After moths of wrangling & some watering down, Labour's Employment Rights Bill has been passed today by the House of Lords, leaving its passage into law now unobstructed.
Now the Q. will be whether it *does* transform work in the UK, and by doing so start to reverse the negative impact of the country's often dysfunctional labour relations?... we can but hope.
Even after it gets Royal Assent we will still have to see what transpires with Commencement Orders, Regulations and other secondary legislation relating to it.
It’s Locus’s 2025 Holiday Countdown of Staff Picks! In case you missed it, Locus reviewer Charles Payseur says: Esther Alter’s May “Magical Girl Antifa War Machine”, which follows a friend group o…
On Thursday, January 15th we'll be sharing the stage with Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com for a double book event at the Miracle Theater in Coral Gables, FL hosted by @transitmia.bsky.social.
Hey everyone:) Just a quick update on some stuff and I’m also looking for some inspo for an upcoming project. I smahed my finger a few days ago so I have been giving it a bit of time to heal before I start making art again… anyway… anyone know of any good books or movies about the wild west? I have a book on Belle Starr that im going to pull some inspo from. Pirate and samurai inspo stuff too. Thanks:) #cowboys #wildwest #inspo #pirates #samurai #update #books #movies
I read The Female Frontier: A Comparative View of Women on the Prairie and the Plains by Glenda Riley in high school and it stuck with me all this time (I'm nearly 50!). It really does a good job exploring the "wild west" from the view point of women. It's based on diaries, contemporary accounts, and public records. It's more of an academic read, but worth going through to get the full picture of what life was like.
Europese Unie gaat verbrandingsmotor in auto’s langer toestaan.
Dat consumenten überhaupt nog zo een antiek aangedreven vehikel willen kopen, snap ik dan weer niet. Compleet ouderwetse techniek uit vervlogen tijden. Elektrisch rijden is veel aangenamer 😀.
Ik vind de elektrische auto's te groot. Alleen Chinese zijn een beetje klein. De rest zijn halve tanks. Daarom rijd ik nog steeds in mijn 13 jaar oude Hyundai (een nieuwe koop ik dan weer niet)
Ja, moderne auto's zijn groter dan auto's van meer dan 10 jaar geleden. Als ik een nieuwe Hyundai zou kopen ( wat ik niet van plan ben) is ie ook groter. Ik zou het mooi vinden als wat innovatiekracht zou gaan naar echt weer bescheiden maken van auto's. Ik vermoed dat de batterij bij elektrisch dat nu moeilijk maakt.
Dan rij je in een mini dopje. Ik vind het al geen pretje om met de kleine elektrische auto op de snelweg te zitten tussen al het auto- én vrachtwagengeweld. Eigenlijk vind ik het in de grotere elektrische auto niet een prettig... Wat een ongelofelijke aso's zitten er op de weg...
Geen idee op welke tijdstippen jij op de weg zit en hoe vaak als bijrijder waarbij je uitgebreid bij mensen naar binnen kunt gluren maar snelheid is niet het grootste probleem...
Gewicht omlaag is nogal lastig als mensen actieradius-vrees hebben... 🙄
@Nienkez Mijn lief privateleast een Citroen C1. In mei 2026 moet ze die inruilen, dan is zijn maximum termijn verstreken. Maar wat is een goed alternatief voor hetzelfde geld? Ze wil best wel elektrisch, maar ze heeft geen laadpaal in de buurt en bij haar voor de deur kan dat ook niet.
@apenkop @Nienkez ze heeft ook geen tankstation voor de deur neem ik aan? Maar een Renault 5 of zo heeft een mooie actieradius en kan ze waarschijnlijk wel een paar dagen zonder laden mee rond karren en dan ergens eens aan de laadpaal hangen.
Als je nog even kunt wachten, wordt de Renault e-Twingo een optie. Die is echt heel scherp geprijsd; in Frankrijk onder de 20.000 euro. Moet je wel voor 500 euro de 11 kW-laadfunctie bijbestellen. @apenkop @Nienkez
Lijkt me zo leuk! Dan zijn nu de drie iconen, de 'echte' twingo, de R4 en R5 weer op de weg, wat een genot! Daar kan Citroën dan toch weer een puntje aan zuigen. Misschien eens een elektrieke race-eend?
@apenkop Er zijn plannen geweest voor een elektrische neo-retro eend. Maar die kwamen niet ver. Die elektrische Twingo is echter subliem. Overigens rijden wij momenteel in een Hyundai Inster die ook een dikke aanrader is. Ontzettend slim karretje! @FediWouter @Nienkez
heyday noun 1: the period of one's greatest popularity, vigor, or prosperity … he'd been a legendary scene painter during the heyday of vaudeville.—Kate Bornstein 2 archaic : high spirits
The day in heyday originally had nothing to do with the kind of day that's made up of 24 hours. Heyday was first used in the first half of the 16th century as an extended form of the interjection hey, used since the 13th century to express elation or wonder, as it still often is in phrases like "hey, look at that!" The day part was most likely just an extra syllable tagged on for effect. By the end of the 16th century heyday had developed noun use with the meaning "high spirits," as when Shakespeare's Hamlet tells his mother, "You cannot call it love; for at your age / The heyday in the blood is tame …”
People buy vegetables in Coro, Venezuela, Saturday, June 28, 2025. It is the U.S. military buildup against Venezuela over the past few months that has made
Es geht mir nicht darum, #Wikipedia /dort aktive Leute zu bashen, @FiolaKais , aber bestimmte Verhaltensweisen sind einfach mega abschreckend für viele. Auch, wenn es nicht intendiert ist
Mit solchem Verhalten bekommt man keine Leute, so schreckt man ab. Und verliert aktive Menschen. Das ist schade. Und bitter für alle, die gehen
einzelne Menschen bashen ist nie zielführend, aber "nicht intendiert" würd ich doch relativieren. Die Ignoranz auf Wikipedia ist systematisch und die eigene oder die kollektive Haltung nicht ändern wollen, ist schon eine Entscheidung.
@PaulaToThePeople Das motiviert dann Lösch-Herren dazu, den Artikel beibehalten zu wollen, um gegen den ausdrücklichen Wunsch der betroffenen Person zu handeln.
1) das war Stunden BEVOR ich nen Löschantrag für den betreffenden Eintrag gestellt hatte! Die bloße Nennung als Negativbeispiel in der Löschdiskussion zum Wiki-Eintrag von @Katika reichte, um einen #Bro zu aktivieren und den 5 Jahre nicht mehr angefassten Eintrag zu optimieren.
2) dieselbe identische Person argumentierte aber gleich mehrfach für die Löschung von Katikas Eintrag!
Gregory Bovino returned to Little Village Tuesday after playing a key role in the early phases of Operation Midway Blitz, the controversial immigration enforcement campaign that has stoked fear among the city’s immigrant communities and led to thousa…
🌍 For African researchers looking to transition into #OpenScience, the African Reproducibility Network offers training, workshops and community, led by the brilliant Emmanuel Boakye.
they did in fact manage to make it to the door during a moment I wasn't watching it, as they left a notice on the front door. I verified that my doorbell still works. Knocking on the door is still loud. Why even turn up at the front door if you're not going to indicate you're there?! Do they think I'm psychic?
so from what I can gather, drivers are tracked on GPS so if they want to make up lost time on a route they can go to where they are supposed to, not bother to actually get the package out of the truck, tag the front door with the "well i tried" note, and run back to the truck having gained a few minutes back. so yet again the problem is evil corporate overlords with impossible metrics that require dishonesty to even meet and im just the collateral damage. sigh
if they pull this shit a second time then after that I have to go to some warehouse way outside of town to get it. I paid for expedited shipping to get it yesterday because I am busy today. fortunately (?) I'm unemployed at the moment so if I have to make a three hour round trip to get this fucking thing I can but what if I hadn't been fired huh? I'd be shit outta luck. I mean I guess maybe less shit out of luck than I am now in the grand scheme of things but as far as the package goes yes
I know the whole song and dance because this happened to me before in 2013, and I really did have to drive to the middle of fucking nowhere to get a display I'd ordered (1080p! Wow!) this is a hecking laptop, far easier to pick up and carry at least
hey maybe the driver could at least pick up and carry the package to my door? Now there's a concept!
the hope is that the driver, on seeing this note, will see i am done being fucked with and will simply have to make up extra time by fucking over the next person on their route instead
see this is how u work inside the system rather than just being helpless to it
Yesterday while awaiting the package I also picked up every call from a unknown number just in case it had something to do with the delivery. All spam. This is what modern convenience has brought us
i just had an idea for a business, where vendors pay you to transport merchandise to customers who purchased it. what makes this different from existing courier services is that the business model would involve actually physically moving the merchandise from the vendor to the customer. high concept, but humor me here, i think there's a genuine market for this
I've been answering the door at every little thump I've managed to hear; given a neighbor is having some sort of construction and a different neighbor has a rowdy child or something it's been a lotta false positives. normally i would assume anyone at the door would ring the doorbell like a normal person but we aren't dealing with a normal person today, we are dealing with a pissbottle courier
worth noting: I paid extra for expedited shipping precisely to avoid the stress of the delivery potentially happening during the appointment I have later today
A errata é conhecida mas nem por isso é seguida pelos jornaleiros e avençados, quanto mais pelo Estado, cúmplice do despovoamento e eucaliptização do interior: onde se lê "mato", leia-se "eucaliptos" onde se lê "floresta" leia-se "viveiros de eucaliptos e pinheiros". publico.pt/2025/12/15/azul/not…
Um homem montado em um cavalo marrom está no centro da imagem. O cavalo está em pé sobre solo escuro e parece estar em um ambiente queimado, com chamas laranja brilhantes visíveis ao fundo. O homem está usando uma camisa laranja, calças pretas e um chapéu. Ele está levantando a mão direita em saudação. Há um "V" verde no canto superior esquerdo e texto branco na parte inferior da imagem que diz: "O FOGO É NOSSO".
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Fair enough; implementation is a minified of opportunities to shift intent, I accept..