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Stop Reform and the Tories Stop Reform and the Tories in the UK Parliament, Local Elections, the Senedd, and the Scottish Parliament.

Two weeks till UK election day. 7-May-26

Tactical voting is not at all obvious. Not much direction yet from https://stopreformuk.vote/

Help the under 30 and 30-40 to get out and VOTE!

#KRO Keep Reform Out
#GTTO Get The Tory Out
#GLO Get Labour Out

tally marks. 4, 5

What are these tally marks on my arm?

You hear a whistling overhead
Are you alive or are you dead?
It's only Thursday
You feel the shaking of the ground
A billion candles burn around
Is it your birthday?
Tomorrow never comes until it's too late

#Cocktail - Ford #2

50ml Old Tom (Gin + 5ml Maraschino), 50ml Dry Vermouth, 2.5ml Benedictine, Orange Bitters, Orange twist

Fifty-Fifty with a twist.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jbond/113318173509328548

Hard to tell what the "Argentina" connection might be. Never mind. It's just as good as I remember it.

Years of onion layer contracts to subsidise the privatised energy markets, generators, distribution and consumer delivery companies.

It's complicated.

The second summer of love and birth of rave culture.

Why don't Minimum Wage, Living Wage and Tax Allowance have the same Triple Lock as Pensions?

They should.

Miliband’s ‘break the link’ plan is not a magic formula for lowering energy bills The government’s plan to de-link gas and electricity prices will have a modest effect – more promising are plans on EVs and heat pumps

Its complicated,
www.theguardian.com/money/nils-pratley-on-fi...

www.theguardian.com/money/2026/apr/21/uk-ele...

So we're going all out on renewables and battery storage to make it so the gas powered generators never need to fire up. FTW, right?

Ed Miliband to double down on net zero with measures to combat Iran energy shock As fossil fuel prices soar ‘the era of clean energy security must come of age’, energy secretary will say

www.theguardian.com/business/2026/apr/20/ed-...

We'll all go running underground
And we'll be listening for the sound
It's only Wednesday
In your shelter, dimly lit
Take some wool and learn to knit
'Cause it's a long day
Tomorrow never comes until it's too late

LFTs especially had low false positives and high false negatives unless a good swab was taken at the right time. If you got a Positive, you had Covid. But if you got a negative, you don't really know for sure.

These 4 months are the long days. April 21 to August 21, Two months before the summer solstice and 2 months after. >14 hour days with Greenwich sunrise before 6am (05:51) and sunset after 8pm (20:06).

Make the most of them.

You could be sitting taking lunch
The news will hit you like a punch
It's only Tuesday
You never thought we'd go to war
After all the things we saw
It's April Fool's Day
Tomorrow never comes until it's too late

> Ceasefire means "You Cease - We fire".

And here we go again.

At the starting of the week
At summit talks you'll hear them speak
It's only Monday
Negotiations breaking down
See those leaders start to frown
It's sword and gun day
Tomorrow never comes until it's too late

Will Harlow and Gilston Garden town be designed along "15-Min-City" principles?

By moped, yes. By electric bicycle, probably. On foot, probably not. Despite Sustainable Travel Corridors, Circular Bus Routes and general car barriers.

> Governments should seek the electrification of everything that can be electrified, and the retirement of much that cannot.

Who’d have thought a fossil-fuel shill like Trump would be the one to spark a green revolution? | George Monbiot The US attack on Iran has made the need for renewable energy inarguable, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Our generation's "Manhattan Project" is the
"Grand Electrification of Everything". aka GEE.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/1...

Traders placed over $1bn in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war. What is going on? Suspicious wagers on the US-Israel war in Iran are creating huge windfalls and raising concerns among lawmakers

Insider trading on the "Israel-US-Iran-Lebanon Eight Week War" is wild!

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/18/iran-w...

UK Local, Mayor and devolved elections 7-May-26.

Two deadlines this week.

Monday - voter registration
Tuesday - new and changed postal vote changes

Get the Vote out. Get the youth vote out.

Vote!

Ceasefire means "You Cease - We fire".

Misleading posts from all sides mean the "Israel-US-Iran-Lebanon Eight Week War" is probably on again. Hormuz strait has a dual blockade again. S Lebanon continues to suffer.

Meanwhile, POTUS is on the golf course.

Climate Pulse - Near real-time updates of global climate variables Interactive global climate monitoring with interactive visualisations of air temperature and sea surface temperature from the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S).

#Climate Sea Surface Temperature, 60N-60S should be dropping now towards a false minimum in late June. Instead it's rising towards a new all time record.

Super-El-Nino incoming?

https://pulse.climate.copernicus.eu/
climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jbond/116271846465483947

So that about wraps it up for the Israel-US-Iran-Lebanon Seven Week War.

Iran opens the Hormuz Strait.

3. Immediately back down when the opponent backs down

#Cocktail - Monte Carlo: 60ml Rye, 15ml Benedictine, dash Angostura, Lemon twist

Benny Hatten?

Very interesting comments about China and Shenzhen. I really don't think we understand how far and fast China is going.

x.com/BetterCallMedhi/status/2...

Facebook error page

FFS Facebook! Not today ...

Some of the structure. Zero content.

Ontario warehouse fire. Speech from the arsonist on the video "All You Had To Do Is Pay Us Enough To Live"

Sign 'O' The Times
Memories of Future Collapse

Prince
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EdxM72EZ94
Kode9
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xATku5_RL9U

Not surprisingly, it's complicated to adjust UK laws so it can happen.