David Nichols

@d-nichols.bsky.social

Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear? Colchester, Essex, UK.

Nigel Farage vs "the establishment" He went to private school, worked as a stockbroker, has been a professional politician for 31 years, has his own TV show, is a brand ambassador for gold, is mates with POTUS, accepted a secret £5m gift, and owns five houses bought outright with cash What a rebel

Letter in today's Times by climate scientist Sir Brian Hoskins: "The discourse around net-zero is increasingly decoupled from…science and our changing weather. "Net-zero is not an arbitrary slogan, rather it is dictated by the laws of physics."

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New aftershave in Lidl: gives you the precise aroma of a widowed policeman investigating the murder of his daughter, drawn into a wide-ranging political conspiracy involving nuclear weapons.

Two boxes of aftershave called ‘Edge Of Darkness’

Bluesky! You spent a morning on your bike. Did some chores. Went to your Dad's for a drink, *some* rose was drank. You're home, cooking a pizza, laying on the sofa. Having just watched all the Batman series, which 2 Nolan films would I watch tonight? I have them all on Blu-ray...

Wondering if that Starmer fellow might at this point get off his hind legs, and then, standing erect, tell this swine to apologize or otherwise go fuck himself. I'm asking on behalf of the British war dead. The U.K. lost soldiers at a per capita rate only slightly below that of the U.S.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7mo ago

Trump on NATO: "I've always said, will they be there if we ever needed them? That's really the ultimate test. I'm not sure of that. We've never needed them. They'll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan and this or that. And they did. They stayed a little back, off the front lines."

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

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Disruptors. How did we ever fall for Disruptors? They sell it as hipsters finding clever ways to make life easier. They're actually conmen, strip-mining entire industries and destabilising democracy by dismantling the standards that make society function.