Ian Watkinson

I'd put money on it ... 🏴‍☠️

Greetings on another platform Mannie. Don't let the bastards grind you down. X mental health is about as stable as Musk's. Although Grok4 seemed to have laid reality bare and true recently. We couldn't 'make up' this crazy world if we tried ... good to find you on here, thanks to @BoufantZak

Rubio hosts Quad meeting with Japan, India and Australia, directed against China The meeting, bringing together representatives of the four largest militaries in the Indo-Pacific, was a clear signal that the Trump administration will intensify military preparations and threats dir...

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"The task is not to see what has never been seen before, but to think what has never been thought before about what you see everyday."

-- Erwin Schrödinger

Manufacturing Consent: The Border Fiasco and the "Smart Wall" The political response to the crisis at the southern border continues to advance the bipartisan “smart wall,” having been backed by Trump and Biden alike. This bipartisan consensus reaches far beyond ...

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The BBC's Civil War Over Gaza The BBC is facing an internal revolt over its reporting on Israel’s war on Gaza. Owen Jones investigates.

www.dropsitenews.com/p/bbc-civil-...

“And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.”

— John Steinbeck

Humans have linked emotions to the same body parts for 3,000 years 3,000-year-old clay tablets show that some associations between emotion and parts of the body have remained the same for millennia.

“It turns out that the anatomical connections we make with certain emotions and feelings… may be more universal than you’d think. In fact, people have been making very similar statements about their bodies for about 3,000 years.”

#scicomm

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Have European arms companies increased their profits due to wars? The world's top 100 arms-producing companies recorded profits of almost 600 billion last year, amid wars in Gaza and Ukraine and a generally tense geopolitical situation. #EuropeInMotion

Seems to be the only 'business' left that's profitable for the current industrial-
military-complex.

Capitalism is totally sick and deranged.

Wonderful and original

"The most revolutionary thing one can do is always to proclaim loudly what is happening.’

Rosa Luxemburg

She was appalling. Now it's a real mess. Hah !

Bluesky ... 50% boring pictures of cats, dogs, cups of coffee and other anodyne irrelevance... Big yawn
X ... 50% boring Temu advertisements for anodyne useless things no one wants.... Big yawn

“Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won’t be invited to cocktail parties.”

Oscar Wilde

Well... it probably is

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Bluesky .... endless cat and dog twaddle photos. Jesus ...

There are no words really.

Many of us 'out here' can see this happening behind the veils of dishonest politics and MSM hyperbole. Housing, health, trade, transport, education, food and "Freedom". All these empirical foundation blocks of a socialist democracy being sold down the river. We are royally fucked.

How America Is Comprehensively Fucking Itself Sinking in the historical quicksand, and making it worse by struggling

Great analysis, spot on

Rofl

I thought there already was a caravan of criminals in DC ?

Most people who do are very unlikely to admit it

Ukraine reportedly fires UK Storm Shadow missiles into Russia for the first time The essential response of the major European powers to Trump’s election has been to plan to step up their own military aggression against Russia and to consider what it will take to make this a Europe...

We are governed by madmen. Utter ship of fools

Proterozoic Rocks xkcd.com/3008

He is becoming more neckless ( and reckless ) with each passing day. Like some huge goitre. Hideous creature.