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Tim in Bath @timinbath.bsky.social · 1d

By "border agents" do we mean ICE (Trump's Stormtroopers)?

Canada, I am sure you wouldn't be so fucking stupid. Right?

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Tim in Bath @timinbath.bsky.social · 2d

Bit of an own goal scored there. And a fantastic advert for AI

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Tim in Bath @timinbath.bsky.social · 3d

wasn't this the main argument in favour of slavery - "if we have to pay our workers then our industry dies"?

Tim in Bath @timinbath.bsky.social · 3d

Boo Hoo. If your business model relies on breaking the law then find something else to do.

Tim in Bath @timinbath.bsky.social · 7d

Agree, but look at it this way. If the US returns to being a democracy, a future sane US Government can always ask for the King to return it and he probably would, and if the US continues its slide into fascism, the Eisenhower Museum probably ceases to exist.

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Tim in Bath @timinbath.bsky.social · 8d

I think it probably dates from a period where low cisterns were not in general use.

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Tim in Bath @timinbath.bsky.social · 9d

This ruling simply concerns a straightforward breach of a commercial contract.

We need a criminal investigation and prosecution. Not for faulty product but for the corruption at the heart of the VIP-lane. There are rules on procurement which were broken.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 10d

Any time people start talking about weakening protections for certain groups I am always reminded of this quote.

William Roper: “So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!”

Sir Thomas More: “Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?”

William Roper: “Yes, I'd cut down every law in England to do that!”

Sir Thomas More: “Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!

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Tim in Bath @timinbath.bsky.social · 10d

Scotland produces about 15% of Great Britain's renewable electricity consumption (roughly 15 TWh out of 100 TWh).

"British Isles" is a term probably best avoided and in any case NI and Ireland have their own grid and are best considered separately (although they are interconnected).

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Tim in Bath @timinbath.bsky.social · 11d

I read this graph as showing that the UK was still burning gas during those hours, but exporting an equivalent quantity of power. Is that right?

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Tim in Bath @timinbath.bsky.social · 16d

It is potentially dangerous to use multiple names for a common over the counter drug which is really easy to fatally overdose on because if you think that acetaminophen and Tylenol are different medicines you may carelessly decide to take a full dose of both.

Tim in Bath @timinbath.bsky.social · 16d

Most medicine DOES only have a single generic name - the International non-proprietary name administered by the WHO. The problem is that a few rogue states - in the case of paracetamol that would be the US, Japan, Canada, Venezuela, Colombia and Iran - choose to go their own way.

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Tim in Bath @timinbath.bsky.social · 16d

Cervical cancer is the biggy because it kills so many people (at the moment - this will change), but the vaccine also reduces the risk of oral, and anal cancer and warts in both sexes, and penile cancer in men.

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Tim in Bath @timinbath.bsky.social · 17d

You don't need to be left-ish to be seen as such in today's climate. Your world-view simply need to be connected to reality in some way. "climate change is real", "gender is complex", "colonisation is a historical fact", "vaccines work" are all factual statements not political positions.

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Tim in Bath @timinbath.bsky.social · 19d

www.nationalrail.co.uk/travel-infor...

Depends were you are coming from, for example Cross-country tickets have been released until January 26, whereas LNER fares from London not yet.

Advance Booking Dates | National Rail

Find out the farthest travel dates in the future it is possible to book Advance tickets and reserve seats today.

www.nationalrail.co.uk

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Tim in Bath @timinbath.bsky.social · 19d

More to the point would be for Burnham to appoint a Chief Constable who gets it and is willing to accept responsibility for his force's actions.

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Tim in Bath @timinbath.bsky.social · 19d

"Britain and Ireland" (or "Ireland and Britain" if you are reading from left to right) serves most purposes as a geographical term.

The other alternatives (using the words "Atlantic" and/or "archipelago") I find too much of a mouthful and unfamiliar to too many people.

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Tim in Bath @timinbath.bsky.social · 21d

Not surprised. Banging on about freedom is completely different from doing the actual hard work of making it happen for everyone. America has always been very keen on the former, less so on the latter. It is what colonial powers do. The Romans and the Brits and the French did the same.

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Tim in Bath @timinbath.bsky.social · 21d

You are talking about AI (a subject you appear to have no special qualification in).

Whilst politics (a subject you do know about) is sliding down the pan in your country.

FFS Obama!

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Tim in Bath @timinbath.bsky.social · 22d

My prediction for the 2029 election is that it will be a straight fight in England between Greens (E+W) in some kind of pact with the Lib Dems versus Reform. It will be close and a hung parliament may give the SNP the power to demand an indyref as a condition of supporting a Green-led government.

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Tim in Bath @timinbath.bsky.social · 22d

Next you'll be telling us that Tommy Banner, the longest serving member of the Wurzels, is from Penicuik.

Tim in Bath @timinbath.bsky.social · 22d

They will not leave the ECHR, but they will bad-mouth it for sure. Thus satisfying absolutely no-one. The sane people will continue to be driven to the Greens and LibDems and the mouth-breathers to Reform,

Even putting the morality aside, how can they be so astoundingly shit at politics?

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Tim in Bath @timinbath.bsky.social · 22d

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Let's all pretend that this wasn't the plan of these evil people all along...

Israeli minister touts Gaza 'real estate bonanza', defying international backlash

Bezalel Smotrich, an ultranationalist who has been sanctioned by the UK and others, said he was in discussion with the US over the idea.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Tim in Bath @timinbath.bsky.social · 22d

History will judge Carney, but at the moment he seems to be doing better at a more difficult job than Starmer. Maybe Starmer will play a diplomatic blinder for Ukraine and all will be forgiven, but I am not currently impressed.

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Tim in Bath @timinbath.bsky.social · 22d

You realise of course that in saying we should have a non-political Eurovision, you have put forwards a political position, are making a political argument and are being political. There is no escaping politics.