It will be a different world and you will need much more than Trump gone, e.g. taxing oligarchs out of existence. Unlikely as the country is founded on oligarchy amd exceptionalism.
05.03.2026 11:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It will be a different world and you will need much more than Trump gone, e.g. taxing oligarchs out of existence. Unlikely as the country is founded on oligarchy amd exceptionalism.
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FEBS Education Award 2026 presented to Prof. Luciane Vieira de Mello from University of Liverpool (UK) with her portrait.
Thrilled to share that Professor Luciane Vieira de Mello has been awarded the FEBS Education Award 2026! Selected from 11 strong applications across Europe, her impactful, collaborative leadership in biosciences education continues to inspire: https://ow.ly/JRwL50Ypvm8
05.03.2026 10:05 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
*meep meep*
There is a point in most Road Runner cartoon episodes where Wile E. Coyote has been outsmarted by the road runner and has ended up running clean off the end of a cliff.
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Given it’s World Book Day, I suppose I should mention that ‘How to Lay an Egg with a Horse Inside’ comes out next month: a collection of new poems, which doubles up as a guide to enjoying & writing poetry.
Signed copies available through the indie bookshops and here: uk.bookshop.org/a/295/978103...
Actually good, from experience.
05.03.2026 11:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Not bad - obviously relative poverty given GSP/capita, but decent cheap hotels, excellent one dish restaurants, healthcare access and schools. Largely absent is the now large underclass of homeless seen in the west.
05.03.2026 10:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Reform fury as someone else wins by Our By-election Editor Tim Shipsink The losing candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election, Matt Goodwhinge, has demanded an immediate re-run of the election on the grounds that he lost comprehensively to someone else. "It's totally unfair and rigged," said Goodwhinge. "I shouldn't be required to sit there and suck it up, just because I lost." Mr Goodwhine continued, *I can't believe that all those voters I demonised failed to back me. Especially after I was endorsed by Tommy Robinson and ten million Russian bots on X. "We have clear evidence of family voting, where people voted in order for me to stop deporting their families." Mr Badloser concluded. "I'm the victim of colour prejudice. They didn't vote for me simply because I'm not green." Reform leader Mr Farage, speaking from a sun lounger on a rock near the Chagos Islands said, "It's a tragedy that the people of Manchester won't see Matt in Westminster, but my constituents don't see me in Clacton either." PLUMBER DEFEATS MATT GOODWIN Photo of Hannah Spencer with speech bubble saying… I've stopped the cock
Beautiful from Private Eye on the massive toddler-tantrum that Matt Goodwin and Reform are having, because they got whooped in Gorton and Denton.
05.03.2026 07:35 — 👍 2844 🔁 997 💬 62 📌 52See also UK. Morocco has more km high speed than any Anglo country…
05.03.2026 10:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Only this morning, a charming Starmer supporter told me :
‘You lot have been having a pathetic tantrum, and the latest idiot excuse is to pretend Labour is adopting Reform's policies in your desire to put the actual Far Right into power.’
Hmmn…
Bridging - they need the fuel as production of EVs (cars, vans and trucks) will take time to replace entire fleet of ICE vehicles. In 10 years or so they will no need oil.
05.03.2026 10:51 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Sort of bored by the outcome and get restless!
05.03.2026 10:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Takes a while to put thing right properly, though tbh I miss having a bag of cement or player as my kitchen companion. Think I prefer the project to the outcome 😂
05.03.2026 10:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Chez Moose is ex-rental (the gift that keeps on giving) built in the 1930s and relentlessly "cowboyed" by an overconfident DIY person followed by a team of Indian (South Asian) "handymen". Some of the bodging you would not believe, but I needed a house in a hurry and this was it. Never moving again.
04.03.2026 23:51 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0After the 1973 oil crisis there were efforts by private individuals and companies e.g., hotels. Worked, but massive push back from you know who and governments failed to consider decentralised power generation. Had France gone big on heat pumps and solar with its nuclear homes = generators
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Couldn’t figure if the hole was next door- odd corner house!
Sadly it will likely be bought up and done out badly for rental.
Sending thoughts and prayers 😉
We have some new fangled tech, the ultimate in intelligent door systems, probably too advanced to catch on, a door knocker. It appears to be very reliable and doesn't seem to need any wires or internet hook up and looks to be self powered.
You buy some locks and change the lot to keys!
04.03.2026 23:04 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
They lack the latter - and generally cannot be re-armed at sea. We have lost a lot of capability.
Count the number of oilers today and compare to when you were at sea...
In some ways she is right. I believe they need to be re-armed at a port, so quite vulnerable once armaments used up. They also lack serious protection vs a drone swarm - oerlikons or the like.
E.g., one US destroyer went Winchester in the war vs Houthis for this simple reason.
For those interested, it is #24 - Google view from 2023 it was in a decent state, so the consequence of high house prices and slum landlords.
Suggests structure fine.
Always buy the worst house on the best street you can afford that is an easy commute to workplace!
04.03.2026 22:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Roof looks straight, difficult to tell, but walls do too. Windows need replacing, interior appears to lost any original features. Not sure what the ceiling problem is in one photo.
Decent garden too.
What a steal lol
Meanwhile I bought a stunning house outside of karlstad Sweden that’s 200m2 for £53k in 2024.
Property prices need to get in check. I don’t know how the rest of you guys are doing it. It’s just way too expensive to buy in most places now. Cost to income ratio is exorbitant.
I do not think I have ever seen this in a property description before lmao
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The drones are posing a bigger problem than anticipated, - Pete Hegseth
NO SHIT
FAFO as we say 😉
04.03.2026 21:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
de la continuité de la putasserie infinie de l'admin Trump quand ils besoin de ceux à qui ils crachent à la gueule depuis des années... episode douzemille
04.03.2026 21:00 — 👍 37 🔁 9 💬 6 📌 1
You have an advantage - you can read.
This also makes you extremely dangerous 😉
Indeed.
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Note the country with the second best wind resources, US, is busy fighting earth 20th Century wars over control of fossil fuels.
Indeed - often the costume just an own clothes day with the book side to the fore.
04.03.2026 21:37 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0