Tory & Reform UK MPs, #TuftonSt lobbyists, & Media Barons Rupert Murdoch, Jonathan Harmsworth & Paul Marshall despise two of Britain’s most loved institutions: our @BBC & our #NHS.
They use their power to undermine them.
Why?
And who is the new @BBC Chair, Samir Shah?
For these individuals & organisations, our @BBC & #NHS are a constant reminder that free-market capitalism is a profoundly flawed ideology fuelling greed & climate change, & that not every large organisation should either be a charity or be owned by shareholders & run for profit.
This thread focuses on how @BBCNews & @BBCPolitics output has, since 2000, become increasingly skewed to the right & a vehicle for defending free-market capitalism.
I'd need to write a 100K word thesis to cover everything I want to say about the @BBC, but I'll convey the basics.
1️⃣We talk endlessly about “capillary leak” – but most of what we say about it is wrong.
Here’s what actually drives fluid movement across the microcirculation – and why Starling’s model needed an upgrade. A 🧵👇
2️⃣ The old picture
Starling (1896) imagined that filtration dominates early in the capillary and re-absorption later, where pressure is lower.
In most tissues, direct re-absorption almost never happens.
Capillary pressure (Pc) slightly exceeds oncotic pressure along the whole capillary, so filtration (Jv) predominates at both ends.
All that filtrate returns to the circulation through the lymphatics.
Fluid leaves the circulation continuously – and the lymphatics bring it back.
3️⃣ The extended Starling principle
Jv = Lp · S · ( (Pc − Pi) − σ · (πc − πg) )
• Pc – capillary hydrostatic pressure
• Pi – interstitial pressure
• πc – plasma oncotic pressure
• πg – oncotic pressure just beneath the glycocalyx (the effective gradient)
That thin, protein-free layer (πg ≈ 0) is what really opposes filtration.
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We talk a lot about “capillary leak.”
But the term is often misunderstood.
Fluid doesn’t simply pour out of “leaky” vessels – it follows the same physics every time.
Getting this right changes how we think about fluids 👇
2️⃣ How it really works
In most tissues, fluid always filters out of capillaries at a slow, steady rate.
That filtered fluid is collected by the lymphatics and returned to the bloodstream.
At steady state, capillary filtration and lymph flow are equal – so tissue volume stays constant.
3️⃣ The glycocalyx
Every capillary is lined by a microscopic gel layer – the glycocalyx.
It’s the true barrier that controls how water and protein move.
When it’s healthy, filtration is slow and tightly balanced with lymph return.
There’s no “venous-end reabsorption.” The system is continuous and stable.
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We can remove fluid at rates up to 12 mL/kg/h and blood pressure often holds.
That limit isn’t arbitrary – it comes from dialysis data showing steep rises in hypotension and mortality above it.
It marks the upper boundary of how fast plasma can be refilled from the interstitium and lymph 👇
2️⃣ The background
In most tissues, fluid filters out of capillaries and returns via the lymphatics.
At steady state, filtration ≈ lymph flow (~10 L/day ≈ 400 mL/h), so plasma and interstitial volumes stay constant.
This is the equilibrium that ultrafiltration later exploits.
3️⃣ What ultrafiltration actually does
Removing plasma water slightly lowers blood volume and triggers reflex arteriolar constriction (↑ Ra).
That drops capillary pressure (Pc), pushing the microcirculation left on the J-curve.
Filtration falls toward zero — you’ve effectively turned off the tap that was sending ~400 mL/h into the interstitium.
Obama was probably where America clearly embraced being a fake ass nigga economy. The greatest copium baron in history, under the veneer of all this Reddit sophistication. Planted so much rot.
11 years later, nobody even remembers how American Manufacturers got so Productive.
EVERYONE KNEW THIS WILL HAPPEN
11 years later: "a paradox", analysis, debate in substacks
The cool part? THE MORE automated and productive CHYNA gets, the HIGHER «manufacturing productivity» of AMERICAN IP owners and distributors. prnewswire.com/news-releases/… research.gavekal.com/article/unrave…
Another dark factory spins up in Shenzhen or whatever, opex falls, Apple's margins rise, white collar "manufacturers" get More Productive. "What a peculiar phenomenon".
@stevehou0 @StefanFSchubert @StevenGlinert did you realize that this is happening? It's been news to me.
Alastair Campbell has written that it's "not true" to say the BBC is "pro trans". Here's a TOP 40 of just some eye-catching stories and developments from just the last 12 months, involving the BBC. Could the BBC have some sort of pro trans agenda?
40. The BBC World Service has produced numerous documentaries about the plights of cross-dressing men in countries such as India, Uganda and Taiwan. One documentary about 'transgender women in Bangladesh' was broadcast SEVEN TIMES on British radio this year
39. BBC News reported that President Trump had banned 'transgender athletes from female competitions'. This was not true as 'trans men' could compete. However, the complaint about this was not upheld because BBC guidelines do not require 'absolute accuracy'
Yeah... total government spending almost everywhere in the West is at least 45% of GDP (~half of which is usually just vulgar redistribution), productive people who actually work are forced to give ~half of their income to the government and pay highly progressive taxes, many crucial economic sectors (including money production) and employment pipelines are often effectively government monopolies, and even those parts of the economy that are nominally private are heavily regulated to appease the gods of diversity and climate.
Yet, it's "capitalism" that gets the blame, from both left and right post-liberals.
‼️ China's largest cybersecurity firm, Knownsec, was breached, exposing details of China's state cyber operations.
The data includes cyberweapon documentation, internal hacking tool source code, and global target lists covering over 20 countries, including Japan, Vietnam, and India.
A spreadsheet lists 80 hacked foreign organizations, plus evidence of 95 GB of stolen Indian immigration data and 3 TB of call records from South Korean mobile operator LG U Plus.
One of the documents mention a malicious power bank, disguised as a charging device.
Knownsec is key to China's cybersecurity, providing advanced defense and offensive capabilities, including espionage tools.
A thread with their tools 🧵
ZoomEye
A global search engine similar to Shodan or Censys, lists vulnerabilities for each host. It claims to scan the entire IPv4 address range in 7-10 days.
1/ “Man in his highest and noblest capacities is Nature, and bears in himself her awful character. His dreadfulness is the fertile soil from which alone all greatness has grown.” —Nietzsche
Let us consider the ancient Greeks and the excellence of their biopolitical order.
2/ The world of the ancient Hellenes, the Greeks, did not emerge ex nihilo from a vacuum. It was a continuation of what had come before, developing from older Indo-European traditions and merging with the early peoples of Europe, among whom kinship and ritual shaped the first structure of life. The Greeks then gave this inheritance a conscious form, turning what had been custom into reflection and creating a world in which descent and law became the foundations of order.
Alfred North Whitehead wrote that Western philosophy is a series of footnotes to Plato, and in a wider sense Western civilization, “civilization” being the key term here, begins with the Greeks. It was among them that the European mind first sought to bring life into accord with nature and to discern within existence the principles that govern man and the world.
Their political life, like that of all pre-modern peoples, was never abstract. It was the organized expression of necessity, shaped by the demands of survival and the discipline of inheritance. Power was understood as the means to preserve life, and life itself was secured through the unbroken continuity of descent.
The polis, the city-state, was born from the family, as the family was born from the necessity of reproduction and protection. Aristotle records that the household arose from the union of man and woman and expanded through the relation of parent to child and master to servant until it became the village and finally the city. The political community was therefore the natural enlargement of the household, an extension of biological and moral kinship.
The city carried forward what the family had begun, ensuring the passage of life and estate, the keeping of ancestral law, and the remembrance of those from whom its order had descended. The citizen was not a faceless entry in a meaningless voter register but a living participant in the common life of the polis. The Greek word idiotes, from which “idiot” derives, referred to one who lived only for himself and took no part in the affairs of the city. The true citizen was his opposite, bearing the blood of the founders and sharing in the duties that sustained their order. The civic life of Greece rested on this continuity of ancestry, without which there could be neither culture nor state.
Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges later made explicit what the ancients themselves took for granted. In “The Ancient City,” he explained that the earliest political institutions were born from the religion of the household. The hearth, the ancestral tomb, and the domestic cult were the first sources of authority. When many households gathered beneath a common altar, the city arose as a sacred extension of family life. Aristotle described the process by which the polis grows naturally out of the household, and Fustel showed that this natural process was also a religious one, for it united the living with their forebears in an unbroken order of memory and obligation.
3/ The principle of descent defined citizenship at every level, and it was the ancient Greeks who, like in so many other things, first codified what we now take for granted in the Western conception of the citizen. Herodotus, in his “Histories,” described the Hellenes as men “of the same blood and speech, who share the same temples and sacrifices, and the same customs.” In this understanding, ancestry and worship, language and custom formed a single unity. To be a citizen was to belong to a people bound by descent and by rite. The polis was not an artificial creation imposed upon men but an organic expression of inherited being.
Athens and Sparta embodied dual sides of this Greek Welthanschauung in distinct form.
During the Athenian Golden Age, the great statesman Pericles expanded participation in public life while restricting citizenship to those born of two Athenian parents. Equality was confined to those who already belonged by birth. The freedom of the city depended upon cohesion, and cohesion required the preservation of ancestral descent.
Civic order rested on ancestral patrimony rather than residence or belief. This law reflected the Athenian understanding that their democracy, unlike the modern system of mass enfranchisement, could exist only within the bounds of a shared people. At its height, less than a tenth of the male population held the honor of citizenship. Generosity within the polis required a clear sense of who that people were, and correspondingly, who they were not. Foreign skill and commerce were welcomed, though always with caution, yet the political life of the city remained an inheritance guarded by those of Athenian blood. In this balance between openness and exclusivity, the Athenians preserved both the integrity of their laws and the continuity of their kind.
Sparta gave this principle a harder outline. The laws attributed to the Dorian lawgiver Lycurgus forged a people shaped by martial discipline and selective breeding. The Spartiates were citizens by birth and warriors by vocation, their lives ordered toward service to the state. They were forbidden from commerce, manual labor, and the pursuit of luxury, for such pursuits were thought to corrupt character and weaken resolve.
Their existence was one of perpetual preparation, devoted to strength and the defense of the common good. Education began in infancy, when the weak were set aside, and continued through a regimen that bound each man to the polis through the discipline of the agoge. The women were trained for strength and composure, for the bearing of healthy offspring was regarded as a sacred duty. Every institution, from the household to the army, for the army was the body of citizens, served the same end: the preservation of vigor and constancy of spirit. Through this unity of purpose, a small and austere people maintained their independence against powers greater in number and wealth.
Religion gave visible form to the same foundation. Each city revered its ancestral gods, whose worship was bound to the life of the people. The civic altars rose from the hearths of the household, and the festivals that gathered the citizens were acts of remembrance joining the living with the dead. The Olympic Games expressed this same spirit on a broader scale, uniting the Hellenes in celebration of shared descent while excluding the foreigner. To compete in any of the four great Panhellenic games was to be recognized as Greek by blood. The exclusion was not an act of hostility but of reverence and delineation, for the festival renewed the sacred kinship of those who shared a common origin and destiny.
This same bond of origin guided the Greek resistance to Persia. When the invasion came, the consciousness of shared blood and faith gave the Hellenes a unity stronger than empire. The stand of the Spartan king Leonidas at Thermopylae and the Athenian-led victories at Salamis and Plataea preserved more than territory or power. They defended a way of life founded upon descent and courage. Herodotus saw in these deeds the triumph of men who knew themselves as a distinct people and refused to vanish into the anonymity of empire.
Tweet 1 🌀 Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) Flares — This is for all rheumatoid arthritis patients and caregivers. Please discuss with your doctor and don’t follow this blindly as medical advice.
🌀 What exactly is a Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) flare?
It’s when your joints become more painful, swollen, warm, or stiff than usual — sometimes with fatigue or low energy.
Flares can be mild or severe, short or long. They may strike without any clear reason.
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Tweet 2 🔀 Types of Flares Seen in Rheumatoid Arthritis:
1️⃣ 🔥 Palindromic / Single-joint flare – sudden, severe pain, often immobilizing.
2️⃣ 🌧️ Subtle multi-joint flare – swelling and stiffness in several joints.
3️⃣ 🌪️ Generalized flare – multiple joints flare together, disabling and painful.
Sometimes, what looks like a flare has no identifiable reason.
Tweet 3
📊 How common are Rheumatoid arthritis flares?
Nearly every person with RA has flares at some point.
In long-term studies, more than 90–99 % of patients experienced at least one flare within three years — even on good medicines.
👉 This does not mean treatment failed. It means RA can act unpredictably at times.
#RheumatoidArthritis #Rheumatology #NirjaraMultispecialityClinic #NileshNolkha
Some Trading Tips that has helped me grow into a multiple figures Trader for the past 3 years 👇
The last Tip is very important if you want to grow as a trader🥂
✅ FIRST TIP:
FOCUS ON FEW PAIRS ( be a specialist)
You can make Life changing money from trading if you take Trading as a business.
Just like Mechanics are known specialist for specific Vehicle brands, you will hardly see Trailer Mechanic repairing a Toyota camry, neither will a Honda mechanic repair a Mercedes Benz.
You should also be a specialist, focus on few trading pairs. 3-5 pairs isn't that bad (Some traders can trade 20 pairs at a time though) 🥂
Bruce Lee would say : "I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times".
✅ Second Tip:
YOU ONLY NEED ONE STRATEGY
Stop strategy prostitution, you only Need one trading System to become profitable. If you have a strategy that has been working for you overtime, giving you a reasonable amount of wins, There is no need to jump to something else.. continue to refine that System and be disciplined enough to follow your trading plan and manage your risk.
Plan your trades, Don't ever go into a trade without a proper plan, this is what differentiates traders from Gamblers .
Journal all your Trades, Even the biggest businesses in the world, record their sales daily, weekly and monthly.
Journaling is the only way you can evaluate your growth, That's how you know what works and how it works and when it works. Record all your trading Activities, every little thing!!