Mary Elkington 💙💛🇺🇦
@maryindevon.bsky.social
Town Planner and Geographer (MRTPI). Used to work at NASA - planning IS harder than rocket science. We can do better.
It's not just this one - Ali if the Southwest's reservoirs are very low. Sure it's raining today, but every thing you do is effected by the Earth System www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Satellite pictures reveal scale of reservoir's 'exceptionally low' levels
Wimbleball Lake on Exmoor was 13% earlier in October, despite being full to capacity in March.
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60 or so years ago you could ride a horse into a pub, feed it a bucket of stout and ride it back home. These days you can’t even drink outside after 11pm. Decline.
“The USA haven’t spent a single cent on Ukraine since January 2025, so more than 1.5 years. We in Europe are doing it.” So why are MAGA still whinging?
Blood boiling at that piece on #r4today where Nick 'Reform Mouthpiece ' Robinson repeatedly said RNLI was involved in political campaigning. Suggest he goes to sea or gts a VHF radio and listen to what they really do!
Jan Smith@janjancsmith.bsky.social · last wk.How / why did a piece on #radio4today ostensibly about the appalling abuse suffered by #RNLI volunteers and their children become solely about #NickRobinson criticising the Charity Commission?
What sort of pothole excess tax is it going to pay?
Yahoo Finance@yahoofinance.com · 2w ago"Flying cars are real!" 🚀 Elon Musk and Tesla showcase the new Roadster.
Don't suppose they said anything about electrification where you have constant salt water spray? Asking for everyone who lives west of Starcross 🙃 (srsly - great post on may levels)
Noel Dolphin @noeldolphin.bsky.social · 2w agoI’m in Switzerland with Nexus – Tyne and Wear Metro, looking at cost-effective electrification renewals. Much of what makes this work efficient is what the UK sector has been calling for for a long time; it has just been put into practice. A few lessons (1/7) 🧵
Taxing private jets at the same rate as regular flights, and ending the tax exemption on plane fuel could give the Chancellor an extra £2.7 bn. £2.7bn for our green transport networks! With other MPs I am calling on the Govt to end the tax breaks for wealthy private jet users. buff.ly/B65XyNf
Private jet tax open letter — Possible
For *one week only* all donations have double the impact.
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Oh yeah. And why hire someone to keep an eye on the fridge temps when you can jus let HAL rub the show ..
Mary Elkington 💙💛🇺🇦@maryindevon.bsky.social · 2w agoRobo-mops cleaning the aisles, self checkouts, automated warehouses for shop-from-home No job opportunities now in an industry that used to provide steady work for large numbers of people in their local communities... And we wonder why so much worklessness...
What a weird world we live in - Ukraine hits a data centre deep in Russia - Irish twitter users see racist posts about IPAS centres in Offaly fall off a cliff
Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦@perevaa.bsky.social · 2w agoAnd now the best part: Bot traffic from the #Yandex network has plunged to near zero following the strike on its Vladimir data center. Bot traffic includes automated requests from search crawlers, scrapers and other online services. Twitter must be a ghost town by now.
Robo-mops cleaning the aisles, self checkouts, automated warehouses for shop-from-home No job opportunities now in an industry that used to provide steady work for large numbers of people in their local communities... And we wonder why so much worklessness...
EUwatch 🇪🇺@euwatch.live · 2w agoDenmark tests humanoid robots in supermarkets to help to ease staff workload at night
Look at the graph of US support for Ukraine, and how it disappeared when Trump entered his second term. The Russia hoax was never a hoax
Jockyfox@jockyfox.bsky.social · 3w agoAnd there you have it … 🤦🏻♂️ @kyivindependent.com @peterjukes.bsky.social @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social Trump says Russia will supply diesel to US and global marketplace after 'highly successful' discussion with Putin www.lbc.co.uk/article/trum...
Can we please: - Put guardrails on GB News - as a news channel should be subject to laws/policy? - Create parliamentary standards for social media actions by MPs & sanction/strike off any future standing as needed? - full disclosure/limit any social media spend by any parties & co. Thanks 4 attn
Media Diversified@writersofcolour.bsky.social · 2w agoOn 7 October, a video shared by Stand Up to Racism Scotland, with the caption This is what happens when you keep telling racists that they have "legitimate concerns"... appeared to show a group of black-clad men ‘patrolling’ the streets of Glasgow while making racist threats.
Wow. Donald Trump is giving money to Putin’s war machine so he can keep killing innocent Ukrainians and attacking democracies across Europe. The UK must lead a coalition of the willing that stands up and says no.
This is completely outrageous and disgusting. This must immediately be blocked by Congress and Trump should be impeached for this. The US is now funding Putin’s war machine as he murders civilians including children. We are lost as a country.
logging on after getting the failed Darth Maul surgery
"Oh no! Not another one" Social media + russian money * disaster capitalits = bad outcomes for society, justice, and economy www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
US and Russia fuelling separatist debate in Canada, new report says
Researchers warn that foreign actors are meddling in the Alberta separatist movement in ways that threaten Canada’s "democratic integrity".
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OK, but how about ensuring childcare vouchers can not be redeemed by private prep-schools running pre-reception services. Or has to be used for childcare within X miles of home address? Of course Tory policy don't care about social justice.
Ian Dunt@iandunt.bsky.social · 3w agoCounter: severe tax cliff edges, particularly in cases like this when the marginal rate spirals into infinity, are bad for everyone. They mutilate incentives and reduce overall wealth. They should be fixed and not avoided simply because they initially benefit wealthy people.
Three cheers for low picket fence. The gawd awful close boarded 2m fences of suburbia are a social and visual blight
Martin Wheatley@martinhwheatley.bsky.social · 3w agoTerrace of local stone cottages, Ratley, Warwickshire, presumably for Southam Rural District Council #ukhousing @municipaldreams.bsky.social
For people talking about build homes on public land... Sure, have a look Using the Homes England Land Hub - GOV.UK share.google/sKc70VJ5r5qc...
Using the Homes England Land Hub
The Land Hub is an interactive map that features sites we intend to sell within the next 6 months.
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Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
When do nominations open for Biggest Snowflakes on the Internet? I've found a contender: Facebook Private Landlords groups. Just whisper into their echo chamber something about hard work of tenants who pay rent (their mortgages) and the tantrum outbursts and name-calling are unbelievably OTT! 😃
London’s most expensive house, the Reform UK Treasurer, Holly Valance, one of Labour’s biggest donors, a £265m sale, and a curious loophole we’ve uncovered that could slash the taxes earned from elite London properties. London Centric x Dan Neidle collab. www.londoncentric.media/p/londons-mo...
London’s most expensive house, Reform UK’s treasurer, and a massively reduced tax bill
A £265m mansion in the heart of the Chelsea • Sold by billionaire Nick Candy and his ex-wife Holly Valance • Bought by a Labour-donating hedge fund boss • Why was the tax bill so small?
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