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Brian Probert @brianhprobert.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Checking how many pensioners are on DB schemes. Table 2.4 of this document indicates 4,308,000 or about 30% of pensioners www.thepensionsregulator.gov.uk/en/document-...

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Brian Probert @brianhprobert.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We have been leafleted by Restore. Didn’t know there was an imminent election but the positive is that their standing would make it harder for Reform

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Brian Probert @brianhprobert.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

@nytimes.com highlights a surprising supply chain issue in defence procurement

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Brian Probert @brianhprobert.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

@newyorker.com has a more nuanced discussion which is also available (free) on their Political Scene podcast. The crux of it for me is this section

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Brian Probert @brianhprobert.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Ian Frazier and Samy Burch on “Coyote vs. Acme” www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-...

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Brian Probert @brianhprobert.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

from keypublishing.com After the deciding that 51 H bombs could kill 25% of the USSR population the USA amassed 32,193 adding up to 14,037 Megatons. Polaris was developed in only 2 years and a partially-built attack sub was stretched by 130 ft to carry 16 missiles. Weak on Soviet weapons though …

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Brian Probert @brianhprobert.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

These are the contents in case you are interested

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Brian Probert @brianhprobert.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

@wellerstein.bsky.social This is on sale in the UK. Authors are not identified so I’m not sure if you contributed. It has a lot of interesting articles

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Brian Probert @brianhprobert.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This 1965 classic gets reprinted for some reason

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Brian Probert @brianhprobert.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Here's a review of the book "Suicidal Empathy"

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Brian Probert @brianhprobert.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

@financialtimes.com I'm having trouble identifying these characters. Bill Sikes is ok and is it Cruella DeVille? But who are the others?

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Brian Probert @brianhprobert.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Cupcake binge -- but it's only once every 250 years

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Brian Probert @brianhprobert.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Copilot misidentifies an Eastern Pheobe. I think ... Problem seems to be in image recognition. Unlike Copilot, I see a long tail pointing downward and a bird perched on an exposed branch

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Brian Probert @brianhprobert.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Great Blue Heron struggling with its lunch

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Brian Probert @brianhprobert.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Time have excelled themselves with this special edition on the history of Monopoly. Even includes period photos of the original locations in Atlantic City

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Brian Probert @brianhprobert.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Trying to photograph a marsh wren When an opossum walked onto a log right at my feet

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Brian Probert @brianhprobert.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

This was taken at the same time as the previous picture. Thinking about it now, I believe the reflections are so clear because I was looking down on the birds from an elevated boardwalk

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Brian Probert @brianhprobert.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Except for these Eider and a Yellow Warbler

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Brian Probert @brianhprobert.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

As usual, the birds are heard and not seen

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Brian Probert @brianhprobert.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

East Point Audubon, Maine is in a spectacular location

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Brian Probert @brianhprobert.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Snowy Egret Bookends at Hammonasset Beach State Park CT

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Brian Probert @brianhprobert.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Four ghostly great egrets at Stratford CT

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Brian Probert @brianhprobert.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

This was the IRA attempt against the British Prime Minister (Margaret Thatcher) in 1984. So far the USA has been spared this kind of organised insurrection