I'd like to make it clear that I am the kind of mapdevil who adores cartography. Atlases, globes and X marks the spot. I'd change my name but I've been a mapdevil to my family for decades. And why should I have to, anyway?

Great thread from @AcMustafaMilan about the origins of Flower of Scotland - the only thing I'd add Mustafa is how it came to being sung, which is also interesting. For decades God Save the Queen was played at Scottish sporting occasions 🧵

The Dover Strait is exactly that in international law. A strait. The British Navy has just - absolutely illegally - pirated a Russian oil tanker engaged in free passage through the strait. Total hypocrisy. And "shadow fleet" has no legal meaning, it is purely propaganda.

Israel flattened Beirut in 1982. No Hamas. No Hezbollah. No October 7 to point to then. Just 17,000 dead Lebanese and Palestinian civilians. Even US president then Ronald Reagan, who armed Israel, called Begin furious after seeing a photo of a 7-month-old baby with its arms blown off and said “It is a holocaust”. They killed so many innocent people that the survivors had no choice but to pick up weapons. Then Israel had the audacity to keep using “Self-Defense” excuse every decade. Israel didn’t stumble into endless war. Israel built it. Brick by brick. Own it.

'we seen' again and again...👀🙄👎 #GrammarPolice😇

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Scotland fans have arrived in the USA

JUST IN: 🇮🇷🇮🇱 Iran warns Israel's latest attack on Beirut's southern suburbs "will not go unanswered."

(PLEASE SHARE) I’m not exactly sure when police were allowed to start punching people in the face especially while handcuffed and detained! That’s assault #police #policebrutality

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People say we must change our national anthem - it's a dirge, negative or anti-english. Be suspicious of them. It's one of the great national anthems. They hate it because it is common - a 60s folk song, of the people, about our people, for our people. It is ours. It is us. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💙

No terrorism charge was ever brought against the Palestine Action prisoners. No jury ever convicted them of terrorism. A judge added the label at sentencing - alone. Britain calls this justice.

BREAKING: Apocalyptic scenes in Lebanon’s capital right now. Israel is bombing residential buildings in densely populated neighborhoods of Beirut. A ceasefire that still allows bombs to fall on civilians is not a ceasefire.

Breaking news rom Loch Ness! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Ending world hunger is estimated to cost approximately $39 - $267 billion per year. With Elon Musk's current net worth of about $1.1 trillion, paying the highest UN-estimated cost for a full decade would leave him with approximately $833 billion, meaning he would still retain roughly 76% of his total fortune. But yeah look, buying X and funding Tommy Tel Aviv Robinson to start a race war is probably more important 🤔

A police officer having to take over the counter painkillers and have a few weeks off work is being rhetorically treated like they were run over by a bulldozer, which is something Israel actually did to a peace activist in 2003.

btw few will appreciate how grimly funny it is that this judge both issued a gagging order so that the filton 4 could not explain their motivation to the jury, and then also sentenced them according to a specific intent provision requiring them to have had a specific motivation

So Zelensky desecrated the White House by not wearing a suit but this is ok?????

Royal Mail is complicit in the ethnic cleansing of Palestine DISGUSTING‼️

“So you think people should just have free food and housing?” Yes, one of the things EVERY GOVERNMENT ON EARTH should do is make sure its citizens have food and shelter. I haťe when people try to tell me I'm ďumb for wanting a utopia. What's the point of a species that can build one if they don't?