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Or how about a passivhaus leisure center AND social housing!?

Passivhaus News share.google/hkKa5O7JjjHl...

Screengrab from https://www.vesselfinder.com/ showing vessel tracking at approach to Strait of Hormuz. Shows linear pattern of vessels lined up, presumably waiting for decisions on go/no go from operators.

Lots of ships anchored, moored, drifting in this strange holding pattern. No go/run away would be my instinct, which shows the debt modern society, running on oil, gas, and products owes to the merchant seamen risking their lives.

GPS jamming: The invisible battle in the Middle East GPS jamming has made navigation hazardous in the Gulf, spurring efforts to develop alternatives.

NEW: Since war broke out in the Middle East, extreme levels of GPS jamming appear to be occurring in and around Iran, especially in the Strait of Hormuz and nearby.

My latest: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Team beatles, The Beatles

Young people never see bank notes
It's okay with phone or watch now - can't see ppl under 40 giving a toss about cash avatars

I googled Trump's dude, Clay. Apparently he knows something about Authoritarian Corruption - sounds right.
(But he's in if you look down ballot at results. Not sure about his views on "Jewish Space Lasers").

This ⬆️
Wonder why papers every morning go with "Trump says..." for headlines.
He's a corrupt, demented narcissist and his words are worthless

Backed up by lazy local media who reprint the NIMBY message ("under attack from new homes" FFS) and FB groups of people reinforcing their own interest with no consideration of others' needs.

sounds like "jobs for the boys" (as the British say)

Was it just more grift? If a few paid big money to 'join' where is that money now?

Weird piffling comment comming from a man named Alexander de Pfeffel

Now try an experiment where you stop grazing altogether in some places and see what the biodiversity does?

So nice to hear the world laughing at Katie Hatekins along with everyone in the UK

Still waiting for the adverts :
Have you been mis-sold Help To Buy?

Here is the PM talking to us after yesterday's COBRA meeting and before the press conference on the Middle East.

So good to have a sensible, intelligent, grown up PM during this crisis, after years of terrible PMs.

The thought of any other current party leader dealing with this really scares me.

Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:

PS - same district where the objectors have spent decades saying "brownfield first" and this appears to be putting station car park to good use. It's just objectorism.

Screenshot from https://guildford-dragon.com/248-stalin-esque-flats-approved-for-car-park-site-near-station/ illustration shows group of mid-rise bloack of red brick flats with balconys under the title: "248 ‘Stalin-esque’ Flats Approved for Car Park Site Near Station "

Just back from enjoying continental culture - flats everywhere & nothing to do with Stalin
TBF - wonderful well thought flats of scale/massing below, but all had associate community use
& TBF - if you antirender.com the illustration below, it might be a bit grim, but this ain't Uncle Joe

Good point, but isn't every plan's vision some anodyne "great place to live/work/play"?

It is only an occasional plan that has any real meat or departure from status quo

Dairy man (blessed are the cheese makers)
Bank teller moving to manager in v small town bank (wife ran the small farm to keep kids fed)

Reminds me of first meteorology course at uni: "never predict more than 70% chance of anything and you'll always be right"

"We called London a war zone and moved to Dubai by mistake"

And don't get me started on comparison of rail fares.
Home soon for a slow, expensivr journey to the wilds west of Exeter - as long as the tide isn't in. /Fin

Adds significant planning & construction coats for a species that isn't threatened - just that we're outside their natural area (bring on the mosquitoes?)

Every time I say this, green NIMBYs accuse me of being a planet killer.

Just wish Eng rail & industry were not so pitiful in comparison 2/3

For a few days I've been hammering along on trains in ES & FR at upwards 250km ph and everywhere high speed lines under construct.
This in the area where bats (Gleb/ghb) are native.

Always gets me that in English, at the far edge of their habitat we treat these like endangered species 1/3

Not the most important headline, but, ummm ... Isn't Iran scheduled to play World Cup matches in June in LA & Seattle

1/9. In 2020 Iran did try to interfere with the presidential election.

Call to planning enforcement cld be worthwhile.
Don't know about this one, but frustrating when some councils refuse to regularise housing they've reluctantly permitted as ancillary/tied dwellings.

Yup - does Rightmove check the legality before advertising?

See similar on spareroom.com where it's illegal HMO what 'council tax and bills included' is red flag - can't use address for voter reg (or GP or DVLA as nothing is in their name)