Neil Vincent
@syntenicman.bsky.social
A retired self opinionated old British codger with a background in the Life Sciences, but also interested in multiple other totally unrelated topics.
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Last night, I got properly "doored" for the first time. A car in the road to my right paused, and the rear left passenger threw open his door without looking, right into my path. I ended up on the floor, badly winded but ok.
If you don't know what the "Dutch reach" is, NOW is the time to learn.
If you don't know what the "Dutch reach" is, NOW is the time to learn.
February 11, 2026 at 11:14 AM
Last night, I got properly "doored" for the first time. A car in the road to my right paused, and the rear left passenger threw open his door without looking, right into my path. I ended up on the floor, badly winded but ok.
If you don't know what the "Dutch reach" is, NOW is the time to learn.
If you don't know what the "Dutch reach" is, NOW is the time to learn.
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NEW – Factcheck: What it really costs to heat a home in the UK with a heat pump | @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org
Read here:
Read here:
Factcheck: What it really costs to heat a home in the UK with a heat pump - Carbon Brief
This factcheck explains how heat pumps can cut bills, what the latest data shows about potential savings
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January 30, 2026 at 3:13 PM
NEW – Factcheck: What it really costs to heat a home in the UK with a heat pump | @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org
Read here:
Read here:
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It's her own fault, I have zero sympathy for Michelle Mone, but she's in the headlines now because she's always chased the headlines.
However, she is the tip of the VIP lane iceberg, most of them connected to the Tory Party. Utter corruption.
Read these 8 pages from The Decade In Tory
1/2
However, she is the tip of the VIP lane iceberg, most of them connected to the Tory Party. Utter corruption.
Read these 8 pages from The Decade In Tory
1/2
October 1, 2025 at 1:26 PM
It's her own fault, I have zero sympathy for Michelle Mone, but she's in the headlines now because she's always chased the headlines.
However, she is the tip of the VIP lane iceberg, most of them connected to the Tory Party. Utter corruption.
Read these 8 pages from The Decade In Tory
1/2
However, she is the tip of the VIP lane iceberg, most of them connected to the Tory Party. Utter corruption.
Read these 8 pages from The Decade In Tory
1/2
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I don't want to build Starmer's Britain: afraid, capital-obsessed and centralised.
I want to grow our movement: bold, people-orientated and localised.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
I want to grow our movement: bold, people-orientated and localised.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Join the Green Party
Join the Green Party from just £6 a year. Become a member today - join the only party standing up for people and planet.
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September 30, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I don't want to build Starmer's Britain: afraid, capital-obsessed and centralised.
I want to grow our movement: bold, people-orientated and localised.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
I want to grow our movement: bold, people-orientated and localised.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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A little bit of good news from Hawaiʻi.
Lahaina’s historic Banyan Tree Park could re-open in several months
Nearly two years after the devastating wildfires swept through Lahaina and Kula, one of Lahaina’s most well-known landmarks has made a significant comeback.
www.khon2.com
August 3, 2025 at 6:04 AM
A little bit of good news from Hawaiʻi.
I just signed this petition calling for better cooperation with the EU on the environment. Will you add your name, too? www.europeanmovement.co.uk/uk-eu-enviro...
Tell The Government: Strengthen UK-EU Environmental Cooperation
Climate change and environmental problems don't respect borders. The UK and EU must work together to protect our shared environment, tackle the climate crisis, and preserve biodiversity for future gen...
www.europeanmovement.co.uk
July 23, 2025 at 6:58 AM
I just signed this petition calling for better cooperation with the EU on the environment. Will you add your name, too? www.europeanmovement.co.uk/uk-eu-enviro...
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What's that? Another Green byelection win in London!
That's the 4th in the last 10 months!
Overjoyed to welcome Tamasin Rhymes as the newest Green Councillor.
Thank you to everyone who voted Green!
That's the 4th in the last 10 months!
Overjoyed to welcome Tamasin Rhymes as the newest Green Councillor.
Thank you to everyone who voted Green!
❗ Green GAIN from Labour
Shooters Hill (Greenwich) council by-election result:
GRN: 34.8% (+19.7)
LAB: 30.2% (-29.2)
REF: 16.1% (+13.3)
CON: 11.5% (-2.4)
LDEM: 5.1% (-3.6)
+/- 2022
Estimated turnout: ~33% (-9)
andrewteale.me.uk/previews
Shooters Hill (Greenwich) council by-election result:
GRN: 34.8% (+19.7)
LAB: 30.2% (-29.2)
REF: 16.1% (+13.3)
CON: 11.5% (-2.4)
LDEM: 5.1% (-3.6)
+/- 2022
Estimated turnout: ~33% (-9)
andrewteale.me.uk/previews
Andrew’s Previews | Andrew Teale | Substack
"All the right votes, but not necessarily in the right order". Click to read Andrew’s Previews, by Andrew Teale, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
andrewteale.me.uk
June 27, 2025 at 6:54 AM
What's that? Another Green byelection win in London!
That's the 4th in the last 10 months!
Overjoyed to welcome Tamasin Rhymes as the newest Green Councillor.
Thank you to everyone who voted Green!
That's the 4th in the last 10 months!
Overjoyed to welcome Tamasin Rhymes as the newest Green Councillor.
Thank you to everyone who voted Green!
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We have 3 years before we burn through the carbon budget for 1.5°C
World leaders promised action in 2015. Since then:
🔥 Record fossil fuel use
🌲 More deforestation
📈 Rising emissions
This isn’t a lack of solutions. It’s a lack of will.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
World leaders promised action in 2015. Since then:
🔥 Record fossil fuel use
🌲 More deforestation
📈 Rising emissions
This isn’t a lack of solutions. It’s a lack of will.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Three years left to limit warming to 1.5C, top scientists warn - BBC News
The Earth could be doomed to breach a key climate target in as little as three years, scientists warn.
www.bbc.co.uk
June 19, 2025 at 5:28 AM
We have 3 years before we burn through the carbon budget for 1.5°C
World leaders promised action in 2015. Since then:
🔥 Record fossil fuel use
🌲 More deforestation
📈 Rising emissions
This isn’t a lack of solutions. It’s a lack of will.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
World leaders promised action in 2015. Since then:
🔥 Record fossil fuel use
🌲 More deforestation
📈 Rising emissions
This isn’t a lack of solutions. It’s a lack of will.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
If you have solar PV and a battery but still use gas for heating then this is the elephant in the room. Gas fired CH is likely still your household’s largest contribution to carbon emissions. Plot 1. Our 2024 actual. Plot 2. Prediction based on our new Aira #AirSourceHeatPump.
June 15, 2025 at 12:26 PM
If you have solar PV and a battery but still use gas for heating then this is the elephant in the room. Gas fired CH is likely still your household’s largest contribution to carbon emissions. Plot 1. Our 2024 actual. Plot 2. Prediction based on our new Aira #AirSourceHeatPump.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, posted photos on Sunday of himself and his grandchildren swimming in a contaminated Washington creek where swimming is not allowed because it is used for sewer runoff.
RFK Jr. Swims in Washington Creek That Flows With Sewage and Bacteria
www.nytimes.com
May 13, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, posted photos on Sunday of himself and his grandchildren swimming in a contaminated Washington creek where swimming is not allowed because it is used for sewer runoff.
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"In December last year, Resolute 1850 Ltd was incorporated in the UK.
With a thinktank soon to be launched and funds from MAGA, American Big Tech and the US religious right already pledged, it seeks to use Reform as a vessel to bring Project 2025-style policies to the UK." 🤬
With a thinktank soon to be launched and funds from MAGA, American Big Tech and the US religious right already pledged, it seeks to use Reform as a vessel to bring Project 2025-style policies to the UK." 🤬
‘Resolute 1850’: Reform UK Ltd’s MAGA plan to turn Britain into Little America
Right-wing US interests are pushing a plan to bend the UK to their will, ‘DOGE’-style – in Farage’s Reform UK they have an eager little helper
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
May 10, 2025 at 8:43 PM
"In December last year, Resolute 1850 Ltd was incorporated in the UK.
With a thinktank soon to be launched and funds from MAGA, American Big Tech and the US religious right already pledged, it seeks to use Reform as a vessel to bring Project 2025-style policies to the UK." 🤬
With a thinktank soon to be launched and funds from MAGA, American Big Tech and the US religious right already pledged, it seeks to use Reform as a vessel to bring Project 2025-style policies to the UK." 🤬
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One year ago tonight, the night sky wow'd much of the planet with dancing colors in what was one of the best aurora displays of the last two decades.
This was the scene all the way down on the freakin' Oklahoma/Texas border that night! Even had overhead pillars. Let's do that again soon, yeah?
This was the scene all the way down on the freakin' Oklahoma/Texas border that night! Even had overhead pillars. Let's do that again soon, yeah?
May 10, 2025 at 5:31 PM
One year ago tonight, the night sky wow'd much of the planet with dancing colors in what was one of the best aurora displays of the last two decades.
This was the scene all the way down on the freakin' Oklahoma/Texas border that night! Even had overhead pillars. Let's do that again soon, yeah?
This was the scene all the way down on the freakin' Oklahoma/Texas border that night! Even had overhead pillars. Let's do that again soon, yeah?
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I may be one of the only 44-year-olds in the country with a father who served in the Second World War. Wrote this a couple of years ago on how he and his generation sacrificed not just their lives, but their youth. www.thetimes.com/world/russia...
May 8, 2025 at 7:52 AM
I may be one of the only 44-year-olds in the country with a father who served in the Second World War. Wrote this a couple of years ago on how he and his generation sacrificed not just their lives, but their youth. www.thetimes.com/world/russia...
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Now we know where Sir Keir Starmer's carbon capture plan came from, via dodgy dossier provided by Saudi oil lobbyist, Sir Tony Blair?
euroweeklynews.com/2016/04/29/t...
euroweeklynews.com/2016/04/29/t...
Tony Blair unmasked as chief lobbyist for Saudi oil firm
FLYING somewhat under the radar since his absurdist stint as Middle East peace envoy, Tony Blair has resurfaced as a key broker in a booming nexus of Chinese and Saudi oil companies.
euroweeklynews.com
April 29, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Now we know where Sir Keir Starmer's carbon capture plan came from, via dodgy dossier provided by Saudi oil lobbyist, Sir Tony Blair?
euroweeklynews.com/2016/04/29/t...
euroweeklynews.com/2016/04/29/t...
Spring has sprung!
April 18, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Spring has sprung!
Hard to believe it’s mid April in the UK and 23 Celsius in the sun. Pictures from an idyllic walk through the countryside near #comptonVerney and #combroke Warwickshire UK earlier today
April 11, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Hard to believe it’s mid April in the UK and 23 Celsius in the sun. Pictures from an idyllic walk through the countryside near #comptonVerney and #combroke Warwickshire UK earlier today
This is what passes for a perfect solar generation curve on our UK Midlands south facing 3.15 kWp solar PV array. We usually see the earliest +20 kWh day at the start of May, but was on the 6th April & is the earliest we’ve seen in 14 years We’ve had getting on for 2 weeks of sunny days now.
April 7, 2025 at 2:34 PM
This is what passes for a perfect solar generation curve on our UK Midlands south facing 3.15 kWp solar PV array. We usually see the earliest +20 kWh day at the start of May, but was on the 6th April & is the earliest we’ve seen in 14 years We’ve had getting on for 2 weeks of sunny days now.
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“So unbelievably stupid, incompetent and insane.”
April 3, 2025 at 2:10 PM
“So unbelievably stupid, incompetent and insane.”
I’ve just started my latest 1:48 scale aircraft modelling project. Somewhat back to front reading of the kit destructions means I’ve started with these. What do you think the aircraft is?
April 1, 2025 at 12:17 PM
I’ve just started my latest 1:48 scale aircraft modelling project. Somewhat back to front reading of the kit destructions means I’ve started with these. What do you think the aircraft is?
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Hang on, that full transcript seems to indicate they deliberately targeted civilians? Isn't that a war crime?
March 26, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Hang on, that full transcript seems to indicate they deliberately targeted civilians? Isn't that a war crime?
A recent #plasticmodelling build. RAF Red Arrows Bae Hawk T Mk1 based on the Trumpeter 1:48 scale kit. Not a bad kit, but the incorrect wing fences need sorting out and the pre WW2 era RAF roundel decals supplied by Trumpeter had to be replaced.
March 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM
A recent #plasticmodelling build. RAF Red Arrows Bae Hawk T Mk1 based on the Trumpeter 1:48 scale kit. Not a bad kit, but the incorrect wing fences need sorting out and the pre WW2 era RAF roundel decals supplied by Trumpeter had to be replaced.
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Approaching 70,000 views in around 48 hours......
Is Donald Trump a Russian agent?
Donald Trump’s unshakeable admiration for Vladimir Putin continues to raise eyebrows. Does Putin have a hold over Trump?
@anthonybylines.bsky.social @yorkshirebylines.co.uk
Is Donald Trump a Russian agent?
Donald Trump’s unshakeable admiration for Vladimir Putin continues to raise eyebrows. Does Putin have a hold over Trump?
@anthonybylines.bsky.social @yorkshirebylines.co.uk
Is Donald Trump a Russian agent?
Donald Trump’s unshakeable admiration for Vladimir Putin continues to raise eyebrows. Does Putin have a hold over Trump?
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
March 8, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Approaching 70,000 views in around 48 hours......
Is Donald Trump a Russian agent?
Donald Trump’s unshakeable admiration for Vladimir Putin continues to raise eyebrows. Does Putin have a hold over Trump?
@anthonybylines.bsky.social @yorkshirebylines.co.uk
Is Donald Trump a Russian agent?
Donald Trump’s unshakeable admiration for Vladimir Putin continues to raise eyebrows. Does Putin have a hold over Trump?
@anthonybylines.bsky.social @yorkshirebylines.co.uk
When the orange wannabe imperator said “Drill baby, drill” this is what he should have meant. Of course he didn’t, but huge potential and a game changing disruption for the fossil fool industry if this works. www.quaise.energy
Quaise Energy
Quaise is an energy company unlocking geothermal energy for the world population through millimeter wave drilling technology.
www.quaise.energy
March 8, 2025 at 5:53 AM
When the orange wannabe imperator said “Drill baby, drill” this is what he should have meant. Of course he didn’t, but huge potential and a game changing disruption for the fossil fool industry if this works. www.quaise.energy
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Hi gang. My films ‘In The Loop’ and ‘The Death of Stalin’ are on #BBCFour this evening, at 9pm and 10.40pm. Do enjoy if you’re a fan of repeated threat.
March 6, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Hi gang. My films ‘In The Loop’ and ‘The Death of Stalin’ are on #BBCFour this evening, at 9pm and 10.40pm. Do enjoy if you’re a fan of repeated threat.