@_devalopr @elonmusk Wrong, did you even watch the launch footage? S40 launched 20 Starlink V3 satellites and this photo was take by one of them, for the purpose of analysing the heat shield tiles

[Andy Campbell @real_akc]

@Mookafish @elonmusk Wrong, did you even watch the launch footage? S40 launched 20 Starlink V3 satellites and this photo was take by one of them, for the purpose of analysing the heat shield tiles

[Andy Campbell @real_akc]

@SmasSky @Mookafish @elonmusk Wrong, did you even watch the launch footage? S40 launched 20 Starlink V3 satellites and this photo was take by one of them, for the purpose of analysing the heat shield tiles