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Tony @tonynicol3.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Posted without comment. 😬

Photo of a screengrab from an auction site, featuring a photograph of a landscape featuring two 1930s to 1950s era motor vehicles. The captions reads "Three Victorian Panel Photographs - UK scenes".

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Tony @tonynicol3.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I much prefer Artemisia Gentileschi's version!

Judith Slaying Holofernes by Artemisia Gentileschi

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Tony @tonynicol3.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

He deleted the post. But not before I snipped it. I honoured it with a block.

He called Jonathan a Pratt. Yes, with 2 ts. And concluded by saying he saw little point in engaging further. In other words, he lost the argument.

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Tony @tonynicol3.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Well, the colander thing doesn’t work if there’s too much haze . Interesting sky, though.

Peculiar sky with lots of clouds and haze. The sun is trying to pierce the haze and is too strong to look at directly (not that you should).

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Tony @tonynicol3.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

For subscribers in deep space, presumably.

Copied from an email programme, the FT announces Andy Burnham becomes UK Prime Minister as "Breaking News".

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Tony @tonynicol3.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

This is what I absolutely do not get. The attitude seems to be, "Some people find the UK Net Zero efforts mildly inconveniencing and on a global scale our efforts don't amount to much, so let's do nothing and pretend it's not our problem". This, when we can look around and see our world burning.

Copy and paste of a Bluesky response to a Net Zero supporter which says "And your contention is that the UK will tilt us over the edge if we do any less than we currently do?".

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Tony @tonynicol3.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Possibly because it would be superfluous?

A photo of the signpost at John O'Groats where the road to the North ends at a pier. The signposted directions are back to Lands End in Cornwall, onward to the Orkney and Shetland Isles, New York or Edinburgh. (Many other options are possible.)

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Tony @tonynicol3.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Oh, that's fighting talk.

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Tony @tonynicol3.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I think I may have discovered the source of the intermittency issue.

Close up of a UK 13 amp plug correctly fitted with a 3 amp fuse for the CD player it is attached to. However, the live wire has pulled back from the screw terminal to the point of making negligible contact. The screw terminal was loose, and almost certainly had never been tightened down properly when the plug was fitted to the appliance.

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Tony @tonynicol3.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Oh, I don't know. The way he managed the Labour Party during Brexit, he might as well have been a Tory.

Screenshot of a spreadsheet showing how Labour voted (or didn't) in crucial House of Commons Brexit votes while Corbyn was party leader. In 33 out of 36 votes, Labour abstained.

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Tony @tonynicol3.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Third World Donny speaks:

a quote from @realDonaldTrump which reads "If you import the third world you become the third world" - AND THAT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS LONG AS I AM PRESIDENT. President DONALD J TRUMP

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Tony @tonynicol3.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Anyone seen the March lamb yet?

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Tony @tonynicol3.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

I don't know what the fuss is about. 🤷‍♂️

photoshop by person unknown showing the Churchill ad campaign bulldog on a £5 note.

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Tony @tonynicol3.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

🤬 Massive price increase on Costello cheese at Morrison's supermarket. The packs have been reduced in size from 150g to 100g, but they're selling them at the same price as before. Fuming!

Two Castello Danish Blue cheese packs side by side, showing the difference in size. The nearest one is one third shallower then the other, and the contents are labelled 100g instead of the 150g of the older pack. Yet they are still being sold at £2.79 per pack, which was the price of the 150g pack and is still visible on the Morrison website - at time of writing.

Screen shot of the Castello Danish Blue cheese 150g pack taken from their website showing the price of the 150g pack as £2.79.

Till receipt showing the £2.79 rate for the two-thirds sized packs of Castello Danish Blue cheese.

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Tony @tonynicol3.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Close as I could get. Not sure I can persuade it to give it up, though.

Photomicrograph of a tardigrade playing a miniscule violin.

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Tony @tonynicol3.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

You were spared this child-abuse?

Clip from Wikipedia: Beef olives are an English meat dish consisting of slices of beef rolled and tied round a stuffing and braised in stock. Veal is sometimes used instead of beef, but the latter has been more common since the 18th century.

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Tony @tonynicol3.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

That’s what a flood plain is for.

Looking East from Kintore station. The flight of plain is… flooded. All the way to Aberdeen.

Looking North and West from Kintore station. The flood plain is full.

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Tony @tonynicol3.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

This is an interesting one. There's no doubt that most of the media operates an omerta, as far as the Lib Dems are concerned. Davey has been getting around that with silly stunts, but it encourages dismissal for lack of seriousness. But hey! Remember who also did this? A lot?

Boris Johnson hanging on a zip wire, pathetically waving Union Jack flags. Pic credit Cornwall live.

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Tony @tonynicol3.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Well, the snow turned to rain in the evening so there’s been some volumetric decline. But if frost comes again soon it’ll become lethal on the roads and pavements.

The structure of the garden bench is recognisable now, but there’s still a good 450mm of snow on top that looks a bit like that extra thick icing you get on wedding cakes.

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Tony @tonynicol3.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Ffs. Day five of this snow spell, and a fresh snow warning for this afternoon.

The garden bench is now groaning under the weight of snow and probably unrecognisable if you didn’t know what it was to start with.

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Tony @tonynicol3.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Although I have cleared a path to the door just in case.

Front door at the end of a narrow path cut through 400mm of snow.

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Tony @tonynicol3.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Maybe it’s coming to meet you. 😰

The garden bench and seat are now deep in snow, and the strong wind is sure to be causing drifting.

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Tony @tonynicol3.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

We should have stayed in Tenerife.

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Tony @tonynicol3.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Voting to trigger Article 50 to be actioned set the scene for all that followed. And it was appalling:

A spreadsheet detailing the three main parties' voting record on Brexit issues. On 34 of 37 votes, Labour abstained. None of the other two main parties abstained on any of the votes. Labour voted For to trigger Article 50 and twice For to approve the Tories' Brexit timetables, both of which went hopelessly awry. The Lib Dems (and the SNP, not shown in this spreadsheet, possibly Plaid Cymru) were the only ones to consistently oppose the rush to Brexit.

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Tony @tonynicol3.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

In best Brenda from Bristol voice: "You're joking! Not another one?" What will Reform do with all these defecators?

screenshot from BBC news highlighting the defection of dismally dim ex-MP Jonathan Gullis from the Conservative party to the Reform Company.

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Tony @tonynicol3.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Classic example of the depth of ignorance in the UK about the EU, what it is and what it's purpose is. Reminiscent of David Davis and his ludicrous claims about German car manufacturers dictating Brexit terms to the EU. Sadly, I think this lunacy of ignorance also pervades much of Westminster.

screenshot of a post in which the (English) author claims that the Trade and Cooperation Agreement could have been concluded more to the UK's advantage by negotiating with each of the remaining 28 members rather than the EU itself. This was, of course, an utter impossibility for all the things that mattered to the UK.

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Tony @tonynicol3.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

For some time I subscribed to Nick Wallis's newsletter about the Post Office Horizon scandal, and generally thought him a good egg. Then he posted this out to all his subscribers. The irony of defending a criminally vilified group, then falling for the CIS-gender trans hate campaign. Unsubscribed.