Ian

Fewer Tory Councillors survived the 2026 local elections than 1st Class Passengers on the Titanic

The Tories lost 563 councilors in the May 2026 local elections - 41% of the seats it was defending. ie Only 59% of councilors survived. For comparison, out of 325 1st Class passengers, 202 survived - …

BBC Proms 2026 Concerts

Today the BBC announced the concerts in the 2026 season of concerts, running from 17th July to 12th September. The full BBC programme is out now in bookshops or here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/proms For y…

Weird Uses of Drones

We've grown used to drones in a range of circumstances - warfare for example, or self driving cars, or sometimes delivery drones tootling along pavements. Seeing them in video from warehouse like Ocad…

Crime with Tunnels

Possibly just a perception thing, but there is a weird seeming difference between UK and continental Europe is the way crims commit crimes: there seem to be much more use of tunnels in crime on the co…

Self Driving - Weird Edge Cases

Millions of kilometers have been driven by prototype self driving systems from multiple companies at varying degrees of maturity, often with a human sitting behind the wheel able to intervene if neede…

Post Zero

Just seeing what this is about. And maybe my longer thread posts would be better done as posts here.

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