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Only in much the same way that you can only imagine a good design "resistant to overreach" which "will only allow specific uses of data"

And that's a you problem. What are you smoking?

08.10.2025 13:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Alfred Fane | Staplefordonline AFP (Alfred) Fane was a famous racing driver and spitfire pilot who died when his plane crashed near Stapleford Granary in 1942. The crash site was discovered in 2022. A blue plaque to mark the crash ...

4th March 1942, according to the linked biog.

www.staplefordonline.co.uk/alfred-fane

08.10.2025 11:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ha ha ha ha ha. Grow the fuck up.

08.10.2025 08:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
ref:iwm | Keys | OpenStreetMap Taginfo

I have a 53 page, 113 point bulletin for the IWM; but it's still cooking - am only ~70% through their memorials list. Mainly duff coordinates and a handful of duplicate records.

taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/ref%3Ai...

07.10.2025 07:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Think I'd go with repointed and perhaps repaired?

07.10.2025 07:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Bernie is not exactly the yardstick, though, is he.

Until you see that the Democratic Party has flaws so deep that they act against their own interest, you're bound to repeat the same patterns. Getting pissy with someone who tells you that, is for the birds. Just juvinilia.

06.10.2025 16:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You were out several posts ago, but you're still here. When Dems put up decently progressive candidates they get votes. When they put up machines, not so much. That's just the way it is.

06.10.2025 16:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I seem to remember the Biden Harris regime arming Bibi, and Kamala speaking out against pro-Palestinian demonstrators. Two of the reasons she lost.

06.10.2025 16:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Nice try. Viable alternatives win. Non-viable alternatives lose. Remind me of the result, Lilith.

06.10.2025 16:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Winning ad hominem argument there, Kitty. You must be proud.

Face it, you have to be really fucking useless to lose to Trump. But Kamala managed it.

06.10.2025 16:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Empircally they weren't, no. They lost, remember? A viable alternative would have won.

06.10.2025 16:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Your complaisence is emblematic of the reasons the Dems lost. Good luck with that.

06.10.2025 16:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Don't learn the lesson, repeat the pattern in 2028. It's about the Dem candidate not the Rep candidate.

06.10.2025 16:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Bigots gonna bigot. There has to be a viable alternative; the Harris Dems were not that.

Don't expect people to vote against something. People don't do that. They vote for things. Offer them a shit sandwich and watch what happens.

06.10.2025 16:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Sublime Fawlty Towers stuff. Accepting a P45. Losing her voice.

06.10.2025 14:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You're not making a difference nor helping. You're just making a fool of yourself.

06.10.2025 14:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

'We The People' is a forlorn and bullshit line of argument, given he was elected by a subset of those people. Sorry your political savvy is still at kindergarten level, but there we are.

Maybe start by rebuilding an electable Democractic party that is not captured by consultants and corporates?

06.10.2025 14:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Aerial photo of the remains of Stobs Military Camp - many hut outlines in a series of fields.

Aerial photo of the remains of Stobs Military Camp - many hut outlines in a series of fields.

It's in the now long forgotten graveyard of a huge POW camp - 100 huts, 6,000 prisoners - at Stobs Castle, south of Hawick in the Scottish Borders.

The memorial was funded by a performance of Strauss & Offenbach at the camp on Easter Monday 1917.

* en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stobs_M...

05.10.2025 17:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Celtic Cross memorial with a line of Commonwealth War Grave Commision headstones behind it, in an otherwise lawned empty cemetery

Celtic Cross memorial with a line of Commonwealth War Grave Commision headstones behind it, in an otherwise lawned empty cemetery

Landmark indicator supported by a cast iron pillar, situated in the middle of a circular stone enclosure. It doubles up as a war memorial.

Landmark indicator supported by a cast iron pillar, situated in the middle of a circular stone enclosure. It doubles up as a war memorial.

Fun fact: this is probably the second or third oldest WW1 memorial in Scotland, after the Grand Fleet Roman Catholic Officers and Men memorial on Hoy (1916) and the Newhills Parish and District - Landmark Indicator (June 1917)

* www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/it...
* www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/it...

05.10.2025 17:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Imperial War Museum War memorial Register record for an allegedly lost memorial. Says "Stobs Prisoner of War Camp Memorial (LOST)", shows sepiatone picture of a pillar-like cairn with a tablet embedded in it.

Imperial War Museum War memorial Register record for an allegedly lost memorial. Says "Stobs Prisoner of War Camp Memorial (LOST)", shows sepiatone picture of a pillar-like cairn with a tablet embedded in it.

Geograph photo taken 29 days ago. Says "The Prisoners Memorial at the Stobs Camp Cemetery". Colour image of the pillar cairn tablet memorial, with wreaths at its foot.

Geograph photo taken 29 days ago. Says "The Prisoners Memorial at the Stobs Camp Cemetery". Colour image of the pillar cairn tablet memorial, with wreaths at its foot.

Lost & found (Geograph edition).

* www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/it...

* www.geograph.org.uk/photo/8142792

05.10.2025 16:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Sure Jan.

05.10.2025 16:44 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Map of Scotland in an OpenStreetMap Overpass Turbo report, showing monuments and memorials as blue and red dots.

Map of Scotland in an OpenStreetMap Overpass Turbo report, showing monuments and memorials as blue and red dots.

The report is overpass-turbo.eu/s/2d1d - replace nominatimArea:"Scotland" with your favoured country or area. Counts are in the bottom right corner; sum the nodes, ways and relations.

05.10.2025 11:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Scotland outperforming the rest of the UK; Lux a low population outlier? Germany benefits from bulk addition of Stolpersteins - 'stumbling stones', raised cobbles commemorating victims of Nazis. Beyond that, probably as reflective of effort in OSM than as a reliable count.

05.10.2025 11:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Spreadsheet of number of memorials and monuments per million population, and per square kilometre, for western European countries, according to OSM. Data is:

County,M&M,Population (M),MnM/M,Area (KM^2),MnM/Area

Scotland,4122,5.5,749,77910,0.053
Wales,991,3.1,320,20799,0.048
England,14971,58.3,257,130279,0.115
Northern Ireland,336,1.9,177,14130,0.024

Luxemborg,770,0.7,1100,2586,0.298
Germany,87420,83.5,1047,357022,0.245
Austria,8780,9.2,954,83871,0.105
Finland,3601,5.6,643,338462,0.011
France,43736,68.5,638,632702,0.069
Belgium,5302,11.9,446,30688,0.173
Ireland,2386,5.4,442,84421,0.028
Italy,23930,59,406,302073,0.079
Norway,2006,5.6,358,385207,0.005
Denmark,1861,6,310,42592,0.044
UK,20420,68.8,297,243188,0.084
Netherlands,4912,18,273,41865,0.117
Greece,2720,10.4,262,131957,0.021
Spain,11716,48.8,240,506030,0.023
Portugal,2304,10.7,215,95170,0.024
Switzerland,1430,9,159,41285,0.035
Sweden,1107,10.6,104,450295,0.002

Spreadsheet of number of memorials and monuments per million population, and per square kilometre, for western European countries, according to OSM. Data is: County,M&M,Population (M),MnM/M,Area (KM^2),MnM/Area Scotland,4122,5.5,749,77910,0.053 Wales,991,3.1,320,20799,0.048 England,14971,58.3,257,130279,0.115 Northern Ireland,336,1.9,177,14130,0.024 Luxemborg,770,0.7,1100,2586,0.298 Germany,87420,83.5,1047,357022,0.245 Austria,8780,9.2,954,83871,0.105 Finland,3601,5.6,643,338462,0.011 France,43736,68.5,638,632702,0.069 Belgium,5302,11.9,446,30688,0.173 Ireland,2386,5.4,442,84421,0.028 Italy,23930,59,406,302073,0.079 Norway,2006,5.6,358,385207,0.005 Denmark,1861,6,310,42592,0.044 UK,20420,68.8,297,243188,0.084 Netherlands,4912,18,273,41865,0.117 Greece,2720,10.4,262,131957,0.021 Spain,11716,48.8,240,506030,0.023 Portugal,2304,10.7,215,95170,0.024 Switzerland,1430,9,159,41285,0.035 Sweden,1107,10.6,104,450295,0.002

For no good reason beyond OpenStreetMaps being down for maintenance earlier today, here are the number of memorials and monuments per million population, and per square kilometre, for western European countries, according to OSM.

05.10.2025 11:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Interesting window splatter, from the days when train toilets emptied out onto the line...

04.10.2025 19:09 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Have you considered resigning?

02.10.2025 22:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Various images of Morecambe and Wise performing "Bring Me Sunshine"

Various images of Morecambe and Wise performing "Bring Me Sunshine"

All the older British people be humming "Bring Me Sushine".

02.10.2025 20:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

(Also further yellow card for the exclamation point)

02.10.2025 20:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Culross Abbey Admire the beautiful surrounds of this ruined 1200s Cistercian monastery.

There are two things there: the (ruined) abbey, and the abbey church which became the parish church.

www.historicenvironment.scot/visit-a-plac...

02.10.2025 20:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

That's true. But they've been through this loop often enough to know that they should have protocols that include thorough and public consultation.

In the Culdross case, it's odd that HES seems to own/run the abbey, but that the church is being dispensed with.

02.10.2025 20:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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