🥑🗽🏗🏘️ Na₂Ca(CO₃)₂•5H₂O
@Gaylussite
Followers
8,706
Following
1,924
Media
8,210
Statuses
65,318
𝘏𝘰𝘮𝘰 𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘴. ‘Ageist queer.’ | 🌍: 🏳️🌈🇬🇧🇮🇪 | 🗣️: 🏴🇫🇷 | ✍️: @theipaper @unherd
🌳🚴🏼♂️🌳 | 👨🏻💻 | ⛰🥾🏞
Joined February 2009
Don't wanna be here?
Send us removal request.
Explore trending content on Musk Viewer
My World
• 164770 Tweets
Into the Depth with YUTA
• 36615 Tweets
渋沢栄一
• 35028 Tweets
スーパーヒーロー
• 16387 Tweets
TEN FIREWORK IT
• 16087 Tweets
Gセルフ
• 15187 Tweets
タリーズ
• 13022 Tweets
マックス
• 11035 Tweets
イグナイター
• 10290 Tweets
Pinned Tweet
🏆 The Triumph of Janet 🏆
I've written on how the Conservative Party seems to have abandoned the politics of aspiration & growth in favour of inequitable, unjustifiable & damaging subsidy towards baby boomers. 🧵
53
177
825
BREAKING: UK economy grew slightly and avoided recession, revised official figures show
0
17
87
19
2K
18K
GDP is estimated to have grown 0.1% in February 2024:
▪️ Services grew (+0.1%)
▪️ Production grew (+1.1%)
▪️ Construction fell (-1.9%)
➡️
31
42
138
10
538
10K
what are they putting into the elderly to make them so evil istg
Should there be a bank holiday if England win Euro 2024?
All Britons
Yes: 39%
No: 51%
18-24 year olds
Yes: 55%
No: 32%
65+ year olds
Yes: 18%
No: 73%
401
42
684
49
274
9K
Why would we subsidise pensioners to travel during peak work commute hours?
Did you know? Sadiq Khan rejected my budget amendment, which would bring back free pre-9am travel for over 60s.
If he wins another four years, he will keep the cut permanently.
With your vote on May 2nd, I will bring it back.
827
349
1K
44
250
7K
summer ‘24, you may have been shite, but you gave us this moment
🌡️ The UK has had its coolest summer since 2015, according to provisional Met Office statistics.
Get the details in the Press Release below, or read this short thread 👇🧵
526
453
1K
5
252
6K
No, but it would still somehow cost £800m to not deliver it
The Greenwich foot tunnel, built over one hundred years ago.
Could the state deliver a similar project today?
6
1
42
14
140
6K
In normal countries bars and pubs and restaurants are just… allowed to be open late because customers want that.
14
211
5K
thanks mate
The economy has turned a corner. Today's news proves that.
We know things are still tough for many people, but the plan is working, and we must stick to it.
3K
256
1K
2
229
4K
I’m actually pretty chill about this one. Pretty marginal cost, huge social benefit. Wouldn’t be surprised if it were cost neutral in the prevention of sedentary and degenerative diseases like dementia and cardiovascular disease.
67
110
4K
If you've worked your whole life, you should have dignity and security in retirement.
6K
431
4K
1
248
4K
pensioners sitting in 3 bedroom homes they bought for thruppence when you propose reducing their bennies by £200
169
149
3K
me trying to stay up to watch South West Norfolk declare
3
83
3K
Look at all the replies to this. And remember how our generation had student fees tripled. Working age benefits cut. Stagnant wages for nearly two decades. Rampant house price inflation pushing ownership out of our reach.
But heaven forfend we stop paying £200 to our wealthiest.
😳 Starmer must not blink on means testing winter fuel payment.
If he really is serious about getting 🇬🇧 back on track, we’re going to disappoint one of Britain’s richest, most powerful lobbies: pensioners.
❌ Millionaires do not need welfare payments.
445
115
1K
365
256
3K
Median British boomer. Not just passive to mediocrity, but actively for it and hostile to any change. Enforced by car.
Janet is not a meme. She is real.
Woman parks car on grass to protest Nottingham City Council scheme
59
14
88
58
189
3K
You WhatsApp your bf/gf to sneak off and have sex while your other 2 flatmates watch The Chase & cook dinner. The smell of sweating onions wafts under the door, along with Ann Hegerty’s voice.
They can hear you at it in the room you pay £1100 PCM for. Why is fertility is so low?
Fertility rate in England/Wales down to about 1..5 - lower than pandemic and almost certainly lowest since records began (and before..)
43
92
204
32
241
3K
can’t believe they put a table there because manlet PM’s feet don’t touch the floor x
15
71
2K
UK's economy estimated to have contracted by 0.5% in July, following growth of 0.5% in June.
4
3
20
3
196
2K
Are you taking the fucking piss?
It's a bold choice to stand in front of a sign saying "long-term decisions for a brighter future", to claim "irony isn't lost on me" and then go on to announce a massive road building programme in the midst of a climate emergency.
#CPC2023
501
937
4K
29
204
2K
Professionals working in government policy not being able to afford a normal two bed flat in a country’s capital city is bad actually.
15
101
2K
Shall we just skip to the chase and ban all freedoms for anyone under pensionable age?
@kimleadbeater
's Graduate Driving License bill will have its second reading on May 17th.
I fully support this bill and
@owe65332
with her petition to push for Graduate Driving Licenses.
You can find the petition below:
253
32
144
24
76
2K
Conservative Party Conference 2024 is going to be LIT 🔥
6
68
2K
It’s 2065. HS2 was finally delivered, but it’s now a coach lane on the M1 that terminates at Stevenage. It cost £57bn to build.
25
145
2K
1
133
2K
ok
Use this tweet as an excuse to post an old pic where you looked hot
3K
655
11K
15
31
2K
This era is coming to an end 👍
BREAKING: Rachel Reeves says older people not in receipt of pension credit or other means tested benefits will no longer receive winter fuel payment from this year. Other payments will continue.
471
197
1K
17
62
2K
‘You don’t get to disturb the free passage of trade without consequences,’ I say as I load the trebuchet and aim it at the local council planning department
We should obviously strike the Houthis.
You don’t get to fire strikes at our ships and expect no retaliation.
You don’t get to disturb the free passage of trade without consequences.
398
126
1K
18
115
2K
we have banned economic growth
From the beginning, I have opposed the redevelopment of the Glassmill site at 1 Battersea Bridge.
At 34 stories, it exceeds the height of developments allowed in the zone.
It will do more harm than good for residents, our local community, and the area around the river.
129
12
71
17
93
2K
2024 has been coming for the Tory party for a long, long time.
"Places like Italy in particular or Germany, they don't actually aspire necessarily to own their own home they’re quite happy to rent."
This Somerset Tory activist says young people need to be more realistic about their dreams of home ownership.
@Jo_Crawford
for
#TimesRadio
312
36
128
23
89
2K
Pedestrianise Soho.
Insane that we prioritise private cars over the much more numerous human beings that don’t even fit on the pavement, who are being beeped and revved out of the way in the road.
33
144
2K
The British culture of ‘anti-everything’ must end.
This is why we haven’t seen wage growth for more than a decade, why housing is so unaffordable, and why public services are under such strain.
Locals say no to planned Morocco energy link - BBC
82
120
2K
In January I made halving inflation this year my top priority.
I did that because it is, without a doubt, the best way to ease the cost of living and give families financial security.
Today, we have delivered on that pledge.
6K
699
4K
4
79
1K
could be worse
📊 Labour lead at 26pts
Westminster voting intention
LAB: 46% (-)
CON: 20% (-3)
REF: 14% (+1)
LDEM: 10% (+1)
GRN: 5% (-)
via
@RedfieldWilton
, 01 Jun
83
258
1K
2
30
1K
This didn’t pass the sniff test so I checked with a doctor and jfc
The guy paid to remove tumours from someone’s brain may be paid less than the guy driving the train he takes to work (at an NHS hospital that’s likely falling to pieces)
49
131
1K
32
100
1K
😳 Starmer must not blink on means testing winter fuel payment.
If he really is serious about getting 🇬🇧 back on track, we’re going to disappoint one of Britain’s richest, most powerful lobbies: pensioners.
❌ Millionaires do not need welfare payments.
445
115
1K
I have written to the Minister regarding damaging planning reforms and I will provide updates📨
37
2
20
3
49
1K
Brits whose wages haven’t risen in two decades and can’t buy a house in the world’s sixth largest economy because all of their high potential talent goes straight to their boomer landlord’s bank account
Britain, the world's 6th largest economy and home to some of the world's highest potential talent
4
10
124
9
83
1K
utilities companies with a jackhammer and some asphalt looking at that gorgeous freshly laid brick paving like
Cycles-only revamp of Threadneedle St at Bank looks 95% done, just the very last bit still to do
20
20
541
4
46
1K
We should build more houses like this. 6 storeys including basements. Fantastically dense, but it doesn’t feel like it.
44
123
1K
Deep England. Pensioners hate kids for not going outside, pensioners share memes about how they all used to when they were younger, pensioners fine kids for going outside and enjoying themselves. Vulture generation.
Just had this through the door. One of the pettiest, most miserable letters I’ve ever seen.
Fining people for letting their children walk around? Jesus.
342
309
3K
14
124
1K
Oh my god. £695,000 for *68 square metres* of derelict horror. It’s not even in central London. It’s just a small family terrance.
Nobody but dual earners in elite industries are even getting close to being able to afford this without hefty parental subsidy.
UK property 🤯
"A complete blank canvas" is doing quite a bit of heavy lifting here.
302
208
3K
83
150
1K
3
58
1K
8
43
1K
Enormous drama in my village Facebook group: a man has been committing the cardinal sin of feeding the birds by putting bird feeders up on a public tree, so a bunch of his neighbours have clubbed together and... chopped the tree down at midnight with a chainsaw.
828
4K
90K
6
48
1K
Please build all of these in my backyard thanks
None of these “YIMBYs” are ever making an argument about what should be allowed in their own backyard. It’s always about what should be done in someone else’s backyard. It’s all simply false virtue frosting over basic petty envy.
129
3
45
12
80
1K
imagine valuing your own time so little that you use one of your 3 days of paid time off per decade to drive for this distance 💀
@MattZeitlin
I did this twice without stopping for anything except gas/food or consuming any caffeine both ways.
On the first leg I also had to wait an extra 8 hours to book a motel in SLC, also without any caffeine.
I'm just built different lmao
63
1
412
13
40
1K
This is your brain on pure, unfiltered, undiluted Sunakism.
Rishi Sunak tells exasperated Radio Manchester presenter that the ‘vast majority of journeys are made by car’ as she tries - and fails - to get a commitment that HS2 will make it to Manchester. ‘We’re not talking about cars, we’re talking about trains,’ she snaps back
79
218
2K
12
124
1K
A country that once built railways across its global empire can no longer build one between its own great cities.
I am told the PM has now taken the decision to shelve the Manchester leg of HS2. Confirmation, and detail of the re-allocation of funds to other transport projects in the north, will presumably come very soon.
769
826
2K
17
101
1K
Just one more time this time it’ll work I promise just one more time and we’ll get this I promise
We’ve long been told that “there is no alternative”.
There is. It’s called socialism.
6K
3K
17K
23
80
1K
politicos will see a guy who lost the foreign and domestic policy battle of his life recite a list and be like he’s our guy
I’ve been Foreign Secretary for 113 days.
This is what we’ve done 👇
3K
428
3K
13
59
1K
‘You have to save, that's the way it always used to be.’
NatWest's Howard Davies "I don't think it's that difficult at the moment" to get on the property ladder.
@amolrajan
: "To buy a house in this country? Are we living in the same country or are you reporting from overseas?"
HD: "You have to save, that's the way it always used to be"
170
287
1K
17
160
996
Maybe making your capital city completely unaffordable to live in is a bad thing that should rightfully be punished electorally.
Thatcher won TWO THIRDS of the London seats in ‘83!
Tonight’s
@EveningStandard
: how London voted. The extent of Labour domination is astonishing.
154
390
4K
23
58
986
the money in Britain flows from the youth to boomers
where does all the money in britain go? i mean this earnestly, every job listing you see is so laughably small as an american you almost can’t believe it. but there IS money in britain. so where is it going.
166
367
5K
13
62
966
Boomers are actually clinically incapable of feeling self awareness or empathy
22
74
918
general election 2028 going to be like
They have only been in power for a few days, but Labour have already confirmed that they will:
❌ Concrete over the Green Belt
❌ Force government housing targets on communities
❌ Ignore local voices in the planning process
Labour thinks that Whitehall knows better than you.
4K
231
1K
4
20
942
do you remember basic goods being locked in plastic cages like this a few years ago?
🧵 of very visible examples of declining 🇬🇧 living standards follows, contributions welcome!
65
97
922
Ten years to build a staircase.
After 10 years, I am proud to see the second staircase at Surbiton Station officially opened!
It is fantastic to see constituents and commuters using the staircase and the benefits it is already having on improving congestion. Thank you to everyone that has made this possible!
783
89
681
11
63
919
are you really that thick that you move to the flight path of a globally important international airport and then suddenly discover there is aeroplane noise
9
34
916
Sarah Olney once campaigned against housing being built in Stratford, the opposite end of London from her constituency, because it might ‘spoil the view’ of St Paul’s Cathedral from Richmond Park.
The view is in the second picture.
“I’m not even kidding. What can I say? Richmond Park is an expensive place to live."
Lib Dem MP
@sarahjolney1
tells
@IainDale
that even some of her constituents - on a combined income of £180,000 - are asking for advice on housing costs.
57
11
48
14
129
880
I don’t even have the words.
‘Furious mob of pensioners besiege town hall council meeting in protest against 60-bed care home and new church they fear will bring noise and pollution to their quiet village’
55
98
867
This shit is endemic and speaks of a society giving up on itself.
Can we stop assuming we’re all scum.
571
42
868
@GavinWilliamson
young people don’t hate the conservatives enough for stealing housing from them? Fine. Lose even harder.
4
9
858
We need to get away from the model of western public space governance where a small minority of motivated elderly residents can veto the entire concept of tomorrow.
LA Nimbys are fighting against playground equipment. And of course
@kdeleon
is taking them seriously, Nimbys are his demo. Nice little piece from Greg Ruben.
178
309
4K
12
72
857
🚨CITIZEN 628475B SPOTTED ATTEMPTING ECONOMIC ACTIVITY. HOUSING WILL BE ALLOCATED BY THE STATE.
3
49
859
Those look like awfully new homes Jonny. I think we should knock them down and make Milton Keynes fields again.
Finally mowed the lawn (badly). I’m starting to feel normal again.
48
3
88
4
30
829
We built these dirty, unwelcoming, inconvenient, effortful, unsafe places so that cars wouldn’t have to stop at a crossing for 30 seconds.
67
46
806
it will never be enough
We asked about whether a series of groups were getting enough, the right amount or too little support from the Government and it was Pensioners that the public were most likely to say got too little support (63%) and who also have too little influence (52%)
12
6
58
15
38
834
I am *very* critical of the Conservative Party these days. But I do not regret my 2019 vote for them in the slightest.
Corbyn was an unconscionable person for the Labour Party to put forward as a candidate for prime minister of the United Kingdom.
'Do you condemn Hamas?'
Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn refuses to say if he condemns Hamas but insists 'obviously all attacks are wrong' when questioned in Liverpool
3K
1K
3K
39
69
808
Have you tried eating fewer avocados?
‘I’ve got seven properties I’m losing money on month by month’
This landlord tells Newsnight that the upcoming abolition of no fault evictions has caused some landlords to issue them now amid rising mortgage rates
1K
71
290
6
114
798
You are an 𝙖𝙙𝙪𝙡𝙩 working in 𝙥𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙨!
So some little weirdo has gone round snapping my laptop reading private messages from a private email account. My shoes and socks were off because I’d just cycled across Dartmoor in the rain.
Shoot me now. Or grow up.
975
106
1K
3
37
817
what must be done to cleanse and repair the soul of the Englishman?
20
37
789
Sunak rejects offer of youth mobility scheme between EU and UK
14
11
29
1
54
774
Horrendous. Leasehold must be reformed. Freeholders and managing agents must be accountable.
31
90
757
I’ve got a theory about why our urban and suburban areas look much worse. Can you guess what that theory is?
This is exactly the question I asked myself travelling through northern Spain this summer. How come a place apparently poorer than Britain—and certainly poorer than south east England— *felt* so much more prosperous, with pleasant, clean and busy town centres packed with
1K
1K
9K
22
79
755
I am begging the Labour Party to understand this. When supply is fixed, all demand side reforms can do is shift prices up while forcing society or individuals to subsidise the prices.
NEW: Labour will launch a Freedom to Buy scheme to help get 80,000 young people onto the housing ladder.
Find out more 👇
297
385
1K
31
79
743
It’s actually evil to get your own children to campaign against their own future.
🚸This morning, schoolchildren from Yerbury Primary School marched 400 metres from Highbury Corner to Islington Town Hall, to call for a change in national planning policy…🧵1/3
71
21
66
7
30
743
The Green Party seems increasingly to be about blocking green infrastructure projects and bringing international conflicts into the politics of bin collections and potholes?
10
14
741
Just imagine the field trips you could do to the United Kingdom
Perfect grift because if it doesn't lead to increased earnings I don't think you get to complain
8
38
587
3
22
731
technically all of them, but this one stands out 🍒🍸🇧🇷
11
33
729
This street would be so much more handsome without the cars.
96
19
720
Something for the hard left to ponder: if the centre doesn’t proudly own the symbols of the nation it represents, who co-opts these symbols?
77
35
718
These homes are all beautiful, support local services like shops and cafes with their high density, and are highly desirable as evidenced by their rental value and sale prices.
So there will be plenty of politicians to vote for who support building more of them, right?
Right?
19
65
718
for every 10 likes I will make these homeowners more NIMBY 🚫🏡🪧
8
33
712
Cool
@That_Garth_Guy
@Gaylussite
Which I agree
Now find a chart that shows house prices v inflation the past 15 years
4
0
0
21
91
701