Pod the Sandancer V2

2nd attempt at twitter. My tech failings have resulted in me starting again. Common sense. Democracy supporter. Anti woke and snowflake. Will follow back.

[Pod the Sandancer V2 @V2Pod]

@_ElsaDear Your skin.

[Colin Brazier @ColinBrazierTV]

Scores of Labour MPs didn’t expect to win their seats in 2024, and don’t expect to hold onto them at the next election. These political mayflies will use their short time in office to pursue an ideological scorched earth policy of class spitefulness.

My latest Friday monologue.

[Andrew Bridgen @ABridgen]

This explains why we are where we are now and the deliberate failure of successive Governments. They all had other masters and other agendas hidden from the people.
The agenda is now clear it’s the destruction of our nations.

[Brigitte Gabriel @ACTBrigitte]

"When they come to slaughter us tonight, run to the Israeli border as fast as you can and don't look back."

I was 13 years old.

My town was under siege. No electricity. No water. We crawled out of the bomb shelter to pick dandelions because we had nothing else to eat. The Muslim militias and PLO were closing in. Tomorrow was the attack.

So I dressed in my best Easter dress. I wanted to be pretty when they came to kill us.

My father read Psalms: "I shall walk through the valley of death and I will not fear."

My parents told me: We will create a distraction. You run to the Israeli border. Don't look back.

That's what we were facing. That's what Lebanon became for Christians.

The West watched. No one came.

I survived to tell this story. So many didn't.

[Laurence Fox @LozzaFox]

Someone should make a Hollywood movie about this.

Oh yeah, they did, and still they didn’t listen.

@thenodeproject

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THANK GOD FOR ELON MUSK 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

Do you remember Labour Together? That shadowy think tank which accepted hundreds of thousands of pounds in donations that it unlawfully failed to declare. The group that helped propel Keir Starmer to power and attempted to silence those who criticised it?

Well, it hasn’t gone anywhere.

Josh Simons, the now former Makerfield MP who succeeded Morgan McSweeney as head of Labour Together in 2023, sent an email confirming that the organisation used to help get Starmer elected had undergone a major overhaul.

In the email, he set out his intention to harness Labour Together MPs within the Shadow Cabinet, specifically naming Rachel Reeves, Wes Streeting, Bridget Phillipson, Lisa Nandy, Shabana Mahmood, Steve Reed and Lucy Powell.

Now that Starmer has gone, what has changed? Rachel Reeves and Steve Reed may be out, but the others remain.

In the latest episode of the FSU Podcast, FSU Director of Research and Policy @DavidRoseUK interviews investigative journalist Paul Holden, who exposed Labour Together’s undeclared donations.

Paul explains why he remains concerned about Labour Together and its influence. What troubles him most, he says, is the group’s hostility to free speech and dissenting opinions.

Hear the full story on the FSU Podcast 👇

[Don Keith @RealDonKeith]

More doctors and engineers with very large scalpels and protractors rob a shop in Birmingham.

[HJB News @HJB_News__]

A must watch, The Fabian Society explained.

Fantastic video @thenodeproject

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STOP THE BOATS NOW

[Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 @TRobinsonNewEra]

The Fabian Society explained.

Great work @thenodeproject

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😂😂😂😂

[Americaforever @onetexgal9]

"My name's Harvey. I'm 68. I work the night shift at TravelCenter truck stop on I-40. Pump diesel, ring up snacks, clean showers. Same blue vest for thirteen years. Truckers fuel up, grab coffee, hit the road. Most are gone in fifteen minutes.

🤩🤩But I see who stays parked.
Like the trucker who'd been sitting in his rig for three days. Engine off. Never came inside except for bathroom. No food, no shower, just sitting.

🤩Fourth morning, I knocked on his cab. "You okay, buddy?"
He rolled down the window. Looked exhausted. "Broke down. Waiting on parts. Can't afford to eat and fix the truck both. Truck wins."
"When'd you eat last?"
"Tuesday."
It was Friday.

🌭☕️🍟I went inside, made him a hot dog, brought chips and coffee. "Store policy. Can't sell day-old stuff."
It wasn't day-old. But he was starving.

😭😞He cried eating that hot dog.
Started noticing others. The female trucker sleeping in her cab because shower credits cost too much. The rookie driver rationing gas station food because rookie pay barely covers fuel. Truckers choosing between eating and making deliveries on time.

💖✅I began keeping food. "Expired" items still perfectly good. When truckers looked desperate, I'd "find" extras they could have.
Word spread on the CB radio. "Harvey at the I-40 TravelCenter helps drivers."

❤️Then something unexpected. A trucker I'd fed years ago made it big, started his own company. Came back, left $1,000. "For drivers who are where I was."

👆Now our TravelCenter has a "Trucker Relief Fund." Other truck stops copied it. Fifty-three stops across nine states.

I'm 68. I scan Slim Jims and pump diesel fuel at a highway truck stop.

😕😓But I learned, truckers deliver everything we need to survive. And they're often starving, broke, sleeping in their cabs because one breakdown destroys them financially.

😢💔Watch your lot. Someone's been parked three days without moving. Someone's choosing between fuel and food.
Find the expired snacks. Offer the shower credit. Sometimes a $4 hot dog is what keeps a trucker from giving up on a road that already gave up on them."

🥰Let this story reach more hearts....

By Mary Nelson

[ExWren @VoWalesWren]

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[Pod the Sandancer V2 @V2Pod]

@LandLover56 Bicycle bell,that was easy.

[Proudofus.uk @ProudofusUK]

There was no word for what this woman did. So Britain had to make one. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧

Mary Somerville's whole schooling was 1 year, at a girls' boarding school in Musselburgh. She left it feeling, in her own words, like a wild animal escaped out of a cage.

After that she taught herself, from the family shelves, by candles they tried to take away. The spark was a puzzle on the back page of a friend's fashion magazine, numbers mixed in with letters. Nobody she asked could explain it. It was algebra, and she wanted more. Custom stopped a woman buying such books, so her brother's tutor bought her Euclid. She worked through it alone, line by line. By 1811 she had taught herself enough to win a silver medal for mathematics.

Then she took on Laplace's Mecanique Celeste, the mathematics of the heavens, in French. Asked to translate it for British readers she did far more. She rebuilt the mathematics inside it, and in 1831 The Mechanism of the Heavens went to print. Cambridge set it in front of its own students. 📜

In 1834 she joined the sciences together. Physics, chemistry, astronomy, light, tides and magnetism, in one book anyone could read. It sold and sold. And it broke open the English language.

The Cambridge professor William Whewell sat down to review it, and no single word covered what she did. Man of science would not do. One had been floated, half in jest, at a science meeting the year before. His review of her book put it into print for the first time. 🔥

Scientist.

The first person the word ever described in print was a Scotswoman with 1 year of school.

A year on, she and Caroline Herschel became the Royal Astronomical Society's first women Honorary Members. 🏛️ Her pages on the wobble in Uranus's orbit helped point John Couch Adams at the hunt that found Neptune in 1846. She mentored a young Ada Lovelace and introduced her to Charles Babbage. In 1866 John Stuart Mill put her name first on his petition to Parliament for women's votes. Oxford named a college for her. And since 2017 her face has sat on the Royal Bank of Scotland's £10 note, printed beside a line from the book that needed a new word.

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1 year of school. A puzzle in a magazine. And a word the whole world uses.

Her word is still in your mouth. Stand a little taller when you say it.

We are the home of British heroes.
There is a place for you with them.

👉 https://t.co/rih7iKwnvf 👈

Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧
Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

[Pod the Sandancer V2 @V2Pod]

@andrewc44104127 Heat ,or a vet to revive the meat.