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@nprofile1q... I thought that was obviously nonsense. How much trouble could it be to avoid a small monument?

OTOH: I find it odd that a film set has acquired religious significance.

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@nprofile1q... The UK is planning to drill for more North Sea oil and gas to burn. :-/. Our current political parties must have been bought.

Greg Harvey 🌍 · 6w

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@nprofile1q... It's really objectionable because TomTom's business was built on Linux but they refuse to give anything back to the community. I'm increasingly using OpenStreetMap instead of Google Maps too. The navigation works fairly well now.

Greg Harvey 🌍 · 6w

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@nprofile1q... I'm still having trouble with the TomTom SatNav they foisted on us last time. It stopped displaying the time a few weeks ago and updates depend on Windows which I soon won't have 'because Microsoft'. I don't want AI in anything.

Greg Harvey 🌍 · 6w

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Greg Harvey 🌍 · 6w

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq4kz5v4ukcpgejep4auygp52u33ku9cmuz84cjyvkxep4nqrusv9swwpx8j The problem we'll have very soon is it's going to be really hard to find a new car that *doesn't* have AI integrated into the infotainment system. So the first question in dealership wil...

Greg Harvey 🌍 · 6w

Ha. What did I say in my blog a few days ago about Renault probably shaping up to foist Google Gemini on their drivers? Voilà: https://www.electrive.com/2026/07/03/renault-introduces-google-gemini-v...

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@nprofile1q... <cancels plan to buy our 4th Renault Scenic>

Greg Harvey 🌍 · 6w

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@nprofile1q... Yeah, who does that?

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#TIL that the DADGAD guitar tuning I've been trying out for a few days, though commonly known as traditional "Celtic" was, in fact, brought back from Morocco by Davy Graham in the 1960s, based on an oud tuning he heard there. He adapted to guitar then it was copied by many in the British Islands folk revival.
We invent so much of our 'shared cultural history' while simply stealing whatever we like from other cultures and hating what we don't like. "What did the Romans ever do for us?" :-)

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"Naughty" Nige has reacted to falling popularity by calling in the Neo-Nazis, if anyone still doubts that he's willing to be 'a bit fasch' to win:
https://bylinetimes.com/2026/06/03/the-neo-nazi-and-far-right-coalition-that-converged-on-southampton-over-henry-nowaks-murder/
He actually "rage" bated his trap to dog-whistle them in.
Are British voters ashamed of betraying those who died in WW2 to see off Nazis yet?

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@nprofile1q... It was a great pity Nokia never understood the ethos of FOSS. I had an N800. It was really close to being good too :-).

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As a policy its never really seems to work, but Rachel Reeves has joined a procession of past politicians declaring that we should Buy British. A well managed Buy British public procurement policy ca...

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@nprofile1q... Have they given up on Globalism? Wasn't "Buy British" what took us into Europe. A better political communicator would talk about reducing transportation costs with our choice of goods, to avoid sounding like an anti-woke, flag-wanging nationalist.

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Today Ed Miliband will set out how he's going to shift the way renewable energy enters the wholesale markets as a way fo trying to reduce the impact of the gas price on the UK's energy market.... not ...

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@nprofile1q... I think the problem is that renewables can't be relied upon to be there when needed, so we need gas to be. If gas generation has to compete fairly, companies will fail, so availability of generating capacity from fossil fuels needs to be rewarded, even though we really don't ever want to call on it. It's like a second car in many families. Market changes are always fraught. They may over-simplify for a fast result.

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Ed Miliband's work as Energy Secretary (not least of all due to the current crisis) has catapulted him into pole position for any future Labour Leadership contest, which itself is a major rehabilitati...

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@nprofile1q... All he ever really did was eat a bacon sandwich wrong, in the opinion of the Far Right gutter-press. I think he could work well in a tag-team with Polanski. They both take on their enemies.