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!

forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/thread... Time (well tomorrow after work) to make some less car centric cities... 😎

The sun setting on fossil fuels.

Every time I see anything about the state of parliament I'm reminded of both the Great Stink and the state of our country - Total paralysis in deciding the do anything that would make things better until it's become too unbearable for those in power.

Reading about the rapid collapse of Eastern European governments in 1989 as completely rotten and corrupt leaderships disintegrated when people realised fear was all that was holding them up. Apropos of nothing.

Every time I see something about the tacky & expensive redevelopment of the White House I'm reminded of the Ceaușescu's and how quick their corrupt dictatorship finally collapsed. youtu.be/QWKC7APPYMM?...

So many of these big institutions we are expected to trust (Met Police, BBC, NHS, Post Office) are so insular they think they are protecting themselves by surpressing scandals, but when the truth inevitably emerges it causes more harm to their reputation than being honest ever would.

Meanwhile, '3rd world' India has almost electrified all of its vast network in record time. infra.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/railway...

The speed of that crane work was quite incredible. She's finally in 🙌 #nottingham #infrastructure

Today's the day...

Not very often you see a 1990s phone phone box repurposed as like you do with the older red ones.

Lest we forget all those who lost their lives defending our country, Europe, and there own homelands.

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

At quieter times, they should wait on red for motors, if there's no pedestrians around and the drivers are under the speed limit they can go green, otherwise a 45 seconds wait like pedestrians are used to....

I wish my Gym used digital keys, they are the only reason I still carry my wallet. (& even then I have forgotten it a few times). Also hotels - I somehow manage to break their stupid cards on every trip and need to get a replacement from reception.

Did the people making these mascots never watch Thomas the Tank Engine as kids? Interchangable faces can make them a tad more appropriate!

Is there any better illustration of the damage the Tories have done to our country and their own reputation since Johnson than our local Conservative club? Just after BJ was elected, no security shutters required...

"We will not introduce pay per mile" Election Months later, when the inevitable reality hits, "pay per kilometer" introduced. (or am I too cynical?)

Imagine how transformational 3 hours of free electricity could be, especially for those on the lowest incomes (e.g. retired pensioners, unemployed, full time carers)? No need to worry about heating their house, running the washer/dryer, running the oven to make a hot meal, filling t'hot water tank.

Are you really doing a solem tribute until you recreate the Battle of Britain and western front out of painted plywood and sandbags?

The impact of all the drivers leaving a football game on the buses. More than doubling the journey time, even though I was leaving the bottom of the city centre so had less distance to cover. Bus lanes on Trent Bridge & past the sports stadia when?

I still find it amazing that I often get the notifications for Debit/Credit card & contactless payments come through to my phone before the terminal even shows it's been approved!

Is Pudsey doing this Virtue signalling thing right?

Well there goes my morning! Might have read the Medium posts and the book recommended therin but this story is fascinating every time I read it - can't believe it's never been made into a film.

Got to love the informal rule round here. If there's a pumpkin or decorations on show you can knock, otherwise leave alone. Even overheard kids telling younger siblings/friends "we can't go to that one, no pumpkin" Not had a single trick or treater the entire time I've been here.

@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social @showmeasign.online Are temporary path closure notices limited to 6 months? Seems somewhat daft we keep getting signs up saying paths are going to be closed for 6 months, while all the press releases have been saying it's at least 14 months from day 1.

"Independently Published" has now gotta mean AI Slop hasn't it? No way this many biographies (mainly with no reviews) can be genuine can it? Also, why are so many aimed at kids? Another positive for independent bookshops - a slop filter!

Happy Poppyween...

What's that coming over the roof? Is it a monster?

Why am I reminded of the F1 graphics when Russell's transponder failed and he was jumping up and down the timing tower? The makeshift ones added filled a good chunk of the acreen

The discourse has reminded of the carpet in a hotel I stayed at this summer (in Belgium - inside what would have been the Western Front ≈110 years ago). Felt wrong walking on it, given they used to be a mark of solem respect.

It's not often a title is longer than the chapter, but also complete! 😎

I see our local council is cutting wasteful spending by, checks notes, spending £75k to putting flag on lampposts across the county. www.nottinghampost.com/news/local-n...

The options that are open to you when you build a modern highspeed railway to modern standards - equivalent seating capacity of two A380s if they continue to run as 400m trains. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Anyone know why Sky have started putting up a number on screen that ends with the start of the phone number linked to the account? I see that random square at the bottom right has finally gone after, what, a decade, too.

Millennials, want to feel old? In the mid 1990s our local "Gold" radio stations played the "best of the 60s, 70s, and today". If it had moved forward with the years it would now be on the 90s, 00s, and today. For a 13 year old the 1980s are as far away as the 1950s were when I was 13 in '95! 👴

"There is no doubt that the impact of Brexit has been severe and long-lasting" The first step to fixing a problem is admitting there is one. At the rate we are going when we rejoin the EU we'll inevitably be net recipients of ERDF monies to bring our national infrastructure up to modern standards.

Almost 135,000km of track electrified. Meanwhile the electrification on the MML from London to Nottingham/Sheffield stops in the Leicester suburbs before even reaching the cities station 🤪

My Google Drive is full, so was looking to buy more from them. Alas, by foisting unwanted AI slop on the next tier it made me go elsewhere. In the same week Disney+ & Xbox jack up their prices they decide to remove,thankfully unused, features from my plan with the dearer AI plan as the replacement🤪