Paul Barnfather

Here we go again. Rueful & Co will be trying to take over again but you know what to do to stop them. Don’t ignore your emails from the NT with links to votes. Don’t split the vote (easiest to select the NT preferred selection of both members & motions) And get all family members to vote too!

This could be big news for V2G adoption in the UK: how does £4k off the price of a new car sound? #v2g www.theguardian.com/environment/...

⚔️ A City under Siege: Chester in the English Civil War Hear the story of Chester’s Civil War siege with a historian and a reenactor, in a pub that opened in 1643. 📅 Tue 3rd November, 6:30pm - 8pm 📍 Ye Olde Boot Inn 🎟️ Places are limited - book now 👉 buff.ly/X7mQ2vP #RowvemberChester #Rowvember

Suicide is such an important topic we all need to speak about more. We need to have more positive conversations to try and help each other. To understand each other's stories better. To try to understand why we are all suffering so much. x

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Serbia votes out their pro-Putin authoritarian government. Ending strongman Vucic after 14 yrs. Students, educators & farmers rallied together to reclaim their democracy by voting in historic numbers. See America, it's all on us. We vote. We win. Fascist fade share.google/MpOmcEDB2o1n...

🩸 Half-term horrors at King Charles Tower! 🏰 Meet Godfrey Garland, our medieval surgeon, and his thirsty leeches (you’re safe... probably 😬). 📅 Mon 26, Tue 27 & Thu 29 Oct, 11am-1pm 📍 King Charles Tower, Chester City Walls FREE, family-friendly, drop-in! Image: @stuartrobphoto.bsky.social

Donald, here’s yer troosers!

Last week, Michael Gove split from his girlfriend Dr. Lola Salem who has been charged with possessing indecent images of children. The Oxford University professor has pleaded not guilty & is out on bail awaiting trial. Not much media attention on this. Apparently she was charged in back in June.

I see nobody's able to write about Michael Gove and his former partner Lola Salem so perhaps we could try someone else...whooops newscord.org/editorials/w...

Troianovski and Lipton report that a project designed to liquefy natural gas in Alaska and export it would not only use Russian technology but also be funded with money from a Russian company close to Putin that is currently under U.S. sanctions.

I'm sorry, but this is such bollocks. Are they seriously suggesting *a quarter* of all tourists would not visit the UK because of a tax which nearly every other European country (not to mention nearly every US state) has? Give over...

Great to see on the front of the Mail, Telegraph, Express, Sun.* 'The no. of young people admitted to London hospitals after knife attacks is down 55% since Sadiq Khan launched a Violence Reduction Unit, with London falling faster than the rest of England.' *Joke www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/y...

You have to laugh at the sheer insanity of Turning Point UK being found to be organising literal contract killings and paid agitation at protests up and down the country and it barely even raises a flicker across the press. If that isn't 'terrorism' on some level I don't really know what is

“Palantir cofounder and CEO Alex Karp states ‘AI will undermine the influence of highly educated, often female voters and give it to working class men. We have feminine energy running our cities and our courts,’ he complained.”

OK, it had to be done Heuro Train to run Amsterdam - Paris trains in 2030 Complete 🐂 💩 Bullshit meter with an explainer👇 jonworth.eu/bullshit-meter…

FUUUUUUUUU #Shrinkflation

Reminds me of Brasseye's report on Bomb Dogs. Eugene Fraxby has the story. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nvf...

It’s always inspiring seeing what other cities do to make streets safer. In Paris, it’s impossible not to notice the ubiquitous zebra crossings that help give pedestrian priority on side roads. I’m delighted we’re working with Dept Transport to start trialing these at scale in London.

The Russians hacked Jared's phone. Then Dutch cyberspies then reverse-engineered that hack, giving them unprecedented access to his world. Bananas story in @vanityfair.com

OK, I may have a chance of winning this one

Bloody hell!

These are absolutely beautiful photos. Challenge: try to identify what it is you're looking at before reading the label.

Spent days searching the workshop for a replacement Bluetooth headphone battery I could have sworn I’d bought months ago. It was, of course, in the box clearly labelled “BT HEADPHONE BATTERY” 🫠

NEW ANALYSIS: Expensive gas behind "nearly 90%" of rise in UK household electricity bills since 2020 + 77% of the rise in gas bills Contrary to what you've seen in media / political narratives, net-zero is "helping to shelter Britain from the impact of expensive gas", says @acjsissons.bsky.social

We've taken the B3ta site down as there's a PHP insecurity turned up and it's likely affecting about half the internet. The responsible thing to do is take all your PHP sites offline until the hole is patched as bad actors with AI will be scanning websites for this hole to inject malware etc.

Help! We need somewhere in the city centre to store the parade pirate ship and elephant asap! @shitchester.bsky.social @skintchester.bsky.social

'More than 20 NHS trusts in England have stopped using Palantir’s waiting list tools, according to FT analysis that casts doubt on widely cited claims about the success of the controversial data project led by the US software giant.' #politicslive www.ft.com/content/cc1f...

All the red zero transparency ‘thinktanks‘ belong to the #AtlasNetwork Their known funding is dominated by fossil fuel billionaires & multinationals See my pinned post : my 75pp submission to the Australian Senate inquiry on organised disinformation or a deep dive into their history & methods.

Just a regular reminder to please support your local bookstore, café, theatre, bakery, and library. Without us, they can't survive. Without them, neither can we.

Nasty little tv license scam just landed in my inbox. Much higher quality than the average, quite persuasive. I know my renewal date, and I always do those operations from first principles rather than clicking on links. Even so, it wasted some time while I made sure.

Is it possible to replace the non-replaceable battery in Cambridge Melomania Bluetooth headphones? Why, yes it is! #repair makertube.net/w/iWcfYVH42G...

You may have seen reports about the campaign for charities to be more 'transparent' about who funds them. Well it turns out the mysterious new right-wing think tank behind it won't say who funds or runs them, and used fake names for the authors of the report which launched their campaign

Can't help thinking if this was a car factory, a gas field or even a data centre it would be seen as a much bigger story. www.businessgreen.com/news/4537511...

The most implacable enemy of the NHS in British politics, Daniel Hannan was made a peer by Boris Johnson for services to Brexit. Here he is on Fox News, circa 2009, calling the NHS a "socialist mistake" while praising US healthcare as something to be envied. #politicslive youtu.be/FiSPRkq28iU?...

No ISBNs in Canada for AI writing. This is a fantastic policy, and every country should do the same. www.canada.ca/en/library-a...

🔭 Bonewaldesthorne’s Tower opens tomorrow! Climb to the darkened chamber and see the camera obscura in action - a live image of Chester projected onto a table below! 📅 Sun 18th Oct, 11am - 1pm 📍 City Walls Free, drop-in (queues possible at busy times, only accessible via a flight of steps)

"...John McAndrew is Director of Programmes for BBC News, responsible for the quality, consistency and editorial direction of... Newsnight...Before this he spent a year as Editorial Director and Director of News and Programmes at GB News..."

so restricting Ukraine's Starlink was Musk's idea, but after Moscow took advantage he became "alarmed about the possibility of adverse consumer reaction in Europe" to the "night of carnage" and denied responsibility I mean, it sounds like typical Elon

Crikey, this #nottotp Disco At The BBC is incredible

Olympic sprinter Beth Dobbin advocates brilliantly in this article: 🔹strongly rejects CFS label 🔹states there is no specialist NHS service 🔹conveys the severity of the disease 🔹raises the issue of how athletes are more 'believed' www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athlet...

Trump, Musk, Weidel, Le Pen: These are collaborator-populists who triumph at the ballot box and yet would sell their country to a Russian despot iandunt.substack.com/p/these-are-...

Now that is quite a photo. (Credit: Doug Mills / New York Times)

Body of Comet aircraft from nearby de Havilland factory turns into Bridge Street, Chester, 1950s.

New project for you all: I produced “Musk,” Alex Gibney’s extraordinary documentary, rolling out now.

AI question (sorry): if someone has made one of those vibe-coded “standalone” .html web apps, is there any way to find out which AI was used to generate it? I’ve got one here and there are *zero* identifying attributes in the HTML code that can see 🙄

Tobias Ellwood, Chair of the Defence Committee, ex Royal Green Jackets, tried to warn Johnson about the Ukraine invasion in November 2021 Johnson mocked him : "The old concepts of fighting big tank battles on European land mass are over" Johnson was proved completely wrong 3 months later

Re the Sally Rooney news, I was looking up data on arrests under terrorism legislation the other day, and hadn't quite realised how utterly bonkers the effect of the Palestine Action prohibition had been. That big purple spike is basically all PA-related arrests.