According to website I just checked, Seattle's air quality is today one of the worst in the world, on par with Lahore, Pakistan, both measuring 161 on American AQI (air quality index?).
Monitor nearest to yours truly's humble abode = 178 which is worst score in north Seattle.
AND air temperture outside is 88F, while thermometer on my porch (in sun) is reading 93F.
But it is NOT sunny, rather hazy. And smells like an old ashtray when you step outside.
Fortunately forecast for tomorrow calls for lower temps AND shift in winds that will blow the smoke out rather into western Washington.
Regarding Truss going on tour with Charles, I feel like he probably wants an opportunity to lay down the law and fill her head with envirobollocks. To which her response will be firm and frank hopefully.
As the two people very recently appointed to the most important jobs in the country, they are both probably benefiting from each other’s support.
Regarding Truss going on tour with Charles, I feel like he probably wants an opportunity to lay down the law and fill her head with envirobollocks. To which her response will be firm and frank hopefully.
As the two people very recently appointed to the most important jobs in the country, they are both probably benefiting from each other’s support.
PB knew about the Necklace 6 weeks before the rest of the world and it is ENTIRELY because of me being a genius and incredibly perverse and you should all give me money
Why didn't the Knappers Gazette pay you for an article about it?
@wartranslated Ramzan Kadyrov in his late night audio address on Telegram says that “10,000 will enter soon and we will reach Odesa”, while struggling to pronounce “Balakliia”, calling it and other Kharkiv settlements “interesting places”.
Says he will be speaking to “Ministry of Defeat if they do not make conclusions soon”.
One of the channels I watch for the short 10 minute updates is Denys Davydov - a (currently grounded for obvious reasons) Ukrainian Civil Pilot. He does his updates from the Live Map, and Russian and Western news channels, and remarks that he is used to reading cyrillic, and struggles with pronunciation of some Ukrainian places when they are written in a Western alphabet.
@wartranslated Ramzan Kadyrov in his late night audio address on Telegram says that “10,000 will enter soon and we will reach Odesa”, while struggling to pronounce “Balakliia”, calling it and other Kharkiv settlements “interesting places”.
Says he will be speaking to “Ministry of Defeat if they do not make conclusions soon”.
One of the channels I watch for the short 10 minute updates is Denys Davydov - a (currently grounded for obvious reasons) Ukrainian Civil Pilot. He does his updates from the Live Map, and Russian and Western news channels, and remarks that he is used to reading cyrillic, and struggles with pronunciation of some Ukrainian places when they are written in a Western alphabet.
Kadyrov isn't the most fluent speaker of Russian anyway. He constantly fills his sentences with random 'don' sounds.
Jeremy Cliffe @JeremyCliffe · 3h The events of the past hours disprove any lingering doubts Western leaders might have had about the case for maximalist transfers of weaponry & other military support to 🇺🇦. To hold on to available arms that might help Kyiv now is objectively to prolong the conflict.
The senior members of the Royal Family each have their team of personal staff (secretarial, but also admin, perhaps PR, driver, maybe chef, carers for animals, and so on).
The Queen Elizabeth team's jobs just stopped, because when King Charles takes over he brings in his own close / personal staff with him. They could be redundant, or will have an internal / external jobs change, or might retire - as these tend to be really long term staff it will be a shock. Princess Diana used to have at least one person just to look after the wardrobe and help her with her outfits.
Senior professional staff are sometimes hired from outside, so will be better placed.
According to website I just checked, Seattle's air quality is today one of the worst in the world, on par with Lahore, Pakistan, both measuring 161 on American AQI (air quality index?).
Monitor nearest to yours truly's humble abode = 178 which is worst score in north Seattle.
AND air temperture outside is 88F, while thermometer on my porch (in sun) is reading 93F.
But it is NOT sunny, rather hazy. And smells like an old ashtray when you step outside.
Fortunately forecast for tomorrow calls for lower temps AND shift in winds that will blow the smoke out rather into western Washington.
Regarding Truss going on tour with Charles, I feel like he probably wants an opportunity to lay down the law and fill her head with envirobollocks. To which her response will be firm and frank hopefully.
As the two people very recently appointed to the most important jobs in the country, they are both probably benefiting from each other’s support.
Owen Jones @OwenJones84 · 5h It really does look as though the Russian army is being routed by Ukraine's forces. We could be about to find out how a nuclear power headed by an autocrat will respond to being defeated in a land invasion of its own choosing.
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By falling out of a window?
Been out, so sorry if this has already been posted. Huge cache of heavy weaponry captured by the Ukrainians. I mean, staggering.
@wartranslated Ramzan Kadyrov in his late night audio address on Telegram says that “10,000 will enter soon and we will reach Odesa”, while struggling to pronounce “Balakliia”, calling it and other Kharkiv settlements “interesting places”.
Says he will be speaking to “Ministry of Defeat if they do not make conclusions soon”.
Is Truss really going to be accompanying Charles on his visits around the UK? This seems deeply unwise. He's above politics. She has plenty to be getting on with. I cannot remember the Queen doing anything like that with one of her Prime ministers.
Owen Jones @OwenJones84 · 5h It really does look as though the Russian army is being routed by Ukraine's forces. We could be about to find out how a nuclear power headed by an autocrat will respond to being defeated in a land invasion of its own choosing.
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By falling out of a window?
Been out, so sorry if this has already been posted. Huge cache of heavy weaponry captured by the Ukrainians. I mean, staggering.
Is Truss really going to be accompanying Charles on his visits around the UK? This seems deeply unwise. He's above politics. She has plenty to be getting on with. I cannot remember the Queen doing anything like that with one of her Prime ministers.
The young QEII had support from people such as Lord Louis Mountbatten (her second cousin) for one, who crossed the worlds of politics and nobility - which were much more heavily linked back then. I don't know much detail though.
Here's my take - as a lefty non-monarchist - on the Charles/desk thing. And this is what I was saying to my wif as we watched it real time.
Charles decided that the ceremony should be public. A brave and modernising decision. Th desk that was used is probably some traditional desk that has been used for this for the last half dozen such traditional ceremonies. BUT said ceremonies have required a flunky to bring each document individually for signature, not all of them to be on the desk simultaneously. And someone decided that no one else could be in camera shot. So all the documents had to be on the table together.
Charles arrives, with no chance of rehearsal, to do something which he wants to be exactly right, in the view of everybody. And it isn't. And he realises it won't be, particularly if he knocks something off the desk or the documents get messed up.
As a sometime actor, I'd be massively pissed off with my director, or stage manager, if a scene was fucked up that badly on stage, live, in front of an audience. And he had a right to be.
Next time, there should be a bigger desk. Or a rehearsal so that the documents could be brought in with some style.
But I don't think it was Charles who was in the wrong. It was just a screw up in the production.
Regarding Truss going on tour with Charles, I feel like he probably wants an opportunity to lay down the law and fill her head with envirobollocks. To which her response will be firm and frank hopefully.
Maybe they'll come up with a joint plan to build scaled-up Poundburys all over the country.
That, I'd quite like. I agree with him on most of his stuff on architecture - yes Poundbury is a little contrived, but most people would prefer to live there than most contemporaneous towns.
Certainly that is borne out by house prices which are at a 40% premium compared to nearby towns.
Here's my take - as a lefty non-monarchist - on the Charles/desk thing. And this is what I was saying to my wif as we watched it real time.
Charles decided that the ceremony should be public. A brave and modernising decision. Th desk that was used is probably some traditional desk that has been used for this for the last half dozen such traditional ceremonies. BUT said ceremonies have required a flunky to bring each document individually for signature, not all of them to be on the desk simultaneously. And someone decided that no one else could be in camera shot. So all the documents had to be on the table together.
Charles arrives, with no chance of rehearsal, to do something which he wants to be exactly right, in the view of everybody. And it isn't. And he realises it won't be, particularly if he knocks something off the desk or the documents get messed up.
As a sometime actor, I'd be massively pissed off with my director, or stage manager, if a scene was fucked up that badly on stage, live, in front of an audience. And he had a right to be.
Next time, there should be a bigger desk. Or a rehearsal so that the documents could be brought in with some style.
But I don't think it was Charles who was in the wrong. It was just a screw up in the production.
Exactly. The ink stand was on the wrong side of the desk for those signing from the platform - but on the correct side of the desk for those signing from the floor. A props fault.
Here's my take - as a lefty non-monarchist - on the Charles/desk thing. And this is what I was saying to my wif as we watched it real time.
Charles decided that the ceremony should be public. A brave and modernising decision. Th desk that was used is probably some traditional desk that has been used for this for the last half dozen such traditional ceremonies. BUT said ceremonies have required a flunky to bring each document individually for signature, not all of them to be on the desk simultaneously. And someone decided that no one else could be in camera shot. So all the documents had to be on the table together.
Charles arrives, with no chance of rehearsal, to do something which he wants to be exactly right, in the view of everybody. And it isn't. And he realises it won't be, particularly if he knocks something off the desk or the documents get messed up.
As a sometime actor, I'd be massively pissed off with my director, or stage manager, if a scene was fucked up that badly on stage, live, in front of an audience. And he had a right to be.
Next time, there should be a bigger desk. Or a rehearsal so that the documents could be brought in with some style.
But I don't think it was Charles who was in the wrong. It was just a screw up in the production.
The clip doing the rounds on twitter is from the second set of documents that he signs. For the first set you see Charles awkwardly having to move all the inkpot paraphernalia out of the way so that he can add his signature. I thought the whole lot might have been sent tumbling at one point.
I didn't understand why they weren't moved to the appropriate side of the table for whoever was next due to sign something. It was ridiculous for the first set of documents and someone should have fixed it for the second.
Here's my take - as a lefty non-monarchist - on the Charles/desk thing. And this is what I was saying to my wif as we watched it real time.
Charles decided that the ceremony should be public. A brave and modernising decision. Th desk that was used is probably some traditional desk that has been used for this for the last half dozen such traditional ceremonies. BUT said ceremonies have required a flunky to bring each document individually for signature, not all of them to be on the desk simultaneously. And someone decided that no one else could be in camera shot. So all the documents had to be on the table together.
Charles arrives, with no chance of rehearsal, to do something which he wants to be exactly right, in the view of everybody. And it isn't. And he realises it won't be, particularly if he knocks something off the desk or the documents get messed up.
As a sometime actor, I'd be massively pissed off with my director, or stage manager, if a scene was fucked up that badly on stage, live, in front of an audience. And he had a right to be.
Next time, there should be a bigger desk. Or a rehearsal so that the documents could be brought in with some style.
But I don't think it was Charles who was in the wrong. It was just a screw up in the production.
Exactly. The ink stand was on the wrong side of the desk for those signing from the platform - but on the correct side of the desk for those signing from the floor. A props fault.
I'm sure there will be further opportunities, but from the reaction of some you'd think inkwellgate was some epoch defining screwup.
Regarding Truss going on tour with Charles, I feel like he probably wants an opportunity to lay down the law and fill her head with envirobollocks. To which her response will be firm and frank hopefully.
As the two people very recently appointed to the most important jobs in the country, they are both probably benefiting from each other’s support.
Robert Wright @RKWinvisibleman It strikes me that by September 26 when Stop the War plans to hold its Labour conference fringe meeting on how to stop the war in Ukraine, the question may be considerably closer to being resolved. It's just that Stop the War might not like the answer.
What’s the definitive on those fingers? I first noticed them as child, looking at photos from his wedding to Diana.
I think Andrew is similarly ensausaged.
Where do they come from? Is it the Glucksberg inheritance?
They are really odd.
It may account why he wanted someone else to move the inkwell. It would have been embarrassing to drop it.
What's your diagnosis doc?
To me (non-medical) it looks like fluid retention? Given the rosacea we see in his face I wonder how much he drinks? To me he has the look of a heavy drinker (brandy? Port?)
Fluid retention, hypertension and possible periodic gout perhaps? I'm not sure his reign will be a long one...
No, I think it is just localised to his hands. His plethora face looks normal for someone who has spent a lot of time in the sun. Gout is rarely more than 1 joint at a time, and exquisitely painful.
I think some arthritis is most likely.
OK Doc I'll take your word for it!
If his hands and fingers are just naturally very enlarged all I'll say is that god has gifted him many "talents".. and he certainly doesn't have to worry about the tiny "appendages" The Donald supposedly has in light of his tiny hands and fingers lol...
Is Truss really going to be accompanying Charles on his visits around the UK? This seems deeply unwise. He's above politics. She has plenty to be getting on with. I cannot remember the Queen doing anything like that with one of her Prime ministers.
They became PM and King just two days apart so you can see why they would share an affinity...
But that said maybe Chas has noticed the "kinky" attire worn by Ms Truss (as has Sean @Leon ) who knows...
Anastasiia Lapatina @lapatina_ · 6h You know things are going terribly for the Kremlin when their chief propagandist starts reminiscing about the good old times when songs were sang in both Ukrainian and Russian. That's after calling for our extermination for months.
He's always been a prissy gobshite and people don't change at age 73. Didn't somebody on here once tell a yarn about him doing his nut over the presentation of biscuits on a flight?
Interesting to see bien pensant twitter falling over its self tonight to announce the surprise that Ukr is monstering Putin's conscripts, convicts and drunks when some of us on PB have been predicting military disaster for several months.
It looks like it could be a long way towards being finished before the funeral for QEII.
There are some over excited reports of Ukrainian success in the East which arw notably lacking photos or videos.
The news about Lysychansk very suspiciously keeps having old video attached to it.
That's true, but I think the Russians might genuinely be in trouble around Donetsk City following the DNR leader scarpering.
The ISW are updating their situation map more rapidly than those shown on their daily reports, and I've noticed at least two sets of changes since Saturday afternoon in the area north of Izium. The scale and pace of the advance there is remarkable, and judging from that it looks like a surrounded pocket at Izium will be created shortly.
It looks like it could be a long way towards being finished before the funeral for QEII.
There are some over excited reports of Ukrainian success in the East which arw notably lacking photos or videos.
The news about Lysychansk very suspiciously keeps having old video attached to it.
That's true, but I think the Russians might genuinely be in trouble around Donetsk City following the DNR leader scarpering.
The ISW are updating their situation map more rapidly than those shown on their daily reports, and I've noticed at least two sets of changes since Saturday afternoon in the area north of Izium. The scale and pace of the advance there is remarkable, and judging from that it looks like a surrounded pocket at Izium will be created shortly.
NYT - Ukrainian Offensive Seen as Reshaping the War’s Contours The fall of the strategically important city of Izium, in Ukraine’s east, is the most devastating blow to Russia since its humiliating retreat from Kyiv.
KYIV, Ukraine — A lightning Ukrainian offensive in the country’s northeast has reshaped what had become a grinding war of attrition. In a matter of days, Russian front lines have buckled, Moscow’s troops have fled and one village after another has come once more beneath Ukraine’s yellow and blue banner.
Ukrainian officials said on Saturday that their troops had taken the eastern city of Izium, a strategically important railway hub that Russian forces seized in the spring after a bloody, weekslong battle.
“Izium was liberated today,” the city’s mayor, Valeriy Marchenko, said in an interview.
Russia’s Ministry of Defense — which a day earlier had said it was moving to reinforce its defensive positions in the region — confirmed on Saturday that it had pulled its forces out of Izium to “regroup.” While the statement sought to portray the withdrawal as a pre-planned move, the military equipment left scattered about pointed to a hasty retreat to avoid encirclement.
While the 12,000 remaining residents of a prewar population of 40,000 celebrated Izium’s liberation from Russian control, their joy was tempered by the destruction wrought over the past six months.
“There’s no single residential building that wasn’t damaged,” Mr. Marchenko said. “Heating is the biggest problem. I doubt whether we would be able to restore the heating system before winter.”
Ukraine’s capture of Izium could represent a turning point in the war, dwarfed only by Russia’s humiliating defeat around the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, in the spring.
The successful Ukrainian offensive, which began this past week near Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, serves as a testament to the endurance of Ukrainian troops and, once more, the shortcomings of the Russian war machine.
“Ukrainian forces didn’t stop after reaching the first town, but deliberately chose to bypass towns in order to advance deeper behind Russian lines,” said Rob Lee, a military analyst at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.
The success of the Ukrainian offensive in the north comes at a critical juncture. Besides lifting the country’s morale and short-circuiting Russian plans to annex occupied territory, it is arriving ahead of winter, when front lines are expected to freeze and a global energy crisis could strain the West’s support for Ukraine. . . .
Regarding Truss going on tour with Charles, I feel like he probably wants an opportunity to lay down the law and fill her head with envirobollocks. To which her response will be firm and frank hopefully.
Maybe they'll come up with a joint plan to build scaled-up Poundburys all over the country.
It is entertaining how everyone is quite certain of why she is doing this. Each with their own reason.
The most obvious reason being that, as the new PM she’d be doing something of a tour of the country next week anyway.
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Monitor nearest to yours truly's humble abode = 178 which is worst score in north Seattle.
AND air temperture outside is 88F, while thermometer on my porch (in sun) is reading 93F.
But it is NOT sunny, rather hazy. And smells like an old ashtray when you step outside.
Fortunately forecast for tomorrow calls for lower temps AND shift in winds that will blow the smoke out rather into western Washington.
One of the channels I watch for the short 10 minute updates is Denys Davydov - a (currently grounded for obvious reasons) Ukrainian Civil Pilot. He does his updates from the Live Map, and Russian and Western news channels, and remarks that he is used to reading cyrillic, and struggles with pronunciation of some Ukrainian places when they are written in a Western alphabet.
Jeremy Cliffe
@JeremyCliffe
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The events of the past hours disprove any lingering doubts Western leaders might have had about the case for maximalist transfers of weaponry & other military support to 🇺🇦. To hold on to available arms that might help Kyiv now is objectively to prolong the conflict.
The senior members of the Royal Family each have their team of personal staff (secretarial, but also admin, perhaps PR, driver, maybe chef, carers for animals, and so on).
The Queen Elizabeth team's jobs just stopped, because when King Charles takes over he brings in his own close / personal staff with him. They could be redundant, or will have an internal / external jobs change, or might retire - as these tend to be really long term staff it will be a shock. Princess Diana used to have at least one person just to look after the wardrobe and help her with her outfits.
Senior professional staff are sometimes hired from outside, so will be better placed.
Air pollution cancer breakthrough will rewrite the rules
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-62797777
Tom Freeman
@SnoozeInBrief
Before this week, such a scene would have been impossible
if Putin goes, there is a good chance he will go as well. that's why there have been some Chechens fighting for the Ukrainians.
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We may see a frozen bit for a long time soon.
Or, Ukr may just keep pushing the Z feckers right to their border.
https://twitter.com/Rasmussen_Poll/status/1568661441615642625?t=9-i-aGYhxm_CdFJe8q6pUg&s=19
The news about Lysychansk very suspiciously keeps having old video attached to it.
Charles decided that the ceremony should be public. A brave and modernising decision. Th desk that was used is probably some traditional desk that has been used for this for the last half dozen such traditional ceremonies. BUT said ceremonies have required a flunky to bring each document individually for signature, not all of them to be on the desk simultaneously. And someone decided that no one else could be in camera shot. So all the documents had to be on the table together.
Charles arrives, with no chance of rehearsal, to do something which he wants to be exactly right, in the view of everybody. And it isn't. And he realises it won't be, particularly if he knocks something off the desk or the documents get messed up.
As a sometime actor, I'd be massively pissed off with my director, or stage manager, if a scene was fucked up that badly on stage, live, in front of an audience. And he had a right to be.
Next time, there should be a bigger desk. Or a rehearsal so that the documents could be brought in with some style.
But I don't think it was Charles who was in the wrong. It was just a screw up in the production.
I didn't understand why they weren't moved to the appropriate side of the table for whoever was next due to sign something. It was ridiculous for the first set of documents and someone should have fixed it for the second.
https://twitter.com/Keir_Starmer/status/1568686435246686209?s=20&t=4oTBrunNIheU8lKL-gZe7g
Pierre Poilievre favourite
https://www.cbc.ca/
@RKWinvisibleman
It strikes me that by September 26 when Stop the War plans to hold its Labour conference fringe meeting on how to stop the war in Ukraine, the question may be considerably closer to being resolved. It's just that Stop the War might not like the answer.
If his hands and fingers are just naturally very enlarged all I'll say is that god has gifted him many "talents".. and he certainly doesn't have to worry about the tiny "appendages" The Donald supposedly has in light of his tiny hands and fingers lol...
@MarkHertling
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Battlefield math…
UKR reports 52,000+ RUs killed in action. Putin’s solatia payments seem to confirm this #. That’s staggering.
For perspective, that’s the equivalent of 3 US combat divisions (think 82d Airborne, 101st Air Assault, 1st Armored). US has 11 active divisions.
https://twitter.com/MarkHertling/status/1568615093251850242
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_45th_Canadian_federal_election
But that said maybe Chas has noticed the "kinky" attire worn by Ms Truss (as has Sean @Leon ) who knows...
Anastasiia Lapatina
@lapatina_
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6h
You know things are going terribly for the Kremlin when their chief propagandist starts reminiscing about the good old times when songs were sang in both Ukrainian and Russian. That's after calling for our extermination for months.
https://twitter.com/lapatina_
https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/36a7f6a6f5a9448496de641cf64bd375
I can't imagine the night will provide much relief to the Russians either.
The fall of the strategically important city of Izium, in Ukraine’s east, is the most devastating blow to Russia since its humiliating retreat from Kyiv.
KYIV, Ukraine — A lightning Ukrainian offensive in the country’s northeast has reshaped what had become a grinding war of attrition. In a matter of days, Russian front lines have buckled, Moscow’s troops have fled and one village after another has come once more beneath Ukraine’s yellow and blue banner.
Ukrainian officials said on Saturday that their troops had taken the eastern city of Izium, a strategically important railway hub that Russian forces seized in the spring after a bloody, weekslong battle.
“Izium was liberated today,” the city’s mayor, Valeriy Marchenko, said in an interview.
Russia’s Ministry of Defense — which a day earlier had said it was moving to reinforce its defensive positions in the region — confirmed on Saturday that it had pulled its forces out of Izium to “regroup.” While the statement sought to portray the withdrawal as a pre-planned move, the military equipment left scattered about pointed to a hasty retreat to avoid encirclement.
While the 12,000 remaining residents of a prewar population of 40,000 celebrated Izium’s liberation from Russian control, their joy was tempered by the destruction wrought over the past six months.
“There’s no single residential building that wasn’t damaged,” Mr. Marchenko said. “Heating is the biggest problem. I doubt whether we would be able to restore the heating system before winter.”
Ukraine’s capture of Izium could represent a turning point in the war, dwarfed only by Russia’s humiliating defeat around the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, in the spring.
The successful Ukrainian offensive, which began this past week near Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, serves as a testament to the endurance of Ukrainian troops and, once more, the shortcomings of the Russian war machine.
“Ukrainian forces didn’t stop after reaching the first town, but deliberately chose to bypass towns in order to advance deeper behind Russian lines,” said Rob Lee, a military analyst at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.
The success of the Ukrainian offensive in the north comes at a critical juncture. Besides lifting the country’s morale and short-circuiting Russian plans to annex occupied territory, it is arriving ahead of winter, when front lines are expected to freeze and a global energy crisis could strain the West’s support for Ukraine. . . .
Go figure!
As for NYT, not sure what you mean by "whole thing" here is there story about Accession Council:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/10/world/europe/king-charles-iii-accession.html
By whole thing, I am referring to the NY Times' articles and editorials since the death.
Previous leader resigned February 2nd.
Making our Tories look like Usain Bolt.
She did good for its own sake, not in order to virtue signal on social media
ZOE STRIMPEL" (£)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/09/10/elizabeth-ii-embodied-virtues-pre-internet-age/