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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 10h

Yep
I do 3000km a year now on a bike in London

on.in

Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 10h

Gotta love that insurance is state regulated in US

Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 12h

It feels like some form of very unstable 3 party politics is upon us - with a minority 4th party in the form of the Tories

I don’t see LDs or Reform supplanting Lab in solid urban seats in London etc

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 12h

Or people who complain about how terrible the workload of an MP is

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 12h

I’m thinking of the private capital guys with captive insurance capital

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 15h

See also use of insurance capital

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 15h

Well it’s v clear that the whole private capital game right now is how to pass the bag to retail

Whether debt, equity or whatever

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 15h

There’s such a bloodbath coming

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 16h

It’s Carillion all over again

FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 16h

A dig into First Brands' invoice financing and who's left holding the bag.

on.ft.com/3KH90dy

First Brands Group: dude, where’s my cash?

[FREE TO READ] Cleveland, we have a problem

on.ft.com

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 16h

It’s all very Carillion

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 16h

Hahahahahahahahahaha

Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 16h

She thought she was

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 16h

She squandered the oil and gas bounty

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Tatarigami @tatarigami.bsky.social · 17h

Jokes are already emerging: As the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, in retaliation, the US will impose tariffs on Norway and start supporting Maduro.

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 17h

That’s a bit like saying Spirytus is a vermouth

Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 17h

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha

That she is Venezuelan is absolute *chef’s kiss* stuff

Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 17h

The Nobel Peace Prize 2025 has been awarded to Venezuelan democracy activist María Corina Machado.

The Nobel Committee recognised her “struggle to achieve a just & peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.”

In other words, exactly the opposite of what Trump is doing to the United States.

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Graham Simpson @grahambs.bsky.social · 20h

GBNews predicted Reform would win! Well done @libdems.org.uk

Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 1d

Kenn Valley (Teignbridge) Council By-Election Result:

🔶 LDM: 50.4% (+11.0)
➡️ RFM: 23.1% (New)
🌳 CON: 9.6% (-19.0)
🙋 Ind: 8.2% (New)
🌍 GRN: 5.5% (-13.9)
🌹 LAB: 2.7% (-9.9)
🙋 Ind: 0.5% (New)

Liberal Democrat GAIN from Conservative.
Changes w/ 2023.

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 20h

And yet they have a problem with Ali Khamenei

Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 20h

This initiative is so epically badly timed it should be called How to Make a Bad Situation Worse

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 20h

It does inspire awe and show how utterly insignificant and trivial so many of our concerns are

Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.bsky.social · Apr 29

This is a new image from #JWST.

The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way.

Everything else is a galaxy.

Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.

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Arieh Kovler @ariehkovler.com · 20h

The frogs were introduced to Portland to protest ICE and keep down the cane beetle population, but once they start multiplying they're hard to get rid of. Don't lick them; you could get high.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 22h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 1d

Pier-reviewed science.

As in, you might as well take those studies down to the end of the pier and fire them into the tide for all the good they are.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

RFK JR: There are many other confirmations -- there are two studies that show children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism. It’s highly likely because they are given Tylenol

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 21h

Not sure it will be Montie - he’s mad for this now

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 23h

“In London cyclists now outnumber cars in the City by 2 to 1. Paris, where they now outnumber motorists across the whole city, is catching up with Europe’s traditional bike capitals, Amsterdam & Copenhagen…In Copenhagen, bikes account for almost half of commuter trips to work/school.” @economist.com

Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport

Pedal power is booming, spinning up a new culture war

www.economist.com

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