Embrace knowledge. Never stop learning. Be good, be kind, and if you are able to, be a blood donor. I am also @JonS1950@mastodon.online
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Britishvolt's problem was being unable to sign a supply contract with any motor manufacturer, either in the UK or overseas. Who is going to invest in a supplier with no customers?
I recall that the BBC's Breakfast Time was not that good in the 1980s. The big change happened when they copied the format of the the Channel Four Daily after it ceased in 1992.
I have no idea why, but I am currently watching Vikings Valhalla on Netflix, and the Amphidromic point of tides has popped into my head.
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Fingers crossed - this would leave only #REULBill in the truly barking mad category (though goodness knows there are plenty of others needing significant surgery)
UK may shelve controversial Brexit protocol bill in show of goodwill to EU theguardian.com/politics/202…
Finished watching The Lying Life of Adults on Netflix - a dramatisation of Elena Ferrante's novel La vita bugiarda degli adulti'. It is excellent, and very Italian - probably because it was made in Italy - crazy driving, passionate arguments, vespas, insults, food. Recommended.
Fighting the swell. What swell? That ship needs ballast. She is way too high in the water.
Wow! Why is Canley rolling this much in fairly low sea state. @GDNASSCO & @MSCSealift must not have the ship ballasted down as you can see the rudders. This is what happens when you convert an Alaska-class super tanker and load a lot of gear up high.
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Royal Navy Rescues Five from Sinking Tug in the Caribbean
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In that case she's in the wrong court.
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Meanwhile, the very same faction of election denying, insurrection excusing politicians have just spent a week flexing their muscles in Washington. The man who was apparently too moderate for them, McCarthy, himself voted to overturn the 2020 election and is now Speaker.
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And firms will be delighted to manufacture both UK and EU regulatory standards, which won’t feed through into higher prices (or lead to EU manufacturers giving up on the UK market).
“Because we are free to deplete our environment and trash our workplace and consumer protections, it is of the utmost importance that we do so (and by regulation, so that Parliament can neither amend nor reject our plans).” teapaw.org/jacob_rees_mogg/status… #REULBill
Cross bench peer Lord Anderson shares his view on the awful proposed bonfire of EU retained law.
“Because we are free to deplete our environment and trash our workplace and consumer protections, it is of the utmost importance that we do so (and by regulation, so that Parliament can neither amend nor reject our plans).” teapaw.org/jacob_rees_mogg/status… #REULBill
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More his fess than mine but I had an ex boyfriend who actually thought the tide times were controlled by the local council. We lived by the sea. I never told him the truth and it still makes me laugh imagining some poor council worker pressing a button to make the tide come in.
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.@TomTugendhat suggests we need a new treason law. Really? Any reasonably well-educated child with a good grasp of medieval Norman-French would be able to make a reasonable stab at what it means, as I explained back in 2014. barristerblogger.com/2014/10…
The highlight of my evenings over the festival period has been watching #OnlyConnect every night. You would expect that with daily practice, you would become a whiz, but no. It remains a confoundedly difficult quiz.
Chidi maybe feeling disappointed with 3 points in his specialist subject, but back in the Magnus Magnusson era, the curate of my local church scored just 2 points in his specialist subject of... church architecture.
#Mastermind
The Lamont Dozier medley on #BBC2 takes me back to Motown records of my youth in the 1960s. Loving seeing the original artists. Less so the updated covers.