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At the very best @TonyJuniper is ecologically naive, and is being manipulated by grouse shooting interests, into believing that the breeding success of Curlews on grouse moors, can be replicated elsewhere, with predator control.
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I have provided a comprehensive explanation as to why it is false and naive to believe that the breeding successes of Curlews and other ground nesting waders, on managed grouse moors, can be replicated elsewhere, for a number of factors.
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Part of the reason, this can't be replicated, as I explain, is because upland grouse moors naturally support far lower numbers of Crows and Foxes, as sheep are generally excluded from them, and there would be very little to support, their populations all year round.
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Net zero advocates love to claim renewables are cheaper than gas by waving around Levelised Cost of Energy (LCOE) models from Lazard, IRENA, and the UK Government’s Generation Cost 2025 report. But these models are junk. Here’s why. (1/19) 
LCOE sums up all capital and operating costs over a plant’s lifetime, discounts them, and divides by total electricity generated. Result: £/MWh or p/kWh in a chart like Lazard's below. Sounds scientific… until you look closer. (2/19)
Classic LCOE compared dispatchable sources (gas, coal, nuclear, hydro) that match demand. Now it’s used for wind & solar, whose output depends on weather, not demand. A midday solar kWh when supply>demand is worthless. Peak-hour gas power is priceless. LCOE ignores this. (3/19)
UPDATE
#Iran 🧵
1- The Iranian delegation led by Parliament Speaker Ghalibaf has returned to Tehran with ceasefire talks with the US reaching dead end. The blame is totally on the American side which as always has excessive demands regarding nuclear program & Strait of Hormuz.
#Iran 🧵
1- The Iranian delegation led by Parliament Speaker Ghalibaf has returned to Tehran with ceasefire talks with the US reaching dead end. The blame is totally on the American side which as always has excessive demands regarding nuclear program & Strait of Hormuz.
2- Iranian media reports the Americans had asked to share the control and management (and toll?) over the strait of Hormuz with the U.S.
Very strange they didn’t think even for a sec “why would Iran do so after all the animosity we’ve shown to them & assassinating their leader?”
Very strange they didn’t think even for a sec “why would Iran do so after all the animosity we’ve shown to them & assassinating their leader?”
3- As Trump’s regime claimed in June 2025 that Iran’s nuclear program is totally obliterated, again Americans don’t ask themselves, “if we destroyed it, killed a generation of their nuclear scientists, why would they accept dismantling of their program- which doesn’t exist?”
Anbe Sivam is one of the finest films ever made. Kamal's performance. Vidyasagar's music. Vairamuthu's lyrics. It earns every tear. It also deserves a full ideological deconstruction, cuz you missed most of 'em!
A thread decoding the greatest leftist film in Dravidawood history:
A thread decoding the greatest leftist film in Dravidawood history:
There are 2 ways to push ideology through cinema.
1. Ranjith style in Kaala: loud, brazen, obvious. You see the propaganda clearly.
2. Kamal style in Anbe Sivam: seductive, warm, beautiful. You don't even realize u're being sold an ideology.
Exactly why we need to decode it.
1. Ranjith style in Kaala: loud, brazen, obvious. You see the propaganda clearly.
2. Kamal style in Anbe Sivam: seductive, warm, beautiful. You don't even realize u're being sold an ideology.
Exactly why we need to decode it.
Inspired by Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987), AS is a road movie featuring 2 strangers with different worldviews, forced to travel together. A capitalist Maddy & a commie Kamal, stuck in a cyclone hit Bhubaneshwar, must find ways to reach Chennai urgently - that’s the plot.
12.04.2014: Igor Girkin arrives in Sloviansk. In 2020, he describes how Russian special forces were tasked with holding out until the referendum, at which point the Russian army—which was already stationed at the border under the guise of peacekeepers—would intervene.
Unlike in Crimea, the Russian soldiers in eastern Ukraine were simply on "vacation". As if it were normal in the Russian army for soldiers to take their tanks, artillery, or modern air defense systems with them on leave.
The former self-proclaimed “people’s governor of Donbas,” Pavel Gubarev, has acknowledged that the 2014 “uprising” in eastern Ukraine was fully financed and orchestrated by Moscow, with direct involvement of Russian military forces.
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SitRep - 11/04/26 - Easter truce partially in place
An overview of the daily events in Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Despite the Easter ceasefire, there are reports of violations by Russian troops. Also, 182 Ukrainians returned home.
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An overview of the daily events in Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Despite the Easter ceasefire, there are reports of violations by Russian troops. Also, 182 Ukrainians returned home.
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As usual we start with Russian losses
Recovery of capacity from Saudi Arabia’s east west pipeline which bypasses the Strait of Hormuz. The pipeline’s throughput was down 700k due to attacks, now it’s restored. #OOTT #SaudiaArabia
The kingdom’s production was also impacted by 600kbd… 300k has been restored from Manifa and still 300k is impacted in Khurais. #OOTT
Huge credit to Aramco for their record repair work. #Aramco
Years ago, I lost a family member to commercial sex work. She contracted HIV and couldn’t accept it. Within two years, it progressed to AIDS. I nursed her for three weeks before she died. I had her phone throughout and it kept buzzing 🧵
Boyfriends, clients. Almost all nameless…just numbers flashing across her screen via calls and texts, asking when she was free to hook up. Grief-stricken and angry, I began answering them and telling them to get tested. Some were in disbelief that she was dead. One sounded
Quite young and frightened. He asked to talk to me in person. I told him I was overseeing her funeral and couldn’t move but he was welcome to come and meet me. He started off for Chalala but never arrived. Must have lost his courage along the way.
Mashovets Huliaipole
Russian forces are trying to resume offensive momentum toward Huliaipole, while simultaneously stabilizing the situation on the Novоoleksandrivka axis after Ukrainian counterattacks.
On the Huliaipole axis, Russian troops achieved limited tactical gains south of the sector, advancing toward Verkhna Tersa and intensifying pressure along multiple directions. However, their progress remains inconsistent and slowed, especially due to Ukrainian resistance around key defensive areas like the Huliaichur river line and settlements forming defensive "triangles".
Russian forces are trying to resume offensive momentum toward Huliaipole, while simultaneously stabilizing the situation on the Novоoleksandrivka axis after Ukrainian counterattacks.
On the Huliaipole axis, Russian troops achieved limited tactical gains south of the sector, advancing toward Verkhna Tersa and intensifying pressure along multiple directions. However, their progress remains inconsistent and slowed, especially due to Ukrainian resistance around key defensive areas like the Huliaichur river line and settlements forming defensive "triangles".
On the Novоoleksandrivka axis, the situation is more unstable. Ukrainian forces are actively counterattacking, trying to expand their positions and threaten Russian flanks—particularly aiming to disrupt Russian operations by pushing toward Uspenivka–Temyrivka. These actions have forced Russian units to focus on holding ground rather than advancing.
Overall, the battlefield is highly fragmented, with frequent close-range fighting, infiltration by small infantry groups, and "mixed" frontlines. Russian forces are currently struggling to regain strong offensive tempo, while Ukrainian forces are successfully slowing advances and applying pressure on vulnerable sectors.
Overall, the battlefield is highly fragmented, with frequent close-range fighting, infiltration by small infantry groups, and "mixed" frontlines. Russian forces are currently struggling to regain strong offensive tempo, while Ukrainian forces are successfully slowing advances and applying pressure on vulnerable sectors.
Russian command is expected to maintain its main focus on the Huliaipole axis, continuing attempts to break through toward the Orikhiv defensive area from the east and southeast. Reinforcements and reserves will likely be directed primarily to this sector to restore offensive momentum.
At the same time, on the Novоoleksandrivka axis, Russian forces will likely continue a defensive-stabilization role, relying on limited forces and localized counterattacks to contain Ukrainian pressure rather than launching major offensives.
The key variable is Ukrainian action: if Ukrainian forces manage to break through toward Uspenivka–Temyrivka, this could threaten Russian flank cohesion and force them to divert forces from the main Huliaipole offensive, slowing or even halting it.
However, if Ukrainian counterattacks remain limited, Russian forces will likely sustain gradual pressure on Huliaipole, aiming for incremental gains rather than rapid breakthroughs. The overall trajectory suggests continued attritional fighting, with the initiative depending on whether Ukraine can scale its counteroffensive efforts on the northern flank.
At the same time, on the Novоoleksandrivka axis, Russian forces will likely continue a defensive-stabilization role, relying on limited forces and localized counterattacks to contain Ukrainian pressure rather than launching major offensives.
The key variable is Ukrainian action: if Ukrainian forces manage to break through toward Uspenivka–Temyrivka, this could threaten Russian flank cohesion and force them to divert forces from the main Huliaipole offensive, slowing or even halting it.
However, if Ukrainian counterattacks remain limited, Russian forces will likely sustain gradual pressure on Huliaipole, aiming for incremental gains rather than rapid breakthroughs. The overall trajectory suggests continued attritional fighting, with the initiative depending on whether Ukraine can scale its counteroffensive efforts on the northern flank.
As our group—and no one else—was able to do with many women of the night on @HunterBiden's abandoned laptop, we have ID'd the woman groped by @ericswalwell. The clear & convincing evidence standard was used; tattoo on right forearm confirmed facial rec results. Summerly Morton.
Given her domicile and line of "work," this episode with Shartwell almost certainly took place in or around Vegas.
Her profile here on X: @summerlyyyy_
#IslamabadTalks have concluded but no deal has been finalized. Diplomacy between the #USA and #Iran remains intact for now with a fragile ceasefire holding and preventing further escalation.
What makes this moment significant is that it marks the first direct high-level engagement between the two sides since the 1979 Iranian Revolution. Pakistan facilitated this breakthrough.
Islamabad’s role has been pivotal. Quiet facilitation, strategic and calibrated diplomacy created space for dialogue in a crisis. Substantive points were exchanged, discussions were extensive but a clear deadlock persists on key issues on both sides, reflecting firm red lines.
