Pedestrianising Oxford Street would obviously be much better? I’m not sure why the council would oppose it, other than they are Conservatives so habitually wrong.

Getting rid of most traffic has already made the street orders of magnitude more pleasant. Getting rid of buses and taxis is the obvious next step.

tbf is there anything Burnham hasn’t backed at this point?

Honestly this past week in London has been on another level. Arsenal shirts everywhere. Sunday was incredible, nothing like it in my life.

Alright off you fuck then.

3 hours a week in nature is quite a lot for most people tbf. Vast majority live in towns and cities and have to go a long way to find what they might consider “nature”.

So if i want to set up my Eufy camera for use with this, it would need to be able to upload to a remote network drive or FTP folder? I’m pretty sure mine does on-device motion detection, which then records the footage to an sdcard in the device. I’m not sure I can get it to write to FTP though. Will have a play around.

Either way this is a good solution. I used to use frigate and I actually bought a Coral TPU unit to offload the motion detection. This massively reduced CPU usage, but it is still adds a noticeable (~3-8w) increase to total power consumption. It would be nice to use the on-board capabilities of the hardware itself.

I just instinctively read “massive new lido” as “massive new dildo”.

It’s actually even worse than that, as women could now legally complain to the owner that there is a man in the toilets and they are unsafe. In thiscase it would be discriminatory to NOT kick the trans man out of the women’s toilets.

This leaves trans people with nowhere to go, which the authors of the guidance have acknowledged. So they have left the option for the owner to permit trans people to use the disabled toilets…

Which is a win win if you don’t give a shit about disabled people OR trans people.

I’ll never understand drivers who do this. The psychologist they had talking about “rage and humiliation” in “mini power struggles” was interesting, would like to hear more about that.

I use card for most of my transactions, but in cornershops, independent shops or smaller businesses i usually ask what they prefer. It’s not always cash! sometimes they prefer card as it’s easier for them to handle.

Interesting what you say about people your age, I’ve noticed actually that children/teenagers tend to use cash because they don’t have a bank account or any income to put in a bank account, but then when they get to 18+ they start using card more.

https://arseblog.news/2026/05/beth/

god dammit tim. this one’s going to hurt.

that’s devastating. i’m gonna need tim stillman to tell me why i should be ok with this.

The main problem with Paperless is me. I just can’t be arsed to scan stuff, even though it’s almost entirely automated. The only thing that isn’t automated is me putting the paper into the scanner. Why am i like this?

Polanski didn’t have much of an answer to it, even though it’s not a difficult one to answer from a principled position. You can report hate crimes if you want, but the right to free speech of thousands of people should be balanced against the possibility of hate crimes being committed by a tiny minority on those marches.

I think this principle stands both ways, too, because it’s clear that far right rallies are permitted, despite hate speech being kind of the point of those rallies. I’m not sure why Polanski couldn’t have answered this better, especially when he is in the right.

They were lucky to win that. Deserved a draw. I still think we’ll win the league, I still think they’ll drop points. The performance was orders of magnitude better than what we’ve seen for god knows how long, it gives me hope.

A lot of handwaving going on here, and motivated reasoning too. I’m voting Green in May but that doesn’t mean I have to believe they are perfect. They do and have done a lot of dumb things. I voted Labour in 2024 and I criticised them at the time and still do now. Not sure why people need to support parties like football teams.

One thing I have to give Labour credit for (Ed Milliband in particular) is their Net Zero policies. They really are doing the hard work of decarbonising our country.

“within months”

how many months tho

(this is amazing and I can’t wait)

I think it’s clear that he did, in fact, believe that he could hypnotise women’s breasts bigger. And then backtracked when he became a politician and realised this would look bad for him.

Right now I would still vote for the Greens but my god can’t we have someone with good policies AND who has never tried to hypnotise women’s breasts bigger??

PS. Here is what his website looked like a year after the Sun article was written: https://web.archive.org/web/20141025071852/http://www.zackpolanski.com/page/1/. The main page doesn’t advertise breast enlargement, but the blog does mention positively the Sun article. He clearly wasn’t ashamed of it, or trying to “defend” himself from misrepresentation. I think we can safely conclude that the guy genuinely believed in hypnotherapy – him being a professional hynotherapist charging £200 a session and all – and that this extended to breast enlargement. Whatever he currently believes, I don’t like denying this apparently basic truth.

I found cleverkeys to be terrible at swipe/gesture typing. It would fail at even simple, common, seemingly unambiguous words. Heliboard + gboard swipe lib was orders of magnitude better.

I still use cleverkeys for termux though as the key gestures are brilliant.

Getting rid of cars is always the answer.

One thing from my personal experience is that I can’t really cycle with my children. It’s plainly unsafe for them to cycle on the road, but it would be illegal for me to cycle on the pavement. There really isn’t anywhere we can go to cycle together near where I live.