finstumpf.bsky.social
@finstumpf.bsky.social
Tweeting in a personal capacity. Retweets aren’t endorsements. Encouraging communities to appreciate the assets they have close to home.
Why can’t more politicians be like her?
@kemibadenochmp.bsky.social
Former New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern looks back on her life, from an early religious upbringing to the seat of global politics.
Former New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern: 'Where do I find hope? Young people'
www.bigissue.com
December 8, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Musk’s trillion-dollar payout “floats beyond Neptune, about 17,000 times the distance of a mere moonshot” - my column on why Elon’s out-of-this-world pay targets are as damaging as they are distant as.ft.com/r/3beb41c7-1... via @financialtimes
How executive pay went galactic
[FREE TO READ] Elon Musk’s $1tn incentive plan supercharges a long history of rewards driving up executive pay
as.ft.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:16 AM
😂
December 8, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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December 6, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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This is fascinating and disturbing from @jburnmurdoch.ft.com on rise of 'financial nihilism' (cc @aminsamman.bsky.social !) in the asset economy www.ft.com/content/c17a...
The housing crisis is pushing Gen Z into crypto and economic nihilism
Locked out of home ownership, young adults are turning to risky financial behaviour
www.ft.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:04 AM
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekWforWindows
Day 5 #HayCastle
Outside the Clive Hicks-Jenkins and the Art of the Book exhibition. On until 08 March and well worth going in.
December 5, 2025 at 7:36 AM
December 4, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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Big Issue discovers fate of 455 Yo-yo Homes sold under Right to Buy for £35.7m, then repurchased for nearly £100m.
Councils buy back Right to Buy homes for over 3x sale price in 'economic madness'
www.bigissue.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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NEW: Major row erupts within Labour ranks as 11 Welsh Labour Senedd Members accuse Keir Starmer of “rolling back the existing devolution settlement”

They call UK Gov approach to regeneration programme in Wales:

“At best deeply insensitive, at worst a constitutional outrage”
December 3, 2025 at 12:12 PM
December 3, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇
November 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekWforWindows
Day 2 shadowy figure
#Richmond - Reeth
December 2, 2025 at 8:07 AM
December 1, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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I’m seeing that some people are using free post to return electoral marketing mail.

It’s better to use the free post to send a letter outlining your thoughts, on plain paper, without your name and address. That way you will be adding to the company costs without giving them your data. 😉
November 29, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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We have written a special report looking at the people behind Reform in Wales.

This was a bizarre piece to write.
willhaywardwales.substack.com/p/special-re...
Special report: Who are Reform in Wales?
We dived into the wild world of Reform UK in Cymru
willhaywardwales.substack.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:13 AM
November 30, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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'We have historically high welfare spending.' No we don't.

'We have a historically high proportion of working-age people not actually working.' No we don't.

'The number of Britons emigrating is skyrocketing.' No it isn't.
November 29, 2025 at 5:08 PM
November 29, 2025 at 7:44 AM
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekVforVowels
Day 5 for U for umbrella

Umbrellas are not guarded
November 28, 2025 at 7:28 AM
November 27, 2025 at 8:11 AM
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekVforVowels
Day 3 I for IPA

A mate of mine fitted a nitrous kit to his FS1-E. Reached 70mph before the engine grenaded.
November 26, 2025 at 7:46 AM
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekVforVowels
Day 2 E for edifice @CorfeCastleUK
November 25, 2025 at 7:59 AM