Pilot1

Pilot, walker, squash & golfer, importantly, family and friends are what actually matters

[Metropolitan Police Federation @MPFed]

Petition: Stop the early release from jail of PC Andrew Harper's killers

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[Stefan Moore ★ @2StefanMoore]

Meet 2 year old Lilly. ❤️
Her Facebook page is Lilly’s Leap of Strength. She’s fighting stage 4 metastatic #Neuroblastoma & has already been through more than any little one should.

Let’s fill her home with HOPE MAIL. Lilly loves Mickey Mouse, nature, animals & books. Please keep this sweet girl in your prayers. 🙏

Send cards & letters to:
Cards for Lilly
144 East Piedmont St
Keyser, WV 26726

[Stefan Moore ★ @2StefanMoore]

The loss of a Child is a wound the human heart was never designed to endure. 💔

It fractures every piece of you. The future you once held so vividly dissolves. Even breathing changes. Waking up becomes an act of courage. The world feels forever altered, unsafe, uncertain, hollowed out. Time marches forward relentlessly, while your life remains frozen at the moment theirs ended. You don’t simply miss them. You carry an ache that lives deep in your bones, in the hollow of your chest, in every silent second & every deafening one.

Milestones arrive, beautiful & brutal, with an empty space where they should have stood. It is waking each morning to a reality you would give anything to escape. It is learning, slowly, painfully on how to walk forward while holding a grief too heavy for any one person to bear. It is loving someone with such ferocity that their absence redefines your entire existence. There is no correct path through this sorrow. No timeline. No rules. Only the daily, quiet practice of learning to breathe around the vast, permanent hole they left behind.

This is a pain no parent should ever have to know. 💔

A simple follow would mean the world to us to give our #ChildhoodCancer Warriors a mighty voice & will help us fight so that one day, no parent has to bury their Child.

Thank you from the bottom of our hearts. 🙏

❤️ Ashley ❤️
#Forever13

[Pilot1 @shaunski1990]

@2StefanMoore Stefan, you have captured it line by line, perfectly 🙏❤️.

[Stefan Moore ★ @2StefanMoore]

The things people don’t see after your Child dies… 💔

It’s not just the birthdays & holidays. It’s not just the empty seat at the table. It’s the way you pause before answering, “How many Children do you have?” It’s the panic in the grocery store when you hear someone call their name. It’s still buying their favorite snack out of habit & crying in the car. It’s keeping their phone number in your contacts bc deleting it feels like erasing them. It’s the ache of watching their friends graduate, get married, have kids… while your Child will forever stay the same age. It’s talking to them in your head every single day. It’s the way your smile in public hides a thousand private tears.

Grief after Child loss doesn’t “end.” We carry it. We live with it. We breathe through it. You might not see all of this but it’s there. Always.

For all the parents walking this road, I see you. ❤️

For everyone who loves someone walking this road… please, keep saying their Child’s name.

❤️ Ashley ❤️
#Forever13

[Pilot1 @shaunski1990]

@WingsScotland @Glinner Wow, what world are we living in.

[Wings Over Scotland @WingsScotland]

This story is utterly horrifying, and 0% shocking. https://t.co/ABuPDGvZSe

[Gary Holman @GaryGaryholman]

Worked hard for over 45 years… I need to rant for just a moment. I'm getting old and I’ve worked hard all my life. I have made my reputation, the good and the bad, I didn't inherit my job or my income, and I have worked hard to get where I am in life. I have juggled my job, my family, and made many sacrifices up front to secure a life for my family. It wasn’t always easy and still isn't, but I did it all while maintaining my integrity and my principles. I made mistakes and tried to learn from them. I have friends of every walk of life and if you’re in my circle, it should be understood that I don’t have to remind you of what I’d be willing to do for you.

However....
I'm tired of being told that I have to "spread the wealth" to people who don't have my work ethic. People who have sacrificed nothing and feel entitled to receive everything.

I'm tired of being told the government will take the money I earned, by force if necessary, and give it to people too lazy to earn it themselves.

I'm really tired of being told I must lower my living standard to fight global warming, which, no one is allowed to debate.

I'm really tired of hearing wealthy athletes, entertainers and politicians of all parties talk like their opinions matter to the common man. I’m tired of any of them even pretending they can relate to the life and bank account that I have.

I'm tired of people with a sense of entitlement, rich or poor.

I’m upset that I’m labeled as a racist because I am proud of my heritage. I never stole any ones land, the government did that..

I'm really tired of people who don't take responsibility for their lives and actions. Especially the ones that want me to fund it. I'm tired of hearing them blame the government, or discrimination, or big-whatever for their problems.
Yes, I'm really tired. But, I'm also glad to be in the twilight of my life. Because mostly, I'm not going to have to see the wretched, depressing world these useless idiots are creating. And lastly, because even though I shouted from the rooftops, no one listened or seemed to give a damn. You reap what you sow, and so do your children.

No one is entitled to anything. You have a choice to work, a choice to stay off drugs, a choice to make something of yourself. I have nothing to do with your choice. That's all on you. You are entitled to what you earn.

There is no way these thoughts will be widely publicised, unless each of us sends it on! Surely, the politically correct police censors will try to quiet us.

And I'm fkn tired of a government who have created over 100 new taxes (sugar tax etc) in order to grease their own palms. The lazy bastards in the House of Lords who do fk all but sleep for a fortune. The pricks who believe I should work to fk knows what age, and that my pension is a benefit, even tho I have paid for it all my fkn life 🤬🤬.

“Copy and paste”. I did👍🏻
Thanks!

[Stefan Moore ★ @2StefanMoore]

Dear Algorithm,
Show me some love & connect me with all the people who are eager to make a difference in our #ChildhoodCancer community. 🙏🏻

[Pilot1 @shaunski1990]

@2StefanMoore Still here Stefan 👍

[Pilot1 @shaunski1990]

@IngrameThomas @gracebrod1e 100% Thomas 👍

[Jim Spence @JimSpenceDundee]

The ‘rot’ is easily explained. A party full of folk earning salaries and perks which their limited abilities couldn’t dream of in any other environment. They’ll acquiesce in any lie and suffer any indignity to maintain that. They also know that as long as they can convince just enough folk that everything is the fault of the UK or the English, their seats on the Holyrood gravy train are secure in perpetuity.

[S A M M Y Woodhouse @officialsammyuk]

This morning, I appeared on Good Morning Britain in a live interview about the grooming gangs. Before I went on air, I was told not to mention the race of the perpetrators. I, of course, didn’t listen.

I have now received an apology from the editor.

My interview is below: 👇🏻

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

This censorship law is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. The real goal is to enable the UK government to track everyone.

[𝒯𝓇𝒶𝒸𝓉𝑜𝓇𝑔𝒾𝓇𝓁𝓎 🇬🇧🚜 💚🤍💜 @tractorgirly]

Well done John because rich people are now leaving.

Including my self made partner who left the country in march and I have now left Scotland in the last week to join him.

So suck it up as this is taxes you will no longer be able to steal from hardworking people who were brought up in council estates and studied and built up businesses and employed a lot of people.

Why should anyone have aspirations if politicians like you want to steal what little or even big wealth they have built up?

Thanks though for giving us a heads up the last couple of years including @UKLabour because we are now enjoying our new life in the sun where the government doesn’t fuck us over.

Cheers!

[Annemarie Ward 💜 @Annemarieward]

Yes, it is. The disappearance of the working-class voice from Scottish politics is not a footnote. It is THE headline. A young Scottish man today is three times more likely to die early than his counterpart in England, Spain, or Italy. The causes are not mysterious: drugs, suicide, cancer. The fallout of poverty, neglect, family breakdown, and political inertia. Scotland is now the only developed country where mortality among men aged 25 to 44 is rising. Life expectancy in parts of Calton sits closer to post-Soviet mining towns than to a modern Western European city. The kind of statistic you expect to find in a World Health Organisation briefing on social collapse, not in a nation that endlessly describes itself as compassionate and progressive.

And nowhere is this failure more visible than in our prisons. Young men face staggering levels of despair, with suicide attempts at terrifying rates. Yet we continue spending almost as much incarcerating people for a year as it would cost to provide meaningful residential rehabilitation and recovery support. When over 70% of crimes are committed either under the influence of substances or driven by addiction itself, does it not make more moral, social and economic sense to invest seriously in recovery rather than endlessly recycling damaged people through systems of containment?
We were promised that devolution would bring power closer to the people. But for those I know, in addiction, in recovery, in poverty, in communities where hope itself feels rationed, Holyrood has often felt further away than ever.

Yes, we have improved representation in some important areas, sex and ethnic diversity, and that matters. But let’s be honest enough to admit the Parliament increasingly looks more like Scotland while sounding less like Scotland.

The accents of managerial politics have replaced the voices of ordinary working people. The language is polished, therapeutic, procedural, endlessly consultative, yet somehow emotionally weightless.

Politics has become a performance of compassion rather than the hard, costly business of practising it.

As @PaulEmbery put it: “Britain isn’t experiencing social turmoil because of ‘far-right’ beliefs; it is doing so because of luxury beliefs, held by unrepresentative elites who govern our institutions. If you don’t understand that, you don’t understand anything.”

And who, precisely, is carrying the burden of this failure? Not the professional classes. Not the comfortable managerial elite. The poor. The working class. The forgotten communities whose children die younger, whose streets decay faster, and whose voices are heard least.

Yet policy is still too often written about them rather than with them. Consultations become curated exercises in institutional self-reassurance: polished, centralised, filtered through anaemic, on-message voices carefully selected not to disrupt the consensus. Not real representation. Not real experience. Just management.

https://t.co/XZrkIFQBWQ

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

I read everywhere about the 'hard right'

This the term used to describe people who are
Islamosceptic - that is, people who are doubtful about the merits of a religion that demands child marriage, the beating of women, and death to all who oppose it

Perhaps 'sensible right' would be a better description

[Jim Spence @JimSpenceDundee]

“In effectively no-platforming them, the new SNP administration has shown the hallmarks of an authoritarian instinct which should concern anyone who might have the misfortune to cross them in future” my @CourierOpinion today

[The Courier @thecourieruk]

JIM SPENCE: Has John Swinney painted target on back of Reform voters and politicians? https://t.co/rxeC61nwEK