Nigel
@nigel0061.bsky.social
Retired molecular biologist living on the edge of Dartmoor in Devon, UK. Likes: nature, books, photography, archaeology.
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Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area
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Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction
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Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it
Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…
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Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely
[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over
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Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat
[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster
Minister:
I understand your concerns…
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Nurse:
Are you OK love?
Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters
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Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian
[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]
Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love
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Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to
[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]
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Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR
[woman looks baffled]
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woman:
I just want a bus service
Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]
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Trust the unqualified, incompetent, self-serving & profiteering idiots instead?
RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.
October 16, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Trust the unqualified, incompetent, self-serving & profiteering idiots instead?
Pardon? ... bad connection I think.
October 15, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Pardon? ... bad connection I think.
I see your smooth pebble - I raise you my rugged flint beach hagstone pebble :-)
October 14, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I see your smooth pebble - I raise you my rugged flint beach hagstone pebble :-)
Not sure if true, but I read a few years ago that in the Kremlin they sometimes use typewriters for security rather than computers (maybe urban myth)
October 14, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Not sure if true, but I read a few years ago that in the Kremlin they sometimes use typewriters for security rather than computers (maybe urban myth)
I hope it didn't spoil the third one :)
October 12, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I hope it didn't spoil the third one :)
France's longest land border is with Brazil :-)
October 4, 2025 at 2:44 PM
France's longest land border is with Brazil :-)
I did all my exams with a fountain pen - I'm sure it helped me write a little bit quicker as it slid over the paper so easily compared to a biro.
October 3, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I did all my exams with a fountain pen - I'm sure it helped me write a little bit quicker as it slid over the paper so easily compared to a biro.
…. but left the gun in the 007 logo !
October 3, 2025 at 2:42 PM
…. but left the gun in the 007 logo !
The mythical Brexit benefits .....
October 2, 2025 at 7:44 PM
The mythical Brexit benefits .....
Sad news about the passing of Jane Goodall. My favourite story is about her and the cartoonist Gary Larson. He published this cartoon which her Institute objected to whilst she was away. On her return she said she loved it, and she and Larson became good friends. screenrant.com/far-side-con...
October 1, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Sad news about the passing of Jane Goodall. My favourite story is about her and the cartoonist Gary Larson. He published this cartoon which her Institute objected to whilst she was away. On her return she said she loved it, and she and Larson became good friends. screenrant.com/far-side-con...
Another Brexit Bonus ! (not) :-( Microsoft Windows 10 ESU to be free in EEA.
www.theverge.com/news/785544/...
www.theverge.com/news/785544/...
Microsoft forced to make Windows 10 extended security updates truly free in Europe
You won’t have to enable Windows Backup to get extended Windows 10 security updates in the European Economic Area.
www.theverge.com
September 25, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Another Brexit Bonus ! (not) :-( Microsoft Windows 10 ESU to be free in EEA.
www.theverge.com/news/785544/...
www.theverge.com/news/785544/...
Only if they dine at St John's College, Cambridge.
September 24, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Only if they dine at St John's College, Cambridge.
I can't be the only Brit whose first thought when I saw the statue of Trump and Epstein in the US was "this looks like a statue of Morecambe and Wise!"
September 24, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I can't be the only Brit whose first thought when I saw the statue of Trump and Epstein in the US was "this looks like a statue of Morecambe and Wise!"
I'm in the UK and my first thought when I saw this was "this looks like a statue of Morecambe and Wise!" (famous and much-loved British comic double act, working most successfully in television).
September 24, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I'm in the UK and my first thought when I saw this was "this looks like a statue of Morecambe and Wise!" (famous and much-loved British comic double act, working most successfully in television).
If you are on facebook there is a 'Dartmoor: lost and found ' page I recall.
September 22, 2025 at 2:56 PM
If you are on facebook there is a 'Dartmoor: lost and found ' page I recall.
Ospreys are my all time favourite bird!
September 16, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Ospreys are my all time favourite bird!
sunrise a few days ago from my bedroom window ....
September 16, 2025 at 12:04 PM
sunrise a few days ago from my bedroom window ....
Ospreys are my absolutely favourite bird !
September 16, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Ospreys are my absolutely favourite bird !
This is outrageous - #Dartmoor worst National Park for sewage outflows, and NPs are worse than rivers outside :-(
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Revealed: river pollution twice as bad inside national parks as outside them
Exclusive: Campaigners attack ‘outrageous’ situation, saying waters in protected areas of England and Wales should be cleanest
www.theguardian.com
September 16, 2025 at 10:03 AM
This is outrageous - #Dartmoor worst National Park for sewage outflows, and NPs are worse than rivers outside :-(
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Lib Dem leader Davey: “The Government needs to block any future contracts with Tesla, and block Musk from being granted a license to supply energy to British homes
“Ministers should make clear that if you are egging on violence on the streets of the UK, you are not someone we can do business with.”
“Ministers should make clear that if you are egging on violence on the streets of the UK, you are not someone we can do business with.”
September 15, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Lib Dem leader Davey: “The Government needs to block any future contracts with Tesla, and block Musk from being granted a license to supply energy to British homes
“Ministers should make clear that if you are egging on violence on the streets of the UK, you are not someone we can do business with.”
“Ministers should make clear that if you are egging on violence on the streets of the UK, you are not someone we can do business with.”
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It should be simple: people who cheer on violence in the UK can't enrich themselves with British taxpayers’ money.
That means Elon Musk – no government contracts for you, no energy supply license for you.
That means Elon Musk – no government contracts for you, no energy supply license for you.
September 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM
It should be simple: people who cheer on violence in the UK can't enrich themselves with British taxpayers’ money.
That means Elon Musk – no government contracts for you, no energy supply license for you.
That means Elon Musk – no government contracts for you, no energy supply license for you.
The return to completely normal Devon weather :-)
September 14, 2025 at 12:49 PM
The return to completely normal Devon weather :-)
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By Michael de Adder:
September 12, 2025 at 11:42 AM
By Michael de Adder:
But I bet they won't :( .....
Today would be a very good day for the UK govt to delete its accounts on X.
September 14, 2025 at 12:45 PM
But I bet they won't :( .....