I will be extremely clear ( Read more... )

"...if sheer righteous fury could accomplish anything worthwhile, wolverines would have inherited the galaxy long ago."

(Crown of Slaves, David Weber & Eric Flint)

Don't just get angry. Change things.

Is anyone still accepting names for their cockroaches, perhaps the giant Madegascar cockroaches?

If so I propose: Theresa, Boris, Micheal, Jacob, John, Amber, and Nigel.

So,
right-wing Queers;
right-wing Transgender people;
right-wing Black people;
right-wing Asian people;

What makes them all think it won't happen to them when the fascists come?

Another shop tries to ensure I won't use their self-service checkouts: the Co-Op has disabled cash on their existing self-service checkouts (at a local store), and is installing new self-service checkouts that are card only (at another local store).

It's not that I don't have payment cards; I have half a dozen of them with plenty of spending power ( Read more... )

The ICE train that I am riding in, which looks rather like a spaceship designed by ferrets, has just entered the Netherlands from Germany ( Read more... )

I have made the mistake of arriving at London Stansted Airport 30 minutes earlier than necessary. Stansted continues to be a most unpleasant place. After an enforced circuitous walk through the retail maze one arrives in the "departure lounge", a space where most of the floor area is rented out to even more retail establishments ( Read more... )

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has narrowly won a referendum to expand presidential powers, which could keep him in office until 2029.

A report to Parliament says 25 million existing homes will not meet the insulation standards required by mid-century.

Reported by the BBC.

I am not permitted to materially improve the insulation in my (grade 2 listed) house. So, if anyone in Government wants better home insulation from me, they need to let me do it.

The WiFi on this Thalys train works as well as WiFi on the Thalys train I took a few days ago: very badly. It doesn't work at all, one can sign in but not fetch any web pages.

They have many signs saying it's free, but it's worth what I paid for it: nothing.

(posted via mobile data, thanks to the European Union's regulations on mobile phone