Tony
@tonynicol3.bsky.social
Retired Water Industry Systems Engineer, no longer torturing wood on a lathe or mounting expeditions into the garden wilderness. Soup Dragon, First Class.
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“Jaywalking is permitted in London. In 1966, the police tried to crack down on it, but gave up after three months.”
People walk and cycle on roads by right, people drive under licence.
Jaywalking is not a thing in English law and Waymo must not change that.
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People walk and cycle on roads by right, people drive under licence.
Jaywalking is not a thing in English law and Waymo must not change that.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Self-driving taxis are coming to London – should we be worried? | Jack Stilgoe
Waymo’s cars were first rolled out in San Francisco, but the English capital’s old roads, pelican crossings and jaywalkers may pose issues for AI, says science and technology professor Jack Stilgoe
www.theguardian.com
February 2, 2026 at 3:48 PM
“Jaywalking is permitted in London. In 1966, the police tried to crack down on it, but gave up after three months.”
People walk and cycle on roads by right, people drive under licence.
Jaywalking is not a thing in English law and Waymo must not change that.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
People walk and cycle on roads by right, people drive under licence.
Jaywalking is not a thing in English law and Waymo must not change that.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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It’s 11:30 p.m. in a quiet Portland neighborhood. The streets are empty, but the air is thick. ICE is offloading round after round of tear gas and chemical agents into the night.
Now, the frontline isn't the street; it's our living rooms. We’re trapped in our own homes, struggling to breathe.
Now, the frontline isn't the street; it's our living rooms. We’re trapped in our own homes, struggling to breathe.
February 3, 2026 at 6:13 PM
It’s 11:30 p.m. in a quiet Portland neighborhood. The streets are empty, but the air is thick. ICE is offloading round after round of tear gas and chemical agents into the night.
Now, the frontline isn't the street; it's our living rooms. We’re trapped in our own homes, struggling to breathe.
Now, the frontline isn't the street; it's our living rooms. We’re trapped in our own homes, struggling to breathe.
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According to the New Yorker, Donald Trump and his family profited off the presidency by an estimated $4 billion in 2025 — mostly through shady crypto deals.
That amounts to $456,621 per hour.
But how are you doing?
That amounts to $456,621 per hour.
But how are you doing?
February 3, 2026 at 5:32 PM
According to the New Yorker, Donald Trump and his family profited off the presidency by an estimated $4 billion in 2025 — mostly through shady crypto deals.
That amounts to $456,621 per hour.
But how are you doing?
That amounts to $456,621 per hour.
But how are you doing?
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If you live in the UK and value the BBC, please give your thoughts on its future ahead of charter renewal
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BBC Charter Review Public Consultation
The government is consulting the public to aid decision-making on the terms for the BBC Charter’s renewal and any changes needed to help the BBC to continue to serve the public.
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February 3, 2026 at 4:14 PM
If you live in the UK and value the BBC, please give your thoughts on its future ahead of charter renewal
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in the slightly abridged words of @diedrichbader.bsky.social
February 3, 2026 at 6:33 PM
in the slightly abridged words of @diedrichbader.bsky.social
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Thinking of those relatively junior civil servants who were jailed for substantial periods for leaking information in return for relatively small amounts of reward during the hacking scandal.
February 3, 2026 at 6:37 PM
Thinking of those relatively junior civil servants who were jailed for substantial periods for leaking information in return for relatively small amounts of reward during the hacking scandal.
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Truly Stasi-like. What would you say if you saw it in another country?
February 3, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Truly Stasi-like. What would you say if you saw it in another country?
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Determined to fight until the end, until the victory, which is free and democratic Georgia🇬🇪✊🏼🇪🇺
Chanting - ბოლომდე . bolomde - till the end✊🏼
Chanting - ბოლომდე . bolomde - till the end✊🏼
February 3, 2026 at 6:27 PM
Determined to fight until the end, until the victory, which is free and democratic Georgia🇬🇪✊🏼🇪🇺
Chanting - ბოლომდე . bolomde - till the end✊🏼
Chanting - ბოლომდე . bolomde - till the end✊🏼
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Good to repeat this..
I hope people understand what happened here. Yesterday in the late afternoon, Trump said that Putin had promised not to attack Ukraine in such a way that it would damage their heating. Then a few hours later, that is exactly what the Russians did in a massive attack.
Trump: "I did call up President Putin and he's agreed -- they have the same cold wave that we do, maybe different because it's pretty far away, but it's the equivalent. And Ukraine is a very cold country, much colder than us. I asked him if he wouldn't shoot for one week and he's agreed to do it."
February 3, 2026 at 4:06 PM
Good to repeat this..
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As is this one.
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Palantir’s quiet coup: the military-industrial complex embedding itself in Britain’s public sector - AOAV
Keir Starmer’s secretive meeting with US spy-tech firm Palantir — brokered by defence-linked lobbyist Peter Mandelson — reveals the growing grip of the military-industrial complex on Britain’s public ...
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February 3, 2026 at 4:21 PM
As is this one.
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And now a message from the convicted felon and adjudicated rapist who leads the Republican Party
February 3, 2026 at 3:59 AM
And now a message from the convicted felon and adjudicated rapist who leads the Republican Party
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WSJ reports about a whistleblower complaint against Tulsi Gabbard that’s so sensitive in nature and harmful to national security that the MAGA regime have it locked in a safe and refuse to notify Congress.
They deliberately put a Russian agent in charge of US intel. Treason.
They deliberately put a Russian agent in charge of US intel. Treason.
February 3, 2026 at 4:23 AM
WSJ reports about a whistleblower complaint against Tulsi Gabbard that’s so sensitive in nature and harmful to national security that the MAGA regime have it locked in a safe and refuse to notify Congress.
They deliberately put a Russian agent in charge of US intel. Treason.
They deliberately put a Russian agent in charge of US intel. Treason.
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Please note: Mandelson knows where all the bodies are buried. He will now work tirelessly for the total destruction of the Labour Party.
Wes Streeting is Mandelson’s chief agent in the Cabinet. He has an entire team there.
#Labour
#Starmer
#Streeting
#Mandelson
Wes Streeting is Mandelson’s chief agent in the Cabinet. He has an entire team there.
#Labour
#Starmer
#Streeting
#Mandelson
The government has:
1. Referred Mandelson to the police for investigation over leaking sensitive information while in government
2. Decided it *will* try to strip Mandelson of his peerage after all.
That’s both throwing him under the bus and then reversing to make sure in one fell swoop.
1. Referred Mandelson to the police for investigation over leaking sensitive information while in government
2. Decided it *will* try to strip Mandelson of his peerage after all.
That’s both throwing him under the bus and then reversing to make sure in one fell swoop.
February 3, 2026 at 1:34 PM
Please note: Mandelson knows where all the bodies are buried. He will now work tirelessly for the total destruction of the Labour Party.
Wes Streeting is Mandelson’s chief agent in the Cabinet. He has an entire team there.
#Labour
#Starmer
#Streeting
#Mandelson
Wes Streeting is Mandelson’s chief agent in the Cabinet. He has an entire team there.
#Labour
#Starmer
#Streeting
#Mandelson
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⚡️ Ukraine war latest live: Denmark, Sweden to help Kyiv 'develop an air defense battalion.'
Ukraine war latest update:s: Denmark, Sweden to help Kyiv 'develop an air defense battalion' (5)
Live coverage of Russia’s war against Ukraine with breaking news and frontline updates, updated 4 times today. Denmark and Sweden announced on Feb. 3 they will procure and supply Ukraine with addition...
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February 3, 2026 at 1:41 PM
⚡️ Ukraine war latest live: Denmark, Sweden to help Kyiv 'develop an air defense battalion.'
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In a return to the seventeenth century parliament may pass a bill of attainder or something so as to punish one person by primary legislation.
Would be better just to have a general statutory scheme for any person in the position of the accused here, so that there may be independent due process.
Would be better just to have a general statutory scheme for any person in the position of the accused here, so that there may be independent due process.
February 3, 2026 at 1:42 PM
In a return to the seventeenth century parliament may pass a bill of attainder or something so as to punish one person by primary legislation.
Would be better just to have a general statutory scheme for any person in the position of the accused here, so that there may be independent due process.
Would be better just to have a general statutory scheme for any person in the position of the accused here, so that there may be independent due process.
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Am certainly no fan of Mandelson, but I am also no fan of using primary legislation so as to impose a sanction on particular individuals without any due process.
This is what the Stuarts did, and we sort of thought better of it after the civil wars.
This is what the Stuarts did, and we sort of thought better of it after the civil wars.
February 3, 2026 at 1:44 PM
Am certainly no fan of Mandelson, but I am also no fan of using primary legislation so as to impose a sanction on particular individuals without any due process.
This is what the Stuarts did, and we sort of thought better of it after the civil wars.
This is what the Stuarts did, and we sort of thought better of it after the civil wars.
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One problem is that because of the (Victorian, Diceyan) doctrine of the supremacy of parliament, the courts should not gainsay anything set out in primary legislation - regardless of any rights infringed.
February 3, 2026 at 1:47 PM
One problem is that because of the (Victorian, Diceyan) doctrine of the supremacy of parliament, the courts should not gainsay anything set out in primary legislation - regardless of any rights infringed.
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Australia’s Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program, 300+ scientists, collecting coral spawn at sea and breeding heat-tolerant corals in a giant lab. It produced 35 million embryos last year and is aiming for 100 million corals a year that survive for at least 12 months or more.
Australia is doing absolutely everything to the Great Barrier Reef — except the one thing that matters
An exclusive look inside the largest effort ever mounted to keep an iconic ecosystem alive.
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February 3, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Australia’s Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program, 300+ scientists, collecting coral spawn at sea and breeding heat-tolerant corals in a giant lab. It produced 35 million embryos last year and is aiming for 100 million corals a year that survive for at least 12 months or more.
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This is what Nicolás Maduro did in Venezuela. Nationalize voting, then clamp down on journalists and appoint only partisan judges. Becoming a dictator one step at a time. 🗽
February 3, 2026 at 1:05 PM
This is what Nicolás Maduro did in Venezuela. Nationalize voting, then clamp down on journalists and appoint only partisan judges. Becoming a dictator one step at a time. 🗽
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The indictment of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers revealed that they had a cache of weapons, entered the Capitol in military formation, and were prepared to harm lawmakers. They were all pardoned and no doubt many of them are now in ICE
Bondi accuses Don Lemon of "performing an attack-style infiltration of a church"
February 3, 2026 at 1:47 PM
The indictment of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers revealed that they had a cache of weapons, entered the Capitol in military formation, and were prepared to harm lawmakers. They were all pardoned and no doubt many of them are now in ICE
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I don't recall a better opportunity to clear out criminally corrupt Lords. Mandelson removed through new legislation from his own; plus Mone, Lebedev UK-media-owning-KGB-of-Siberia, and a whole diarrhoea of hapless, hopeless anti-Britain wazzocks rewarded for treachery and stuffed in by Johnson.
The Lords is a massive problem. How can a supposedly advanced country still be maintaing a veritably feudal upper house where you can't get rid of members.
It's absolutely insane.
It's absolutely insane.
The government has:
1. Referred Mandelson to the police for investigation over leaking sensitive information while in government
2. Decided it *will* try to strip Mandelson of his peerage after all.
That’s both throwing him under the bus and then reversing to make sure in one fell swoop.
1. Referred Mandelson to the police for investigation over leaking sensitive information while in government
2. Decided it *will* try to strip Mandelson of his peerage after all.
That’s both throwing him under the bus and then reversing to make sure in one fell swoop.
February 3, 2026 at 1:50 PM
I don't recall a better opportunity to clear out criminally corrupt Lords. Mandelson removed through new legislation from his own; plus Mone, Lebedev UK-media-owning-KGB-of-Siberia, and a whole diarrhoea of hapless, hopeless anti-Britain wazzocks rewarded for treachery and stuffed in by Johnson.
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‘I was still black the next morning’: Halle Berry says Oscar win didn’t change her career
‘I was still black the next morning’: Halle Berry says Oscar win didn’t change her career
The actor says her historic 2002 best actress Oscar did not open doors in Hollywood, as studios remained wary of stories led by black performers
Halle Berry, the only black woman to have won the best actress Oscar, says her 2002 victory “didn’t necessarily change the course of my career”.
Speaking to The Cut’s Monica Corcoran Harel to promote new drama Crime 101, Berry said that she anticipated the victory, for Lee Daniels’ Monster’s Ball, would mean “there was going to be a script truck showing up outside my front door”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
February 3, 2026 at 12:01 PM
‘I was still black the next morning’: Halle Berry says Oscar win didn’t change her career
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Just saw this on another platform. Apparently, this was written by Jeremy Clarkson. I find it hard to believe. I never thought I'd agree with a single word he said.
February 3, 2026 at 1:27 PM
Just saw this on another platform. Apparently, this was written by Jeremy Clarkson. I find it hard to believe. I never thought I'd agree with a single word he said.