“We’re helping too many people with disabilities” is a hell of a line from a Labor government

Free plug-in solar panels to be rolled out to some households The technology is designed to be a simpler and more affordable way of benefiting from renewable energy

"Low-income households will get [free] plug-in solar panels to cut their energy bills, the Government has announced."

This is how you do a just transition.
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Is that Stockport church spire in the background?

Manchester, 1965, photo by Shirley Baker.

Here you go. ✌🏻

I'm promising myself that this is the last moment of time I'm wasting on this.
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Won’t somebody save these hundreds of turtles condemned to death? | First Dog on the Moon There is a whole dam full of water right there but the turtles can’t have it

When God sings with his creations, will a turtle not be part of the choir? Not if you ask the NSW Government! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Receiving a flu shot doesn’t just protect you, it protects all the people you would have passed your flu on to. Among those people may be some who are frail or old.

It takes five minutes, it may save a life and will certainly save some suffering.

Get a flu shot.

Facebook post - picture of a suburban yard with lawn and colorbond fence.

Update on the housing crisis on the mid-north coast - this person is charging $175 a week to pitch a tent (byo tent), with extra for access to a bathroom. Tempted to reply and ask how much to be allowed to hose oneself down in the yard. Something should probably be done about the housing crisis.

Residents in Israel have been documenting thousands of bees swarming the southern city of Netivot, prompting authorities to urge people to stay indoors.

Bee experts say the phenomenon offers insights into swarming patterns, environmental stress, and how bees adapt to urban areas.

Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.

Here a grandmother is forced to do a gig job with no job security because she can’t afford to retire? What are we celebrating here?

Manchester, 1962, photo by Shirley Baker (Mary Evans Picture Library).

No swami, no system of yoga, no religious organisation, no doctrine or belief can lead you to the discovery of truth. Only the free mind can discover. —Krishnamurti

Mary Walker postwoman

19th Century postwoman, Mary Walker, whose route was 9 miles, 6 days a week, through the Kentmere Valley, Cumbria UK. She also cared for her blind husband and their 13 children. Src: A Lakeland Valley Through Time (1995).

Why do the men never display their crucifixes? Just their handmaids?

Or they are simply fascists, and this is how they they actually want their world to be.

If you lose touch with nature, you lose touch with humanity. —Krishnamurti

Once again: this is exactly what LLMs and chatbots are designed for. This is them doing their designed function.

Mass production of meaningless text so someone who wants to do harm has cheap access to the aesthetics of justification

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Mods in Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin, 1967, photo by Evelyn Hofer, German-American photographer.

As Keating once said, "tax them off the road"...

Soon after massive honeybee deaths, Trump moves to close the nation's premier bee lab When beekeepers saw widespread honeybee die-offs last year, researchers at the USDA Beltsville Agricultural Research Center stepped in to help. The Trump administration now plans to close the facility...

What the hell—Despite suddenly losing 1.6 million bee colonies to a mass die off in the U.S. in a year, Trump WH is instead planning to close the USDA’s premier bee 🐝laboratory, worrying beekeepers, scientists and farmers. nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news...

#auspol #albo #australia with 1 in 7 or around 4 Million people in Australia currently living in poverty, define what having a good or happy holiday looks like to you #albopm

Clydesdale Road, Byker, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1971, photo by Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen.

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

A Northern Street, by John McCombs (private collection). Manchester-born, Saddleworth-based artist, b.1943.

They’re making this woman pay $500 a month to talk to her husband.

That's home. That's us.

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew.

Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right.

Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

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Also, didn't Australia help sink an Iranian warship, killing 87 people on board?

Stockport viaduct, painting by Helen Clapcott.