Fred Mellon
@fredmellon.bsky.social
Mass spectrometrist in Environmental, then Life Sciences (ret.). Sporadic consultant. 🇬🇧🇨🇭Wirral Woolyback. Lived in Brighton, Norwich, Montpellier, Norwich. #FBPE #NAFO #OTBC #YNWA #JFT97. On X as @fred_mellon. DMs by permission. No posts=no follow.
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Fred Mellon
@fredmellon.bsky.social
· Nov 14
‘they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.’ F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby.
Not exactly surprising as there is so little distance between the two parties & both are run by idiots, cokeheads & barmpot conspiracists. news.sky.com/story/sixtee...
Twenty Tory councillors defect to Reform - as Badenoch insists party having 'good conference'
The defections come a day after a Sky News/YouGov poll found half of Tory members think Kemi Badenoch should not lead the party into the next election.
news.sky.com
October 7, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Not exactly surprising as there is so little distance between the two parties & both are run by idiots, cokeheads & barmpot conspiracists. news.sky.com/story/sixtee...
Summary of Trump’s UN speech: media1.tenor.com/m/xf_CYwl8Bn...
media1.tenor.com
September 23, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Summary of Trump’s UN speech: media1.tenor.com/m/xf_CYwl8Bn...
Cross-posted from the hellsite:
‘Almost exactly 100 years ago a manifesto of ideological hatred and a guide to the use of propaganda techniques for mass manipulation was published. Twenty years before that George Santanyana wrote: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it".’
‘Almost exactly 100 years ago a manifesto of ideological hatred and a guide to the use of propaganda techniques for mass manipulation was published. Twenty years before that George Santanyana wrote: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it".’
September 14, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Cross-posted from the hellsite:
‘Almost exactly 100 years ago a manifesto of ideological hatred and a guide to the use of propaganda techniques for mass manipulation was published. Twenty years before that George Santanyana wrote: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it".’
‘Almost exactly 100 years ago a manifesto of ideological hatred and a guide to the use of propaganda techniques for mass manipulation was published. Twenty years before that George Santanyana wrote: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it".’
I had an appointment with my regular, very good podiatrist the week after my wife’s very first session with her.
Podiatrist: “I’d never have guessed that you & Jennifer were a married couple”.
Me: “Why’s that?”
Podiatrist: “She’s so stylish & elegant”.
That put me in my place!
Podiatrist: “I’d never have guessed that you & Jennifer were a married couple”.
Me: “Why’s that?”
Podiatrist: “She’s so stylish & elegant”.
That put me in my place!
September 7, 2025 at 11:53 AM
I had an appointment with my regular, very good podiatrist the week after my wife’s very first session with her.
Podiatrist: “I’d never have guessed that you & Jennifer were a married couple”.
Me: “Why’s that?”
Podiatrist: “She’s so stylish & elegant”.
That put me in my place!
Podiatrist: “I’d never have guessed that you & Jennifer were a married couple”.
Me: “Why’s that?”
Podiatrist: “She’s so stylish & elegant”.
That put me in my place!
Reposted by Fred Mellon
In fairness Nadine Dorries should fit in nicely inside a party led by a man who never visits his own constituency
September 4, 2025 at 7:37 PM
In fairness Nadine Dorries should fit in nicely inside a party led by a man who never visits his own constituency
Ht @AnnieforTruth at t'other place
August 24, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Ht @AnnieforTruth at t'other place
A couple of my favourite responses following the DC sandwich thrower incident:
August 19, 2025 at 6:58 AM
A couple of my favourite responses following the DC sandwich thrower incident:
Ht Fibbymacfibface on FB
August 17, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Ht Fibbymacfibface on FB
HT Lifestyle Department 2.0 on FB.
August 16, 2025 at 1:51 PM
HT Lifestyle Department 2.0 on FB.
Reposted by Fred Mellon
“Pluralistic: Conservatism considered as a movement of bitter rubes (22 Jul 2025)”
This US focused article is excellent & also very relevant to the UK political landscape of grifters, scammers & con artists. pluralistic.net/2025/07/22/a...
This US focused article is excellent & also very relevant to the UK political landscape of grifters, scammers & con artists. pluralistic.net/2025/07/22/a...
Pluralistic: Conservatism considered as a movement of bitter rubes (22 Jul 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
July 25, 2025 at 4:23 PM
“Pluralistic: Conservatism considered as a movement of bitter rubes (22 Jul 2025)”
This US focused article is excellent & also very relevant to the UK political landscape of grifters, scammers & con artists. pluralistic.net/2025/07/22/a...
This US focused article is excellent & also very relevant to the UK political landscape of grifters, scammers & con artists. pluralistic.net/2025/07/22/a...
Don’t usually quote this guy but…
July 23, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Don’t usually quote this guy but…
Reposted by Fred Mellon
Membership of Reform.
June 17, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Membership of Reform.
It’s not simply the funding cuts that are so damaging, appalling though this is, it’s the wholesale rejection of science & evidence based policy: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | We are witnessing the suicide of a superpower
The president’s assault on science dangerously undermines America’s superpower status.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 4, 2025 at 9:26 PM
It’s not simply the funding cuts that are so damaging, appalling though this is, it’s the wholesale rejection of science & evidence based policy: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Loved this!
May 28, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Loved this!
Loved this (copied from FB)!
May 25, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Loved this (copied from FB)!
Cyril Ramaphosa’s calm, classy & witty handling of Trump is an object lesson. He must have called on all the experience he acquired as chief negotiator with the old, racist SA apartheid regime.
Trump lies about white farmers being killed with impunity in South Africa. During a meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Trump also whined about media reports of Qatar giving him a $400 million luxury jet.
“I’m sorry I don’t have a plane to give you,” Ramaphosa responded.
“I’m sorry I don’t have a plane to give you,” Ramaphosa responded.
May 22, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Cyril Ramaphosa’s calm, classy & witty handling of Trump is an object lesson. He must have called on all the experience he acquired as chief negotiator with the old, racist SA apartheid regime.
By election in the offing in Central Suffolk and North Ipswich?
May 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
By election in the offing in Central Suffolk and North Ipswich?
Sitting on the terrace bang in the City & Spring Calls/songs heard so far:
Blue tit
Great tit
Long tailed tit
Wren
Blackbird
Robin
Greenfinch
Goldfinch
Chaffinch
Egyptian goose
Black redstart (not sure about this one)
May have heard a Swift, they were certainly in Brussels where I was yesterday.
Blue tit
Great tit
Long tailed tit
Wren
Blackbird
Robin
Greenfinch
Goldfinch
Chaffinch
Egyptian goose
Black redstart (not sure about this one)
May have heard a Swift, they were certainly in Brussels where I was yesterday.
May 13, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Sitting on the terrace bang in the City & Spring Calls/songs heard so far:
Blue tit
Great tit
Long tailed tit
Wren
Blackbird
Robin
Greenfinch
Goldfinch
Chaffinch
Egyptian goose
Black redstart (not sure about this one)
May have heard a Swift, they were certainly in Brussels where I was yesterday.
Blue tit
Great tit
Long tailed tit
Wren
Blackbird
Robin
Greenfinch
Goldfinch
Chaffinch
Egyptian goose
Black redstart (not sure about this one)
May have heard a Swift, they were certainly in Brussels where I was yesterday.
Does the grift never end? Trump now trying to persuade government to fund future island home for him & his family accomplices. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Is Donald Trump's plan to reopen Alcatraz as a prison realistic?
Experts say the federal government would have to overcome enormous hurdles to make the facility operational again.
www.bbc.com
May 11, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Does the grift never end? Trump now trying to persuade government to fund future island home for him & his family accomplices. www.bbc.com/news/article...
I can see this going down with Catholics like a brass barge, whilst simultaneously alienating his fundamentalist supporters. 🤡🤡🤡
Donald Trump is now posting AI images cosplaying as the Pope.
Bro isn’t right in the head.
Bro isn’t right in the head.
May 3, 2025 at 7:21 AM
I can see this going down with Catholics like a brass barge, whilst simultaneously alienating his fundamentalist supporters. 🤡🤡🤡
Very true, & they’re both narcissists: simplyputpsych.co.uk/global-psych...
May 1, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Very true, & they’re both narcissists: simplyputpsych.co.uk/global-psych...
Reposted by Fred Mellon
