Jonathan Jones 🦆

Part time NMR spectroscopist and quantum mechanic; full time curmudgeon and professional cynic. All tweets are personal; retweets are not endorsements

[Jonathan Jones 🦆 @nmrqip]

Better times will return

[Róisín Michaux @RoisinMichaux]

Imagine thinking this guy is fighting for civil rights when his demands are for free breast implants and access to places where women get undressed.

[Jonathan Jones 🦆 @nmrqip]

@chodpollard Then you won’t object to extracting it since there is so little of it.

[Jonathan Jones 🦆 @nmrqip]

@ProBrum @DanielJHannan Any politician who believed the ‘information’ they were being provided in March 2020 was an idiot unfit for office.

[Christopher Howse @BeardyHowse]

Goodness, what line drawing!

[John Stepek @John_Stepek]

UK monthly GDP growth of 0.2% surprises to the upside again (note the 0.1% growth we got so excited about last time was revised down to 0%, which was still better than expected). RICS house price survey very gloomy though. Has wider UK somehow decoupled from the housing market?

[Jill Foster @JournalistJill]

I spoke to detransitioner Philippa Roberts, who had a double mastectomy at 19 to live as ‘Caspar’ for over six years.
She fears that the conversations she now has with women considering the same surgery could see her prosecuted if the Conversion Practices Bill passes. Gift link below ⬇️

[Andrew Doyle @andrewdoyle_com]

Oh look. The UK government is giving itself powers to restrict lawful behaviour then imprison citizens for disobeying.

What could possibly go wrong?

[Jonathan Jones 🦆 @nmrqip]

@ukhomeoffice Have you considered policing actual crime? A crazy idea, I know, but it might just work.

[Danielle Sheridan @SheridanDani]

Exclusive:
SAS soldiers are reluctant to carry out missions where they may have to “shoot people” over fears they will be accused of war crimes, senior serving officers have told The Telegraph.

Special Forces officers said that the ongoing Afghanistan inquiry into the elite unit had left its troops concerned about going on operations that might require lethal force.

There have been no outright refusals within the SAS to go on high-risk missions.

However, a number of serving members are said to be “less inclined” to volunteer for roles that involve dangerous operations, should they later be investigated for their conduct.

I asked what kind of missions that included and was told: “Jobs where you might end up shooting people.”

It is highly unusual for current SAS officers to talk to the press, even anonymously.

Their intervention highlights concern within the service that its effectiveness risks being blunted.

I think this message is key: The SAS source said lawfare was “a contributing factor in the motivations of those who are leaving, or choosing not to extend”.

This was concerning, they said, because the military risked losing talented special forces officers, who could earn “excellent” promotions if they stayed, but would potentially leave for careers where they felt more valued.

https://t.co/PnT1uVRQUj

[Jake Wallis Simons @JakeWSimons]

It’s astonishing how nobody seems to remember that last year, Tom Fletcher made the fraudulent claim that 14,000 babies could die in Gaza in 48 hours. The claim was repeated all over the world, including by many MPs in parliament. When it was proven false, very few apologised. Now here we are, with people who should know better still believing his lies.

[New Face in Hell @ErsatzRunner]

The real story is that the school backed down!
https://t.co/VRQ3qjin0H

[Jen Roseman @JSalisburyJones]

Midwifery attitudes in the UK are often the very definition of making the perfect the enemy of the good.

[Ryan Maue @RyanWeather]

Major unprecedented climate news for 11/11: the Arctic polar vortex has broken down.

The stratospheric warming event (SSW) with a wind reversal has officially happened -- just as we warned for 2-weeks.

Now we wait for the next shoe to drop. On your head.

[Alexej Jerschow @ajerschow]

Some updates this week: radiation damping, pulse-program module for compact sequence design, phase cycling and gradient-based coherence selection (gradients without spatial grids), and loading EPR Bruker datasets (port) for fitting. @Ilya_Kuprov @StollPatrol @nmr900 https://t.co/m9nswK5pww

[David James @drdavidajames]

This is one of the worst things I've ever read, and I've taught English for 25 years.

[Jenny Lindsay @msjlindsay]

The platforming and adulation of a seriously troubled child, with the weight of the world's future put on her by adults who should have cared for her instead, was always disturbing. Adults seriously lost their minds this past decade.

[wokeandwoofing @wokeandwoofing]

I've invented a silicone 'Sympathy Buldge' that vagina owning women can wear in thier knickers to show solidarity with their Trans sisters. For added realism it instantly inflates to three times the size whenever they enter a female space.

[Dr. Dame Katy Denise CH GBE 🏳️‍⚧️🇳🇬🪑 @damekatydenise_]

I've been using Twitter for 27 years, and I'm only just discovering that a lot of the stuff you read on here is absolute bullshit posted by grifters who’ve monetised their account.

[Marcus Walker @WalkerMarcus]

The Britain of Beef and Liberty is dead.

[Kraut @The_Davos_Man]

One of my dads closest friends was a man who was arrested by the communist secret police, tied to a chair, had his fingernails torn out with pliers until he gave a false confession.

I learned everything I need to know about people like you from talking to him about those people.