Introducing leaded petrol could've genuinely caused significant brain damage to generations of Americans, making them more right-wing. Removing it started in the 70s to a total US ban in 1996. So more recent generations might be smarter because of cleaner air, and so more left-wing. Petrol, eh?

挟まれ洋館

This makes no sense… An MP can wake up one morning, ditch the party you elected them for, & sign up to a completely different manifesto… No thanks If they defect to a different party, we should get a vote Sign the petition & help make that law. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

A real shame if this photo went viral again today.

It's remarkable following OP to see exactly how the Fascists took control in the 20s not the 30s, how Mussolini was first and Hitler learnt from him, and how much they just used violence, and how much it just worked. And that's exactly what's happening in the USA today. Violence against opposition.

Jan. 16, 1926: BBC listeners across Britain are startled to hear reports of a Communist revolution sweeping London. A deadpan announcer relates how mobs of unemployed men led by radical agitators are tearing down Big Ben, blowing up buildings and looting the National Gallery. 1/5

The network offers “sincere apologies for any uneasiness caused. London is safe. Big Ben is still chiming, and all is well.” Orson Welles will later say that “Broadcasting the Barricades” gives him the idea to adapt “War of the Worlds,” a more infamous case of radio panic. 5/5

"The one who possessed silver, The one who has possessed lapis, The one who has possessed oxen, The one who has possessed sheep -- At the gate of the one who has possessed barley, Will spend the day there." - Sumerian proverb Translation in 2026: you can't eat money. cdli.earth/artifacts/34...

明日は沖縄　#じょーとー市 初めて沖縄だし、楽しみです！ エリア5で、曹角遊鯨ブースで参加！ natrium lamp gamesさんと合同です。 試遊もやってまーす。

I'm surprised and pleased to learn that UK road deaths are much lower than I'd been thinking. I was used to a figure of around 3000 deaths a year, but today it's around 1700 a year. 2007 it was a tad under 3k but it dropped to 1754 in 2012 and stuck around there. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reporte...

Reform unveiled their latest Conservative recruit Nadhim Zahawi - unfortunately he forgot to delete his old tweets accusing Farage of racism...

Fur coat.

Rainy lunchtime.

It's depressing how much UK political messaging relies, not on promising better services, but by planting the suspicion that someone, somewhere, is getting something you didn't. We're told to expect next to nothing from the state, to the extent that supporting vulnerable children is framed as theft.

I regret that I can never meet Ken-chan now. How sad. www.scmp.com/news/people-...

Watch right to the end. It just goes to show... (The first 3 are winners, it seems.)

Out of focus fluff.

March 23, 1923: The Cutty Sark brand of Scotch whisky is born. The partners in London winemaking firm Berry Bros. & Rudd, Francis Berry and Hugh Rudd, are discussing their tastes in Scotch with artist James McBey, when they decide a lighter variety would sell well. 1/3

1/x Everyone knows the traditional rudder and propellor configuration for a ship and I've posted a video about the Voith-Schneider Propellor, but what is AZIPOD propulsion?

How do they know it was 50? You can't count sheep past 12 🥱😌😴🥱💤💤💤💤💤

Jan. 7, 1926: Amid a smallpox outbreak in Tampa, the Kiwanis Club asks local newspapers not to report on the cases because they hurt tourism and could be “greatly exaggerated by enemies of Florida.” Tampa’s health officer says suppressing the news is irresponsible.

Jan. 6, 1926: German airline Luft Hansa is created by the government-backed merger of Aero Lloyd and Junkers. The carrier's name, inspired by a recent book, pays tribute to the exploring tradition of the Hanseatic League; its flying crane logo is inherited from Aero Lloyd. 1/3

Frozen Over.

Goose Confusion.

"Where are my trousers?"

Now I don’t work Mondays any more I start each week with a fast walk through a local park after dropping youngest at school. This morning it was snowy and beautiful (if very icy in places)

Lots of warnings around this. However, it is of interest: slashdot.org/story/26/01/... A study in Hong Kong found frequent plagiarists enter the civil service and rose higher faster more than lesser plagiarists. Keeping pathological liars out of government would be a good thing, in my opinion.

Democrats who are all upset about the United States capturing Maduro were completely silent when Joe Biden forgave student loans.

It hadn't occurred to before, but when you see a Western style frontage to a building, that means Western doors on hinges, not Japanese sliding panels. I admire the use of sliding doors and windows in Japan, it's so much more efficient and pleasing to me. We do have sliding doors here, patio doors

夕景の十和田市街を歩いた。 激渋の昭和の街なかに突如現れる現代建築、十和田市現代美術館。その建物そのものがまるで美術品のように発光し、並行世界に迷い込んだかのよう。暫くその神秘的な風景に見惚れていた。

The tiniest flowers in my midwinter.

Redwings. A small flock has come in from the fields to eat the holly berries.

What bird is this please? They've appeared in my garden. #birdsky #birds

I've still got over 2k games and over 700 are on sale. So buy some games from me. boardgamegeek.com/market/user/...

And this was 1925, not 1935. Fascism doesn't start with extermination camps. It starts with control of the judicial system. Control the judges, control the courts, control the laws. Everything the fascists did was legal, because they controlled the law.

What shall I do with 4kg of potatoes? Got to get through them on my own before they go off. Not baking potatoes, but using the oven would really help. Boil em mash em fry em, I know. Cannot deep fry. I need something else, with olive oil. I can only think of potato cakes. I could try knishes...??

Pondering how to bring home prints without damage. These thick card packages from Amazon might fit the bill. Suggestions are welcome. @curiousordinary.bsky.social

EVs are one their way to take a huge bite out of global oil demand by 2030 – 5m to 8m barrels of oil per day, and rising fast. 5m barrels/ day is about the entire current oil consumption of Japan Another one of my charts of the year

OK @criterionchannl.bsky.social answer me this! To a certain report on England by five members of the United State's Senate in 1944. What certain report was that, that was significant enough to be topical in a British film in 1946? Of course, you know the film, I need not mention the title.

Same old same old.

Good grief. Google Maps is driving me more insane. You can save locations under Saved as a List or as a Map. But you cannot convert a List into a Map. Nor can you export the List, so you cannot import it to a Map. You can create a Map and add locations such as businesses to it. But not stations.

Watching videos of the Tokyo City Flea Market, the one at Oi Racecourse, and the more I see, the less I want to go there. 99.9% tourists and so much junk. I think that I will hate it if I go. All the sites say it's Saturday & Sunday only. But the videos say it's all week.

So much Japanese to learn... www.tokyoweekender.com/art_and_cult... I knew only one of these. @japanesetalk.bsky.social @mulboyne.bsky.social

Does my Pixel 8 phone not have a micro SD card slot for extra memory so google can push users into paying to store stuff online? I cannot see a good reason to not enable a card, especially that high volume cards are relatively cheap. Also... a shortage of memory chips is coming soon to your life.

As I just said, same shit different day. 1903

I feed the squirrels because I like the squirrels. But could they please stop chewing holes in the bird feeder. I observed one last week, it just takes peanuts. They don't actively chew the wire, at least I think not. It's just collateral damage. More hole than mesh now.

5 long tailed tits.

Check out my good side here.

Lunch time.

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