Ferryoons
@ferryoons.bsky.social
Superannuated consultant, energy co-op director, lapsed politician, recidivist old house restorer, reader, food, wine, arts, humanitarian wokerato, fulminateur
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Ferryoons
@ferryoons.bsky.social
· Oct 26
We make conscious economic decisions every day, even in the corner shop. Let’s concentrate on millions of small, individual acts. Changed habits get noticed by others. Leave the fossil fuel criminals wondering where their profits went.
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Add piracy to the list 🤬
December 10, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Add piracy to the list 🤬
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There's no "ceasefire" in the illegally occupied West Bank.
⚡️ How Israel Organizes and Arms Settler Militias to Terrorize Palestinians in the West Bank
What often appears as sporadic settler violence is in fact an organized system with an official structure fully operating as intended.
By David Schutz
open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...
What often appears as sporadic settler violence is in fact an organized system with an official structure fully operating as intended.
By David Schutz
open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...
How Israel Organizes and Arms Settler Militias to Terrorize Palestinians in the West Bank
What often appears as sporadic settler violence is in fact an organized system with an official structure fully operating as intended.
open.substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM
There's no "ceasefire" in the illegally occupied West Bank.
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Another depressingly tone-deaf performance by Badenoch at #PMQs. Our continent is threatened from East and West, and Kemi wants to talk Westminster gossip. Rarely have I seen anyone as witless, be so pleased with themselves. Truss springs to mind. Johnson. Cameron.
WAIT - I think I see a pattern.
WAIT - I think I see a pattern.
December 10, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Another depressingly tone-deaf performance by Badenoch at #PMQs. Our continent is threatened from East and West, and Kemi wants to talk Westminster gossip. Rarely have I seen anyone as witless, be so pleased with themselves. Truss springs to mind. Johnson. Cameron.
WAIT - I think I see a pattern.
WAIT - I think I see a pattern.
Look, from his schooldays until now, Farage’s politics are Nazi. Can we concentrate on that please?
December 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Look, from his schooldays until now, Farage’s politics are Nazi. Can we concentrate on that please?
Well obviously, now that the Tories are out of power (praise be), everything since the dawn of time is Labour’s fault.
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch - who supported Brexit - has listed leaving the EU alongside Covid-19 and the financial crisis as being “shocks” that had damaged the UK
www.ft.com/content/d358...
www.ft.com/content/d358...
Kemi Badenoch cites Brexit as ‘shock’ to UK
Tory leader’s comments come amid debate on whether Britain should rejoin EU customs union
www.ft.com
December 10, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Well obviously, now that the Tories are out of power (praise be), everything since the dawn of time is Labour’s fault.
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How many times do we need to point this out?
By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it.
While weakening your own position.
There's a vast amount of academic research showing this.
But Labour will not listen.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it.
While weakening your own position.
There's a vast amount of academic research showing this.
But Labour will not listen.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
Starmer urges Europe’s leaders to curb ECHR to halt rise of far right
Exclusive: PM calls for members of European convention on human rights to allow tougher action to protect borders
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:56 AM
How many times do we need to point this out?
By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it.
While weakening your own position.
There's a vast amount of academic research showing this.
But Labour will not listen.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it.
While weakening your own position.
There's a vast amount of academic research showing this.
But Labour will not listen.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
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Billionaires all over the world
shielded from protest by governments
ensure feeding their greed overrides tackling
"climate change, pollution, biodiversity & land loss"
"UN says world must jointly tackle issues of climate change, pollution, biodiversity and land loss"
apnews.com/article/un-e...
shielded from protest by governments
ensure feeding their greed overrides tackling
"climate change, pollution, biodiversity & land loss"
"UN says world must jointly tackle issues of climate change, pollution, biodiversity and land loss"
apnews.com/article/un-e...
UN says world must jointly tackle issues of climate change, pollution, biodiversity and land loss
The most comprehensive global environment assessment ever undertaken calls for a new approach to jointly tackle the most pressing environmental issues including climate change and biodiversity loss th...
apnews.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Billionaires all over the world
shielded from protest by governments
ensure feeding their greed overrides tackling
"climate change, pollution, biodiversity & land loss"
"UN says world must jointly tackle issues of climate change, pollution, biodiversity and land loss"
apnews.com/article/un-e...
shielded from protest by governments
ensure feeding their greed overrides tackling
"climate change, pollution, biodiversity & land loss"
"UN says world must jointly tackle issues of climate change, pollution, biodiversity and land loss"
apnews.com/article/un-e...
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Happy tenth anniversary to the time I told Yodel to stay away from my bins.
December 10, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Happy tenth anniversary to the time I told Yodel to stay away from my bins.
Well, the House of Commons is filled with well seasoned jerks, so where’s the value in this?
"House of Commons Jerk Seasoning" is 1) an extremely funny concept and more importantly 2) a sign of a complete and total victory for cultural pluralism in a way that is kind of difficult to concieve
Look, I know things aren’t great at the moment for (a) anyone, and (b) the Labour Party, but fuck me that’s bleak
December 10, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Well, the House of Commons is filled with well seasoned jerks, so where’s the value in this?
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Isn’t it wonderful to think that you could bring someone from 2000 years ago to visit their home today - and while so much has changed, to topography - and the very reason for its location - are still the same!
Beneath the #Wiltshire Medieval hilltop town of Malmesbury lies a 9ha Iron Age hillfort
Here looking east:
Now (© Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard) and then (© Athelstan Museum)
A wee thread for #HillfortsWednesday 🧵👇
Here looking east:
Now (© Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard) and then (© Athelstan Museum)
A wee thread for #HillfortsWednesday 🧵👇
December 10, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Isn’t it wonderful to think that you could bring someone from 2000 years ago to visit their home today - and while so much has changed, to topography - and the very reason for its location - are still the same!
I’m weeping into my morning coffee
December 10, 2025 at 9:01 AM
I’m weeping into my morning coffee
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Wow -- Russia reportedly plotted last year to plant bombs on US-bound flights (gift link) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
December 9, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Wow -- Russia reportedly plotted last year to plant bombs on US-bound flights (gift link) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Consumer Reports ranks Teslas as the least reliable used cars. "The best of the worst [ten] was Chevrolet at a score of 40. But Tesla makes that failing grade seem respectable with its absolute rock bottom rating of 31, trailing Jeep by just one point.” futurism.com/advanced-tra...
Old Teslas Are Falling Apart
On Consumer Reports' latest ranking of used car reliability, Tesla came in dead last with a rating not even half of the top placed brand.
futurism.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Consumer Reports ranks Teslas as the least reliable used cars. "The best of the worst [ten] was Chevrolet at a score of 40. But Tesla makes that failing grade seem respectable with its absolute rock bottom rating of 31, trailing Jeep by just one point.” futurism.com/advanced-tra...
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There’s a lot to unpick in this headline
We don’t do court reports, especially when it comes to violent crime, but there’s always an exception.
December 9, 2025 at 5:36 PM
There’s a lot to unpick in this headline
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The Crown Estate, which owns seabeds around the British coast, is charging offshore wind developers extortionate fees to build turbines. And keeping our energy bills high.
I’ve signed a petition to stop the King from profiting at Britain’s expense. Will you join me? --> act.gp/48sDgCs
I’ve signed a petition to stop the King from profiting at Britain’s expense. Will you join me? --> act.gp/48sDgCs
King Charles: Stop Profiting At Britain’s Expense!
Energy bills are soaring, and the King is getting rich at our expense. Sign the petition to demand the Crown Estate lower fees on seabeds and make wind farms more affordable to build.
act.gp
December 9, 2025 at 5:41 PM
The Crown Estate, which owns seabeds around the British coast, is charging offshore wind developers extortionate fees to build turbines. And keeping our energy bills high.
I’ve signed a petition to stop the King from profiting at Britain’s expense. Will you join me? --> act.gp/48sDgCs
I’ve signed a petition to stop the King from profiting at Britain’s expense. Will you join me? --> act.gp/48sDgCs
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So now the wind starts for Storm Bram. Storms, we are used to. In fact we keep having to reuse the alphabet.
It’s the vampire swarms I’m not looking forward to this time.
It’s the vampire swarms I’m not looking forward to this time.
December 9, 2025 at 4:21 PM
So now the wind starts for Storm Bram. Storms, we are used to. In fact we keep having to reuse the alphabet.
It’s the vampire swarms I’m not looking forward to this time.
It’s the vampire swarms I’m not looking forward to this time.
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Hard to imagine, given what Labour UK Cabinet Ministers are now saying, Labour MPs being this performatively stupid.
Scottish Labour MPs abstain on EU customs union vote
Labour busy cutting off its nose to spite its face instead of fixing what is broken. www.thenational.scot/news/2568571...
Labour busy cutting off its nose to spite its face instead of fixing what is broken. www.thenational.scot/news/2568571...
'Depressing but unsurprising': Scottish Labour MPs blasted over EU customs union vote
SCOTTISH Labour MPs have been accused of failing to “stand up for Scotland” after none of them voted in support to create a new UK-EU customs…
www.thenational.scot
December 9, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Hard to imagine, given what Labour UK Cabinet Ministers are now saying, Labour MPs being this performatively stupid.
Nation doesn’t shrug. Political enemies have sensed his weakness.
Nigel Farage, currently under investigation for
- election expenses fraud
- antisemitism rants
- Putin connections
- £40billion lost to UK public finances
- friendships with
* child rapist
* Russian spy
* 'illegal' immigrant employer
is only kept afloat by
uncritical billionaire media adulation
- election expenses fraud
- antisemitism rants
- Putin connections
- £40billion lost to UK public finances
- friendships with
* child rapist
* Russian spy
* 'illegal' immigrant employer
is only kept afloat by
uncritical billionaire media adulation
December 9, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Nation doesn’t shrug. Political enemies have sensed his weakness.
So now the wind starts for Storm Bram. Storms, we are used to. In fact we keep having to reuse the alphabet.
It’s the vampire swarms I’m not looking forward to this time.
It’s the vampire swarms I’m not looking forward to this time.
December 9, 2025 at 4:21 PM
So now the wind starts for Storm Bram. Storms, we are used to. In fact we keep having to reuse the alphabet.
It’s the vampire swarms I’m not looking forward to this time.
It’s the vampire swarms I’m not looking forward to this time.
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Vicambulate [vahy-KAM-byoo-layt]
(v.)
- To take a stroll about town; to saunter leisurely.
Used in a sentence:
“Percival drew himself up, affronted. ‘Aunt Agatha, please. I wasn’t ‘wandering.’ I was vicambulating, which is considerably more dignified, you know.’”
(v.)
- To take a stroll about town; to saunter leisurely.
Used in a sentence:
“Percival drew himself up, affronted. ‘Aunt Agatha, please. I wasn’t ‘wandering.’ I was vicambulating, which is considerably more dignified, you know.’”
December 9, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Vicambulate [vahy-KAM-byoo-layt]
(v.)
- To take a stroll about town; to saunter leisurely.
Used in a sentence:
“Percival drew himself up, affronted. ‘Aunt Agatha, please. I wasn’t ‘wandering.’ I was vicambulating, which is considerably more dignified, you know.’”
(v.)
- To take a stroll about town; to saunter leisurely.
Used in a sentence:
“Percival drew himself up, affronted. ‘Aunt Agatha, please. I wasn’t ‘wandering.’ I was vicambulating, which is considerably more dignified, you know.’”
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"When the airstrike hit, I never imagined that the place I once called home would turn into a mound of shattered concrete and twisted metal.
In the span of a few seconds, the walls that held years of memories – laughter, family dinners, my children’s first steps – were reduced to debris"
In the span of a few seconds, the walls that held years of memories – laughter, family dinners, my children’s first steps – were reduced to debris"
A father standing on the rubble: life after my home fell apart
"My only hope is that someone out there will hear our story. I just want my children to have a roof again… a place where they can feel like kids"
northeastbylines.co.uk
December 9, 2025 at 10:55 AM
"When the airstrike hit, I never imagined that the place I once called home would turn into a mound of shattered concrete and twisted metal.
In the span of a few seconds, the walls that held years of memories – laughter, family dinners, my children’s first steps – were reduced to debris"
In the span of a few seconds, the walls that held years of memories – laughter, family dinners, my children’s first steps – were reduced to debris"
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Despite what you hear from fossil fuel-funded politicians, the U.K has just generated a record amount of clean, domestic wind energy.
Enough to power 23 million homes!
U.K decarbonisation policy is a recipe for energy security.
Enough to power 23 million homes!
U.K decarbonisation policy is a recipe for energy security.
December 9, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Despite what you hear from fossil fuel-funded politicians, the U.K has just generated a record amount of clean, domestic wind energy.
Enough to power 23 million homes!
U.K decarbonisation policy is a recipe for energy security.
Enough to power 23 million homes!
U.K decarbonisation policy is a recipe for energy security.
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By all means investigate Farage for alleged fraud in Clacton, but why was Labour Together allowed to get away with not declaring donations for years?
December 8, 2025 at 10:05 PM
By all means investigate Farage for alleged fraud in Clacton, but why was Labour Together allowed to get away with not declaring donations for years?
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With this there would have been no Mo Farah. No Freddie Mercury. No Lenny Henry. No George Michael. No Meera Syal. No Sadiq Khan. No Sajid Javid. No Salman Rushdie. No Hanif Kureishi.
December 9, 2025 at 12:12 PM
With this there would have been no Mo Farah. No Freddie Mercury. No Lenny Henry. No George Michael. No Meera Syal. No Sadiq Khan. No Sajid Javid. No Salman Rushdie. No Hanif Kureishi.