Phiona

[GBC @GBC_Press]

🚨 BREAKING:

🇺🇸 Trump: "From now on, Lake Ontario will be called Lake America."

🇨🇦 Canada: "This isn't Epstein Island where you can do whatever you want."

Canadians are cooking Trump. 🤣🤣

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Nobody washed wool, and that is the part that sounds wrong now.

The jumper hung out for a morning and came back in. The blankets came off the bed in May, went over the line in the sun for a day, and sat in the airing cupboard until October, and plenty of them went ten years without ever meeting water. A gansey went out on a boat for a fortnight and was hung on a nail.

Say that in 2026 and people look at you.

Wool takes moisture into the core of the fibre instead of leaving it on the surface, about a third of its own weight before it even feels damp, and the keratin locks up the compounds that make a smell and declines to hand them back. Bacteria need water sitting on a surface. There isn't one. Hang it in cold air overnight and everything leaves.

Polyester does the reverse on every count. It pushes water away and it loves oil, so your own grease sits on the outside of the fibre with the bacteria on top of it. That is why a gym top stinks after forty minutes, and stinks again coming out of a hot wash, and why the sports trade now sells you an antibacterial treatment to fix a problem it caused by choosing the fibre.

Babies slept in wool, under wool, in a freezing bedroom, with not a gram of flame retardant in the room. Wool needs a far higher temperature to catch than any synthetic, it will not melt onto skin, and it has a habit of smothering itself. In 1972 America made flame resistance a legal requirement in children's sleepwear. The industry did not switch to wool. It kept the cheap synthetic and sprayed it with a chemical called Tris, and five years later Tris came off children's pyjamas over concerns it caused cancer.

The safe option was standing on a hillside the whole time, growing itself back every summer.

This is the fibre the country was built on. By the eighteenth century woollen cloth was over half of everything Britain sold abroad, and the Speaker of the House of Lords still sits on a sack of it, put there in the fourteenth century so Parliament could not forget where the money came from.

Terylene was invented in Accrington in 1941. Acrylic followed in the fifties. Then in 1979 an American mill knitted polyester into something fluffy and called it fleece, which is the cheekiest act of naming in the history of cloth.

By 2022 a British fleece was worth under 75p a kilo and the farmer saw about 26p of it. Shearing costs him roughly £1.50 a sheep, and he has to do it whether anyone wants the wool or not, because an unshorn sheep gets flystrike and dies badly. He pays to take the coat off and then cannot give it away. Farmers have been photographed burning a thousand fleeces in a heap, because the bonfire is cheaper than the lorry to the depot.

Every wash of the stuff that replaced it sends hundreds of thousands of plastic fibres down the drain, through the treatment works, into the water, into the fish, back round to you.

The fibre that never needed washing lost to the fibre that has to be washed constantly and poisons the water every time it is.

The flocks are there, the graders are there, the mills are still turning. The only thing missing is demand, and you are holding a piece of that.

Old wool blankets sit in every charity shop in the country for about a fiver, and the old ones are the good ones. Buy two, and put them on the bed in October.

Then leave the jumper unwashed, hang it out the window overnight in the frost, and put your face in it in the morning.

[Phiona @paint_flowers]

@worstall The Telegraph is trash now.

[Julian Assange™ @JulianAssange_2]

🚨MAJOR BREAKING: Epstein survivors just announced they will release their own list of names.

“We know who abused us. We saw who came and went. This list will be survivor-led—for survivors.”

The government stalled.

Now the victims are doing it themselves.

[GBC @GBC_Press]

🚨 BREAKING:

"We will not prosecute the abusers named in the Epstein files or reveal their names to the public."

— Todd Blanche, US Attorney General

[Phiona @paint_flowers]

@ymenken Catch 22

[Phiona @paint_flowers]

@fullabeanz @BBCNews Its a smokescreen for what israel does
BBC News - Israeli settlers set fire to mosques, cars and farm land in West Bank, Palestinians say
https://t.co/grqmlDLijS

[Phiona @paint_flowers]

@fullabeanz @BBCNews Israel deliberately starting wildfires in southern Lebanon, firefighters say | Lebanon | The Guardian https://t.co/jsgh2ofPXc

[Phiona @paint_flowers]

@CallumLyon @Rik48748276 Comedian 👀

[Phiona @paint_flowers]

The unbelievable insane cruelty

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

A donkey belonging to a Palestinian farmer was reportedly stolen and dragged to death behind a vehicle by Israeli settlers, including Avichai Suissa, an Israeli settler sanctioned by the EU, according to local reports.

[Phiona @paint_flowers]

@stephenry @JohnSimpsonNews Yes palestinians definitely drew up the Balfour Declaration 🙄

[Phiona @paint_flowers]

@newinattica If the world all lived like Americans we would need the resources of 9 planets

[Phiona @paint_flowers]

@shineonlovely @bollockodiacal @Channel4News Everybody who completes a PhD gets a doctorate. Professor is not a qualification its an appointment or title in a university. Most professors will have a doctorate. But a PhD is qualification of further study not a job title.

[Phiona @paint_flowers]

@Nahanchi7068 @JamesTate121 They will never dare shake down the billionaires

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

No lies detected.

[Ryan Rozbiani @RyanRozbiani]

Israel's Ben Gvir Calls For Nightly Kill Quota In Gaza

Ben Gvir:
"There are people there who are not alive. They don't need to live. They are not people. I'm doing them a favor by calling them people."

He is calling for the killing of 30 to 50 people in Gaza EVERY NIGHT, pushing Palestinians to EMIGRATE, so they can begin building Jewish SETTLEMENTS across Gaza.

[ZenithY @ZenithYas]

Doctors testify to amputating toddlers' limbs. No anaesthetic. UK govt supports this. UK media keeps its lips clamped shut

[Phiona @paint_flowers]

@voteforCamacho @DamienLivdmg @L_A_D_J Why a high IQ doesn't mean you're smart | Yale School of Management https://t.co/5RfXF0l9Xi

[Phiona @paint_flowers]

@voteforCamacho @DamienLivdmg @L_A_D_J Who designs the IQ tests?

[Phiona @paint_flowers]

@Alonso_GD @thetimes They are ghouls