TheyPlagueHorsesDon'tThey? 𓅟 💚 @Ride4Truth

@CovidSolidarit1 Invent time travel :o/

That's quite something isn't it? @RoyalFamily get 2 new helicopters paid for by taxpayers while air ambulance services have to fundraise to buy theirs. There's something seriously wrong with this country. 🤨

Metro @MetroUK

2 days ago

Prince William is now a billionaire and richer than his old man trib.al/QiFEaFV

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Madness. Putting solar panels over car parks, as is required in France, makes every kind of sense. It generates clean power, provides shade to the cars, and protects countryside from solar farms. But the Government has inexplicably rejected it. eastangliabylines.co.uk/environment/as…

All the fucking time.

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22 hours ago

SERIOUS QUESTION: Do you ever just get this feeling that it's all wrong ?? Cement and traffic and malls and smart phones and high heels and fluorescent lights and food in plastic and living stacked on top of each other and debt and guns and kinda just anything that's not a stream

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I read the Lebanese-Israeli framework agreement carefully (see comments for full text). I break it down, article by article, below (pay special attention to articles 2, 4, 8 and 9). Overall, just a terrible, shameful agreement, especially when the far better alternative of leaning into the US-Iran MoU was available (and we haven't even seen the "security annex" yet, which I'm sure reflects even more sovereignty-enhancing measures for the Lebanese govt). Preamble and Article 1: In essence, Lebanon agrees to recognize Israel, to end the technical state of war between them (ongoing since 1948), and pledges to normalize relations through future agreements. Keep in mind that normalization is only supported by a small minority of the country, with overwhelming opposition to it. Article 2: The sequenced process referred to in this article is Hizb disarmament first before Israeli withdrawal from Lebanese territory (that this is envisioned to happen in stages or via "pilot zones" makes no difference, as the sequence remains the same: first disarmament then withdrawal from a particular territory). This of course won't happen short of civil war. Instead of leaning into US-Iran MoU that demanded Israeli withdrawal tout cours, the Lebanese govt has essentially legitimized occupation by making Israeli withdrawal contingent on Hizb disarmament (so no disarmament = continued occupation). This is also contrary to international law, which doesn't sequence withdrawal from occupied territory on disarmament of resistance groups. The Lebanese govt is willfully and foolishly throwing away leverage, because "sovereignty" apparently. Article 3: This article explicitly conditions reconstruction of destroyed infrastructure and return of civilians to their homes in any area under occupation on disarmament of Hizb and "dismantlement of their infrastructure" (to be executed incrementally via "pilot zones"). It's unclear who is doing the disarming and dismantling and how (the IDF, the LAF, or both in unison), but this should become clearer upon publication of the security annex; but see article 4 below. Article 4: Makes clear that the onus is on the Lebanese govt to "achieve the complete and verified disarmament" of Hizb. Again, this won't happen short of civil war, which Israel has been trying to foment in Lebanon since the beginning of the war. Article 5: We're supposed to believe that Israel has "no territorial ambitions in Lebanon", when several Israeli ministers and lawmakers have insisted otherwise, and Israel has formally conditioned their withdrawal from Lebanese territory on Hizb disarmament by the Lebanese govt first, which they know cannot happen. Article 6: Lebanese govt explicitly calls Hizballah military activities illegal and outside of the Law. This reiterates the govt's previous position, but by virtue of stating it within this broader Lebanese-Israeli framework, reinforces the view that the Lebanese govt is aligned with Israel in eliminating Hizb (as an armed actor). Article 7: Iterates the "right to self-defense" for Lebanon and Israel. We all know what the "right to self defense" means for Israel. They invoked their right to "self-defense" to commit genocide in Gaza, and had the temerity to invoke their right to "self defense" when Hizb recently killed 4 Israeli soldiers advancing within occupied Lebanese land to justify bombing dozens of Lebanese towns. Article 8: Notice how subtle but dangerous this language is in this article. The Lebanese govt is essentially affirming that Hizb poses a threat to Lebanon or to citizens of Lebanon. They've essentially declared Hizb, not Israel, as the enemy. Where does that leave Hizb supporters, which constitute a large segment of the Lebanese population? Article 9 and 10: The Lebanese govt commits to a "performance-based program" to disarm Hizb and accepts that any new US assistance is contingent on achieving milestones. This, apparently, is "sovereignty" according to the Lebanese govt. They're on probation and graduate only according to US (and presumably Israeli) performance reviews, with reconstruction funds and economic aid being dangled as carrots. Utter humiliation. Article 11: Intent is to strangle Hizb financially, with the US govt working with the Lebanese govt to ensure that. Article 12: Commitment to comprehensive "peace" agreement, which I interpret as a normalization agreement, although not crystal clear from this article. If so, this will be rejected by vast majority of country. Article 13: Another example of Lebanese govt volunteering to throw away any leverage by, for e.g., forgoing the option to accept the ICC's jurisdiction to investigate Israeli war crimes or to file formal complaints and letters against Israel with the UNSC. Article 14: The obligatory reference to thanking DJT /END.

@flying_rodent Mr Rodent, if i didn't already follow you, i probably would on the strength of this tweet. Your writing is 😙🤌

There was a plan: it was “let’s spend our time in opposition squealing at journos about how our colleagues are scum, then fuck flags and demand crackdowns until we’re in power. Then we will be successful and popular, because that’s what happened in the 1990s”. That was the plan.

When politicians and media say ‘difficult choices’, that’s code for working class people about to be screwed.

Another heatwave predicted here for about ten days time. Maybe worse than the current one. We should start naming them the way we name storms, and name them after climate deniers and fossil fuel companies.

BREAKING: People Against Genocide break into and damage equipment inside Ametek's Muirhead Avionics in Berkshire, England. The weapons factory is a supplier to Israel's biggest arms firm, Elbit Systems, making it a key link in the genocidal supply chain.

Some people want to believe that the techno-fascist billionaire overlords will voluntarily sacrifice 'their' stolen wealth to give us all UBI to prop up the old model economy that no longer serves them. Giving that idea any seriousness will drive us more quickly into hell.

sophia•of•the•Crows🐦‍⬛ @DSEDunn

a day ago

This is insane. Have all global ‘governments’ agreed to cull their populations?

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@ScottishCommie Oh i dunno, at least some of the backlash will be down to rampant misogyny as well as transphobia. 🫥

The Spectator are picking through the Greens' open policy forum again. Anyway, it's a good policy and "workers who menstruate" is perfectly fine language to be inclusive of trans men. If you don't like it you can fuck off.

Politics UK @PolitlcsUK

2 days ago

🚨 NEW: Green Party members will vote on giving "workers who menstruate" an extra 36 days of paid holiday each year [@spectator]

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For three days in a row the heat record for June has been broken in the UK. The same story right across Europe. Any attempts at this key moment to slow climate action is utterly indefensible. We need day one action to accelerate our climate ambition from Andy Burnham.

Sky News @SkyNews

2 days ago

BREAKING: The June heat record has been broken for third day in a row. Wattisham in Suffolk has reached 36.9C, surpassing yesterday's highs of 36.7C in Merryfield, Somerset. Follow the latest: trib.al/uZEgGzo

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This but it already happened. Look around you.

Joseph K Bennett @JosephKBennett

2 days ago

Lmao you know when they say “AI will fix climate change” they mean it will tell them to let 5 billion people die and speed the process along if possible, because that’s what all the people designing it want it to say and they’ve fed it on fash literature

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For me fully acknowledging something is a problem is the first necessary step towards finding solutions. These days people never fully acknowledge anything anymore - because it’s too stressful / scary / upsetting. What this means is that we will never find effective solutions.

@Indranil1019 @NoJusticeMTG This right here is why that *debate* is appearing from nowhere.

We need to make this shit so completely socially unacceptable that no one would DARE wear those glasses in public anymore than they’d walk around with no clothes on or waving swastikas or whatever. Bars should kick anyone covertly filming people TF out & ban them.

Sheeta Verma 👩🏽‍💻 @sheetaverma

2 days ago

A guy and his friends came up to us at a bar asking to play Jenga. My friends agreed, but while playing something seemed off with the way they were talking and making conversation. Then I looked closer and realized he'd been recording us the entire conversation. When I called it

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@AronRiktor @CovidSolidarit1 This blindspot is up there with humans' greatest fatal flaws.

@AronRiktor @CovidSolidarit1 I know what you mean about complacency, but having lived in Africa as a young adult dispensed with much of that for me. Nevertheless I agree we've been conditioned (intentionally or no) in rich countries to see IDs as a "developing country" problem, not a big threat to ourselves.