jesus CHRIST.
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Haha, yeah. I think we could have a pretty large and significant list without having to appropriate stuff. But it is always interesting to find out what people believe.
Me on Marie's timeline today 🤣
Good meme, but if you read the article yiu'll note theyre Persian via India 😊
Maurice Glasman, founder of Blue Labour - suggesting Iran becomes a monarchy and joins the British Commonwealth alongside Ukraine.
And people listening... like this is normal..
Chinese pharmacies would like a word ;-)
From what I know Devon was for a period of time on the (European) supply chain route because of tin deposits but the bronze age literally developed independently in various parts of the world.
Britain invented bronze?
God. 10 million immigrants in the UK and they're still repeating colonial tropes. Just kill me now.
You're saying Britain invented literature?
Britain invented boots?
Sigh. I'm going to have to decolonise this entire thread aren't I.
If you think the word or concept of "fairness" is British, I'd like to introduce you to "dharma", which first appeared in the Rig Veda over 3000 years ago.
If you think the scotch egg is British I'd like to introduce you to the Nargisi kofta!
Also this interaction with Diana Gould..
Screenshot from Free PRess Journal that reads: Sri Lankan Civilians Crowdsource ₹2.2Million Cold Storage Unit To Preserve Bodies Of Iranian Sailors Killed In US Submarine Strike Civilians and port workers in Sri Lanka crowdfunded 2.2 million rupees to donate a cold storage unit to preserve the bodies of sailors from the Iranian warship IRIS Dena, which was sunk by a United States submarine near Galle. The unit will store the recovered remains until they can be repatriated to Iran for final rites.
In complete contrast to this evilness of Trump's America, as if to show what humanity really is, ordinary Sri Lankans have crowdfunded a cold storage unit to store the bodies of sailors until they can be returned home.
www.freepressjournal.in/world/sri-la...
The news that stunned me most last week was that the US struck an UNARMED Iranian ship off the coast of Sri Lanka, killing 100 sailors and leaving the rest to drown. The very definition of a war crime and so horrific.
guardian screenshot that reads “We operated on an NHS patient in Gibraltar from the London Clinic 2,400km away using a robot with a 3D HD camera with four arms. “The robot is completely controlled from a console, which is like a computer console, using high-speed lines with a time delay of, would you believe it, only 0.06 seconds – that 60 milliseconds.” The console in London was linked to the robot in Gibraltar via fibre optics, with a backup 5G connection. A team on the ground at St Bernard’s stood ready to take over as a precaution in case the connection dropped.
This from the Guardian:
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
PS: The BBC refer to him as 'London doctor' which is fair enough, but I feel like they could've mentioned he's an immigrant, especially since they did a whole bio on the patient.
It shouldn't be up to a random person on social media to make that observation.
The BBC has more incredible context.
"Dasgupta will perform the procedure again on 14 March, which will be live‑streamed to 20,000 world‑leading urological surgeons at the European Association of Urology congress.
Right wingers always say, oh but he's "legal", well Prof Dasgupta arrived as a student, and right wingers are against students arriving here! And then they go around putting up flags and calling themselves patriotic.
Bloody immigrants, coming over here, performing groundbreaking surgeries.
UK's first remote robotic surgery. Performed by Professor Prokar Dasgupta, born in Odisha, trained in Kolkata, then moved to London where he trained further.
"If you have the integrity to protect the oppressed, you do it wherever that happens, not wherever it happens alongside oil"
- George Michael, speaking about the Iraq War in 2003
The home office needs to fuck off into the distance. And then fuck off some more.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Nearly 100,000 Brits live and work in India.
Whereas nearly a million Indians live and work in Britain.
So as a proportion of population, twice as many Brits move to India than vice versa.
And yet the narrative is "their country must be terrible, which is why they're moving here".
An op-ed worth reading on Al-Arabiya, a Saudi Arabian news service.
"What is perhaps most insulting is not that Hezbollah joined the inferno – but how it did so. Three rockets. Symbolic. Militarily trivial. Strategically disastrous. Lebanon was not defended; it was volunteered."
Simply outstanding read in the LRB.
"‘The dry and the wet burn together’ is a Persian expression invoked when a fire spreads without discrimination. Once the blaze begins, distinctions collapse: between the combustible and the damp, the guilty and the innocent, perpetrators and victims."
he ate and left no crumbs
FT headline, Anthropic back in talks with Pentagon about AI deal
Everyone: let's move away OpenAI/Chatgpt because it supports use of AI in war
*2.5 million users switch to Anthropic/Claude*
Anthropic, few days later:
What could go wrong?
NATO shot a missile heading to Turkey
China is getting concerned
Pakistan is making its stance known
If any of you were feeling a hint of optimism today, don't. Instead, there's every reason to be very worried.
NATO, Turkey, China, Pakistan. The risks of a widened conflict are getting more serious.