John N Hunter

[John N Hunter @JohnZe1]

@jamfire68 @implausibleblog They failed to replace the houses they sold because they were actively prevented from doing so.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Vegan wool is acrylic, and acrylic starts life as propylene, which is a fraction of crude oil.

The propylene gets reacted with ammonia and oxygen to make acrylonitrile, a process that throws off hydrogen cyanide as a by-product. The acrylonitrile is polymerised into polyacrylonitrile, spun into fibre, dyed, knitted, and shipped several thousand miles into a shop with a green leaf on the label.

That is the jumper. That is the whole story of the jumper.

Then you wash it. A synthetic fleece garment can shed as many as 250,000 microplastic fibres in a single wash, around 1.7 grams of it, and a full domestic load of synthetics has been measured releasing over 700,000. Wastewater treatment catches somewhere between 60 and 80 per cent on a good day, so the rest goes into the river. Somewhere between 200,000 and 500,000 tonnes of microplastic fibre reaches the world's oceans every year from laundry alone. It is one of the largest single sources of ocean plastic on earth and it arrives by washing machine.

Those fibres are in tap water. In fish. In blood. In lung tissue. In placentas.

Now the sheep.

Her fleece is keratin, the same protein as your hair. Put it in the ground and soil bacteria take it apart within months, releasing nitrogen as it goes, which is to say the jumper feeds the field. Put the acrylic one in the ground and it will still be recognisably a jumper when the person who buried it has been dead four centuries.

There is a further indignity in the naming. Acrylic was sold for forty years as the cheap imitation of wool, the thing in the bargain bin that made you itch and went bobbly at the elbows by February. Nobody was fooled. Then somebody in a marketing department worked out that the same fibre, unchanged in any particular, could be relabelled vegan wool and sold at a premium to a customer who believed she was making a sacrifice.

Same jumper. Same crude oil. Twice the price and a clear conscience thrown in.

One of these fibres is grown annually, on rain, on land too steep to plough, by an animal that has to be relieved of it anyway.

The other is drilled.

They gave the drilled one the leaf on the label and the word compassionate on the swing tag, and they have been selling it to people who genuinely, sincerely want to do the right thing.

Reject the petroleum. Wear the fleece that grew. Save the planet.

[Jane, Retired, Happy, Rejoiner @likesretirement]

Could someone explain to me in a polite and rational way why we expect disabled people to use gender-neutral toilets but are outraged at the concept for everyone else?
#gender

[Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 @MichaelRosenYes]

In all the years of cuts and austerity, you can be sure that politicians and pundits will be found to come on TV to justify cuts to services rather than talk about how come there are billions sloshing about in tax havens.

[Reform UK Exposed 🇬🇧 @reformexposed]

MPs held a debate on the future of fishing today, not a single Reform UK MP showed up, Richard.

[John N Hunter @JohnZe1]

@garyrobi It comes up with invalid handle.

[michael dempster - cyberscots ᛞᚩᛗ @DrMDempster]

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[Mitch Benn @MitchBenn]

You really would have to be ROBOTICALLY partisan not to notice the shameless difference between the micro-scrutiny being applied to Starmer’s govt’s doings by the news media and the deliberate blind eye they turned to the GROTESQUE corruption the Tories wallowed in.

[John N Hunter @JohnZe1]

@ShetlandElects A good local candidate helped

[John N Hunter @JohnZe1]

@Island_Trails Since Feb 2023 I think. You need to be a paid subscriber.

[Alan Ferrier @alanferrier]

The "United" Kingdom in three headlines.

[Jo Whitehead 🕷 @Jo_WhiteheadUK]

Before getting angry about ‘Labour being paid by unions’ ask yourself, would you prefer a party to be funded by Nurses, Teachers & other workers such as your neighbours, or by Russians & a few super rich who want to have low taxes & contracts? If the latter, get off my feed 🤔

[John N Hunter @JohnZe1]

@DavidsonMagnus Why on earth are Orkney and Shetland in that box? And why the weird border line?

[John N Hunter @JohnZe1]

@EyjarSkeggi I remember Myles from Banff, as Jonathan Wills dubbed him, being considered a real challenger.

[John N Hunter @JohnZe1]

@EyjarSkeggi The local Conservatives had high hopes in the 1980s. I remember them having a motorcade through Lerwick until the police made them stop.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Nigel Farage has called the RNLI a taxi service for illegal immigrants, Ben Habib said the RNLI should be prosecuted for people trafficking.

If you stand with the RNLI against these hate mongering b*stards.

RT

[John N Hunter @JohnZe1]

@EyjarSkeggi It was described as the worst fiasco in recent British colonial history in 1953.

[John N Hunter @JohnZe1]

@EyjarSkeggi My mother was in East Africa about that time in a job funded by the Ground Nut Scheme. It was such a disaster that the revenue received did not cover the seeds.