TomD
@tomd123.bsky.social
Atheist. Proud father and husband. Owned by a dog. Basically happy. Not necessarily in that order. Supreme master of "Dad Jokes" even before I became a dad. Sometimes I do beer properly.
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Lichtenberg Lightning in a Bottle, Thanks To The Magic of Particle Accelerators
Lichtenberg Lightning in a Bottle, Thanks To The Magic of Particle Accelerators
Hackaday Article
hackaday.com
December 22, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Lichtenberg Lightning in a Bottle, Thanks To The Magic of Particle Accelerators
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"Killing our wildlife for fun is no longer acceptable"
@chrisgpackham.bsky.social on the govts newly announced animal welfare strategy #GMB
@chrisgpackham.bsky.social on the govts newly announced animal welfare strategy #GMB
December 22, 2025 at 7:26 AM
"Killing our wildlife for fun is no longer acceptable"
@chrisgpackham.bsky.social on the govts newly announced animal welfare strategy #GMB
@chrisgpackham.bsky.social on the govts newly announced animal welfare strategy #GMB
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Todd Blanche is USING survivors to protect Trump and it’s DISGUSTING. Can we please yeet this monster into the sun?
WELKER: Why didn't the DOJ meet the Friday deadline to release all the Epstein files?
BLANCHE: It's very simple and very clear. The statute also requires us to protect victims.
BLANCHE: It's very simple and very clear. The statute also requires us to protect victims.
December 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Todd Blanche is USING survivors to protect Trump and it’s DISGUSTING. Can we please yeet this monster into the sun?
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Brexit revealed a hard truth: for Brits, Our EU citizenship turned out to be far more fragile than people assumed. Rights we thought were permanent — Freedom of Movement, family life across borders, economic participation — were removed by political choice, not public demand.
December 22, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Brexit revealed a hard truth: for Brits, Our EU citizenship turned out to be far more fragile than people assumed. Rights we thought were permanent — Freedom of Movement, family life across borders, economic participation — were removed by political choice, not public demand.
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So what recourse do we have now?
In UK law?
In EU law?
To UK gov?
To the EU?
In UK law?
In EU law?
To UK gov?
To the EU?
I think people did know about the damage Brexit would cause or they realised very quickly.
The problem we have now is that before Brexit people told us to **wait and see**.
After Brexit, they told us it was **too late** to do anything about it.
The problem we have now is that before Brexit people told us to **wait and see**.
After Brexit, they told us it was **too late** to do anything about it.
December 21, 2025 at 3:45 PM
So what recourse do we have now?
In UK law?
In EU law?
To UK gov?
To the EU?
In UK law?
In EU law?
To UK gov?
To the EU?
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Since we can't do polls here on bsky, let's try this... If you believe that Donald Trump is guilty of child crimes in relation to Jeffrey Epstein - repost this.
December 21, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Since we can't do polls here on bsky, let's try this... If you believe that Donald Trump is guilty of child crimes in relation to Jeffrey Epstein - repost this.
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Article 20 TFEU made EU citizenship additional to national citizenship, not conditional on politics.
If rights are individual, how can they be revoked by a single plebiscite?
#EUCitizenship
If rights are individual, how can they be revoked by a single plebiscite?
#EUCitizenship
December 21, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Article 20 TFEU made EU citizenship additional to national citizenship, not conditional on politics.
If rights are individual, how can they be revoked by a single plebiscite?
#EUCitizenship
If rights are individual, how can they be revoked by a single plebiscite?
#EUCitizenship
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Thank you, Facebook: Ewok Powell.
December 22, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Thank you, Facebook: Ewok Powell.
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Breakthrough of the year? Renewable energy www.science.org/content/arti...
December 21, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Breakthrough of the year? Renewable energy www.science.org/content/arti...
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Trumps vulgarity, crimes and hate are unmatched. To have this man act as president is a crime so unprecedented. We let him steal another election and do untold damage to our country. He is a total fraud who fooled the country with a staged assassination. I find all of this so unbelievably disgusting
December 21, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Trumps vulgarity, crimes and hate are unmatched. To have this man act as president is a crime so unprecedented. We let him steal another election and do untold damage to our country. He is a total fraud who fooled the country with a staged assassination. I find all of this so unbelievably disgusting
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**Solstice**
10:03am ET — Dec 21, 2025
On this day, Earth's North Pole tips away from the Sun, while the South Pole tips towards it, bringing the first day of Winter to the Northern Hemisphere with increasing daylight, and the first day of Summer to the Southern Hemisphere with decreasing daylight
10:03am ET — Dec 21, 2025
On this day, Earth's North Pole tips away from the Sun, while the South Pole tips towards it, bringing the first day of Winter to the Northern Hemisphere with increasing daylight, and the first day of Summer to the Southern Hemisphere with decreasing daylight
December 21, 2025 at 3:30 PM
**Solstice**
10:03am ET — Dec 21, 2025
On this day, Earth's North Pole tips away from the Sun, while the South Pole tips towards it, bringing the first day of Winter to the Northern Hemisphere with increasing daylight, and the first day of Summer to the Southern Hemisphere with decreasing daylight
10:03am ET — Dec 21, 2025
On this day, Earth's North Pole tips away from the Sun, while the South Pole tips towards it, bringing the first day of Winter to the Northern Hemisphere with increasing daylight, and the first day of Summer to the Southern Hemisphere with decreasing daylight
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I moved from teaching to tech jobs and back again and I will never not be angry about how fast the entire edtech boom, from mooc to apps and apple/google educator badges, to iPad schools etc.. all of it was ushered in.
None of it with ethics, governance or safety ever done correctly
None of it with ethics, governance or safety ever done correctly
December 21, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I moved from teaching to tech jobs and back again and I will never not be angry about how fast the entire edtech boom, from mooc to apps and apple/google educator badges, to iPad schools etc.. all of it was ushered in.
None of it with ethics, governance or safety ever done correctly
None of it with ethics, governance or safety ever done correctly
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Remember this?
James O'Keefe got Pam Bondi on video last May saying the FBI was processing “tens of thousands of videos” of Epstein “with little kids.”
Then she told reporters “There are tens of thousands of videos of Epstein with children or child porn.”
www.mediaite.com/politics/att...
James O'Keefe got Pam Bondi on video last May saying the FBI was processing “tens of thousands of videos” of Epstein “with little kids.”
Then she told reporters “There are tens of thousands of videos of Epstein with children or child porn.”
www.mediaite.com/politics/att...
Attorney General Pam Bondi Was Secretly Recorded in Video Published by James O’Keefe
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi was secretly recorded discussing the FBI's files on Jeffrey Epstein in a video published by James O'Keefe.
www.mediaite.com
December 21, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Remember this?
James O'Keefe got Pam Bondi on video last May saying the FBI was processing “tens of thousands of videos” of Epstein “with little kids.”
Then she told reporters “There are tens of thousands of videos of Epstein with children or child porn.”
www.mediaite.com/politics/att...
James O'Keefe got Pam Bondi on video last May saying the FBI was processing “tens of thousands of videos” of Epstein “with little kids.”
Then she told reporters “There are tens of thousands of videos of Epstein with children or child porn.”
www.mediaite.com/politics/att...
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“What more is there to say about the character of this petty, hollow, squalid, overstuffed man? — sometimes the point bears stressing: We are led by the most loathsome human being ever to occupy the White House.”
www.sltrib.com/opinion/comm...
www.sltrib.com/opinion/comm...
Opinion: Our petty, hollow, squalid ogre in chief
Opinion: We are led by the most loathsome human being ever to occupy the White House.
www.sltrib.com
December 21, 2025 at 8:30 PM
“What more is there to say about the character of this petty, hollow, squalid, overstuffed man? — sometimes the point bears stressing: We are led by the most loathsome human being ever to occupy the White House.”
www.sltrib.com/opinion/comm...
www.sltrib.com/opinion/comm...
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Garcia: If you are a whistleblower at the FBI, at the DOJ, if you worked hard to put the files together and are seeing your work now being hidden by your own DOJ, contact the oversight committee. We have whistleblower protections.
December 21, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Garcia: If you are a whistleblower at the FBI, at the DOJ, if you worked hard to put the files together and are seeing your work now being hidden by your own DOJ, contact the oversight committee. We have whistleblower protections.
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Shout out to Ron Wydn. Thank you. Yrump being chummy w Russia and ignoring our allies is making mor and more sense now. Impeach Donald J. Trump.
December 21, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Shout out to Ron Wydn. Thank you. Yrump being chummy w Russia and ignoring our allies is making mor and more sense now. Impeach Donald J. Trump.
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This was declared illegal by the 1856 Declaration of Paris.
This is a War Crime and has been for 169 years, you would think a Senator would know that.
This is a War Crime and has been for 169 years, you would think a Senator would know that.
December 20, 2025 at 11:58 AM
This was declared illegal by the 1856 Declaration of Paris.
This is a War Crime and has been for 169 years, you would think a Senator would know that.
This is a War Crime and has been for 169 years, you would think a Senator would know that.
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I’m not kidding. They are all stupid. Every single one of them in this administration. They are all just inept. And their lies are even stupid. They tell stupid lies. Release stupid lying files.
He purposely employed them as they’ll all be in court for years, so he won’t be.
He purposely employed them as they’ll all be in court for years, so he won’t be.
December 21, 2025 at 11:54 AM
I’m not kidding. They are all stupid. Every single one of them in this administration. They are all just inept. And their lies are even stupid. They tell stupid lies. Release stupid lying files.
He purposely employed them as they’ll all be in court for years, so he won’t be.
He purposely employed them as they’ll all be in court for years, so he won’t be.
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Jack Smith tells Congress he could prove Trump engaged in a 'criminal scheme' to overturn 2020 election
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Jack Smith tells Congress he could prove Trump engaged in a 'criminal scheme' to overturn 2020 election
Smith testified about his investigations into Trump at a closed-door deposition with members of the House Judiciary Committee.
www.nbcnews.com
December 21, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Jack Smith tells Congress he could prove Trump engaged in a 'criminal scheme' to overturn 2020 election
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
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Andrew Tate getting his arse kicked by a guy in pink gloves has made my weekend.
December 21, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Andrew Tate getting his arse kicked by a guy in pink gloves has made my weekend.
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It's almost as if a diet of cigars and sitting about in a man cave isn't good for a middle aged fella
to add to the Jake Paul schadenfreude, Andrew Tate also lost a fight to some reality TV influencer. most analysis of the fight I've read described his opponent as deeply untalented but Andrew lost anyway. Tate's endurance was awful and he was gassed after the first round.
December 21, 2025 at 9:58 AM
It's almost as if a diet of cigars and sitting about in a man cave isn't good for a middle aged fella
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I quote from Andrew Tate’s X profile:
‘Unmatched perspicacity coupled with sheer indefatigability makes me a feared opponent in any realm of human endeavour.’
Erm…
This is certainly not the case when it comes to boxing Andy.
Oh dear.
You poor little love.
😉
‘Unmatched perspicacity coupled with sheer indefatigability makes me a feared opponent in any realm of human endeavour.’
Erm…
This is certainly not the case when it comes to boxing Andy.
Oh dear.
You poor little love.
😉
December 21, 2025 at 9:08 AM
I quote from Andrew Tate’s X profile:
‘Unmatched perspicacity coupled with sheer indefatigability makes me a feared opponent in any realm of human endeavour.’
Erm…
This is certainly not the case when it comes to boxing Andy.
Oh dear.
You poor little love.
😉
‘Unmatched perspicacity coupled with sheer indefatigability makes me a feared opponent in any realm of human endeavour.’
Erm…
This is certainly not the case when it comes to boxing Andy.
Oh dear.
You poor little love.
😉
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One day something will happen — a wedding, a graduation, a job promotion, Jake Paul getting knocked out, Andrew Tate getting knocked out the next day — and you’ll want the right outfit to celebrate. Buy that special outfit now, so you’re ready when that next unexpected moment arrives.
December 21, 2025 at 7:19 AM
One day something will happen — a wedding, a graduation, a job promotion, Jake Paul getting knocked out, Andrew Tate getting knocked out the next day — and you’ll want the right outfit to celebrate. Buy that special outfit now, so you’re ready when that next unexpected moment arrives.
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They’re actually redacting Trump’s name AFTER the release.
🚨 The DOJ appears to have redacted Donald Trump’s name from the allegations made in this exhibit in the Epstein files.
Trump’s name was in the original release. Now, it’s blacked out.
See for yourself.
Trump’s name was in the original release. Now, it’s blacked out.
See for yourself.
December 21, 2025 at 5:02 AM
They’re actually redacting Trump’s name AFTER the release.
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Americans - take that superfluous "s" that you add to Lego, and put it rightfully onto the end of Maths.
December 20, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Americans - take that superfluous "s" that you add to Lego, and put it rightfully onto the end of Maths.