Ferand Peek, aka Roy "Fella" Batty

Lover of sci-fi -and Ukraine.

[Ferand Peek, aka Roy "Fella" Batty @ferandpeek]

@officer_secret What about a warning to protect the fire?! ;)
It's one of our earliest technologies (thou i doubt early enough to be very evolutionarily selective)

[Michael MacKay @mhmck]

There is considerable dismay amongst Ukrainians that Zelenskyy fired Fedorov from the Ministry of Defence and kept on Syrskyi as Commander-in-Chief.

It is widely felt that the wind will go out of the sails of the Ukrainian war effort, which was making headway against the orcs.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

The Tuaregs in Mali shot down a Russian Mi-24 helicopter of the Wagner Group today

[Ferand Peek, aka Roy "Fella" Batty @ferandpeek]

@nexta_tv @DomNicholls the oil storage that blew its top was an own-goal!

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

These footage clearly show that it was Russian air defense that blew the lid off a tank at the Moscow oil refinery.

Hit your own harder so the enemy gets scared? 😂

[OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical]

Footage of a Ukrainian attack drone hitting a storage tank at the Moscow Oil Refinery this morning, sending the tank lid perfectly soaring hundreds of feet.

[Ferand Peek, aka Roy "Fella" Batty @ferandpeek]

@BillSessoms1 @peterboghossian Agreed. I think I'd prefer a deep AI search to work out an applicants ACTUAL beliefs & behavior than the blunt tool of blocking all people from X or Y country. The dissidents from those places are exactly the people to teach our liberal societies what to arm their minds against.

[Ferand Peek, aka Roy "Fella" Batty @ferandpeek]

@peterboghossian Youth, and being single also seem to be a key.

[Ferand Peek, aka Roy "Fella" Batty @ferandpeek]

@peterboghossian Hi Peter, welcome! As a Kiwi with a (non-religious) Iranian partner i think it's a hard topic to address broadly. We often discuss what makes successful integration. With friends from Hong Kong, India, France, Ukraine, Indonesia something like the Expat mindset seems an asset.

[Reid Wiseman @astro_reid]

Only one chance in this lifetime…

Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him.

I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.

[Ferand Peek, aka Roy "Fella" Batty @ferandpeek]

@AndrewPerpetua Thoughts? Reactions? @FrancisDearnley, @DomNicholls

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

On April 13, 2022 a Neptune operator picked up a target on radar 120 km away. He had minutes to decide: fire or not. Nobody could confirm the target. Bayraktars refused to fly. He pressed launch. UP tells the story of how Ukraine sank the cruiser Moskva four years ago. 1/

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

Newly released video footage from the splashdown of NASA’s Artemis ll in the Eastern Pacific on Friday, April 10, 2026, shows the moment that U.S. Navy Divers cracked the door open and entered the Orion to greet the Astronauts, welcoming them back to Earth after their journey around the Moon.

[SzabadonMagyarul 🇬🇧🇭🇺🇺🇦🇪🇺 @SzabadonMagyar]

Peter Magyar, during his international press conference, confirmed that Szijjarto, Orbán's foreign minister, has barricaded himself with some of his closest colleagues and is destroying and shredding evidence about his treason (documents about the sanctions against russians).

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

Orban’s security have tried to stop people filming his massive country estate. The police showed up when I was reporting in his village. That’s because he lives like a corrupt oligarch whilst claiming to be a man of the people.

[Ray Dalio @RayDalio]

https://t.co/WksCy869Th

[WarTranslated @wartranslated]

This Russian woman is furious and doesn't understand what's going on. Back in 2022, she "wasn't into politics", didn't care about Russian crimes, and just wanted Russia to "hurry up and win". But now she's faced reality: she has no internet, and things in Russia aren't going so well overall. Not that she actually cares about the causes - she just wants to get out of her swamp already.

[Joseph Mooney MP @JosephMooneyMP]

As New Zealand turns its mind to energy, and offshore petroleum prospecting permits are being considered, it’s worth noting that Southland and Otago sit on millions of years of solar investment, with more than 9 billion tonnes of lignite in 10 major deposits - containing more than 20 times the energy content of the Maui gas field.

This is a very large, nationally significant resource which has the potential to be used as a feedstock for a petrochemical industry, using gasification technology to convert lignite to fertiliser, transport fuels or other high value energy products.

If extracted at a rate of 20 million tonnes per year, the lignite resource could provide energy and feedstock for most of New Zealand’s transport fuel and petrochemical requirements for over 300 years.

It largely sits close to the surface and is easy to access with opencast mining. It accounts for about 80% of New Zealand’s total coal resource and means New Zealand has one of the biggest coal reserves on earth, sitting around 14th in the world with more coal deposits than countries like Canada and Brazil.

There were plans in the past to build plants using the Fischer-Tropsch process to turn some of the lignite into low-sulphur diesel and naphtha (used in the production of plastics, solvents and as a component of fuels like petrol and jet fuels).

In South Africa, Sasol has been producing diesel, petrol and jet fuel from coal since the 1950s, supplying approximately 28% of South Africa’s fuel needs, saving that country more than US$5 billion a year in foreign exchange.

There have also previously been plans to make up to 1.2 million tonnes of urea from 2 million tonnes of Southland lignite, which would be twice New Zealand’s current urea use. Most of our urea currently comes from Saudi Arabia, but this could make us a urea exporter.

Southland’s lignite is low sulphur, low ash, and 1.5 to 2 times as reactive as Australian or German brown coals. This makes it one of the best lignites globally for making syngas.

Syngas is an important universal industrial feedstock. It can be used to produce diesel and petrol via the Fischer-Tropsch process (which can run in existing engines and pipelines without modification), urea fertiliser via the Haber-Bosch process, methanol, hydrogen, or electricity via a combined cycle gas turbine.

There would be carbon and environmental trade offs to utilise this resource which would not be easy, but it’s hard to overstate just how significant the potential energy resource is.

[Jesse Peltan @JessePeltan]

Cancel all tariffs on Japan and mail everyone a Green Card.

[david D. @secretsqrl123]

ok now about that no boots on the ground thing