Well if anything is worth a retweet, this is! One of best moments of me career in @AmbulanceNAS I’ve crossed paths with Claire a lot of times since. Delighted to be there when it mattered. #OneLife #ROSC @NasDirector @NationalAmbula1 @NiamhLacey6 @Paulgallen7

Why the ETSC’s opposition to Tesla FSD smells like regulatory capture and protectionism – not genuine safety concerns. I’m going full journalist mode here: The European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) and its director Antonio Avenoso position themselves as neutral “safety guardians.” In reality, they’ve delivered years of skepticism and delay toward Tesla while real-world data from the Netherlands and Tesla’s fleet prove FSD (Supervised) is already saving lives and is measurably safer. This looks like institutional inertia, potential conflicts of interest, and outdated thinking at the expense of European road users. In 2020, Avenoso wrote in the Financial Times: “Musk has overhyped Tesla’s autopilot feature.” Back then it was already impressive. Just six years later, Tesla has delivered FSD (Supervised) that, according to Dutch RDW testing and real-world data: • 3.5× fewer collisions overall than manual driving • Zero collisions on motorways in 16.6 million km with FSD vs. 33 with manual Active Safety That’s not hype anymore, those are hard results after 1.6 million km of independent testing. Instead of admitting “Tesla delivered and exceeded expectations,” Avenoso demands more “independent proof.” The Dutch RDW already did exactly that. Where are ETSC’s statistics? Tesla publishes transparent fleet data showing FSD up to 7× safer in some U.S. metrics. The ETSC? Zero independent crash comparisons, zero real-world FSD studies of their own, just demands for more transparency and warnings about “overtrust.” Classic delay tactic. Europe lacks its own NTSB-style AV investigation body, that’s a real issue, but not a reason to block proven technology. Every month of delay means thousands of preventable accidents because human driving still causes 90% of crashes. The ETSC isn’t protecting safety here. It’s harming it. Cybertruck: Another empty claim. It earned 5-star NHTSA ratings and IIHS Top Safety Pick (with “Good” ratings across the board after updates). Its exoskeleton design is structurally revolutionary. ETSC’s generic complaints about “heavy American pickups” ignore the actual safety data. The real dirt: Funding and regulatory capture The ETSC claims independence but is deeply intertwined with legacy auto: • Toyota Motor Europe has been a major sponsor since 2006 (tens of thousands of euros annually joint programs). Toyota is in direct competition with Tesla on EVs and ADAS. • Other partners include Bosch (key supplier to VW, BMW etc.) and traditional insurers, all benefit from the status quo. The ETSC routinely criticizes U.S. standards (“mutual recognition would cost lives”) while pushing stricter EU rules that conveniently protect European manufacturers. They slow-walk innovative American tech. This isn’t conspiracy, it’s textbook regulatory capture: a “safety” NGO that de facto blocks progress and shields incumbents. They’ve done good work on passive safety (ESC, AEB), but on autonomous systems they default to caution and anti-hype. Result: Europe falls further behind while the Netherlands, Lithuania, Estonia and others move forward and collect real data. Bottom line FSD is still supervised Level 2 with strong driver monitoring. It already dramatically reduces collisions. The ETSC demands “more proof” while ignoring existing proof and providing none of their own. This isn’t “safety first.” It’s bureaucracy and special interests first. @elonmusk and @Tesla achieved in a few short years what legacy automakers promised for decades. Instead of embracing it, the @ETSC_EU writes letters to block it. Every day of delay costs lives, that’s the real scandal. Europe needs less ETSC lobbying and more @RDWnl courage. The data clearly favors Tesla. Time for politicians to follow the evidence. @KRoelandschap @RonnyGolisch @aikisteve @teslaeurope @TeslaClubAT @TeslaClubBE @TeslaClubItaly @TeslaClubFrance

This is *really* sickening - the lengths that some are going to now to try and stop the most important safety technology since airbags and seatbelts. The ETSC, which is supposed to be a safety body, is in fact trying to discourage EU member states from taking up FSD now via adopting the RDW exemption from the Netherlands, or voting in support of EU wide approval at the end of the month. This is one of the ultimate proofs in my lifetime that politicians, regulators, lobbyists and advisory bodies can act in complete contradiction to their supposed aims. This technology needs to be available to as many as possible as soon as possible, instead of industry protectioneering. Lives will be lost otherwise, and needless accidents will happen. Please help make others aware of this. Via: @Nicnl etsc.eu/letter-tesla-fsd-sup…

It's easy to call for a boycott when you're not losing your job. It's easy to take the high ground when there's no personal cost. These people are spoofers who don't care about Irish workers who need these jobs. They just preen for the camera and to hell with the working class.

PSA: KSI is crap as a judge. #BGT

Alissa #MAFSAU

Here’s Gia!! 🤮 #MAFSAU

Imagine being that tone deaf. He’s incredible, but in all the bad ways. #MAGA 🙄

In 1927, the last wild European bison was shot in the Białowieża Forest on the border of Poland and Belarus. By that point, every European bison left on earth was in captivity. Zoos. Private collections. A handful of animals, scattered across the continent, descended from the last wild populations that had survived in Eastern European forests until the First World War. A Polish zoologist named Jan Sztolcman convinced the International Society for the Protection of the European Bison to attempt a restoration. He had twelve animals to work with. Twelve. Every European bison alive today is descended from those twelve. The population now stands at approximately 9,500, split across free-roaming herds in Poland, Belarus, Germany, Romania, and a handful of other countries. The Białowieża Forest alone carries over 700. They have reclaimed their ecological role. The forest clearings they maintain support plant communities that had started to disappear in their absence. The soil they disturb with their hooves is more fertile than the surrounding woodland floor. The scratching posts they create, where they rub off their winter coats, have become habitat for a specific assemblage of insects and birds. Twelve animals in 1927. An ecological keystone species, restored, within a century. This is what happens when a ruminant is allowed to do what a ruminant does. It did not require a startup. It required twelve animals and patience.

I think Karishna is one of the strongest of the final five. A great personality too. Best of luck. #theapprentice

Well said.

Interesting theory. Small correction. You entered World War One three years late. World War Two two years late. Not because Roosevelt was eager. Because Japan hit Pearl Harbor and Hitler declared war on you four days later. You did not choose to fight. You were dragged in. Scared and desperate. Canada declared war in September 1939. Britain stood through the Blitz alone. The Soviet Union lost twenty million people while Washington was still deciding. Spare us the hero shit. .

One for the cinema….looking forward to seeing this.

Let me explain exactly why every new subdivision in America looks like the top photo, because the math is wild. A mature tree increases a home's value by 7 to 19 percent. On a $400,000 house, that's $28,000 to $76,000. A single shade tree produces the cooling equivalent of ten room-size air conditioners running 20 hours a day. One tree on the west side of a house cuts energy bills by 12 percent within 15 years. The bottom photo is worth more, costs less to live in, and sells faster. This has been documented by the University of Washington, Clemson, Michigan State, and the USDA. The data is not in dispute. Removing those trees saves the builder roughly $5,000 per lot. Concrete trucks need twice the dripline radius of every standing tree. Utility trenches need flat ground. A bulldozer flattens 200 lots in an afternoon. Preserving trees adds weeks and thousands per home. So the developer pockets $5,000 in savings and the buyer eats $50,000 in lost value for the next two decades. The person making the decision and the person paying for it have never been in the same room. The Woodlands, Texas is the proof of what happens when they are. George Mitchell bought 28,000 acres of Houston timberland in 1974 and preserved 28% as permanent green space. He forced McDonald's to build behind the tree canopy. That McDonald's became one of the highest-volume locations in Texas. The first office building, designed to reflect the surrounding forest so you couldn't see it from the street, leased completely. The Woodlands median home price today: $615,000. Katy, a comparable Houston suburb that clear-cut: $375,000. Named #1 community to live in America two years running. Fifty years of data. The trees are worth more than removing them saves. Developers clear-cut anyway because they sell the house once and leave. You live in it for 30 years.

The last light in London to be powered by sewer gas, just across from our hotel in London last week. #London #StrandPalace #StrandLondon @135thdegree @IrishSmuggling

Brook might be a model, but ugly on the inside. Stella is top notch….well done. #MAFSAU

True story.

Now would be the perfect time to rise up against a tyrannical government, isn’t that part of the Second Amendment??

A perfectly normal country. 🙄🤷‍♂️

The strategic importance of Dubai cannot be underestimated… It’s a concentrated holding pen for 98% of the world’s fucking idiots.

Sadly, young Donald’s brilliant military career was interrupted by the unfortunate outbreak of the Vietnam War.