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Gavin Crook
@gavin1958.bsky.social
Retired radiographer, and formerly warden on the Farne Islands. Lover of science and nature. Born at 315 ppm.
This is nonsense. My father used to keep important documents in the left drawer of our television cabinet. That explains the icon: it's a television with a different style of storage, not a vending machine.
November 16, 2025 at 10:31 AM
What Daniel Hannan dreams about:
November 13, 2025 at 4:33 PM
If NASA *had* been to the moon, they'd have shared photos of this creature.
November 1, 2025 at 9:34 AM
@lorenabobbitttime.bsky.social
Apparently your post is "Rude"!
October 1, 2025 at 10:22 PM
@JustStopOil is aware of the implicit hypocrisy.
August 30, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Looking at the flag on the shirt,I'm reminded of the furore last year when the British Olympic Association’s ‘woke’ new Union Jack design was unveiled:
“They want us to basically be ashamed of who we are as people, not proud,” warned Nigel Farage.

To paraphrase: it's OK for us, but not for you.
August 18, 2025 at 9:17 AM
July 31, 2025 at 9:10 PM
This looks about right:
July 6, 2025 at 5:04 PM
This seems appropriate:
June 18, 2025 at 3:14 PM
nsidc.org is currently unavailable. I hope that this is only a temporary problem...
June 11, 2025 at 11:51 AM
News Thump nails it again.
May 30, 2025 at 3:07 PM
In case you're not aware of this tip:
May 22, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I particularly like the last couple of paragraphs:
April 3, 2025 at 12:15 PM
March 30, 2025 at 7:58 AM
March 19, 2025 at 6:31 PM
It's good to see that the cartoon from @xkcd.com is still relevant.
March 3, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Block and do not buy anything from this thief.
March 1, 2025 at 8:20 PM
I just came here to say the same thing. This from the UK.
February 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Sadly, it doesn't seem to have lasted long. This is from Mapquest just now:
February 12, 2025 at 11:46 AM
The graph ends in 2020. The rate was forecast in 2023 by the ONS to rise to record levels by 2027/28.
obr.uk/box/the-uks-...
January 28, 2025 at 9:40 AM
In the Good Old Days, "i like teslas" would have called himself "i like fords". Probably for the same reason.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_F...
January 22, 2025 at 8:48 PM
December 29, 2024 at 8:16 PM
...but still substantially behind the USA and Canada.
November 19, 2024 at 9:44 AM