In public health, you learn an awful lot about people willing to profit off of harms to children. But my jaw is on the floor. It never occurred to me that the sentence āIāve put a couple kids in the hospitalā would ever be followed by the phrase: āBut hereās the thing.ā @jackiantonovich.bsky.social
Phoning a bank. Subjected to voice recognition that requests use of the phonetic alphabet.
Me: November.
It: did you say Mike.
Me: No
It: did you say Oscar
Me: No
It: did you say Uniform
Me: No
It: did you say 7.
FFS.
When your monuments are too big for the church, start stacking them.
John FitzHerbert d. 1642 over
Francis FitzHerbert d. 1619
St Mary's Tissington.
#monumentsMonday
BBC News fixation on clickbait headlines is destroying the BBC's reputation
When The Standard is doing a better job you know you have problems
The hospitality industry wants their VAT cut to 10%. It will cost Ā£12bn
Who benefits?
ā The smallest most vulnerable businesses? Nope. 45% get nothing.
ā Consumers? Nope - prices won't fall.
ā Nearly half the cash goes straight to large chains. McDonald's gets Ā£400m.
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Reform warmly welcome Ant Middleton's endorsement in Makerfield.
Yet Middleton is an overt racist who has told the Home Secretary her ethnicity + faith should see her banned from public office - wanting new rules to ban Kemi Badenoch, Sadiq Khan and Zia Yusuf
He was condoing violence this week.
Cai, trying and failing to get his ball. Water is far too scary.
šØ It points out that the absence of mutual recognition for parts certification and maintenance approvals for in-service aircraft is creating a farcical situation where āidentical components cannot be used interchangeably for maintenance services on UK- and EU-registered aircraft"
I see that the Southampton rioters are once again proving to be the kind of decent, law-abiding, women-defending, pleasant stout yeomen of the shire we should be paying attention to.
London warehouses, er, āgo on fireā during the Blitz according to the BBC