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Crusty old scouser socialist grandad. Retired Chartered Engineer. Still sailing & seeking another motorbike/scooter. Be warned, I do not always follow back. It's not you, it's me. 🥰

Mass drone attack on Kyiv leaves casualties and destruction, sources state. Amidst the chaos, a fire raged in Obolonsky, claiming one life, while the streets echoed with the sounds of shelling. The resilience of civilians is put to the test once again in a city under siege. 1/6

Russia strikes Kyiv again, killing 15 and injuring over 50. In a chilling aftermath, emergency teams battle flames and search for survivors under the rubble in Kyiv following the recent deadly strike. Damaged structures and fires rage on, while air quality plummets across the city. 1/6

It’s the worst feeling when you’re completely defenseless, and russia keeps attacking civilian targets across Kyiv nonstop. Last night, not a single ballistic missile was intercepted. russia launched 24 ballistic missiles, 4 Zircon/Oniks missiles, and 115 drones.

If politicians enacted policies that helped middle and bottom earners, rather than the richest 1% they would win every election. The reason they don't, is because it's the top 1% who have the money to buy them.

russia struck Kyiv with cluster-warhead missiles Absolute scum. Cluster warheads release dozens of small bomblets over a wide area, making them especially dangerous for civilians

According to the parliamentary annual report & accounts for the 2025/26 financial year, the cost of subsidising the bars in the House of Commons alone was around £5.8 million. Meanwhile, to save £3 million less than that, Jodrell Bank is being defunded and shut down. share.google/MRHIvCsCsKoc...

Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understands

Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.

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Microsoft: $101 BILLION in profits. $12.5 BILLION in tax breaks. $176 BILLION in stock buybacks. 4,800 workers fired this week. 9,000 workers fired last year. Please don't tell me trickle-down economics works. It never did. Nothing trickles down.

Israel is only powerful because of the west. They have supplied them, armed them, sane washed and now they want to silence any critic on them. That includes Canada.

The Pacific Ocean surface temperatures have hit their highest level ever due to the strongest ever El Nino. They aren't even expected to peak until October. This will mean the warmest, wettest, windiest weather ever for the next 9-12 months for the entire world.

Climate change has never been more visible than in 2026. We’ve had serious flooding in the winter, heat waves since May and drought and wildfires. Yet central government is on about immigration and fiscal rules. I’m not hearing anything about adaptations to schools and hospitals to help cope

Booker: "Ghislaine Maxwell is sitting in the lowest possible confinement after giving no information that helped us get one more investigation started and has been silent, and the man responsible for that we're about to make the attorney general of the US ... this is farcical."

❗️Zelensky: Today, many were shocked by another video of the Russian drone safari against people in Kherson. The man was injured by the explosion. The world must see this. It must see every fact that Russia has gone mad, and every fact that the Russian military enjoys killing and mocking people.

This hasn’t gotten much attention, but it should. While everyone was focused on Schedule F, the administration created something even broader. On July 30, a new OPM rule took effect that creates a second way to fire federal employees outside the normal civil service process.

Another weekend, another community shattered by a gunman armed with an assault-style rifle — this time in Twin Falls, Idaho at an In-N-Out Burger, where three people were killed and seven others were wounded.

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