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The sse power track app is a sea of red around Inverness. Amusingly discovered that the house we moved into last week which has solar & a 10kwh battery, doesn’t have the backup power module 🤦‍♂️

vorsprung durch horseshoe
Sydney this weekend. Notable that "supreme leader" Khamenei there on the placard calls for the death of all infidels which, by definition, includes Assange 🤷‍♂️
p.s. Has Assange got a time share with Corbyn's red tie?

If people like those in the @greenparty.org.uk are not stopped from advocating and encouraging men to be violent, we may soon have another Jo Cox situation on our hands. It was apparently “just property” this time, what next? Also, people work there and yet bastards like this think it’s ok.

Every single campaign to get further aid to Ukraine. From "Release the Leopard tanks" to ATACMS to Cluster munitions, was accompanied by screeching opposition and fury, by the Stalinist shitrag.

14/ A few suggestive points that it may. First, clearly costly power is a problem for what's left of Britain's energy-intensive manufacturing sector.

The ONS did a good recent look:
www.ons.gov.uk/economy/eco...

#OTD in 1944, Nortmandy. Signal men from 6 Airborne Divison, playing cricket. #WW2 #HISTORY

Just an average column on one of Russia's largest state-owned media outlets today. One might think that they weren't all that interested ending their war in Ukraine.

Другого варианта нет: живым на Украине не должен остаться никто Один из главных информационных парадоксов в рамках конфликта на Украине (особенно сейчас) заключается в том, что безотносительно к реальной ситуации на фронте... РИА Новости, 30.07.2025

Had to check as it seemed so insane, but it's genuine
ria.ru/20250730/ukr...

🤬 Russian missile hit a residential building in Dnipro at night…

The extraordinary story of the foreign volunteers fighting for Ukraine Colin Freeman brings Ukraine’s overseas legionnaires to the forefront of his brilliant new book, The Mad and the Brave

How Russian:
"While held in a Russian-run prison, he’s told “We are going to kill you” by an official; later, it transpires that said official is his defence lawyer"
www.telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fi...

Ahistorical woo too
Barbary & Black Sea slavers didn't let European captives run around free on their ships
The Atlantic salve trade peaked in 1780s
Last Crimean Khanate slave raid was 1774.
In 1816 an Anglo Dutch fleet bombarded Algiers to force the release of white slaves
Does she not have Google?

YouTube video by J Formiche Trallero Renegade Soundwave - The Phantom (It's In There) A - 1989

As @rich-bryant.uk reminded me of how good Lil Louis's French Kiss was. I then wandered of to listen to Renegade Soundwave's Women Respond To Bass (Women Respond in Heaven mix), which sadly wasn't as good as I remember.

However RSW's finest 6 minutes and 32 seconds is still ace
youtu.be/6d5fU4aO4WI

When I worked in a hospital we had a TQ+ bod wandering around handing out rainbow pens, but as they seemingly had no ability to communicate they were always chaperoned by someone from HR, who'd do the talking, then the TQ+ bod would grunt & pass you a free pen.
I should've held out for free Post-its

Bumba has a degree in immunology but "I quickly realised laboratory work was not for me”.
A degree level biomedical scientist in a hospital pathology lab is a Band 6 & night shifts will be part of the job description.
So she's on Band 7 money for handing swanning around handing out rainbow badges

OTD in 2009 Natalia Estemirova received Russia's prestigious 7.62mm award for investigative journalism & died on the scene

She reported on Novye Aldi massacre on 5/2/2000. We killed 60 Russian civilians, raped at least 6 women & burnt homes

Imagine our army still doing that..

A reminder I get regularly from my consultant partner: The BMA is not the GMC. The BMA is a union & the Drs who put themselves forward to be union reps may not be typical of doctors as a whole.
I used to be in Unison the reps were mostly far left & more into ideology than helping the members

Operation Jupiter, the assault on Hill 112 started 81 years ago today.

Audio: Rifleman Douglas Rosewarn, 5th Bn Somerset Light Infantry.
IWM 17500

Film: 129 and 130 Brigade going in on the attack on Hill 112, Eterville and Maltot.
IWM A70 76-6

The worst bit was explaining that though they'd paid £1500 for a PC, the S/W was free, ergo they had to pay 50p/min on something that didn't work out of the box.
Packa Bells came with a software driven (non DSP) modem/soundcard combo 'Mwave', that was a bag o'shite & crashed all the time

YouTube video by onedeadtroll Welcome To The Internet Helpdesk - Official Version

This is still hard to beat after 23 years.
I was telephone support in the 90s for PCworld/Packard Hell on a 50p a min premium line- pre remote desktop/vnc days.
11 hour shifts with 30 mins lunch & 2 x 5 in fag breaks, you'd be bollocked if your fag break was 5 mins 30 seconds.
youtu.be/k7FYR72mr0E

Procurement:

"Our products are systematically discriminated in public procurement, because of Beijing's “Buy China” policy. Goods and services that are “made in China” get an automatic 20% price advantage in public bids. This is simply not fair. The system is explicitly rigged"

"I don't know what happened to my cats.They probably burned down.There's nothing there."

Among the houses damaged by the morning Russian drone attack on Zaporizhzhia is the home of 67-yr-old Iryna Korzh.She was at home with husband,son, &pets. During the Russian strike, Iryna suffered a head injury

😆 I try to watch it every Xmas (never watch the second one though, it's dire) along with National Lampoon's Xmas vacation

Blimey this guy has it in the bag for the role of the elf in Bad Santa III

YouTube video by UPROXX Grandmaster Melle Mel ‎- White Lines (Don't Don't Do It) (Official Video)

Was thinking more of this
(Had an original 12" pressing of this, was released 3 times IIRC, which I've lost 😢
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwRX...

There's barking... and then there's co-authoring a paper with your own 'alternative identity'.

Footage shows a Russian FPV drone operator deliberately targeting and killing a bird — likely a great white pelican, a threatened species.

Russia Has Only One Goal: Destroy Ukraine The Trump administration's continued attempts to negotiate with Vladimir Putin are seen as a strategic failure, as the US simultaneously suspends military aid to Ukraine, effectively endorsing Russian...

« Ru will not agree to a ceasefire or peace in its genocidal war against Ukraine until Kyiv agrees to a permanent loss of Russian-occupied territory, abandons its hopes of joining the West, and transforms itself into an authoritarian vassal of Russia. »
nationalsecurityjournal.org/russia-has-o...

As a thoroughly russified Qazaq kid growing up in the 1980s Almaty, I had deeply internalized the Russo-centric view of Qazaq-speaking Qazaqs as being rural and backwards. Embarrassingly, for many years, I failed to understand what now seems so painfully obvious. 1/10

Oddly this hasn't had traction with bsky's antifas or the BBC.
Yesterday at the High Court in London they were chanting "From the river to the sea Palestine is Arab".
I wonder how much coverage there'd be of EDL chanting "From the North Sea to the Atlantic England is Anglo-Saxon" outside the court?