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Dr Mike Ward @schroedinger99.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

That's all the potatoes I've harvested (the plants above ground had completely died back) from about 3 sq m of ground. I worry for this year's crops ☹️

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Dr Mike Ward @schroedinger99.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

In the garden yesterday. Very tame. Looked a bit unkempt, but maybe that's what they look like at this time of year? I've only ever seen robins before in winter.

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Dr Mike Ward @schroedinger99.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I have similar problems with this: Does this kill 99.9% of all the known *species* of germs completely and none of the 0.1%? Or does it kill 99.9% of the germs it is applied to no matter what species they are? This is a version of the type/token problem I suppose.

A Dettol bottle with the claim "kills 99.9% of germs"

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Dr Mike Ward @schroedinger99.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

On a slightly different (though vaguely related) note, does this mean that the oil is entirely made with olives sourced from Greece? Or that the olive used are each 100% Greek - i.e. not (say) hybrid olives with Lebanese and Greek ancestry (like Michael Vlamis)? And should I care?

Greek olive oil "made with 100% Greek olives"

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Dr Mike Ward @schroedinger99.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

4) In other words, I can find no evidence whatsoever of a second edition on Amazon. I asked MG (giving him the chance to retort that he had put out a new *digital* edition, or that the corrections were so minor, he has merely issued a reprint with the same ISBN number) but answer came there none.

Tweet asking for the ISBN number of Matt Goodwin's second edition.

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Dr Mike Ward @schroedinger99.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

1) Meanwhile, over on Twitter: Since not everything Matt Goodwin writes can be relied on, I thought I' go over to Amazon and check ....

Tweets on Matt Goodwin's apparent failure to fix the errors in his book Suicide of a Nation.

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Dr Mike Ward @schroedinger99.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Moon rise - in Rodos (where it's very hot, but still about 6 ° cooler than Yorkshire was when I left)

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Dr Mike Ward @schroedinger99.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Mind you, son has nearly 38 in N Wales (sic)

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Dr Mike Ward @schroedinger99.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

That opening all the windows at night and closing windows and curtains during the day malarkey really seems to help. But 31.4° at 1000 feet in West Yorkshire is a bit scary 😰

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Dr Mike Ward @schroedinger99.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

But ... [ www.gci.org.uk/Documents/Ga... p58 et seq] I mean I haven't (re) read the whole thing yet, but I can't see anywhere obvious where G really acknowledges that C has similar problems.

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Dr Mike Ward @schroedinger99.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Carrots and parsnips a bit disappointing 😕

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Dr Mike Ward @schroedinger99.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Legumes doing well this year 😊

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Dr Mike Ward @schroedinger99.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Ah! It's gone up a bit since I left 😯

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Dr Mike Ward @schroedinger99.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

To rest my eyes in shades of green

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Dr Mike Ward @schroedinger99.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

And finally... Roots: Rainbow carrots and radishes, and normal white parsnips. The radishes have been in a bit and already started to grow. Was planning more rows but I think I'll quit while I'm ahead.

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Dr Mike Ward @schroedinger99.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Potatoes in: Pentland, Cara, Casablanca, and Purple Rain.

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Dr Mike Ward @schroedinger99.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

You are talking to a man from the Rhubarb Triangle! Today's crop: (You have a point mind. You have to be into oxalates to enjoy it.)

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Dr Mike Ward @schroedinger99.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Brassicas (sort of) in: kale, rocket, mustard + lollo rossa and spinach. No point in trying to grow cabbage I've decided. The local lepidoptera eat them all before we get chance to.

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Dr Mike Ward @schroedinger99.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

So, I've got my alliums in: garlic (planted late last year), shallots, Spanish white onions, and French pink onions:

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Dr Mike Ward @schroedinger99.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Just got this from PayPal. Though it has every appearance of a phish, it seems to be genuine (not that I'd ever respond to such an email or click on such a button). But why oh why oh why do banks and related financial firms do this kind of thing and thereby encourage customers to fall for scams?

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Dr Mike Ward @schroedinger99.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

mailchi.mp/the3million/... Quite a climb down from the Home Office. They had hitherto insisted that you couldn't keep your settled status if you had dual citizenship. This offers another welcome workaround for some hit by the HO's daft new rules.

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Dr Mike Ward @schroedinger99.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Nobody seems to remember that the USA has waged war before against a far less technologically advanced country (with an authoritarian government) - torturing and carpet-bombing civilians (often with napalm) and breaking international law on a scale that would give Pete Hegseth a hard-on - and lost.

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Dr Mike Ward @schroedinger99.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

This is quite fun: Try it for yourself at tinyurl.com/tnw-heath

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Dr Mike Ward @schroedinger99.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Got this out for GrandSon2. Note hanging star, moon, & cloud. GS2 (who'd not seen this since he was a baby) asked where the faces had gone.

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Dr Mike Ward @schroedinger99.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

The more it snows, Tiddly pom ...

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Dr Mike Ward @schroedinger99.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

At www.gov.uk/government/c... it still says

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Dr Mike Ward @schroedinger99.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Yeah it looks like one of those spam emails you get which has been crafted to get through spam filters.

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Dr Mike Ward @schroedinger99.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

I'd totally forgotten this: (over on the Hell Site back in the day)

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Dr Mike Ward @schroedinger99.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

I think the question the voters of Gorton and Denton need to ask themselves is whether someone with at least one set of Ferengi grandparents can ever be considered a true Earthling?

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Dr Mike Ward @schroedinger99.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

While you've all been nursing your hangovers, I've done the New Scientist crossword

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Dr Mike Ward @schroedinger99.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Birthday swag (by @jonnelledge.bsky.social). Let's see how many borders I get through while waiting here at the hospital.

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Dr Mike Ward @schroedinger99.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

1) Meanwhile, over on the Hell-Site, Matt Goodwin is presenting another chapter of How to Lie with Statistics: I can only assume that MG is saying here that 42.3% of Bangladeshi people in prison are there because they committed sex offences?

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Dr Mike Ward @schroedinger99.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Another Brexit benefit: Taking back control of borders between different parts of our country.

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Dr Mike Ward @schroedinger99.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Drs 2, 10*, and 4 a few years ago. (IIRC you had one of the blue ones last time I was there). *my son

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Dr Mike Ward @schroedinger99.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Seems to be Czech based (but hard to say for sure). It's a curious hybrid of fake news, bait and switch, advertorial, and use of your name to con people into clicking on dodgy links:

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