@justathought.bsky.social
Older bloke in Surrey, UK, married with two grown up kids. Into music, technical stuff, walks, photography, visiting the world and trying to understand why politics is the way it is at the moment!
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🪶 🍃 🍂 🍁 Fall vibes 😎
📍 #Oregon
#BirdPhotography #Hummingbird #NaturePhotography #Wildlife #FeatheredFriends #BirdsOfBsky
📍 #Oregon
#BirdPhotography #Hummingbird #NaturePhotography #Wildlife #FeatheredFriends #BirdsOfBsky
December 19, 2025 at 1:58 AM
🪶 🍃 🍂 🍁 Fall vibes 😎
📍 #Oregon
#BirdPhotography #Hummingbird #NaturePhotography #Wildlife #FeatheredFriends #BirdsOfBsky
📍 #Oregon
#BirdPhotography #Hummingbird #NaturePhotography #Wildlife #FeatheredFriends #BirdsOfBsky
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Can you see the wings? It looks like an angel made of light watching over Alaska. 🕊️✨
Incredible Aurora display.
Incredible Aurora display.
December 19, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Can you see the wings? It looks like an angel made of light watching over Alaska. 🕊️✨
Incredible Aurora display.
Incredible Aurora display.
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Meanwhile in Infectious Diseases Clinic…
December 17, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Meanwhile in Infectious Diseases Clinic…
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#ArtWork: The 18th-century Baroque marble sculpture “Il Disinganno” [Translation: Release from Disillusionment], carved by the Genoese artist Francesco Queirolo.
#TheDETAIL on the net is just… BEYOND.
#TheDETAIL on the net is just… BEYOND.
December 18, 2025 at 7:45 AM
#ArtWork: The 18th-century Baroque marble sculpture “Il Disinganno” [Translation: Release from Disillusionment], carved by the Genoese artist Francesco Queirolo.
#TheDETAIL on the net is just… BEYOND.
#TheDETAIL on the net is just… BEYOND.
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Reform supporters keep telling us we are lying when I repeat this. So let’s be clear.
Here is the video of Nigel Farage himself saying the country will need to “have insurance based healthcare” - private healthcare. Those are his words. That is not a rumour and not spin.
youtu.be/pxuQyTCHXyE?...
Here is the video of Nigel Farage himself saying the country will need to “have insurance based healthcare” - private healthcare. Those are his words. That is not a rumour and not spin.
youtu.be/pxuQyTCHXyE?...
Nigel Farage on NHS & Insurance
YouTube video by Counter Collective - News & Politics
youtu.be
December 18, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Reform supporters keep telling us we are lying when I repeat this. So let’s be clear.
Here is the video of Nigel Farage himself saying the country will need to “have insurance based healthcare” - private healthcare. Those are his words. That is not a rumour and not spin.
youtu.be/pxuQyTCHXyE?...
Here is the video of Nigel Farage himself saying the country will need to “have insurance based healthcare” - private healthcare. Those are his words. That is not a rumour and not spin.
youtu.be/pxuQyTCHXyE?...
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People on low incomes in County Durham are about to be hit with a council tax bill for the first time.
Reform-led Durham County Council has voted to scrap full council tax exemptions for people on the lowest incomes.
Reform-led Durham County Council has voted to scrap full council tax exemptions for people on the lowest incomes.
December 18, 2025 at 2:57 PM
People on low incomes in County Durham are about to be hit with a council tax bill for the first time.
Reform-led Durham County Council has voted to scrap full council tax exemptions for people on the lowest incomes.
Reform-led Durham County Council has voted to scrap full council tax exemptions for people on the lowest incomes.
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Carolina Wren: #Kennebunk #Maine 12/25 #Sony a6700 #Sigma 16-300 @ 450mm fov. Program #birds & wildlife mods. #Photomator #nature #wren #birdphotography #Point’nShootNature
December 17, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Carolina Wren: #Kennebunk #Maine 12/25 #Sony a6700 #Sigma 16-300 @ 450mm fov. Program #birds & wildlife mods. #Photomator #nature #wren #birdphotography #Point’nShootNature
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Reform-run Derbyshire council to spend £5m on consultants to find savings
www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/local-n...
www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/local-n...
Reform-run council to spend £5m on consultants to find savings
Derbyshire County Council hopes consultants can find between £19.2 million and £38.7 million in savings
www.derbytelegraph.co.uk
December 17, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Reform-run Derbyshire council to spend £5m on consultants to find savings
www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/local-n...
www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/local-n...
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Peak Geminids Meteor shower this past Saturday night captured over Stonehenge.
Photo credit: Sandra.Davies6869
Photo credit: Sandra.Davies6869
December 16, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Peak Geminids Meteor shower this past Saturday night captured over Stonehenge.
Photo credit: Sandra.Davies6869
Photo credit: Sandra.Davies6869
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A #SanFrancisco based startup teamed up with designer Yves Béhar to build a tiny electric pickup about the size of a Mini Cooper that still has big utility like a normal truck bed. It aims to make #EV trucks easier to use in cities while challenging the trend toward massive pickups 🚗⚡️.
The tiny electric truck challenging America’s big pickup craze
Yves Béhar has shaped the look of contemporary technology for decades. Can he change America’s love affair with giant trucks?
sfstandard.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:30 PM
A #SanFrancisco based startup teamed up with designer Yves Béhar to build a tiny electric pickup about the size of a Mini Cooper that still has big utility like a normal truck bed. It aims to make #EV trucks easier to use in cities while challenging the trend toward massive pickups 🚗⚡️.
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Here's something interesting: an "Avita 12" luxury electric sedan from China.
One thing I like about Chinese cars is that so many are designed to prioritise tech and extreme comfort like American cars used to. Seems to work too judging by that cup of water on the wingcam.
One thing I like about Chinese cars is that so many are designed to prioritise tech and extreme comfort like American cars used to. Seems to work too judging by that cup of water on the wingcam.
December 16, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Here's something interesting: an "Avita 12" luxury electric sedan from China.
One thing I like about Chinese cars is that so many are designed to prioritise tech and extreme comfort like American cars used to. Seems to work too judging by that cup of water on the wingcam.
One thing I like about Chinese cars is that so many are designed to prioritise tech and extreme comfort like American cars used to. Seems to work too judging by that cup of water on the wingcam.
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From the new chief of Britain's MI6:
"Hundreds of thousands have died, with the toll mounting every day, because of Putin’s historical distortions and his compromised desire for respect. He is dragging out negotiations and shifting the cost of war onto his own population."
"Hundreds of thousands have died, with the toll mounting every day, because of Putin’s historical distortions and his compromised desire for respect. He is dragging out negotiations and shifting the cost of war onto his own population."
December 16, 2025 at 7:29 AM
From the new chief of Britain's MI6:
"Hundreds of thousands have died, with the toll mounting every day, because of Putin’s historical distortions and his compromised desire for respect. He is dragging out negotiations and shifting the cost of war onto his own population."
"Hundreds of thousands have died, with the toll mounting every day, because of Putin’s historical distortions and his compromised desire for respect. He is dragging out negotiations and shifting the cost of war onto his own population."
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Editorial lead at the Times between about 2018-21, and I have to say he is not wrong.
December 15, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Editorial lead at the Times between about 2018-21, and I have to say he is not wrong.
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Good news:
Sodium-Ion batteries are now legitimate competition to Lithium-Ion ones. Environmental impact of creation is much better, as is potential cost of production at scale (look, it's based on salt).
Solar is fully ready, but storage has been an issue, and that might be getting solved.
Sodium-Ion batteries are now legitimate competition to Lithium-Ion ones. Environmental impact of creation is much better, as is potential cost of production at scale (look, it's based on salt).
Solar is fully ready, but storage has been an issue, and that might be getting solved.
December 14, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Good news:
Sodium-Ion batteries are now legitimate competition to Lithium-Ion ones. Environmental impact of creation is much better, as is potential cost of production at scale (look, it's based on salt).
Solar is fully ready, but storage has been an issue, and that might be getting solved.
Sodium-Ion batteries are now legitimate competition to Lithium-Ion ones. Environmental impact of creation is much better, as is potential cost of production at scale (look, it's based on salt).
Solar is fully ready, but storage has been an issue, and that might be getting solved.
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Swirling - Canyon de Chelly, Arizona
#rocks #pattern #canyon #CanyondeChelly #Navajo #Arizona #landscape #landscapephotography #photography
#rocks #pattern #canyon #CanyondeChelly #Navajo #Arizona #landscape #landscapephotography #photography
December 14, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Swirling - Canyon de Chelly, Arizona
#rocks #pattern #canyon #CanyondeChelly #Navajo #Arizona #landscape #landscapephotography #photography
#rocks #pattern #canyon #CanyondeChelly #Navajo #Arizona #landscape #landscapephotography #photography
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Storm over Panama at 37k feet.
Santiago Borja
Santiago Borja
December 13, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Storm over Panama at 37k feet.
Santiago Borja
Santiago Borja
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I had no idea the little plants on this mug would be such a good design when I drew them brambledragon.etsy.com #ceramics #pottery #art
December 12, 2025 at 12:14 PM
I had no idea the little plants on this mug would be such a good design when I drew them brambledragon.etsy.com #ceramics #pottery #art
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A mind-blowing photo from Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 on Feb. 1-2, 2010: the Mystic Mountain, located in the Carina Nebula, 7,500 light-years away. #Hubble #astrophotography
Link for more info and photos: go.nasa.gov/44n4DLG
Link for more info and photos: go.nasa.gov/44n4DLG
December 12, 2025 at 3:36 PM
A mind-blowing photo from Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 on Feb. 1-2, 2010: the Mystic Mountain, located in the Carina Nebula, 7,500 light-years away. #Hubble #astrophotography
Link for more info and photos: go.nasa.gov/44n4DLG
Link for more info and photos: go.nasa.gov/44n4DLG
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Galaxies in the River apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25121...
Large galaxies grow by eating small ones. Even our own galaxy engages in a sort of galactic cannibalism, absorbing small galaxies that are too close and are captured by the Milky Way's gravity.
Large galaxies grow by eating small ones. Even our own galaxy engages in a sort of galactic cannibalism, absorbing small galaxies that are too close and are captured by the Milky Way's gravity.
December 11, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Galaxies in the River apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25121...
Large galaxies grow by eating small ones. Even our own galaxy engages in a sort of galactic cannibalism, absorbing small galaxies that are too close and are captured by the Milky Way's gravity.
Large galaxies grow by eating small ones. Even our own galaxy engages in a sort of galactic cannibalism, absorbing small galaxies that are too close and are captured by the Milky Way's gravity.
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Leader of Worcestershire County Council, Reform UK’s Jo Monk sent a cease and desist letter to an opposition member for doing what an opposition does.
To celebrate her fragile authoritarianism, here’s a list of Jo Monk fails. Please share as she ‘doesn’t want her name mentioned in public’
To celebrate her fragile authoritarianism, here’s a list of Jo Monk fails. Please share as she ‘doesn’t want her name mentioned in public’
December 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Leader of Worcestershire County Council, Reform UK’s Jo Monk sent a cease and desist letter to an opposition member for doing what an opposition does.
To celebrate her fragile authoritarianism, here’s a list of Jo Monk fails. Please share as she ‘doesn’t want her name mentioned in public’
To celebrate her fragile authoritarianism, here’s a list of Jo Monk fails. Please share as she ‘doesn’t want her name mentioned in public’
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This is significant: Nigel_Farage’s campaign manager on camera admitting they spent 2x the legal limit.
#FarageFraud
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#FarageFraud
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x.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:03 PM
This is significant: Nigel_Farage’s campaign manager on camera admitting they spent 2x the legal limit.
#FarageFraud
x.com/i/status/199...
#FarageFraud
x.com/i/status/199...
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Whoosh! - Weird! I posted this 2 days ago, and the text remains, but the image vanished. So here it is again!
And, this was just before it went crazy!
Not sure if you can see, but there are 3 or 4 horizontal bars in the middle of the "jet" for want of a better word.
#Aurora #EastCoastKin #Epic
And, this was just before it went crazy!
Not sure if you can see, but there are 3 or 4 horizontal bars in the middle of the "jet" for want of a better word.
#Aurora #EastCoastKin #Epic
December 10, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Whoosh! - Weird! I posted this 2 days ago, and the text remains, but the image vanished. So here it is again!
And, this was just before it went crazy!
Not sure if you can see, but there are 3 or 4 horizontal bars in the middle of the "jet" for want of a better word.
#Aurora #EastCoastKin #Epic
And, this was just before it went crazy!
Not sure if you can see, but there are 3 or 4 horizontal bars in the middle of the "jet" for want of a better word.
#Aurora #EastCoastKin #Epic