It's 2026, you shouldn't have to wait months to find out when an appointment is, even a vague November-December 2027 time frame that gets narrowed down as the dates near would be better than the current hearing nothing for months and wondering if it's fell between the cracks again...

Accidental choice of bookmark to go with the book. Wondering if I now need to start theming my bookmarks with the book they are in? 🤔

Slop making up football matches plunging the government into one of it's many messes. 💯 No notes. www.lbc.co.uk/article/macc... "CC said that Google Gemini had been use to research the club's history as details of the game 'hadn't come up on the normal system' - because the game never occurred." 🤦‍♂️

"we choose the EU". Looks at when they had a referendum to leave, oh it's that cursed ratio again!

www.forbes.com/sites/kensil... "The total cost of electricity production decreased by roughly half compared to fossil-fuel alternatives" "The government’s adaptive approach, maintained through five administrations, ensured consistency."

The Formula E AI predictor garbage continuing to be a jinx I see 🚮.

Ooooh here's an idea - The BVG Jelbi app gives you free time using micro mobility when moving bikes to docked locations, so how about adding functionality to Ride (the East Midlands clone of it) which gives you credit (funded out of the fines) for reporting obstructive parking? 😈

Hard to believe these are the same place. First photo 2017, second photo is from 2023 but hasn't significantly changed... By 2027 the concrete eyesore that is the Arndale carpark should be gone too!

Last day of term, first year of uni - went to student union end of term party. Walking home with my flatmates we saw quiet a few blue lights going past. Next day at work on lunch break heard on the radio that two people had been killed in a hit and run outside of uni.

To watch UK Horizons on the bedroom TV after playing on the Mega Drive you had toggle a dongle hanging out the TV from RF to TV, select Ch 7, go downstairs turn the Sky Box and decoder on, Select Sky 1 (Sky Ch8), press tuning up, then H/V select then TV/AV to turn the Channel expander on..

As an absolute minimum there should be a full, documented, feature complete, local API, and the device continues to function* with no cloud connectivity**, the latter of which should be optional (unless essential for core functionality -e.g. Media streaming player).

Tunes heard so far this morning Alphaville - Forever Young Scorpions - Winds of Change Nena - 99 Luftalloons Is the world trying to tell my something? Switches to the Discover feed and, oh good god... 😬😬😬😬😬

Interesting illustration of the City Ground plans showing a future vision of Trent Bridge - widened footpaths, simplified junction with Radcliffe Road....

Our big look at why clickbait articles on accessibility at airports are ill-informed or wrong and, frankly, often tinged with racism. The air industry has a duty to call this out, and admit it contributes to the perception by creating airport environments hostile to even minor mobility issues.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli... You don't know what you've got until it's gone....

The recent discussion about the UK's inability to deliver infrastructure reminds me of the Leiewerken works in the Belgian city of Kortrijk I saw while on holiday this summer For context the population of Kortrijk is around the same as Gateshead and the larger urban area slightly larger than Derby.

No wonder they don't want us riding bikes... Breaking the mould - Edith Rigby "Quietly determined, Edith Rigby was the first woman in Preston to ride a bicycle. She always looked for way to improve the lives of local women & founded the Preston branch of the [suffragettes]."

An unspoken aspect of renting, you're never quiet sure when the landlord is going to spring some maintenance/decorating on you with little over 24 hours notice. Oh, you were planning on having friends over - ha ha, the decorator will turn your lounge upside down on Friday & finish mid next week!

www.nottinghampost.com/news/local-n... "& the Government housing agency asked the council if it could alter a planning condition that meant plans for ped & cycle infra improvements had to be submitted & approved before the 100th homebuyer moved in [they] wanted to .. increase this trigger to 1,000"

What's the saddest public Christmas display anyone has seen - anything to top these?

Just look through the replies here, no wonder people think this country is broken. So many bridges where a repair isn't likely to happen until at least the 2030s... bsky.app/profile/jonn...

Yarn bombing gone to another level!

Look, you can have low taxation or you can have functioning public services. You can't have both. Lots of people, including the UK government, seem to have forgotten this fact. Taxation isn't theft. It's the foundation of society.

Ooh, the East Midlands CCA now has its own version of the excellent BVG Jelbi app! www.transportnottingham.com/join-the-rid...

Oh look the Brexit monkey

Wonder if East Midlands Railway will get rid of all traces of the East Midlands Trains livery before being nationalised and having to bring it back? The GBR livery is very stagecoachy with added flagshaggery.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... « DfT spokesperson said: “We have committed £616m to Active Travel England up to 2030" » Vs £1bn to fix a single roundabout www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I'm sure @showmeasign.online will appreciate how bad these traffic lights are... Puts the yellow/red arrow light discourse into perspective!

George's season summed in a single radio message #f1multiviewer

Things looking up for Piastri fans - Evans yeeting into the barriers and only one of Mitch and Oscar ever has a good weekend! 😬

Perhaps people can't be trusted to park responsibility and legally not matter what type of vehicle they've used...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... This is what the tech bros are trying to destroy our planet for?

If Downdetector can't see it's down, is it really down? 🤔

"With more than a thousand student residents, peak-term arrival and departure traffic," If only there was a 1052 space car park next door - oh. And the OR2 past the front door would be able to soak up the cycle demand... Oh, that's right, it's not been built.

👀 the Auroas have finally started to enter passenger service!

Ooh, time to start my one man campaign to get the Liverpool-Norwich changed to Blackpool-Norwich calling at Radcliffe-on-Trent, Preston, and (if/when it opens) Cottom Parkway 😈

Goes on Facebook and see the entitlement is off the scale! One literally parking round outside the door of someone's business as well as the sidewalk, and another with a ridiculous thing with a number plate spealing out Dedly - a dash of self awareness at least. Time for a pavement parking ban.

So, EMR are losing trains before the new ones are introduced so that a private operator can run services which require the withdrawal of a useful & lucrative service between our two biggest cities, from a soon to be nationalised operator, that will still need to run but without passengers. 💯

I still can't believe that Romain walked away from that relatively unscathed, honestly thought I'd witnessed a repeat of Roland Ratzenburger (Imola 94), Ayrton Senna (Imola 94), or Antoine Hubert (Spa 19)* Seeing the remains of his car at the F1 Exhibition last year showed how lucky he was that day

Anything to avoid informal Zebras.

Previous chancellors have chosen to delay or cancel capital investment... So, the MML is getting electrified then? 🤔

Just mentioned on the radio, fuel duty is only to be frozen for 5 months... So fuel duty going to rise, oh no it isn't, will be coming round quicker than normal I assume?

"This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to create a new city quarter with homes, jobs, green space, and better connections " so we'll host four hour long popup consultation sessions in the middle of the working day 😒 broad-marsh.commonplace.is

Alas, the most senior labour politician - Ethel Smith, the opposition leader of Midsomer Parish Council - found her appearance on BBC News (now owned by Lord Rothermere) arguing this point was "accidently" replaced by adverts for Poppy Power and the new Range Rover St George.

Does the faux-outrage calendar need budgetmas adding to it? 🤔

Welp! 🙈 www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formul...

Imagine the meltdown the Daily Mail/Telegraph would have if Reeves/Burnham were PM & Deputy PM. 😈

How has Max secured 4 WDCs since Sky Glass launched, yet Sky is still unable to make "recordings" available as the programme finishes*? For bonus points, recordings of future sessions are "available" with spoilers & the repeat of Qualy launches with Ted telling you who's on pole. 💯

One day someone will create a UI that doesn't accidentally display html tags. Today is not that day.

As a Preston lad starting high school around the time the Channel Tunnel opened, and a map like this on the library wall... 🥲 Seemed so futuristic!