Will Shepherd

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Although at least the moped riders on L plates should have a CBT, unlike the delivery riders on often equally fast (illegal) ebikes...

The Representation of the People Bill MUST scrap First Past the Post First Past the Post can no longer deliver real mandates - only chaos. 60% of Brits want it scrapped. Yet the new Representation of the People Bill won’t even touch our rotten voting system, which lea...

First Past the Post can no longer deliver real mandates - only chaos. 60% of Brits want it scrapped.

Yet the Representation of the People Bill won’t even touch our voting system, which leaves millions unrepresented.

Tell Keir Starmer to change this.
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Top marks for decrypting Darwin's handwriting!

Politics has now run out of road Neoliberal politics promised growth, efficiency, and renewal. The right has failed. But much of the left has no alternative to offer

Politics has now run out of road eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/pol...

Interesting, I'm not familiar enough with the history of the area to know when it was developed, but it's certainly significantly urbanised by the 1890 OS map. By this date the priory seems to have gone (but remebered by Priory Road / Ter. / Ave.).

Interesting and thought provoking article. AI has its uses, but many limitations.

Mount Pleasant, Sheffield - Wikipedia

Fascinating sketch. Would be interesting to know how old it is! Maybe early 19th century? I expect Mount Pleasant is the same Georgian building as in this Wikipedia entry en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_P... / this listing historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-....

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What countries have you driven in?

UK (except Northern Ireland)
France
Germany
Belgium
Netherlands
Luxembourg
Switzerland
Austria
Italy
Spain
Portugal
Australia
Canada

Petition: By-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party When an MP decides they want to defect to another party a by-election should be automatically triggered to allow the constituents the opportunity have their democratic right to agree or not with their...

PETITION: By-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party

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There's not (from memory) much detailed discussion of runoff in the paper. As you say, catchment wetness is important, also soil types and ground cover, then there is seasonality, e.g. leaves blocking road gullies; evaporation / evapotranspiartion. Transient impacts from e.g. building sites.

In dry weather, hence you can assign more confidence to whether the levels are outside of the expected range. There's a few examples in the results section of the associated paper, the openly accessible version is here eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/19... 2/2

Absolutely, there are a lot of parameters affecting rainfall runoff that vary in space and time. The model is trained with past data to give an estimate of expected levels. Essentially, due to the higher uncertainty in wet weather, discrepancies between measured and predicted are more reliable 1/2

Thanks. The original work started around 2010 and the previous analytics probably dated back to the early 2000s when I guess there was much less availability of real time rainfall, hence it rainfall wasn't included. The research was phased with a gap between the pilot and commercialisation.

Linux has over 6% of the desktop market? Yes, you read that right - here's how It's not a typo. Linux's desktop share is growing, according to the US government's records.

This better referenced, but 6 month old, article says similar www.zdnet.com/article/linu.... It's definitely something I'm considering when the extended free Win10 support expires from my otherwise totally useable PC (which is much faster at most tasks than the supposedly higher spec Dell at work..)

😮 US Department of Xenophobia?
(I wasn't planning on going ther anytime soon anyway...)

I might stretch to defining 1990-2000 as about 20 years ago...

Using Gemini, it's admitedly terrible at generating a picture to do this, but to be fair if you just ask it 'tell me how to wire a UK electrical plug, preferably with an image' then it gives correct text instructions and shows a correct image from Shutterstock. But you could just Google it...

So, an Audi 100 would do 0-100 km/h in 2.8 seconds

The great British energy rip-off is now killing our green energy hopes – and the chance of cheaper electricity As the Guardian reported last night: Ministers are considering dropping one of their central green pledges in an effort to keep energy bills down, sources have told the Guardian. Government insiders say Keir Starmer is prepared to miss his own target of removing almost all fossil fuels from the UK’s electricity supply...

The great British energy rip-off is now killing our green energy hopes – and the chance of cheaper electricity www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/10...

The EveryDoctor Charter for the NHS - take a look and sign if you agree! everydoctor.org.uk/the-everydoc...

Crazy but well worth 4 minutes of your day.

We’re thrilled to share that our Middleton Moor appeal has now raised over £100,000! 💚

This incredible milestone shows just how much people care about nature.

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That's humanism! We've teamed up with our patron Stephen Fry, to explore humanist ideas about some of life’s big questions in four animated shorts.

Love this from Humanists UK! #Thatshumanism is the perfect introduction to the humanist approach to life, featuring four animations narrated by Stephen Fry, and brand new posters all about humanism for schools. Have a look for yourself! humanists.uk/thatshumanism/

Applying AI to Reduce Sewer Spills | The University of Sheffield Player AI system from University of Sheffield helps detect sewer blockages and cut river pollution across Yorkshire with Siemens and Yorkshire Water.

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