joe 🇬🇧

[joe 🇬🇧 @scousegit1]

#ODAAT fantastic

[Carnivore Bull @RachyBull]

4 1/2 years of being Alcohol Free!!! Today!!!

The best feeling ever!!! I am so proud that I managed to stop drinking. It’s something I thought was beyond me. Its power over me would be too strong for me to stop!

It started off with me casually saying I’m having a week off. It wasn’t too bad, so I did another week! That was awful. The withdrawal symptoms started kicking in, and my brain was like a dementor;
“Just have one glass of wine It’s not going to hurt you”

“Mmmm, a crisp, chilled glass of Chablis, it’s sooooo delicious, you know you really want some”

I also went out of my way to be accountable! I set up a drink awareness app, and I marked in it daily. Before long I’d done a month. I was so proud! And would tell everyone and anyone. That’s when it became weird! People didn’t like it! I was constantly being questioned! You see, Drinkers don’t trust non drinkers! And I know this for a fact! The invitations dried up or seemed reluctant. When I did go out, people surrounded me with questions, then would not talk. I apparently wasn’t ‘fun’ anymore??? So I usually left by myself without saying goodbye! After experiencing that a few times, I thought, ‘fuck em!’ I don’t need this blatant ignorance, from people who have obvious drink issues themselves. I always said NO after that! They weren’t real friends anyway!
For me, it was a fair few months for the habit of drinking to disappear. I drank non alcoholic substitutions for a while, but I stopped those completely in January 2024 (upon going Carnivore). They are loaded with sugars, which thankfully I wasn’t addicted to!! All in all, I FEEL FANTASTIC and wouldn’t change it for anything or anyone. This is an accountability post! 4 1/2 YEARS! I’m proud of myself! And I love it!
#sober #soberlife #soberliving #superwoman #superhero #carnivore #alcoholfree #winning #winningmindset #amazing

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

The Free Speech Union was proud to support @BrodieMitchell1.

It is not a crime to say that a keffiyeh looks like a “tea towel”.

We wish Brodie all the very best with the rest of his studies.

[joe 🇬🇧 @scousegit1]

🎵 STEP BY STEP
🎶 DAY BY DAY

[Jackie @jazzyjjo89]

Evening walk to get the steps in !

[joe 🇬🇧 @scousegit1]

Totally agree

[A View From The Bullens @thebullensview]

🎙️| We got what we deserved. When you set up a team that plays for a point you get what you deserve in games like that. It was negative and very predictable. To compound it, we are 1-0 down and chasing the game and instead of bringing on Hackney or Dibling we bring on Norgaard and Johnson - @Benjwinst 🔵

Listen and watch now ⤵️

[ZUBY: @ZubyMusic]

Surround yourself with people who see a flying car and say, "Awesome!"

Not people who see a flying car and say, "It's not actually flying" or "I don't see the point."

This post is not about cars :)

[Jen k 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Jenny_1884]

I went into 3 shops today & was asked would I like a bag, I said was it free & was told no.

One shop said 15p for paper bag with shop advertised

2nd shop 30p for paper bag with shop advertised

3rd shop 50p for paper bag with shop advertised

I refused all because the whole purpose of charging us for bags was to reduce plastic.

So why are we being charged for paper bags?

It’s all been one big scam to pass the cost onto us.

[joe 🇬🇧 @scousegit1]

The great british deception goes on and on x 10

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

No seriously, someone needs to sort this mess out.

We’re paying to generate electricity, paying NOT to generate it, and paying AGAIN to replace it.

Actually we spent £505 MILLION in balancing costs in September alone! And the annual bill could reach £8 BILLION by 2030!

this is not the future of cheap energy 🤡

[joe 🇬🇧 @scousegit1]

Your too late, They have the begging bowl and they aint sharing

[David Buik @truemagic68]

I beg Chancellor Healey and the Labour Government to stop hammering business with a proposed banking windfall tax and CUT welfare & public expenditure

[joe 🇬🇧 @scousegit1]

Just say, More rip off. Dont need fluff explanation cheers martin.

[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

Important News: @Ofgem’s just launched a ‘consultation’ about switching on the Market Stabilisation Charge as soon as November. It doesn’t sound a big deal, but it could be, it ain’t good for consumers and I don't want it to slip under the radar.

In a nutshell, it means if wholesale energy prices drop sharply, the cheap fixes and switcher’s deals offered will be a lot more expensive, in order to protect energy firms’ profits.

That’s because any firm taking on a new customer, including on a cheap fix or other specialist tariff, will have to pay compensation to that customer’s old supplier, if they switch. It's basically a form of switching penalty.

While technically this is a consultation, it’s one of those where Ofgem has made up its mind, but is required to consult - it will almost certainly happen. Below is my ‘first look’ explainer on this...
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How it works (simplified to make it easy to understand):

Ofgem decided to put this power back into suppliers’ licences in May, so it could switch it on quickly if needed, and now it is trying to do just that.

It means if wholesale prices drop more than 10% below the level built into the Price Cap (and remember the January Price Cap is currently predicted to be 25% higher than now), and someone switches supplier from that or any tariff, the new firm must pay the old one 85% of the drop in wholesale rates beyond that 10%.

So very roughly, say the wholesale energy in the Price Cap costs £1,000 (a made-up number, to keep it simple. This is about proportions, not exact amounts):

- If prices drop to £900, there’s no Market Stabilisation Charge.\
- If prices drop to £800, you get the first £100 drop, but 85% of the next £100 (£85) goes to your old supplier.

So almost certainly the new firm will make you pay the difference, meaning the tariff will be up to £85 more than it would otherwise have been (other factors could affect the amount, but this is a rough illustration)

In other words, the new supplier can’t pass a chunk of the saving from lower wholesale rates on to you, because it has to hand much of it to your old supplier.

Why Ofgem says it’s doing this

Its argument is that the Price Cap requires suppliers buy energy in advance. If wholesale rates fall sharply and people leave in large numbers, those suppliers would be left out of pocket, and it doesn’t want suppliers who did the right thing by buying energy in advance to be penalised.

My View

I don’t like it. This is a ‘Market Stabilisation Charge’ but the supplier market is pretty stable, and I doubt we are at the domino risk of suppliers going bust in the way they did in the early twenties. A good few energy firms have made large profits since then, and protecting them over winter by effectively dampening competition because it’s ‘not their fault’ feels raw.

After all we don’t take their profits off them when they make them ‘through no fault’. Until now, my hope had been that at some point the Middle East situation would de-escalate, wholesale rates would drop. While it would take months for that to feed into the Price Cap, other cheaper tariffs would be available to switch to. That would still happen, but the savings could be no-where near as good as otherwise.
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As noted, these are my provisional thoughts and this has only just come out. I will need to do more looking/thinking.

[Raymond @Raymond82310289]

BBC licence fee to be extended to YouTube, Netflix & Amazon.

This is completely unacceptable.

Those of us who have decided not to watch terrestrial TV should not be forced to pay for and prop up an outdated system.

Let the BBC sink or swim on its own.

https://t.co/ybqx0IS4Gk

[Rowland Manthorpe @rowlsmanthorpe]

Jensen Huang has a message for the UK

[Dr Marie M S Macklin CBE @MarieMacklin]

Breaking News
NHS Scotland
This is my dad an 88 year old @JohnSwinney @ScotGovFM
My brother called an
ambulance 2 am it arrived 7 am and he has been in ambulance in Crosshouse Hospital car park since
8.15am.
He is terminally ill.

This is your Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

He has worked since he was a 15 year old.
He is a proud military man, bricklayer, businessman and is a huge supporter of charities.

Like many other pensioners he has been failed.

I never post personal family business but today this has been the final straw for me and my family.

Should he not make it ... well I have my solicitors ready.

[joe 🇬🇧 @scousegit1]

Honesty is always the best policy 👏👏👏

[karen ❤️‍🔥🕉🌹 @karenwa25048088]

I’m a Liverpool fan born and bred and i have to hold my hand up and say, yes, Liverpool are to blame for City cheating, we’re to blame for Everton having points deducted, Man U being £1.15b in debt, Spurs being crap, Trumps war on Iran, energy prices. Have i missed anything ? 🙄

[joe 🇬🇧 @scousegit1]

Looks like a drunk fell into them

[Vinnie Sullivan @VinnieSull1van]

Whilst in Clerkenwell, we noticed this strange railing on the corner of Packenham street and Wren street. Though we concluded that a car had run into it, it looked too perfect to have been an accident. It looks more like a modern art instillation than the result of a crash.

[joe 🇬🇧 @scousegit1]

MONEY MONEY MONEY .
Well highlited ✅️

[Seán Ono Lennon @seanonolennon]

Why does every baby formula have highly processed seed oils?

[joe 🇬🇧 @scousegit1]

I know, i think ive got this, is it Trombones ?

[Robin Askwith @Robin_Askwith]

Morning!

[Liv Boeree @Liv_Boeree]

“Metallica is not here like some other entertainers to influence you with their bullshit”

- James Hetfield showing true leadership this weekend! Great to see a musician willing to resist the current thing mob. 🤘

[joe 🇬🇧 @scousegit1]

Ffs fk the fk off an leave us all alone

[WeGotitBack 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇺🇸 @NotFarLeftAtAll]

🚨📰 Another Scam from Labour get rewarded 20p for each plastic bottle returned to be recycled…

From October 1, 2027, a Deposit Return Scheme (DRS) will be rolled out in the UK that will reward people with a small payment for bringing back empty single-use drinks bottles and cans to dedicated collection points. These will be based at local supermarkets, such as Tesco, Asda, Morrisons and Sainsbury’s, as well as grocery stores, convenience stores and newsagents that sell drinks. The returned containers will then be recycled – and people will be repaid for their returns.

Exchange for Change, which will deliver the UK's Deposit Return Scheme, has confirmed that a flat 20p deposit will be applied to all in-scope containers as part of the upcoming scheme. This means that shoppers will get 20p back per bottle or can that they return to supermarkets, or other dedicated return points.

[joe 🇬🇧 @scousegit1]

TAX TAX TAX TAX oh and a bit more TAX

[Martin Murray @martinpmurray]

Marston's threat shows the damage cost is doing to hospitality.

The threatened closure of Marston's Brewery in Burton upon Trent should be ringing alarm bells in Westminster. I lead Staffordshire County Council and I've worked in hospitality since the early 80s, and I've never seen our sector in a worse state. Since COVID, it has been battered, and the biggest reason is cost.

Burton upon Trent, here in Staffordshire, is Britain's capital of brewing. If brewing is in trouble here, it's in trouble everywhere.

My heart goes out to every worker at Marston's and their families. For some, this brewery has been a way of life for generations, passed down from grandparents to parents to children. They are worried sick right now, and they deserve every effort we can make to keep it open.

Carlsberg Britvic points to falling cask ale sales. Sales of all alcohol are down. But that's only part of the picture. There has been a huge drop in people going out and socialising, and a large number of pubs, bars and clubs have closed their doors. 161 pubs shut in the first three months of this year alone, nearly two a day. A third of our nightclubs have gone since 2020.

This is far more than a change in society. One of the biggest reasons is cost.

I owned and ran what I believe is the UK's longest-running nightclub under the same owner. Trust me, at today's costs, much of our sector is simply not economically viable.

Our hospitality sector is one of the most heavily taxed in Europe. Take VAT. We charge 20%. France, Spain and Italy charge 10%. Germany has cut VAT on restaurant food to 7%. The European average is 12.8%.

Then there's beer and alcohol duty, again among the highest in Europe. Our brewers pay twelve times more duty than brewers in Germany or Spain. After all that, a pub makes around 12p on a pint.

Add the red tape and the never-ending legislation, and you can see why so many good operators are handing back the keys.

I've written to the Minister to discuss how we save this brewery, and I've asked Carlsberg Britvic for a meeting to find out where the pressures are, and how we can help.

VAT is the problem. But so is beer duty, and most certainly business rates and energy costs. Together they are killing off the Great British pub.

This matters far beyond the balance sheet. Humans are social creatures. We need to get out, see each other, talk and laugh together. When that stops happening, people suffer. You can see it in the rise in mental health problems, especially among our younger generation.

A pint of beer is as British as a cup of tea. The Great British pub is as English as the village green. And brewing in Burton is as historic as it gets. Monks at Burton Abbey were brewing beer here more than a thousand years ago.

We must save our traditions and our heritage sites. Marston's has brewed in Burton since 1834, its Shobnall Road brewery has been making beer since 1875, and it still brews Bass, a name that goes back to 1777.
This brewery should definitely be treated as a heritage site. Not as some museum piece, but as a viable business with a future.

Martin Murray
Leader, Staffordshire County Council

#SaveNightlife #SaveHospitality #SaveMarstons

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@UKHofficial @morningad @CAMRA_Official @ntiaofficial @Ben_Bradley_32 @CarlsbergUK @UKHospKate

[joe 🇬🇧 @scousegit1]

No seal of approval for spiderman 🕷 then

[Lima @limalemonnn]

In 2019, Tobey Maguire won $15.6 million playing poker against billionaire Andy Beal. Beal delayed payment and asked for a discount. Maguire spent $500,000 on a lawyer and collected his full $7.8 million share.

In the video below, private poker organizer Molly Bloom describes what the Spider-Man actor was like at her table. She recalls him saying: “It’s not really about money. It’s more about crushing souls.”

Bloom remembers Maguire assuring an opponent during one hand: "Listen, I have the top hand. I swear on my mother's life". The man agonized, eventually folded, and Maguire revealed the bluff.

According to Bloom, he made a different demand of her: to receive a tip, she had to climb onto the table and bark like a seal.

Bloom refused. She says the standoff lasted 35 minutes: the game stopped while everyone at the table watched.

A few weeks later, Bloom says, Maguire arranged for one of the wealthy players to host the games at his house. The other players followed, leaving her without the game she had been running.

Then Maguire called her: “You’re done. You’re over.”

Lawyer Tom Goldstein helped Maguire collect the money from Beal. In January 2026, the actor described the arrangement in court, where Goldstein himself was facing tax charges.

Beal had lost money to Maguire and owed him payment. Bloom refused to be humiliated and lost the game she organized.

Was winning the money enough for Maguire, or did he need the people at the table to feel defeated?