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Haven Tenerife
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Doctor of ancient history, retired university lecturer living in the foothills of Mount Teide among birds, trees, peace and books, esp neuropsychology & Agatha Christie. "Leftie elitist". 50% Welsh, 50% Irish, 100% European. MBE.
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You know that old truism that if the tabloids don't know something they'll just make it up ...

Hold onto your hats ...
ChatGPT cited a paper of mine which I did not know existed, so I asked it for the link to it.
Unfortunately that link to the Nature website just gave a "Page not found".
So sad.
A bit like "academic" is seen to carry a whiff of respectability ...

clearly viewers are being whiffed into thinking one's bad and the other's good, when generally I'd think the opposite, as would many with a brain ...
Spot the hypocrisy, and the bullshit!

As Marina Purkiss says, the UK can't simultaneously be both overwhelmed with an avalanche of darkies and fed up with their "overrepresentation" in adverts ...

#drowninginbullshit 👋🆘🐂💩
Schrödinger’s Britain..

Both bursting at the seams with brown people, yet somehow “overrepresented” in ads

Make your minds up, Reform!

We dissect this, the Caerphilly wake-up call, Starmer’s dodgy response & why we’re no longer P..P..picking up Penguins.

🎧 New ep below!
As I was saying earlier, the real gap is not between different types of voters but between all voters and a political-media culture that may as well be hermetically sealed off from them. People just want to live, but they are not allowed to because greedy bullies have outlawed kindness and fairness.
If only Mrs Merton were still around ...

so what is it about young wealthy white nationalist racist sexist misogynists who want to keep women pregnant in the bedroom and kitchen all their lives that women don't quite find knee-tremblingly attractive ... ?
Tucker Carlson on his show: “I'm sorry I called you gay, by the way. Maybe I’m just too old or something. I don’t get it — why is anyone married? Tell me, why aren’t people married anymore?”

Nick Fuentes: “Honestly, it’s the women.”
Musk weaponises a murder horrendously captured on video and posted on X. I saw the video, and reported it for breach of EU law which specifically requires social media companies to prevent sharing of illegal or offensive content. X says it won't be removed, not in breach of EU law.

EU should ban X.
Elon Musk: "It is time for the English to ally with the hard men, like Tommy Robinson, and fight for their survival or they shall surely all die" 29th October 2025. 2 million views in its first hour.
Not just Ireland. The real "gap" is not between different types of voters but between all voters and a political-media culture that may as well be hermetically sealed off from them. They are talking crap to and about each other while people just want to be able to live, with kindness and fairness.
The Overlooked Gap
Maybe strategise running the damn country rather than worrying about a Party. The Tories played that game. It ends with them not having a Party. Find a spine, run the bloody country, and take the fight to the racists, goons, and greedy bastards.
We have a blood donation crisis in the Canaries. Today, they're begging for O+ donations.

A month or so ago I emailed them asking to donate. I'm O-neg, a universal donor. The BSC ban is now lifted but I'm a year too old! Will you let me donate?

No reply. What's the bloody point?

Today's appeal:
We get alerts here in the Canaries for strong winds "gusting to" ... usually around 90km/h, sometimes quite a bit more but sustained winds of three times those gusts? Seriously mindblowing. Unimaginable.
No, which is why we are lost.
... and it's hard to see how to escape it, with artificial stupidity now leading search results, so even those who have an instinct to check their facts are fed extra bullshit in the process ...

I can recommend this:
callingbullshit.org
The naval gazing doesn't have to be so tortuous. Racism is not seeing difference. It is seeing difference and then making (usually negative) value judgments on the basis of it. She said she was sick of seeing blacks and asians in adverts, that it was woke artyfartyness. A value judgment. So, racism.
Straight to ‘let’s have a debate about whether racism is racism’ for *almost* all of the UK media. Nothing learned from the lessons of Brexit, Trump & Johnson. But on we go.
Off the top of my head, there have been four egregious examples of weapons grade public racism in the last couple of weeks - Jenrick; the Express hack; Captain Concrete & the Reform woman. The way they are treated by employers, punters & wider media, will directly influence how much more we see.
... a total failure to understand any nuance that we see daily, but extended to social media, so an "it's all the same so makes no difference if x or bluesky or whatever" ...
Have been wondering, and can't get beyond *institutional inertia* ... and yet it feels wrong, it can't be so naively daft, can it?
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Hi everyone, I am still raising money for the Ukrainian army.

We already have more than we expected (thanks everyone!), but there is no harm in trying to raise even more money. So if you can, donate, if you can't, or already did so, please help by spreading the message:

4fund.com/rbjyg4
Give power to Ukrainian soldiers – Donate on 4fund.com
In August this year I was rear-ended by a drunk driver as I was driving my car through Poland - but bear with me, this is not a fundraiser for me, this was just the event that started it all. As the i...
4fund.com
Arona - the far south Tenerife area defined by mass tourism (eg Los Cristianos) is one of the poorest areas of Tenerife. We so "live by tourism" eh? Average net income under €12k pa ...

Money's going somewhere, not to those who work in tourism ... and I mean "work" ...
Sorry, don't normally, but can't help it. The number of times I've heard about "backdoor diplomacy" and "they need us more ... " ...

No more. We most definitely, definitively, and specifically "told you so" ...
For those of you who don't speak diplomat, this is the British ambassador to the Kingdom of Spain staying very directly that UKG has nothing to do with European border law, and Europe is not going to change 90/180.

Diplomatic answers rarely get as definitive as this.

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