Nick

Passionate about everything #EFC, protection of the environment and taking the fight to climate catastrophists ... oh and ships .... lots of ships #NSNO

[Nick @TightToffee]

Its the 3rd Christmas since you left us Jussie, but it still feels like the first. You will always have your own Christmas tree. I miss you, love Dad xx

[Nick @TightToffee]

This is not what happened outside Hollywood. This is largely fiction. HMS Bulldog & Bletchley Park near Milton Keynes are the heroes of this story

[Hidden History @HiddenHistoryYT]

82 years ago today, eight American sailors jumped onto a sinking Nazi submarine in the middle of the Atlantic.

What they pulled out of it changed the war. And the Navy buried the whole story for years.

First, you need to know that U-505 was already cursed. German sailors called her the unluckiest boat in the fleet. In October 1943, during a brutal British depth-charge attack, her own captain shot himself in the head in the control room, in front of his crew. He remains the only submarine commander in history known to have killed himself underwater in combat. His second-in-command calmly took over, rode out the attack, and sailed her home.

Eight months later, her luck ran out completely.

June 4, 1944. Two days before D-Day. Captain Daniel Gallery's hunter-killer group, built around the escort carrier USS Guadalcanal, had been stalking U-boats off West Africa. Gallery had an idea his superiors considered borderline insane: don't sink the next one. Capture it. No US Navy crew had boarded and taken an enemy warship on the high seas since 1815.

The destroyer escort USS Chatelain caught U-505 on sonar and fired a salvo of hedgehog bombs. The U-boat broke the surface 700 yards away. Gunfire raked the conning tower, wounding her captain. He gave the order to abandon ship.

The Germans rushed out so fast they botched the scuttling. The sub was flooding, but her engines were still running. She was circling the battle at six knots, empty, sinking, and very possibly rigged with demolition charges.

So Lt. Albert David and eight men from USS Pillsbury chased her down in a whaleboat, leaped aboard, and climbed down the hatch into a dark, flooding submarine that could explode or go under at any second. They shut the scuttling valves, disarmed the charges, and stopped the flooding.

Down there they found the prize: Enigma cipher machines and roughly 900 pounds of codebooks and charts. Current settings. The keys to the German navy's secret communications.

But here's the catch. The treasure was only valuable if Germany never found out. One leak and Berlin changes every code overnight.

So the Navy ran one of the great cover-ups of the war. The sub was towed 1,700 miles to Bermuda and given a fake American name: USS Nemo. Around 3,000 sailors were sworn to total silence. The 58 captured German crewmen vanished into a POW camp in rural Louisiana, hidden even from the Red Cross. Germany declared U-505 lost with all hands and notified the families. The dead men were alive in Louisiana, and their boat was working for the US Navy.

The secret held until the war ended.

Lt. David received the Medal of Honor, the only one awarded in the Atlantic Fleet in all of WWII.

And the submarine? In 1954, Chicagoans raised $250,000 to bring her home. She was towed across Lake Michigan and dragged through the streets of Chicago to the Museum of Science and Industry.

She's still sitting there right now. You can walk through her.

[Hobbsy @Ho88sy]

@HiddenHistoryYT You do know that on May 9th 1941, Sub-Lieutenant David Balme RN from HMS Bulldog under orders from Commander Joe Baker-Cresswell RN, captured the enigma and cyphers from U110.
The enigma was taken to Bletchley park where Alan Turing and his team broke enigma.

[Dr Jennine Morgan @jemmm85517813]

This is the most ridiculous tax & will force many farmers out of producing wheat & will cause prices iof bread etc to skyrocket.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Even 2010 tbh

[Dr Jennine Morgan @jemmm85517813]

Grand solar minimum has been predicted by some scientists for some years, eg Valentina Zharkova who has been tracking magnetic patterns in the sun. A cooling is likely if this prediction is correct but as with all things climate related the picture may be changed by other events.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

The residents of Auchtertool in Fife are taking a stand against a monster AI data centre that is being proposed to be situated right next to their scenic village.

The proposed data centre is one of the biggest in the world - bigger than their village. And it’s estimated that the 600MW energy consumption with be 20% of Scotland entire energy consumption. It’s also being situated on beautiful countryside. Fife Council haven’t published an environmental impact report.

This campaign to stop this AI data centre monstrosity in Fife is now receiving huge amounts of media and social media coverage. For once, people power can defeat tech corporations power if this campaign continues to be amplified.

'This is a big issue. Not just for Auchtertool, not just for Fife, not just for Scotland but for the world and we have to make a stand'.

[Nick @TightToffee]

"When a year is warmer, fish biomass is found to increase by as much as 24%. When years turn colder, biomass falls by around 15%."

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

The Guardian claims ocean warming is causing a staggering collapse in marine life, but the study it cites actually shows the opposite.

When a year is warmer, fish biomass is found to increase by as much as 24%. When years turn colder, biomass falls by around 15%.

That is the observed data.

To preserve the climate narrative, however, the authors then abandon real year-to-year results and switch to a modeled decadal trend.

The model assigns warming a negative effect and reports a decline. That decline is not observed, it is modeled.

The authors go on to admit they cannot separate temperature effects from overfishing, which is the primary, well-known driver of fish declines worldwide.

Since fishing pressure is not included, the model loads losses onto temperature by default. Even though, as per the study's own data, warmer years mean more fish.

The collapse exists only in the model.

[Bear @BearJFK]

I know this has been said many times, but here’s another reminder:

This £18bn “boost” = £4.5bn each year.

That is less than the NAO estimated spending gap to service existing programmes, meaning several billion in cuts will be needed. This continues the trend since 1991 of constant cuts. This, despite the world experiencing several very significant ongoing wars, and alliances under strain. But no, cuts to continue. It is also not clear what extra money will be spent on, since the government includes money given to Ukraine as part of the MoD budget (rather than FCDO as would make more sense), Afghan asylum seeker funding, Single Intelligence Account, and more smaller items.

So not only is the government deciding to not fund the existing minimal plans, but has accepted continued capability cuts. At a time when other comparable nations are actually expanding capability e.g. Germany, Sweden, France, Italy, Australia….

This is a conscious choice. The government has been happy to vastly increase spending on the NHS, welfare, NetZero, pensions, asylum seekers, theme parks, and all manner of pet projects. But defence of the realm is not a priority. At all.

It is evidently clear that the government, and the wider governing establishment, reads the situation as one of two possibilities:
a) sees no material threat to the realm
b) is deliberately undermining the defence of the realm

Which is it?

[Chris Parry @DrChrisParry]

Get rid of this threat to our society, our children and our grandchildren.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

More than 100 new datacentres in the UK plan to burn gas to generate electricity, some potentially doing so permanently.

▪️No net zero for the data centres.

▪️Net zero enforced on us plebs (probably to enable the data centres to burn more energy).

The whole thing is a scam.

[Chris Martz @ChrisMartzWX]

June has rolled around.

This map shows statewide “all-time” high temperature records for June.

Interestingly, 32 states set their June record highs before 1960.

I can't spot much of a crisis here, folks.

[Chris Wick @ChrisWickNews]

His job is to engineer civil unrest, delivering a Digital ID mandate for his WEF handlers.

This isn’t about popularity — and it never was.

What’s unfolding feels increasingly calculated, not accidental.

A steady push of policy after policy, each one framed as efficiency, safety, or modernization — yet collectively pointing toward something far more rigid underneath.

Digital identity systems. Centralized verification frameworks. Expanding requirements to access basic services in an increasingly monitored environment.

Supporters call it progress. Critics see something else taking shape: a quiet tightening of control wrapped in the language of convenience.

And the most unsettling part isn’t just the direction — it’s how normal it’s being made to feel while it happens.

Because once these systems are fully embedded, walking them back becomes almost impossible.

At that point, it’s no longer about debate.

It’s about structure.

[Nick @TightToffee]

So now it seems the UK has offered to sell its River-class Batch I OPVs to Uruguay. The transfer would include the HMS Tyne, HMS Mersey, and HMS Severn which are scheduled to be retired from the RN by 2030. Without any plan to replace them, perhaps the DIP will add x3 T31's 🙏

[UK Defence Journal @UKDefJournal]

The Royal Navy will still receive all eight Type 26 frigates despite build slots being offered to Norway, Minister Luke Pollard has told Parliament, as the two countries work toward a combined fleet of 13 vessels. Click image for more.
https://t.co/D8bkuxrHz8

[Nick @TightToffee]

I do believe we need a navy with enough ships, an airforce with enough planes and an army with enough artillery before we need to be funding a theme park owned by an incredibly wealthy company

[Sedd @SeddSezz]

🚨Reeves hands £1.3bn of taxpayer cash to Universal to build Bedford theme park

What the actual F?

In 2025, all Universal Parks worldwide generated $9.8 billion in sales and $3.1 billion in operating profit.

Does Reeves really think this company deserves, let alone needs, taxpayer funding?

This is £1.3bn of the same tax money that has forced thousands of UK businesses to shut up shop and sent tens of thousands of Brits to the benefits office.

This is lunacy and corruption on a magnificent scale.

I am not joking when I say that Rachel Reeves belongs in prison for a very long time.

[William Clouston SDP @WilliamClouston]

Don’t ‘whip up division’ says Starmer. He took the knee for a violent criminal and backed BLM mania - which left in its wake an orgy of violence which killed 25 people and resulted in upto $2,000 million in riot damage.

#TwoTier

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Them: Gigantic AI data centres that guzzle massive amounts of energy and water.

Us: Caps tethered to plastic bottles.

[Nick @TightToffee]

@CcibChris 🫡💙

[Chris Bolton @CcibChris]

HMS Illustrious (R06), Royal Navy’s final Invincible-class aircraft carrier, served with honor across decades of global ops before retiring in 2014. Remembered as proud icon of British naval aviation, she leaves behind lasting legacy of strength, service, and maritime excellence.

[Gerhard Lenz @GerhardLenz]

»Eine neue Studie der Technischen Universität Athen stellt die Klimawissenschaft auf den Kopf. Sie zeigt: In den letzten 40 Jahren hat sich die isotopische Signatur des atmosphärischen CO2 nicht verändert – menschliche Emissionen sind schlicht nicht erkennbar. Damit wird die Grundannahme der UNO und des IPCC, wonach fossile Brennstoffe die Hauptursache des Klimawandels seien, fundamental infrage gestellt.

Seit Jahrzehnten predigen die Hohepriester des Weltklimarats (IPCC), dass die Menschheit durch ihre fossilen Emissionen das Klima der Erde ins Wanken bringe. Das Mantra lautet: Mehr CO2 in der Luft, mehr Hitze auf dem Planeten, mehr Katastrophen vor unserer Haustür. Doch eine neue Studie aus Griechenland zerschmettert dieses Glaubensgebäude – und das mit nüchternen, überprüfbaren Daten. Demnach hat sich die isotopische Signatur des atmosphärischen CO₂ in den letzten 40 Jahren nicht im Geringsten verändert. Mit anderen Worten: Es gibt keine Spur fossiler Brennstoffe in unserer Luft. Der Mensch ist im atmosphärischen Kohlenstoffkreislauf schlicht nicht erkennbar.« 👇🏻

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