David Shepherd

Should be a heating engineer in my retirement - spent all day solving my GFCH's short-cycling issue Diagnosis: dead actuator that had welded itself to the valve. Literally had to destroy the actuator with a hack saw to replace it. 'New' actuator had dead motor 😡 so replaced that too #smug + warm

Less time with idiots thinking about Mars and more time with intelligent people thinking about saving Earth would be good.

@andertoon.bsky.social

According to Tice et al we should just have enjoyed the hot weather but this is the reality Welsh farmers endured [sarc_on] But yes climate change denial is the obvious answer [sarc_off]

If a tree has the exceptionally large number of 'bad apples' falling from it that Reform has, the problem lies in the tree

Maybe Brand should read Jesus' words in Matt 6, about performative religious behaviour, from that Bible he ostentatiously carries... ...and get a Bible App on his phone

Increasingly looking like NATO allies are going to have go to war with Russia to save Ukraine

Relentless pressure from:- his handlers his owners his voters his stupidity and reality No release valve Trump is now very dangerous

So Trump will kill Ukrainians to save his electoral skin Utterly corrupt compromised murderer USA, for not stopping him or Putin, is an abject moral failure USA you are a sick sick joke Slava Ukraini

Hey rich people! There really is no point in investing for your grand kids and their kids if you oppose net zero You might as well admit you hate them and spend it now Their best investment IS net zero

It'll take some time to see the full story of the USA over the last two years but it's going to be a horror show

The Greens Zionism motion is so politically naive Just when the s̶u̶m̶m̶e̶r̶ drought makes the central Green argument so much easier, it's let's argue about what an enormously contested word means and put people off 🤦

USA is such a screwed-up place They kill 40k+ innocent people pa unnecessarily with guns and unaffordable healthcare.. ..now with added preventable measles! But can't kill the guilty (whom no civilised country does kill) No wonder no one wants to visit

Jesus - updated

NO! The BBC should not be closed down... that is EXACTLY what the international press-barons want. It just needs its politically appointed directorate replaced with people who will uphold its original mission instead of pushing / both-sidesing far-right agendas and views of racists and deniers.

And they used to call the Conservatives the "nasty party"...

Stings: an explainer for the Reform hard-of-thinking 1 a singer you can choose to listen to 2 an insect defence you don't choose 3 a context where a someone freely chooses illegal acts, thinking they are hidden, revealing their true nature This was number 3, not a sort of 2!

Even if Farage is only trying to do the right thing (🤣!), losing one trusted aide to treason is unfortunate, losing another to a sting careless, losing a third proves such appalling judgment he should never be allowed to choose a cabinet!

Looking forward to the extensive coverage of Reform corruption on R4 Today program tomorrow am... ... with not a peep about small boats

Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 🔗 Read the exclusive story on Substack:

Enjoying my new #GB2026 T-shirt! @greenbeltfestival.bsky.social The colour? 'Pronoun purple' obviously

After the release of yesterday’s UNEP report about the urgent necessity of radical climate action and the death of any hope of keeping temp rise to 1.5, BBC R4 Today leads, predictably, with small boats.

I hope everyone caught this Lancet study confirming that Elon Musk & DOGE are responsible for genocidal levels of suffering & death.

Enjoying the obvious discomfort of #R4Today programme having to admit that Kahn's London ULEZ scheme very likely improved children's lung health "but it might have been COVID blah waffle blah incoherence' Just rejoice at having healthier kids won't you?

How do we know anti net-zeroers are dangerously dishonest? Simple When they see this same pattern in a stock chart they are very keen investors! Oh, they know full-well what this graph means They are paid to say otherwise

Having won a stunning victory against the establishment you'd have thought a rousing speech in presence of adoring supporters would have been an opportunity too good to miss... Somebody with a fridge/catering van could have snuck him in/out for well under £5m

Snapped an early #Perseid this am heading down the Milky Way past the Andromeda Galaxy into Cygnus

The only plus of the unignorable predicted(!!) floods/wildfires is it's now undeniable that anti-net-zeroers are either inconceivably stupid.. ...or paid for

Important: Trump’s executive order is NOT legislation. Though the executive order promotes more misinformation about vaccines, nothing has changed about the availability of childhood vaccines. For evidence-based guidance, please follow and share American Academy of Pediatrics recommendations.

Utterly nonsensical. No good science backs this up but a lot of data says it could be bad- inconveniece is a huge barrier that prevents people getting vax or completing full course so splitting vax up further will compound this. In a country where measles clearly now endemic this is utter insanity

It’s on iPlayer, prog fans. And it’s awesome! www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Strange, how for the likes of Reform, getting 'sovrinty' back was worth the price but the ecosystem and human race surviving via net-zero isn't

At what point does insisting on more safeguarding training, exposing people to reports, resolutions, procedures, books which they should all read, learn and adhere to - or else, itself become abusive? 😉 Asking for a friend

Create your pseud cosmetic additive by combining:- 1 a 'boosting' phrase 2 a word ending in 'o' 3 a cell component 4 a number 1-9 Eg enhanced with proto golgi 6

Presumably Farage has calculated that spending weeks publicly arguing with a Binfaced Recyclon from Sigma IX is less embarrassing for him and fellow Reform MPs than talking to a standards committee about his finances in private Just what is he hiding?

Imagine Farage had gone to his GP, got an opinion he didn't like, screamed "It's a medical establishment stitch-up" and self-righteously called a by-election to 'let the people decide' It's exactly that loony Clacton voters are as well-equipped to judge parliamentary rules as medical diagnosis

Is see FIFA failed to do their mandatory training 'Tackling Fraud and Corruption' module ...again

Poor Farage Hasn't clocked that the 'lie and blame anyone' strategy has been totally busted by his US hero Daylight is a wonderful thing

The USA, on its 250 birthday, is surely a contender for the unfunniest joke of a government of all time The WH for what it does and the rest for not stopping them

Excellent tap tackle on Kane by DRC goalie - sign him up for Tigers!

I'm old enough to remember when the footy was a game of two halves instead of four quarters

Many years from now an alien archaeologist gazes sadly over the remains of a civilisation that destroyed its own ecosystem Its seminal paper: 'We got global growth to 4%!', followed by an exo-facepalm The title was based on an obscure post retrieved from something called BlueSky

You've had:- far too much water too little too hot to sleep lost elderly relatives to heat forest fires accelerated coastal erosion food shortages so what kind of net-zero are you? Carbon or IQ?

This pool business reflects very badly on the US

All together now... "If you're racist and you know it But you don't want to show it Immigration is your go-to talking point"

If you say “I support Palestine Action”, they might put you in jail. If you incite a racist riot, they put you on TV.

Stop saying, "It's iconic" - just stop it!

Imagine if a fraction of the goodies Brexiteers promised in 2016 had come true Farage and his crew would be a shoo-in As opposed to something deeply unpleasant on its underside