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A space helment for a cow @tomevans80.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The instruction manual of a 1980s Commodore 64 game had more sense than the current US president.

The Middle East is still the world's trouble spot Israel and Syria duel in desultory fashion over southern Lebanon and their common border, the Golan Heights. The Iran-Iraq war continues to hold the danger of a losing Iran seeking revenge by closing the Straits of Hormuz to oil traffic. Worse, Iranian-style religious radicalism might surface in any nearby Moslem state, triggering a civil war. If an American friend calls for aid, or international straits need to be cleared, in America's "Central Command" reaction force the key unit is the 101st Air Assault Division. Formerly a parachute division, it's now an experimental hybrid practicing the "Air-Land 2000" mobile warfare of the future. Naturally, the AH-64A Apache is a key player on this new team.

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Past Present Future Podcast @ppfideas.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! In today’s episode David talks to forensic anthropologist Sue Black about what happens when forensic science and forensic expertise end up on trial in the courtroom. Can a jury distinguish between good science, bad science and junk science? Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Hard to disagree

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A space helment for a cow @tomevans80.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The big problem for any benefits reform is the two sets of books being kept on what working involves. You can't say 'everyone can do something ', while also being in favour of keeping away from work everyone who shows signs of mental illness or autism through the interview system

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A space helment for a cow @tomevans80.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Sensible discussion of what the problem with Palantir is.

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Jared Wade @jaredwade.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

England up 1 deciding to sit back and do nothing with 9 in the box for a half hour against Argentina in the World Cup

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A space helment for a cow @tomevans80.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

John Simpson's story about Eng v Arg is a smaller scale example of how the media launders insane statements by Trump and other dictators. It's like the rumour doctrine in libel: by repeating it as 'calls are growing' etc, you lend it the credibility of your own voice.

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A space helment for a cow @tomevans80.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

USA team are going to be awarded the World Cup by Mike Pence.

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A space helment for a cow @tomevans80.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

When Farage likely wins his by-election, the test for whether any piece of media is ever worth listening to again will be whether they fall for the predictable trap of debating whether he can still be investigated for crimes.

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A space helment for a cow @tomevans80.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

I'm really glad this guy isn't in charge or anything.

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Past Present Future Podcast @ppfideas.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! Today David tells the tale of the Dreyfus Affair that split France down the middle and revealed the grip of a whole host of conspiracy theories. The story of a letter found in a wastebin turned into a saga about who really controlled the country. Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 20/06/2025

As somebody from Florida now living in Oxford, 32C *is* dangerously hot when virtually no houses and very few public buildings have aircon and almost all of them are masonry built and designed to retain heat, you cannot be comparing hot weather here to heat in a place EQUIPPED for it, come tf on

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A space helment for a cow @tomevans80.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Fortunately the abolition of unfitness for work has not made it into the current proposal. A small relief. New claimants in the support group will 'merely' have a large cut to the money.

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A space helment for a cow @tomevans80.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

I really have to question if podcasters and bloggers (etc.) close to Labour understand what they're doing? Abolishing PIP for most claimants *and* abolishing unfitness to work for everybody? As virtually their first act? And using all the Duncan Smith language to launder it?

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A space helment for a cow @tomevans80.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Just before the Labour government announced its proposed changes to PIP, there was a major overhaul of the claim form which makes it more complicated to complete. (thread)/

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Past Present Future Podcast @ppfideas.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! Today another trial that forms the basis for great drama: the case of Thomas More, tried and executed in 1535, events dramatised by Robert Bolt in a Man for All Seasons and Hilary Mantel in Wolf Hall. Was More really ‘the Socrates of England’? Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

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A space helment for a cow @tomevans80.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

"My name means 'to deceive' in French, what about yours?"

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

"Don't Be A Sucker" makes it clear that you only stop Nazism by not letting it divide. By acting together the very first time a minority law is passed. Because whatever they do against one group, they will do against everyone, in time, revoking worker rights and finding excuses for war abroad.

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A space helment for a cow @tomevans80.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

New boiler is more efficient -> unhappy cat

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A space helment for a cow @tomevans80.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

If they made Mr Benn today it'd be all woke plots about animal rights and trees.... Hang on... 🤔

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A space helment for a cow @tomevans80.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Wait a minute, steel? But my company uses steel.

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A space helment for a cow @tomevans80.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

New video by me: Back to the pseudoscience Commentary on Susan Oliver's comparison with antivaxxers (contains only my voice). www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJ-p...

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Back to the Pseudoscience - Commentary on claims by Susan Oliver

YouTube video by Tom Evans

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A space helment for a cow @tomevans80.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

I'm begging the media to learn to use units correctly.

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A space helment for a cow @tomevans80.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Do the idiots with exploding exhausts know that shit cars are called 'bangers'? It's not because they look like sausages.

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A space helment for a cow @tomevans80.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

I thought convicted felons were barred from holding any official office. I suspect Penguin has done his civics homework well, Robin. vm.tiktok.com/ZNdJRsvm1/

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TikTok - Make Your Day

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James Slattery @jcslattery.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

It says something when even the Nazis think you’re too much of a Nazi for them

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Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 14/02/2025

I had measles as a little girl in I think 1967, before the vaccine was available. Nobody should get measles in the 21st century. America is going backwards.

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A space helment for a cow @tomevans80.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Me, trying to pass a Duolingo speaking exercise.

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A space helment for a cow @tomevans80.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Liz Hull seems to now be arguing the equivalent logic that the Birmingham Six might still have done it, because they could have found an explosive that wasn't picked up by hand swabs. Surely that's not the right question? #lucyletby archive.is/V3Lc3

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Mark Shapiro @mhshapiro2.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

🧪Measles “is the thing we see first when public health starts to falter,” Ratner said recently from his office in New York City. www.latimes.com/science/stor...

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A leading pediatrician was already worried about the future of vaccines. Then RFK Jr. came along

The best and the worst thing about vaccination, pediatrician Dr.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

“Today, DEI has become the new N-word; the new rightwing abstraction deployed by Republicans to conceal their anti-Black racism.” My latest for the Guardian, in which I cite Lee Atwater, and bring lots of receipts. Sorry, but it has to be said:

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What Republicans really mean when they blame 'DEI' | Mehdi Hasan

Referencing DEI is the new rightwing abstraction deployed by Republicans to conceal their anti-Black racism

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A space helment for a cow @tomevans80.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Fortunately I'm not overly hassled by Universal Credit, because I manage some work. For anyone who has to access their journal constantly, this is their helpful advice if your phone is having a problem:

If you do not have your phone with you or the battery needs charging:-
Get your phone ready and try again later.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Lots of special animals and pets buried in the PDSA London animal cemetery. But my first visit is always to Able Seacat Simon. Only feline recipient of the animal Victoria Cross. "During the Yangtse Incident, his behavour was of the highest order." Thread below. #navalHistory

A well-kept grave and memorial stone to Able Seacat Simon.

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A space helment for a cow @tomevans80.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

If you look beyond the BBC's awful tabloid headline, this is somewhat interesting. 'If they have support' and 'if their health improved' means just that. So imposing sanctions is the first thing to definitely not do. Forcing them into inappropriate job applications is the second.

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A space helment for a cow @tomevans80.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

@davidallengreen.bsky.social Do worry that if it keeps doubling down, especially on strict procedural grounds, the whole legal system will end up looking like Jarnail Singh and Vennels did last year? Singh essentially relied on the '2 juries, load of nutters' argument about campaigners.

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A space helment for a cow @tomevans80.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

My blog looking at the Dreyfus case was overtaken by events yesterday. I think it has even more relevance today: From a dodgy expert to a major scandal, and how a culture war forms along partisan lines. circularityandbias.wordpress.com/2025/02/03/t...

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A space helment for a cow @tomevans80.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I was forced into paying for parking by internet today due to non-functioning machines. If anyone ends up taken to court due to alleged slow payment I am happy to provide a witness statement on how long it took me.

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