Dr Joanne Williams

Look at some US medical insurance bills and you'll soon feel better. Or their idea of annual leave. Or maternity cover. Or job security.

bbc article with diagram of Glasgow fire site, pls follow link in post for full alt text

BBC thumbnails to live article posts are hopeless! Anyway this is the view diagonally across, more or less where the words "Glasgow Central" are in this pic.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...

View across glass roof to elaborate multi storey sloped roof with complex chimneys, pipework and windows

I think the building this pic was taken from has survived the fire in Glasgow. Just an opportunity to admire the complexity of installing services on the hotel roof.

The thing about UK cities is it's not just an infill neighbour. It's that there's an infill, and then one side subdivided, then half rebuilt, then the infill rebuilt, then one of the subdivides gets merged, and then... for ~1000yrs. Nothing is surprising and every decision was sane to someone!

coo

Thank you!

Short version: a decent base map, a very good understanding of perspective, and a lot of hard work at street level making preparatory sketches.

Longer version with much extraneous background info:

new-cleckit.dominie.scot/many-a-chill...

Side quest, how did they get that view? Balloon by 1853? Or is this deduced, based on maps/model? When were the first bird's eye views done of places you can't see from a mountain?

As ever, all hail the building inspectors, the planners, the electricians, the people who check evacuation routes, the cleaners and worriers and fixers.
Tie red tape around that monument to heroes, because whilst we grumble at you for making us do tedious tasks, you also save lives.

And breezy with sunny spells.

Two firefighters resting, sitting on the plinth of the "Citizen Firefighter" statue.

Quite an image on the BBC live page (www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...; no photographer credited).

Sounds as if they've saved the station and the hotel, and more importantly, without loss of life.

Citizens; heroes.

Yes, the options to hide/warn/show are so good here you forget it's not the same on other platforms.

That site has got its own communications problems. From an old thread (I haven't checked it recently, it might have changed).
bsky.app/profile/jowi...

Not every study includes VLM etc but not every study claims to be actually measuring relative SL either. The mistake is in mis-application of studies that don't do the full budget, not that they exist.

Yep. In an ideal world we'd have great tide gauges everywhere, but in the absence of being able to go back in time, wave a finance and geopolitics wand, and install and maintain them for 30 years then we have to fill the gaps somehow. And that's modelling and/or altimetry.

Fingers crossed.

Precisely!

Have you been possessed by the spirit of a 1980s gameshow host?

A few years later, leaning over a girl on a train, still drunk: "I used to know a barmaid who looked like you..."

A young barmaid behind the bar at the famous French nightclub Folies-Bergère is staring forward in a bored, introspective way. Behind her is a mirror which reflects the lively scene. At the top left you see the green shoes of a trapeze artists. More importantly, at right you see the back of the barmaid, and see that she is face to a man who leans close and seems to be requesting something. This is Manet's famous painting "A Bar at the Folies-Bergère": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Bar_at_the_Folies-Berg%C3%A8re

The perspective looks all wrong. You're staring straight at this barmaid, but her reflection in the mirror is way off to right. Even worse, her reflection is facing a guy who doesn't appear in the main view!

But in 2000, a researcher showed this perspective is actually possible!

(1/n)

Window display: dinosaur-unicorns confront mammoths. (The situation may not be palaeontologically plausible.)

Window display: cats.

Window display: sea birds.

Window display: the sky.

Final batch. Thank you, as ever, to everyone who puts their time and heart into an event that has no purpose except to brighten the lives of their neighbours a wee bit. It does.

🎵you make the shipping world go round

But you should at least take your books to show them. Not (just) because it gives you authority, or sales, but for their sake. It gives the kids a connection to a published author of real books. It makes that seem attainable, something of their world. And you can always suggest the library 🤗

People do appreciate constituency MPs, local representation, and to lose that would be a monumental shift. Far more than "my second choice would be..."

Recently went to a restaurant with a wash area (separate from loos and no door to come back to the table), and it was so nice to sit down to a meal out with properly clean hands. Would like this everywhere.

Figure Skaters With Disabilities Seek a Place in the Paralympic Spotlight The Paralympics do not include figure skating but there's a movement to change that

Athletes with disabilities are working to bring figure skating into the Paralympic spotlight — building adaptive techniques and pushing for inclusion in future Games.

👉 https://ow.ly/WoUL50YpSo8

#Paralympics #AdaptiveSports #Inclusion #FigureSkating

GOAL!!!

(Watch to the end)

I think there's a case for registering staff interests, so individual cases can be investigated if necessary. I don't think there's a case for publishing the full register, any more than any other public servant.

Favourite #WorldBookDay moment ...
Asked a hall full of children if any of them knew what a Dalek was ... girl RAN up to the stage and announced ... it's a small onion but strong. Cut it and you'll cry.

Me: .... thinking ...
Me: .. still thinking ...
Finally ...
... Garlic.

I'm guessing the superchallenging bit is reliability. If it breaks down in the pipe you have got problems!