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?
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/...
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!"
Ospreys are my all time favourite bird!
September 16, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Ospreys are my all time 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.
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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 :( .....
Indeed!
September 13, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Indeed!
Absolutely this! Putin and Netanyahu have been emboldened by Trump's feeble responses to their atrocities :-(
“The fact that Netanyahu isn’t scared of Trump tells you everything.”
Trump promised to be the president who could end wars on day one. So why are Putin and Netanyahu doing whatever the hell they want while he watches from the sidelines?
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/worl...
Trump promised to be the president who could end wars on day one. So why are Putin and Netanyahu doing whatever the hell they want while he watches from the sidelines?
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/worl...
World leaders to Trump: Thanks, but we'll do what we want | The News Agents
Donald Trump promised to be the president who could end wars on day one. So why are Putin and Netanyahu doing whatever they want while he watches from the sidelines?
www.thenewsagents.co.uk
September 10, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Absolutely this! Putin and Netanyahu have been emboldened by Trump's feeble responses to their atrocities :-(
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It is with heavy heart (and, unfortunately, deep affection) that I must reshare a snippet from the 1980s masterpiece “Yes, Prime Minister”, in relation to Russia’s drone attack on a NATO ally.
September 10, 2025 at 10:43 AM
It is with heavy heart (and, unfortunately, deep affection) that I must reshare a snippet from the 1980s masterpiece “Yes, Prime Minister”, in relation to Russia’s drone attack on a NATO ally.
Spotted 2 female #goosander near the dam of the Burrator reservoir, west #Dartmoor this morning - possibly the first time I've seen this species. #birding
September 8, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Spotted 2 female #goosander near the dam of the Burrator reservoir, west #Dartmoor this morning - possibly the first time I've seen this species. #birding
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I forget who but someone was like "I post about fish because I study fish, when I post about Fish on Bluesky people ask me about fish, when I post about fish on X people say I and my family should be murdered because we're Jewish"
September 5, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I forget who but someone was like "I post about fish because I study fish, when I post about Fish on Bluesky people ask me about fish, when I post about fish on X people say I and my family should be murdered because we're Jewish"
Stunning atmospheric photo!
September 3, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Stunning atmospheric photo!
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Imagine the message it would send if Gary Lineker won 'Presenter of the Year' at this year's National Television Awards
Standing up for compassion & the right to speak out
And, the feathers it would ruffle
My lovely followers, you know what to do:
nationaltvawards.com/vote
🗓️ Deadline: 12th Sep
Standing up for compassion & the right to speak out
And, the feathers it would ruffle
My lovely followers, you know what to do:
nationaltvawards.com/vote
🗓️ Deadline: 12th Sep
Vote | National Television Awards
Choose your winners in this year’s National Television Awards
nationaltvawards.com
September 1, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Imagine the message it would send if Gary Lineker won 'Presenter of the Year' at this year's National Television Awards
Standing up for compassion & the right to speak out
And, the feathers it would ruffle
My lovely followers, you know what to do:
nationaltvawards.com/vote
🗓️ Deadline: 12th Sep
Standing up for compassion & the right to speak out
And, the feathers it would ruffle
My lovely followers, you know what to do:
nationaltvawards.com/vote
🗓️ Deadline: 12th Sep
Rather accurate sadly :-(
September 1, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Rather accurate sadly :-(
Stolen from another website :-)
I was telling friends last night that I might be forced to change my name by deed-poll at this rate :-(
I was telling friends last night that I might be forced to change my name by deed-poll at this rate :-(
August 30, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Stolen from another website :-)
I was telling friends last night that I might be forced to change my name by deed-poll at this rate :-(
I was telling friends last night that I might be forced to change my name by deed-poll at this rate :-(
@maryrosemuseum.bsky.social I saw this and thought it might be of interest search.app/xTGGW
A Man Noticed a Strange Shape on Satellite Images. It Turned Out to Be a 138-Year-Old Shipwreck in Lake Michigan
While sailing through a heavy blanket of fog, the "Frank D. Barker" went off course and ran into a limestone outcropping in October 1887
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August 28, 2025 at 11:14 AM
@maryrosemuseum.bsky.social I saw this and thought it might be of interest search.app/xTGGW
All this artificial media hysteria about Angela Rayner's house purchase reminds me of this Monty Python sketch (Arthur "two sheds" Jackson) ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLjS...
Monty Python - Arthur 'Two Sheds' Jackson
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August 24, 2025 at 3:23 PM
All this artificial media hysteria about Angela Rayner's house purchase reminds me of this Monty Python sketch (Arthur "two sheds" Jackson) ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLjS...
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British entrepreneurial, 'Sugar's apprentice' spirit.
August 23, 2025 at 1:06 PM
British entrepreneurial, 'Sugar's apprentice' spirit.
Clearly a quiet news day! search.app/kFBRr
Sycamore Gap tree image found under Northallerton patio
Howard Dawson says the marking has a
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August 20, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Clearly a quiet news day! search.app/kFBRr