There will one day be someone analogous to Donald Shoup but for cooling. Someone who gets moderately well known for opposing this specific law, but still advocating to ensure everyone can live in suitable housing. (much as I get that aircon is lovely, I cannot see it as a fundamental right)

For quite a long time I thought "humanist" meant that you hated everyone.

People put tariffs on all kinds of things. How about putting tariffs on products from countries where the government permits enslavement or condones torture?

Solid evidence of Margaret Thatcher's lasting impact on the UK music scene.

I trust Mr Starmer on this roughly as much as I trust Evri.

📣 Several members of the APPG are quoted in this article, which also talks about our work to secure a fair voting system. 💬 "The two things you want to see from an electoral system are that seats match votes, and that you can form stable governments. FPTP delivers neither," says @alexsobel.co.uk

I would really like to see a bunch of one reel horror movies where the protagonist or whoever doesn't do the dumb thing, roll end titles.

Україні не потрібні герої. Україні треба свобода, солідарність та справедливість. Something like that.

Here's a half baked idea: if you're a criminal court judge, then every time you want to get promoted you have to spend a night in a prison, picked at random. I genuinely think this would catalyse socially valuable changes.

Is there a polymarket bet on the futures market for the kind of fireworks that people use to celebrate special events?

Palantir sell a merch patch with the letters "PTFB" on their website. I wonder what it means. My guess: Personify The Fucking Baddies. Could also mean… • Panopticon Technology For Beginners • Pivoting Toward Fascism Briskly • Protect The Fucking Billionaires Not sure which is right.

One panel from a rejected storyboard for Jules (2023).

For all that this is a true message about states and computers and attacks – who did people think would be doing it? I don't think it was going to be the Vatican; their focus is reputed to be catholicism.

“He's a walking red flag” sounds like the kind of stridently left wing ditty my prosecco-socialist neighbour† starts singing after the 4th glass. † he owns two houses and two apartments

A large crowd as always at the weekly march in Tbilisi. Georgians have been protesting in 8+ cities every day for the last 507 days.

Here's what's truly damning: the "sky protection" didn't coincide with a new telescope, a new research program, or a funding increase. It coincided with the completion of a private residence in the area. Connect the dots. 🏗️ [9/10]

How many conscripts (or even actual volunteers) would choose to battle a series of advanced, world-leading robots, on the robots' home territory, until one side gives up? Context: bsky.app/profile/halc...

500 days of non-stop, uninterrupted #GeorgiaProtests. Until the end, until victory! 🇬🇪🇪🇺

Day 499 of #GeorgiaProtests! Unchanged demands: free and fair parliamentary elections and unconditional release of political prisoners. 📷 MOSE

Wikipedia is great en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

Love my stubborn people🤍❤️ 🇬🇪🇪🇺 Day 4️⃣9️⃣9️⃣ #GeorgiaProtests 📸MoSe

Here's an idea. If you're controlling a group of companies that walks away from debts, and the company structure looks like you conspired to not pay people at least the minimum wage, you are offered a stay prison. Decline, and you're free to go, but also barred from running a company for 6 years.

Day #493 non-stop pro-Euro #protests in #Georgia #Tbilisi #GeorgiaProtests #TerrorinGeorgia #ბოლომდე

My light hearted guess: the Hyundai Pebble. My serious guess: also the Hyundai Pebble. Don't know why they've used a still from Prometheus though. Maybe the on board computer comes with a USB stick that already has the viruses on it, so when it gets hacked and stolen they say it's supposed to be.

All the AI bots filing this as a single by Maybe Rae Jepsen.

As Napoleon† said: If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. † Napoleon Hill

Tell me you're in the UK without telling me you're in the UK.

the attempts by the Georgian Dream to stop the protests (now ongoing for a year and a half) are increasingly totalitarian and equally pathetic what, you're gonna arrest every single person in Tbilisi? it's not going to stop the protests. only getting rid of the illegitimate, corrupt government will

Maybe this is where someone draws an outline of some graffiti and you colour it in however you like.

This 2011 article looks like it was on target. spectrum.ieee.org/the-revoluti...

I don't think they're giving Benoit Mandelbrot the credit he deserves.

These seem like the bloke stereotype of life skills. How about a mix: paint some furniture, reattach a button, change a nappy, clean a bathroom, cook without electricity, change an inner tube (or car wheel, pupil's choice), apply a condom, connect a TV to the internet and set up a player app…

რკინიგზის ინჟინრების ინსტიტუტის შენობის ხედი 🌍 Tbilisi, Georgia 🇬🇪 📆 1955 📷 Victor Jaronov #cronobook #Georgia #1950s #oldphotography

There is a difference that strikes me. With Blair and the middle East, it's always Blair (and Bush) that get the criticism, not Prescott or Cook. With tuition fees, Cameron managed to get his policy through but with his deputy remembered forever as the architect.

Mr Farage does, I think, want to return to such times.

2026-03-10: Courts and Tribunals Bill: Reasoned Amendment to 2nd Reading The 202 MPs voting 'Aye' represented 14,484,955 voters. The 308 MPs voting 'No' represented 7,318,256 voters. Aye majority = 7,166,699 But result was No because seats don't match votes. See ALT text and 🧵

Where I live hash cakes are hash brownies, not hash browns. You don't see hash cakes on restaurant menus.

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I actually like the idea of involving local governments. Obviously rivers and reservoirs aren't the same shape as political boundaries, but local control and funding worked for the UK under Queen Victoria.

The Prime Minister must come to Parliament, set out the legal case for letting the US use UK bases for strikes on Iran and give MPs a vote. He must not let Trump drag Britain into another prolonged war in the Middle East.

Actually a misprint; the correct title is "Problems Of The Careless" and is about risks from bad driving.

A basic requirement for a police service is that each year they should aim to arrest more criminals than they hire.

Saw a sight last night I hadn't considered I might ever see: the sound engineer crowd surfing, from stage front centre back to the mixing position at front of house.

Nature loss could cost twice as much as the financial crash, leaked report reveals www.itv.com/news/2026-02...

456th day of protest in Georgia.

Charmer Persuader Risk taker Mind bloodier

I think this picture captures the zeitgeist of Labour's current electoral desperation.

There were two different PIN systems installed at my school to get into classrooms etc. The technology building used one that was especially vulnerable to a de Bruijn attack, which was handy because it was installed at the same time the class was learning the maths of cyclic sequences.

Day 450 of daily, uninterrupted protests in Georgia.