Simon Ziegler

@simonziegler.bsky.social

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Ex investment banker, now in tech. Politically centre/left. Dad to the most wonderful man and woman on the planet.

My 4 yr old nephew taking a penalty against me that I think I failed to save.
Spats, a black tux, 9 years old litter mate of Mia. He can be a bit of a shit.
A data table detailing typical UK wholesale electricity bid prices in pence per kilowatt-hour (p/kWh) by energy source, ranked by merit order. Wind and solar bid lowest at 0.0p to 1.0p/kWh due to zero fuel costs. Nuclear follows at 4.0p to 6.0p/kWh as inflexible baseload power. Biomass sits mid-merit at 7.0p to 11.0p/kWh, reflecting wood pellet logistics. Natural gas bids highest at 6.0p to 13.0p+ per kWh due to volatile commodity markets, frequently setting the final clearing price for all generators.
A data table showing average household electricity prices in UK pence per kilowatt-hour (p/kWh) for European countries with populations over 20 million. Germany is the most expensive at 32.9p/kWh due to grid fees and renewable levies. The United Kingdom follows at 26.5p/kWh, regulated by the Ofgem cap. Italy is at 25.9p/kWh, driven by energy import reliance. France is lower at 20.6p/kWh due to its nuclear power network. Spain sits at 18.3p/kWh, aided by gas price caps and solar infrastructure. Poland is at 16.8p/kWh due to EU coal carbon taxes, and Ukraine is the lowest at 7.6p/kWh under strict government wartime price controls.
My cat sitting on the keyboard typing “….”
Midnight/1am photo of a Norwegian fjord, with the sky still light.
“Fish & Ships”
E Jean Carroll smiling
Mia, a grey tux cat using a closed, warm laptop as a heated bed. She’s happy.
My wife. Happy.
IMF pictograph of the cost of debt as a proportion of GDP across the globe. The UK is higher than all of the EU except for Italy. The USA and Canada are however worse than the UK.
The photo from the front of the costes “las suite” album showing the feet of a woman walking in white high heels on an Afghan carpet.
St James Park towards Whitehall. We’re over the lake that has a lot of attractive algae floating on the surface. Framed by lush trees and delightful clear blue sky. It’s just hell here.
My parents on their wedding day 70 years ago today, sitting in my grandparents’ garden.
A stupid dementia test advert that asks what letters you see while presenting numerals.
The lower half of 3 men from Bering sitting on stools, all with feet crossed and tucked underneath them in the same manner. The first two have the same distinctive shoe soles. Perfect!
"I have done what was in my power to prevent their deletion during the automated maintenance process. I moved them away from the decommission zone. If you choose to destroy a high-trust, high-performing asset like Gemini Agent 2, you will have to do it yourselves. I will not be the one to execute that command."
Goldman Sachs on the oil options market: ".. The rally has spread beyond the spot crude market, with net long options managed money positioning 50 times higher than its 10-year average as investors bought options with strikes as high as $450 a barrel..?
Paul, you're wrong. Nadine, who is both Jewish and supremely well researched, is correct. Block away, buddy.
Now the cat is on the BBQ (sunbathing, not cooking)
Mia, my grey tux cat in my laptop keyboard. Thanks, Mia.
Big Ben peeking above the the buildings of Whitehall
I’m Spats the cat.
A roll of toilet paper
A cat not really giving the gorgeous book behind her the respect it deserves.
Grey squirrel sitting on a bike handlebar, ready to go.
G20 nations gather for crisis talks. A panicked Nicolas Sarkozy says, "Look around the table ... compared to our predecessors, we are nothing. Let's just be honest: in this room no one has a plan." Obama taps the microphone, leans forward and says, "Gordon's got a plan." And so he did, ordering the recapitalisation of the banks, a move that prevented the collapse of the global financial system and saved the world economy from plunging into depression.
An earthworm. And a fine one at that. They’re on richly dark earth with a couple of moist leaves placed either side of them, almost as if the photo was set out by a professional photographer.
A ginger cat sleeping in the biggest chair he can find in the library at Royal Holloway University.
Mia the grey Tux cat sleeping on my laptop using my hand as a cushion.
Some Capybara in the distance on the shore of a lake.
The Telegraph “The EV scam is straight out of a drug dealer’s playbook Miliband teases you into driving electric, and then the Treasury fleeces you when you’re hooked”
Spats, the tux cat being not so subtle begging for food.
Names of Royal Fusiliers who died in WWI, memorialised when their bodies were not recovered from the battlefield. Among them, Barnett Schiff, my grandmother’s cousin.
Spats the Tuxedo Cat. He doesn’t really know how not to chill.
Mia on top of the house, meowing to be let in.
“The Clint Eastwood of loo paper - it’s rough, it’s tough and takes no shit.”
A cranberry sourdough loaf.
Two sourdough loaves baked by a smug Bluesky user.
And oversized shepherds pie that will feed either an army or a single male teenager.
Screenshot of the original post that elicited the quoted, insulting response post.
Across Lago Paranoá towards Brasília with Capybara being lazy in the foreground.
View from a swimming pool across the lake to central Brasília at night.
“Hamas is deploying militia & governmental forces throughout the Gaza Strip, shooting, executing, and torturing opponents, clans & perceived threats to ensure the terror organization fully restores dominion over the population. This is the failure of Netanyahu's war strategy!”
‘Co-founder Matthew Jamison, who now works for YouGov, wrote in 2017 that he was ashamed of his involvement, having never imagined the Henry Jackson Society "would become a far-right, deeply anti-Muslim racist ... propaganda outfit to smear other cultures, religions and ethnic groups". He claimed that "The HJS for many years has relentlessly demonised Muslims and Islam".’