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Hugo Tyson @atrichoke.bsky.social · 6h

Wanting homeless people jailed = housing them in the most expensive way possible = insane.

Hugo Tyson @atrichoke.bsky.social · 6h

And: it causes no trouble at all. Except to folks who expect it to be different. Most of the tools have easy case-insensitive search options, so if you don't know it's no problem.

Hugo Tyson @atrichoke.bsky.social · 6h

Treating some characters specially can be error prone. Are U-umlaut and u-umlaut also the same as one another? All those accented chars? What if your locale is elsewhere and those underlying 8-bit numbers are displayed as something else entirely?

Hugo Tyson @atrichoke.bsky.social · 6h

Pollarded. As is normal for big old trees.

Hugo Tyson @atrichoke.bsky.social · 1d

Think of the pranks with intra-ship beaming missing out the middle one! Or using only that one!

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Hugo Tyson @atrichoke.bsky.social · 1d

You know there's 3 sliders on the transporter console? Person, clothes, bowels/bladder. Coming back they only use the first two.

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Hugo Tyson @atrichoke.bsky.social · 1d

But they are better for parking your chewing gum in for a short while.

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Hugo Tyson @atrichoke.bsky.social · 1d

I was able to get it down to 3 weeks by nagging. Very close to advertising "free scaffolding, come and get it" on local freecycle :-)

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Hugo Tyson @atrichoke.bsky.social · 2d

That's what makes it great.

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Hugo Tyson @atrichoke.bsky.social · 2d

*rein* in

Hugo Tyson @atrichoke.bsky.social · 3d

IMHO the planning rules should let you have them on walls just as easily as on roofs. Why? 'Cos in winter panels on South-facing walls will get more energy from the low sun than roof ones; in summer there's plenty of sun for more hours so the bad angle doesn't matter.
Obvs both would be best....

Hugo Tyson @atrichoke.bsky.social · 4d

<leans forward to desk microphone> Kill them

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Hugo Tyson @atrichoke.bsky.social · 4d

From one particular carefully chosen spot. I call BS. Pylons are lovely.

Hugo Tyson @atrichoke.bsky.social · 5d

They may have a deliberate strategy of expelling enough of their racists that they don't actually have a majority on any councils. That way they can claim it's not their fault; independents are sabotaging for personal reasons &c.
They love claiming "we weren't allowed to do our plan" see Brexit &c

Hugo Tyson @atrichoke.bsky.social · 5d

They may have a deliberate strategy of expelling enough of their racists that they don't actually have a majority on any councils. That way they can claim it's not their fault; independents are sabotaging for personal reasons &c.
They love claiming "we weren't allowed to do our plan" see Brexit &c

Hugo Tyson @atrichoke.bsky.social · 5d

...and one fewer s.

Hugo Tyson @atrichoke.bsky.social · 6d

Genesis did a song about that in around 1974. "Get 'em out by Friday"

Hugo Tyson @atrichoke.bsky.social · 6d

I wish!

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Hugo Tyson @atrichoke.bsky.social · 6d

How do you get on with garlic?

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Hugo Tyson @atrichoke.bsky.social · 7d

Arguably she should sue the agency and bankrupt them - might focus other scumbag estate agents' minds a bit.
To clear up who was at fault, I mean.

Hugo Tyson @atrichoke.bsky.social · 9d

You don't want them cleaned, then?

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 9d

Away from the newspaper front pages, the Government has been busy with some pretty major reforms, as well as some smaller initiatives that will affect people’s lives.

It's your call whether it's down to our media, or a failure of comms by the Government that these aren't well-reported...

All the Big Government Reforms the Media Hasn't Been Telling You About

You probably won’t have read much about these announcements over the past few weeks

bylinetimes.com

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Hugo Tyson @atrichoke.bsky.social · 9d

Brilliant news. The government are doing good things, but the media hates to report it.
Councils can now run bus services and make sure they're better.

Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 9d

This one is a big deal, in my view. Potentially marks an end to Thatcher-era deregulation of the buses across England. And it's the law as of last night: bylinetimes.com/2025/10/28/a...

1. London-Style Buses
The boringly-named Bus Services (No. 2) Bill became law on Monday night (27th October), enabling local transport authorities to implement franchising schemes for bus services in England – potentially reversing the decades-old deregulation of buses which opponents say has contributed to spiralling prices and worsening, reduced services while transport firms pay millions to shareholders.

But it will also end the (surprisingly recent) Conservative ban on councils setting up their own bus companies to directly compete with private firms.

Buses are the most frequently used form of public transport and are relied on by millions of people – disproportionately lower-income workers, young people, retirees and more.

Greater Manchester took up the opportunity of regulating buses by setting up the ‘Bee Network’, but the legal framework mayor Andy Burnham had to use to do it took years to utilise, and faced relentless challenge from transport firms. The new process is set to massively streamline it.

This bill won’t make the front pages, but if councils take up the opportunity, it could revolutionise this vital form of transport in England.

Cat Hobbs, director of pro-public ownership campaign We Own It, told Byline Times: “After 40 years of bus deregulation and privatisation, it’s fantastic that this government is making it easier to take back control of our buses,” though she also called for the ambition to be matched with extra funding to help make this a success.

Hobbs added: “It’s excellent news that the absurd ideological ban on new publicly owned bus companies, introduced under the last government, has now been reversed. Publicly owned bus companies like Lothian Buses and Reading Buses consistently win awards for their brilliant services.”

Transport for London-style transport in Cornwall, Leeds, and Newcastle, here we come?

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Hugo Tyson @atrichoke.bsky.social · 9d

They may have a deliberate strategy of expelling enough of their racists that they don't actually have a majority on any councils. That way they can claim it's not their fault; independents are sabotaging for personal reasons &c.
They love claiming "we weren't allowed to do our plan" see Brexit &c

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Chris Rivers @chrisrivers50.bsky.social · 10d

Three Tory Home Secretaries wasted billions of pounds on a chaotic, costly and mismanaged asylum accommodation system, a new highly critical report from MPs reveals. Priti Patel, Suella Braverman & James Cleverly presided over a huge surge in the cost of providing accommodation for asylum seekers.

Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 10d

🔴The Sheer Scale of Conservative Mismanagement of the Asylum System Revealed

Billions of pounds were wasted by successive Conservative Home Secretaries on a chaotic and costly system that left vulnerable people at risk, according to a new Parliamentary report

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/27/t...

The Sheer Scale of Conservative Mismanagement of the Asylum System Revealed

Billions of pounds were wasted by successive Conservative Home Secretaries on a chaotic and costly system that left vulnerable people at risk, according to a new Parliamentary report

bylinetimes.com

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