John T
@jayt22.bsky.social
Oracle database expert. Glider pilot, ex scuba diver, bit of a geek. Fan of news and current affairs. Follow technology, politics, space exploration, astronomy and Physics. Been vegetarian for several years. Can't give up cheese, sorry about that cows
John Thomas is backing the campaign to end compulsory religious worship in schools.
Please add your voice by contacting your MSP today. Opponents are lobbying MSPs intensively - we need supporters like you to make their voice heard!
humanist.eaction.org.uk/religious-ob...
John Thomas
Please add your voice by contacting your MSP today. Opponents are lobbying MSPs intensively - we need supporters like you to make their voice heard!
humanist.eaction.org.uk/religious-ob...
John Thomas
Tell your MSP why school pupils deserve the right to opt out of religious worship
humanist.eaction.org.uk
November 13, 2025 at 7:24 PM
John Thomas is backing the campaign to end compulsory religious worship in schools.
Please add your voice by contacting your MSP today. Opponents are lobbying MSPs intensively - we need supporters like you to make their voice heard!
humanist.eaction.org.uk/religious-ob...
John Thomas
Please add your voice by contacting your MSP today. Opponents are lobbying MSPs intensively - we need supporters like you to make their voice heard!
humanist.eaction.org.uk/religious-ob...
John Thomas
Wow.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...
It wasn't like the DG was personally involved in the editorial decisions, and while the edit may have been unwise, Trump did speak those words, the video of his speeches contains no fakery.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...
It wasn't like the DG was personally involved in the editorial decisions, and while the edit may have been unwise, Trump did speak those words, the video of his speeches contains no fakery.
BBC director general Tim Davie and News CEO Deborah Turness resign over Trump documentary edit
Deborah Turness, the CEO of news, says “mistakes have been made”.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Wow.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...
It wasn't like the DG was personally involved in the editorial decisions, and while the edit may have been unwise, Trump did speak those words, the video of his speeches contains no fakery.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...
It wasn't like the DG was personally involved in the editorial decisions, and while the edit may have been unwise, Trump did speak those words, the video of his speeches contains no fakery.
Political parties, what's that about?
I agree with some on some policies, some more than others, but I can't sign up to any of them because they each have "red lines" I will not cross.
I agree with some on some policies, some more than others, but I can't sign up to any of them because they each have "red lines" I will not cross.
November 6, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Political parties, what's that about?
I agree with some on some policies, some more than others, but I can't sign up to any of them because they each have "red lines" I will not cross.
I agree with some on some policies, some more than others, but I can't sign up to any of them because they each have "red lines" I will not cross.
This is exactly the sort of activity anti-Big Brother legislation like GDPR is supposed to protect us from.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
What on Earth makes this defensible?
HMRC are entitled to investigate fraud, but they must pay due regard to quality of information, surely?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
What on Earth makes this defensible?
HMRC are entitled to investigate fraud, but they must pay due regard to quality of information, surely?
HMRC likely to have breached privacy laws in stopping child benefit – experts
Watchdog contacts tax authority after families’ payments stopped based on flawed travel data
www.theguardian.com
November 2, 2025 at 10:21 AM
This is exactly the sort of activity anti-Big Brother legislation like GDPR is supposed to protect us from.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
What on Earth makes this defensible?
HMRC are entitled to investigate fraud, but they must pay due regard to quality of information, surely?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
What on Earth makes this defensible?
HMRC are entitled to investigate fraud, but they must pay due regard to quality of information, surely?
British Army Increases Challenger 2 Tank Fleet to 288 for Stronger Heavy Armour Posture share.google/R7vu3HwsSCPj...
What, exactly, would the British Army do with these in a time of war?
They are not known for floating very well and any attempt to ship them to Europe would not end well.
What, exactly, would the British Army do with these in a time of war?
They are not known for floating very well and any attempt to ship them to Europe would not end well.
British Army Increases Challenger 2 Tank Fleet to 288 for Stronger Heavy Armour Posture
UK MoD tables list 288 Challenger 2 tanks for 2025. The bigger fleet highlights a tougher question for Britain and NATO, how many are actually ready to fight.
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November 2, 2025 at 8:13 AM
British Army Increases Challenger 2 Tank Fleet to 288 for Stronger Heavy Armour Posture share.google/R7vu3HwsSCPj...
What, exactly, would the British Army do with these in a time of war?
They are not known for floating very well and any attempt to ship them to Europe would not end well.
What, exactly, would the British Army do with these in a time of war?
They are not known for floating very well and any attempt to ship them to Europe would not end well.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Yes, but we need more storage to cover the gaps and emissions free baseload helps.
Yes, but we need more storage to cover the gaps and emissions free baseload helps.
Wind power has cut £104bn from UK energy costs since 2010, study finds
Reduction comes from energy generated from windfarms and lower cost of gas owing to lower demand
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 6:42 AM
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Yes, but we need more storage to cover the gaps and emissions free baseload helps.
Yes, but we need more storage to cover the gaps and emissions free baseload helps.
@theobserveruk.bsky.social TV switch-off date could cut access for 10m UK viewers share.google/GTaaU9OtKD2E...
Your headline's broken. 2025 is this year, one year ahead of the decision date.
Your headline's broken. 2025 is this year, one year ahead of the decision date.
TV switch-off date could cut access for 10m UK viewers
Plans to move to internet-only streaming by 2025 are moving too fast for many British households, according to a new report
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October 26, 2025 at 10:39 PM
@theobserveruk.bsky.social TV switch-off date could cut access for 10m UK viewers share.google/GTaaU9OtKD2E...
Your headline's broken. 2025 is this year, one year ahead of the decision date.
Your headline's broken. 2025 is this year, one year ahead of the decision date.
@beyondfossilfuels.bsky.social Something I never see talked about much in the climate change debates... in burning fossil fuels we are getting back very old stored sunlight. Energy captured by plants hundreds of millions of years ago, that took hundreds of millions of years to turn into oil & gas.
October 24, 2025 at 1:51 PM
@beyondfossilfuels.bsky.social Something I never see talked about much in the climate change debates... in burning fossil fuels we are getting back very old stored sunlight. Energy captured by plants hundreds of millions of years ago, that took hundreds of millions of years to turn into oil & gas.
You can't store 400MW of electricity. Sigh, guess Paul Murphy means 400MWh, but who knows....
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
'Design failure' poses fire risk at Navenby battery storage site
A government body warns plans for the battery storage site at Navenby put people's health at risk.
www.bbc.com
October 23, 2025 at 5:14 AM
You can't store 400MW of electricity. Sigh, guess Paul Murphy means 400MWh, but who knows....
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Found this in a coffee shop in Stirling at the weekend and had to buy it to celebrate the 47th president of the United States.
October 22, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Found this in a coffee shop in Stirling at the weekend and had to buy it to celebrate the 47th president of the United States.
Larry Ellison's latest craze: Vectorizing all the customers • The Register share.google/zYxOqjuEmk1t...
Larry Ellison's latest craze: Vectorizing all the customers
Comment: Oracle slurps your data whether you like it or not... for the good and bad of the planet
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October 17, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Larry Ellison's latest craze: Vectorizing all the customers • The Register share.google/zYxOqjuEmk1t...
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Oracle Ai Database 26ai... E-I-E-I-O...
Old MacDonald Had a Farm share.google/GoXeoGBb9TZb...
Oracle Ai Database 26ai... E-I-E-I-O...
Old MacDonald Had a Farm share.google/GoXeoGBb9TZb...
Oracle AI Database 26ai replaces Oracle Database 23ai
Larry Ellison announced Oracle AI Database 26ai today in his keynote at Oracle AI World conference in Las Vegas. And I am pretty certain you may want some clarification on what this means exactly.…
mikedietrichde.com
October 16, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Oracle Ai Database 26ai... E-I-E-I-O...
Old MacDonald Had a Farm share.google/GoXeoGBb9TZb...
Oracle Ai Database 26ai... E-I-E-I-O...
Old MacDonald Had a Farm share.google/GoXeoGBb9TZb...
A cheery thought for the end of the week... to follow Trump and Kennedy's declaration that paracetamol causes autism - it doesn't - his administration has ordered the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission to review whether ionising radiation is really so bad after all.
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President Trump's radical attack on radiation safety - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
If President Trump's executive order results in a new public radiation exposure limit of around 10 rem—that opponents to the linear no-threshold (LNT) model for radiation exposure often advocate for—t...
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October 16, 2025 at 2:34 PM
A cheery thought for the end of the week... to follow Trump and Kennedy's declaration that paracetamol causes autism - it doesn't - his administration has ordered the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission to review whether ionising radiation is really so bad after all.
thebulletin.org/2025/10/pres...
thebulletin.org/2025/10/pres...
Is there a regulator that should stop abuse of using excessive market share to influence the decisions of democratic governments?
Source: Ryanair Corporate
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Source: Ryanair Corporate
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RYANAIR CUTS 800K SEATS & CANCELS 24 ROUTES FOR W25 DUE TO GERMAN GOVT’S FAILURE TO REDUCE HIGH ACCESS COSTS
Ryanair, Europe’s No.1 airline, today (Wednesday, 15th October) announced that it has reduced its German Winter ’25 capacity by over 800,000 seats and cancelled 24 routes across 9 high-cost German air...
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October 16, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Is there a regulator that should stop abuse of using excessive market share to influence the decisions of democratic governments?
Source: Ryanair Corporate
search.app/WhQ8H
Source: Ryanair Corporate
search.app/WhQ8H
www.theguardian.com/thefilter/20...
... Or spend a bit more on a laptop with user-replaceable and upgradable parts that could last 20 years?
... Or spend a bit more on a laptop with user-replaceable and upgradable parts that could last 20 years?
Do you really need to buy a new laptop? When to upgrade – and when to hold off
Don’t splash out just yet! Your existing laptop may have plenty left to give
www.theguardian.com
October 12, 2025 at 8:09 AM
www.theguardian.com/thefilter/20...
... Or spend a bit more on a laptop with user-replaceable and upgradable parts that could last 20 years?
... Or spend a bit more on a laptop with user-replaceable and upgradable parts that could last 20 years?
What is it with hotel WiFi? Why do they expose customers to risk of having their data stolen and not warn them?
If you use hotel WiFi without a password your data is not encrypted. If your apps or websites do not encrypt your transmissions, anyone on the network can see what you typed.
If you use hotel WiFi without a password your data is not encrypted. If your apps or websites do not encrypt your transmissions, anyone on the network can see what you typed.
October 11, 2025 at 4:55 PM
What is it with hotel WiFi? Why do they expose customers to risk of having their data stolen and not warn them?
If you use hotel WiFi without a password your data is not encrypted. If your apps or websites do not encrypt your transmissions, anyone on the network can see what you typed.
If you use hotel WiFi without a password your data is not encrypted. If your apps or websites do not encrypt your transmissions, anyone on the network can see what you typed.
Alexandra is among the people who lost their jobs for posting about the conservative influencer’s death. She described the online mob that got her fired as “state-sponsored censorship."
She posted about Charlie Kirk's death. Within eight hours, she was fired
Alexandra is among the people who lost their jobs for posting about the conservative influencer's death. She described the online mob that got her fired as "state-sponsored censorship."
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October 11, 2025 at 3:40 PM
@forev chargers not working on @electroverse.bsky.social or @chargeplacescotland?
October 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
@forev chargers not working on @electroverse.bsky.social or @chargeplacescotland?