Nick Mitchener 🏳️‍🌈 🔭⚛️
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Nick Mitchener 🏳️‍🌈 🔭⚛️
@crossjack.bsky.social
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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Some important new government policy that Native Americans might be interested in:
Trump talks about Denmark and Greenland just now: "The fact that they landed a boat there 500 years ago doesn't mean that they own the land."
January 9, 2026 at 10:02 PM
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some Native Americans would like a word
Trump: Right now we are going to do something on Greenland, whether they like it or not. If we don’t do it the easy, we’ll do it the hard way. I am a fan of Denmark, but the fact that they had a boat landing 500 years ago doesn't mean that they own the land.
January 9, 2026 at 10:36 PM
First day back at school. -10C at home so took ages to get the ice off. School is toasty and inset day with bacon butty but turns out some sort of kitchen failure so no bacon butty :(
January 5, 2026 at 7:59 AM
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Internet winner of the day:
January 4, 2026 at 11:30 PM
Given the poor state of US education and Trump's in particular
how much of the desire to own Greenland stems from the Magellan projection?
From the wife of a Trump advisor following the Venezuela invasion.

Sick.

Sharing here bc it illustrates the mindset.
January 4, 2026 at 11:42 AM
It's not oil either is it? Venezuelan oil is not the high quality stuff, and there is a glut of oil suppressing prices. Not much incentive for US oil companies.
If Trump’s concern was drugs, he’d not have pardoned Honduras’s corrupt leader; if terrorism, he’d have gone after Iran; if world order, Russia; if preserving US power, China. If democracy, human rights or humanitarian motive, dozens of other worthy cases. What’s left is oil. And Epstein.
January 4, 2026 at 11:37 AM
I can see why Starmer can't come out as strongly as this, but I think he needs to push the International law aspect much more. This action by Trump makes the World a far less safe place for many.
Statement Bernie Sanders
January 4, 2026 at 11:32 AM
Well that definitely works and that's without points on the electrodes!🧪
January 3, 2026 at 3:50 PM
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Cancel the LA Olympics, scrap the World Cup, the United States cannot be a trusted part of the international community so long as the White House operates this violently and with impunity.
January 3, 2026 at 7:13 AM
Whenever I see all this anti Somalian nonsense I think of Sir Mo Farah. Trafficked to the UK into modern slavery, now known as the best long distance runner of all time.
The split-screen here is unbelievable - first from yesterday, the others from 2017. Musk’s Twitter has truly driven us mad. People absorb far more of their beliefs from their social environment than they realize, and we’ve created an environment where being a gutter bigot is the baseline expectation
January 2, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Well it is 2026 now 10 years since a massive act of self harm that was the referendum. I really hope this is the year we see some positive steps to undo the damage.
January 1, 2026 at 1:54 AM
We had Margaret Thatcher for more than 10 years. At least she would not have allowed Brexit but otherwise not great.
December 30, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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TIL: Before Hans Asperger or Leo Kanner, a Jewish-Ukrainian psychiatrist named Grunya Sukhareva defined autism in 1925. Both men did not cite her work. She also had documented how it affected women and girls, where the men did not.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grunya_...
Grunya Sukhareva - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 30, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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"New True Edition"
via Trevor Martin
December 29, 2025 at 11:21 AM
If he had a contract with the Kennedy Centre and it is now the Trump Kennedy Centre is that not a significant change to the contract?
Yeah, suing artists will *definitely* get more people to attend your shitty events, Donald
npr.org NPR @npr.org · 14d
The Kennedy Center is planning legal action after jazz musician Chuck Redd canceled an annual holiday concert. Redd pulled out after President Trump's name appeared on the building. n.pr/49tB0uS
December 27, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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12YO girl signed up to do “stand up comedy” at the talent show. 13YO boy decided to heckle her. Teacher started to tell the boy to leave her alone, but the 12YO comedian said “no, no, let him go, this is the closest he’s ever going to get to having a conversation with a girl.”
What's an insult you'll never forget?
December 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Dyson is a greedy arsehole.
December 26, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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props to this christmas lad I’ve just spotted on @flightradar24.com
December 25, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Hmmm I just made a more healthy cheesecake by mistake, I forgot the sugar.
December 25, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Congratulations to HM The King on ending his Christmas message with a Ukrainian Carol and choir supported by a British military band. That's some symbolism there.
December 25, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Warning: very disturbing read. It’s a story told by a woman who Trump allegedly raped when she was 13. 13!!

It’s not new. She first came forward in 2016 when he began running for president. It was mostly ignored. But it seems increasingly plausible now! katemanne.substack.com/p/the-actual...
The Actual Conspiracy Theory Surrounding Trump and Epstein
It’s not what you think it is.
katemanne.substack.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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December 20, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.
Happy Hanukkah to our friends who celebrate. Rachel Posner, a rabbi’s wife in Kiel, Germany, took this photograph in 1931 -- a potent reminder that fascism must be fought in every generation, even if it's wrapped in an American flag and a red hat.
December 14, 2025 at 11:45 PM