William Cobbett
@williamcobbett.bsky.social
Scientist interested in science. Used to enjoy building really great models, admiring them for a while and then blowing them up. Still do actually.
The fewer unhinged & violently politicised individuals like Alex Pretti working in healthcare the better.
January 29, 2026 at 8:15 AM
The fewer unhinged & violently politicised individuals like Alex Pretti working in healthcare the better.
YES: It’s legal to be armed at a protest.
NO: You cannot physically impede lawful law-enforcement operations.
Both things can be true at the same time.
NO: You cannot physically impede lawful law-enforcement operations.
Both things can be true at the same time.
January 26, 2026 at 8:49 AM
YES: It’s legal to be armed at a protest.
NO: You cannot physically impede lawful law-enforcement operations.
Both things can be true at the same time.
NO: You cannot physically impede lawful law-enforcement operations.
Both things can be true at the same time.
Seeing someone reach for their holster to grab a loaded firearm ISN’T a valid justification for self-defence. They could be about to do anything.
You must actually see the bullet exiting barrel before you’re allowed to act, it’s called due process.
#PrettiViolent #Pretti
You must actually see the bullet exiting barrel before you’re allowed to act, it’s called due process.
#PrettiViolent #Pretti
January 26, 2026 at 7:35 AM
Seeing someone reach for their holster to grab a loaded firearm ISN’T a valid justification for self-defence. They could be about to do anything.
You must actually see the bullet exiting barrel before you’re allowed to act, it’s called due process.
#PrettiViolent #Pretti
You must actually see the bullet exiting barrel before you’re allowed to act, it’s called due process.
#PrettiViolent #Pretti
Alex Pretti impeded traffic.
He ignored law enforcement commands to back up then reinitiated physical contact.
He violently resisted arrest.
He was NOT lawfully carrying a firearm because he did not have ID on him.
He reached for his holster during his violent resistance.
Those are the facts.
He ignored law enforcement commands to back up then reinitiated physical contact.
He violently resisted arrest.
He was NOT lawfully carrying a firearm because he did not have ID on him.
He reached for his holster during his violent resistance.
Those are the facts.
January 26, 2026 at 6:53 AM
Alex Pretti impeded traffic.
He ignored law enforcement commands to back up then reinitiated physical contact.
He violently resisted arrest.
He was NOT lawfully carrying a firearm because he did not have ID on him.
He reached for his holster during his violent resistance.
Those are the facts.
He ignored law enforcement commands to back up then reinitiated physical contact.
He violently resisted arrest.
He was NOT lawfully carrying a firearm because he did not have ID on him.
He reached for his holster during his violent resistance.
Those are the facts.
Who incited Pretti to go armed to violently impede the work of ICE agents?
People on this scummy little platform?
People on this scummy little platform?
January 26, 2026 at 6:17 AM
Who incited Pretti to go armed to violently impede the work of ICE agents?
People on this scummy little platform?
People on this scummy little platform?
In the rush to undermine the Trump administration the vital caveat is lost in most reporting - that the drug be taken as guided.
Otherwise it's still the leading cause of acute liver failure in children and adults in the west.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Otherwise it's still the leading cause of acute liver failure in children and adults in the west.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
January 17, 2026 at 8:04 AM
In the rush to undermine the Trump administration the vital caveat is lost in most reporting - that the drug be taken as guided.
Otherwise it's still the leading cause of acute liver failure in children and adults in the west.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Otherwise it's still the leading cause of acute liver failure in children and adults in the west.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Anyone can be a journalist in precisely the same way that anyone who has stamps can be a philatelist.
That's not to belittle stamp collectors: it's to explain that anyone who writes a journal of what they observe is a journalist.
Nothing else counts.
That's not to belittle stamp collectors: it's to explain that anyone who writes a journal of what they observe is a journalist.
Nothing else counts.
January 8, 2026 at 8:11 PM
Anyone can be a journalist in precisely the same way that anyone who has stamps can be a philatelist.
That's not to belittle stamp collectors: it's to explain that anyone who writes a journal of what they observe is a journalist.
Nothing else counts.
That's not to belittle stamp collectors: it's to explain that anyone who writes a journal of what they observe is a journalist.
Nothing else counts.
The low-IQ Trump haters still thrashing around trying to paint President Trump as Hitler for handing Venezuelans their best chance of peace, freedom and prosperity most can recall.
Watch people like Bailey here expose their moral and intellectual bankruptcy.
#Revelation
Watch people like Bailey here expose their moral and intellectual bankruptcy.
#Revelation
January 5, 2026 at 7:04 AM
The low-IQ Trump haters still thrashing around trying to paint President Trump as Hitler for handing Venezuelans their best chance of peace, freedom and prosperity most can recall.
Watch people like Bailey here expose their moral and intellectual bankruptcy.
#Revelation
Watch people like Bailey here expose their moral and intellectual bankruptcy.
#Revelation
Former Hope Not Hate activist & organizer guilty pleads guilty to child sex offences involving a 13-yr-old girl.
www.noticer.news/liron-woodco...
www.noticer.news/liron-woodco...
'Hope Not Hate' anti-racism campaigner exposed as paedophile
Former organiser for UK anti-fascist and anti-racism campaign group Hope Not Hate, Liron Woodcock-Velleman, has pleaded guilty to child sex offences.
www.noticer.news
January 5, 2026 at 7:00 AM
Former Hope Not Hate activist & organizer guilty pleads guilty to child sex offences involving a 13-yr-old girl.
www.noticer.news/liron-woodco...
www.noticer.news/liron-woodco...
#Trump haters have revealed themselves as fully aligned with #Putin on the #Venezuela issue.
Who knew?
Who knew?
January 4, 2026 at 6:12 PM
#Trump haters have revealed themselves as fully aligned with #Putin on the #Venezuela issue.
Who knew?
Who knew?
This would actually be really funny if it weren't for the lives ruined by the climate change hoax.
These are all 24hr temperature anomaly maps from meteologix.com
These are all 24hr temperature anomaly maps from meteologix.com
January 4, 2026 at 7:12 AM
This would actually be really funny if it weren't for the lives ruined by the climate change hoax.
These are all 24hr temperature anomaly maps from meteologix.com
These are all 24hr temperature anomaly maps from meteologix.com
To those of you stupid enough to quit X in favour of this "cyber sanctuary city", be aware that X provides exposure to insight & challenge which BlueSky can't come close to. Stay here, know nothing of what's going on in the world & influence no one if that's what makes you feel safe & smug inside.
January 4, 2026 at 7:02 AM
To those of you stupid enough to quit X in favour of this "cyber sanctuary city", be aware that X provides exposure to insight & challenge which BlueSky can't come close to. Stay here, know nothing of what's going on in the world & influence no one if that's what makes you feel safe & smug inside.
President #Trump has acted with strength and wisdom over #Maduro - only complete jerks like Mirkinson here aren't elated at recent developments.
wild to see every news outlet use the term "capture" to describe what happened. we're not at war with venezuela! this is *objectively* an illegal kidnapping of a sovereign country's leader
January 3, 2026 at 4:16 PM
I'm full of admiration for the way president #Trump has dealt with #Maduro and #Venezuela.
Could he please move on to another communist sleaze bag #Starmer and deal with him in a similar way?
Could he please move on to another communist sleaze bag #Starmer and deal with him in a similar way?
January 3, 2026 at 12:57 PM
I'm full of admiration for the way president #Trump has dealt with #Maduro and #Venezuela.
Could he please move on to another communist sleaze bag #Starmer and deal with him in a similar way?
Could he please move on to another communist sleaze bag #Starmer and deal with him in a similar way?
It's very revealing to observe the frantic levels of denial and gaslighting over the revelations of massive electoral irregularities in #Fulton County and other parts of GA. Some of us have been following these developments since 2020 and needed no further evidence.
Fraud was committed.
Fraud was committed.
December 25, 2025 at 9:50 AM
It's very revealing to observe the frantic levels of denial and gaslighting over the revelations of massive electoral irregularities in #Fulton County and other parts of GA. Some of us have been following these developments since 2020 and needed no further evidence.
Fraud was committed.
Fraud was committed.
The election fraud deniers are at it again, falsely conflating massive procedural irregularities with a valid election result.
Those regulations are there for good reason and failure to follow on this scale them means failure to deliver a valid
result.
Period.
Those regulations are there for good reason and failure to follow on this scale them means failure to deliver a valid
result.
Period.
The heavy hitter liars of X are pushing Georgia stolen election rumors equating procedural violation around election workers signing tabulator machine tapes, to missing signatures on mail-in ballots.
They’re playing clips of the Trump-Raffensperger call as if it was normal.
No Community Notes.
They’re playing clips of the Trump-Raffensperger call as if it was normal.
No Community Notes.
December 21, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The election fraud deniers are at it again, falsely conflating massive procedural irregularities with a valid election result.
Those regulations are there for good reason and failure to follow on this scale them means failure to deliver a valid
result.
Period.
Those regulations are there for good reason and failure to follow on this scale them means failure to deliver a valid
result.
Period.
So the #CDC is now admitting that it's claim that vaccines don't cause autism lacked scientific basis and that multiple studies indicating such a link have been ignored.
November 20, 2025 at 8:23 PM
So the #CDC is now admitting that it's claim that vaccines don't cause autism lacked scientific basis and that multiple studies indicating such a link have been ignored.
BBC Defenders:
'Mr Trump is a Bad Man. So its perfectly OK to lie about his speeches'
'But how do you know he's a bad man?'
'Just listen to his speeches!'
A self-serving, circular, worthless argument.
Credit: With thanks to Latimer Alder.
'Mr Trump is a Bad Man. So its perfectly OK to lie about his speeches'
'But how do you know he's a bad man?'
'Just listen to his speeches!'
A self-serving, circular, worthless argument.
Credit: With thanks to Latimer Alder.
November 16, 2025 at 10:14 AM
BBC Defenders:
'Mr Trump is a Bad Man. So its perfectly OK to lie about his speeches'
'But how do you know he's a bad man?'
'Just listen to his speeches!'
A self-serving, circular, worthless argument.
Credit: With thanks to Latimer Alder.
'Mr Trump is a Bad Man. So its perfectly OK to lie about his speeches'
'But how do you know he's a bad man?'
'Just listen to his speeches!'
A self-serving, circular, worthless argument.
Credit: With thanks to Latimer Alder.
If the icecaps are melting then why is earth continuing to spin faster?
Why the same time is its magnetic field weakening?
Why do oceans often get warmer at depth?
How can energy leading to prolonged seismic/volcanic activity in W/NW Pacific NOT warm the oceans?
#climatescam
Why the same time is its magnetic field weakening?
Why do oceans often get warmer at depth?
How can energy leading to prolonged seismic/volcanic activity in W/NW Pacific NOT warm the oceans?
#climatescam
November 12, 2025 at 1:15 PM
If the icecaps are melting then why is earth continuing to spin faster?
Why the same time is its magnetic field weakening?
Why do oceans often get warmer at depth?
How can energy leading to prolonged seismic/volcanic activity in W/NW Pacific NOT warm the oceans?
#climatescam
Why the same time is its magnetic field weakening?
Why do oceans often get warmer at depth?
How can energy leading to prolonged seismic/volcanic activity in W/NW Pacific NOT warm the oceans?
#climatescam
The #TippingPoint #climate science needs to focus on is that connected with a planet which continues to spin faster whilst its magnetic field continues to weaken at the same time as icecaps melt.
If the models can't explain these paradoxes they should be scrapped (as all models regularly should).
If the models can't explain these paradoxes they should be scrapped (as all models regularly should).
November 7, 2025 at 10:47 AM
The #TippingPoint #climate science needs to focus on is that connected with a planet which continues to spin faster whilst its magnetic field continues to weaken at the same time as icecaps melt.
If the models can't explain these paradoxes they should be scrapped (as all models regularly should).
If the models can't explain these paradoxes they should be scrapped (as all models regularly should).
Pet owners travel less.
Cats in the US provide a small net benefit to bird populations as they also control numbers of common predators like mice, rats and squirrels.
Rat poison is also a big killer of raptors - use cats instead.
Cats in the US provide a small net benefit to bird populations as they also control numbers of common predators like mice, rats and squirrels.
Rat poison is also a big killer of raptors - use cats instead.
Lab-grown meat is the future for pet food – and that’s a huge opportunity for Britain | Lucy McCormick
Lab-grown meat is the future for pet food – and that’s a huge opportunity for Britain | Lucy McCormick
While the EU and US hesitate, the UK can become world leader in this burgeoning – and cruelty-free – innovation
If the pet food industry were a country, it would rank as the world’s 60th biggest emitter of carbon dioxide. In countries such as the US,…
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Pet owners travel less.
Cats in the US provide a small net benefit to bird populations as they also control numbers of common predators like mice, rats and squirrels.
Rat poison is also a big killer of raptors - use cats instead.
Cats in the US provide a small net benefit to bird populations as they also control numbers of common predators like mice, rats and squirrels.
Rat poison is also a big killer of raptors - use cats instead.
Making the British decision to abolish slavery even more remarkable - a case of the oppressors giving way to their own moral sense.
Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them. -
Assata Shakur
Pic of the day
#photography
Assata Shakur
Pic of the day
#photography
September 27, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Making the British decision to abolish slavery even more remarkable - a case of the oppressors giving way to their own moral sense.
Bo thinks he knows everything about this yet cites one of the most spurious justifications for the MMT ever contrived. Basing the UK's entire and absurdly rigid insistence on combined MMR shots on this 1 event is clinical nonsense.
September 27, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Bo thinks he knows everything about this yet cites one of the most spurious justifications for the MMT ever contrived. Basing the UK's entire and absurdly rigid insistence on combined MMR shots on this 1 event is clinical nonsense.
There's no medical benefit in taking the MMR (Mumps, Measles, Rubella) shot compared with taking the same shots separately BUT there are (I thought obvious) reasons for not taking simultaneous vaccine injections.
Why question DJ Trump on this when you should be asking why the UK insists on MMR?
Why question DJ Trump on this when you should be asking why the UK insists on MMR?
September 27, 2025 at 7:13 AM
There's no medical benefit in taking the MMR (Mumps, Measles, Rubella) shot compared with taking the same shots separately BUT there are (I thought obvious) reasons for not taking simultaneous vaccine injections.
Why question DJ Trump on this when you should be asking why the UK insists on MMR?
Why question DJ Trump on this when you should be asking why the UK insists on MMR?