Andy Smith

Crude oil prices, showing a very sharp increase in the last day, from around 65 to 101 dollars per barrel..

Oil prices wouldn't be all over the news today if more of our economy was powered by local, secure renewable energy.

This isn't an "energy crisis". It's a fossil fuel crisis.

44% of UK electricity came from renewables in 2025. More of that plus an electrified economy => no more oil shocks.

I can't believe that she believes the stuff she's coming out with. Labour and Shabana's current position works on the assumption that there are so may racists in the UK that we have to pander to them. We won't. She knows she is lying about your motives but says it cause she and her party are scared.

The Board of Peace is a Crock of Shit

Hope won 💚

Today should be your 38th birthday.. When you lose your son you lose more than a child you lose a piece of your heart and your joy. Life is forever altered, and nothing can ever fill that space. Yet in my soul, he remains, my precious boy, forever loved. His laughter, his smile, and his love are woven into who I am. My love for him will never fade. Yor are my pride and my joy - you've made a change that cannot be broken..

Alex's mom on his 38th birthday.

I'm sorry to say you are the crying stick of the world. 😭 🌎

Wow.

Could he work out quickly how many farthings were in a guinea? Or even pennies in a pound? Imagine trying to work out compound interest on your mortgage when there were 240 pennies in a pound.

Hordes of fighting age men will be invading various Mediterranean islands when the weather gets better. Don't speak a word of the language or understand the customs of where they are, and fail to integrate, sticking to their own communities.

But that's just Club Med and 18-30.

So I know this has been a difficult week, but I think we should stick with the prime minister, support him. He admits he’s made a bad mistake here. He has apologised for it, and I’m sure he will learn from that going forward.

And I also think it is not good for the country to change its prime minister every 18 months or two years is leading to chaos and uncertainty, economically, politically and reputationally around the world.

The word 'think' is doing a lot of work here.

McFadden said:

I believe he (the prime minister) should stay. I think he’s got a five-year mandate, which was just voted for 18 months or so ago in a general election. His task is by no means complete, barely begun.

There you go.

Practical “under the bed” reality check
Typical under-bed clearance is ~20 cm.
At this rate:0.20 m ÷ 26.4 m/day
= 0.0076 days
≈ 11 minutes
In under a quarter of an hour, the bed is floating on money.

Growth rate
Per day: ~26.4 m
Per hour: ~1.1 m
Per minute: ~1.8 cm
Per second: ~0.3 mm/s
So the money under the bed is rising at about the thickness of two credit cards every second

Step 2: spread that under a king-size bed
Height increase per day: 79 m³ ÷ 3.0 m²
≈ 26.4 metres per day

Step 1: how much “money volume” arrives each day?
Volume of one dollar bill:
Area: 0.156 × 0.066 = 0.0103 m²
Thickness: 0.00011 m
So:1 bill ≈ 1.13 × 10⁻⁶ m³
Multiply by 70,000,000:≈ 79 m³ of banknotes per day

Assumptions (so we’re honest)
US dollar bill thickness: 0.11 mm
Dollar bill size: 156 × 66 mm
Bills added: 70 million per day
UK king mattress: 150 × 200 cm = 3.0 m²

I can go through the maths if you'd like.

If Jez Bezos' income was neatly spread under a king-size bed, the stack would rise at ~26 metres per day — fast enough to jam the bed against the ceiling before he’d finished making a cup of tea ☕💸 Which he definitely doesn't drink. #TaxWealth #TaxtheRich #WealthManagement

≈ piling up at 321 metres per hour

A US dollar bill is about 0.11 mm thick (≈ 0.0043 inches).
Growth per day
70,000,000 bills × 0.11 mm= 7,700,000 mm per day
That’s: 7,700 metres
7.7 km
≈ 4.8 miles

If you stacked Bezo's cash in single-dollar bills it'd rise the height of Mount Everest every day. It's too easy to write $70m without realising the scale of numbers. #TaxTheRich #TaxWealth

A US dollar bill is about 0.11 mm thick (≈ 0.0043 inches).
Growth per day
70,000,000 bills × 0.11 mm= 7,700,000 mm per day
That’s: 7,700 metres
7.7 km
≈ 4.8 miles

If you stacked his cash in single dollar bills it'd rise the height of Mount Everest every day. It's too easy to write $70m without realising the scale of numbers. #TaxTheRich #TaxWealth

If you ignore the way it can also buy you stuff, we should all know how Money is Identically Equal to Power. Power should be shared roughly equally between us. and so should its Identically Equal Equivalent. No one can work hard enough to amass his wealth. #MoneyEqualsPower #BernieBro #AOCSister

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.

Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

Welcome home, Liam!

Billie Eilish: "No one is illegal on stolen land"

Cold-stunned iguanas prompt removal order in Florida YouTube video by Gulf Coast News

Amongst the usual sad stories from the #USA in todays #Guardian was this nugget of delight from #Florida:
"officials warned of ice and falling iguanas."
#ICE & #Iguana
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