Diane Purkiss

A $400,000 mortgage was $1.5k/ month in 2021.

A $400,000 mortgage is now $3k/ month today.

Double the price for the same home.

BBC Politics Y NEI @BBCPolitics • 26m X "After all the effort invested into building up this relationship, it has never been in a rockier place than it is now" @ChrisMasonBBC on the fallout from Donald Trump's comments about Keir Starmer

Doesn’t really get much more 21st century Britain than this: it’s a nightmarish disaster that produces nothing but murderous catastrophes, and it’ll only get worse now, but we absolutely cannot change anything about it, are you crazy?!

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Favorite hybridizers: Ferdinand Cayeux. Today's variety is a fantastic old red, 'Numa Roumestan' from 1928. It was always a good grower and bloomer for me.
#iris 🌱

Why is the UK spending money on chartered flights to get ex pats out of Dubai? Did the UK government show the same courtesy and decency to the survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire?

I sometimes wonder about how Catholic nationalists work alongside rapture heretics on things like this and then remember a bunch of them are wealthy recent converts that really don't take it seriously other than trying to look pious on TV before telling the pope to shut up about feeding the poor.

Yes, Keir Starmer must do better and go faster in bringing Britain closer to Europe. Here’s how to reset his reset | Naomi Smith MPs warn the plan so far lacks direction and drive, but there are four clear ways to really move on from our disastrous

👏 Best for Britain CEO Naomi Smith (@pimlicat.bsky.social) lays out exactly how Starmer can go further and faster in the UK and EU relationship.

🇬🇧🇪🇺 A closer UK and EU is a stronger and more united Europe.

Read below 👇

We don’t have very good language for this yet. Brands using synthetic influencers is one thing; governments & activist movements using generative AI to falsify events and spread misinformation is another. It’s a rare, genuinely new assault on our capacity to engage in collective reasoning.

Here are the girls the first time I gave them peas. THEY WENT WILD FOR THEM. And still do!

Yes, Keir Starmer must do better and go faster in bringing Britain closer to Europe. Here’s how to reset his reset | Naomi Smith MPs warn the plan so far lacks direction and drive, but there are four clear ways to really move on from our disastrous Brexit, says Naomi Smith of Best for Britain

“Four ways to a better, happier, more successful You” - no, not a pre-beach diet, but some really good advice for the Labour gov’t.

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Gorgeous to watch this hate-channel drain their coffers as it dies

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Won't someone think of the poor white newlyweds?!

Also let’s ban gigayachts.

Over 40% of global shipping by volume exists to move fossil fuels from one place to another.

A huge share of the world's maritime infrastructure has been built around a system that is going to change dramatically as renewable energy and electrification displace fossil fuels.

I’ve got 100’s of patterns.
I’ve got a huge stash of gorgeous yarns
Im at that horrible stage of procrastination….
Time to knit something mind-numbing until the urge to knit something fabulous hits me.

Again🙄

🧶 #knit

This is the point about Labour introducing retrospective changes to the immigration system. They set the precedent for any Govt. to say that they can go back on promises to migrants and people of colour as far back as they want.

Bowl, made in #Persia, c. 1630
16cm x 39.4cm I would love one.

(Victoria and Albert Museum, London)

Just last week the German government gutted the heating law which was supposed to drive a transition away from gas.

The timing could not have been worse: Gas prices are up 50% today and this crisis could worsen significantly. This will happen again and again and the consumer pays the price.

A black and white cat with yellow eyes, mouth open and one paw raised toward the camera

Dodge this! :3

Seconded

I wonder what she paid for that advert.

This is mad bc HP stock being literally donated straight from retailers to charity sector as they can’t flog it. Even Waterstones had merch it on massive sale for the past years.

Flagship Harry Potter store to open on London’s Oxford Street British outlet for the Hogwarts-adjacent ‘interactive retail experience’ will include recreated film locations, as well as ‘photo moments’ and merch

The Guardian is promoting a commercial enterprise the profits from which will be used to harass, exclude and victimise one of the most vulnerable groups in the country.

We tend to think of batteries as the ones in our phones. But the real shift is happening at grid scale.

Utility-scale “mega batteries” now have hundreds of millions of times the capacity of a smartphone battery.

Costs are down ~40% since 2024, and capacity in 2024 was 12x higher than in 2020.

$250k to get out of Dubai.

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4h • "It's up to people what they get up to behind closed doors," local barber Ben Dicks said. A newly-opened adult members' club in a Leicestershire village has been temporarily closed down by council officials following complaints from residents - but not everyone is unhappy about it. Read more: https://bbc.in/46CDjtW Council temporarily shuts down adult members' club.

Laughing at someone’s name who is being quoted in a story about an “adult club” is neither big nor clever. Yet here we are.

I've never observed a wider gap between self-confidence and lack of any actual understanding than in Badenoch. On other topics it can be comical, but when it extends to undermining gov't on matters of national security, in breach of established conventions, it is profoundly dangerous. #PMQs

Council votes to back transgender rights North Herts councillors have backed a motion in support of transgender rights.

North Herts council votes to support trans rights.