Tao of Airfix
@taoofairfix.bsky.social
Everything I know about life I learned from model aeroplanes.
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Reform UK have repeatedly said that Kent is their "flagship" council and "the shop window" for how they intend to run things.
When they are exposed as planning to slash social care for old people, in order to hire their cronies as advisors at £150k a pop, I think people should believe them. ~AA
When they are exposed as planning to slash social care for old people, in order to hire their cronies as advisors at £150k a pop, I think people should believe them. ~AA
December 22, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Reform UK have repeatedly said that Kent is their "flagship" council and "the shop window" for how they intend to run things.
When they are exposed as planning to slash social care for old people, in order to hire their cronies as advisors at £150k a pop, I think people should believe them. ~AA
When they are exposed as planning to slash social care for old people, in order to hire their cronies as advisors at £150k a pop, I think people should believe them. ~AA
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This will surely surprise most Americans today, but historians have recently discovered that before Donald Trump, it was actually incredibly rare for a president to demand the public execution of this political opponents and press critics.
November 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM
This will surely surprise most Americans today, but historians have recently discovered that before Donald Trump, it was actually incredibly rare for a president to demand the public execution of this political opponents and press critics.
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I asked our university's official AI assistant to draw a map of Poland in 1941.
Great stuff. Glad we are steering our students toward this helpful resource.
Great stuff. Glad we are steering our students toward this helpful resource.
December 22, 2025 at 10:48 AM
I asked our university's official AI assistant to draw a map of Poland in 1941.
Great stuff. Glad we are steering our students toward this helpful resource.
Great stuff. Glad we are steering our students toward this helpful resource.
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Don’t forget. Biden’s DoJ was investigating uncharged third parties in the Epstein files up until the last minute. Trump shut down the investigation, sent the files to DC, & fired the prosecutors. They went through them, redacted Trump’s name, then elected not to release them and closed the matter.
December 22, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Don’t forget. Biden’s DoJ was investigating uncharged third parties in the Epstein files up until the last minute. Trump shut down the investigation, sent the files to DC, & fired the prosecutors. They went through them, redacted Trump’s name, then elected not to release them and closed the matter.
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This is what the world's largest humanitarian crisis looks like.
December 22, 2025 at 8:30 AM
This is what the world's largest humanitarian crisis looks like.
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It looks like it's been scrubbed from every official 60 Minutes page now.
It's only a 30-second promo but here it is if you didn't get a chance to see it.
It's only a 30-second promo but here it is if you didn't get a chance to see it.
December 22, 2025 at 1:33 AM
It looks like it's been scrubbed from every official 60 Minutes page now.
It's only a 30-second promo but here it is if you didn't get a chance to see it.
It's only a 30-second promo but here it is if you didn't get a chance to see it.
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"We determined it needed additional reporting."
December 21, 2025 at 11:44 PM
"We determined it needed additional reporting."
Thought I’d finally got over this but the words “Streisand effect” still give me an earworm of Barbra Streisand by Duck Sauce. Sometimes evolving into Gotta Go Home.
It continues to astound me how many have not heard about the Streisand Effect.
"We determined it needed additional reporting."
December 22, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Thought I’d finally got over this but the words “Streisand effect” still give me an earworm of Barbra Streisand by Duck Sauce. Sometimes evolving into Gotta Go Home.
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The UK will celebrate net emigration and depopulation come 2027.
And by 2028 it will start to realise, with an ageing society and low growth, what a really silly thing it has done.
The right will go "pro-natalist", the centre-left will be completely stuck.
And by 2028 it will start to realise, with an ageing society and low growth, what a really silly thing it has done.
The right will go "pro-natalist", the centre-left will be completely stuck.
December 22, 2025 at 7:28 AM
The UK will celebrate net emigration and depopulation come 2027.
And by 2028 it will start to realise, with an ageing society and low growth, what a really silly thing it has done.
The right will go "pro-natalist", the centre-left will be completely stuck.
And by 2028 it will start to realise, with an ageing society and low growth, what a really silly thing it has done.
The right will go "pro-natalist", the centre-left will be completely stuck.
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Trump's name is redacted from files that we know previously contained it...
December 21, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Trump's name is redacted from files that we know previously contained it...
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How bad has 2025 been? We broke time.
The atomic ensemble time scale at the NIST Boulder campus has failed.
December 20, 2025 at 10:56 PM
How bad has 2025 been? We broke time.
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📢 WE'RE POSTING our 'Inequality Graph of the Week' series from 'The Spirit Level at 15 dataset', one graph a day (give or take...), up until Christmas. Please share widely and help us spread the word that more equal societies are fairer, greener, and healthier for everyone. No.28 🔽
Thank You! 👍♥️✊
Thank You! 👍♥️✊
📢 #INEQUALITY GRAPH OF THE WEEK (No.28)
✅ Less obesity in more #equal countries.
❌ Inequality > obesogenic environment.
Long hours/less leisure > stress > comfort eating.
Source: Profs Wilkinson & Pickett and The Equality Trust ♥️.
For full details ➡️ equalitytrust.org.uk/evidence-bas...
✅ Less obesity in more #equal countries.
❌ Inequality > obesogenic environment.
Long hours/less leisure > stress > comfort eating.
Source: Profs Wilkinson & Pickett and The Equality Trust ♥️.
For full details ➡️ equalitytrust.org.uk/evidence-bas...
December 20, 2025 at 8:30 AM
📢 WE'RE POSTING our 'Inequality Graph of the Week' series from 'The Spirit Level at 15 dataset', one graph a day (give or take...), up until Christmas. Please share widely and help us spread the word that more equal societies are fairer, greener, and healthier for everyone. No.28 🔽
Thank You! 👍♥️✊
Thank You! 👍♥️✊
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It’s happening…
Durham: 4.9%
Worcestershire: 5-10%
Warwickshire: ~5%
Leicestershire: 3%*
Kent: 5%
Lincolnshire: 2.9-4.9%
Staffordshire: ~5%
West Northamptonshire: 5%
Derbyshire: 4.99%
North Northamptonshire: 4.99%
Nottinghamshire: 4.84%
Lancashire: assumed 5%
*subject to change.
Durham: 4.9%
Worcestershire: 5-10%
Warwickshire: ~5%
Leicestershire: 3%*
Kent: 5%
Lincolnshire: 2.9-4.9%
Staffordshire: ~5%
West Northamptonshire: 5%
Derbyshire: 4.99%
North Northamptonshire: 4.99%
Nottinghamshire: 4.84%
Lancashire: assumed 5%
*subject to change.
December 18, 2025 at 11:24 AM
It’s happening…
Durham: 4.9%
Worcestershire: 5-10%
Warwickshire: ~5%
Leicestershire: 3%*
Kent: 5%
Lincolnshire: 2.9-4.9%
Staffordshire: ~5%
West Northamptonshire: 5%
Derbyshire: 4.99%
North Northamptonshire: 4.99%
Nottinghamshire: 4.84%
Lancashire: assumed 5%
*subject to change.
Durham: 4.9%
Worcestershire: 5-10%
Warwickshire: ~5%
Leicestershire: 3%*
Kent: 5%
Lincolnshire: 2.9-4.9%
Staffordshire: ~5%
West Northamptonshire: 5%
Derbyshire: 4.99%
North Northamptonshire: 4.99%
Nottinghamshire: 4.84%
Lancashire: assumed 5%
*subject to change.
We are living in J G Ballard's world - the latest instalment:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Want to understand the sickness of Britain today? Look no further – a novel explained it all 20 years ago | Aditya Chakrabortty
The racism, the predatory politics, the banality and cruelty: we struggle to make sense of it, but JG Ballard foretold everything we are living through now, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:23 AM
We are living in J G Ballard's world - the latest instalment:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Meanwhile, writes Gardiner, ExxonMobil 'assured investors that its plans to increase petrochemical production by 80 percent by 2050 will help the industry to pump and sell even more oil at mid-century than it does today.'
4/5
www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...
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www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...
The Fossil-Fuel Industry Has a Plan to Drown Earth in Plastic
To keep profits rolling in, oil and gas companies want to turn fossil fuels into a mounting pile of packaging and other plastic products
www.scientificamerican.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Meanwhile, writes Gardiner, ExxonMobil 'assured investors that its plans to increase petrochemical production by 80 percent by 2050 will help the industry to pump and sell even more oil at mid-century than it does today.'
4/5
www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...
4/5
www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...
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December 17, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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NEW: Trump's new Reactor Pilot Program is rushing to build at least 3 experimental reactor designs by July 4, 2026.
Here's a deep look at the program and why it's raising safety concerns.
For the nuke nerds, I'll also highlight what's new in this 🧵
www.npr.org/2025/12/17/n...
Here's a deep look at the program and why it's raising safety concerns.
For the nuke nerds, I'll also highlight what's new in this 🧵
www.npr.org/2025/12/17/n...
Trump's rush to build nuclear reactors across the U.S. raises safety worries
A new program at the Department of Energy is pushing the development of nearly a dozen new reactor designs at breakneck speed.
www.npr.org
December 17, 2025 at 2:06 PM
NEW: Trump's new Reactor Pilot Program is rushing to build at least 3 experimental reactor designs by July 4, 2026.
Here's a deep look at the program and why it's raising safety concerns.
For the nuke nerds, I'll also highlight what's new in this 🧵
www.npr.org/2025/12/17/n...
Here's a deep look at the program and why it's raising safety concerns.
For the nuke nerds, I'll also highlight what's new in this 🧵
www.npr.org/2025/12/17/n...
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Man answering his phone on the train: Yes? Correct, I’m not at work (pause) I’m not going to answer that because I am not at work today. No, you’re going to have to ask someone who is. Goodbye.
December 17, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Man answering his phone on the train: Yes? Correct, I’m not at work (pause) I’m not going to answer that because I am not at work today. No, you’re going to have to ask someone who is. Goodbye.
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‼️HISTORIC EVENT
CLIMATIC HISTORY JUST REWRITTEN
Insane Minimum 28.2C at Arriaga
HOTTEST WINTER NIGHT EVER RECORDED IN MEXICO
(and ALL NORTH AMERICA if we exclude the ABC Islands which are geographically in South America).
Record heat also allover the Caribbean.
Unprecedented.
CLIMATIC HISTORY JUST REWRITTEN
Insane Minimum 28.2C at Arriaga
HOTTEST WINTER NIGHT EVER RECORDED IN MEXICO
(and ALL NORTH AMERICA if we exclude the ABC Islands which are geographically in South America).
Record heat also allover the Caribbean.
Unprecedented.
December 14, 2025 at 6:32 PM
‼️HISTORIC EVENT
CLIMATIC HISTORY JUST REWRITTEN
Insane Minimum 28.2C at Arriaga
HOTTEST WINTER NIGHT EVER RECORDED IN MEXICO
(and ALL NORTH AMERICA if we exclude the ABC Islands which are geographically in South America).
Record heat also allover the Caribbean.
Unprecedented.
CLIMATIC HISTORY JUST REWRITTEN
Insane Minimum 28.2C at Arriaga
HOTTEST WINTER NIGHT EVER RECORDED IN MEXICO
(and ALL NORTH AMERICA if we exclude the ABC Islands which are geographically in South America).
Record heat also allover the Caribbean.
Unprecedented.
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December 17, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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But not the Brexit Referendum….Putin/ Farage’s project.
Don’t mention that ‘cos that would make the current Gov’s Brexit policies look very silly indeed.
Don’t mention that ‘cos that would make the current Gov’s Brexit policies look very silly indeed.
🚨🧵 1/ We welcome the new urgent Government review into foreign interference in UK politics.
👍 Our Chair @philbrickellmp.bsky.social: "It's absolutely right that the Govt is reviewing our defences against foreign interference in light of Nathan Gill's bribery conviction."
www.gov.uk/government/n...
👍 Our Chair @philbrickellmp.bsky.social: "It's absolutely right that the Govt is reviewing our defences against foreign interference in light of Nathan Gill's bribery conviction."
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Urgent review into foreign financial interference in UK politics
An independent review, led by Philip Rycroft, into foreign financial interference in UK politics has been commissioned by the government.
www.gov.uk
December 17, 2025 at 8:34 AM
But not the Brexit Referendum….Putin/ Farage’s project.
Don’t mention that ‘cos that would make the current Gov’s Brexit policies look very silly indeed.
Don’t mention that ‘cos that would make the current Gov’s Brexit policies look very silly indeed.
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NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇
December 17, 2025 at 4:14 AM
NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇
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Why can't immigrants who come to the UK integrate as well as this?
December 17, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Why can't immigrants who come to the UK integrate as well as this?