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Not saying GP does, but it's been so long since we cut all the trees down in Britain that people here think grass fields are undeveloped wilderness

I am a pro wildlife photographer and spend hours studying birds. And there is so little undeveloped wilderness left that it's just very sad. Even relatively wild places usually have some human influence.

I've traveled many tens of thousands of miles of gravel/dirt roads and 4wd trails all over the USA. There is essentially no place left in the lower 48 that is actually untouched. You can be 100 miles from the nearest paved road and still find trash and other impacts.

This is what they make you do in Guantanamo

A blinking light is off as often as it is on.

I suggest you read up on how London local government works. Sadiq Khan has about as much to do with this as Freddie Mercury.


Sadiq Khan is a frustrator/saboteour who sets the tone. His is occupying occupying real estate that could be used by someone to preserve and grow British culture instead of hating it and destroying it.


If this market was in Stoke or Hull there would be a national outcry. Farage would be all over it like a rash.


The landlord of the meat and fish market in Birmingham has submitted a planning application to replace it with housing. I haven't seen Farage or anyone else express much interest.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czjy81w3ev0o



I had honestly made my peace with it moving to Dagenham. It makes sense for the Farringdon area, it makes sense for transport links, it even makes sense for the traders, who mostly live out that way. To close the existing markets without building a new one is cultural vandalism.


But they're not opening a new one! They're closing the current one and telling the traders to fuck off somewhere else


Yo E17 my homie!

Think of it as encouragement to the traders to find their own new location :)


I read in the FT this morning that rather than the traders being told to fuck off as I earlier stated, they are being paid a handsome sum to go quietly.

Many of them will simply retire, one trader is quoted as saying. Sounds like the Costa del Sol and Canary Islands are about to get a large influx of cockney butchers.


Not with the traffic congestion hell that is E17...


I am entirely fed up with articles about Bluesky growth / Twitter demise that include only the proportions and not the absolute values

So Bluesky users quintupled... is that from 5 to 25 or what?


From the article

> Active daily user numbers in Japan of Facebook-owner Meta's Threads have picked up from about 500,000 to 1.5 million, while for Bluesky it has gone from about 50,000 to about 500,000.


Thanks. I don't have a subscription. I was mostly venting about the first two paras that I can see and the many other articles using SimilarWeb data which don't include this info.

It's interesting that the numbers give do not show a 5x quintupling, but actually 10x growth


It was funny when they capped the rate at 7% recently. The calculated rate of RPI + 3% reached 14% and it became just a bit too obvious that it's a scam. Luckily I went in 2009 when tuition was 3.5k.


The quoted guy's name is really Ray Maker? That's fantastic


It is, and he is fairly well known it fitness circles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC_Rainmaker


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