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Forza Livi

[Scott Allen  @sallen60]

Baby I’m Yours ❤️

[Adam Aaronson @aaaronson]

Norway vs. France is the first match of the World Cup where one country's flag can be found inside the other

[Naegood³ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @duffusdip]

This reminds me of those livestreams tracking the oxygen levels on board the titan sub when it had already imploded 2 days before

[George Eaton @georgeeaton]

The Starmer government was one of the most left-leaning we’ve had that was almost never identified as such.

[sam @samcramerrr]

Seeing a lot of people saying Keir Starmer is the worst prime minister in their lifetime and the only reasonable conclusion to make is that they are two years old

[Iain Cameron @theiaincameron]

This one is for the proper geography nerds. I placed my two walking poles 15 metres apart on a Scottish mountain (Ben Lui) yesterday to illustrate one of the best geography quirks that Scotland has.

[Sam @SamCKx]

If Keir Starmer does resign, history will look back on his reign and scratch its head as to why the hell he was so hated.

On paper, he's probably delivered more to working British people in such a short time than any PM for decades.

After inheriting an absolute mess: NHS waiting lists fallen. Worker's rights improved. Rail operators nationalised. Improved relations with EU and improved UK's global reputation. Removed non-dom tax status. Halved childcare costs. Boosted state pensions. Lowest homicide rate in 50 years. Lifted 550k children out of poverty. Immigration vastly reduced.

We are in the age of billionaire funded misinformation, whose sole purpose is to topple democratically elected leaders, and insert leadership that favours the wealthy elites over the working people. Looks like the game plan is working...

[Lewis Goodall @lewis_goodall]

NEW: ANDY BURNHAM RETURNS TO PARLIAMENT AND STORMS BY ELECTION

WINS 24K VOTES

9000 MAJORITY OVER REFORM

HUGE WIN.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 BREAKING: Andy Burnham has won the Makerfield by-election

🔴 LAB: 24,937 (+6,725) - 54.8%
➡️ REF: 15,696 (+2,893) - 34.5%
🟣 RES: 3,111 (NEW) - 6.8%
🔵 CON: 997 (-3,382) - 2.2%
🟢 GRN: 308 (-1,468) - 0.7%
🔶 LD: 163 (-2,572) - 0.4%

Changes w/ 2024
58.75% turnout

[Scott Allen  @sallen60]

@QBgami @JasonB1988

[Scott Allen  @sallen60]

240 lovely British volts.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Your phone charger can electrocute a toddler who pokes a fork into the socket. The British plug cannot. That difference comes from a 1947 engineering project that refused every shortcut and turned a household plug into one of the most deliberately safe objects ever mass-produced.

Britain published BS 1363 in 1947, built for the post-war housing boom. The country was wiring millions of new homes at once and needed one standard that would work safely for everyone. They picked the most paranoid option available.

The earth pin (the large top prong) is longer than the other two. When you push a British plug in, the earth pin goes in first. Inside the socket, it presses a lever that opens two metal shutters covering the live and neutral slots. A fork pushed into an empty British socket hits only shutters. The shutters block it.

The two conducting pins are also coated in plastic for their lower half. A plug halfway out of the wall is still safe to touch. You would have to pull it completely clear before any live metal is exposed.

Inside every plug is its own fuse. UK homes wire their sockets in a loop called a ring circuit, which runs at 32 amps, enough to melt a lamp's cord if the cord fails. So each plug carries a fuse matched to the appliance: 3 amps for a lamp, 13 for a kettle. When something goes wrong in your appliance's wiring, only that plug's fuse blows.

The standard US plug (flat two-pin or three-pin) has none of the pin coating and no individual fuse. American building codes began requiring shuttered outlets in new construction in 2008, decades after Britain made shutters standard. Even those newer shuttered versions lack pin coating and plug-level fuses.

Britain's plug is bulky because a fuse, a shutter mechanism, insulated pins, and three contact prongs all need room. The plug looks the way it does because safety engineers refused to sacrifice any of those features to make it smaller, and that decision is now 79 years old.

[Gabriel Zucman @gabriel_zucman]

Those who celebrate @elonmusk's $1 trillion fortune need to be reminded of a simple and vital truth:

That there is a fundamental tension between extreme wealth and the very possibility of democracy.

[Lewis Goodall @lewis_goodall]

Musk as a trillionaire- anyone as a trillionaire- is a grotesque economic, moral and political problem. We cannot have individuals with that level of power, whatever they might have achieved.

[Scott Allen  @sallen60]

@Rainmaker1973 @Rabfermline

[Arlo White @arlowhite]

I suspect either a tray table was down, or one of the window blinds was still half open.

[Callum Carson @CCarsonBorders]

Brian Schwake, ex-Livingston youth who also had loan spells at Linlithgow, Edinburgh City and Morton, has been voted into the MLS All-Star team alongside Messi and Son. Absolutely tremendous 👏

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

An incredible bit of sports journalism by The Guardian here. A short summary of the playing style of all 48 World Cup nations and a short profile of all 1248 World Cup players. Bookmark and refer to the resources when watching the obscure matches: https://t.co/tdLGq8en0o

[Scott Allen  @sallen60]

@LiviFCOfficial Cheers admin! Top class.

[Livingston Football Club @LiviFCOfficial]

Our day 1 winner for the TRNSMT tickets was Scott Allen 🙌🏻

You can still head along & take part, by securing your tickets now.

Details here - https://t.co/KVVeVI8KDR

Congratulations Scott! 👏🏻

[Scott Allen  @sallen60]

@luke_itslook @LiviFCOfficial Type out “Scotty Pittman is my hero” and make it your pinned tweet for all of next season, and I’ll take you as my +1

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

Being working class isn’t about manners or accent.

It’s about whether you depend on your wages to maintain your lifestyle, says British trade unionist @MickLynch4AGS.

“If you have to get up when the alarm clock rings and go out and do a job – and you depend on your earnings, rather than your assets – you are working class,” he explained.