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Wilma's retweets of Neanderthal nonsense into C21st are how she'll make/carve her name ... #Bedrock

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@soaraway99

[Meacham @MeachamDr]

It’s like a meth family moved in….

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. @soaraway99 ... you may have seen this already but lest not ... 👇👇👇

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Canada’s Aluminium Is Going to Europe. Brilliant Work, Donald.

A 50% tariff on Canadian aluminium, the one country on Earth that was happily selling the stuff at sensible prices, right next door, through an integrated supply chain that took decades to build. And now that aluminium is sailing across the Atlantic to Europe instead.

Canadian exports to the EU went from near zero to between 6% and 40% of monthly totals in the space of a year. Just vanished eastward. Extraordinary result.

US consumers are now paying $6,200 a ton for aluminium. Europeans are paying $4,300.  American manufacturers taxed nearly two thousand dollars a ton more than their competitors. For beer cans. And car parts. And buildings. Tremendous. Nobody could have seen that coming, except everyone.

Meanwhile Europe, which was already scrambling after losing its Middle Eastern supply to the Iran war, now faces a 5.6 million-ton aluminium deficit in 2026. And Canada just filled it. With metal that used to go to America.

The head of the Aluminium Association of Canada put it with admirable restraint: the EU option “remains attractive,” adding pressure on the US market. What he meant was: Washington handed Europe a competitive advantage in manufacturing while American industry pays the bill.

This is what happens when a trade guru who has spent his career slapping his name on buildings in gold letters decides he understands global commodity flows. No leverage materialises. Just an empty dock in Ohio and a very pleased purchasing manager in Rotterdam.

Well done, Donald.

Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

Nigel Farage registered ‘absent’ from the last 77 votes in Parliament

Official Parliamentary figures reveal that Reform leader Nigel Farage hasn't bothered to vote for anything in the last 11 weeks...

https://t.co/fsxzTKkL4Z

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@PeterKGeoghegan 😂

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This is beautiful Linda. Do read when you have time. Many decades ago (about 4 iirc) I saw a new-born baby white rhino in Kenya (I thought it was a bolder' till it moved)!

That baby was one of the last of its species, which is now technically extinct - conservation matters. Xx

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Freya has had a calf.

Nobody saw it coming, which is the point, because bison are built so nobody sees it coming. A pregnant bison conceals the pregnancy. She gives nothing away. There is no announcement, no slowing down, no behaviour the estate manager could point to and say, there, that is an animal expecting. It is a survival trick older than the species' memory. A predator that cannot tell you are vulnerable cannot time its move.

So the estate manager did what he does every morning. He looked for Freya at the tree line at quarter to seven. She was not there.

He found her two hours later in the densest part of the wood, in a hollow she had chosen herself, standing very still over something small and dark and already on its feet.

The calf is the first born on the estate. In the wider story, the European bison was hunted down to nothing, a few dozen animals in captivity by the 1920s, every wild one gone, the entire future of the species resting on a number you could fit in a single barn. Everything alive today comes from those few. Freya comes from those few. The calf comes from those few.

Six thousand years ago, give or take, the last of the wild bison faded out of these islands. The hollow Freya chose to give birth in is on ground that has not had a bison born on it since before the people here built anything out of stone.

It has one now.

The calf was up within the hour, because a bison calf that cannot stand and move with the herd does not last the first night, and evolution does not grant extensions.

The estate manager did not approach. The whole point of the project is to want nothing from her, to let her do the one thing six thousand years of absence had made impossible, which is simply to be a bison, on this hill, raising the next one.

He watched from the track for a while. Then he wrote one line in the log and went back down to leave them to it.

The line read: "She is back. Properly back. There are two of them now."

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Amazing number of porn bots on twitter these days. Guess t'was inevitable once a man like Elon Musk bought twitter, for personal gratification. Then he realised that despite his wealth he'd no real friends. But he (& a few other like him) decide money sorts everything. Sad ... 😢

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@AnnieBishop123 @JohnDonoghue64 I got t(hair) eventually! The wordplay in the responses is everything that twitter was once about, before Elon set about destroying it.

A pathetic & friendless rich man it seems Elon can only prove his existence by spawning endless children & giving them absurd names. So sad!

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@JohnDonoghue64 @AnnieBishop123 Genius sir. Ty.

[John Donoghue @JohnDonoghue64]

Why spelling is important…

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Trust me @soaraway99 & just read & enjoy the whole 'thread'. With special thanks to ... 👇👇👇

[John Donoghue @JohnDonoghue64]

Why spelling is important…

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@viniOSX @JohnDonoghue64 Lol ... 😂

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@Teo_opinion @JohnDonoghue64 WTF?

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@JohnDonoghue64 @mimorring Rapunzel ?

[Michael Kennedy 🇺🇦 @EmPeeKay76]

Word of advice: if you see someone doing something on here that appears to be completely out of character, at least ask that person or give them the benefit of the doubt. Don't assume, get ahead of yourself and start slating said person because it suits your narrative and you...

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@soaraway99 - the level of ignorance re how/why electric cars are good is staggering, IMO ... 😱

https://t.co/mxWy1IbOwx

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@LordRickettsP I'd be scared lending anything to UK, inc its museums. Look at the nonsense (enshrined in law) re British Museum, Elgin Marbles, Benin Bronzes etc. Basically Britain raped & pillaged its way round the world (in the name of civilization) while operating a Criminal Enterprise! 🤬

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Can this be true @soaraway99? Short answer is 'yes'! Got the feeling both Mandelson & Blair got people in place to get Starmer in position, & promised help thereafter. In fact they were each by then high on/corrupted by money, power & the promise of influence. Labour was lost 🤬

[Peter Jukes @peterjukes]

So Mandelson was in talks with Farage, and told Labour comms not to say anything "disobliging".

But Farage obliged by recommending Mandelson as Ambassador.

Something about all this stinks

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I love this + I have worked in Cote d'Ivoire. Every Irish person should be rooting for them ... 👍

[AJ+ @ajplus]

“Ireland didn’t qualify for the World Cup, but you know who did? The Ivory Coast.”

This Irish pub flipped its flag to support Ivory Coast at the World Cup.

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@MarinaPurkiss Keep at it Marina ... 👍👍👍