Sean Fernyhough
@seanfernyhough.bsky.social
Parent & grandparent. Woke (as defined by De Santis' general counsel). Shrewsbury Town supporter. SAAB 900 owner. Works in financial services. Looking forward to retirement. Novice gardener and cook. Born at 319.65 ppm. BDS.
This was a nice conversation - an exchange of ideas and viewpoints rather than interviewing someone who thinks they have everything sorted out in their heads.
mandascott.bsky.social@mandascott.bsky.social · 11h ago“The #Possitopian approach to future thinking expands the cone of the possible future, and applies imagination to future scenarios which are potentially worse or better than you might allow yourself to think.” accidentalgods.life/the-art-of-p... #Accidentalgods #Podcast #Thrutopia
I’d ask: how many times is it possible to accidentally give readers the impression crimes committed by neo-Nazis were in fact the work of nice nurses and teachers in the Labour Party, before we conclude that some kind of calculated dishonesty was at work there www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This is all horrific stuff, and I invite you to go back to 2018/19 and reread her columns, newspaper interviews and podcast appearances talking about it, and then decide who it sounds like it was, that had been doing all this.
Private equity firms made up 50% of the largest US corporate bankruptcies with $1bn+ in liabilities Jobs, communities destroyed for short term profit PE has devoured UK high street; controls vets, supermarkets, care homes, pubs, housing, restaurants. Shadow banking wreaks havoc, govts do nothing.
Private equity continues disproportionate role in 2026 bankruptcies
Since 2024, PESP has tracked and analyzed corporate bankruptcies, identifying the disproportionate role that private equity-owned firms have played in bankruptcy filings. This trend continued in the…
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US used 'virtually all' long-range precision missiles during Iran war, say sources - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/us-used-virtually-all-long-range-precision-missiles-during-iran-war-say
US used 'virtually all' long-range precision missiles during Iran war, say sources
<article data-history-node-id="445486" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/us-used-virtually-all-long-range-precision-missiles-during-iran-war-say" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/us-used-virtually-all-long-range-precision-missiles-during-iran-war-say" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">US used 'virtually all' long-range precision missiles during Iran war, say sources</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>The US army has used up much of its stockpile of highly accurate long-range missiles during its five-month war on Iran, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.</p> <p>The US has used "virtually all" munition for surface-to surface weapons (ATACMS), and around half of its global Tomahawk supply, the sources said. ATACMS are crucial to allow accurate strikes from a safe distance, and have been widely used in Ukraine.<br> <br> A person with knowledge of the data said the US Central Command, which oversees operations in the Middle East, had burned through nearly all the land-based missiles it had before the war began, and had to resupply from other areas of the world. </p> </div> </div> </article>
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ICC states decision on Karim Khan ‘inherently political’, says leading criminal law expert - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/icc-states-decision-karim-khan-inherently-political-says-law-expert
ICC states decision on Karim Khan ‘inherently political’, says leading criminal law expert
William Schabas voices concern over the future of International Criminal Court and independence of next prosecutor
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I will remember Rod Liddle for the fact that the lawyer who checked my book before publication had no issue with me writing that Liddle couldn’t be a teacher because he’d have had sex with the students. Why? Because Liddle wrote it in a national magazine.
Came home early from his honeymoon to shag is girlfriend. Wife sent him a couple of bags of manure to his offices - much to the delight of his boss Boris Johnson. RIP Rod Liddle.
this is actually the wife-beatingest reply possible. this is the platonic ideal of how a guy who beat his wife would respond to a question about beating his wife.
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d agoRep. Max Miller: "These are incredibly serious criminal accusations. If these accusations were true, I would be in jail — I would be. My former wife would not have been offering to cook me dinner and inviting me to playgrounds. Think about that."
Curse of Private Equity Our nurseries were bought by private equity firms – fees are up, food is frozen. Usual PE practices. Build local monopolies, high debt and prices, profiteering, worst services, high exec pay, shareholder returns. Parents/Children abused. Govts do nothing. archive.ph/Yk4Eh
Our nurseries were bought by private equity firms - fees are up and food is frozen
Nurseries are spending millions on their investors – at parents' expense, analysis shows
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(1/2) The Iran war is a redistribution machine: Big oil profits have shot up to historic highs. Our research shows that 50% of fossil fuel profits go to the richest 1% in the U.S. The rich are the ultimate beneficiaries of the war windfalls.
the thing about doing unprompted apologies instead of just weathering the backlash is that if they were going to sue you anyway, now they have a document you created that admits some level of wrongdoing
Holl🌞@willows-song.bsky.social · 4d agoThis is why you dont try to compromise or concede anything to these horrors
Piketty's fundamental observation that r>g means rising wealth to income ratios remains incontrovertable because it's just accounting. Since Capital in the 21st Century we've had another decade of r >> g, so even if shares of wealth remain constant, wealth to income ratios have to rise.
Joe Sarling@joesarling.bsky.social · 5d agoGetting flashbacks to reading Piketty in 2013
Lowest ever Rhine water flow measured at the German-Dutch border in July was 782 m³/h, in 1976. Now, we're at 680 m³/h!
Court upholds CMA findings that Auden Mckenzie and Actavis UK charged excessive/unfair prices for NHS-funded drugs Prices for hydrocortisone tablets rose from less than £1 to £70+ per pack, did not reflect any increase in costs or investment. They bought off competition. No execs penalised
Court upholds CMA findings that firms charged excessive and unfair prices for lifesaving NHS-funded medicine
The Court of Appeal has confirmed that firms broke the law by charging excessive and unfair prices for hydrocortisone tablets over a decade.
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British liberalism not beating the allegations, I’m afraid
Across the country, wildfires are raging. The Prime Minister needs to call a COBRA meeting and treat the climate crisis with the urgency this moment calls for.
Here's another graphic demonstrating that the planet has already passed 1.5°C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial baseline, this time using monthly averages, with a prediction to pass 2.0°C by late 2036.
This is a polite way of saying that most of the Israeli electorate is delighted by the apocalyptic levels of destruction their government has inflicted and that whoever wins, the project of crushing and expelling millions of subject non-humans will continue at a somewhat higher or lesser intensity.
Tom Bradshaw from the NFU: "The extremes we've seen.. is having a critical & immediate impact" As the climate crisis worsens, food security will become an ever more pressing issue, yet like with so much else, successive govts have shown no sense of urgency in getting us prepared
It’s exhausting. For years, decades, right wing media have lied and told us #climate breakdown was just woke nonsense. Now, it’s whoopsies, yes it’s real, but relax everyone & enjoy our new “Mediterranean” climate as Europe goes up in flames around us.
Uber Eats and DoorDash hid tip buttons and set default tips below 10%. As a result, tips for delivery workers fell 79%. In January, we made these corporations change their apps — and in the past six months, we've put $104 million back in delivery workers' pockets. This is only the beginning.
Anthropic shredding millions of rare books should be a crime. It’s also a perfect encapsulation of what utter shit generative AI is and how it fundamentally makes the world worse.
