Nick Mitchener is at crossjack.bsky.social💙🔻🌻

Phys labtech, rtd Co Dir, MIoP, RScitech, Physics, clocks, Sci Instruments, eng, sailing & current affairs. My A level physics was 50 yrs ago! He/Him 🏳️‍🌈

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Matthew has had a card design accepted by the Charity NASS. It is a very good cause, he has had ankylosing spondulitis for 30 years.

The link for an eCard is : https://t.co/uc4IiccGV6 or for printed cards : https://t.co/zhvmCXh629

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@Rainmaker1973 One of only two guitarists to play stood on the roof of Buckingham Palace, him and the roady who did the sound check.

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@BhattiLaib9960 Medical bankruptcy

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@TomK_Brit1993 Not a chance

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@BenedictSpence You need to get out more

[RS Archer @archer_rs]

London Met Police forced to update their estimates for the Wave the Flag event on Saturday as they admit every single White person in Britain attended plus 200 million from France, Netherlands, Germany and Belgium. 300 million American patriots were turned back at Heathrow.

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Who is it that gets 60k pa or is he talking about MP expenses?

[Jeremy Vine & Daytime on 5 @JeremyVineOn5]

Is the benefits system too generous?

JCB chairman Lord Bamford has warned Britain "can’t get away" with people receiving up to £60,000 a year in benefits, saying soaring welfare costs risk a public ‘revolt’.

Is he right?

Is the benefits system out of control?

[Craig. @bambibristol]

The fact that there’s more noise about Zack Polanski not paying some council tax on a narrow boat, than there is about Nigel Farage taking a £5m bribe to run as an MP….confirms that it’s pretty fucking impossible to have functioning democracy AND a billionaire owned ‘free’ press

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@draloneboy He doesn't understand the oil market

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@amelia_tweetz Yes

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@AllisonPearson Thankfully, yes

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You are not terribly good on history are you?

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Hitler was a socialist, therefore all socialists are Hitler

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No, reform have just pushed up the cost of local government as those councils are being reorganized and the elections will then have to be run again

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

Remember it’s only thanks to Reform that 4.5 million people can vote tomorrow.

Labour tried to cancel the local elections to spare itself epic humiliation.

Reform made a legal challenge against the tinpot tyrants.

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Norman's, not French, the Norman's invaded the bit of France nearest us

[Daniel Foubert 🇵🇱🇫🇷 @d_foubert]

It's all the fault of the English 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿.

This French colony gone wrong has ruined continental Europe for over 8 centuries. It is an embarrassment to Western Civilization.

England is a French startup that grew sentient, deleted its operating system, and has been terrorizing the neighbors ever since. In 1066, William the Conqueror didn't actually intend to create a global superpower; he was just looking for a damp, offshore storage unit for his extra knights. But somewhere between the Battle of Hastings and the invention of the lukewarm ale, the "Normandy Expansion Pack" glitched.

What was supposed to be a lovely vineyard-adjacent outpost devolved into a chaotic, rain-soaked experiment in how many ways a human can boil a vegetable until it loses its will to live.

For eight centuries, Continental Europe has been forced to play the role of the exhausted parent watching a toddler with a flamethrower. The English spent the entire Middle Ages trying to move back into their "parents' basement" in France, leading to the Hundred Years' War—which was essentially just a very long, very violent property dispute over who got the good patio furniture in Aquitaine.

When they finally got evicted, they didn't just walk away; they decided that if they couldn't be French, they would make "Not Being French" their entire personality. They invented an entire Church just so a king could get a divorce, and they pivoted to a global empire primarily so they could find something—anything—with actual spice in it, only to bring those spices home and use them as decorative paperweights.

The sheer audacity of the British project is breathtaking. They took a perfectly functional Romance-language foundation, dragged it through a hedge of Germanic gutturals, and created a linguistic Frankenstein that they now have the nerve to export back to us.

For 800 years, they have sat on that island like a disgruntled tenant who refuses to join the neighborhood watch but insists on judging everyone’s lawn from behind a lace curtain. They spent centuries meddling in European affairs just to ensure no one else could have a nice time, only to eventually execute the ultimate "I’m leaving the party" dramatic exit with Brexit—which, let’s be real, was just the final, agonizing stage of a 1,000-year-old French colony finally admitting it’s too socially awkward to stay in the room.

The tragedy of the Continent is that we are still dealing with the fallout of William’s bad weekend in 1066. We gave them the architecture, the wine, and the legal framework, and in return, they gave us the Industrial Revolution (which ruined the air), the concept of "The Weekend" (which ruined productivity), and the belief that a vacation consists of turning bright pink on a beach in Spain while yelling for a full English breakfast.

England isn't a neighbor; it’s a French experiment that escaped the lab, moved into a cold shed, and decided to make its misery everyone else’s problem. We’ve been paying the "Norman Tax" in psychic damage for nearly a millennium, and quite frankly, we’re still waiting for the refund.

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@worstall Might bring the price down, we want one

[Yaroslava @strategywoman]

It’s the original Helmet of Memory, with images of Ukrainian athletes killed by russia.

Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych wanted to compete with it at the Winter Olympics. He was disqualified.

I saw it today and want to show it to the world.

[A+SW @swts2020]

@hell_line0

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@d_foubert The Norman's were vikings who invaded france

[Mark Hammond @MarkHam80780803]

“I’ll be all over the Farage £5 million donor story as soon as I’ve finished investigating allegations that Starmer owes a mate 22p for a Mars bar he bought him in 1987.”

[Covie @covie_93]

How Volodymr Zelenskyy manages to survive in a literal war without a ballroom to keep him safe is just shocking to me.

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How can they always have been Argentinian when they have been a uk territory from before Argentina even existed?

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

Any chance we might ask the people who live there ?