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.
Political donations are Bribes!
Please don't send me crisis appeals, I support via UNICEF
Political donations are Bribes!
Please don't send me crisis appeals, I support via UNICEF
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GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a heteromultivalent nanogel capable of killing some of the most dangerous bacteria known to medicine- with over 99.9% effectiveness against P. aeruginosa. It also showed strong antibacterial effects against other major threats, including E. coli and MRSA.
November 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a heteromultivalent nanogel capable of killing some of the most dangerous bacteria known to medicine- with over 99.9% effectiveness against P. aeruginosa. It also showed strong antibacterial effects against other major threats, including E. coli and MRSA.
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Unbelievable.
Very few things piss me off more than anti-vax morons killing their children.
Very few things piss me off more than anti-vax morons killing their children.
November 25, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Unbelievable.
Very few things piss me off more than anti-vax morons killing their children.
Very few things piss me off more than anti-vax morons killing their children.
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Witkoff is not buying the Russian narrative. He is selling it.
November 26, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Witkoff is not buying the Russian narrative. He is selling it.
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If Labour abolish most trials by jury, and a future Reform government then takes us out of the ECHR, we'll end up in an incredibly scary place because we'll be at the whim of a handful of people.
(You could argue "if you're a criminal" but who gets to define what criminality is? Exactly.)
(You could argue "if you're a criminal" but who gets to define what criminality is? Exactly.)
November 26, 2025 at 9:19 AM
If Labour abolish most trials by jury, and a future Reform government then takes us out of the ECHR, we'll end up in an incredibly scary place because we'll be at the whim of a handful of people.
(You could argue "if you're a criminal" but who gets to define what criminality is? Exactly.)
(You could argue "if you're a criminal" but who gets to define what criminality is? Exactly.)
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The OBR says that the VAT charge on private schools has raised more money than expected because fewer pupils have gone into the state sector
Never believe the Tories and their media.
Never believe the Tories and their media.
November 26, 2025 at 2:50 PM
The OBR says that the VAT charge on private schools has raised more money than expected because fewer pupils have gone into the state sector
Never believe the Tories and their media.
Never believe the Tories and their media.
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It’s my latest article
#ChemicalWeapons #BiologicalWeapons #Medicine #Countermeasures
Frontiers in medical countermeasures against #CBRN agents @dankaszeta.bsky.social
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When considering CBRN medical countermeasures from the standpoint of defence journalism, three factors emerge. ...
Frontiers in medical countermeasures against #CBRN agents @dankaszeta.bsky.social
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When considering CBRN medical countermeasures from the standpoint of defence journalism, three factors emerge. ...
Frontiers in medical countermeasures against CBRN agents - European Security & Defence
From nerve agent antidotes to radiation sickness treatments, medical countermeasures against CBRN threats remain an oft-overlooked corner of defence spending. This piece examines the current state of ...
euro-sd.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:24 PM
It’s my latest article
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Newly released emails show the FBI spent almost $1 million in overtime analyzing the Epstein files as part of an effort dubbed the “Special Redaction Project."
FBI’s Frantic Scramble to Redact Epstein Files Revealed
A trove of emails shows all-nighters and almost $1 million in overtime as Trumpworld debated releasing the Epstein files.
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November 26, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Newly released emails show the FBI spent almost $1 million in overtime analyzing the Epstein files as part of an effort dubbed the “Special Redaction Project."
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Generative AI is convenient and useful in the same way the Broad Street water pump was convenient and useful in 1854
November 26, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Generative AI is convenient and useful in the same way the Broad Street water pump was convenient and useful in 1854
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NO WAY —
November 26, 2025 at 6:28 PM
NO WAY —
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Labour's blinkered 'Build baby build’ agenda could speed up nature decline to the point of no return, conservation charities warn.
Devastating to watch this happening, whilst knowing how close to the brink so many species are, already.
#wildlife #nature
www.wildlifetrusts.org/news/conserv...
Devastating to watch this happening, whilst knowing how close to the brink so many species are, already.
#wildlife #nature
www.wildlifetrusts.org/news/conserv...
Conservation leaders warn of ‘Perfect Storm’ threatening England’s wildlife and most special places | The Wildlife Trusts
• ‘Build baby build’ agenda could speed up nature decline to the point of no return • Four years on from Environment Act, nature policy is in a much darker place • Charities representing more than two...
www.wildlifetrusts.org
November 26, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Labour's blinkered 'Build baby build’ agenda could speed up nature decline to the point of no return, conservation charities warn.
Devastating to watch this happening, whilst knowing how close to the brink so many species are, already.
#wildlife #nature
www.wildlifetrusts.org/news/conserv...
Devastating to watch this happening, whilst knowing how close to the brink so many species are, already.
#wildlife #nature
www.wildlifetrusts.org/news/conserv...
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Today, in Utah, homeowners *or renters* can simply buy a solar panel at Costco, take it home, and plug it in to a wall socket, like an appliance. It just sits there & trims about 15-20% off a residential power bill. If you move to another apt., you can take it with you.
November 26, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Today, in Utah, homeowners *or renters* can simply buy a solar panel at Costco, take it home, and plug it in to a wall socket, like an appliance. It just sits there & trims about 15-20% off a residential power bill. If you move to another apt., you can take it with you.
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Today, Nigel Farage reiterated his belief that Enoch Powell ‘was right’.
If you are a Sikh, he’s talking about you - about how ‘wearing turbans whilst driving a bus would disrupt Britain’.
If you are black, he’s talking about you - how when you moved in next door to white people, you ‘took over’.
If you are a Sikh, he’s talking about you - about how ‘wearing turbans whilst driving a bus would disrupt Britain’.
If you are black, he’s talking about you - how when you moved in next door to white people, you ‘took over’.
November 26, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Today, Nigel Farage reiterated his belief that Enoch Powell ‘was right’.
If you are a Sikh, he’s talking about you - about how ‘wearing turbans whilst driving a bus would disrupt Britain’.
If you are black, he’s talking about you - how when you moved in next door to white people, you ‘took over’.
If you are a Sikh, he’s talking about you - about how ‘wearing turbans whilst driving a bus would disrupt Britain’.
If you are black, he’s talking about you - how when you moved in next door to white people, you ‘took over’.
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At least one insurrectionist goes to jail
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
Bolsonaro to Start Serving 27-Year Sentence Over Coup Plot
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:45 PM
At least one insurrectionist goes to jail
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
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100%! Health and social care are not for profit!
I don’t think anyone should make profits out of social care. One all salaries and bills have been paid the money should be ploughed back for the benefit of those in care.
November 26, 2025 at 6:38 PM
100%! Health and social care are not for profit!
This is a must read! So many opportunities wasted, the arrogance of senior medical officers and the refusal to acknowledge the evidence of good Covid suppression practices coming from the far East. And two of the perpetrators are still in senior roles today.
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/230000-dea...
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/230000-dea...
230,000 Deaths and the ‘Calculated Silence’ of the Medical Establishment About the COVID Inquiry
The Covid Inquiry Report is a devastating critique of the medical establishment which led the UK to the worst public health disaster in a century, argues Anthony Costello
www.bylinesupplement.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:37 PM
This is a must read! So many opportunities wasted, the arrogance of senior medical officers and the refusal to acknowledge the evidence of good Covid suppression practices coming from the far East. And two of the perpetrators are still in senior roles today.
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/230000-dea...
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/230000-dea...
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🧵 1/n Paper out in Proceedings B! @royalsocietypublishing.org
How far can frugivorous birds disperse seeds during migration?
📸 Song thrush (Turdus philomelos) equipped with one of the satellite GPS tags used to track its migratory movements (credit: Sascha Rösner)
doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
How far can frugivorous birds disperse seeds during migration?
📸 Song thrush (Turdus philomelos) equipped with one of the satellite GPS tags used to track its migratory movements (credit: Sascha Rösner)
doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
November 26, 2025 at 8:33 AM
🧵 1/n Paper out in Proceedings B! @royalsocietypublishing.org
How far can frugivorous birds disperse seeds during migration?
📸 Song thrush (Turdus philomelos) equipped with one of the satellite GPS tags used to track its migratory movements (credit: Sascha Rösner)
doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
How far can frugivorous birds disperse seeds during migration?
📸 Song thrush (Turdus philomelos) equipped with one of the satellite GPS tags used to track its migratory movements (credit: Sascha Rösner)
doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
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I have thoughts on this excellent piece which (naturally) I agree with.
What might have caused this strange absence of attention to substance which we find across government, opposition, and criticism / commentary (the cult of savviness)?
What might have caused this strange absence of attention to substance which we find across government, opposition, and criticism / commentary (the cult of savviness)?
On budget, Brexit and UK politics paddling in the shallow end of a problem that goes way deeper than just tax rises. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Rachel Reeves has many problems. She’s realising that her Brexit bind may be the biggest of all | Rafael Behr
Brutal economic realities are prompting a shift in Labour’s tone on Europe. But will it dare tell the whole truth about Britain’s predicament, asks Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:41 AM
I have thoughts on this excellent piece which (naturally) I agree with.
What might have caused this strange absence of attention to substance which we find across government, opposition, and criticism / commentary (the cult of savviness)?
What might have caused this strange absence of attention to substance which we find across government, opposition, and criticism / commentary (the cult of savviness)?
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As for Farage’s use of racist slurs being confined to his childhood - well, that's not what Alan Sked, the founder of UKIP, claimed in this 2014 interview.
He says here that Farage was using the "n" word as late as 1997.
Farage would have been about 33 at time.
www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
He says here that Farage was using the "n" word as late as 1997.
Farage would have been about 33 at time.
www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
Ukip founder Alan Sked: 'The party has become a Frankenstein's monster'
He may have founded Ukip, but Alan Sked's moderate, Brussels-boycotting party has gone rogue. Stuart Jeffries meets the academic who's desperate to stop the bandwagon he first set rolling
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:55 AM
As for Farage’s use of racist slurs being confined to his childhood - well, that's not what Alan Sked, the founder of UKIP, claimed in this 2014 interview.
He says here that Farage was using the "n" word as late as 1997.
Farage would have been about 33 at time.
www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
He says here that Farage was using the "n" word as late as 1997.
Farage would have been about 33 at time.
www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
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Yet again, I am going to ask everyone to look at the 'farmers' hands driving the tractors / being interviewed in this protest.
If they have soft hands they are not farmers, they are tax dodging managers. Farmers have giant sausage fingers covered in cuts.
Source: Grew-up on a farm.
If they have soft hands they are not farmers, they are tax dodging managers. Farmers have giant sausage fingers covered in cuts.
Source: Grew-up on a farm.
damn, well I'm sure the MET will come down on them with the same enthusiasm they have for arresting climate protestors
It's looking as if the farmers protest in Whitehall today have ignored the police request not to bring their tractors.
November 26, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Yet again, I am going to ask everyone to look at the 'farmers' hands driving the tractors / being interviewed in this protest.
If they have soft hands they are not farmers, they are tax dodging managers. Farmers have giant sausage fingers covered in cuts.
Source: Grew-up on a farm.
If they have soft hands they are not farmers, they are tax dodging managers. Farmers have giant sausage fingers covered in cuts.
Source: Grew-up on a farm.
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Anyway.
Happy "Jeremy Clarkson doesn't want to pay inheritance tax" parade day to those who celebrate.
Happy "Jeremy Clarkson doesn't want to pay inheritance tax" parade day to those who celebrate.
November 26, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Anyway.
Happy "Jeremy Clarkson doesn't want to pay inheritance tax" parade day to those who celebrate.
Happy "Jeremy Clarkson doesn't want to pay inheritance tax" parade day to those who celebrate.
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damn, well I'm sure the MET will come down on them with the same enthusiasm they have for arresting climate protestors
It's looking as if the farmers protest in Whitehall today have ignored the police request not to bring their tractors.
November 26, 2025 at 10:03 AM
damn, well I'm sure the MET will come down on them with the same enthusiasm they have for arresting climate protestors
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one of the most endlessly petty "we don't think you'll leave" visit visa refusals imaginable. see also: funerals, weddings
Great-grandmother denied visa to attend Christening in Reading
Tutu Melaku says it is an
www.bbc.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 9:04 AM
one of the most endlessly petty "we don't think you'll leave" visit visa refusals imaginable. see also: funerals, weddings
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I wrote this piece about Trudi Warner and why juries are an important part of our constitution in April last year. I think particularly worth reading today.
goodlawproject.org/high-court-s...
goodlawproject.org/high-court-s...
High Court slaps down ‘fanciful’ prosecution of Trudi Warner | Good Law Project
Judge rules that the solicitor general ‘mischaracterised’ the evidence when he charged Warner with contempt of court for holding up a placard.
goodlawproject.org
November 25, 2025 at 9:57 PM
I wrote this piece about Trudi Warner and why juries are an important part of our constitution in April last year. I think particularly worth reading today.
goodlawproject.org/high-court-s...
goodlawproject.org/high-court-s...