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Now all the badger stuff I've been seeing makes sense!

I learnt earlier that the final cover of loaded magazine was harry hill riding a badger. Possibly an idea for a compromise?

The controversial and surprising vote to remove highly effective traffic calming measures from a residential area and re-introduce up to 6,000 vehicles daily — on a 'quite route' for walking, wheeling and cycling spanning two primary schools — must surely now be revisited at Transport Committee.

Glad to hear it!

I know the petrol price stuff is very serious, but all the reporting from an American perspective is making me ragey, those are not high prices.

Yes, long distances, sprawl, no trains etc but choosing to drive massively inefficient, stupidly large, expensive cars is absolutely an individual choice

Sure. I was just commenting in terms of my kid in Edinburgh. You would not have seen 13 year olds independently navigating buses using the bus app before they all got free passes. I don't think this was discussed as a possible benefit when the policy was introduced

Quoted skeet: I can't speak for the US but I find in the UK car users tend to overestimate how difficult it would be to replace many car journeys with active or public transport using existing provision, while also underestimating (& refusing to learn) how difficult it is for non-drivers to make certain journeys.

One unexpected (to me, afaik the SG too) benefit of the bus pass for kids is that it totally gets the kids into managing bus travel from a young age

Although they also are all taking the 'Lothian chariot' for journeys that would be a 15 minute walk, so some unexpected negative consequences too

I am wondering how those two parties could work together! You'd think they'd be diametrically opposed on things like transport/car industry which I imagine is pretty important for BaWü in particular!

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I've just read that in the polls the cdu were ahead, so to the extent this is a surprise it's that the greens have maintained their vote share

Projection of the Baden Württemberg federal state election in Germany. Greens are on 31% and the CDU on 30%. AfD on 18% and SPD on 5.5% and the others a Don't make it past the 5% needed to get seats

Saw this from the Baden-Württemberg election and thought OMG what happened but having now read up on it it is *already* a green black coalition with the greens leading, just with slightly more CDU, so this is just people being happy with how that's going?

White blossoms on a bush

It's blossom season!

I have learnt a new word - loufoque! It means wacky

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I won't be watching Eurovision this year but I still like to know and judge the songs. We'll see how sucked in I get

This on the other hand is proper terrible

I like this more than I thought I would because the operaey bits are less operaey but it does feel a little disjointed

I basically do enjoy any French pop song though

Well there is a man I would rather not have known about tbh!

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Two of them are on Luxembourg this year and that is well boring

Wow I had no idea it's the same people doing so many songs. So their job description is actually Eurovision songwriter. Not sure how I feel about this!

Oh yes, Swedish (I assume?) songwriters

I need to listen to it more before I decide what I think. Currently just annoyed at the pronounciation

Is it not any good then? Will have a listen

That was hard today!

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Tangentially related: in German home office is a verb that extends to any kind of remote laptop based working

Discovered when podcast host talked about die homeofficenden Menschen to talk about people working in a cafe (no home, no office)

What's going on in France, Greece and Italy though? Very counter to the popular image of the last two especially!

I also just remembered that the school have some dressing up stuff available for kids that are keen, but haven't brought anything from home.

I have a lot of complaints about expectations schools puts on parents, but this is very low down the list

Reskeeting myself because I am seeing so many 'oh shit it's world book day, I need to magic up a costume' posts, and you know you do not actually have to do that. Kids don't want to dress up? They don't have to

Maybe Edinburgh schools are an outlier with their chilled approach, but I doubt it

To be fair all schools I'm aware of are making this extremely low pressure and usually only about 10-20% of kids dress up at all

My older only dressed up in the first two years but for the younger this is a major event and he's been planning his outfit for months

Hua Yang Long and its cargo towering over Western Harbour high-rises.

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