Mags L Halliday

Good to know as we’ll be switching to them when the ASHP and solar pv is fitted in spring.

(Currently on Scottish)

This is v interesting as I tried to switch to ecotricity when we moved house and found the customer service so bad during sign up that I switched back.

What if, communities, councils, charities and foundations, all clubbed in together to establish projects that would remove reliance on fossil fuels.

Bills go down

Emissions go down

Profits are kept local

Idiots at the top can’t pretend we need fracking.

Wealth redistribution is good actually.

Gods, yes. I’ve had GPs miss or dismiss problems in two close family members. In one case they ended up in ICU, on a vent.

Someone took the wrong lessons from Iron Man (2008).

Ta! As I say, not a military person.

That might explain the plumage as well, thank you.

People say an image like that is impossible to alt text. I say “this is my kind of challenge”.

Terrible AI illustration of Liz Truss. The AI has provided two icons for her: a “Miw budget” on a piece of paper which must be the mini budget. And a lettuce.

I see David Cameron appears to have outlawed Airfix kits?

Howling at this though!

Double Decker bar, please.

So, I'm not a military expert by any means but...do harriers normally land or take off with the canopy open?

@garius.bsky.social may know someone who knows.

Casting call! Looking for a woman voice actor, 50+ who is versatile and a vocal chameleon / can play many different bit parts in an audio comedy.

We’re recording in London on 13th & 14th April. This is a paid opportunity. Actor does not need to be autistic!

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I'm rather glad the whole thing has been cut off before we get to Thatcher, as I suspect she would be Wilson in a wig and the icon would be a chonky mobile phone.

8/8

Heath does look a bit like Heath but has the same nose as McMillian and Wilson. His icon is a yacht, and more blue buttons that are actually unreadable.

7/8

Wilson is MacMillan but in a white lab coat. For some reason he appears to have a black licorice shoelace stuck to his chin. Icon includes a pipe and, in a sign the AI is struggling, some blue icon buttons with a computer and other symbols of technology.

6/8

Douglas-Home is Attlee again. Not "a bit similar" but absolutely identical. His icons are a country house, a rifle and some black feathers. Perhaps it's meant to be Clivedon and the Profumo affair, but not sure why a rifle?

5/8

MacMillan looks like Eden but a bit more silver-haired and thicker jowls. His icon is a TV. Not sure why. In front of the TV is a sign that looks like it reads Prime Minister but some of the letters are Cyrillic. Fairly sure MacMillan was not a Russian plant.

4/8

Eden looks like John Le Mesurier. There's a map which may be supposed to be Suez but as it seems to think Suez is a bridge over the Nile delta, I'm not sure. Also a staff car. Not sure what that symbolizes.

3/8

Churchill is looking gruff, with a bulldog icon. Churchill is also smoking not one but two cigars.

Attlee is looking chipper despite a giant icon of a pipe close but not actually in his mouth. He also has an NHS sign.

Churchill again, still with two cigars.

2/8

I'm so distracted by this image that I've written the alt text for it.

An AI image of a list of the last 20 prime ministers of the UK, from Churchill to Starmer. Only Churchill through to Edward Heath are pictured. Each has a circular image of the PM, with a couple of symbols next to them.

1/8

Also, Hume is clearly just Atlee. Like, he's not even wearing a hat or something as a disguise.

This is the first UK Eurovision entry I've loved for years.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=niMK...

And why has Hume got a rifle with feathers on it?

Two of my siblings passed their 11+ and got into the boy's grammar. One didn't and went to the secondary modern. By the time I was going in 1980, the system had been abolished in our county. So I went to my nearest school. Which was the same boy's grammar, now a co-ed comp.

Photo of Dexter Sol Ansell, a young actor of maybe 10 years, dressed as his character, Egg. Costume consists of a set of grey robes and a shaved head. He is holding a copy of The Hedge Knight by George RR Martin

Photo of Dexter Sol Ansell, a young actor of maybe 10 years, dressed as his character, Egg. Costume consists of a set of grey robes and a shaved head. He is holding his school bag and smiling.

If you need a timeline cleanse you should know that Dexter Sol Ansell who plays Egg on A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms went to school as Egg for World Book Day.

The minute I hear or see someone use "leftie" I assume brain worms, tbh.

Grammars still exist. Our teen goes to the local comp but our nibling chose to take the entrance exam and goes to a grammar.

What is being talked about is changing that exam from optional to mandatory and a return to the two tier system. Had a bad exam day? Off to the vocational track, dumbass.

Grammar = selective state education, with an entrance exam. Exam is now an optional choice.

Comprehensive = your basic 11+ state school. No exam.

Before education reforms, all Year 6 kids took an "11+" exam. If you passed? Grammar, and academic track. Failed? Secondary Modern vocational track.

Gone straight in the block pile. Looks a tad like targeted harassment, tbh.

Adventures in Iran Part One: Mr. Ned

I took the paywall off this three part series. My time in Iran in 2014 was life-changing.

open.substack.com/pub/nedboult...