(I'm interested that it has a heat battery in it.)
An Essex couple have become the first people in the country to trial a scheme that sees them heat their home using a data centre in their garden shed.
Terrence and Lesley Bridges have seen their energy bills drop dramatically, from £375 a month down to as low as £40, since they swapped their gas boiler for a HeatHub – a small data centre containing more than 500 computers.
Data centres are banks of computers which carry out digital tasks. As the computers process data, they generate lots of heat, which is captured by oil and then transferred into the Bridges' hot water system.
I'm sure we are very close to the point where AI will monitor all aspects of our life - and tax/regulate accordingly. I worry we are the last people who will have any degree of autonomy from all-pervasive technology. Kinda glad I'm (at best) in the final couple of decades of my life. It's going to be a lot less fun than I've experienced throughout my time. Safer, maybe. Healthier - as we have best outcomes imposed. And with no ability to effectively complain. The computer says - meh. Leave me alone.
I'm younger than you but wonder about this also. It feels harder to have an adventure than it was before.
The older you get, the more it seems like the world is going to pot. That's been true from time immemorial.
Unfortunately it was also true in 1913 and 1938...
I'm too young to remember that far back but I do distinctly remember the world felt like it was going to pot in the early 70s:
Cold war, Vietnam, Watergate, energy crisis, blackouts, 3 day week, industrial strife, the Troubles, hooliganism, but worst of all goddawful brown fashion, brown sofas, brown wallpaper, brown cars...
(I'm interested that it has a heat battery in it.)
An Essex couple have become the first people in the country to trial a scheme that sees them heat their home using a data centre in their garden shed.
Terrence and Lesley Bridges have seen their energy bills drop dramatically, from £375 a month down to as low as £40, since they swapped their gas boiler for a HeatHub – a small data centre containing more than 500 computers.
Data centres are banks of computers which carry out digital tasks. As the computers process data, they generate lots of heat, which is captured by oil and then transferred into the Bridges' hot water system.
The chief executive of NHS Fife has announced plans to retire early.
Carol Potter made the announcement weeks before a ruling on the Sandie Peggie tribunal is expected.
Ms Potter led the health board through the Covid pandemic and the high-profile employment tribunal launched by Ms Peggie, a nurse who was suspended after complaining about having to share a changing room with a transgender doctor.
I’m sure Mrs @Cyclefree will have a strong view on this one!
Hmm. I'm not she that you can stop someone quitting, can you?
I’m sure you can withhold her pay in lieu of notice if she stops turning up, where it’s clear she’s only retiring to avoid being fired in a fortnight’s time.
The big change the government could make, is on how pensions are dealt with in these situations.
Typical PB froth.
Announcement is not leaving.
She's not leaving till the summer, probably because of notice requirements. It's clearly to activate recruitment for the successor.
You would have to agree that it’s awfully convenient timing though, only a couple of weeks before the investigation into a major problem is published.
If one was really cynical, one might think she might have just have read the first draft of said report.
Not a report but a ruling, so no advance copy surely, any more than pay in lieu is relevant. And it's not as if she actually left before the ruling comes out.
I suspect she just got up one day and thought blow this for a game - my bank account looks healthy enough that I can quit permanently...
Did you notice the piece didn't actually say how old she is? Very unusual for the media when it comes to a lady, especially one they are implying is young and clearly blonde.
Come now - a picture from 10 years ago and even the blonde was tending to grey. I suspect late fifties, the common age to retire for the NU10K when the brown stuff is flying. Pension maxed out, not point carrying on.
What I'm saying is precisely that age wise - the media are trying to conceal that - though I'd [edit] suspect older. And the pension woiuldn't be maxed out anyway.
Andrew Lilico @andrew_lilico · 18m Remarkable. Immigration in the 4 years to December 2024 has been revised upwards by over 300k, but emigration has been revised up by 650k! An increase in Britons leaving equivalent to 1% of the population!
The chief executive of NHS Fife has announced plans to retire early.
Carol Potter made the announcement weeks before a ruling on the Sandie Peggie tribunal is expected.
Ms Potter led the health board through the Covid pandemic and the high-profile employment tribunal launched by Ms Peggie, a nurse who was suspended after complaining about having to share a changing room with a transgender doctor.
I’m sure Mrs @Cyclefree will have a strong view on this one!
Hmm. I'm not she that you can stop someone quitting, can you?
I’m sure you can withhold her pay in lieu of notice if she stops turning up, where it’s clear she’s only retiring to avoid being fired in a fortnight’s time.
The big change the government could make, is on how pensions are dealt with in these situations.
Firstly the tribunal has not reported yet. And as part of the NU10K she would be immune anyway. I doubt she would be fired as a result of 'trying to do the right thing'. We will see.
Moving her out of harms way is very NU10K - “The responsible people have all retired or moved on. Janice, the lady who cleans on Thursdays will take the fall. Lessons Will Be Learned”.
The chief executive of NHS Fife has announced plans to retire early.
Carol Potter made the announcement weeks before a ruling on the Sandie Peggie tribunal is expected.
Ms Potter led the health board through the Covid pandemic and the high-profile employment tribunal launched by Ms Peggie, a nurse who was suspended after complaining about having to share a changing room with a transgender doctor.
I’m sure Mrs @Cyclefree will have a strong view on this one!
Hmm. I'm not she that you can stop someone quitting, can you?
I’m sure you can withhold her pay in lieu of notice if she stops turning up, where it’s clear she’s only retiring to avoid being fired in a fortnight’s time.
The big change the government could make, is on how pensions are dealt with in these situations.
Typical PB froth.
Announcement is not leaving.
She's not leaving till the summer, probably because of notice requirements. It's clearly to activate recruitment for the successor.
You would have to agree that it’s awfully convenient timing though, only a couple of weeks before the investigation into a major problem is published.
If one was really cynical, one might think she might have just have read the first draft of said report.
Not a report but a ruling, so no advance copy surely, any more than pay in lieu is relevant. And it's not as if she actually left before the ruling comes out.
I suspect she just got up one day and thought blow this for a game - my bank account looks healthy enough that I can quit permanently...
Did you notice the piece didn't actually say how old she is? Very unusual for the media when it comes to a lady, especially one they are implying is young and clearly blonde.
Come now - a picture from 10 years ago and even the blonde was tending to grey. I suspect late fifties, the common age to retire for the NU10K when the brown stuff is flying. Pension maxed out, not point carrying on.
What I'm saying is precisely that - though I'd say older. And the pension woiuldn't be maxed out anyway.
House paid off, watching savings increase by £x0,000 a year because you don’t spend much - I can see why people think blow this and retire
Politicians on the radical left can often win large cities where youngsters, renters and ethnic minorities are concentrated. The mistake is extrapolating that to believing that that it signifies something more than that.
For example, the guy who recently won the New York City Mayor probably wouldn't haven a state wide contest and certainly would not have won a Presidential election.
Polanski of Corbyn's Gaza mob could probably win an election in one of our big cities but have zero chance of winning a general election. Throughout my lifetime all the radical left has ever done is gift power to the right. The next election will be no different except it could well be gifting it to the far right this time.
Except that in most of our city seats, the chances of either right wing party 'coming through the middle' looks slim from the data, except possibly in a few isolated suburban seats?
It's not the city seats that are going to determine the result of the next GE, Ian. That's the radical left delusion. (I know you are not in that category yourself)
Andrew Lilico @andrew_lilico · 18m Remarkable. Immigration in the 4 years to December 2024 has been revised upwards by over 300k, but emigration has been revised up by 650k! An increase in Britons leaving equivalent to 1% of the population!
I'm sure we are very close to the point where AI will monitor all aspects of our life - and tax/regulate accordingly. I worry we are the last people who will have any degree of autonomy from all-pervasive technology. Kinda glad I'm (at best) in the final couple of decades of my life. It's going to be a lot less fun than I've experienced throughout my time. Safer, maybe. Healthier - as we have best outcomes imposed. And with no ability to effectively complain. The computer says - meh. Leave me alone.
I'm younger than you but wonder about this also. It feels harder to have an adventure than it was before.
The older you get, the more it seems like the world is going to pot. That's been true from time immemorial.
Unfortunately it was also true in 1913 and 1938...
I'm too young to remember that far back but I do distinctly remember the world felt like it was going to pot in the early 70s:
Cold war, Vietnam, Watergate, energy crisis, blackouts, 3 day week, industrial strife, the Troubles, hooliganism, but worst of all goddawful brown fashion, brown sofas, brown wallpaper, brown cars...
Edit: that PET isn't there really.
Definitely agree. My big memories are:
We are all going to die in WW3 The oil is running out Places I actually knew were being blown up by the IRA Skin heads and football hooligans ready to beat you up And most important of all - Keg bitter.
Life is much better now
For me WW3 was more the eighties but the rest, absolutely.
My first ever football game, Blues v Boro, I saw a couple of fans taken out by the ambulance guys as it all kicked off prior to KO.
Blues lost 3-0 at home too.
High inflation and my Dad being a manual worker on a car track and my uncle a toolmaker at Longbridge, industrial strife was always around too.
Living in Shirley the pub bombings, especially with a then large Irish community in Sparkhill and Tyseley area in Brum really hit home.
The picture of the lounge is ace. Seventies had great music and fashion.
The chief executive of NHS Fife has announced plans to retire early.
Carol Potter made the announcement weeks before a ruling on the Sandie Peggie tribunal is expected.
Ms Potter led the health board through the Covid pandemic and the high-profile employment tribunal launched by Ms Peggie, a nurse who was suspended after complaining about having to share a changing room with a transgender doctor.
I’m sure Mrs @Cyclefree will have a strong view on this one!
Hmm. I'm not she that you can stop someone quitting, can you?
I’m sure you can withhold her pay in lieu of notice if she stops turning up, where it’s clear she’s only retiring to avoid being fired in a fortnight’s time.
The big change the government could make, is on how pensions are dealt with in these situations.
Um you are making the assumption there that she will be fired - I alongside many others on here don't see that as the likely outcome...
Yes, it appears to be endemic at the higher echelons of the public sector that no-one ever gets fired!
I'm sure we are very close to the point where AI will monitor all aspects of our life - and tax/regulate accordingly. I worry we are the last people who will have any degree of autonomy from all-pervasive technology. Kinda glad I'm (at best) in the final couple of decades of my life. It's going to be a lot less fun than I've experienced throughout my time. Safer, maybe. Healthier - as we have best outcomes imposed. And with no ability to effectively complain. The computer says - meh. Leave me alone.
I'm younger than you but wonder about this also. It feels harder to have an adventure than it was before.
The older you get, the more it seems like the world is going to pot. That's been true from time immemorial.
Unfortunately it was also true in 1913 and 1938...
I'm too young to remember that far back but I do distinctly remember the world felt like it was going to pot in the early 70s:
Cold war, Vietnam, Watergate, energy crisis, blackouts, 3 day week, industrial strife, the Troubles, hooliganism, but worst of all goddawful brown fashion, brown sofas, brown wallpaper, brown cars...
Edit: that PET isn't there really.
How have you managed to get a photo of my grandmother’s living room from the 1970s?
I'm sure we are very close to the point where AI will monitor all aspects of our life - and tax/regulate accordingly. I worry we are the last people who will have any degree of autonomy from all-pervasive technology. Kinda glad I'm (at best) in the final couple of decades of my life. It's going to be a lot less fun than I've experienced throughout my time. Safer, maybe. Healthier - as we have best outcomes imposed. And with no ability to effectively complain. The computer says - meh. Leave me alone.
I'm younger than you but wonder about this also. It feels harder to have an adventure than it was before.
The older you get, the more it seems like the world is going to pot. That's been true from time immemorial.
Unfortunately it was also true in 1913 and 1938...
I'm too young to remember that far back but I do distinctly remember the world felt like it was going to pot in the early 70s:
Cold war, Vietnam, Watergate, energy crisis, blackouts, 3 day week, industrial strife, the Troubles, hooliganism, but worst of all goddawful brown fashion, brown sofas, brown wallpaper, brown cars...
Edit: that PET isn't there really.
Definitely agree. My big memories are:
We are all going to die in WW3 The oil is running out Places I actually knew were being blown up by the IRA Skin heads and football hooligans ready to beat you up And most important of all - Keg bitter.
Life is much better now
And of course stuff like my sisters having to tolerate and laugh off sexual assault at the workplace in the name of "banter".
I'm sure we are very close to the point where AI will monitor all aspects of our life - and tax/regulate accordingly. I worry we are the last people who will have any degree of autonomy from all-pervasive technology. Kinda glad I'm (at best) in the final couple of decades of my life. It's going to be a lot less fun than I've experienced throughout my time. Safer, maybe. Healthier - as we have best outcomes imposed. And with no ability to effectively complain. The computer says - meh. Leave me alone.
I'm younger than you but wonder about this also. It feels harder to have an adventure than it was before.
The older you get, the more it seems like the world is going to pot. That's been true from time immemorial.
Unfortunately it was also true in 1913 and 1938...
I'm too young to remember that far back but I do distinctly remember the world felt like it was going to pot in the early 70s:
Cold war, Vietnam, Watergate, energy crisis, blackouts, 3 day week, industrial strife, the Troubles, hooliganism, but worst of all goddawful brown fashion, brown sofas, brown wallpaper, brown cars...
Edit: that PET isn't there really.
Definitely agree. My big memories are:
We are all going to die in WW3 The oil is running out Places I actually knew were being blown up by the IRA Skin heads and football hooligans ready to beat you up And most important of all - Keg bitter.
Life is much better now
For me WW3 was more the eighties but the rest, absolutely.
My first ever football game, Blues v Boro, I saw a couple of fans taken out by the ambulance guys as it all kicked off prior to KO.
Blues lost 3-0 at home too.
High inflation and my Dad being a manual worker on a car track and my uncle a toolmaker at Longbridge, industrial strife was always around too.
Living in Shirley the pub bombings, especially with a then large Irish community in Sparkhill and Tyseley area in Brum really hit home.
The picture of the lounge is ace. Seventies had great music and fashion.
I'm sure we are very close to the point where AI will monitor all aspects of our life - and tax/regulate accordingly. I worry we are the last people who will have any degree of autonomy from all-pervasive technology. Kinda glad I'm (at best) in the final couple of decades of my life. It's going to be a lot less fun than I've experienced throughout my time. Safer, maybe. Healthier - as we have best outcomes imposed. And with no ability to effectively complain. The computer says - meh. Leave me alone.
I'm younger than you but wonder about this also. It feels harder to have an adventure than it was before.
The older you get, the more it seems like the world is going to pot. That's been true from time immemorial.
Unfortunately it was also true in 1913 and 1938...
I'm too young to remember that far back but I do distinctly remember the world felt like it was going to pot in the early 70s:
Cold war, Vietnam, Watergate, energy crisis, blackouts, 3 day week, industrial strife, the Troubles, hooliganism, but worst of all goddawful brown fashion, brown sofas, brown wallpaper, brown cars...
Edit: that PET isn't there really.
Definitely agree. My big memories are:
We are all going to die in WW3 The oil is running out Places I actually knew were being blown up by the IRA Skin heads and football hooligans ready to beat you up And most important of all - Keg bitter.
Life is much better now
And of course stuff like my sisters having to tolerate and laugh off sexual assault at the workplace in the name of "banter".
I've been out canvassing quite a lot in London lately. Labour's vote has absolutely evaporated.... it is quite extraordinary to go to places where Labour were on 50-60% of the vote at the last locals and find nobody, or virtually nobody, supporting them.
I'm sure we are very close to the point where AI will monitor all aspects of our life - and tax/regulate accordingly. I worry we are the last people who will have any degree of autonomy from all-pervasive technology. Kinda glad I'm (at best) in the final couple of decades of my life. It's going to be a lot less fun than I've experienced throughout my time. Safer, maybe. Healthier - as we have best outcomes imposed. And with no ability to effectively complain. The computer says - meh. Leave me alone.
I'm younger than you but wonder about this also. It feels harder to have an adventure than it was before.
The older you get, the more it seems like the world is going to pot. That's been true from time immemorial.
Unfortunately it was also true in 1913 and 1938...
I'm too young to remember that far back but I do distinctly remember the world felt like it was going to pot in the early 70s:
Cold war, Vietnam, Watergate, energy crisis, blackouts, 3 day week, industrial strife, the Troubles, hooliganism, but worst of all goddawful brown fashion, brown sofas, brown wallpaper, brown cars...
Edit: that PET isn't there really.
Definitely agree. My big memories are:
We are all going to die in WW3 The oil is running out Places I actually knew were being blown up by the IRA Skin heads and football hooligans ready to beat you up And most important of all - Keg bitter.
Life is much better now
For me WW3 was more the eighties but the rest, absolutely.
My first ever football game, Blues v Boro, I saw a couple of fans taken out by the ambulance guys as it all kicked off prior to KO.
Blues lost 3-0 at home too.
High inflation and my Dad being a manual worker on a car track and my uncle a toolmaker at Longbridge, industrial strife was always around too.
Living in Shirley the pub bombings, especially with a then large Irish community in Sparkhill and Tyseley area in Brum really hit home.
The picture of the lounge is ace. Seventies had great music and fashion.
I've been out canvassing quite a lot in London lately. Labour's vote has absolutely evaporated.... it is quite extraordinary to go to places where Labour were on 50-60% of the vote at the last locals and find nobody, or virtually nobody, supporting them.
I'm sure we are very close to the point where AI will monitor all aspects of our life - and tax/regulate accordingly. I worry we are the last people who will have any degree of autonomy from all-pervasive technology. Kinda glad I'm (at best) in the final couple of decades of my life. It's going to be a lot less fun than I've experienced throughout my time. Safer, maybe. Healthier - as we have best outcomes imposed. And with no ability to effectively complain. The computer says - meh. Leave me alone.
I'm younger than you but wonder about this also. It feels harder to have an adventure than it was before.
The older you get, the more it seems like the world is going to pot. That's been true from time immemorial.
Unfortunately it was also true in 1913 and 1938...
I'm too young to remember that far back but I do distinctly remember the world felt like it was going to pot in the early 70s:
Cold war, Vietnam, Watergate, energy crisis, blackouts, 3 day week, industrial strife, the Troubles, hooliganism, but worst of all goddawful brown fashion, brown sofas, brown wallpaper, brown cars...
Edit: that PET isn't there really.
Definitely agree. My big memories are:
We are all going to die in WW3 The oil is running out Places I actually knew were being blown up by the IRA Skin heads and football hooligans ready to beat you up And most important of all - Keg bitter.
Life is much better now
And of course stuff like my sisters having to tolerate and laugh off sexual assault at the workplace in the name of "banter".
Lava lamp! Lava lamp!
A George and Mildred favourite.
I’ve still got one. Upstairs in the spare room as my wife hates it and I have to hide it as I don’t want rid of it.
Politicians on the radical left can often win large cities where youngsters, renters and ethnic minorities are concentrated. The mistake is extrapolating that to believing that that it signifies something more than that.
For example, the guy who recently won the New York City Mayor probably wouldn't haven a state wide contest and certainly would not have won a Presidential election.
Polanski of Corbyn's Gaza mob could probably win an election in one of our big cities but have zero chance of winning a general election. Throughout my lifetime all the radical left has ever done is gift power to the right. The next election will be no different except it could well be gifting it to the far right this time.
Except that in most of our city seats, the chances of either right wing party 'coming through the middle' looks slim from the data, except possibly in a few isolated suburban seats?
I think Olly is arguing that the right will win outside the big cities. But I think the real problem is seeing politics as purely on a left-right axis - most people do not, and the belief that being in the middle is the way to win votes is often a delusion, as the LibDems have illustrated at countless General Elections. Many people are up for radical (left or right) government, if they see it as effective and not sectarian bonkers.
I'm sure we are very close to the point where AI will monitor all aspects of our life - and tax/regulate accordingly. I worry we are the last people who will have any degree of autonomy from all-pervasive technology. Kinda glad I'm (at best) in the final couple of decades of my life. It's going to be a lot less fun than I've experienced throughout my time. Safer, maybe. Healthier - as we have best outcomes imposed. And with no ability to effectively complain. The computer says - meh. Leave me alone.
I'm younger than you but wonder about this also. It feels harder to have an adventure than it was before.
The older you get, the more it seems like the world is going to pot. That's been true from time immemorial.
Unfortunately it was also true in 1913 and 1938...
I'm too young to remember that far back but I do distinctly remember the world felt like it was going to pot in the early 70s:
Cold war, Vietnam, Watergate, energy crisis, blackouts, 3 day week, industrial strife, the Troubles, hooliganism, but worst of all goddawful brown fashion, brown sofas, brown wallpaper, brown cars...
Edit: that PET isn't there really.
Definitely agree. My big memories are:
We are all going to die in WW3 The oil is running out Places I actually knew were being blown up by the IRA Skin heads and football hooligans ready to beat you up And most important of all - Keg bitter.
Life is much better now
And of course stuff like my sisters having to tolerate and laugh off sexual assault at the workplace in the name of "banter".
Lava lamp! Lava lamp!
A George and Mildred favourite.
I’ve still got one. Upstairs in the spare room as my wife hates it and I have to hide it as I don’t want rid of it.
I've always wanted a lava lamp! Are they still made or vintage only now?
I'm sure we are very close to the point where AI will monitor all aspects of our life - and tax/regulate accordingly. I worry we are the last people who will have any degree of autonomy from all-pervasive technology. Kinda glad I'm (at best) in the final couple of decades of my life. It's going to be a lot less fun than I've experienced throughout my time. Safer, maybe. Healthier - as we have best outcomes imposed. And with no ability to effectively complain. The computer says - meh. Leave me alone.
I'm younger than you but wonder about this also. It feels harder to have an adventure than it was before.
The older you get, the more it seems like the world is going to pot. That's been true from time immemorial.
Unfortunately it was also true in 1913 and 1938...
I'm too young to remember that far back but I do distinctly remember the world felt like it was going to pot in the early 70s:
Cold war, Vietnam, Watergate, energy crisis, blackouts, 3 day week, industrial strife, the Troubles, hooliganism, but worst of all goddawful brown fashion, brown sofas, brown wallpaper, brown cars...
Edit: that PET isn't there really.
How have you managed to get a photo of my grandmother’s living room from the 1970s?
I'm sure we are very close to the point where AI will monitor all aspects of our life - and tax/regulate accordingly. I worry we are the last people who will have any degree of autonomy from all-pervasive technology. Kinda glad I'm (at best) in the final couple of decades of my life. It's going to be a lot less fun than I've experienced throughout my time. Safer, maybe. Healthier - as we have best outcomes imposed. And with no ability to effectively complain. The computer says - meh. Leave me alone.
I'm younger than you but wonder about this also. It feels harder to have an adventure than it was before.
The older you get, the more it seems like the world is going to pot. That's been true from time immemorial.
Unfortunately it was also true in 1913 and 1938...
I'm too young to remember that far back but I do distinctly remember the world felt like it was going to pot in the early 70s:
Cold war, Vietnam, Watergate, energy crisis, blackouts, 3 day week, industrial strife, the Troubles, hooliganism, but worst of all goddawful brown fashion, brown sofas, brown wallpaper, brown cars...
Edit: that PET isn't there really.
Definitely agree. My big memories are:
We are all going to die in WW3 The oil is running out Places I actually knew were being blown up by the IRA Skin heads and football hooligans ready to beat you up And most important of all - Keg bitter.
Life is much better now
And of course stuff like my sisters having to tolerate and laugh off sexual assault at the workplace in the name of "banter".
Lava lamp! Lava lamp!
A George and Mildred favourite.
I’ve still got one. Upstairs in the spare room as my wife hates it and I have to hide it as I don’t want rid of it.
I've always wanted a lava lamp! Are they still made or vintage only now?
I'm sure we are very close to the point where AI will monitor all aspects of our life - and tax/regulate accordingly. I worry we are the last people who will have any degree of autonomy from all-pervasive technology. Kinda glad I'm (at best) in the final couple of decades of my life. It's going to be a lot less fun than I've experienced throughout my time. Safer, maybe. Healthier - as we have best outcomes imposed. And with no ability to effectively complain. The computer says - meh. Leave me alone.
I'm younger than you but wonder about this also. It feels harder to have an adventure than it was before.
The older you get, the more it seems like the world is going to pot. That's been true from time immemorial.
Unfortunately it was also true in 1913 and 1938...
I'm too young to remember that far back but I do distinctly remember the world felt like it was going to pot in the early 70s:
Cold war, Vietnam, Watergate, energy crisis, blackouts, 3 day week, industrial strife, the Troubles, hooliganism, but worst of all goddawful brown fashion, brown sofas, brown wallpaper, brown cars...
Edit: that PET isn't there really.
Definitely agree. My big memories are:
We are all going to die in WW3 The oil is running out Places I actually knew were being blown up by the IRA Skin heads and football hooligans ready to beat you up And most important of all - Keg bitter.
Life is much better now
And of course stuff like my sisters having to tolerate and laugh off sexual assault at the workplace in the name of "banter".
Lava lamp! Lava lamp!
A George and Mildred favourite.
I’ve still got one. Upstairs in the spare room as my wife hates it and I have to hide it as I don’t want rid of it.
I've always wanted a lava lamp! Are they still made or vintage only now?
Still made, apparently by the original firm. Just reading the name 'Telstar' ...
I've been out canvassing quite a lot in London lately. Labour's vote has absolutely evaporated.... it is quite extraordinary to go to places where Labour were on 50-60% of the vote at the last locals and find nobody, or virtually nobody, supporting them.
I’m not on Bluesky. Does he say where they’re going ? Green, Reform, Your Party ?
In one reply he says...
I think it will depend on the area.
There are very few places where we Lib Dems and Greens are both campaigning.... so in areas where we campaign I expect us to do very well - and similarly for the Greens where they campaign.
I'm sure we are very close to the point where AI will monitor all aspects of our life - and tax/regulate accordingly. I worry we are the last people who will have any degree of autonomy from all-pervasive technology. Kinda glad I'm (at best) in the final couple of decades of my life. It's going to be a lot less fun than I've experienced throughout my time. Safer, maybe. Healthier - as we have best outcomes imposed. And with no ability to effectively complain. The computer says - meh. Leave me alone.
I'm younger than you but wonder about this also. It feels harder to have an adventure than it was before.
The older you get, the more it seems like the world is going to pot. That's been true from time immemorial.
Unfortunately it was also true in 1913 and 1938...
I'm too young to remember that far back but I do distinctly remember the world felt like it was going to pot in the early 70s:
Cold war, Vietnam, Watergate, energy crisis, blackouts, 3 day week, industrial strife, the Troubles, hooliganism, but worst of all goddawful brown fashion, brown sofas, brown wallpaper, brown cars...
Edit: that PET isn't there really.
Christ - weird orange and mushroom themes. Bloody Trump again.
"Children born in Britain to immigrant parents could be deported under the Government’s asylum crackdown, a minister has suggested.
Steve Reed, the Communities and Housing Secretary, refused to rule out the removal of UK-born children with families who have been rejected for asylum as part of efforts to increase deportations."
I'm sure we are very close to the point where AI will monitor all aspects of our life - and tax/regulate accordingly. I worry we are the last people who will have any degree of autonomy from all-pervasive technology. Kinda glad I'm (at best) in the final couple of decades of my life. It's going to be a lot less fun than I've experienced throughout my time. Safer, maybe. Healthier - as we have best outcomes imposed. And with no ability to effectively complain. The computer says - meh. Leave me alone.
I'm younger than you but wonder about this also. It feels harder to have an adventure than it was before.
The older you get, the more it seems like the world is going to pot. That's been true from time immemorial.
Unfortunately it was also true in 1913 and 1938...
I'm too young to remember that far back but I do distinctly remember the world felt like it was going to pot in the early 70s:
Cold war, Vietnam, Watergate, energy crisis, blackouts, 3 day week, industrial strife, the Troubles, hooliganism, but worst of all goddawful brown fashion, brown sofas, brown wallpaper, brown cars...
Edit: that PET isn't there really.
Definitely agree. My big memories are:
We are all going to die in WW3 The oil is running out Places I actually knew were being blown up by the IRA Skin heads and football hooligans ready to beat you up And most important of all - Keg bitter.
Life is much better now
And of course stuff like my sisters having to tolerate and laugh off sexual assault at the workplace in the name of "banter".
Lava lamp! Lava lamp!
A George and Mildred favourite.
I’ve still got one. Upstairs in the spare room as my wife hates it and I have to hide it as I don’t want rid of it.
I've always wanted a lava lamp! Are they still made or vintage only now?
I got mine 30 years ago but they still do make them I’ve just found. Magic.
Andrew Lilico @andrew_lilico · 18m Remarkable. Immigration in the 4 years to December 2024 has been revised upwards by over 300k, but emigration has been revised up by 650k! An increase in Britons leaving equivalent to 1% of the population!
I'm sure we are very close to the point where AI will monitor all aspects of our life - and tax/regulate accordingly. I worry we are the last people who will have any degree of autonomy from all-pervasive technology. Kinda glad I'm (at best) in the final couple of decades of my life. It's going to be a lot less fun than I've experienced throughout my time. Safer, maybe. Healthier - as we have best outcomes imposed. And with no ability to effectively complain. The computer says - meh. Leave me alone.
I'm younger than you but wonder about this also. It feels harder to have an adventure than it was before.
The older you get, the more it seems like the world is going to pot. That's been true from time immemorial.
Unfortunately it was also true in 1913 and 1938...
I'm too young to remember that far back but I do distinctly remember the world felt like it was going to pot in the early 70s:
Cold war, Vietnam, Watergate, energy crisis, blackouts, 3 day week, industrial strife, the Troubles, hooliganism, but worst of all goddawful brown fashion, brown sofas, brown wallpaper, brown cars...
Edit: that PET isn't there really.
Definitely agree. My big memories are:
We are all going to die in WW3 The oil is running out Places I actually knew were being blown up by the IRA Skin heads and football hooligans ready to beat you up And most important of all - Keg bitter.
Life is much better now
And of course stuff like my sisters having to tolerate and laugh off sexual assault at the workplace in the name of "banter".
Lava lamp! Lava lamp!
A George and Mildred favourite.
I’ve still got one. Upstairs in the spare room as my wife hates it and I have to hide it as I don’t want rid of it.
I've always wanted a lava lamp! Are they still made or vintage only now?
I got mine 30 years ago but they still do make them I’ve just found. Magic.
I'm sure we are very close to the point where AI will monitor all aspects of our life - and tax/regulate accordingly. I worry we are the last people who will have any degree of autonomy from all-pervasive technology. Kinda glad I'm (at best) in the final couple of decades of my life. It's going to be a lot less fun than I've experienced throughout my time. Safer, maybe. Healthier - as we have best outcomes imposed. And with no ability to effectively complain. The computer says - meh. Leave me alone.
We need to fight like hell against being monitored by AI.
I'm sure we are very close to the point where AI will monitor all aspects of our life - and tax/regulate accordingly. I worry we are the last people who will have any degree of autonomy from all-pervasive technology. Kinda glad I'm (at best) in the final couple of decades of my life. It's going to be a lot less fun than I've experienced throughout my time. Safer, maybe. Healthier - as we have best outcomes imposed. And with no ability to effectively complain. The computer says - meh. Leave me alone.
I'm younger than you but wonder about this also. It feels harder to have an adventure than it was before.
The older you get, the more it seems like the world is going to pot. That's been true from time immemorial.
Unfortunately it was also true in 1913 and 1938...
I'm too young to remember that far back but I do distinctly remember the world felt like it was going to pot in the early 70s:
Cold war, Vietnam, Watergate, energy crisis, blackouts, 3 day week, industrial strife, the Troubles, hooliganism, but worst of all goddawful brown fashion, brown sofas, brown wallpaper, brown cars...
Edit: that PET isn't there really.
Definitely agree. My big memories are:
We are all going to die in WW3 The oil is running out Places I actually knew were being blown up by the IRA Skin heads and football hooligans ready to beat you up And most important of all - Keg bitter.
Life is much better now
And of course stuff like my sisters having to tolerate and laugh off sexual assault at the workplace in the name of "banter".
Lava lamp! Lava lamp!
A George and Mildred favourite.
I’ve still got one. Upstairs in the spare room as my wife hates it and I have to hide it as I don’t want rid of it.
I've always wanted a lava lamp! Are they still made or vintage only now?
I got mine 30 years ago but they still do make them I’ve just found. Magic.
If you hadn't actually seen one in action I'm not sure quite what you'd predict would happen with simple physics. A bit like yesterdays thread's microwaved baked beans.
That's interesting, but it also appears to be a collection of the least popular policies imaginable - higher immigration, dynamic road pricing, EU budget contributions.
I'm all for expecting more of political leaders to, well, lead, but I think proposals such as this need to have half an eye on what is politically feasible, and what is most important to success. Is dynamic road pricing really a crucial part of what Britain needs to do to turn itself around? I can't think of a policy more likely to provoke opposition.
The alternative is the continued populist viscious circle of stupid policies leading to economic decline leading to voter anger leading to stupid policies... someone has to advocate for a better path.
I've been out canvassing quite a lot in London lately. Labour's vote has absolutely evaporated.... it is quite extraordinary to go to places where Labour were on 50-60% of the vote at the last locals and find nobody, or virtually nobody, supporting them.
I'm sure we are very close to the point where AI will monitor all aspects of our life - and tax/regulate accordingly. I worry we are the last people who will have any degree of autonomy from all-pervasive technology. Kinda glad I'm (at best) in the final couple of decades of my life. It's going to be a lot less fun than I've experienced throughout my time. Safer, maybe. Healthier - as we have best outcomes imposed. And with no ability to effectively complain. The computer says - meh. Leave me alone.
I'm younger than you but wonder about this also. It feels harder to have an adventure than it was before.
The older you get, the more it seems like the world is going to pot. That's been true from time immemorial.
Unfortunately it was also true in 1913 and 1938...
I'm too young to remember that far back but I do distinctly remember the world felt like it was going to pot in the early 70s:
Cold war, Vietnam, Watergate, energy crisis, blackouts, 3 day week, industrial strife, the Troubles, hooliganism, but worst of all goddawful brown fashion, brown sofas, brown wallpaper, brown cars...
Edit: that PET isn't there really.
It just needs Alison Steadman to waft in and put a little bit of Demis Roussos on.
Speaking of Alison Steadman, any other fans of Here We Go on here? I'd say it's the funniest British sitcom since the Royle Family. Steadman is of course brilliant in it.
I'm sure we are very close to the point where AI will monitor all aspects of our life - and tax/regulate accordingly. I worry we are the last people who will have any degree of autonomy from all-pervasive technology. Kinda glad I'm (at best) in the final couple of decades of my life. It's going to be a lot less fun than I've experienced throughout my time. Safer, maybe. Healthier - as we have best outcomes imposed. And with no ability to effectively complain. The computer says - meh. Leave me alone.
I'm younger than you but wonder about this also. It feels harder to have an adventure than it was before.
The older you get, the more it seems like the world is going to pot. That's been true from time immemorial.
Unfortunately it was also true in 1913 and 1938...
I'm too young to remember that far back but I do distinctly remember the world felt like it was going to pot in the early 70s:
Cold war, Vietnam, Watergate, energy crisis, blackouts, 3 day week, industrial strife, the Troubles, hooliganism, but worst of all goddawful brown fashion, brown sofas, brown wallpaper, brown cars...
Edit: that PET isn't there really.
How have you managed to get a photo of my grandmother’s living room from the 1970s?
I'm sure we are very close to the point where AI will monitor all aspects of our life - and tax/regulate accordingly. I worry we are the last people who will have any degree of autonomy from all-pervasive technology. Kinda glad I'm (at best) in the final couple of decades of my life. It's going to be a lot less fun than I've experienced throughout my time. Safer, maybe. Healthier - as we have best outcomes imposed. And with no ability to effectively complain. The computer says - meh. Leave me alone.
I'm younger than you but wonder about this also. It feels harder to have an adventure than it was before.
The older you get, the more it seems like the world is going to pot. That's been true from time immemorial.
Unfortunately it was also true in 1913 and 1938...
I'm too young to remember that far back but I do distinctly remember the world felt like it was going to pot in the early 70s:
Cold war, Vietnam, Watergate, energy crisis, blackouts, 3 day week, industrial strife, the Troubles, hooliganism, but worst of all goddawful brown fashion, brown sofas, brown wallpaper, brown cars...
Edit: that PET isn't there really.
Definitely agree. My big memories are:
We are all going to die in WW3 The oil is running out Places I actually knew were being blown up by the IRA Skin heads and football hooligans ready to beat you up And most important of all - Keg bitter.
Life is much better now
And of course stuff like my sisters having to tolerate and laugh off sexual assault at the workplace in the name of "banter".
Lava lamp! Lava lamp!
A George and Mildred favourite.
I’ve still got one. Upstairs in the spare room as my wife hates it and I have to hide it as I don’t want rid of it.
I've always wanted a lava lamp! Are they still made or vintage only now?
I got mine 30 years ago but they still do make them I’ve just found. Magic.
If you hadn't actually seen one in action I'm not sure quite what you'd predict would happen with simple physics. A bit like yesterdays thread's microwaved baked beans.
I've been out canvassing quite a lot in London lately. Labour's vote has absolutely evaporated.... it is quite extraordinary to go to places where Labour were on 50-60% of the vote at the last locals and find nobody, or virtually nobody, supporting them.
Voters expect the Tories to be bastards and they seldom disappoint. Seeing Labour being the same has proved intolerable
I am beginning to believe that bringing Burnham back into the fold might be optimal, not to assume a win in 2029 but to prevent an extinction event.
This iteration of the Labour Party can wither and die as far as I am concerned, but what comes next, be that Farage- Reform or Jenrick- Tories from my side of the fence is awful.
(I'm interested that it has a heat battery in it.)
An Essex couple have become the first people in the country to trial a scheme that sees them heat their home using a data centre in their garden shed.
Terrence and Lesley Bridges have seen their energy bills drop dramatically, from £375 a month down to as low as £40, since they swapped their gas boiler for a HeatHub – a small data centre containing more than 500 computers.
Data centres are banks of computers which carry out digital tasks. As the computers process data, they generate lots of heat, which is captured by oil and then transferred into the Bridges' hot water system.
That's interesting, but it also appears to be a collection of the least popular policies imaginable - higher immigration, dynamic road pricing, EU budget contributions.
I'm all for expecting more of political leaders to, well, lead, but I think proposals such as this need to have half an eye on what is politically feasible, and what is most important to success. Is dynamic road pricing really a crucial part of what Britain needs to do to turn itself around? I can't think of a policy more likely to provoke opposition.
The alternative is the continued populist viscious circle of stupid policies leading to economic decline leading to voter anger leading to stupid policies... someone has to advocate for a better path.
Do you genuinely believe that dynamic road pricing is a necessary policy for rejuvenating Britain?
I've argued numerous times that politicians need to lead and need to advocate for things that the voters are reflexively opposed to in order to improve things - but they also need to think about which things are the most important policies to concentrate on. Dynamic road pricing is not it.
It's also weird as a policy because they repeatedly make the point that one of the main things holding back Britain is that it's infrastructure is congested, and dynamic road pricing feels like a policy that fits in very well to the history of managing British decline, of rationing something, instead of providing more to avoid rationing.
(I'm interested that it has a heat battery in it.)
An Essex couple have become the first people in the country to trial a scheme that sees them heat their home using a data centre in their garden shed.
Terrence and Lesley Bridges have seen their energy bills drop dramatically, from £375 a month down to as low as £40, since they swapped their gas boiler for a HeatHub – a small data centre containing more than 500 computers.
Data centres are banks of computers which carry out digital tasks. As the computers process data, they generate lots of heat, which is captured by oil and then transferred into the Bridges' hot water system.
I'm sure we are very close to the point where AI will monitor all aspects of our life - and tax/regulate accordingly. I worry we are the last people who will have any degree of autonomy from all-pervasive technology. Kinda glad I'm (at best) in the final couple of decades of my life. It's going to be a lot less fun than I've experienced throughout my time. Safer, maybe. Healthier - as we have best outcomes imposed. And with no ability to effectively complain. The computer says - meh. Leave me alone.
I'm younger than you but wonder about this also. It feels harder to have an adventure than it was before.
The older you get, the more it seems like the world is going to pot. That's been true from time immemorial.
Unfortunately it was also true in 1913 and 1938...
I'm too young to remember that far back but I do distinctly remember the world felt like it was going to pot in the early 70s:
Cold war, Vietnam, Watergate, energy crisis, blackouts, 3 day week, industrial strife, the Troubles, hooliganism, but worst of all goddawful brown fashion, brown sofas, brown wallpaper, brown cars...
Edit: that PET isn't there really.
Definitely agree. My big memories are:
We are all going to die in WW3 The oil is running out Places I actually knew were being blown up by the IRA Skin heads and football hooligans ready to beat you up And most important of all - Keg bitter.
Life is much better now
Robin Cook made an interesting point in his book "Point of Departure". During the tumultuous 70s UK newspapers would on average print 4 negative headlines per positive headline. In the relatively much more benign time of the year 2000, they would print 18 negative headlines per positive one.
(I'm interested that it has a heat battery in it.)
An Essex couple have become the first people in the country to trial a scheme that sees them heat their home using a data centre in their garden shed.
Terrence and Lesley Bridges have seen their energy bills drop dramatically, from £375 a month down to as low as £40, since they swapped their gas boiler for a HeatHub – a small data centre containing more than 500 computers.
Data centres are banks of computers which carry out digital tasks. As the computers process data, they generate lots of heat, which is captured by oil and then transferred into the Bridges' hot water system.
OfCom seems comfortable enough with it's wholly partisan content, which if it were any other broadcaster would be sanctioned by means of licence withdrawal with immediate effect.
Andrew Lilico @andrew_lilico · 18m Remarkable. Immigration in the 4 years to December 2024 has been revised upwards by over 300k, but emigration has been revised up by 650k! An increase in Britons leaving equivalent to 1% of the population!
OfCom seems comfortable enough with it's wholly partisan content, which if it were any other broadcaster would be sanctioned by means of licence withdrawal with immediate effect.
Hang on - media is allowed to be partisan. The Guardian and the Telegraph espouse different world views.
I'm sure we are very close to the point where AI will monitor all aspects of our life - and tax/regulate accordingly. I worry we are the last people who will have any degree of autonomy from all-pervasive technology. Kinda glad I'm (at best) in the final couple of decades of my life. It's going to be a lot less fun than I've experienced throughout my time. Safer, maybe. Healthier - as we have best outcomes imposed. And with no ability to effectively complain. The computer says - meh. Leave me alone.
I'm younger than you but wonder about this also. It feels harder to have an adventure than it was before.
The older you get, the more it seems like the world is going to pot. That's been true from time immemorial.
Unfortunately it was also true in 1913 and 1938...
I'm too young to remember that far back but I do distinctly remember the world felt like it was going to pot in the early 70s:
Cold war, Vietnam, Watergate, energy crisis, blackouts, 3 day week, industrial strife, the Troubles, hooliganism, but worst of all goddawful brown fashion, brown sofas, brown wallpaper, brown cars...
Edit: that PET isn't there really.
Definitely agree. My big memories are:
We are all going to die in WW3 The oil is running out Places I actually knew were being blown up by the IRA Skin heads and football hooligans ready to beat you up And most important of all - Keg bitter.
Life is much better now
Robin Cook made an interesting point in his book "Point of Departure". During the tumultuous 70s UK newspapers would on average print 4 negative headlines per positive headline. In the relatively much more benign time of the year 2000, they would print 18 negative headlines per positive one.
News Is Entertainment, and being told scary stories is entertaining.
The only real answer is to get people to touch grass and talk to their neighbours, but who wants to do that?
That's interesting, but it also appears to be a collection of the least popular policies imaginable - higher immigration, dynamic road pricing, EU budget contributions.
I'm all for expecting more of political leaders to, well, lead, but I think proposals such as this need to have half an eye on what is politically feasible, and what is most important to success. Is dynamic road pricing really a crucial part of what Britain needs to do to turn itself around? I can't think of a policy more likely to provoke opposition.
The alternative is the continued populist viscious circle of stupid policies leading to economic decline leading to voter anger leading to stupid policies... someone has to advocate for a better path.
Do you genuinely believe that dynamic road pricing is a necessary policy for rejuvenating Britain?
I've argued numerous times that politicians need to lead and need to advocate for things that the voters are reflexively opposed to in order to improve things - but they also need to think about which things are the most important policies to concentrate on. Dynamic road pricing is not it.
It's also weird as a policy because they repeatedly make the point that one of the main things holding back Britain is that it's infrastructure is congested, and dynamic road pricing feels like a policy that fits in very well to the history of managing British decline, of rationing something, instead of providing more to avoid rationing.
The whole thing is a non starter. A new wave of mass migration with no extra houses or infrastructure, plus vat on food. Robinson would have a field day.
OfCom seems comfortable enough with it's wholly partisan content, which if it were any other broadcaster would be sanctioned by means of licence withdrawal with immediate effect.
Presumably Michael Prescott will be sending a memo to the GB News board shortly?
Last week I was in London for a few days again, I had my iPhone 17 Pro Max 2TB in Cosmic Orange out on public display whilst wearing an expensive watch and I wasn’t mugged, again.
OfCom seems comfortable enough with it's wholly partisan content, which if it were any other broadcaster would be sanctioned by means of licence withdrawal with immediate effect.
Hang on - media is allowed to be partisan. The Guardian and the Telegraph espouse different world views.
Surely what you can't do is lie?
Broadcast media is not allowed to be partisan in the UK. That's the law.
Last week I was in London for a few days again, I had my iPhone 17 Pro Max 2TB in Cosmic Orange out on public display whilst wearing an expensive watch and I wasn’t mugged, again.
I'm sure we are very close to the point where AI will monitor all aspects of our life - and tax/regulate accordingly. I worry we are the last people who will have any degree of autonomy from all-pervasive technology. Kinda glad I'm (at best) in the final couple of decades of my life. It's going to be a lot less fun than I've experienced throughout my time. Safer, maybe. Healthier - as we have best outcomes imposed. And with no ability to effectively complain. The computer says - meh. Leave me alone.
I'm younger than you but wonder about this also. It feels harder to have an adventure than it was before.
The older you get, the more it seems like the world is going to pot. That's been true from time immemorial.
Unfortunately it was also true in 1913 and 1938...
I'm too young to remember that far back but I do distinctly remember the world felt like it was going to pot in the early 70s:
Cold war, Vietnam, Watergate, energy crisis, blackouts, 3 day week, industrial strife, the Troubles, hooliganism, but worst of all goddawful brown fashion, brown sofas, brown wallpaper, brown cars...
Edit: that PET isn't there really.
I'm not sure that brown window is period-accurate. Wouldn't it have been more 1980s?
[edit: plus the curtain rail and inset lighting is wrong]
OfCom seems comfortable enough with it's wholly partisan content, which if it were any other broadcaster would be sanctioned by means of licence withdrawal with immediate effect.
Hang on - media is allowed to be partisan. The Guardian and the Telegraph espouse different world views.
Surely what you can't do is lie?
Broadcast media is not allowed to be partisan in the UK. That's the law.
How does that work in practice? Watch say 'The Last Leg' and you see some pretty partisan stuff. Is it ok because its not news?
Last week I was in London for a few days again, I had my iPhone 17 Pro Max 2TB in Cosmic Orange out on public display whilst wearing an expensive watch and I wasn’t mugged, again.
Crazy day in London yesterday. I wasn't mugged. I wasn't subject to Sharia Law. I somehow avoided all the no go areas for white prople. All this despite the absence of protective flags on lampposts. Insane!
OfCom seems comfortable enough with it's wholly partisan content, which if it were any other broadcaster would be sanctioned by means of licence withdrawal with immediate effect.
Hang on - media is allowed to be partisan. The Guardian and the Telegraph espouse different world views.
Surely what you can't do is lie?
Broadcast media is not allowed to be partisan in the UK. That's the law.
Online media either is allowed to be partisan or is not punished for it. GBNews being the obvious example
OfCom seems comfortable enough with it's wholly partisan content, which if it were any other broadcaster would be sanctioned by means of licence withdrawal with immediate effect.
Hang on - media is allowed to be partisan. The Guardian and the Telegraph espouse different world views.
Surely what you can't do is lie?
Broadcast media is not allowed to be partisan in the UK. That's the law.
Online media either is allowed to be partisan or is not punished for it. GBNews being the obvious example
GBNews faces the same requirements as any other broadcaster licensed by OfCom. They have fined GBNews several times. However, some of their decisions have been overturned by the courts as the requirement for neutrality only applies to news reporting. It does NOT apply to current affairs programmes (although it does apply to any news reports within the programme). So, for example, a politician cannot be used as a newsreader, interviewer or reporter in a news programme other than in exceptional situations, but there is nothing in OfCom's standards to prevent a politician presenting or acting as an interviewer in a current affairs programme.
Barclays need to read the FCA report warning to banks to not to discriminate against sex workers, I have read the report several times.
Barclays accused of closing entrepreneur’s bank account over OnlyFans work
Madelaine Thomas says she initially received positive feedback before questions began
Barclays has been accused of shutting the bank account of an entrepreneur because of her work on the adult website OnlyFans.
Madelaine Thomas, who runs a tech start-up while also making income by selling adult content, said the high street lender refused to open a new account for her business and had closed a separate account related to her work on OnlyFans and other websites.
Ms Thomas had applied for a business bank account with Barclays for her start-up, Image Angel.
The company’s technology applies digital watermarks to online images, allowing their creator to track them and identify the culprit if they are distributed or shared with others. Ms Thomas set up the company after private photos of her were distributed without her consent.
Barclays’ Eagle Labs tech programme receives government support to nurture tech start-ups, including running a “female founder accelerator”.
Ms Thomas said she had initially received positive feedback when applying for a business bank account with Image Angel, but later received a series of questions about a separate bank account that received the income from her online adult work.
She said she had also received questions about a joint account she shares with her husband, which she uses to pay nursery fees.
“It’s crazy that I’m trying to get a business bank account for technology that is going to change the landscape in terms of violence against women and girls and yet I’m now being investigated for, I don’t even know what,” she said.
“The technology I’m creating is just protecting people. It’s a benefit to society.”
Writing on LinkedIn she said: “Barclays don’t like that I earn via platforms like OnlyFans.”
Last week I was in London for a few days again, I had my iPhone 17 Pro Max 2TB in Cosmic Orange out on public display whilst wearing an expensive watch and I wasn’t mugged, again.
OfCom seems comfortable enough with it's wholly partisan content, which if it were any other broadcaster would be sanctioned by means of licence withdrawal with immediate effect.
Hang on - media is allowed to be partisan. The Guardian and the Telegraph espouse different world views.
Surely what you can't do is lie?
Broadcast media is not allowed to be partisan in the UK. That's the law.
How does that work in practice? Watch say 'The Last Leg' and you see some pretty partisan stuff. Is it ok because its not news?
The Ofcom rules on due impartiality and due accuracy apply to "news in any form" and have regard to "audience expectations" regarding the particular programme.
So they would apply to a comedy programme covering topical matters... but audience expectations come very heavily into play. Comedy programmes are expected to be somewhat unfair for comic effect, and most people don't reasonably expect the host to say, "well, you've told a mean joke about Nigel Farage there, so it's terribly important someone now either tells a joke casting him in a positive light, or mocking his opponents..."
Ofcom runs into difficulties quite often with "audience expectations" as it also applies at the level of channels. So GB News actually gets quite a lot more leeway than, say, ITV (and indeed Russia Today did too...,although it eventually went too far, it had an, erm, particular perspective on world affairs).
I've been out canvassing quite a lot in London lately. Labour's vote has absolutely evaporated.... it is quite extraordinary to go to places where Labour were on 50-60% of the vote at the last locals and find nobody, or virtually nobody, supporting them.
Voters expect the Tories to be bastards and they seldom disappoint. Seeing Labour being the same has proved intolerable
I am beginning to believe that bringing Burnham back into the fold might be optimal, not to assume a win in 2029 but to prevent an extinction event.
This iteration of the Labour Party can wither and die as far as I am concerned, but what comes next, be that Farage- Reform or Jenrick- Tories from my side of the fence is awful.
Why is Morgan McSweeney still in post?
I agree with all of that except not Burnham.
Mind you listening to Zia Yusuf reminds you there are monsters out there who have to be stopped
Last week I was in London for a few days again, I had my iPhone 17 Pro Max 2TB in Cosmic Orange out on public display whilst wearing an expensive watch and I wasn’t mugged, again.
Crazy day in London yesterday. I wasn't mugged. I wasn't subject to Sharia Law. I somehow avoided all the no go areas for white prople. All this despite the absence of protective flags on lampposts. Insane!
Go to London, I guarantee you'll either be mugged or not appreciated. Catch the train to London, stopping at Rejection, Disappointment, Backstabbing Central and Shattered Dreams Parkway.
OfCom seems comfortable enough with it's wholly partisan content, which if it were any other broadcaster would be sanctioned by means of licence withdrawal with immediate effect.
Hang on - media is allowed to be partisan. The Guardian and the Telegraph espouse different world views.
Surely what you can't do is lie?
Broadcast media isn't. The OfCom charter insists on impartiality.
Always wondered with a Dyson sphere - would it not just get really really hot as its absorbing ALL the solar radiation? And then become an emitter itself? Are any red dwarves actually very hot Dyson spheres? Or is that nonsense?
Comments
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2024/oct/01/avocado-bathrooms-back-uk-younger-homeowners-go-green
a. People fleeing Rishi Sunak's incompetent government
b. Keir Starmer successfully cracking down on net migration
My first ever football game, Blues v Boro, I saw a couple of fans taken out by the ambulance guys as it all kicked off prior to KO.
Blues lost 3-0 at home too.
High inflation and my Dad being a manual worker on a car track and my uncle a toolmaker at Longbridge, industrial strife was always around too.
Living in Shirley the pub bombings, especially with a then large Irish community in Sparkhill and Tyseley area in Brum really hit home.
The picture of the lounge is ace. Seventies had great music and fashion.
Which means your cousin…
Rob Blackie
@robblackie.bsky.social
I've been out canvassing quite a lot in London lately. Labour's vote has absolutely evaporated.... it is quite extraordinary to go to places where Labour were on 50-60% of the vote at the last locals and find nobody, or virtually nobody, supporting them.
The phrase 'I voted Labour last time, but...
https://bsky.app/profile/robblackie.bsky.social/post/3m5voe3dglk2u
I’ve still got one. Upstairs in the spare room as my wife hates it and I have to hide it as I don’t want rid of it.
SF, who are likely to lead the Copenhagen left-wing government after the election there, are not really extreme by most standards, but they've won Social Democrat votes by not pandering to the far right. I'm not convinced that focusing on illegal immigration as The Main Issue will benefit anyone except Reform. In denmark, support for the government taking that approach has sli from 50% to 30%: https://voxmeter.dk/meningsmalinger/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Ugens politiske meningsmåling er nu tilgængelig&utm_campaign=Meningsmåling - Uge 46 (Copy) and https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/18/centre-left-tipped-to-lose-copenhagen-for-first-time-in-electoral-history
https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=lava+lamp&crid=1O6R9BDYWK70Y&sprefix=lava+m,aps,160&ref=nb_sb_ss_p13n-pd-dpltr-ww-ranker-t1_ci_tech-br-left_1_6
https://mathmos.com/
https://mathmos.com/product/telstar-rocket-lava-lamp-silver/
I think it will depend on the area.
There are very few places where we Lib Dems and Greens are both campaigning.... so in areas where we campaign I expect us to do very well - and similarly for the Greens where they campaign.
Bloody Trump again.
Steve Reed, the Communities and Housing Secretary, refused to rule out the removal of UK-born children with families who have been rejected for asylum as part of efforts to increase deportations."
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11/18/british-born-children-immigrant-parents-could-be-deported
https://www.argos.co.uk/sd/lava-lamp/
https://mathmos.com/lava-lamps/all-lava-lamps/
GB News really is racist filth.
Trump DOJ’s James Comey case faces widening judicial backlash
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5609910-comey-prosecution-procedural-errors/
Halligan should be disbarred.
There must be countless prescription errors due to doctor's poor handwriting.
But it's true that the nuances are rather more complicated, as discussed here:
https://filelist.tudelft.nl/CiTG/Over faculteit/Afdelingen/Geoscience Engineering/Staff/Academic Staff/Rossen/WRR link 08.pdf
This iteration of the Labour Party can wither and die as far as I am concerned, but what comes next, be that Farage- Reform or Jenrick- Tories from my side of the fence is awful.
Why is Morgan McSweeney still in post?
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/nov/18/most-reform-uk-voters-would-back-wealth-tax-on-very-rich-poll-suggests
Data centre in your shed sounds ok, but crypto farm, bot army or illegal porn stash in your shed is less appealing...
IIRC one guy went to jail for having an unfiltered USENET server in his house.
I've argued numerous times that politicians need to lead and need to advocate for things that the voters are reflexively opposed to in order to improve things - but they also need to think about which things are the most important policies to concentrate on. Dynamic road pricing is not it.
It's also weird as a policy because they repeatedly make the point that one of the main things holding back Britain is that it's infrastructure is congested, and dynamic road pricing feels like a policy that fits in very well to the history of managing British decline, of rationing something, instead of providing more to avoid rationing.
https://www.londoncentric.media/p/london-phone-thieves-prefer-android-iphone-l
Even muggers don’t want Samsung phones
https://bsky.app/profile/jessicacalarco.com/post/3m5vnuvhfi227
During the tumultuous 70s UK newspapers would on average print 4 negative headlines per positive headline.
In the relatively much more benign time of the year 2000, they would print 18 negative headlines per positive one.
The police take the path of least resistance - easiest to charge the person in actual possession than find out the truth of the matter.
https://news.sky.com/story/x-and-cloudflare-down-for-thousands-of-users-13472221
Surely what you can't do is lie?
The only real answer is to get people to touch grass and talk to their neighbours, but who wants to do that?
Last week I was in London for a few days again, I had my iPhone 17 Pro Max 2TB in Cosmic Orange out on public display whilst wearing an expensive watch and I wasn’t mugged, again.
By my cat. For cat treats.
[edit: plus the curtain rail and inset lighting is wrong]
The Twitter is back
I reckon she can get away with this.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/nov/14/uk-borrowing-costs-up-after-markets-spooked-by-reeves-income-tax-u-turn
Yet a few minutes before I checked and it loaded lots of new, and some interesting, tweets.
https://electrek.co/2025/11/17/tesla-robotaxi-had-3-more-crashes-now-7-total/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky
A 17.5% accident rate isn’t good
Barclays accused of closing entrepreneur’s bank account over OnlyFans work
Madelaine Thomas says she initially received positive feedback before questions began
Barclays has been accused of shutting the bank account of an entrepreneur because of her work on the adult website OnlyFans.
Madelaine Thomas, who runs a tech start-up while also making income by selling adult content, said the high street lender refused to open a new account for her business and had closed a separate account related to her work on OnlyFans and other websites.
Ms Thomas had applied for a business bank account with Barclays for her start-up, Image Angel.
The company’s technology applies digital watermarks to online images, allowing their creator to track them and identify the culprit if they are distributed or shared with others. Ms Thomas set up the company after private photos of her were distributed without her consent.
Barclays’ Eagle Labs tech programme receives government support to nurture tech start-ups, including running a “female founder accelerator”.
Ms Thomas said she had initially received positive feedback when applying for a business bank account with Image Angel, but later received a series of questions about a separate bank account that received the income from her online adult work.
She said she had also received questions about a joint account she shares with her husband, which she uses to pay nursery fees.
“It’s crazy that I’m trying to get a business bank account for technology that is going to change the landscape in terms of violence against women and girls and yet I’m now being investigated for, I don’t even know what,” she said.
“The technology I’m creating is just protecting people. It’s a benefit to society.”
Writing on LinkedIn she said: “Barclays don’t like that I earn via platforms like OnlyFans.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/11/18/barclays-accused-closing-entrepreneur-bank-account-onlyfans/
So they would apply to a comedy programme covering topical matters... but audience expectations come very heavily into play. Comedy programmes are expected to be somewhat unfair for comic effect, and most people don't reasonably expect the host to say, "well, you've told a mean joke about Nigel Farage there, so it's terribly important someone now either tells a joke casting him in a positive light, or mocking his opponents..."
Ofcom runs into difficulties quite often with "audience expectations" as it also applies at the level of channels. So GB News actually gets quite a lot more leeway than, say, ITV (and indeed Russia Today did too...,although it eventually went too far, it had an, erm, particular perspective on world affairs).
Nearly half of sexually active young people in UK have experienced strangulation, study shows
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/nov/18/sexually-active-young-people-uk-choking-strangulation-sex
Dcubed to demonstrate in-space manufacturing of solar arrays
https://spacenews.com/dcubed-to-demonstrate-in-space-manufacturing-of-solar-arrays/
https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/
Mind you listening to Zia Yusuf reminds you there are monsters out there who have to be stopped
Fellow Star Trek fans, I said RELICS about Dyson spheres!
Not all of them are entitled whiners like the WASPI lot.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relics_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation)
Just trying to print a support structure for an unrolling cloth array.