Tony
@tonynicol3.bsky.social
Retired Water Industry Systems Engineer, no longer torturing wood on a lathe or mounting expeditions into the garden wilderness. Soup Dragon, First Class. Political donations are Bribes! Please don't send me crisis appeals, I support via UNICEF
Completely appropriate! apple.news/A14lO7w8BReG...
‘Seemed appropriate’: Vancouver Island artist uses horse manure to paint Trump portrait — CTV News
When Vancouver Island artist Wendy Chartrand decided to paint a portrait of U.S. President Donald Trump, she used a new medium she thought “seemed appropriate” for the subject—horse manure.
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It's called the Kemi Bounce. And resembles a falling piano.
Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister: Iran received messages from the US. The US said in messages that it's ready to return to its pledges.- IRNA
Blackrock US Billionaire is using 13,000 gallons of water a day to keep his grass green and trees watered in Wessex, England, where drought has been declared. They just think they can use everything up because the rules only apply to you.
#NoToPalantir - FUCK NO! Thiel wants democracy to die so that his capital gains. GET PALANTIR AND THIEL OUT OF THE UK!
Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 〓〓 🔶🌹💚💙@cornishskipper.bsky.social · 12h ago#NoToPalantir “Palantir paid just £2m in corporation tax in the UK in 2024, despite holding public sector contracts worth hundreds of millions, thanks to tax breaks that are likely to reduce its contributions to governments around the world for years to come” 🤬 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Six ballistic missiles left their launchers within seconds, revealing the speed behind Russia’s mass strikes The footage, later confirmed to have come from a July attack on Kyiv, captured the moment when the missiles were launched toward the Ukrainian capital 🎥Tsaplienko
I've said this before but it's worth saying again. The #ECHR was created to stop Europe from sliding back into fascism. If a political party tells you that they can't do what they want within the ECHR then stop and think about what it is they actually want to do.
Nothing to be proud of here...a Day of Shame for our UK, any Govt supporting this & an agency supposed to be representing Equality & Human Rights. Trans People were never a threat. Those seeking to remove Rights & exclude those who differ from them are. Not a debate just the latest move vs #ECHR.
🚨🚨Apologies to say this but this plan is extremely detached from realities of #EU politics and completely fails to understand the political dynamics of #Brussels.
Simon Usherwood@simonusherwood.bsky.social · 13h agoNick Boles on his plan for a European confederation. Paper with Demos coming later www.thetimes.com/article/8459...
Not that this research will matter.
Trump linked MMR vaccines to autism. Ties between the two were just debunked again
The results come at a fraught time for U.S. public health, and in particular for childhood vaccinations, including the MMR. Federal data reveals that MMR vaccination rates have been steadily dropping ...
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There is no conflict of rights between cis women and trans women, only a conflict between the goals anti-trans, anti-feminist hate groups and the broad interests of all women
If this isn't for Badenoch the final nail, or the last straw, then every last member of the Tory Party deserves to burn in hell.
Giles Wilkes@gilesyb.bsky.social · 2h agoAmazing.
Great Egret In the late 19th century, great egrets were hunted nearly to extinction for their delicate ornamental breeding plumes. Public outrage over the slaughter led to early protective laws and the creation of the National Audubon Society 📷: Bob Harvey #birds
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle... Yes, this is urgent ‼️ I’m not sure what we can do, but we need to do something.
‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley
As Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and their peers have grown richer and more influential, Gil Durán argues they have all but abandoned democracy – and found the perfect government to enable them
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Frankly astonishing piece by @alexisconran.com on all the data our phones keep on us and what they do with it (it's not good). open.substack.com/pub/scamproo...
oops (how did I miss this when it first happened!)
Smashing shot: cricketer hits six but breaks own car window
YouTube video by Guardian Sport
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Haha! Dutch partners: always there for you for a bit of constructive feedback. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
My son was wearing a "Vote Reform" t-shirt and an "I love Nigel" baseball hat. He's been spat at, abused, slapped around the head and told he's a brainless twat. God knows what's going to happen to him once he gets out of the house...
Folding like a cheap umbrella? The US has removed Iran-related sanctions, according to the US Treasury's website, Reuters reports.
BREAKING: Donavan McKinney has defeated incumbent Shri Thanedar in the MI-13 Democratic Primary! McKinney is an unapologetic progressive while Thanedar is a pro AIPAC pro genocide corporate puppet. A huge win for working people in MI!
The Reflecting Pool saga is a perfect diorama of how right-wing media turns Trump’s fantasies into public reality, and then tries to quietly conceal the wreckage once the facts catch up.
Jeanine Pirro's Reflecting Pool reckoning
The former Fox News star couldn't sustain Trump's fantasy. Her downfall is classic MAGA tale
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