Jester mouse
@jestermouse.bsky.social
That line where the sky meets the sea? It calls me 🌊
📍 Edinburgh, Scotland 🏴
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📍 Edinburgh, Scotland 🏴
Film watches at Letterboxd https://boxd.it/HUMR
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But see the outrage if a brown immigrant is accused of not contributing…
Maybe somebody should ask the rich who are threatening to leave the UK why they don’t want to integrate into British society.
November 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM
But see the outrage if a brown immigrant is accused of not contributing…
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Private jet passengers flying from UK face fourfold increase in tax on.ft.com/3Xnvtzk
Private jet passengers flying from UK face fourfold increase in tax
More than 500,000 trips will be subject to higher levies
on.ft.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Private jet passengers flying from UK face fourfold increase in tax on.ft.com/3Xnvtzk
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Big fear for the Budget was the green transition.
✅ Heat pump funding remains.
✅ VAT remains on gas.
✅ Support for EVs extended.
✅ Renewable charges removed from electricity.
🤷🏻♂️ EV per-mile charge - barrier to entry as in NZ?
🤷🏻♂️ North Sea drilling
🤷🏻♂️ Fuel duty increase. U-turn likely?
Ok overall.
✅ Heat pump funding remains.
✅ VAT remains on gas.
✅ Support for EVs extended.
✅ Renewable charges removed from electricity.
🤷🏻♂️ EV per-mile charge - barrier to entry as in NZ?
🤷🏻♂️ North Sea drilling
🤷🏻♂️ Fuel duty increase. U-turn likely?
Ok overall.
November 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Big fear for the Budget was the green transition.
✅ Heat pump funding remains.
✅ VAT remains on gas.
✅ Support for EVs extended.
✅ Renewable charges removed from electricity.
🤷🏻♂️ EV per-mile charge - barrier to entry as in NZ?
🤷🏻♂️ North Sea drilling
🤷🏻♂️ Fuel duty increase. U-turn likely?
Ok overall.
✅ Heat pump funding remains.
✅ VAT remains on gas.
✅ Support for EVs extended.
✅ Renewable charges removed from electricity.
🤷🏻♂️ EV per-mile charge - barrier to entry as in NZ?
🤷🏻♂️ North Sea drilling
🤷🏻♂️ Fuel duty increase. U-turn likely?
Ok overall.
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The UK announced key energy policies to decarbonise the economy and reduce consumer bills in its Autumn Budget today.
Moving towards cheaper electricity makes heat pumps and EVs more competitive, 'cutting national dependence on costly fossil imports', says Ember analyst Josie Murdoch.
Moving towards cheaper electricity makes heat pumps and EVs more competitive, 'cutting national dependence on costly fossil imports', says Ember analyst Josie Murdoch.
November 26, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The UK announced key energy policies to decarbonise the economy and reduce consumer bills in its Autumn Budget today.
Moving towards cheaper electricity makes heat pumps and EVs more competitive, 'cutting national dependence on costly fossil imports', says Ember analyst Josie Murdoch.
Moving towards cheaper electricity makes heat pumps and EVs more competitive, 'cutting national dependence on costly fossil imports', says Ember analyst Josie Murdoch.
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My entire life in one cartoon, you might ask? This little masterwork, from the latest Private Eye.
November 26, 2025 at 2:41 PM
My entire life in one cartoon, you might ask? This little masterwork, from the latest Private Eye.
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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Since 2011 fuel duty freeze has cost the Treasury a whopping £133bn and added to yet more climate emissions. Freezing it yet again is reckless & irresponsible #budget2025
November 26, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Since 2011 fuel duty freeze has cost the Treasury a whopping £133bn and added to yet more climate emissions. Freezing it yet again is reckless & irresponsible #budget2025
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The world may be quite turbulent at the moment, but I think we can all take at least some solace in the fact that libraries, cafés, bookstores, bakeries, museums, and Oxford commas exist.
November 25, 2025 at 4:48 PM
The world may be quite turbulent at the moment, but I think we can all take at least some solace in the fact that libraries, cafés, bookstores, bakeries, museums, and Oxford commas exist.
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So it looks like Rachel Reeves has *not* abolished or cut back the cycle to work scheme. Perhaps she has read the Treasury's own 2023 assessment of the scheme, which found that in terms of creating modal shift, and thus boosting public health, it is very, very effective.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
Evaluation of the Cycle to Work Scheme: quantitative and qualitative research
www.gov.uk
November 26, 2025 at 2:04 PM
So it looks like Rachel Reeves has *not* abolished or cut back the cycle to work scheme. Perhaps she has read the Treasury's own 2023 assessment of the scheme, which found that in terms of creating modal shift, and thus boosting public health, it is very, very effective.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
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Michael Curtiz’s CASABLANCA premiered at the Hollywood Theatre in New York City on November 26, 1942. One of the most beloved movies in history, arguably greatest studio picture ever made, caught lightning in a bottle - cast, dialogue, story, performances. Perfection. #OnThisDay
November 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Michael Curtiz’s CASABLANCA premiered at the Hollywood Theatre in New York City on November 26, 1942. One of the most beloved movies in history, arguably greatest studio picture ever made, caught lightning in a bottle - cast, dialogue, story, performances. Perfection. #OnThisDay
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Shortly after the end of the last great ice age — 10,000 years ago — 57% of the world’s habitable land was covered by forest.
In the millennia since then, a growing demand for agricultural land means we’ve lost one-third of global forests — an area twice the size of the United States.
In the millennia since then, a growing demand for agricultural land means we’ve lost one-third of global forests — an area twice the size of the United States.
November 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Shortly after the end of the last great ice age — 10,000 years ago — 57% of the world’s habitable land was covered by forest.
In the millennia since then, a growing demand for agricultural land means we’ve lost one-third of global forests — an area twice the size of the United States.
In the millennia since then, a growing demand for agricultural land means we’ve lost one-third of global forests — an area twice the size of the United States.
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Nature is beautiful: here you can see the adult buses circling together to protect the baby buses from busivores that would otherwise prey on them
So this happened in Oslo yesterday. Four articulated buses got stuck in a roundabout.
November 26, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Nature is beautiful: here you can see the adult buses circling together to protect the baby buses from busivores that would otherwise prey on them
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Such a treat to be on Lewis and Harris when snow storms pass through. A phone image until I get home. Since Sunday, we've had calm sunshine, rainbows, freezing wind, intense white snow clouds. Just perfect for an already photogenic island.
#scape #landscape #Scotland #stormhour #coast
#scape #landscape #Scotland #stormhour #coast
November 21, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Such a treat to be on Lewis and Harris when snow storms pass through. A phone image until I get home. Since Sunday, we've had calm sunshine, rainbows, freezing wind, intense white snow clouds. Just perfect for an already photogenic island.
#scape #landscape #Scotland #stormhour #coast
#scape #landscape #Scotland #stormhour #coast
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Really good Edinburgh Inquirer article from Cory Boyle here on the need to take bold steps to tackle Edinburgh’s current and future congestion woes.
www.edinburghinquirer.co.uk/p/were-one-o...
www.edinburghinquirer.co.uk/p/were-one-o...
We're one of the most congested cities in the UK. Here's how to tackle that.
Award-winning engineer Corey Boyle on breaking the Capital's over-reliance on the car
www.edinburghinquirer.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Really good Edinburgh Inquirer article from Cory Boyle here on the need to take bold steps to tackle Edinburgh’s current and future congestion woes.
www.edinburghinquirer.co.uk/p/were-one-o...
www.edinburghinquirer.co.uk/p/were-one-o...
Maybe somebody should ask the rich who are threatening to leave the UK why they don’t want to integrate into British society.
November 26, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Maybe somebody should ask the rich who are threatening to leave the UK why they don’t want to integrate into British society.
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Well, if it’s 26 November, it must be the 139th anniversary of a divorce case so saucy and notorious it gave us the phrase “what the butler saw”, and newspapers suppressed some of the details of the domestic servant in question’s testimony because it was “unfit for publication”
November 26, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Well, if it’s 26 November, it must be the 139th anniversary of a divorce case so saucy and notorious it gave us the phrase “what the butler saw”, and newspapers suppressed some of the details of the domestic servant in question’s testimony because it was “unfit for publication”
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£133 BILLION
Since 2011 the fuel duty freeze has cost the Treasury £133 billion.
This huge amount could have paid for lower train and bus fares, better stations, safer walking, wheeling and cycling and much more!
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
This huge amount could have paid for lower train and bus fares, better stations, safer walking, wheeling and cycling and much more!
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Rachel Reeves will freeze fuel duty to dodge ‘political suicide’
The chancellor will also highlight a rise in the minimum wage and plans to cut energy bills as she tries to win over voters by focusing on cost of living
www.thetimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:10 AM
£133 BILLION
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Sunrise 8:10 am today.
November 26, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Sunrise 8:10 am today.
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people not wasting value resources by replacing unnecessary equipment shocker
stupid young people, stop buying a new phone every year if you don't want to be broke. wait no, not like that.
November 26, 2025 at 8:07 AM
people not wasting value resources by replacing unnecessary equipment shocker
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There’s got to be a middle ground between “can’t get trades in for love nor money” and “we’ll be round at 8am” texts at 7:30am the day after you email ‘em.
November 26, 2025 at 7:33 AM
There’s got to be a middle ground between “can’t get trades in for love nor money” and “we’ll be round at 8am” texts at 7:30am the day after you email ‘em.
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Renewables routinely generate more than half of U.K electricity.
They also generate thousands of jobs, reduce our exposure to volatile gas prices, and allow us to stick two fingers up to fossil-fueled dictators.
Leadership is knowing the way, showing the way, AND going the way…🇬🇧♻️⚡️👷👩🔧
They also generate thousands of jobs, reduce our exposure to volatile gas prices, and allow us to stick two fingers up to fossil-fueled dictators.
Leadership is knowing the way, showing the way, AND going the way…🇬🇧♻️⚡️👷👩🔧
November 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Renewables routinely generate more than half of U.K electricity.
They also generate thousands of jobs, reduce our exposure to volatile gas prices, and allow us to stick two fingers up to fossil-fueled dictators.
Leadership is knowing the way, showing the way, AND going the way…🇬🇧♻️⚡️👷👩🔧
They also generate thousands of jobs, reduce our exposure to volatile gas prices, and allow us to stick two fingers up to fossil-fueled dictators.
Leadership is knowing the way, showing the way, AND going the way…🇬🇧♻️⚡️👷👩🔧
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my takeaway from climate week nyc is that "climate storytelling" is a little too much "we must reimagine our deepest souls in relationship to mother nature and the moral abyss of the polycrisis into which we must now stare" and not enough "ok but get a heat pump"
September 28, 2025 at 6:52 PM
my takeaway from climate week nyc is that "climate storytelling" is a little too much "we must reimagine our deepest souls in relationship to mother nature and the moral abyss of the polycrisis into which we must now stare" and not enough "ok but get a heat pump"
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THIS!!! We are not mad enough.
November 25, 2025 at 2:16 PM
THIS!!! We are not mad enough.
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“I often racially abuse people, but never in a hurtful or insulting way”
November 25, 2025 at 7:35 PM
“I often racially abuse people, but never in a hurtful or insulting way”