Bloody love this.

Fair play to Sadiq Khan. To live rent-free inside the head of the president of the USA is a massive achievement for any Mayor of London.

published stories. Earlier this evening The Guardian headline was leading with the mass hysteria angle, quoting a scientist. Now news outlets are saying someone was arrested for having CS gas, yet if you look in the tagline of the link in the screenshot below, the BBC says a firearm was present (2)

Am I missing something here?

represent a not so tiny increase in the number of new homes. It must alleviate pressure to some extent, right? I just find it really quite odd that houseboats seem to be so few and far between in Dublin, a city with two city centre canals, unlike London which only has its north of the river.

It was further assumed that on average you might have 1.5 people per boat for a total of 1,260 people.

1,260 people is around 0.1% of Dublin's metro population, supposedly akin to a small neighbourhood or large apartment complex, so it's rather tiny, though it would

and there would be some gaps with no boats. ChatGPT suggested a conservative density of one boat every 25m, resulting in 40 boats per km. It also assumed that on average, only one bank is moored at a time, but in denser areas both sides might be used. 21km x 40 boats/km = 840 boats.

potential of the canals. The assumptions were, for anyone interested, that the Royal Canal out to the M50 is about 12km and that the Grand out to the M50 is about 9km. The total usable length is about 21km. It was assumed that boats would be between 17m long on average, double-banking would be rare

to be narrowboats and not smaller day-trip craft. There's then nothing until you reach Confey, where there's an equally small gaggle. I thought this was really odd, particularly in a city with such an acute housing crisis.

I asked ChatGPT for some back-of-the-envelope calculations on the housing

and 2 for the rest of the canal to the M50. I thought this to be quite odd and I wondered if the situation was different on the Royal Canal. Doing the same, I didn't count a single boat between the Liffey and the M50. At Blanchardston I counted about 32 boats of which around 17 appeared

the Royal Canal I never really paid too much attention to the canals there, but casting my mind back, I didn't remember seeing many boats.

So I fired up Maps and starting in Grand Canal Dock, went along in both street view and satellite out to the M50. I counted 8 or so boats in Grand Canal Dock

Having been exploring the world of narrowboating in London a little (from dry land) recently, a thought popped into my head: “I wonder what the narrowboat/liveaboard scene is like in Dublin?” Having lived in Dublin for a time and walked and jogged along (1) 🧵 #narrowboats #canals #housing #cities

Well you’d be wrong, but nice talking to you.

Touché, I did wonder if Cameron would be mentioned to be honest.

Happy to confirm I’m no one’s stooge. I like The Jam.

Well at least we agree on Armagh, I see. Le meas.

That’s your view. I maintain that Mo Chara could have spent the entire gig criticising Israel on stage and you and I wouldn’t be having this discussion because there would have been nothing to charge him with.

Ok so let’s change the law then and allow people to wave flags of homophobic and antisemitic groups then (sarcasm)

Disappointing that CnG is getting involved in this. This isn’t about Irish language rights, as important as these are. These is a relatively straightforward case of alleged criminality over the alleged display of a symbol of a proscribed organisation.

That may be the case, but let’s not turn a blind eye to things that are crimes because some other group supposedly does them.

You’re assuming I don’t know this. If you get up on stage at the O2 Forum with a UVF flag, you’d probably be charged as well. It shouldn’t matter that you can put them up on lamp posts, but unfortunately it’s a different case.

I could stand outside Downing St tomorrow with a Palestinian flag and criticise Israel’s actions. I’d put good money on being able to walk home without the police batting an eyelid. If I couldn’t, we might have a problem, but I’m pretty sure I’d be fine. Le Meas.

Of course there’s nothing wrong with the flags on display today. One of them is a flag I own. Let’s remember that if Mo Chara had waved a Palestinian flag and chanted ‘free Palestine’, you and I wouldn’t be having this discussion. I haven’t been on X in years, more so since Musk’s takeover. Le Meas.

The alleged flag is the charge. Without a charge this story doesn’t exist. End the inhumane violence.

Well you were all there because Mo Chara allegedly held one aloft at a gig

A bad day for our boundaries on the public display of extremist symbols.

I guess even design fees for these tulips, might be less than the council spend on regular gardening…

London Has Its First Tulip Cycle Lane A cycle lane in Paddington now features flower wands.

Seem quite good, but is there a reason planters with actual plants wouldn’t work? #londoncycling #cycling

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