Andrew White

Petition: Shut down the UK Government and Parliament Petitions system Stop funding the UK Government and Parliament e-petitions system and shut it down. We believe it's a waste of taxpayer money, that it consistently ignores public feedback, and that it enacts not enoug...

But if this petition were acted upon it’d prove petitioning does do something 🤔

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

It's probably badgers - they're protected so any existing setts are obscured on a location plan.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion but it might be more persuasive if you learnt the difference between government and parliament

Screenshot of the Met Office map of forecasted rain show an intense band of rain passing over Cornwall and Devon in the middle of the day.

Looking at the Met Office forecasted rainfall map you might want to take a long lunch break and wait for this to pass over 😬

The removal of the need for a paper counterpart to a driving license is another good example - generate a code, give it to hire company, check code. It's just the analog version of secure token passing.

"you can't be creative if you use GenAI" is giving me "you can't be creative if you use a computer" vibes from the 90s - it's a tool, how you use it is whether its creative or not.

Has anyone in goverment or Ofcom acknowledged the impact on small online communities running their own message boards? Does sometimes feel like the government would like all these small sites to disappear and then it makes regulation much easier to deal with just the big tech companies.

Wonder if he intends to block B4113 cycling improvements? He voted to defer the School Lane s278 agreement for more consultation saying he grew up in the area and that the road was too narrow - removing the shared cycleway is about the only change they can do other than not build the warehouse.

The only way would be to ban all encrypted connections - not getting much GDP growth if you ban e-commerce 🙄

I'd ask everyone to bear in mind this is a Reach PLC website who's whole business model is now just clickbait - they're also running a story titled "Exact message you'll receive on UK phones during Armageddon alarm test" for the next nationwide test of the GOV.UK Alert on September 7th.

Production company disputes Nadine Dorries’ claim Channel 4 faked reality show Makers of Tower Block of Commons deny paying actors to play real people from deprived communities

Nadine Dorries smuggled in £50 but she says it was for presents for the children of the family she was staying with

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

That feeling when you've spent ages removing use of 'unsafe-inline' from the Content-Security-Policy header and then the client gives you a Google Tag Manager script that requires 'unsafe-eval' 😭

There's definitely improvements coming - in the UK we have regulations making it a requirement that CPOs support at least one roaming network by later this year and I think you have NEVI in the US which mandates inter-operability for federally funded chargers.

The Rashford petition got some degree of success, though not everything thing they were asking for. The road pricing petition was technically a No. 10 petition and not a parliament petition but we've still got no road pricing so I guess that's a 'success'.

Seems like "not normally" is a load bearing phrase in that clause - do Ofcom clarify that in any way?

Given you can install a VPN on any cloud service anywhere in the world how do they suggest that you identify VPNs reliably - sure there are managed IP lists that you can use but they're not 100% reliable. Also how do they suggest dealing with rotating residential proxies using non-UK IP addresses?

Also huge electric SUVs - stop the leasing salary sacrifice scheme giving a huge discount to higher rate tax payers and the sales of those will fall of a cliff.

Scoop Nashville founder Jason Steen dies at 44 - Nashville Banner Jason Steen, proprietor of Scoop Nashville, dies at 44 due to heart failure. His journalism style was controversial but influential.

Yeah, he had a heart transplant in 2017 - kinda crazy he was eating that way in 2023 after that.

nashvillebanner.com/2024/10/14/s...

Jason Steen on X: "I really find this stat hard to believe... just exported my #DoorDash data to confirm, and i spent $25K last year just on that... how is anyone living on $40K/yr ? https://t.co/I9D2n7ewPK" / X I really find this stat hard to believe... just exported my #DoorDash data to confirm, and i spent $25K last year just on that... how is anyone living on $40K/yr ? https://t.co/I9D2n7ewPK

It's a real post but from 2023 and in this case, yes, he was doomed as he died last year

x.com/jasondotnews...

Jason Steen on X: "I really find this stat hard to believe... just exported my #DoorDash data to confirm, and i spent $25K last year just on that... how is anyone living on $40K/yr ? https://t.co/I9D2n7ewPK" / X I really find this stat hard to believe... just exported my #DoorDash data to confirm, and i spent $25K last year just on that... how is anyone living on $40K/yr ? https://t.co/I9D2n7ewPK

Tweet from 2023: x.com/jasondotnews...

I mean the whole point of a penalty in normal time is to give the attacking team an unfair advantage - it's different to a penalty shoot-out. This change would encourage gamesmanship where an attacker is prevented from scoring an almost certain goal.

Lack of a backbone when it comes to decisions drivers might not like - see also pavement parking 🙄

Pretty much the same round here in North Coventry and we're about as far away from the sea as you can get.

Was applying for government security clearance and the form required the county of my mother's birthplace, Barrow-in-Furness. Wasn't sure whether they meant Lancashire as it was in 1936 or Cumbria as it is today. Was concerned that they wouldn't be able to find the birth records and would block me 😅

The problem with allowing off-site mitigation is how do you prevent scenarios such as poorer North Warwickshire getting more 'Golden Triangle' warehouses and the money ending up in richer South Warwickshire areas?

Your local planning enforcement team might if it were reported to them. Just google "report a planning breach <council>" to find how to do it (most have an online form).

HMRC told me to wait 72 hours after making some changes to my account before trying to claim a refund online again - I can only think their servers are in a gravity well like the water planet in Interstellar 👨‍🚀

Looks like it was on the cycleway crossing if that picture is of the actual accident and not a library shot. Cars frequently come down Radford Road, see nothing is coming from the right and accelerate up towards the ring road and only see the crossing at the last moment.

Persists in lumping Coventry in the West Midlands when it should be reintegrated with Warwickshire - it's ludicrous that it's cheaper to get a train to Wolverhampton than Leamington Spa from Coventry.

A subtlety that's going to be lost on your average copper