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Last Notes npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero Does he have a pull cord behind one of his ears for when he goes to bed so can close the curtains? #totp npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero I think you are spot on there. They, like many, exist in a bubble and don’t realise how small that bubble actually is. That the Government remains on X as their primary social media presence tells you a lot about how insular they really are. npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero Them blokes’ll catch their death if they don’t pit their tops back on. #totp npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero Are we at the mercy of tennis matches finishing on time, or is BBC4 tennis free? npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero #totp I have questions but I don’t want to sound like my dad. npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero Is this the anal sex one? #totp npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero Back to work after my #interail adventure. npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero Stockholm archipelago was a real highlight. npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero Travelling home as our #interail adventure ends. Made it to Poland this time; we didn’t make it in 1991 on our previous #interail. Well worth it. npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero In a hotel in the Stockholm archipelago surrounded by insurance tech solution type people at a conference. Yours sounds better! npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero All their statements are predicated on the basis that the perfect Brexit hasn’t yet been tried. The long-term issue for them is that there is no such thing. It was an ill-thought act of self-harm and the further the move from the EU the worse it becomes. npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero As someone based in the SW I’d be interested to see how much IHT contribution comes from second homes and people who have moved to the SW in the last 5-10 years. npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero Bluebells on Dartmoor. npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero #totp Top of the Pops had flags? npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero Pondering on this I think it shows how it’s easy to see why national politicians bend to suit a perceived majority when in fact they are dealing with a vocal minority. npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero My eldest works in a political office locally and whilst there are no local elections here today the biggest issues flagged by constituents include local issues such as anti-social behaviour, the state of the town centre and…drumroll…potholes. That’s not to say that national issues/talking points don’t come up as well. npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero #totp They’re going to need a tin opener and a steady hand to get her out of that dress when she’s finished. npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero #totp Your girlfriend is probably blue because of your piss poor facial topiary. Do it properly or not at all because otherwise you just look silly. npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero #totp we done fedora klaxon? npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero Pi pico as an alternative perhaps? Came to mind as I have a couple lying about waiting for me to become sufficiently inspired! npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero I pronounce it Wooster (as in Jeaves and…) but I’m weird with pronunciation* and should probably be discounted as an authority on such things. npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero What do they do with the bits that are surplus to requirements? Render them down and make My Little Ponies, perhaps. npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero Sounds bloody great. I was designing 3G networks in between getting shit faced, mostly in Belgium at the time. npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero It's purpose has clearly failed. The intent was to stifle protest against the actions of the Israeli Government and instead all it has done is put further pressure on the courts of England and Wales and further reduce the Government's popularity. npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero Bloody hell the film was out in 1986 so it wasn't that. npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero Want it the film? Off to IMDB I go... npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero So perhaps next week someone will be arrested for holding up a picture of the person arrested for holding up a magazine with a picture of someone who was arrested for holding up a placard saying 'I Oppose Genocide; I support Palestine Action.' npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero But it's just a bad apple or two and absolutely NOT institutional. It's purely coincidental that you can go back decades finding examples of these bad apples being racist, sexist, corrupt, murdery, corrupt, violent. Did I miss any absolutely not institutionalised criming these bad apples have been involved in? npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero They've lost their collective minds and all they will talk about are topics that benefit Reform, the Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph. There are no floating or wavering voters outside that very limited grouping, apparently. npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero Excellent article and great idea. npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero I don't see why the Government don't target areas like this to promote economic activity. Gets money to people who will spend it back into the economy rather than shifting off-shore to rest. Also means that trades can be boosted by apprenticeships to start covering long term demand (should they ever start building houses at volume). npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero Maybe, but I'm not sure the nineties is done with us npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero Met police implode and disappear in a puff of paradoxical confusion. npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero Reactive is the term I'd use. He appears incapable of being proactive, instead letting others set the agenda (currently migration). With a radical majority he could introduce almost anything he wants and yet all we see is a continuation of Tory Government because that's what the media and opposition MPs are pushing. What's to stop him saying "The issue of small boats is serious and we as a Government will look at methods to reduce the numbers with an aim to stopping them, but other things are important factors in improving people's lives and these are what we are concentrating on..." but those aren't the topics the media are currently focusing on. Make them talk about something other than small boats and bloody flags. npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero Who else benefits in this instance? Morgan McSweeney. npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero Either they are sufficiently draconian in their future arrests and imprisonment that it stops people protesting or it continues to spiral until the Met and other forces start complaining privately to her that they can't cope and the press see it as a way further hurting Labour; "Old people jailed whilst nasty crims. (many foreign) terrorise the streets!" npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero #totp We all coming back after the Dvorak proms performance? npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero Another list I aspire to be at included on. npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero Anyone got a pictorial guide to safe headwobbling? Asking for someone with really, really bad takes. npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero Away with your critical thinking and analysis. npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero I for one feel safe knowing that the police officers of this country are risking their physical well-being in order to protect us from peaceful pensioners holding a sign with some writing on it. npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero So does that mean that if you open the conversation by asking the person if they will be encouraged to support a proscribed organisation after your conversation and they state they won't you can express a supportive opinion of the proscribed organisation. npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero Several life times ago I used to take use the Tube to travel across London into work. The odd day with a glow-stick waving fellow traveller would have been well received. npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero Spoiler: they won't* npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero He's desperate to ensure he's at most a single term PM isn't he? He could actually do something honourable and sod off. npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero I will empower the people and open multiple guillotine manufacturing facilities, turn Buckingham Palace into a homeless shelter and Windsor Castle into a crèche/adventure playground. I'd establish people's assemblies and sequest what was previously common land for us all once again. Wild camping would be permissable, re-wilding enforced and all professional politicians banished. npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero I wouldn't, sorry! I'm easily distracted...shiny things. npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero When I'm king* they'll be in the shit. npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero I think this is an ever growing problem exacerbated by Parliament after Parliament obsessing over economic growth. The current Government will pay a very heavy price for claiming change whilst actually working as hard as possible to avoid any change. npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero Which possibly makes the situation even worse and more callous - some people don't merit human intervention. npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero Whichever group collectively convinced politicians and the public that Government cannot run a debt forever and running the national budget has to be done in the same way as a household budget were, in their own way, brilliant. npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero I think it's more about moving Labour into the centre-right ground. Reform have brought confusion to the existing system, traditionally focussing on the left - right axis with clear lines of demarcation. Populism scraps that by selectively picking from all along the axis, hence Labour and Tories scrabbling to counter this but being bad at it since they still have the traditional axis mindset. npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero Cycling for me (indoor included), but the trouble is if I miss a few days on the bounce I start getting really anxious/grouchy/tetchy/all three. npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero Well at least it's only 4 more years of cluelessness under Labour and then we can try fascist adjacent cluelessness. The centre and right have absolutely now idea how unappealing they are to the majority. Cloth-eared intellectual and political infants who rely on a broken and rigged system to cling to power and lord it over the rest. Was the idea of politician as public servant ever a thing, and if it was, when did it stop.* npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero I'm just back from a beach hut where I watched the sun rise over a headland/the sea accompanied by the sound of an incoming tide washing over the pebbles and splashing over the rocks. I'm extremely fortunate living where I do so close to the sea. npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero Plans are terrible. I need them to get adulting things done but I hate them. What's wrong with starting 94 things in a weekend? I'll finish most of them, well some of them, probably. npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero I think it's past reorganising. It needs scrapping entirely and replacing with an entirely new organisation. How many institutional issues have they had since the 1960s? Officers on the take, sex offenders, rapists, cover up after cover up and always "We're different" "Lessons learned" and yet here we are...again. npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero Long held belief among authorities that the general public cannot be trusted and needs to be nannied or they'll break things and sit on their arses all day twiddling their thumbs. npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero good luck with the CPAP. I've used one for a while and still get short periods every now and again (now!) where it irritates and I pull the mask off in the night. It'll pass and I'll get back to better sleep in a few days/weeks. Still better than the alternative. npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero Think he's trying to hide the result with his stance there - hiding his bits, badly. npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero #totp Centrist Dad alarm npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero He's...well...he doesn't have a voice for indie npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero gratuitous slo-mo pan of her lower half there. #Arrisric #totp npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero Option c. is the only one she believes is available to her. Option a. would be seen as a failure and b. is absolutely never to be considered because trickle down will stop. npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero Based on previous financial, um, issues I sit firmly in the latter. Junk bonds was a previous sub-prime, and there have others all the way back to the tulips in the seventeenth(?) century. Then there was the LIBOR rate scandal. Guinness insider trading (amongst others). The list goes on. npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero They understand soft power but have little or no idea of how it comes about. They also take local opinion of something and project out (BBC and World Service are interlinked in their mind). npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero Agreed and we've never properly recovered from 2008 but I don't see how basically more of the same will ever improve this regardless of governing party, semantics used to describe spending cuts, etc. npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero Couple of pictures taken in the back garden yesterday (28.02.25). npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero I bet the silent billionaires who understand the need to stay in the background are spitting (very expensive) feathers about now. For years they've cultivated this influence that most people don't care about or are unaware of and then this lot pops up and shines a massive spotlight on it, shouting "Look at udls, we're all the same" npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero Dying newspapers say "Change Bad" ergo can't change because "Change Bad". npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero Wait, what, people actually exist outside the bottom right quarter of England? We thought it was just 'there be dragons'. npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero He'll be forever receiving 3 star feedback for shooting the bloke 2 doors down from his actual target, or putting the explosive device behind a random bin npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero To be honest he's not offering anything in that article beyond improving the status quo. Fixing broken things to stimulate growth. What if the starting point shouldn't actually be growth measured by a couple of catch all figures (inflation and GDP)? npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero Indeed because all of their public policy utterances are very much in support of the status quo. Small boats, no money, growth, etc. npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero Image cropped but no other modification. A tree in the neighbour's garden silhouettes against the moon, taken in the winter. npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero Will nobody think of their post-Governmental gravy train riding opportunities? npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero ...but it'll be fine this time. The people and organisations who used previous loosening of regulation to crash the economy last and the time before that and the times before that for decades have definitely learned this time and cross their heart promise that it'll be different this time and they won't break things. Honestly, you won't all be in it together because we need yet another bail out, what with us being too big to fail despite failing quite spectacularly...again. npub14l58x0kk9gsgdkdqcyuajssflyuygfzrwqhzedkvj3mrd3066qeqgj8qmp spanghero I'm looking forward to the 'too big to fail bail outs' that they'll happily dish out when this reduction in regulation to promote growth gets exploited beyond tolerances, leading to the inevitable crash, followed by a commission that will suggest lessons need to be learned (spoiler - they won't). Rinse and repeat.
