Tom Spoors
@tomspoors.bsky.social
Brit in Brussels, Belgium Ex teacher, RAF officer, training director, university lecturer (Critical Thinking, English and Statistics). Private tutor English GCSE and maths. I love books, sci-fi, science, data science and science communication.
Another intelligent, well-thought out short. Pam Bondi's role as the cult's skinny white woman. A SWW believes she has power while the cult leader holds her no more than a loyal, replaceable follower. Many white women play the role of "cult defender" for their own security.
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Pam Bondi is the Skinny White Woman for the Cult of MAGA, Protecting the Leader
YouTube video by Knitting Cult Lady
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February 14, 2026 at 9:26 PM
Another intelligent, well-thought out short. Pam Bondi's role as the cult's skinny white woman. A SWW believes she has power while the cult leader holds her no more than a loyal, replaceable follower. Many white women play the role of "cult defender" for their own security.
youtu.be/GF2tkEdRhTY?...
youtu.be/GF2tkEdRhTY?...
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A good book. What caught my attention is a comment in reviews, "...why so-called Christians are espousing notions that seem immoral to an atheist."
This idea that atheists are bad people shows how pernicious "Christians" who are not "so-called Christians" believe in their own moral superiority.
This idea that atheists are bad people shows how pernicious "Christians" who are not "so-called Christians" believe in their own moral superiority.
A few Reviews of Separation of Church and Hate - www.simonandschuster.com/books/Separa...
February 14, 2026 at 7:37 PM
A good book. What caught my attention is a comment in reviews, "...why so-called Christians are espousing notions that seem immoral to an atheist."
This idea that atheists are bad people shows how pernicious "Christians" who are not "so-called Christians" believe in their own moral superiority.
This idea that atheists are bad people shows how pernicious "Christians" who are not "so-called Christians" believe in their own moral superiority.
And there it is. They want more people arrested so that their profits increase. The dark and unsettling truth about how business views human life in the USA. Some deep soul searching is due.
🚨 For-profit prison company:
“CoreCivic’s revenue from contracts with ICE skyrocketed in 2025, but some participants on today’s quarterly earnings call expressed concerns that ICE had not detained as many immigrants as investors hoped.”
#Divest #$CXW
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“CoreCivic’s revenue from contracts with ICE skyrocketed in 2025, but some participants on today’s quarterly earnings call expressed concerns that ICE had not detained as many immigrants as investors hoped.”
#Divest #$CXW
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Despite Increased Profits, Private Prison Companies Want to Cage Even More People
CoreCivic and GEO Group’s investors expressed frustration that ICE’s record immigration detention numbers aren’t high enough.
theappeal.org
February 14, 2026 at 7:12 PM
And there it is. They want more people arrested so that their profits increase. The dark and unsettling truth about how business views human life in the USA. Some deep soul searching is due.
The K-Shaped economy's income inequality now matches France - pre-Revolution. People are waking up to the fact of where the money is going. The "trickle-down" trick has become a flood-up deception.
Quand le peuple est deçu, les têtes peuvent se trouvent en tissu.
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Quand le peuple est deçu, les têtes peuvent se trouvent en tissu.
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What Airlines Don't Want You to Know
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
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February 14, 2026 at 5:27 PM
The K-Shaped economy's income inequality now matches France - pre-Revolution. People are waking up to the fact of where the money is going. The "trickle-down" trick has become a flood-up deception.
Quand le peuple est deçu, les têtes peuvent se trouvent en tissu.
youtube.com/shorts/wlNBd...
Quand le peuple est deçu, les têtes peuvent se trouvent en tissu.
youtube.com/shorts/wlNBd...
Monte's messages are so powerful. She sees and stands with those abused by the systems put in place by sick men preying on the weak while praying to their false gods.
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I can’t get them out of my head and I don’t sleep well.
YouTube video by Monte Mader
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February 14, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Monte's messages are so powerful. She sees and stands with those abused by the systems put in place by sick men preying on the weak while praying to their false gods.
youtube.com/shorts/k31wq...
youtube.com/shorts/k31wq...
Excruciatingly expensive then and more so now. The science can be done with robots so it has to be private companies burning their own cash. That's never going to happen - no taxpayer cash, no profit!
February 13, 2026 at 9:17 PM
Excruciatingly expensive then and more so now. The science can be done with robots so it has to be private companies burning their own cash. That's never going to happen - no taxpayer cash, no profit!
Billionaires are a relatively new trophic group. They are predatory money-vores. All people aspiring to be billionaires are nascent money-vores. They eat everyone's money because that's what they do.
Money represents energy in our economy.
Money represents energy in our economy.
"Nothing CBC News has seen suggests Smolin did anything illegal or participated in any of Epstein's illicit activities, and appearing in the files is not an indication in itself of any wrongdoing."
Yeah naw, sorry. Anyone in contact with Epstein, if not a sexual predator, aspired to be one.
Yeah naw, sorry. Anyone in contact with Epstein, if not a sexual predator, aspired to be one.
February 13, 2026 at 5:49 PM
Billionaires are a relatively new trophic group. They are predatory money-vores. All people aspiring to be billionaires are nascent money-vores. They eat everyone's money because that's what they do.
Money represents energy in our economy.
Money represents energy in our economy.
Also, elections are run at the state level and the presiding officer of the union does not have the competence (in the current case both senses of the meaning).
Because DHS paramilitaries are masked, heavily armed, poorly trained, and have been terrorizing Americans for months. Because Americans don't want to vote at gunpoint. #holdfast
February 13, 2026 at 3:18 PM
Also, elections are run at the state level and the presiding officer of the union does not have the competence (in the current case both senses of the meaning).
"As well as revealing something about the mechanisms behind fundamental human behaviour, the findings, researchers say, could be useful in treating some brain disorders".
A potentially suitable treatment for greed and toxic empathy? So, how many billionaires would submit to the treatment?
A potentially suitable treatment for greed and toxic empathy? So, how many billionaires would submit to the treatment?
🚨 Encouraging new treatments now available for Tories and Reform voters... 🙂 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Brain stimulating test makes people 'less selfish'
Scientists have discovered how to make people less selfish - slightly and temporarily - by stimulating two areas of the brain.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 13, 2026 at 3:14 PM
"As well as revealing something about the mechanisms behind fundamental human behaviour, the findings, researchers say, could be useful in treating some brain disorders".
A potentially suitable treatment for greed and toxic empathy? So, how many billionaires would submit to the treatment?
A potentially suitable treatment for greed and toxic empathy? So, how many billionaires would submit to the treatment?
Indeed, Reform, being the perfect example of a "deeply flawed" institution, should not receive UK support.
February 13, 2026 at 3:07 PM
Indeed, Reform, being the perfect example of a "deeply flawed" institution, should not receive UK support.
Solidarity when it really counts🙂
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#fypシ #foryou #fypage #fypyoutube #fyp #fypシ゚viral
YouTube video by therealarskip
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February 13, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Solidarity when it really counts🙂
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The power of language has to clarify an argument. I hope no goats were harmed or forced to do anything they might find immoral or distasteful in this thought experiment.
February 13, 2026 at 11:08 AM
The power of language has to clarify an argument. I hope no goats were harmed or forced to do anything they might find immoral or distasteful in this thought experiment.
Shame on the government for this whole debâcle in the first place. I would hope that appropriate compensation and fulsome apologies will follow.
February 13, 2026 at 11:04 AM
Shame on the government for this whole debâcle in the first place. I would hope that appropriate compensation and fulsome apologies will follow.
Running a mile, uphill, on skis in under six minutes! It's hard to imagine how good these sportspeople are and how deluded the couch potato comments are.
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It’s time for the Olympics to add a new rule that makes an Average Joe do the event before any
YouTube video by Ev Hand
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February 13, 2026 at 9:28 AM
Running a mile, uphill, on skis in under six minutes! It's hard to imagine how good these sportspeople are and how deluded the couch potato comments are.
youtube.com/shorts/4X_l7...
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A reset is needed only when something is broken or likely to break or cause harm. The idea that the UK's lead in green energy is somehow a mistake is nuts. TB shows up again as the money-grubbing, fossil fuel lobbyist he is. Energy security requires independence from bad actor market control.
The Tony Blair Institute out there today calling for more oil and gas drilling in an absolute gift for Farage and Badenoch. Government will be forgiven for thinking, with friends like these... www.businessgreen.com/news/4525624...
Government hits back at Tony Blair Institute call to ditch clean power targets
Think tank calls for 'energy strategy reset' to permit more drilling in the North Sea and drop clean power by 2030 goal, sparking criticism from government and analysts
www.businessgreen.com
February 13, 2026 at 9:18 AM
A reset is needed only when something is broken or likely to break or cause harm. The idea that the UK's lead in green energy is somehow a mistake is nuts. TB shows up again as the money-grubbing, fossil fuel lobbyist he is. Energy security requires independence from bad actor market control.
The only "biological reality check" these ignorant bigots need is that Nature provides wonderful variation in everything. The variety is the reality – that's how evolution works. It's how the primordial soup became human.
I for one feel the world doesn't need more powerful middle aged men checking young girls
Reform candidate calls for young girls to be given "biological reality check" www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
February 13, 2026 at 9:05 AM
The only "biological reality check" these ignorant bigots need is that Nature provides wonderful variation in everything. The variety is the reality – that's how evolution works. It's how the primordial soup became human.
What is Tapper talking about? Is it British concentration camps for Boers or those set up by the Nazis or others around the world? There is no definition of concentration camp in law unlike genocide. Being a pedantic twat while talking to traumatised people is idiotic, cruel and inhuman.
Periodic reminder that his career only exists because he went on a date with Monica Lewinsky and wrote a gross gossipy sexist story about it.
God the gall of @jaketapper.bsky.social lecturing that Minneapolis small business owner about the meaning of the word "concentration camp" while people are being crammed into poorly resourced buildings by the thousands and shuttled off never to be heard from again
February 13, 2026 at 7:35 AM
What is Tapper talking about? Is it British concentration camps for Boers or those set up by the Nazis or others around the world? There is no definition of concentration camp in law unlike genocide. Being a pedantic twat while talking to traumatised people is idiotic, cruel and inhuman.
The disconnect between company executives and the public is really wide. Did no one run through the potential impact of such an advert such as, "How it might be received?", or "What message it might be sending?"
what one (creepy as shit) super bowl commercial will do to a (creepy as shit) company
Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash
February 13, 2026 at 7:18 AM
The disconnect between company executives and the public is really wide. Did no one run through the potential impact of such an advert such as, "How it might be received?", or "What message it might be sending?"
Google aim to be around a long time. They've issued a 100-year bond at 6.25% to fund data centres.
The bond is oversubscribed. It's good regular income for pension funds.
The idea of these tech bros being around 100 years from now doesn't fill me with joy, though!
www.reuters.com/business/alp...
The bond is oversubscribed. It's good regular income for pension funds.
The idea of these tech bros being around 100 years from now doesn't fill me with joy, though!
www.reuters.com/business/alp...
Alphabet sells rare 100-year bond to fund AI expansion as spending surges
Alphabet on Tuesday sold a rare 100-year bond, a memo from the lead manager showed, part of a $31.51 billion global bond raise, as artificial intelligence-driven spending sparks a surge in borrowing a...
www.reuters.com
February 13, 2026 at 6:46 AM
Google aim to be around a long time. They've issued a 100-year bond at 6.25% to fund data centres.
The bond is oversubscribed. It's good regular income for pension funds.
The idea of these tech bros being around 100 years from now doesn't fill me with joy, though!
www.reuters.com/business/alp...
The bond is oversubscribed. It's good regular income for pension funds.
The idea of these tech bros being around 100 years from now doesn't fill me with joy, though!
www.reuters.com/business/alp...
"Like hot shit off a wet shovel" is how my grandad would describe it.
The acceleration off the pad is stunning for this new Ariane 6 booster. No histrionics just work horse rocketry at its finest.
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The acceleration off the pad is stunning for this new Ariane 6 booster. No histrionics just work horse rocketry at its finest.
youtu.be/XGBibC67i7k?...
Launch of first Ariane 6 with four boosters
YouTube video by European Space Agency, ESA
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February 13, 2026 at 6:46 AM
"Like hot shit off a wet shovel" is how my grandad would describe it.
The acceleration off the pad is stunning for this new Ariane 6 booster. No histrionics just work horse rocketry at its finest.
youtu.be/XGBibC67i7k?...
The acceleration off the pad is stunning for this new Ariane 6 booster. No histrionics just work horse rocketry at its finest.
youtu.be/XGBibC67i7k?...
Is calling the Ukrainians "resilient" becoming a cop out? Are we hiding our lack of action behind hopeful words? Just help them to the fullest extent we can with what they need.
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@kyivindependent.com
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@kyivindependent.com
February 12, 2026 at 8:49 PM
Is calling the Ukrainians "resilient" becoming a cop out? Are we hiding our lack of action behind hopeful words? Just help them to the fullest extent we can with what they need.
youtube.com/post/Ugkx5Eb...
@kyivindependent.com
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@kyivindependent.com
Separated from reality. What needs to happen for these people to stop lying through their teeth?
So do we strap them to a chair and pin their eyes open while pushing them around to watch what ICE are doing? Does he believe a single word he says?
So do we strap them to a chair and pin their eyes open while pushing them around to watch what ICE are doing? Does he believe a single word he says?
tell it to the hague, buddy
Homan: "ICE is a legitimate federal law enforcement agency. We're not out scouring the streets to disappear people or deny people their civil rights or due process."
February 12, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Separated from reality. What needs to happen for these people to stop lying through their teeth?
So do we strap them to a chair and pin their eyes open while pushing them around to watch what ICE are doing? Does he believe a single word he says?
So do we strap them to a chair and pin their eyes open while pushing them around to watch what ICE are doing? Does he believe a single word he says?
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Darwin Day and Pizza Day two days apart. Sad.
Happy Darwin Day 2026! 🧪
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science."
- Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man (1871).
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science."
- Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man (1871).
February 12, 2026 at 4:43 PM
Darwin Day and Pizza Day two days apart. Sad.
Crypto is a Ponzi scheme. There is nothing of value behind it. Its value entirely depends on people hyping the market linger enough to get their cash out.
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Why Bitcoin Could Hit $0
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
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February 12, 2026 at 2:20 PM
Crypto is a Ponzi scheme. There is nothing of value behind it. Its value entirely depends on people hyping the market linger enough to get their cash out.
youtube.com/shorts/IXNUM...
youtube.com/shorts/IXNUM...