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Sister in Puerto Rico did the posters for this at her university .

Civilised idea !

" Yesterday and today we have the Election Commission here, for students to register to vote.
An event part of Library Week "

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Doubles all round !

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I need the odd laugh these days --

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refitman wrote: ↑Thu 11 Apr, 2024 1:57 pm Not everyone in Labour is terrible, thank god

She sounds very sensible !

I blame you for introducing me to Ana (on LonerBox) , I hope she is now out of hiding --

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"Rats ate my dam" cont

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Biden risking doing something humane, election year ?

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/ ... ge-charges

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I haven't watched PMQ's for quite some time, relying on Mr Sparrow et al, but I do miss THE Report !

We'll be back on 18th April with a studio audience from Buxton

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28 years an MP, and YES he claimed £££ 000'sf or cleaning his swimming pool and painting his summer house, BUT a very clear witness on the right side of History ! I watched half an hour of it , good honest stuff . A number of nuggets -- Liveblog 25m ago 11.55 CEST At the Post Office Horizon IT inqui...

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I don't know very much about him but at least he can communicate with humans, like another human, unlike Robotic Rachel . Notes from the campaign trail: listening, trust, and honesty "Britain should be run in the interests of the people who do the work. " What struck me is that everything ...

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Post Office has run out of road thanks to an honest, stubborn man Zoe Williams Even the judge at the Horizon inquiry seemed impressed as the Alan Bates entered the room to recount his experience with the Post Office " Nonetheless, Bates blames the civil servants more than the ministers. Ultima...

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LOCAL tax offices with local inspectors and employees and knowledge,

as opposed to doing it all on computer screens at the other end of the country ?

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AnatolyKasparov wrote: ↑Tue 09 Apr, 2024 6:03 pm Many, perhaps most, people have now totally tuned out from anything the Tories say or do though.

AK -- remember that's how , IIRC, they won a by election on ULEZ propaganda ?

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Hi AK Yes sorry it’s been a while But saw that Hodges post and thought of you all 😆 Bit busy today but I’ll pop back in soon. PfY and Yorkshire Bylines pops up on my notifications -- Elections 2024: Conservatives ramping up disinformation campaign As the mayoral and council elections loom, evidence...

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A history lesson for JKR ...

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/U4Nn6sgqYTI

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I plugged out R4 before the Rachel Reeves, but expect she was pledging to use imagination to grow the economy ?

Wet and windy here !

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" Rats undermined my dam "

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Morning refit Gilsey having been an accountant reminded me of the olden days on Prem Sikka's accountancy threads at the G . Generally only a few score comments, and we had fun ! Steve Hill FCA etc defended the nobility and selflessness of the Big Four against all comers . A little similar fun at The...

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6/4 Posting from the front, Stanislav Aseyev is Not Happy -- (DO Check his bio !) https://twitter.com/AseyevStanislav/status/1776546313863115067 BUT THEN, 8/4 --- " Following public uproar after an apparent incident of a “revenge summons” for a whistleblower report exposing corruption in Ukrai...

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My favourite Tory MP ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOv7zPrheyo&ab_channel=RosieHolt " With a hint of mischief, Holt remembers the time that “a Labour MP quote-tweeted one of my videos and said: ‘This woman is appalling, she should stop inside’. I tweeted back: ‘How do I even know you’re...

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Photographer Paul Conroy was with Marie Colvin when they were targeted by Assad's artillery in Syria . She was killed, and he's back at work after hospitals. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MoZx6tp_kM&ab_channel=TimesRadio Nice story about the group of infantry soldiers who learned how to do ar...

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Wes Streeting's war on the left ( nothing to do with his funders )A Youtube Short " Was Streeting has declared war today on what he calls the middle-class left-wing members of the Labour Party who want to prevent him from privatising the NHS. That's nonsense. What he's actually saying is he'd ...

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I have Shaun's book, also Aiden Aslin's. The latter underwent a RT 'confession interview' with his torturer standing right behind the RT 'journalist' .

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How much poorer weaker etc because of her , surely ? OK She had help ! She also had North Sea oil, something her predecessors mostly did not. And basically wasted it. It's always amazed me how some countries just can't look outside their borders to compare what their neighbours are doing differentl...

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How much poorer weaker etc because of her , surely ?

OK She had help !

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Bah, using a grinder is cheating, I just use the bottom of an old mug to sharpen my kitchen knives (ceramics being harder than steel). Although admittedly with blades that size using my technique would probably take about a week. Evening Sky, a week's optimistic i think, I took off a LOT of metal !...

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Extremely pleased with myself, I repaired the rotoscythe in the background of the photo and sharpened the blade on the 15HP, and both performed very well ! Was awake extremely early today, found 11 articles in the Times, and surprisingly 12 in the G . Just looked at the last one I selected " Or...

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"“The draft law on the media stipulates an increase in the share of the state language in television and radio from 50% to 70%,” the culture minister, Aida Balayeva, told reporters in the capital, Astana." Invasion fallout ? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/06/kazakhstan-drafts-m...

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Froggie crawled out from under his mower to find bizness as usual on the Xittersphere

Went back to sharpen the bluntest blade EVER, now for some tea before going to mow .

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Can't say I'm avidly following the WWragg saga , but this just popped up on his digging himself in deeper ...

Off to get petrol for mowers, much werk ahead !

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" 'Comrade' has posted on Canada being threatened by the US for buying Mig21's in the Sixties ! it was an APRIL FOOL on the WARTHUNDER.COM website Of course RU is using AI for their b0ts but it looks as tho they could sharpen up :-) " https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIIWW_VbQnQ&ab_chan...

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Morning refit Some light entertainment earlier with either a deluded , or more likely a RU troll ,at the Times Grief, anger and suspicion in Ukrainian village where collaborators killed 59 Two brothers from Hroza betrayed their own by giving Russian forces information which led to the biggest single...

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This may well be the first lol of the day ...

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Cryptic as ever AK .

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Afternoon I heard the catflap at 0630 and got up a little later to see him flaked out by my bedroom door ... growling when I went to touch his back . He moved a bit, seriously limping and complaining . He came downstairs later, suffering loudly, and then went to hide in the extension behind the kitc...

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Liked this --

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"LOTO and others" have already changed their line on this conflict a great deal since it started. That is just stating the facts. Just a little sail-trimming meekly following Washington AK . If you bothered to read the article Labour has no objection to killing a hundred others to get one...

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He has form, this is 2014,but there's probably some earlier stuff :-) In the aftermath of the House of Commons vote, which overwhelmingly urged the British government to recognize Palestine, Duncan launched what the London Times called “an outspoken attack on Israel for its construction of illegal s...

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Morning refit Thanks for this Sky, I somehow missed it last night https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/03/israel-gaza-ai-database-hamas-airstrikes Unsurprised at the depth of depravity, but new to see the large numbers of civilians of all ages officially considered acceptable. . Tracking peopl...

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RE the pandering to racists nuttery we also have the pandering to tax reduction nuts, ex ... Trussonomics !

Listening to France Culture on my way back from the beach

" Public expenditure is about the same, but
Receipts are DOWN because of Tax Cuts "

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Listened with half an ear to Part1 this morning, a GHASTLY story of Voice Chat, housewives backbiting on subsidiary private chats away from the'official' one .... Part 2 -- listening now ! " In 2016, amid the post-EU referendum chaos, one man had an idea. His name was Steve Baker, and he was a ...

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Same here, after my walk on the sand will now do a little strimming of jungle !

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AnatolyKasparov wrote: ↑Wed 03 Apr, 2024 2:25 pm Anyone about today?

Rather too much reading and watching so far, plus racking my brain how to fix a small practical problem ...

so will go for a health-walk on the beach , stopping off to get some self-tapping screws at the agri-coop to hopefully fix said fiddly problem !

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We seem to have a bit of a birthday bonanza going on. To be honest being born on April fools day does help somewhat when viewing life as one big cosmic joke. An outlook shared by Sunak apparently given the bizarre jollity he expressed today. Can anyone remember when Gordon Brown became Prime Minist...

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We were discussing birthdays in the long weekend thread, its my sisters today and she is 56. (almost exactly 20 years after our mum, and roughly 18 months younger than me) HB to your sister and missed ones to the others -- , Sky and your young Mum AK ! I'm with notnow, pushing 80, in 3years for me....

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Lazing by the stove while a gale blows outside . It's also too wet .The cat agrees . Another saddo non-negotiable Zionist -- https://twitter.com/Loyalfan68/status/1775089286267666825 The USUK actions on continuing to supply munitions don't sit well with this -- https://twitter.com/ChrisMcGreal/statu...

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