Nick Mitchener 🏳️‍🌈 🔭⚛️
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Retired CEO of engineering company now a physics technician in secondary education. IoP Technician award 2024. Clocks, scientific instruments , proper nerd. Ex sailor, ex mountaineer, ex fell walker, now arthritic and overweight! RSciTech MIntP He/him
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According to FB it is 4 years since we bought our first 17thC chest of drawers, now we have three. Never would have thought I would be able to afford such fabulous antiques, still doing the job they were made for.
17th century oak chest of drawers with geometric drawer fronts and bun feet.
I've taken to wearing a paper clip. At nearly 70 there isn't much I feel I can do to change the way the World seems to be going but like the Norwegians in WWII I want my view known. I do realise they were being much braver than me, so it is with respect to them too
I think, just as important as the benefit to the environment, is the opportunity to teach students about the benefits of rewilding.
I agree, if the Government continues to insist that we can't consider rejoining the SM & CU then they are as responsible for the current mess as the people who caused it.
I’m not sure (unfortunately) I entirely buy ‘Brexit was a disaster’ as a political argument…everyone already knows this and the party in charge during that period is out of power for the foreseeable future…

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Rachel Reeves says tax rises and spending cuts on budget agenda, citing Brexit impact
Chancellor also blames austerity and ‘ongoing impact of Liz Truss mini-budget’ for growing shortfall in public finances
www.theguardian.com
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In one crisp para — & the 2 charts he highlights — @chrisgiles.ft.com bursts a huge number of “welfare” myths www.ft.com/content/ee67...
I thought our minimum wage was awful!
Yesterday, California adopted a law to raise the pay received by incarcerated firefighters when they’re fighting a fire from $1 to $7.25 per hour—meeting the federal minimum wage. Four other new laws also give new rights to incarcerated firefighters.
California's incarcerated firefighters to see a ‘historic’ pay increase in laws Newsom signed
Hundreds of California state prisoners worked to put out this year's deadly Los Angeles wildfires, inspiring new laws that will improve their pay and open other opportunities.
calmatters.org
Monarchy is no way to design a system and you can see why the founding fathers planned against it, however their system relies on each part behaving well, see where that got them. At least Constitutional Monarchies have not worked out like that.
Counter point: monarchies are inherently anti democratic and therefore bad. If you still operate under the idea that there are some “good” monarchies out there, then you might not be equipped to comment on this moment.

Respectfully, though.
Incidentally, I’ve been chafing a bit at the “No Kings” thing, because there are loads of monarchies that have more limits on executive power than the US does, but it has the great advantage that it makes Americans who want to oppose it sound, well, unamerican….
Is it true that less than 3 days after the attack on Israel Hamas offered to return all the hostages taken if Israel agreed not to attack Gaza?

If so why are Israelis not criticising Netanyahu rather than celebrating the return of the survivors?
We are going to be brave and label our ivy broomrape. I hope the students see it as something to treasure. I got this line drawing to go with the text as it is visible all year round🌿🧪
A remarkable measure to use on the state of the World.
Thiel said that international financial bodies, which make it more difficult for people to shelter their wealth in tax havens, are one sign the antichrist may be amassing power and hastening Armageddon, saying: “It’s become quite difficult to hide one’s money.”
I doubt it, so few seem to know it even has a right way up
I don't get this, is his doc some sort of quack? I don't think his ankles swelling like that with Chronic venous insufficiency could possibly be considered to be typical of somebody 14 years longer.
We had the merlin app running while we were feeding the sparrows, blackbirds, and starlings. We thought we heard Ravens, confirmed by the Merlin app. Then it said Great spotted woodpecker, and then it said Osprey!
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Why does this tax exile 'foreigner' think our government should discuss policy with him? He should feck off back to Monaco. Made his choice based on his own interest, to avoid tax. Anything he has to say will be only in his own interests, again.

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Miliband refused to discuss North Sea with me, says Ratcliffe
Ineos owner urges policymakers to reform net zero taxes or risk ‘irreversible decline’
www.telegraph.co.uk
Can we fill the spaceship now (add Farage)
WOW. Posting also to the 🧪 feed
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
Slow horses is fantastic, just waiting for another apple offer so I can binge watch it.
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This woman is on fire in the EU parliament.
What is it that you actually see? What is the flash of light? I read the first sighting was by Monks centuries ago.