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The London Economic: Farage flies 4,500 miles away from Clacton to lobby Trump on Chagos Islands https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/nigel-farage-donald-trump-chagos-islands-403823/
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Mar 09, 2026
@Fife4Europe@mastodon.scot such a shame he went all that way and never met the Felon.
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/nigel-farage-mar-a-lago-visit-donald-trump-chagos-islands-403835/
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@statsguy@mas.to a point I've previously made in relation to how many EV charging points there are vs. number of petrol pumps (there are now slightly more public EV charging points than pumps).
However given my very limited annual mileage these days, mostly on short journeys, I doubt if I would be all that troubled by this if I were to have to replace my 10 year old Skoda Fabia Combi (and unlike your Skoda it has been almost entirely reliable) but equally I can't see a case for replacing it until it gives up on me (I may well become unsafe to drive it, or dead, first).
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Mar 09, 2026
@statsguy@mas.to not so different from how it was/is still done for fossil fuelled cars mpg and range then?
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Mar 09, 2026
@statsguy@mas.to you really need both a rear windscreen washer as well as the wiper. Its not just rain its muck that needs to be removed if you are to see what's behind you.
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Just, whatever about the U.K. part. The part that fascinates me is the 'join Wars that we've already won' He's now saying it IS a war when he keeps saying it's not. And he's saying they've already won
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@ProjectFearlessness@mastodonapp.uk If I was running the UK's foreign policy I would take Trump at his word - he says he doesn't need us - and withdraw all UK cooperation from his illegal war and remind him that what he is doing is illegal and a war crime.
But as Starmer and Cooper insists in rubbing their arses sore sitting on the fence its a bit late now for them to suddenly develop spines.
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@junesim63@mstdn.social seemingly the big challenge is going to be to get enough good Green candidates to stand in the London seats that they might potentially win.
What they don't need is to repeat what Reform did and put up a lot of entirely useless ones, even beyond what you might expect from anyone who can espouse what in Reform's case pass for policies, who then make a complete pigs ear of running their councils.
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American media is now so captured that it seems the only way the American people know anything is going wrong in the world is if they see the gas* prices rise. *Petrol. They're talking about petrol.
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In America, Trump supporters are describing the rise in gas (petrol. It's petrol) prices as "the final betrayal". Which implies they were all pretty happy about ALL THE OTHER BETRAYALS.
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@ProjectFearlessness@mastodonapp.uk not convinced the wording "final" betrayal" implies what you say it does about MAGAs as it does imply there were previous betrayals that didn't "break the camel's back".
But I suspect you are right about many of the MAGA crowd only starting to get really worried when it finally hits their pockets hard.
Maybe they simply misspoke.
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@frauxirah@chaos.social @Wen@mastodon.scot so given their new owners do you think the Telegraph is going to switch from supporting the Tories to shilling for Reform (Farage) or Restore (Lowe, Musk)?
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@Wen@mastodon.scot link now broken.
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This article - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/06/uk-death-healthy-life-expectancy-decline-state - makes 2 points about the current decline of health, well-being and lifespans in th
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@GeofCox@climatejustice.social these estimates of whether someone is still living a healthy life and derived estimates what their healthy life expectancy wil be are based on people's responses to direct and entirely qualitative questions eg in the census, and are hence use entirely subjective assessments. There have also been some changes in the wording.
I'm not convinced they can be entirely relied upon when comparing healthy life expectancies through time.
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/healthandlifeexpectancies/methodologies/healthstatelifeexpectanciesukqmi2020to2022
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Are we absolutely sure that the only way to bring about the second coming of Christ is to spend billions of dollars bombing millions of people? It just doesn't seem very, well, Christian.
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@ProjectFearlessness@mastodonapp.uk I think you'll find the four horsemen of the Aploclypse are in Revelation (6:1-8), which is soon to be added to the US forces handbook.
But then it also mention the coming of the Antichrist, and we have a plethora of candidates (Trump, Netanayu, Putin) at the moment fighting for the job.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/four-horsemen-of-the-Apocalypse
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@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us I suspect Trump is just referring to her 'heavy handed' public defense of his policy (poor optics) not the substance.
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@Edent@mastodon.social @burtyb@widget.uk well I had to look it up but average weekly earning were around £300, but that must be inflation adjusted, so if we deflate using RPI (CPI doesn't go back that far) that would be £13/week.
That sounds about right for 1969.
I do recall in the mid-sixties the average wage was about £10 a week. Back in those days that is also what 1st Division footballers got.
So if we assume a 40 hour working week about 32.5 p/hour.
So my pint would be 31% of that.
Note this is earnings not take home pay and there wasn't a national minimum wage back then.
Earnings series:
https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/datasets/averageweeklyearningsbysectorearn02
Long-run RPI series:
https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/timeseries/cdko/mm23
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@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us I have a "reader viewer" icon (eg visible on my Mastodon website) but it doesn't appear on the FT site. No doubt they have patched that loophole so I don't have an ethical dilemma as to whether I breach the paywall or not.
So if Swindells has some sort of 'pay for advice' contract with Palantir then between their calls for advice he is entirely free to shill for them? Or did he explicitly end the contract before shilling and declare that he had a conflict of interest - that had been under contract to them and could resume it at any time?
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@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us Article is behind a paywall so have to ask, isn't this "corruption in public office" and when is he going to be dismissed or at least suspended from his current posts and prosecuted?
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Polymarket has created a market that would monetize a nuclear attack amid increasing concerns that bets are happening among government insiders who can make military decisions. What stage of the apoca
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@davidsirota@mastodon.online well Polymarket finally wised up and pulled the bet.
Too much as temptation for someone to engineer a nuclear 'incident' so they could make a little money.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/polymarket-quietly-pulls-nuclear-detonation-145615266.html
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@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us "Trump seemed very interested when he was told that Ukraine was not allowed to hold elections during wartime"
..but we've been told it's 'not a war'.
And a war would need to be approved by Congress.
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@cstross@wandering.shop a lobotomy for the mind?
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@Vonskinnback@mastodon.social @ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us perhaps this is one case where we should follow the example of the USA:
https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/us-citizens-and-resident-aliens-abroad
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@SpaceLifeForm@infosec.exchange @blogdiva@mastodon.social well since these days MS seems to be updating the Windows codebase using vibe coding then none of it is copyright anyway.
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The language used really matters. Why gunfire and not attack?! #wordsmatter #mediacomplicity #israeliwarcrimes Israeli Settler Gunfire Kills Two Palestinian Brothers in West Bank https://ground.news/a
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@TheSwiv@hear-me.social I would just say 'murder'.
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@BashStKid@mastodon.online @christineburns@mastodon.green @ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us this doesn't seem quite right.
Firstly acid rain was a thing back in the 60's and in the UK we exported the problem to Norway by putting in tall chimneys at our then new coal power stations. FWIW I did my undergraduate dissertation on power station desulphurisation technologies in 1973). It was a solved problem by the 1990 but yes coal often contained significant sulphur and 'natural' gas ndidn't.
You are right about it being, in part at least a political project, targeting the power of the NUM. Coal was being run down and was privatised in 1992.
Before 1990 the CEGB couldn't use gas in power stations. When they were allowed to do so they were cheaper to build and more thermally efficient as they used a combined cycle (~60% efficient) compared to a coal plant (~40%) which didn't (there too much ash in the stack to pass it through a turbine).
At the time we had plentiful North Sea gas and this seemed a quick fix, and as it was replacing coal by gas did therefore significantly reduce CO2 emissions, which was becoming a consideration.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash_for_Gas
Also later when the CEGB was privatised it was mostly European companies (such as EDW and RWE) that bought up the powers stations not the Americans.
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@Silversnapples@mastodonapp.uk I assume someone has already reported/tried to report this to Southern Water and the Environment Agency?
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@christineburns@mastodon.green @ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us of course the big drop in coal use to generate electricity occured earlier, in the 1990s, with the 'dash for gas', based on bulding new gas power stations. Which also coincided with the run down of UK coal production.
"Around 20% of the UK’s CO2 emissions in 2017 came from burning coal, oil and gas to produce electricity. This is down from 34% back in 1990.
Coal’s share of this mix has fallen precipitously since 1990, down from 67% of total generation to only 5% [in 2017]."
https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-why-the-uks-co2-emissions-have-fallen-38-since-1990/
Note: this is a 2017 document but also includes some useful graphs.
After 2012 there was an accelerating pick up in renewable generation combined with the decline in demand (LED bulbs, etc) which allowed the remaining, now imported coal, generation to be replaced by gas without significant investment in new capacity.
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Mar 01, 2026
@ChrisShadowens@metalhead.club @HailsandAles@metalhead.club maybe something to do wuth requiring biometric age validation for UK and AUS users done by Thiel's Persona?
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@burger_jaap@mastodon.social from your Original toot "116,052 EV chargers vs. an estimated total of 60,802 fuel pumps across the UK."
You are comparing apples and oranges.
The point is that a petrol/diesel car can be filled in 5 minutes to provide 400 miles range.
An EV will typically take 30 minutes (yes,while you go and have that coffee) to charge from 10-80% of capacity and typically much less range.
Also many household don't have a drive or garage to charge at home so would have to rely on public chargers.
So you would need many more public EV chargers to support significant electrification of our current population of cars.
My town (12,000 people) has two petrol filling stations or about 16 pumps, That is enough for all the petrol/diesel cars in the area. You would need a lot more EV charging points than that if we were to fully electrify.
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@randahl@mastodon.social so they are dating this back to the Iranian Revolution (1979).
Maybe we, and they, should remember what had happened before that:
"In the 1940s, there were hopes that Iran could become a constitutional monarchy, but a 1953 coup aided by U.S. and U.K. removed the elected prime minister, and Iran was ruled as an autocracy under the Shah with American support from that time until the revolution. The Iranian monarchy lasted until the Islamic Revolution in 1979, when the country was officially declared an Islamic republic".
And what precipitated the 1953 coup? It was that the then government was proposing to nationalise their oil industry.
See a pattern here?
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@JugglingWithEggs@mstdn.social and there was me observing that the obvious sectarianism and bigotry in the by-election campaign was mostly coming from Reform, and a bit less obviously from Labour (thinking of their policy positions eg over the Gaza genocide).
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Feb 27, 2026
@burger_jaap@mastodon.social but the EV still occupies the charging bay. Capacity is not just down to how many chargers/fuel filling points there are. That was my point.
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Feb 27, 2026
@burger_jaap@mastodon.social but then filling up a petrol tank is much quicker than EV charging albeit some chargers are faster than others.
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@tompearce49@mastodon.scot Well to be fair Labour lost Runcorn and Helsby by 6 votes to Reform in May last year because, it could be claimed the Green vote increased very slightly.
Whay would have happened if that byelection had happened now I wouldn't want to speculate, but there is clearly a need for tactical voters against Reform to pick winners.
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@MamaLake@beige.party I have never been on .social, but I'm still on the server I first joined. You don't allow this choice.
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@ianvisits@mastodonapp.uk I recall over 20 years ago I supervised a final year undergraduate project where they were modelling this situation using a computer simulation they wrote.
This ('theading') appeared as an emergent behaviour when (simulated) individuals are assumed to follow simple rules about where to move next, moving into spaces given an overall direction.
What we were looking at was the effect of obstacles such as corners and 'furniture' such as pillars and booths on efficient flow.
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@TimWardCam@c.im @ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us my guess that it could mean prioritising the actually or potentially employable on the waiting lists for treatment over those who are severely disabled or simply retired.
Either that or he is actually going to commit to training and employing more staff and providing more resources to the NHS, so that everyone can get treated quicker but can you really imagine Streeting doing that?
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@Pamela1960@kolektiva.social to be fair that is the 'AI kill switch' they promised.
Better if you had also been offered the option when you updated, rather than have to go dig it for it in preferences/.
But I switched to AI-free Librewolf previously anyway (local translation still works).
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@CosmickTrigger@mastodon.social @joshjacobsen@hachyderm.io @pluralistic@mamot.fr I thought it already had - Defoe's Modest Proposal:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal
I'm sure Epstein will have discussed it with his tech bro friends.
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@beandev@social.tchncs.de @tante@tldr.nettime.org on the principle that if you are in a hole keep digging...
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@alexmdunne@mastodon.social @malwaretech@infosec.exchange or just repurpose all those Teslas that no one wants to buy. After all Musk has already sent one into space.
https://where-is-tesla-roadster.space/live
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@sarahdalgulls@ecoevo.social The figure I found for peak was 61.1 GW. However it all depends on the duration of the peak and when it was recorded.
More importantly average annual production of electricity is 292.7 TWh in 2023 which means average, not peak, demand then was 33.4. GW.
Data centres can mostly be regarded as base load, they run continuously, though demand for compute will vary a bit through the day if only used to meet national demand.
So supplying all these new data centres would require a 50% increase in electricity production. So not just a question for National Grid.
I'm not convinced that the market based measures being proposed to prioritise these demands for connection are going to be adequate. They have alrerdy made a mess of prioritising connection for speculative renewables projects with non-runners glogging up the pipeline.
And also where are we going to find the water to cool these thirsty monstrosities?
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@ar387@mstdn.social even vapourised Starlink component are also not without issue, if they occur in any quantity, such as occurs with Starlink satellites).
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@jamesholden@mas.to @mike@social.chinwag.org just to note that not all such people have been sucked into using a LLM, some still report Googling (though of course these days that probably means its AI summary.
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@1337@techhub.social @emilymbender@dair-community.social this (mis)use of large language models to 'polish' your text is just autotune for words, and about as unhelpful.
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@Tattooed_Mummy@beige.party we just wash our own. But we would call the place where you can go when you don't have your own washing machine a "Launderette".
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@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us my own observation from when I worked in a university some 20 years ago is that because of financialisation of HE universities have been incentivised to make available place on courses which are popular with prospective students (who are not always well educated of job opportunities in their preferred subject) even when the unversities should know better. Back then Computer Games had suddenly become popular but the games industry didn't employ that many graduates and in fact lots of universities jumped on the same bandwagon and offered courses.
Also the university then taught some fairly some rigorous software engineering which while it was material that would be need to be able to build computer games was not what the new students were expecting or well prepared to learn.
So many failed to complete their degrees and for those that did there weren't that many jobs for them in what they had trained for.
This was 20 years ago but I'd be surprised if the situation has improved since.
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@jbond@mastodon.social rather giving a pass on the rest of the (mostly billionaire funded) main stream media there.
And it wouldn't be so bad if they started to ask the hard questions of Farage's circus acts.
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@carnage4life@mas.to and presumably the German and other EU governments will simply block that and other similar IP?
Such a great gain for free speech.
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@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us more evidence on use of weight contril drugs following money not need:
"More people in affluent areas are using weight loss jabs, despite having lower levels of obesity, research suggests.
Analysis of private prescriptions for GLP-1 drugs like Mounjaro and Wegovy shows women and the middle classes are the most likely to use the drugs."
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People in the most deprived regions were around a third less likely to be getting the jabs than those in the least deprived, despite obesity being twice as common."
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/weight-loss-jabs-women-middle-class-wegovy-mounjaro-b2922087.html
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@OneInterestingFact@mastodon.ie sure Ice Hockey has rules, like most sports.
If you watch it for a while you get to know them.
Basic set of rules here:
https://www.theukrules.co.uk/rules/sport/ice-hockey/
Of course in practice not all ice hockey players follow the rules exactly and, for example, sometimes they throw off their gloves and a real fight involving two or more players breaks out. This does lead to a range of penalties though.
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@decryption@aus.social saw one of these automatic upf food dispensers in our local hospital. There was no allergy I information available anywhere.
So if you have an allergy you will have to continue to fast even after your procedure.
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@GeofCox@climatejustice.social and now completely overturned - UK now have two Olympic gold for sliding down a hill standing on a plank (Snowboard mixed team Cross).
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