Phoenix Satya
@flyingpangolin.bsky.social
Punk software engineer looking for some fact driven hope. Loves science, music and clean rivers full of fish.
Not so fond of disinformation and populism.
Not so fond of disinformation and populism.
Couple that with many growers switching long term to mandarins because of demand pressure from the big supermarkets (1). There's now a supply shortage.
December 22, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Couple that with many growers switching long term to mandarins because of demand pressure from the big supermarkets (1). There's now a supply shortage.
2. New customs rules due to the UK now being outside of the EU single market.
The extra time, effort, paperwork, and risk of importing such perishable low value fruit means that almost all satsumas get sent to the easily accessible markets inside the EU.
The extra time, effort, paperwork, and risk of importing such perishable low value fruit means that almost all satsumas get sent to the easily accessible markets inside the EU.
December 22, 2025 at 9:38 AM
2. New customs rules due to the UK now being outside of the EU single market.
The extra time, effort, paperwork, and risk of importing such perishable low value fruit means that almost all satsumas get sent to the easily accessible markets inside the EU.
The extra time, effort, paperwork, and risk of importing such perishable low value fruit means that almost all satsumas get sent to the easily accessible markets inside the EU.
1. Their perisible nature mean shorter shelf life that the big supermarkets hate.
I was forever picking out the old bad ones from the satsuma loads (not huge problem, but manual).
Supermarkets now specify the longer lasting and harder to peel mandarins and mandarin hybrids (easy peelers) ...
I was forever picking out the old bad ones from the satsuma loads (not huge problem, but manual).
Supermarkets now specify the longer lasting and harder to peel mandarins and mandarin hybrids (easy peelers) ...
December 22, 2025 at 9:30 AM
1. Their perisible nature mean shorter shelf life that the big supermarkets hate.
I was forever picking out the old bad ones from the satsuma loads (not huge problem, but manual).
Supermarkets now specify the longer lasting and harder to peel mandarins and mandarin hybrids (easy peelers) ...
I was forever picking out the old bad ones from the satsuma loads (not huge problem, but manual).
Supermarkets now specify the longer lasting and harder to peel mandarins and mandarin hybrids (easy peelers) ...
Not a massive Xmas fan, but satsumas were always part of it for me. I know they're seasonal now, having previously sold truck loads at this time of year.
It turns out there's 2 main reasons for their demise ...
It turns out there's 2 main reasons for their demise ...
December 22, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Not a massive Xmas fan, but satsumas were always part of it for me. I know they're seasonal now, having previously sold truck loads at this time of year.
It turns out there's 2 main reasons for their demise ...
It turns out there's 2 main reasons for their demise ...
“In a time of destruction, create something.”
December 21, 2025 at 10:53 PM
“In a time of destruction, create something.”
Not top ten, but ...
As far as I'm concerned, there's no Christmas song that can't be improved by re-recording as a punk cover:
Bad Religion “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing”
youtu.be/Uc4AdrA7QdE
As far as I'm concerned, there's no Christmas song that can't be improved by re-recording as a punk cover:
Bad Religion “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing”
youtu.be/Uc4AdrA7QdE
Bad Religion - Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
YouTube video by chiggerskido
youtu.be
December 20, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Not top ten, but ...
As far as I'm concerned, there's no Christmas song that can't be improved by re-recording as a punk cover:
Bad Religion “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing”
youtu.be/Uc4AdrA7QdE
As far as I'm concerned, there's no Christmas song that can't be improved by re-recording as a punk cover:
Bad Religion “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing”
youtu.be/Uc4AdrA7QdE
🙂 Right enough. I'm living in some fantasy world expecting the drunken honey monster to admit to anything.
The best liars often convince themselves, but I don't even think he done that.
The best liars often convince themselves, but I don't even think he done that.
December 20, 2025 at 11:12 AM
🙂 Right enough. I'm living in some fantasy world expecting the drunken honey monster to admit to anything.
The best liars often convince themselves, but I don't even think he done that.
The best liars often convince themselves, but I don't even think he done that.
Only the most brazen still try to tell us otherwise. Johnson and his oven ready deal are a disgrace. The only question should be, when will he apologise rather than still trying to gaslight us?
December 20, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Only the most brazen still try to tell us otherwise. Johnson and his oven ready deal are a disgrace. The only question should be, when will he apologise rather than still trying to gaslight us?
Yes, 6 years on, and the results are well and truly in. Britain has undeniably lost on every count.
If this was football, it would be 10-0 to the rest of the world.
If this was football, it would be 10-0 to the rest of the world.
December 20, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Yes, 6 years on, and the results are well and truly in. Britain has undeniably lost on every count.
If this was football, it would be 10-0 to the rest of the world.
If this was football, it would be 10-0 to the rest of the world.
It's not seasonal. I worked in fruit and veg during the nineties
At Christmas, the endless loads of satsumas would fly off the shelves as fast as I could tray them up.
At Christmas, the endless loads of satsumas would fly off the shelves as fast as I could tray them up.
December 20, 2025 at 9:33 AM
It's not seasonal. I worked in fruit and veg during the nineties
At Christmas, the endless loads of satsumas would fly off the shelves as fast as I could tray them up.
At Christmas, the endless loads of satsumas would fly off the shelves as fast as I could tray them up.
Easy peelers have a contradiction of a name. Where has all the good fruit gone? (eps. satsumas)
Accessable markets?
Accessable markets?
December 20, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Easy peelers have a contradiction of a name. Where has all the good fruit gone? (eps. satsumas)
Accessable markets?
Accessable markets?
Having persevered through the outrageously nonsense article, it's comforting to see zero support for this fantasy take BTL.
Is there a line where an opinion piece crosses over into just plain misinformation?
Is there a line where an opinion piece crosses over into just plain misinformation?
December 19, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Having persevered through the outrageously nonsense article, it's comforting to see zero support for this fantasy take BTL.
Is there a line where an opinion piece crosses over into just plain misinformation?
Is there a line where an opinion piece crosses over into just plain misinformation?
If it were up to fat heads like frost, I'd still be working an endless series of McJobs.
December 19, 2025 at 11:04 AM
If it were up to fat heads like frost, I'd still be working an endless series of McJobs.
My software engineering career started with a university grant from the European Science and Engineering Council.
Since then, I've paid it back 100 fold in tax to the UK government.
Since then, I've paid it back 100 fold in tax to the UK government.
December 19, 2025 at 11:04 AM
My software engineering career started with a university grant from the European Science and Engineering Council.
Since then, I've paid it back 100 fold in tax to the UK government.
Since then, I've paid it back 100 fold in tax to the UK government.
Noah Hawley's fantastic story telling and world creation with a nod to contemporary themes. Not the usual creepy spaceship horror that I was expecting.
December 18, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Noah Hawley's fantastic story telling and world creation with a nod to contemporary themes. Not the usual creepy spaceship horror that I was expecting.
Hitting the nail on the head here.
Our ability to do trade deals outside the EU turns out to be freedom to be low-balled, with no options or leverage.
Our ability to do trade deals outside the EU turns out to be freedom to be low-balled, with no options or leverage.
December 16, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Hitting the nail on the head here.
Our ability to do trade deals outside the EU turns out to be freedom to be low-balled, with no options or leverage.
Our ability to do trade deals outside the EU turns out to be freedom to be low-balled, with no options or leverage.
13.5k lines of intrigue.
Does it come with unit test coverage ;-)
Does it come with unit test coverage ;-)
December 12, 2025 at 11:36 PM
13.5k lines of intrigue.
Does it come with unit test coverage ;-)
Does it come with unit test coverage ;-)
I'm looking at you, Sunak, and your offshore outsourcing of the small contractor industry.
December 7, 2025 at 10:12 AM
I'm looking at you, Sunak, and your offshore outsourcing of the small contractor industry.
The threat is that if you build a successful industry of small businesses.
Lobbyists will step in and get their on side ministers to legislate you out of the market for party or personal benefit.
Lobbyists will step in and get their on side ministers to legislate you out of the market for party or personal benefit.
December 7, 2025 at 10:06 AM
The threat is that if you build a successful industry of small businesses.
Lobbyists will step in and get their on side ministers to legislate you out of the market for party or personal benefit.
Lobbyists will step in and get their on side ministers to legislate you out of the market for party or personal benefit.
The biggest threat to small businesses outside the onerous costs, tiny margins, and huge multi-tax rake?
December 7, 2025 at 10:00 AM
The biggest threat to small businesses outside the onerous costs, tiny margins, and huge multi-tax rake?
Wogan would have been merciless.
December 6, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Wogan would have been merciless.
Weird the mirror sees it like that. Having sat through the whole cringe fest, I thought the commentary was unbelievably restrained.
I assumed the threat of another Trump law suite had them biting their tongues.
I assumed the threat of another Trump law suite had them biting their tongues.
December 6, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Weird the mirror sees it like that. Having sat through the whole cringe fest, I thought the commentary was unbelievably restrained.
I assumed the threat of another Trump law suite had them biting their tongues.
I assumed the threat of another Trump law suite had them biting their tongues.
Farage led the UK Independence Party (UKIP) from 2006 to 2016 and was instrumental in mainstreaming Euroscepticism in British politics, ultimately forcing Prime Minister David Cameron to promise a referendum.
He did it. All the other main players were just jumping on the bandwagon.
He did it. All the other main players were just jumping on the bandwagon.
December 4, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Farage led the UK Independence Party (UKIP) from 2006 to 2016 and was instrumental in mainstreaming Euroscepticism in British politics, ultimately forcing Prime Minister David Cameron to promise a referendum.
He did it. All the other main players were just jumping on the bandwagon.
He did it. All the other main players were just jumping on the bandwagon.