🧵And we're off, ladies and gentlemen! It's "they're banning the word EASTER" week. Regular as clockwork... So here comes a history lesson and media lesson all rolled into one thread! PS, I can't believe there's no easter egg emoji? This was the best I could do - 🗿🥚 🤣 I digress! 1/19

A demonstration of how well the council is dealing with potholes... I reported a number of these in January, last weekend some of them were filled by a randomer! Naturally the council came round on Monday and marked *some* of the rest, then filled them Tuesday Wonder who's repairs will fail 1st?

Alt-text: "High Gas [petrol] Prices" Google's the conversion rate of the vpower (i.e. the most expensive) - £1.27 a litre 🤯 years since it was that cheap here! Our local petrol stations most expensive this week (i.e. diesel) is approx US$9.16/US Gallon!

Finally a weekend with some sunshine.

Share a TV show from your childhood you swear nobody else watched. youtu.be/kwl058RVP7A?...

"Because the available data does not indicate a pattern of collisions linked to speed, the council says introducing new mandatory 20mph limits in the area is not currently proposed as part of a casualty-reduction scheme" westbridgfordwire.com/county-counc... I.e. a few of you must die first

Need this in the UK!

‘Plague of potholes’ sees local road maintenance backlog near £19bn despite funding change. If only there was some way to fund that.... www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/plagu...

I now reminded of the Fuel Crisis 2000 just before I started Uni. As my mum hadn't been able to fill up the car for a couple of weeks my dad bought a Nat Ex ticket for me as a plan B, only for them to warn the same day that they were looking at rationing their routes!

Put up signs either end saying "Buses Only". Will be full by dinner-time.

The high cost of paid parking isn't enough to make money, yet many of our broke councils can offer it for free? 🤔 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

An amazing member of ours put together this graphic that really encapsulates perfectly the situation on Bank Street. There is only so much space available, and we must use it as efficiently as possible. Parking isn't that. Please sign up to delegate on March 30th in favour of bus lanes!

Is that the first podium where all three drivers share it with one of their race engineers? Lewis & Bono - the iconic partnership George & Bono - Sakhir 2020 Kimi & Bono - Kimi's F1 career.

If they want people to start using cash again...

Welcome to Reform Britain, where we spend your council tax putting up flags to highlight the potholes instead of fixing them.

Destination Crewe HS2? That sign might be waiting a long time to come true....

Wonder how much of our council tax they'll be wasting on fixing their flags at they fall to bits?

youtu.be/T4Upf_B9RLQ I see the Norwegian Consumer Council have been able to get a behind the scenes look at our tech firms!

Ah those Ever Ready lights that were so shit that the only way you could tell they'd fallen off - again - was the thud as they hit the ground - it certainly wasn't the loss of light (at least in reasonably well lit suburbia).

"We care about your privacy" so much so you want to share it with 88 third parties? /Doubt.

Hmm, to fell three trees to improve a foot and cycle crossing (as one of the connections to an active travel bridge) results in local protests and petitions and emotional posters going up...

If you're cracking them it's no wonder there's a shortage...

Bus crashes into Tram in #Nottingham

www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting... Are there actually any successful living walls, or is this simply the most pointless green washing possible?

Was starting to think mother nature had forgotten how to produce skies with blue in them! 🌞

Gotta love AI "Insights" "Jake Dennis had a strong opening lap, gaining three positions and making three overtakes to move from ninth to sixth." Timing tower showing that he's actually in P7 at the end of a lap behind the safety car. No notes.

www.broxtowe.gov.uk/viaductrampo... 2026 turning out to be the year of the active travel bridge in Nottingham urban area! Bennerley Viaduct eastern ramp ✅ Waterside Bridge - Late Spring Britannia Mills Bridge - Summer

It's amazing how quick East Midlands seems to have gone from from meaning Notts, Derbys, Leics, Rutland, probably Lincs, and maybe Northants & Peterborough to just Notts & Derbys Meaning (Nottm) East Midlands Airport and it's Derby Phone & Postal codes lies outside the "new" East Mildlands

They've resumed...

And there was me thinking ITV F1 intros were unhinged cringe. Little did I know that RTÉ had them beat! youtu.be/KpuTxPN4KTU?...

Why are there 20 Common Models on sale which have been made too big for the common parking bays (and therefore reduce parking spaces available to other motorists - on our street turns bays that used to hold 4 into 3)? Also well done to those five councils, need more to follow their examples.

So cheaping out on Electrification for the mainline means the regional fleet can't be all electric 🤬 (wires & battery), end result with more diesel trains likely 🤦‍♂️ www.railmagazine.com/news/emr-con...

The high cost of Free Parking... www.lbc.co.uk/article/refo...

Post a sign from your country that tells a story about how they treat their roads. Where the most important fact nearly every village wants to share about themselves is they want motorists to behave...

youtu.be/KtQ9nt2ZeGM?... Made me wonder how much UK land is used for "Biofuels" and how much would be needed for solar. Didn't realise that batteries can basically be almost 100% made into new batteries at the end of their useful life either.

"A passenger on the struck tram [said] that the tram pictured was hit by a reversing van on Noel Street, having just picked up people from another tram that had been hit by a car outside Asda" 😒 www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting...

48 minutes 😢 Best we get is days later "We aim to send an inspector to the site within the next 10 working days and you we will then update you with any intended action." Which reminds me, need to report all of last years repairs on a nearby road/cycle route have failed *again* 🙄.

Wonder if the construction hoardings will be down before the 10 year anniversary? 🎂 (Surprised the crane is still there over 4 years after construction ceased).

"0% of those who voted Reform at the last election now plan to vote Labour." Chasing after Reform and demonising our friends, family, acquaintances, and colleagues in the process working well for Kier and co then... 🤦‍♂️

Another step closer towards eradicating one of the worse bit of 60s planning from our city... www.thebusinessdesk.com/eastmidlands...

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..