Andy Kingdon 🔶️
@andygeology.bsky.social
Lib Dem Councillor, Bramcote Ward Broxtowe BC. Scientist, father, atheist, cyclist. Middle age fat bloke.
I block racists, bigots and idiots. If I block you choose your category
Views mine and do not relate to my employer.
I block racists, bigots and idiots. If I block you choose your category
Views mine and do not relate to my employer.
My wife was at uni in Manchester 30 years ago. Oxford Road was a traffic ridden, stinking polluted hell hole. This was unthinkable then. Things can get better. You just have to make the effort.
December 23, 2025 at 4:35 PM
My wife was at uni in Manchester 30 years ago. Oxford Road was a traffic ridden, stinking polluted hell hole. This was unthinkable then. Things can get better. You just have to make the effort.
Miners in the East Midlands coal fields are never coming back to Labour. They shouldn't waste one second trying to get them back. Loads of them will be dead by 2029. Tge young people with no job prospects are much more important potential supporters.
December 23, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Miners in the East Midlands coal fields are never coming back to Labour. They shouldn't waste one second trying to get them back. Loads of them will be dead by 2029. Tge young people with no job prospects are much more important potential supporters.
Fox hunting in all is about the landed rich imposing themselves on the rest of us. Ignoring property boundaries and rights of way. Where I grew up (E Bedfordshire) it was eventually the Tory farmers that rejected fox hunting because of damage and attitudes of the hunters. Sod them they're vile.
December 23, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Fox hunting in all is about the landed rich imposing themselves on the rest of us. Ignoring property boundaries and rights of way. Where I grew up (E Bedfordshire) it was eventually the Tory farmers that rejected fox hunting because of damage and attitudes of the hunters. Sod them they're vile.
It's like manga. I'm aware that it exists and don't begrudge anyone else there enjoyment if it. But from my limited exposure to Pandora, I never want to go within 2 million miles of it again.
December 22, 2025 at 5:26 PM
It's like manga. I'm aware that it exists and don't begrudge anyone else there enjoyment if it. But from my limited exposure to Pandora, I never want to go within 2 million miles of it again.
On my stuff to do list "go back to twitter sits between "slam my fingers in car door" and "take bath with electric heater" in my priorities.
I think thick fascists and trolls will continue to do what they do without my input, and I'll be happier if I let that get on with it without my help
I think thick fascists and trolls will continue to do what they do without my input, and I'll be happier if I let that get on with it without my help
December 22, 2025 at 3:01 PM
On my stuff to do list "go back to twitter sits between "slam my fingers in car door" and "take bath with electric heater" in my priorities.
I think thick fascists and trolls will continue to do what they do without my input, and I'll be happier if I let that get on with it without my help
I think thick fascists and trolls will continue to do what they do without my input, and I'll be happier if I let that get on with it without my help
They are thick and very scared of the C21st which they do not understand. That doesn't mean thsg they are not both gullible and dangerous
December 21, 2025 at 10:57 PM
They are thick and very scared of the C21st which they do not understand. That doesn't mean thsg they are not both gullible and dangerous
"See that happening" weird spellchecker error sorry. BSky has decided I'm German.
December 21, 2025 at 10:15 AM
"See that happening" weird spellchecker error sorry. BSky has decided I'm German.
VIA can do a decent job but the county council leadership would have to care, and bluntly, I can't see traffic happening under RUK.
December 21, 2025 at 10:13 AM
VIA can do a decent job but the county council leadership would have to care, and bluntly, I can't see traffic happening under RUK.
The challenge is to bring the rest of greater Nottingham up to this standard. So paths don't just fade away at borough boundaries and key suburbs like Stapleford aren't completely cut off from the rest of the city. Nottingham City, for all its other faults, has shown the way on cycling.
December 21, 2025 at 9:18 AM
The challenge is to bring the rest of greater Nottingham up to this standard. So paths don't just fade away at borough boundaries and key suburbs like Stapleford aren't completely cut off from the rest of the city. Nottingham City, for all its other faults, has shown the way on cycling.
I've worked on salt cavern storage and I don't believe this is as much of a problem as you think, but it will be first short term storage anyway, though you highlight legit issues. Finding or manufacturing large volumes of H2 without expending huge amounts of energy is the main constraint.
December 20, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I've worked on salt cavern storage and I don't believe this is as much of a problem as you think, but it will be first short term storage anyway, though you highlight legit issues. Finding or manufacturing large volumes of H2 without expending huge amounts of energy is the main constraint.
Storage for H2 in salt caverns is likely to be more effective. No one has convinced me yet that searching for large volumes of natural hydrogen is likely to be successful (I'm happy to be proved wrong) given the lack of proven resources and complexity of the proposed plays.
December 20, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Storage for H2 in salt caverns is likely to be more effective. No one has convinced me yet that searching for large volumes of natural hydrogen is likely to be successful (I'm happy to be proved wrong) given the lack of proven resources and complexity of the proposed plays.
Any form of hydrogen is a solution in search of a problem. Manufacturing hydrogen at volume never makes thermodynamic sense. Unless large volumes of native hydrogen are found, and as a geologist I'm sceptical, it is a distraction from NetZero except in niche uses.
December 20, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Any form of hydrogen is a solution in search of a problem. Manufacturing hydrogen at volume never makes thermodynamic sense. Unless large volumes of native hydrogen are found, and as a geologist I'm sceptical, it is a distraction from NetZero except in niche uses.
But they were all craven, mostly because corporately they all wanted something. BBC have nothing to gain from capitulating, their presence in the USA is minimal. They can withdraw completely if they need to.
December 19, 2025 at 5:38 PM
But they were all craven, mostly because corporately they all wanted something. BBC have nothing to gain from capitulating, their presence in the USA is minimal. They can withdraw completely if they need to.
They haven't disappeared and still get a default vote but their voters and crucially their active members are becoming too elderly to organise / dying and are not being replaced. Their younger activists have disappeared / defected to Reform.
December 19, 2025 at 5:02 PM
They haven't disappeared and still get a default vote but their voters and crucially their active members are becoming too elderly to organise / dying and are not being replaced. Their younger activists have disappeared / defected to Reform.
Political journalists hype the extremes.
But Greens can't win a raffle never mind a byelection.
Whereas Reform can't run an election campaign despite the RW media support and dodgy money pouring in from fascists globally.
Lib Dem is a party of people who love their communities.
But Greens can't win a raffle never mind a byelection.
Whereas Reform can't run an election campaign despite the RW media support and dodgy money pouring in from fascists globally.
Lib Dem is a party of people who love their communities.
December 19, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Political journalists hype the extremes.
But Greens can't win a raffle never mind a byelection.
Whereas Reform can't run an election campaign despite the RW media support and dodgy money pouring in from fascists globally.
Lib Dem is a party of people who love their communities.
But Greens can't win a raffle never mind a byelection.
Whereas Reform can't run an election campaign despite the RW media support and dodgy money pouring in from fascists globally.
Lib Dem is a party of people who love their communities.
Disagree: Tories capacity to organise at local level has diminished to extinction. Membership are very elderly. They are literally dying out.
December 19, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Disagree: Tories capacity to organise at local level has diminished to extinction. Membership are very elderly. They are literally dying out.
My colleagues put the list together, and some of the sources are more verifiable than others. Cathedral spires toppling are widely reported as your excellent thread highlights.
December 18, 2025 at 11:21 PM
My colleagues put the list together, and some of the sources are more verifiable than others. Cathedral spires toppling are widely reported as your excellent thread highlights.
Good thread thank you.
The biased reporting is probably the most important thing. A cathedral spire disappears you notice. Whereas before buildings insurance if 1 Dung Hill Mansions Putney loses a chimney no one cared or notices except the crone living there.
The biased reporting is probably the most important thing. A cathedral spire disappears you notice. Whereas before buildings insurance if 1 Dung Hill Mansions Putney loses a chimney no one cared or notices except the crone living there.
December 18, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Good thread thank you.
The biased reporting is probably the most important thing. A cathedral spire disappears you notice. Whereas before buildings insurance if 1 Dung Hill Mansions Putney loses a chimney no one cared or notices except the crone living there.
The biased reporting is probably the most important thing. A cathedral spire disappears you notice. Whereas before buildings insurance if 1 Dung Hill Mansions Putney loses a chimney no one cared or notices except the crone living there.
Geologist here: UK has several earthquakes big enough to cause damage per century. Add ropey medieval structural engineering & the role of cathedrals in medieval life, these will be over-reported. Hovels collapse without record.
BGS - UK Historical Earthquake Database share.google/37qLTW9GTqWO...
BGS - UK Historical Earthquake Database share.google/37qLTW9GTqWO...
BGS - UK Historical Earthquake Database
The British Geological Survey provides up-to-date information
on recent and historical earthquakes, educational resources, and seismic hazard services
share.google
December 18, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Geologist here: UK has several earthquakes big enough to cause damage per century. Add ropey medieval structural engineering & the role of cathedrals in medieval life, these will be over-reported. Hovels collapse without record.
BGS - UK Historical Earthquake Database share.google/37qLTW9GTqWO...
BGS - UK Historical Earthquake Database share.google/37qLTW9GTqWO...
I understand that. It has to be challenged. These people exist here, UK once had much more liberal gun laws. But harnessing the horror of the 2 most serious mass gun killings Hungerford 1987 & Dunblane school shooting 1996 first automatic weapons then most weapons Inc all hand guns were banned
December 18, 2025 at 6:12 PM
I understand that. It has to be challenged. These people exist here, UK once had much more liberal gun laws. But harnessing the horror of the 2 most serious mass gun killings Hungerford 1987 & Dunblane school shooting 1996 first automatic weapons then most weapons Inc all hand guns were banned
Based on UK Experience:
What do you lose by allowing people to keep guns?
Nothing except hunting rights, if you deem them important (I don't)
What do you gain?
Fewer murders, suicides and accidental killings / injuries
Mass killings very rare
Zero school shooting
Hard to argue against!
What do you lose by allowing people to keep guns?
Nothing except hunting rights, if you deem them important (I don't)
What do you gain?
Fewer murders, suicides and accidental killings / injuries
Mass killings very rare
Zero school shooting
Hard to argue against!
December 18, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Based on UK Experience:
What do you lose by allowing people to keep guns?
Nothing except hunting rights, if you deem them important (I don't)
What do you gain?
Fewer murders, suicides and accidental killings / injuries
Mass killings very rare
Zero school shooting
Hard to argue against!
What do you lose by allowing people to keep guns?
Nothing except hunting rights, if you deem them important (I don't)
What do you gain?
Fewer murders, suicides and accidental killings / injuries
Mass killings very rare
Zero school shooting
Hard to argue against!
In the early 90s I lived in Leeds, Edinburgh then Nottingham (where I now live). 2 of those cities built trams systems and have made major efforts to reduce congestion, Leeds remains traffic choked. This is a failure of leadership in Leeds and a betrayal by Treasury / Reeves.
December 18, 2025 at 1:25 PM
In the early 90s I lived in Leeds, Edinburgh then Nottingham (where I now live). 2 of those cities built trams systems and have made major efforts to reduce congestion, Leeds remains traffic choked. This is a failure of leadership in Leeds and a betrayal by Treasury / Reeves.
The Treasury, and Rachel Reeves, hate Britain (except London and Greater Manchester whenever Burnham throw his toys out of the pram).
I'm tired of cities like Leeds and Nottingham just getting the fuzzy end of the lollipop.
I'm tired of cities like Leeds and Nottingham just getting the fuzzy end of the lollipop.
a woman in a fur coat is saying i 'm tired of getting the fuzzy end of the lollipop .
ALT: a woman in a fur coat is saying i 'm tired of getting the fuzzy end of the lollipop .
media.tenor.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:32 AM
The Treasury, and Rachel Reeves, hate Britain (except London and Greater Manchester whenever Burnham throw his toys out of the pram).
I'm tired of cities like Leeds and Nottingham just getting the fuzzy end of the lollipop.
I'm tired of cities like Leeds and Nottingham just getting the fuzzy end of the lollipop.
a woman in a fur coat is saying i 'm tired of getting the fuzzy end of the lollipop .
ALT: a woman in a fur coat is saying i 'm tired of getting the fuzzy end of the lollipop .
media.tenor.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:30 AM
The Treasury, and Rachel Reeves, hate Britain (except London and Greater Manchester whenever Burnham throw his toys out of the pram).
I'm tired of cities like Leeds and Nottingham just getting the fuzzy end of the lollipop.
I'm tired of cities like Leeds and Nottingham just getting the fuzzy end of the lollipop.