Neil Higgs ⚖️ 🌼
@nthiggs.bsky.social
Retired survey statistician passionate about numeracy, nomographs and analogue calculators, walking in nature, photography, grandchildren and writing. Amazing wife! Having the best time. Author of “All/other things being equal - Ceteris paribus”.
Taken in our nearby wetland. As the water subsides with summer, we shall see flamingos in a while
October 7, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Taken in our nearby wetland. As the water subsides with summer, we shall see flamingos in a while
Clouds yesterday, photographed from my house
September 30, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Clouds yesterday, photographed from my house
A drawing, not mine (!) of a Baobab tree. A majestic and magnificent tree common in the far north of my country and well known where I used to live.
It has many useful properties besides looking wonderful. Picture it in a thorn scrub setting
It has many useful properties besides looking wonderful. Picture it in a thorn scrub setting
September 25, 2025 at 5:26 AM
A drawing, not mine (!) of a Baobab tree. A majestic and magnificent tree common in the far north of my country and well known where I used to live.
It has many useful properties besides looking wonderful. Picture it in a thorn scrub setting
It has many useful properties besides looking wonderful. Picture it in a thorn scrub setting
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the most important thing to remember when you see eugenicists who don’t believe that autistic people should exist rambling about “the autism epidemic” is not that they’re wrong about the “cause” (although they are absolutely wrong about it); it’s that they are eugenicists
September 23, 2025 at 5:20 PM
the most important thing to remember when you see eugenicists who don’t believe that autistic people should exist rambling about “the autism epidemic” is not that they’re wrong about the “cause” (although they are absolutely wrong about it); it’s that they are eugenicists
Another view of our nearby mountain and some reassurance that the equinox has passed!
September 24, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Another view of our nearby mountain and some reassurance that the equinox has passed!
But you can be fired for criticising trump
It shook me that white man at Fox News was allowed to say all homeless people should be killed. On live TV. I WAS homeless a decade ago. The isolation you experience after being cast off by people is why I refuse to speak to anyone who knew me back then. It’s unforgivable what the homeless endure
September 19, 2025 at 4:46 AM
But you can be fired for criticising trump
Spring is around the corner. Some images from around the area close to my house.
September 19, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Spring is around the corner. Some images from around the area close to my house.
Some recent cloud shots
September 16, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Some recent cloud shots
A stream running through a nearby wine farm
September 14, 2025 at 5:13 AM
A stream running through a nearby wine farm
Table Mountain, 40km away. From where I live
September 14, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Table Mountain, 40km away. From where I live
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In my quality of life model, loneliness is the biggest single factor in driving self-worth and emotional well-being down
Four in 10 Britons said they were lonely at least sometimes in a new survey tracking the health costs associated with loneliness.
Loneliness linked to worse health and higher medical costs, study says
Four in 10 Britons said they were lonely at least sometimes in a new survey tracking the health costs associated with loneliness.
l.euronews.com
September 4, 2025 at 5:46 AM
In my quality of life model, loneliness is the biggest single factor in driving self-worth and emotional well-being down
Some recent cloud images
August 27, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Some recent cloud images
In our neck of the woods yesterday
August 20, 2025 at 5:10 AM
In our neck of the woods yesterday
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Stop Giving Israeli Officials A Media Platform To Spout Lies
Stop platforming Israeli government officials and professional genocide apologists. Stop asking them what they think. Stop presenting their lies and manipulations as news stories.
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/stop-givin...
Stop platforming Israeli government officials and professional genocide apologists. Stop asking them what they think. Stop presenting their lies and manipulations as news stories.
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/stop-givin...
Stop Giving Israeli Officials A Media Platform To Spout Lies
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):
www.caitlinjohnst.one
August 16, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Stop Giving Israeli Officials A Media Platform To Spout Lies
Stop platforming Israeli government officials and professional genocide apologists. Stop asking them what they think. Stop presenting their lies and manipulations as news stories.
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/stop-givin...
Stop platforming Israeli government officials and professional genocide apologists. Stop asking them what they think. Stop presenting their lies and manipulations as news stories.
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/stop-givin...
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The meeting was a disaster for everyone except two people. Trump got his photo op and his ego boost.
Putin got his photo op, whitewashing of war crimes and no sanctions.
No one in Ukraine, Europe or the United States benefited in any way.
Putin got his photo op, whitewashing of war crimes and no sanctions.
No one in Ukraine, Europe or the United States benefited in any way.
August 16, 2025 at 4:12 AM
The meeting was a disaster for everyone except two people. Trump got his photo op and his ego boost.
Putin got his photo op, whitewashing of war crimes and no sanctions.
No one in Ukraine, Europe or the United States benefited in any way.
Putin got his photo op, whitewashing of war crimes and no sanctions.
No one in Ukraine, Europe or the United States benefited in any way.
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Dear journalists: if you willfully resist asking confrontational questions of this demonstrably corrupt regime out of fear of losing access, that access is absolutely worthless. If self-censorship is the trade-off, we don’t need your stenographic skills. We don’t need you at all.
August 6, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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This is being forgotten in the excitement over Epstein.
See you all at The Hague.
See you all at The Hague.
July 26, 2025 at 4:45 AM
This is being forgotten in the excitement over Epstein.
See you all at The Hague.
See you all at The Hague.
Outstanding piece
From Gaza to Ukraine, peace always seems just out of reach – and the reason isn’t only political | Simon Tisdall
From Gaza to Ukraine, peace always seems just out of reach – and the reason isn’t only political | Simon Tisdall
Murdering and massacring innocents is indefensible. So why on earth is it allowed to continue? The answer is moral relativism, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall
www.theguardian.com
July 20, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Outstanding piece