Duncan Reid 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺

Scottish Engineer. All round science fan. Musician & Peanut Butter Enthusiast. Views my own.

[Duncan Reid 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @Duncnreid]

@CliniqueParc69 Bonjour ! Y-a-t-il un probleme avec votre standard téléphonique ?! Impossible de vous contacter aujourd'hui, c'est dommage. (et j'arrive pas prendre rdvz en ligne, car j'ai moins de 35ans... )

[Duncan Reid 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @Duncnreid]

Magnificent.

[Prof. Carl Sagan @ProfCarlSagan]

Do you remember this voice?

[Duncan Reid 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @Duncnreid]

The shame.

[Brendan May @bmay]

This appears to be a lynch mob surrounding and attacking a black man in Manchester.

Any politician who doesn’t unequivocally condemn this, keeps trying to ‘explain’ it, and uses the ‘enough is enough’ phrase, is guilty.

Arrest them all. Zero tolerance.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Prof Stephen Reicher, "I would appeal to you to not call these people protestors. They're not protestors"

"To call them protestors is profoundly misleading. It is to discredit a long tradition of perfectly legitimate and peaceful and important protest that has made our society better in many ways"

"What's going on is specific to these crowds.. Crowd psychology is there when people are cleaning up the streets as well as attacking the streets.. The difference is one group has an ideology of hate and violence, another has a vision of community and solidarity"

"Most people are pro immigration.. The irony is that over recent years attitudes towards immigration has become more positive.. People see immigrants as a boom rather than as a menace to the country.. Britain is one of the more liberal countries"

"If we didn't have migrants then our care service would fall apart, our NHS would fall apart.. It's important not to highlight the negative exceptions, but to show that most people are pro migrants"

[Brendan May @bmay]

Watching mealy mouthed, lost, pathetic right wing politicians pandering to thugs by being weather vanes instead of signposts and leading from the front is always a good reason to post this take down of Enoch Powell by the great late Jonathan Miller.

[Kim Blythe @kbfilms92]

Imagine referencing “the cost of living challenges” while sporting a big bedazzled hat worth billions

[Duncan Reid 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @Duncnreid]

Except that indoor air CO2 concentration is totally unrelated to increased concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere retaining higher quantities of the sun's energy and thus steadily warming the climate... But you know that @elonmusk

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

A CO2 tax, properly applied, would change the tragedy of the commons that is the steadily rising CO2 ppm level. If we’re going to tax anything, then we should prioritize taxing the potentially bad over the potentially good, as we do with alcohol & cigarettes over vegetables & fruits

I disagree with those who view the climate risk as catastrophic in the 5 to 10 year range, but the long term risk is very real, even if one simply considers quality of life at a given CO2 level.

The indoor CO2 ppm level is significantly above the outdoor average. This means ~800ppm for ~400ppm ambient. Above 1000ppm, people are noticeably negatively affected. Above 2000ppm, it gets really painful.

[Duncan Reid 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @Duncnreid]

Keep it simple 🚴🏼🚴🏻‍♂️

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.”

“Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” https://t.co/2Ahi7zBKxU

[Duncan Reid 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @Duncnreid]

Abolish this insane tradition please #NotMyKing

[Colum Eastwood @columeastwood]

My allegiance is now and always will be with the people of Derry who send me to Westminster to represent them and the people of Ireland.

No empty formula can change that.

[George Aylett @GeorgeAylett]

Jeremy Corbyn is absolutely right, the oath/affirmation to King Charles III is completely unnecessary. MPs should be able to take up their seats and represent their constituents without doing it.

[Duncan Reid 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @Duncnreid]

Wild. Love this kind of thing. 👏🏼

[Max Fagin 🚀🔴🌐☄🌘 @MaxFagin]

I encountered a delightful little astrodynamics proof last week when an astronaut casually stated it as a fact, and when I looked skeptical, he just smiled and said, "Check it yourself."

Here's the statement:

"It takes 2 hours to orbit at the surface of any object made of rock"

[Duncan Reid 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @Duncnreid]

Oh the irony, it's rich, so very rich ... 😅

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

And just like that…

The Daily Mail became a supporter and enabler of economic migrants.

[Duncan Reid 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @Duncnreid]

@Keir_Starmer get on it please mate, time's running out. #NoPoliticsOnADeadPlanet

[Kate Raworth @KateRaworth]

I gave Keir Starmer a copy of Doughnut Economics just 10 days before he became Labour Party Leader. So will the book make it onto his bookshelves in Number 10? More importantly: will policies for a regenerative & distributive UK become real under this government?...

[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

Not one word about @TheGreenParty and its unprecedented, dramatic results. The BBC can't get enough of Farage, but simply blanks the most progressive force in UK politics.

[Duncan Reid 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @Duncnreid]

Imagine moving into your new house, opening the door to find a crowd of people applauding you in your hallway... 😅

[Supertanskiii @supertanskiii]

We did it.

Now it’s time to make sure we get what we need from this Labour government.

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

Jeremy Corbyn sends a heartfelt solidarity message to the French left.

[Duncan Reid 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @Duncnreid]

Sans un climat vivable, le reste n'existe pas. #Priorités

[Duncan Reid 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @Duncnreid]

@BBCNews Got that ?!

[Duncan Reid 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @Duncnreid]

Word ! Absolutely something to look out for.

[Mhairi Black 🏳️‍🌈 @MhairiBlack]

With the Greens now having the same number of seats as Reform, the UK media should provide them the same platform and level of coverage as Farage’s ilk. Will it happen though? #GE24

[Mhairi Black 🏳️‍🌈 @MhairiBlack]

With the Greens now having the same number of seats as Reform, the UK media should provide them the same platform and level of coverage as Farage’s ilk. Will it happen though? #GE24