Absurd that we're having banknote discourse when cash makes up less than 10% of transactions now.
The answer is clear: the government should mandate the design of debit and credit cards.
Printing an enormous banner to go in the HQ saying "when first time voters were born, you were the opposition - do that again"
Canadian politician "decide what your beliefs and alliegiances are BEFORE you get elected" challenge (difficulty: impossible)
Meeting local cats is an excellent feature of being back
Yes yes
People of BlueSky: Now that I live in London for the first time, we are trying to do an activity in every borough. This is alphabetical, so does anyone have recommendations for what to do in Barking and Dagenham?
Anywhere I can learn more about that? To be honest we just liked the beer, don't really know much about the industry beyond a couple of places our friends work!
Japanese cities are hilarious for this, Hakodate is literally "Warehouses". Noble exception in Sendai, which you can translate as something like "Wizard Plateau"
I'm very glad she did this since it meant I got to tag along for a lot of fun trips, even if it did also mean going on holiday to Fort St. John
My partner visited every single brewery in British Columbia (282 in total - although some of them closed in the interim) and has written up this blog about her experience! Check it out! 🍻
Mission accomplished 🐘
The love of a charity shop deal never goes away
"If I explain things to people harder they'll agree" is *so* Green Party!
People who mean well and want things that sound nice, but have largely been surrounded by those who already agree with them so don't know how to handle challenges to those ideas.
Going to the British Heart Foundation shop at opening time so I can nab the extremely cute elephant storage box I saw there at the weekend, and if someone else has nabbed it I am not responsible for my actions
It occurs to me that if Mamdani has his way we're going to reach unheard of levels of discourse with "is it okay to steal from the publicly owned supermarket"
I personally am enjoying that the kind of morality you learn in pre-school - don't steal, share, don't tease people for being different - now marks you out as part of a challenging intellectual vanguard.
You will pay for the bus.
You will pick up the litter.
You will smoke in the smoking area.
You will guard the public good and you will be happy.
British supermarkets are *so* good. Today I bought a toilet roll holder, set of paintbrushes, sandpaper and sander, a blanket, lamp, food waste bags and a chopping board from Tesco. In Vancouver that would have been three different shops.
"Theo Leggett" reporting on a bombing campaign against the Islamic Republic of Iran is surely a bit
If I was to be unkind about my fellow members there is definitely a wanting to have one's cake (from Gail's) and still mock those eating it for being posh.
They can't understand that so much of the community of the pit/steelworks/factory was a survival mechanism for people doing jobs that were dangerous, unpleasant and that they'd mostly have not taken given the choice. Not *needing* the miners' welfare is in many ways a government success story.
Every country in Europe watched electricity prices spike last week. Belgium hit 400 €/MWh. Germany €450. Netherlands nearly €500.
Spain barely moved above €100.
It's been very relaxing to outsource most of my opinions on this race to the procedural question of "the leader should be a member of parliament" when there's only one candidate who meets that criterion.
If the next Labour leadership election could not take *eleven months* that'd be ideal.
We love a leadership election don't we folks
Doesn't seem entirely fair
Awful bastards. She's an elected representative, and doesn't have to be of the same party as me for that to be a more honourable thing than whatever they've done.
Great how we broke society by letting people go on the computer too much.
Sex clown, sex clown,
You're a sex clown
And your nose keeps on honking
While you're trying to get down
Never easy working on a Saturday but someone has to taste the pies for our wedding
