Voting for #Labour gets you **NO wealth taxes** AND high immigration AND a crumbling welfare state AND high wage taxes AND unaffordable housing. The #Brits just don't understand what a great deal they are. 😏 Farage is laughing all the way to Downing Street No10.

Labour loses Wales for the first time ever as mutinous MPs blame Starmer for once-in-a-generation elections disaster - with Greens racking up seats and Reform rampant | Daily Mail Online

Loyalist ministers and MPs have been deployed in a frantic bid to prop up the PM, after a series of backbenchers broke cover to demand his resignat...

Housing has not gone up, in real terms. Food has not gone up, in real terms. Energy of any kind has not gone up, in real terms. You know what has also not gone up? Wages.

Translated to American: Germans now pay $8.59/gallon for diesel, but it's actually "only" $6.85, when adjusted for inflation. View quoted note →

Vote for the Republicans and get perpetual war outside of the country. Vote for the Democrats and get perpetual war inside of the country. Time for a third option. #USA #politics

It's safe to assume that Trump wants to keep the Straight closed indefinitely, now, as opening it would immediately cause a glut of oil on the market and send the oil price down to a new, all-time low. GM

Please send me public messages or just reply to a thread and @ me. Keep seeing DMs months after they are sent.

When you translate a response and it's full of incomprehensible, sexualized cursing. I suspect it was meant to be an edgy political statement and got garbled in an overly-literal translation. But it's hard to respond to a comment like that, without it being uncomfortable. Please, think of the translations.

Got #gold? 🪎

Ich kann gar nicht folgen, was im Iran gerade los ist. Nicht nur, wie es mit dem Krieg steht, sondern ob es überhaupt einen Krieg gibt und wer dabei ist und wer mit wem … Egal. Whatever. Gold ist jetzt über $4700 und Öl ist unter $100 und Bitcoin ist beinah bei € 70k, aber das könnte jederzeit umkehren. Keine Ahnung. Chaos. #wirtschaft

There are about 20,000 sailors stranded by the war, some of them starving and running out of drinking water, but both Iran and the USA let this guy's superyacht through. This is my surprised face. 😑

Russian superyacht Nord sails through Strait of Hormuz despite blockade

The 141m-long vessel, linked to a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, cleared the waterway despite an ongoing blockade.

Russia is such a weird place. They refuse a Christmas cease-fire and then call one out for their ghoulish military parade. A military parade with no kit. They can, at least, hide the missing soldiers by having the parade march in a circle, like the Soviets used to do. Or get some stand-ins, to do soldier fancy-dress for the cheering Muscovites and the meagre cadre of foreign despots willing to show up for the celebrations. Such as Slovakia's Prime Minister. Russia is moving air defenses from strategic assets (but not Putin's many palaces) to Moscow, to protect the world's most counter-productive parade from the air. Ukraine is probably going to take out some of those exposed assets while the idiots in the capital march in circles and preen. Moscow Marco is the new Bagdad Bob. China remains eerily calm and quiet; happy to watch Russia's military shift all remaining defenses to the Far West. Xi has not yet responded to the invitation, but maybe he will wave limply from Vladivostok. I doubt Russia will hold to their own ceasefire, but it's apparently part of their elaborate propaganda campaign. You know... call out a ceasefire, bomb Ukraine, Ukraine bombs back, cry. The usual theatre. They're now calling Ukraine "terrorists" and complaining that Ukraine is attacking them, and it's just bizarre because they've been at war — err, I mean, a *special operation* — with them for nearly 5 years. The Russian population has not yet been informed that there is a war on, but they have been informed that they are most definitely winning it. Apparently. #Russia #Ukraine

Added a heat map 🔥 and interaction map 👥 to #imwald. GN