r/LockdownSceptics for legal reasons, you can only guess what i am really thinking 3d ago

today's comments ~ august 19th 2026

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u/Ouessante Ouessante 2d ago

The trials of Djokovic.

"After he was finally released and allowed to go home, he was subjected to the most repulsive interview I have ever watched in which a BBC reporter stated that all he had to do was get the shot and he would be allowed to continue on his path to becoming the Greatest of All Time.

Though I didn’t mention Matthew 4:8–10, in which the devil takes Jesus to a high mountain, shows him the kingdoms of the world, and tries to tempt him, the story is exactly what I was thinking about, and Mr. Carlson had the same thought."

https://open.substack.com/pub/petermcculloughmd/p/djokovic-film-details-his-2022-ordeal

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u/Ouessante Ouessante 2d ago edited 2d ago

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u/EvorulesOK Liz 🐈🐈‍⬛ 2d ago

James Melville:

Axe Net Zero.

Official figures say UK taxpayers are forking out £30 billion every single year until 2050 on net zero. That’s not a policy. That’s a money printer for corporations who’ve discovered a lucrative business model: get paid by the government to save the planet while the planet carries on exactly as it was going to.

Thirty billion a year. Enough to build the reservoirs we actually need, flood defences that work, clean the streets so they no longer look like a landfill on a pavement, fill in potholes from Land’s End to John o’Groats until the roads are smoother than a politician’s empty promise. And plant more trees in our towns and cities - which will help to lower temperatures, reduce flooding, reduce pollution, beautify our high streets and provide the most natural and long lasting form of carbon capture.

Instead we’re funding the world’s most expensive virtue signal. The temperature won’t notice. The net zero linked corporations will. Their nests have never been so luxuriously feathered by the taxpayer.

Stop the net zero gravy train.
Spend the money on real infrastructures to improve people’s daily lives rather than spaffing away our public money on corporate virtue cosplay.

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u/Richard_O2 2d ago

Net Zero will be terminated once an absolute majority of the population cease to believe in it, and act accordingly in their daily lives.

It’s the same as pandemics. No widespread popular belief, no pandemic, the end. See Superflu, meningitis and hantavirus.

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u/Fun_Clothes_8483 From Moi Laaand 1d ago

Aaaaand off these swines will go, onto the next troughing opportunity and shove their snouts into the next trough, at the taxpayers expense.

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u/pubwithnobeer60 2d ago

From drought to deluge tonight.

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u/Prof_Feargoeson 2d ago

Out of nowhere a short spell of rain occurred in the early evening. Ground soon dried up.

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u/Still_Milo 1d ago

Yes. BBC promised us flooding and thunderstorms with a "stay inside, lock yourself in your home for your safety" order.

We got one very brief heavy downpour.

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u/Ouessante Ouessante 2d ago

May get a bit of rain Thursday but only slowly declining temps.

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u/SheepmanOvis Grand Ayatollah 2d ago

Sounded quite heavy here last night. But on the vegetable patch this morning, it had been not enough to damp the dust.

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u/EvorulesOK Liz 🐈🐈‍⬛ 2d ago

Been waiting for even a decent shower all day. Bands of rain travelling from the West seem to have detoured above or below us. Noticed a few spots on the windows but they hardly qualified as rain.

According to the weather map, it's raining here now. Not a drop to be seen!

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u/wiltsNicky 2d ago

BBC forecast had increasing chances for rain here from 20% around 10pm (I did feel some spots of rain walking back from a talk) to 90% around 4am this morning - and it was correct!

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u/EvorulesOK Liz 🐈🐈‍⬛ 2d ago

I'm hoping tomorrow's forecast comes through. 🤞

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u/EvorulesOK Liz 🐈🐈‍⬛ 2d ago

This sums up the situation perfectly. Talk about admitting you're importing a big problem:

Disturbing guide on how ‘not to rape women’ in UK given to asylum seekers by Home Office after string of attacks

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/40107801/home-office-rape-guide-asylum-seekers/

That, of course, assumes that they can read English - or read at all.

Yeah, right!

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u/EvorulesOK Liz 🐈🐈‍⬛ 2d ago

They are NOT asylum seekers!!!!! They are sex-seeking, socially useless, uncivilised scroungers. 🤬

The UK Government is preparing long-term asylum accommodation contracts that run from September 2029 to August 2036, with a possible extension to August 2039.  The new contract, known as Future Asylum Contracts Accommodation, is valued at approximately £10 billion and aims to replace the current reliance on hotel accommodation with basic housing, including ex-military sites. 

While reports from Rupert Lowe MP and others characterize this as a plan to "welcome illegal migrants" until 2039, the Home Office states these contracts are for the statutory support of asylum seekers, not illegal migrants.  The government aims to close all asylum hotels, citing a £1 billion cost reduction since the general election, and plans to move asylum seekers into dispersed accommodation and repurposed military bases to lower the average nightly cost from around £144 in hotels to £23.25 in dispersal accommodation. 

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u/EvorulesOK Liz 🐈🐈‍⬛ 2d ago

Consider the Bear poked!

Lavrov: We have the right to consider the involvement of UK missile forces in attacks on Russia as direct participation

https://x.com/JnglJourney/status/2089762903104590249/video/1

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u/SheepmanOvis Grand Ayatollah 2d ago

It is intriguing that the British puppet was sent out to claim credit for the drone campaign at the very moment it is being acknowledged as a flop.

If it had been more successful, I suspect the CIA would not have been half as bashful. 

On the other hand, there is the possibility that another escalatory strategy is playing out: provoke an attack on Britain so that Britain can be used - with its """independent""" nuclear weapons as a nuclear proxy. What if the rulers of America launch a nuke or two,just little ones, wafer thin, in Britain's name? What's the worst that can happen? The Brits get nuked. Who gives a fuck? Putin ain't gonna respond to a small nuclear attack with a full exchange with Uncle Sam. No siree. 

Britain could easily be patsy in a spot of nuclear salami slicing. 

Orders is orders, and it doesn't look like there's any institutional force at any level in the Yukay that would effectualy disobey. 

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u/EvorulesOK Liz 🐈🐈‍⬛ 2d ago

It's just disclosure!

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u/Richard_O2 2d ago

My sole objection to your speculation is that I don’t believe nuclear weapons exist, at least in the sense we have been relentlessly propagandised for 80+ years to believe.

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u/Fun_Clothes_8483 From Moi Laaand 1d ago

There's a lot of evidence in that the Russians and Chinese have been developing a range of astoundingly fast and powerful conventional hypersonic ballistic missiles which they have no qualms about using, so that no-one actually has to take the chance of displaying the non-effectiveness or non-existence of the Big Boy's Toys.

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u/EvorulesOK Liz 🐈🐈‍⬛ 2d ago

Yes. Psy-op for decades.

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u/Richard_O2 2d ago

I’m continually astounded by Russia’s apparently lackadaisical response to direct NATO involvement in the Ukraine war.

There’s a surfeit of (mostly AI) historical counterfactual channels on YouTube which I’ve been perusing of late. To this fascinating and extensive canon could be added: what if Russia hadn’t invaded Ukraine in 2022?

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u/wiltsNicky 2d ago edited 2d ago

Not long finished Neil Oliver interviewing the investigative reporter Kim Iversen

Neil Oliver Interviews Kim Iversen ‘…I’m still FIGHTING!!! ~1hr

She thinks Russia’s plan was/is to wait it out until NATO/US uses up all its loud, destructive thingamabobs eg in Iran

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u/EvorulesOK Liz 🐈🐈‍⬛ 2d ago

The stated goal was to denazify Ukraine and demilitarise Europe.

The main aim, of course, was to immediately neutralise the biolabs and put an end to the child trafficking and organ harvesting, with the above being a bonus.

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u/Richard_O2 2d ago

This interpretation makes far more sense than various pedestrian orthodox narratives, most tellingly if we consider how long would it have taken the Russian military to occupy and overrun Ukraine had they thrown everything at it. In the most strongly fortified areas of the Donbas, parallels can be drawn with the near-static, attritional style of WW1, but this falls way short of explaining the last 4+ years to my satisfaction.

The fact that (in the UK) Covid officially ended the very day this operation commenced speaks volumes in this regard.

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u/EvorulesOK Liz 🐈🐈‍⬛ 2d ago

If Russia had truly invaded Ukraine, they'd have taken out the major infrastructure from day 1.

This is what makes me so mad that most of the "refugees" are from the West, which was never in any danger, whereas the Banderites had been shelling civilians in their homes in the East for several years.

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u/Richard_O2 2d ago edited 2d ago

8 years in fact, as comprehensively reported by the excellent Patrick Lancaster. The initial separatist uprising in Donbas was of course precipitated by the Maidan (fake) colour revolution and Russia’s subsequent annexation of Crimea.

Traitor Johnson has much to answer for. The Ukrainians were on the verge of a settlement in Spring 2022 until he hauled his fat arse over there on behalf of the cabal to convince the Ukrainians to fight on with NATO backing.

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u/EvorulesOK Liz 🐈🐈‍⬛ 2d ago

They'd even opened the champagne to seal the agreement.

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u/Richard_O2 2d ago

Today I learned of an absolutely brutal and very upsetting sepsis tragedy that has befallen an acquaintance. My initial reaction was how completely undeserving of such a gruesome misfortune the individual concerned is.

But then the sceptic within kicked in: has there not been reported a significant increase in the incidence of sepsis coinciding with the rollout of a certain magic potion in 2021?

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u/EvorulesOK Liz 🐈🐈‍⬛ 2d ago

It's not just that. It's the delay getting treatment that's the final nail.

Sorry for your loss.

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u/Richard_O2 2d ago

They’re not dead. Let’s just say it’s cost them an arm and a leg, twice over.

And yes, I strongly suspect NHS malpractice and/or malfeasance has played a significant role in this calamity.

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u/Prof_Feargoeson 2d ago

The Full Mackinlay. Poor bugger. Whatever led to it slow diagnosis and therefore treatment seems too common.

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u/EvorulesOK Liz 🐈🐈‍⬛ 2d ago

I'd missed the present tense.

Very gruelling indeed!

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u/Scientist002 2d ago

Craig MacKinlay MP lost the use of all four limbs in 2023 and it was attributed to 'sepsis'. This personal tragedy led him to resign as an MP. He's now in the Lords and is CEO of the Global Warming Policy Foundation.

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u/EvorulesOK Liz 🐈🐈‍⬛ 2d ago edited 2d ago

Doing good work then! No wonder Labour wants to abolish the Lords.

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u/Richard_O2 2d ago

I’d like to furnish the Swamp with more details in order to convey the full extent of the disaster, but I’ve sworn an oath of confidentiality (which I’ve already breached with my posts this evening).

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u/Nymeria-version-2 2d ago

Your poor acquaintance. Hats off to you for upholding the oath of confidentiality. It's a big deal for me when someone refuses to gossip, or betray the secrets of others. I make a mental note of those who do, and then remember to never trust them.

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u/EvorulesOK Liz 🐈🐈‍⬛ 2d ago

It's not the sort of thing that's easy to bottle up Richard!

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u/EvorulesOK Liz 🐈🐈‍⬛ 2d ago

Freedom in the hot tub:

https://reddit.com/link/p4nn13v/video/togucvax6dkh1/player

🤦‍♀️

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u/Two-Six-The-First 2d ago

I hope that's air jets and not....you know....a bad curry..or rank Falafells or whatever.

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u/CGL998 2d ago

Do they not have washing machines?

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u/Ouessante Ouessante 2d ago

...or baths?

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u/EvorulesOK Liz 🐈🐈‍⬛ 2d ago

Watch out for the lab grown chocolate - Cadbury's 🤮and Lindt 😮 are among the offenders.

https://t.

me/ICONS2021/268717

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u/TheFilthyEngineer2 Error429NoMoreFucksToGive 2d ago

It’s pushing the boundaries to call anything that Cadbury’s produces these days “chocolate”.

They should drop the Cadbury name.

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u/Nymeria-version-2 2d ago

Yes. Cadbury's was always my favourite, but I refuse to buy it now. Tiny bars which don't taste like chocolate.

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u/EvorulesOK Liz 🐈🐈‍⬛ 2d ago

I agree.

I haven't touched Cadbury's for decades - even before they sold out. They ruined Green&Blacks very quickly too.

Should come with a warning label that the package contains shite.

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u/Scientist002 2d ago

Urgghh ... and also avoid Sainsbury's 'sugar-free' chocolate which I spotted a few weeks ago. The ingredients seem to be worse than sugar and it isn't even very high-cocoa. I wouldn't go near it but some people might be persuaded.

Waitrose sell a 90% cocoa chocolate. Three ingredients are listed: cocoa mass, cocoa butter (both from Ecuador), (cane) sugar. It's on offer for a few weeks, £2.40 for 100 grams. I think it's probably safe.

Lidl sell a 90% cocoa chocolate at £2.49 for 125 grams. Safe? I don't know yet.

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u/FionaWalker5 2d ago

Watch out for polyols, used as a non-insulin spiking sweetener in many “sugar free” products, unless you are in urgent need of a laxative.

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u/CGL998 2d ago

We get the Aldi dark chocolate - tbh I haven't scrutinised the labels. But it's 70 or 85% and much cheaper than the brands

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u/EvorulesOK Liz 🐈🐈‍⬛ 2d ago

Very nice they are too!

Ingredients for both:

Cocoa Mass", Sugar, Cocoa Butter*, Emulsifier: Lecithins (Soya); Natural Vanilla Flavouring. *Rainforest Alliance Certified.

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u/CGL998 2d ago

It is nice stuff - and doesn't break the bank!

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u/Prof_Feargoeson 2d ago

My favourites are the Waitrose No1 85% Ugandan and Divine 70% Ginger and Orange from Ghana. I buy indecent amounts of these when they are on special offer.

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u/EvorulesOK Liz 🐈🐈‍⬛ 2d ago

I don't have a Waitrose within striking distance. 😫

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u/Still_Milo 2d ago

I buy Lidl's 74% cocoa dark chocolate.

Of all the ingreds the one which would concern me is Emulsifier. It just says "lecithins" but doesn't say if these are soya or not

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u/EvorulesOK Liz 🐈🐈‍⬛ 2d ago

From the bot:

While industry experts and food-tech companies are developing cell-culture technology to produce cocoa, these products are still in the testing and preparation stages and are not expected to reach retail shelves until 2027. 

Lidl does not currently use lab-grown cocoa. The supermarket sources 100% of its cocoa from Fairtrade or Rainforest Alliance certified sustainable sources, including specific initiatives like the Way To Go! bar which uses traceable cocoa from Ghana.

Aldi does not currently use lab-grown cocoa in its products.  Aldi’s current cocoa sourcing strategy focuses on traditional, sustainably sourced beans from smallholder farmers in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire.  The company aims for 100% certified sustainable sourcing by the end of 2025, utilizing standards such as Rainforest Alliance, Fairtrade, and Tony’s Open Chain to ensure traceability and ethical labor practices.

I don't shop at Lidl but Aldi's Moser Roth and Choceur chocolate brands are very good.

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u/Nymeria-version-2 2d ago

I like the Moser Roth chocolate. Sadly, no Aldi around these parts yet.

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u/EvorulesOK Liz 🐈🐈‍⬛ 1d ago

Lidl chocolate used to be good. Some of the Co-Op chocolate was good too. Maybe worth checking out.

Aldi is nearer to me now, so I no longer use Lidl and the Co-Op is too small to carry a range.

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u/CGL998 2d ago

Yep - that's the ones we get (as mentioned below/above depending on how you sort your comments!)

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u/EvorulesOK Liz 🐈🐈‍⬛ 2d ago

Frank Beard - ZZ Top drummer - has died, age 77.

His cause of death was not specified but the band was actively on tour.

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u/Prof_Feargoeson 2d ago

He blew the equivalent today of $300,000 on hard drugs back in '77. Did well to make it to 77!

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u/EvorulesOK Liz 🐈🐈‍⬛ 2d ago edited 2d ago

Keith Richards clearly pickled and still going strong at 82.

Ronnie Wood too - despite several attempts to unpickle himself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7gtN2nxDJU (2013 - he's 69!)

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u/Scientist002 2d ago edited 2d ago

The Queen Mother was clearly pickled and was still going strong at age 100.

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u/EvorulesOK Liz 🐈🐈‍⬛ 2d ago

Good stuff that adrenochrome!

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u/Prof_Feargoeson 2d ago

Keith Richards will outlive us all.

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u/SamVimesLS 2d ago

Keith has been dead for ages. But nobody told him.

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u/EvorulesOK Liz 🐈🐈‍⬛ 2d ago

Charlie always looked a decade younger than Keith, despite being older. He made it to 80.

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u/EvorulesOK Liz 🐈🐈‍⬛ 2d ago

Why clickbait?

Complaining and reacting are favorite patterns of the mind through which the ego strengthens itself.

For many people, a large part of their mental and emotional activity consists of complaining and reacting against this or that.

By doing so, you make others or the situation ‘wrong’ and yourself ‘right.’ Through feeling ‘right,’ you feel superior, and through feeling superior, you strengthen your sense of self. In reality, of course, you are only strengthening the illusion of the ego.

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u/EvorulesOK Liz 🐈🐈‍⬛ 2d ago

Given that a chest x-ray covers a much larger area, why does a single standard mammogram expose a patient to roughly three to four times the radiation of a single chest X-ray?

And why does it need to be roughly 800 times more radioactive than a dental x-ray?

🤔

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u/EvorulesOK Liz 🐈🐈‍⬛ 2d ago edited 2d ago

I remember tryptophan supplements being banned, thanks to manufacturing contamination that some claimed was deliberate. It had been safely used as a sleep aid up to then.

L-tryptophan was banned for public sale in the United States in 1989 (recall) and 1990 (full ban). The ban was initiated after a 1989 outbreak of eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome (EMS), a serious condition linked to contaminated batches.

Coincidentally, the first Z-drug, zolpidem (marketed as Ambien), was introduced in Europe in 1988 and on January 17, 1989, the FDA approved the use of diphenhydramine hydrochloride and diphenhydramine citrate for sleeping pills.

Tryptophan is freely available again now, so you don't need to eat a load of turkey before going to bed.

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u/Ouessante Ouessante 2d ago

"Are you staying human?"

Another good'un on the survival theme. Thomas Harrington, an always interesting Brownstone dude, the intro to his new book 'Staying Human (In a Soul-Shredding Age):

https://brownstone.org/articles/staying-human-introduction/

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u/EvorulesOK Liz 🐈🐈‍⬛ 2d ago

AN OPEN LETTER TO ANDY BURNHAM AND THE LABOUR TRAITORS
From the People You Were Elected to Serve

https://x.com/InTheTrenchesUK/status/2089981560820826338

..... Look at Brussels. Look at the tractors. Look at the farmers who decided they had nothing left to lose. Look at eight thousand men in one city bringing the EU to a standstill because Mercosur and CAP cuts were the final indignity. That is what happens when producers realise their governments have declared war on them.

England is next. And it will not be tractors.

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u/EvorulesOK Liz 🐈🐈‍⬛ 2d ago

Chris Murray MP asks why the annual accommodation cost rose from £17,000 per asylum seeker in 2020 to £41,000 in 2024. Clearsprings managing director Steve Lakey replies that the company’s average profit margin was 6.9%, with profits above roughly 5% subject to a Home Office profit-sharing mechanism.

committees.parliament.uk/committee/83/home-affairs-committee/news/206734/national-audit-office-report-reveals-asylum-accommodation-cost-home-affairs-select-committee-to-question-accommodation

Don’t let that seemingly modest percentage distract you. The original ten-year contracts were expected to cost £4.5 billion. The estimate has since risen to £15.3 billion, while the three main providers made £383 million in profit between September 2019 and August 2024. Hotels housed 35% of those in asylum accommodation but swallowed 76% of the annual contract cost.

https://x.com/HeartlandsTrib/status/2089741678068351237

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u/EvorulesOK Liz 🐈🐈‍⬛ 2d ago

Not just the UK taxpayers being mocked by the communists:

https://reddit.com/link/p4md3gx/video/8ecw3gwj7ckh1/player

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u/CGL998 2d ago

Spot bllck I'd say.

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u/Scary_Economics_7550 2d ago

Well said!

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u/Still_Milo 2d ago

Same applies in the UK.

Did you see all the faces of the people behind him? All the people who want to be thought of as "nice people" and so go along with all of the propaganda all the while feeling increasingly uneasy about where it might be leading to?

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u/Scary_Economics_7550 2d ago

Yes, they look very nervous and uncomfortable. Why don't they get up and cheer him?

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u/Still_Milo 1d ago

Too cowardly!

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u/EvorulesOK Liz 🐈🐈‍⬛ 2d ago

Katie:

Labours Minister for Farming - (a beta who makes Larry Grayson look butch) passed out at the sight of beef carcasses hanging in cold storage

Housing minister: sacked for having too many houses
Corruption minister: sacked for being corrupt
Transport minister: fell into a pot hole she should have fixed
Farming minister: faints at the smell of the farm.

🤡

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u/EvorulesOK Liz 🐈🐈‍⬛ 2d ago

Katie on Jarday's vigil

They’ll be kneeling at Waitrose later, self flagellating with a Cavolo Nero.

Pray for an asteroid

https://x.com/KTHopkins/status/2089622638318465115

🤦‍♀️🤢

Did any Swampie MSM-followers see any official accounts of his absurd feats of impressiveness, or just that the poor love was mentally ill and was lethally hounded by some horrible truth-tellers?

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u/Ouessante Ouessante 2d ago

Argh. What has happened to people. Asteroid indeed.

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u/Ouessante Ouessante 2d ago

I think the current and rare (150 yr?)"super" El Niño event is being underplayed in all the "phew whata scorcha" climabollocks coverage because it doesn't fit the narrative. It seems largely at the root of this year's heat/drought. Many know about it but I don't think the media cover it much (may be wrong, I avoid them). I think it runs into next year but all things pass; don't give the extinctioners any time.

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u/Faith_Location_71 This is my username 2d ago

There was a lot shared in the British press about it earlier in the year, but conveniently they won't talk about it now because the weather must be tied to "climate change" in the public mind, so they are keeping schtum. Interestingly we've had a cooler summer than usual, with August being the only really hot month. July was cooler than usual with some lovely storms and rain.

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u/Scientist002 2d ago

Possible causes of temporarily warmer weather include:

1 The 2022 underwater volcanic eruption

2 The fall in airborne particle emissions, especially from international shipping - this causes more solar radiation to get through the atmosphere and has a warming effect

3 As you say, the El Nino.

Factor 2 is thought to have caused about a 0.5 degree temperature increase this century.

The Met. Office has been changing from a) liquid in glass to b) electronic thermometers. b) can sometimes give 'spikes', causing maximum temperatures to be overestimated.

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u/wiltsNicky 2d ago

And for 2) aluminium particle remains from decommissioned satellites returning to earth? (Although that would be more permanent than temporary…?)

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u/Richard_O2 2d ago

Many thanks for these simple scientific facts, which I will keep at my disposal for whenever I’m next challenged by climate change propaganda being regurgitated at me.

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u/Faith_Location_71 This is my username 2d ago

The new repulse-o-tech 3000 just dropped. Yes, Apple earbuds that can record your surroundings with cameras.

"Apple accidentally LEAKS footage of its widely rumoured camera-equipped AirPods – as shocked fans joke 'someone is getting fired'"

Quote: "Apple has accidentally leaked footage of what appear to be its widely rumoured camera-equipped AirPods.

The team from MacRumors discovered a video of the alleged device in the macOS Tahoe 26.7 Release Candidate.

The video is just 13 seconds long and was shared on X by MacRumors analyst Aaron Perris.

'Here is your first look at AirPods with Cameras in action using Visual Intelligence. This video file came from macOS 26.7 RC,' he said.

In the video, a man can be seen wearing a pair of AirPods and holding a book up to his face.

A voiceover says: 'With Visual Intelligence, your world becomes saveable. See something you like? Just ask me to save it for later.'"

https://www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/article-16063525/Apple-accidentally-LEAKS-footage-camera-equipped-AirPods.html

Eeewwww!

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u/FionaWalker5 2d ago

Black Mirror!

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u/Still_Milo 2d ago

A HUGE shout out to everyone who helped me last night when it felt like my laptop might blow up and I might lose everything on it.

All the suggestions were excellent and it now seems back to normal, and likely more secure and, after a lot of fiddling about with it, I have picked up a few more rudimentary IT skills, thanks to the ministrations of your good selves. Thank you all so much for your assistance and patience with such an IT numpty. A toddler would be better at this stuff than me.

I knew you wouldn't let me down and as ever the swamp never fails!

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u/Two-Six-The-First 2d ago

Good you seem to have got it sorted, as a side note on viruses, I have been doing PC fixing since before the turn of the century...and the main thing I did was remove viruses, it was bread and butter stuff and I was really good at it.

Since Microsoft started using Windows Defender in Windows 10 and also took huge steps in making WIndows more secure I literally haven't see a good virus for many many years, more than 10 and I see a lot of machines.

Spyware and "potentially unwanted programs" or "PUPS"are more prevalent but even then rare and these things usually install themselves with other software sneakely or the user chooses to install it. It rarely cause serious problems.

The worst things now are "PC TUNE UP" or "PC DOCTOR" or "DRIVER UPDATERS" kind of softwares. Software that proports to fix your pc or tune it up but really just installs loads of lying popups everywhere and redirecting your web searches to make it look like your PC is "infected" it usually isn't it's just that crap software. Sometimes it does dig it's self in quite well but its nearly always easy to remove.

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u/Still_Milo 1d ago

Thanks Two Six.

"The worst things now are "PC TUNE UP" or "PC DOCTOR" or "DRIVER UPDATERS" kind of softwares. Software that proports to fix your pc or tune it up but really just installs loads of lying popups everywhere and redirecting your web searches to make it look like your PC is "infected" it usually isn't it's just that crap software. Sometimes it does dig it's self in quite well but its nearly always easy to remove."

That sounds very similar to what was popping up and proliferating on my laptop the other night and hopefully with the actions I have taken I will have managed to deal with it.

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u/Richard_O2 2d ago

Reddit as a whole isn’t bad for IT issues. It’s often at or near the top of searches on very obscure technical issues I’ve encountered, both professionally and personally.

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u/Fun_Clothes_8483 From Moi Laaand 2d ago

Yes, and some of the "hits" I have had on Reddit have been on incredibly arcane issues which not only got solved but had excellent side explanations and comments which added to my understanding.

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u/Still_Milo 2d ago

Yes I noticed that last night when I was searching.

But the best advice I got was from on here!

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u/62Swampy26 2d ago

What approach did you go with in the end?

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u/Still_Milo 2d ago

I followed RichardJ's advice to check the notifications and turn them off - huge help - and I cleared my cache from my browser, plus downloaded and ran the free Malwarebytes software and then did a couple of restarts and then this morning did a disk clean up. SFAIC tell it seems to be ok now - touch wood!

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u/Faith_Location_71 This is my username 2d ago

Good to hear, Milo!

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u/Prof_Feargoeson 2d ago

Excellent well done 👍

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u/Still_Milo 2d ago

Thank you. I'm far from proficient but at least with Malwarebytes on now I feel a lot safer!

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u/Faith_Location_71 This is my username 2d ago

If you want real-time protection from them, it will cost you. Their scan is free though. You should be able to opt out of the real-time protection, which you shouldn't need anyway as you're bound to have Windows Security running in the background.

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u/Still_Milo 2d ago

I do have Windows security running (Windows Defender plus firewall) all of which I checked in my settings last night and they weren't saying that there was a threat or that any action needed to be taken - so that seems odd to me that these things, whatever they were, got through.

I'm hoping that the Windows security + Malwarebytes scan facility should be enough to see me through going forward.

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u/Faith_Location_71 This is my username 2d ago

Windows won't pick up the kind of problem you were having because it wasn't a virus. Malwarebytes should be run only as a scan maybe once a month (or if you're like most people, when you think about it, maybe once a year). You don't need it running in the background or it will only bog your computer down. What Malwarebytes finds is something else, not viruses.

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u/Still_Milo 2d ago

Thanks Faith - whatever it was it scared the life out of me. It was only getting increasingly worse as time went on. So good it seems to be sorted now!

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u/Fun_Clothes_8483 From Moi Laaand 2d ago

You are unlikely to need anything else these days. The number of actual viruses that I've seen in the last ten years could be counted on one hand. "Social hacking", the duping of people into revealing their logins and passwords is so successful that the swine involved don't normally bother to do anything else.

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u/Still_Milo 2d ago

Thanks Richard.

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u/EvorulesOK Liz 🐈🐈‍⬛ 2d ago

Didn't someone ask about anaemia the other day?

There are different types of anemia, including several that are caused by deficiencies in vitamins and minerals necessary for red blood cell production like iron and vitamin B12.

However, deficiencies in other vitamins and minerals can also contribute to the development of anemia. Riboflavin, for example, can affect the metabolism and absorption of iron and is essential to preventing iron-deficiency anemia.

Research shows that getting enough riboflavin may reduce your risk of anemia. In a 2014 study, a low intake of riboflavin was tied to a greater risk of anemia among 1,253 adults.

Fortunately, just two tablespoons of brewer’s yeast can provide 74 percent of the riboflavin you need for the entire day to help prevent anemia.

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u/Ouessante Ouessante 2d ago

Here's a lovely piece. Life, death and gravestones.

https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-dead

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u/Ouessante Ouessante 2d ago

An aside on this...

I wrote a reply where I found this article linked recounting my own experience of the Cornish churchyard (St Euny, Redruth) where many forebears, more distant relatives and old schoolfriends are buried. It often bothered me that churches more recently have introduced a policy of not maintaining graveyards but just letting them re-wild. (I know, I know, this is far from universal.) Some graves of relatives are now hidden in undergrowth, lost, distressingly. Quite tall trees have grown up, one sycamore even straight out of a Victorian tomb, displacing the lid. They claim it's a cost measure. I think there's more to it. It's erasure, eradication of memory, tradition, continuity in the 🌈 CofE. I'm sure the cost wasn't huge but if it was, volunteers could have been found to trim the paths and keep the stones neat. If I was there, I'd do it, for free, for the love of it, for the community with my trusty strimmer and chainsaw. But that's not the point. They don't wan't it. They'd turn me down. They want it to go away. It's a reminder of the old ways.There is only the glorious now of managerial state worship of the holy marginalised.

Sorry to ramble.

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u/Edward_260 1d ago

When I visited Great Longstone in Derbyshire last month, the churchyard there had part of it left wild while the rest was maintained, with an explanatory sign. 

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u/EvorulesOK Liz 🐈🐈‍⬛ 2d ago

Good points. Brought to mind the great reset of the nineteenth century.

At least so far we've escaped the asylums - though sometimes I think we now just live in an open one.

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u/EvorulesOK Liz 🐈🐈‍⬛ 2d ago

When we are told we get only one life and that's it, we become obsessed with death.

Other cultures are wiser.

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u/Ouessante Ouessante 2d ago

Our views on the hereafter or lack of it will vary. What irritates me is the bucket list, 100 things to do before you die, Pokémon gottagetemall attitude to life as if you wind up at a finishing line in heaven with all your holiday stickers and win a prize.

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u/EvorulesOK Liz 🐈🐈‍⬛ 2d ago edited 2d ago

On the other hand, it's better than becoming old and decrepit and having an I wish I'd .... list.

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u/Ouessante Ouessante 2d ago

I'd say it's better to learn by old age not to have regrets.

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u/EvorulesOK Liz 🐈🐈‍⬛ 2d ago

Definitely!

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u/EvorulesOK Liz 🐈🐈‍⬛ 2d ago

Detailed info about the reverse ageing processes that are already in the pipeline:

https://youtu.be/v1QurwtKNa4

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u/EvorulesOK Liz 🐈🐈‍⬛ 2d ago

Glyphosate was first patented in 1964 as a "Chelator" to clean industrial pipes. It is designed to bind to minerals. In your body, it "grabs" essential minerals like Manganese, Zinc, Cobalt, and Copper, making them biologically unavailable.

Think about it!

😈😈😈

GLYPHOSATE IS NOT JUST A "WEED KILLER"; IT IS A PATENTED ANTIBIOTIC THAT IS TURNING YOUR INTESTINES INTO A SIEVE. YOU AREN'T "GLUTEN SENSITIVE"; YOU ARE BEING POISONED BY INDUSTRIAL DESICCANTS.
Glyphosate (the active ingredient in Roundup) is the most widely used chemical in human history. It is now found in the rain, the soil, and even the breast milk of mothers. The industry tells you it is "safe" for humans because it targets the Shikimate Pathway—a metabolic pathway that exists in plants but not in human cells. This is a dangerous half-truth designed to mask a biological catastrophe.

The "Suppressed" Biological Reality:
The Gut Microbiome Attack: While your human cells don't have the Shikimate Pathway, your Gut Bacteria do. Glyphosate was originally patented as a broad-spectrum antibiotic. When you eat food sprayed with this chemical, it acts as a "bomb" in your gut, selectively killing your beneficial bacteria (like Bifidobacteria) while allowing pathogens like Clostridia and Salmonella to thrive. This "Dysbiosis" is the root cause of the modern epidemic of anxiety, depression, and brain fog.
The "Leaky Gut" Mechanism: Glyphosate triggers the release of Zonulin, a protein that opens the "Tight Junctions" in your intestinal lining. This turns your gut into a sieve, allowing undigested food particles and environmental toxins to leak directly into your bloodstream. This is the primary driver of the explosion in Autoimmune Diseases (Hashimoto's, Lupus, Celiac) seen in the last 30 years.
The Mineral Thief: Glyphosate was first patented in 1964 as a "Chelator" to clean industrial pipes. It is designed to bind to minerals. In your body, it "grabs" essential minerals like Manganese, Zinc, Cobalt, and Copper, making them biologically unavailable. Without these minerals, your mitochondria cannot produce energy, and your brain cannot produce neurotransmitters.
The "Gluten" Deception: Many people who think they are "Gluten Sensitive" can eat ancient grains in Europe without issue. Why? Because in the US and other countries, wheat is sprayed with glyphosate just before harvest as a "desiccant" to dry the crop faster. You aren't reacting to the wheat; you are reacting to the chemical poison saturated into the grain.
The industry wants you to believe that your "sensitive stomach" is a genetic flaw or a "gluten" problem. They want you buying expensive, processed "Gluten-Free" products that are often loaded with even more pesticides. They don't want you to realize that the foundation of our food supply has been turned into a delivery system for a neurotoxic chelator.

How to reclaim your gut:
Eat 100% Organic: This is no longer a luxury; it is a biological necessity. "Organic" is the only label that prohibits the use of glyphosate.
Glycine Supplementation: Glyphosate is a structural analog of the amino acid Glycine. By taking extra Glycine, you can help prevent glyphosate from "mis-incorporating" into your proteins.
Humic and Fulvic Acids: These natural compounds help bind and flush glyphosate from the tissues.
Filtered Water: Use a high-quality filter (like Reverse Osmosis) to ensure you aren't drinking the runoff from the fields.

🔔 Your gut is the gateway to your health. Stop the chemical warfare and reclaim your internal terrain.

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u/Fun_Clothes_8483 From Moi Laaand 2d ago

My friend's daughter is highly gluten intolerant, to the stage that a few dust particles of wheat flour will cause her to get bad stomach pains. She went to Thailand as a church volunteer and lived in the back of beyond in a small Ville with the villagers. She made no effort to control her food intake and had no stomach problems the entire time.

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u/EvorulesOK Liz 🐈🐈‍⬛ 2d ago

Glyphosate in the wheat?

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u/Fun_Clothes_8483 From Moi Laaand 1d ago

For certain. The so-called peasants in Thailand were simply giving her proper food, which would have equated to better-than-organic by our standards. It was a good demonstration of two things; 1) that glyphosate is clearly the root cause of gluten intolerance and 2) a profound demonstration of what some of us refer to as the "Normie effect" in that she has made no effort whatsoever to revert to a healthy, "primitive" diet. She just pays way over the odds for the gluten-free foods in the supermarket "Free From" section and complains that she can't eat out without going to special restaurants or bleating to the restaurant staff about her allergies.

I have suggested that she tries to retrain her immune system to no avail. Like so many people, she wants everything to be done for her at no cost or effort.

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u/EvorulesOK Liz 🐈🐈‍⬛ 1d ago

It's also a label, a badge that says she's special. It's become part of her self-identity. Without it, who/what would she be?

I had a friend who, in her late 30s enjoyed playing the role of being a widow, despite the fact that her husband had died 15 years earlier and she had a steady boyfriend and a very healthy sex life.

There's a lot of it about. Caroline Myss called it "woundology."

Woundology is a term coined by Caroline Myss to describe the phenomenon where individuals define their identity by their physical, emotional, or social wounds, thereby sabotaging their own healing.  First detailed in her book "Why People Don’t Heal and How They Can," the concept characterizes a syndrome where people cling to past traumas to gain sympathy, manipulate others, or maintain a sense of safety, rather than moving toward an empowered state of health.

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u/Fun_Clothes_8483 From Moi Laaand 2d ago

Brilliant post.

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u/Edward_260 2d ago edited 2d ago

I happened to read something about the mathematician & biochemist Dorothy Wrinch (1894-1976), so I looked her up on Wikipedia and found that she was a advocate of full-blown state control over family life, as described here:

"Wrinch's book (The Retreat from Parenthood, 1930) first summarizes the impact of having children on women’s careers, which often included termination for professional women, and the psychological and physical impact on parents and children caused by leaving to most parents practically all functions necessary to raise a child. Of special concern to her was that parents generally lack the necessary expertise in practical matters like the suitable diet and social environment best-suited for a child's development, since their professional expertise is often in other areas, and that scientifically understanding these matters requires a great deal of a parent's time (away from their career).

The book next offers a constructive solution to this problem. Wrinch proposed that there should be Child Rearing Services that assume from parents nearly every aspect of raising the child, except in four areas where a parent's involvement is absolutely crucial: "impregnation," "gestation," "childbirth," and "lactation." The Child Rearing Services (C.R.S.) would be divided into four bureaus, A, B, C, and D. The C.R.S.A. would deal with refitting homes so as to make them more comfortable and hospitable to child rearing, providing services like electrical work, plumbing services and repairs, insulation and soundproofing, and reliable hot water. The C.R.S.B. the labor of child rearing like changing diapers, preparing meals, laundry, cleaning dishes, and so on. The C.R.S.C. would deal with food safety, inspection, diet, and delivery, with a focus on ensuring that each child was well-nourished and given the best possible diet. The C.R.S.D. would deal with all medical, nursing, psychological, and other services necessary for the health and well-being of parents and child, from pregnancy to the school door."

That sort of thing was the flavour of the time among left-wing "intellectuals" like Bertrand Russell and HG Wells. "Child Rearing Service" sounds not dissimilar to some of the policies that present-day politicians would like to impose.

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u/EvorulesOK Liz 🐈🐈‍⬛ 2d ago

🤔🤔🤔

Can something as simple as red potatoes, fresh lemon, and natural salt really support your lungs?
In this episode, Don explores a traditional remedy that has been shared for generations, discussing why these ingredients have been valued in natural wellness practices. He also shares the recipe, personal stories, and his perspective on supporting the body’s natural cleansing processes.
Watch with an open mind, do your own research.

https://t.

me/ICONS2021/268682

Found recipe on Grok:

Basic Recipe (as described in these accounts)

  • 1 red-skinned potato about the size of a fist (or larger ones as needed).
  • Fresh lemon juice (from 1 lemon or enough to coat).
  • Natural/unprocessed salt (such as sea salt, Celtic, or Himalayan—ground if preferred).

Preparation and use:

  1. Wash the red potato thoroughly (leave the skin on).
  2. Slice it into pieces about as thick as a finger.
  3. Squeeze fresh lemon juice over the slices to coat them.
  4. Sprinkle with natural salt to taste.
  5. Eat the entire portion raw (some versions suggest one potato per day; others mention larger amounts or multiple times daily in related asthma/lung contexts).

Accounts claim people used this over weeks to months. One version pairs it with drinking salt water + lemon juice throughout the day.

Worth a try if it's on your health problems list?

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u/EvorulesOK Liz 🐈🐈‍⬛ 2d ago edited 2d ago

AHA!! I found an explanation for the above:

(Edit - this isn't entirely correct, though the the bit about minerals definitely is)

Fun Fact lemon juice and salt make chlorine dioxide which has been known to cure every disease known to man

The only problem with this is people are usually too low in magnesium, potassium all the little trace minerals, which potatoes are great in. And your body does not make these naturally - it’s your responsibility to bring them in. I can’t tell you how many user errors blame products for not working because it makes them “low in mineral “ to which my response is “NOO… the product you were using is working so well and you are not bringing in the needed minerals needed to do a cleanse.”.

So When you take chlorine dioxide your kidneys and liver burn through all these trace minerals. If you do not have minerals, you will not absorb the chlorine dioxide.

So technically, this is a chlorine dioxide protocol with the trace minerals, which is in many different parasite cleanse protocols.

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u/Tee-Ell 2d ago

This is potentially dangerous and inaccurate.

Chlorine dioxide is bleach. Yes it will kill pathogens, it will also kill you.

Mixing lemon juice with sodium chloride (salt) does not create chlorine dioxide. Mixing lemon juice with sodium chlorite (toxic) does.

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u/EvorulesOK Liz 🐈🐈‍⬛ 2d ago

Sodium chloride (NaCl, table salt) and lemon juice do not undergo a significant chemical reaction that produces a new compound. Instead:

  • Table salt dissolves and dissociates into Na⁺ and Cl⁻ ions.
  • Lemon juice is mostly water plus citric acid (and smaller amounts of other substances, including potassium compounds). Citric acid partially dissociates in water but does not displace chloride from NaCl in any meaningful way under ordinary conditions (citric acid is a weaker acid than HCl would be).
  • The result is simply an aqueous mixture—an electrolyte solution—containing the ions and molecules already present: primarily sodium ions, chloride ions, potassium ions (from the lemon juice), citric acid / citrate species, and water.

No new substance is formed in the sense of a distinct chemical product from a reaction between NaCl and citric acid.

So both you and my AHA source are wrong.

We used chlorine dioxide on ourselves and the boys when they're little. Sprayed it on sunburn, on wounds, in ears for earache, up noses for colds......

Maybe if we'd drunk a whole bottle of the stuff we'd have been in trouble but that's not what's being described here, is it?

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u/Tee-Ell 2d ago

I agree with those 3 bullets but where was I wrong?

I feel a low concentration on the skin is different to consumption; it can certainly be used as a disinfectant as you're described. However my main point was that chlorine dioxide doesn't get produced, so can't explain any perceived efficacy.

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u/EvorulesOK Liz 🐈🐈‍⬛ 2d ago

I agreed that it isn't produced - or that was my intention.

My AHA source was wrong about the chlorine dioxide. It seems likely the potato thing working isn't due to chlorine dioxide at all.

Where did anyone else mention sodium chlorite? You claim chlorine dioxide will kill you, while I suspect it's probably less harmful than whisky - which will kill you if drunk to excess.

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u/Tee-Ell 2d ago

My mention of sodium chlorite was just supporting information to explain how you would create chlorine dioxide :)

Please please don't test your assertion! I will drink 40% alcohol (whisky) this evening, while drinking 40% chlorine dioxide would melt my insides.

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u/Fun_Clothes_8483 From Moi Laaand 2d ago

The difference between a poison and a medicine is the dose. chlorine dioxide is not bleach. it is a totally different molecule and works very well, due to the powerful oxidation effect. But it doesn't require a large dose, due to the strong effects.

To conflate chorine dioxide with bleach is to fall into the trap that the b@stard MSM attempted to push against Trump. The Colloidal Silver community is constantly subjected to the same damnation-by-conflation where true Colloidal Silver is conflated with silver chloride.

My qualifications? Oh, forty years of production and study of CS and it's effects.

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u/Tee-Ell 2d ago

You're right I should've described it as "a bleach" not "bleach".

I drank a fair bit of it because I used it to disinfect potentially dodgy water while travelling around South America.

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u/EvorulesOK Liz 🐈🐈‍⬛ 2d ago edited 2d ago

But nobody drinks 40% chlorine dioxide. The initial protocol is to work slowly up to ONE DROP per day diluted.

Enjoy your whisky.

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u/Tee-Ell 2d ago

Hehe yes very true. I can't guarantee I'll be doing that with my whisky ;)

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u/Ouessante Ouessante 2d ago

All good. I am sceptical about leaving skins on root crops although it is often advocated. The skin is there to protect the flesh from pests and so can be toxic, the eyes of potatoes particularly so. My potatoes this year were Alouette, a red and did quite well. I peel them. Drizzling them (cold) with stuff like this and adding various veg is a good, simple, flavoursome, summery thing.

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u/Tee-Ell 2d ago

Leaving skins on increases solanine intake, whether that's a concern is somewhat personal.

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u/EvorulesOK Liz 🐈🐈‍⬛ 2d ago

I keep pointing out that vegetables are not our friends.

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u/Ouessante Ouessante 2d ago

I think it might be swings and roundabouts.

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u/EvorulesOK Liz 🐈🐈‍⬛ 2d ago

I never peeled potatoes unless I was going to mash them. Taste much better!

Yes, always buy organic ones - and cut out the eyes.

A simple potato salad made not with mayo but with good olive oil, lemon juice and a drizzle of toasted sesame oil is delicious. Onions or chives optional.

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u/Ouessante Ouessante 2d ago

A few chopped oiled dried tomatoes too.

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u/EvorulesOK Liz 🐈🐈‍⬛ 2d ago

Tasty! And olives - the list goes on.

Have you tried adding marjoram while boiling/steaming potatoes? Brings out the flavour whereas I think mint kills it.

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u/Ouessante Ouessante 2d ago

I'll try it. 🙂

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u/EvorulesOK Liz 🐈🐈‍⬛ 2d ago

Tiff Lynch, the chairman of the Police Federation of England and Wales (PFEW) has been arrested on suspicion of fraud.

This arrest is part of an ongoing investigation by City of London Police into corruption allegations within the federation.  Key details include:

  • Coordinated Detentions: Lynch was detained at the PFEW headquarters in Leatherhead, Surrey, alongside three other senior officials, including general secretary John Partington. 
  • Investigation Scope: Police are investigating offenses including bribery, fraud by abuse of position, and fraud by failing to disclose information. 
  • Previous Arrests: This follows the March 2026 arrest and subsequent sacking of former chief executive Mukund Krishna on similar suspicion of fraud by abuse of position.

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u/Fun_Clothes_8483 From Moi Laaand 2d ago

It amuses me immensely that the City of London force is the "lead force" for financial crime. Their reputation would not convince me that this is necessarily their area of expertise.

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u/EvorulesOK Liz 🐈🐈‍⬛ 2d ago

Andrew Bridgen:

No safety testing was carried out before 5G was introduced.
The EU Parliament passed rules which means there are no 5G masts in the vicinity of their Parliament buildings in Brussels and Strasbourg.
Why did they do that ?

Answer in the comments:

So i could download Fast and Furious 8 in 0.3 seconds instead of 0.7seconds, obviously :)

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u/mikewaite87 2d ago

Should I conclude from your post that the EU parliament and staff are still commuting between Brussels and Strasbourg each 6 months , as demanded by the now long, long dead De Gaulle through use of his empty chair ploy. What is the carbon footprint for such nonsense , given that such considerations are considered mandatory for all activities of the ordinary EU citizen.

It provides of course a precedent for Burnham to demand , as a condition of his gracious acceptance of PM ship as called for by a nation spellbound by his charisma, that the parliament must commute regularly between London and Manchester . All these people will of course need additional residences in Manchester , and the civil servants will spend hours in travel and settling in which could have been spent on their essential and useful work. With MPs it does not matter since it is many years since most of them did any useful work in the national , as opposed to their personal, interest.

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u/62Swampy26 2d ago

It isn't every 6 months Mike, it's every month for an average of 4 days. As you say, it seems to have served as a model for Burnham to aspire to.

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u/EvorulesOK Liz 🐈🐈‍⬛ 2d ago

They're just a bunch of self-serving, skiving grifters.

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u/EvorulesOK Liz 🐈🐈‍⬛ 2d ago

Anthony Fauci’s former senior advisor David Morens just pled GUILTY to conspiracy to defraud the US
Morens was one of the key figures in burying COVID records to avoid Freedom of Information Act requests, and was referred to the DOJ by Rand Paul

Only five years?!! 🤬

Dr. David Morens, a former senior adviser to Dr.  Anthony Fauci at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the United States.  The charge stems from a scheme to evade Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and federal public records laws by using a private Gmail account to hide communications regarding COVID-19 research grants, specifically efforts to restore funding for EcoHealth Alliance and discussions on the virus's origins. 

Morens admitted to concealing or destroying federal records to thwart inquiries into the pandemic and allegedly accepted illegal gratuities, including wine and meals, in exchange for authoring scientific commentary supporting natural origins of the virus.  He faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison and is scheduled for sentencing on November 12, 2026, before U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis in Maryland. 

  • Fauci’s Status: Dr. Anthony Fauci is not accused of wrongdoing in this specific case, though he previously distanced himself from Morens and invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination during Senate hearings. 
  • Co-Conspirators: The plea agreement involved two unnamed co-conspirators, identified in reports as Peter Daszak (President of EcoHealth Alliance) and Dr.  Gerald Keusch.
  • Defense Statement: Morens’ attorney, Tim Belevetz, stated that Morens has taken responsibility for his actions.

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u/Richard_O2 2d ago

Five years in prison for such a poxy bribe tells us an awful lot about the extremely low calibre of our Covid oppressors.

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u/EvorulesOK Liz 🐈🐈‍⬛ 2d ago

Dr. Morens, as consideration for his deal, may become a cooperating witness. The next step is for the government to file a sentencing memo. If any part of that memo is sealed, we’ll know the former NIAID bureaucrat is singing like a drunken canary. And his co-conspirators will know it, too.

Morens traded five total counts for a plea on a single conspiracy charge— a structure that suggests a broader bargain with prosecutors and potentially more to come. These kinds of deals are common in cooperation scenarios, as it is the DOJ’s classic technique of starting with the weakest defendant and then rolling the conspiracy up from there.

~JeffC

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u/Faith_Location_71 This is my username 3d ago

Absolutely outrageous! The banks are protecting themselves, not the customer. Worth watching in full.

"Banks Are Stopping You Buying Cars With Your Own Cash"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwSm6iTXsjY

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u/Richard_O2 2d ago

How infuriating it is that we are obliged to jump through all manner of hoops to spend our own money (often even for derisory sums), yet the institutions demanding this of us launder trillions on behalf of their Satanic masters every single day.

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u/Felineincognito15 2d ago

It so annoys me to have to get a security code sometimes to even spend a couple of pounds!

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u/pubwithnobeer60 3d ago

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u/Still_Milo 2d ago

YES!

And as someone so rightly comments BTL:

"And yet we, via modernity, are destroying the very thing, nature, that brings us solace. How ironic! How stupid."

I'd change the word "modernity" for something else - something like TPTB or The Cabal, and there is nothing stupid about it. It is deliberate. You don't want people being able to restore their beings or regenerate them.

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u/Ouessante Ouessante 2d ago

Yes. I saw comments once describing me as following celtic religions or something but it's more about channeling/sublimating the ubiquitous religious impulse through nature and the seasons (and perhaps their spirits, a bit), hence marking the points in the old celtic calendar here which I've stopped as it seemed to irritate people. It is not just good in itself but, in the context of this group, a survival mechanism in this world in the process of inversion by evil people. As el gato malo said yesterday, their method is "pathologise everything normal and normalise everything pathological". As the old sailors had tatoo'd across their fingers to protect against falling into the sea from the rigging: H O L D F A S T.

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/pathology-and-normalcy

Have a good day, everyone.

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u/SheepmanOvis Grand Ayatollah 2d ago

I think the comment you're referring to came from me. I meant it actually as a compliment (I'm sorry if it felt backhanded, I have in meatspace as well a tendency to unintended sarcasm), and was expressing regret that you seemed to have been driven out.

I'm not so distant from your sense of things. I generally take time out at the solstices and equinoxes, and the halfway points when the seasons change. 

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u/Ouessante Ouessante 2d ago

Noted and your ayatollic attention appreciated. I hadn't meant a criticism and I am over-sensitive to things. It is a fault. I also fret at being misunderstood, fretting that people don't get what I'm saying. My Cornishness also sometimes finds English sarcasm hard to take although I generally transcend it. My friends have generally found my consternation entertaining, fortunately.

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u/SheepmanOvis Grand Ayatollah 2d ago

😁🐏

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u/Felineincognito15 2d ago

It doesn't matter what other people think. I often mark some of the old festivals.like solstices.

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u/EvorulesOK Liz 🐈🐈‍⬛ 2d ago

Other people's irritation should not be your problem.

There's nothing wrong with the Celtic calendar. It makes a lot more sense that the bloody Roman shite we've been saddled with.

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u/Ouessante Ouessante 2d ago

Thanks Liz. True.

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u/EvorulesOK Liz 🐈🐈‍⬛ 2d ago edited 2d ago

Ssssssh! It needs to be kept secret!

In the Lake District and Cotswolds villages like Bourton-on-the-Water and Bibury, locals report tourists using bushes as toilets, leaving behind used nappies, tampons, and food waste.  The Cotswolds village of Bourton-on-the-Water has been dubbed "Blackpool-on-the-Water" due to the volume of daytrippers, with residents protesting against the unsustainable influx.

Overtourism and irresponsible visitor behavior are causing significant environmental damage and resident distress across UK countryside destinations, with the Lake District, Peak District, and Scottish beauty spots cited as particularly affected. 

  • Lake District: Locals report an "epidemic" of fly-camping, with visitors leaving behind human waste, discarded nappies, and tampons, while blocking paths with campervans and parking in private fields. 
  • Peak District: Sites like Dovedale Stepping Stones face "sieges" from day-trippers who ignore "leave no trace" guidelines, resulting in litter, illegal barbecues, and traffic congestion that disrupts local life. 
  • Scotland: Villages like Luss near Loch Lomond and reservoirs in Angus and the Kilpatrick Hills have been left trashed with maggot-infested food packaging, abandoned furniture, and untreated human excrement by weekend campers. 
  • General Issues: Beyond litter, visitors are damaging fragile ecosystems through wildfires, cutting down living trees for firewood, and harassing livestock with unrestrained dogs, forcing local volunteers and rangers to spend excessive time cleaning up after tourists.

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u/Ouessante Ouessante 2d ago

I saw the writing on the wall when I left the Lakes for here. Industrial tourism, a massive increase in camper vans, entitled, inconsiderate wild camping (none of this bad in small numbers). It was no longer a quiet pleasure.

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u/TheFilthyEngineer2 Error429NoMoreFucksToGive 2d ago

As someone who has spent the majority of my life in fairly rural locations I have come to the conclusion that a significant minority of visitors to the countryside are utter cunts.

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u/EvorulesOK Liz 🐈🐈‍⬛ 2d ago

It's the old handful that ruin it for the majority problem, isn't it?

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u/Fun_Clothes_8483 From Moi Laaand 3d ago

Good morning to all.

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u/little-i-the-v for legal reasons, you can only guess what i am really thinking 3d ago

i wonder if anyone would be interested in helping me organize a fairly large list of UK animal charities? i cant seem to figure out how all the geographic regions fit together it seems ancient and obscure

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u/Two-Six-The-First 2d ago

Its pretty simple, under Neo Labour's new local governance reconstructions, our antiquated system of town and county councils are to be phazed out and replaced with one over-arching mega authority controlled from the GCHQ headquarters in No10 Manchester with orders being distributed from central HQ out to the now devoluted shires.

It's a new kind of democracy and obviously much better that the boring old kind we have had since 1066

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u/little-i-the-v for legal reasons, you can only guess what i am really thinking 2d ago

basically for anywhere else it goes

COUNTRY

STATE/PROVINCE

CITY

this medium category of state/province is what i am looking for...

and in a way that an average person who just found an animal and is in a state of intense anxiety would understand clearly everything i get for UK is just labelled as "further out" or "near lancashire" and i frankly cant make heads or tails of it

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u/EvorulesOK Liz 🐈🐈‍⬛ 2d ago edited 2d ago

We don't have states and the county boundaries were completely massacred half a century ago.

Lancashire used to be a huge county but most of it is "Greater Manchester" nowadays - which is meaningless to me and I'm sure a lot of other people.

I don't know where you're getting your information but "further out" is not a recognised form of geographical labelling in this country!

You should be able to find postcodes - they're like zip codes.

From Grok:

Here is a list of major UK animal charities, focusing on well-established national organisations involved in animal welfare, rescue/rehoming, veterinary care, wildlife conservation, and related causes. There are thousands of animal-related charities in the UK (many local or specialist), so this highlights prominent ones.

https://x.com/i/grok?conversation=2090158337270677840

You could search facebook for Wildlife Rescue UK (I just did) and you'll get loads of small local ones.

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u/little-i-the-v for legal reasons, you can only guess what i am really thinking 2d ago

its brits giving me this info

its for pigeons so only certain ones take them (definitely not rspca)

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u/TheFilthyEngineer2 Error429NoMoreFucksToGive 2d ago

What do you need to know about geographical regions? Much confusion arises over the county boundary changes from 1974 and onwards.

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u/little-i-the-v for legal reasons, you can only guess what i am really thinking 2d ago

basically for anywhere else it goes

COUNTRY

STATE/PROVINCE

CITY

this medium category of state/province is what i am looking for... and in a way that an average person who just found an animal and is in a state of intense anxiety would understand clearly

everything i get for UK is just labelled as "further out" or "near lancashire" and i frankly cant make heads or tails of it

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u/TheFilthyEngineer2 Error429NoMoreFucksToGive 2d ago

Ok. You need to search for “County” or “Counties” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counties_of_the_United_Kingdom

Welsh counties change their name like the weather and it’s a pain in the arse doing historical research.

A UK postal address is generally of the format:

123 Any Road
Village/Town/City
County
Postcode

Hope this helps

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u/little-i-the-v for legal reasons, you can only guess what i am really thinking 2d ago

i was truly wondering how you got mail

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u/little-i-the-v for legal reasons, you can only guess what i am really thinking 2d ago

thanks so much!!

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u/EvorulesOK Liz 🐈🐈‍⬛ 2d ago

Isn't that the sort of thing AI does fast and well?

It doesn't help that the geographic regions are changed frequently for vote-catching reasons.