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
Political donations are Bribes!
Please don't send me crisis appeals, I support via UNICEF
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Further considering a recent Mamdani video, what struck me was how he actually seems to understand the real issue of regulatory impact on small businesses. UK politicians are simply not showing similar real life comprehension and tying them into policy. bsky.app/profile/davi...
Dangerous socialist or hitting one of the biggest problems with modern economies, that life is just getting too hard for small businesses and that saps energy from the market? Feels like EU and UK policy makers should be taking notice rather than the same old tired talk.
Soon small businesses won’t have to wait for Small Business Saturday to get attention from their Mayor.
Some changes that they can look forward to:
Some changes that they can look forward to:
December 1, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Further considering a recent Mamdani video, what struck me was how he actually seems to understand the real issue of regulatory impact on small businesses. UK politicians are simply not showing similar real life comprehension and tying them into policy. bsky.app/profile/davi...
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#SpotTheScammer
@hamonry.bsky.social using pics of a woman whose images are all over social media under different names, mainly - as this one is - advance fee scamming. Word salad bio.
"What’s your Cashapp or Venmo or Apple Pay or chime and get spoil instant with those your bills"
@hamonry.bsky.social using pics of a woman whose images are all over social media under different names, mainly - as this one is - advance fee scamming. Word salad bio.
"What’s your Cashapp or Venmo or Apple Pay or chime and get spoil instant with those your bills"
December 1, 2025 at 9:48 AM
#SpotTheScammer
@hamonry.bsky.social using pics of a woman whose images are all over social media under different names, mainly - as this one is - advance fee scamming. Word salad bio.
"What’s your Cashapp or Venmo or Apple Pay or chime and get spoil instant with those your bills"
@hamonry.bsky.social using pics of a woman whose images are all over social media under different names, mainly - as this one is - advance fee scamming. Word salad bio.
"What’s your Cashapp or Venmo or Apple Pay or chime and get spoil instant with those your bills"
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Every single person now has plastic particles in their brains and reproductive organs and forever chemicals in their bloodstream. Oh and contrary to this article you can't get rid of them by eating well.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I have high levels of forever chemicals in my blood - what can I do about it?
The chemicals would
www.bbc.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Every single person now has plastic particles in their brains and reproductive organs and forever chemicals in their bloodstream. Oh and contrary to this article you can't get rid of them by eating well.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Confusing a Montreal cognitive test with an IQ test is one thing. Complete loss of inhibition exhibited by his retorts to journalists strongly suggests that, cognitive tests or no, his dementia is advancing rapidly.
Trump unleashes latest insult at female reporter who asked about MRI
Trump unleashes latest insult at female reporter who asked about MRI
Trump unleashes latest insult at female reporter who asked about MRI
www.independent.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Confusing a Montreal cognitive test with an IQ test is one thing. Complete loss of inhibition exhibited by his retorts to journalists strongly suggests that, cognitive tests or no, his dementia is advancing rapidly.
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Important to understand the state the US is in.
"After she spent a night detained in Texas, she was put on a bus with shackles on her wrists, waist and ankles before being put on a flight to Honduras"
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...
"After she spent a night detained in Texas, she was put on a bus with shackles on her wrists, waist and ankles before being put on a flight to Honduras"
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...
College Student Is Deported During Trip Home for Thanksgiving
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Important to understand the state the US is in.
"After she spent a night detained in Texas, she was put on a bus with shackles on her wrists, waist and ankles before being put on a flight to Honduras"
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...
"After she spent a night detained in Texas, she was put on a bus with shackles on her wrists, waist and ankles before being put on a flight to Honduras"
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...
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"There are a thousand and one legitimate reasons why people are on benefits - and many of those people are already working hard to afford to live, or use food banks because they can't afford to feed and heat themselves. As this post says, 'stop judging'!"
via Stevie Burrows
via Stevie Burrows
December 1, 2025 at 9:27 AM
"There are a thousand and one legitimate reasons why people are on benefits - and many of those people are already working hard to afford to live, or use food banks because they can't afford to feed and heat themselves. As this post says, 'stop judging'!"
via Stevie Burrows
via Stevie Burrows
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#SpotTheScammer
@alexandrarobin881.bsky.social bio: "Dm me with your cashapp or Venmo or PayPal if you need help with your Christmas 🎄 bills 💵"
This is an advance fee scammer. I can't trace the owner of the pics they're using.
@alexandrarobin881.bsky.social bio: "Dm me with your cashapp or Venmo or PayPal if you need help with your Christmas 🎄 bills 💵"
This is an advance fee scammer. I can't trace the owner of the pics they're using.
December 1, 2025 at 9:56 AM
#SpotTheScammer
@alexandrarobin881.bsky.social bio: "Dm me with your cashapp or Venmo or PayPal if you need help with your Christmas 🎄 bills 💵"
This is an advance fee scammer. I can't trace the owner of the pics they're using.
@alexandrarobin881.bsky.social bio: "Dm me with your cashapp or Venmo or PayPal if you need help with your Christmas 🎄 bills 💵"
This is an advance fee scammer. I can't trace the owner of the pics they're using.
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The reason the top 10% of income earners pay more than half of all tax revenue is NOT because they are taxed more than ever.
Their tax rate has been cut FIVE times in the last 25 years.
They are paying more because their INCOME has increased astronomically, where the income of the bottom half has
Their tax rate has been cut FIVE times in the last 25 years.
They are paying more because their INCOME has increased astronomically, where the income of the bottom half has
November 29, 2025 at 12:23 PM
The reason the top 10% of income earners pay more than half of all tax revenue is NOT because they are taxed more than ever.
Their tax rate has been cut FIVE times in the last 25 years.
They are paying more because their INCOME has increased astronomically, where the income of the bottom half has
Their tax rate has been cut FIVE times in the last 25 years.
They are paying more because their INCOME has increased astronomically, where the income of the bottom half has
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Plopkins: FARAGE MUST FACE SLEAZE PROBE OVER RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE, RACISM AND COUNTLESS OTHER LIES
December 1, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Plopkins: FARAGE MUST FACE SLEAZE PROBE OVER RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE, RACISM AND COUNTLESS OTHER LIES
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Protests in Falkirk started after an asylum seeker was jailed for rape. There were 82 other reports of rape or attempted rape in Falkirk that year. One of the protest organisers has convictions for violence, and another for domestic abuse
#BBCNews - An angry confrontation and online abuse: Inside the #asylum protests in a divided town
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#migration #migrants #refugees
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#migration #migrants #refugees
An angry confrontation and online abuse: Inside the asylum protests in a divided town
A Disclosure documentary uncovers the figures behind the protests around asylum hotels which have divided communities.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Protests in Falkirk started after an asylum seeker was jailed for rape. There were 82 other reports of rape or attempted rape in Falkirk that year. One of the protest organisers has convictions for violence, and another for domestic abuse
Worth bearing in mind when we witness their unhinged criticism of Reeves.
Your reminder of what the Mail, Express and Sun thought about Liz Truss and her Kamikaze budget
December 1, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Worth bearing in mind when we witness their unhinged criticism of Reeves.
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Channel 4 News covered it reasonably well and found another angle on it pretty much unreported.
But yeah, 95%+ of Brits don't even know there's a Channel 4 News.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJkc...
But yeah, 95%+ of Brits don't even know there's a Channel 4 News.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJkc...
Trinidad becomes a victim of Trump's drug war against Venezuela
YouTube video by Channel 4 News
www.youtube.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Channel 4 News covered it reasonably well and found another angle on it pretty much unreported.
But yeah, 95%+ of Brits don't even know there's a Channel 4 News.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJkc...
But yeah, 95%+ of Brits don't even know there's a Channel 4 News.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJkc...
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The amount of outright lies the previous Tory ministers brazenly told and not once where they challenged like this. UK media is an absolute sh*tshow.
December 1, 2025 at 8:14 AM
The amount of outright lies the previous Tory ministers brazenly told and not once where they challenged like this. UK media is an absolute sh*tshow.
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So take this in. Straight from the NATO meeting after Russia’s attack Britain’s primary military town, Salisbury, Boris Johnson flew unofficially to party in Umbria with a former KGB officer working for the Kremlin.
Can anyone tell me how this has been forgotten?
It is Profumo on stilts
Can anyone tell me how this has been forgotten?
It is Profumo on stilts
November 30, 2025 at 4:45 AM
So take this in. Straight from the NATO meeting after Russia’s attack Britain’s primary military town, Salisbury, Boris Johnson flew unofficially to party in Umbria with a former KGB officer working for the Kremlin.
Can anyone tell me how this has been forgotten?
It is Profumo on stilts
Can anyone tell me how this has been forgotten?
It is Profumo on stilts
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A diorama of the scorched earth on display at the Nagaoka Air Raid Center, one of many small memorial museums facing closure as survivor memory activists who fought to establish them pass away
December 1, 2025 at 7:03 AM
A diorama of the scorched earth on display at the Nagaoka Air Raid Center, one of many small memorial museums facing closure as survivor memory activists who fought to establish them pass away
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I bet most people in the UK haven't the faintest idea that Trump has been bombing Venezuelan boats.
November 30, 2025 at 11:52 PM
I bet most people in the UK haven't the faintest idea that Trump has been bombing Venezuelan boats.
The standard test for Lyme has major failings and misses a high percentage of cases. This is a long overdue substantial step forward!
Remarkable story of a Georgia high school team who used CRISPR to make a rapid diagnostic test strip for Lyme disease, speeding dx from 2 weeks to days
www.cbsnews.com/news/teens-m...
www.cbsnews.com/news/teens-m...
Teens may have come up with a new way to detect, treat Lyme disease using CRISPR gene editing
To compete at iGEM, a sort of science Olympics, teens at a Georgia high school set their sights on finding a better way to detect and treat Lyme disease. Their approach uses CRISPR gene editing.
www.cbsnews.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:30 AM
The standard test for Lyme has major failings and misses a high percentage of cases. This is a long overdue substantial step forward!
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Trumps Economy is in trouble.
November 30, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Trumps Economy is in trouble.
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Russia's Tu-22M bombers haven't threatened Ukraine in a year.
16 just moved 2,900 km closer. Three days later, they probed NATO airspace over the Baltic. euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/29/b...
16 just moved 2,900 km closer. Three days later, they probed NATO airspace over the Baltic. euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/29/b...
November 30, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Russia's Tu-22M bombers haven't threatened Ukraine in a year.
16 just moved 2,900 km closer. Three days later, they probed NATO airspace over the Baltic. euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/29/b...
16 just moved 2,900 km closer. Three days later, they probed NATO airspace over the Baltic. euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/29/b...
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For context the 'Middle England' referred to here is the 0.5% of households living in homes worth more than £2 million
November 30, 2025 at 10:27 PM
For context the 'Middle England' referred to here is the 0.5% of households living in homes worth more than £2 million
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One thing that Pyotr doesn’t say directly, though he infers it repeatedly, is that the Oligarchs are essentially sucking all the transferable wealth out of the Russian state right now, and dumping their unusable (internationally) rubles to pay for it.
November 30, 2025 at 11:23 PM
One thing that Pyotr doesn’t say directly, though he infers it repeatedly, is that the Oligarchs are essentially sucking all the transferable wealth out of the Russian state right now, and dumping their unusable (internationally) rubles to pay for it.
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NATO should defend Ukraine as if it were a member. Enough with the abstract – what's happening in now, in the real world, necessitates it. If not, it's only a matter of time that NATO is directly at war with Russia. The instant the war is over, make it official. NATO is much stronger with Ukraine.
December 1, 2025 at 12:12 AM
NATO should defend Ukraine as if it were a member. Enough with the abstract – what's happening in now, in the real world, necessitates it. If not, it's only a matter of time that NATO is directly at war with Russia. The instant the war is over, make it official. NATO is much stronger with Ukraine.
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One thing I learned over the weekend from talking to finance people is that they assume the AI bubble is going to burst and their issue is figuring out when so they can time their trades right.
November 30, 2025 at 8:23 PM
One thing I learned over the weekend from talking to finance people is that they assume the AI bubble is going to burst and their issue is figuring out when so they can time their trades right.
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Pa's slightly more well known cousin. No mention here of the fact that his sculptress wife Mitzi designed the BAFTA award.
November 30, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Pa's slightly more well known cousin. No mention here of the fact that his sculptress wife Mitzi designed the BAFTA award.
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