Burnham announces scheme to get more people further into debt. 🙄
I can't see how this will help. They really should be building more affordable houses and social houses, and introducing measures to reduce multiple ownership.
Honesty.
RE: https://mastodon.scot/@kim_harding/117285887790336565
"Byline Times has identified seven Reform councillors who are listed as members of these groups on Facebook. Among them is Mark Thorn, Reform’s campaign coordinator for Gateshead, who has repeatedly urged his own followers to join Patriot Platform."
Shameful.
"The reservoir had been built with the expectation that the area's water-hungry steel industry would continue to expand, but the predicted boom never lasted.
Instead, Kielder Water now plays a part in ensuring the North East is one of the "most water secure regions" in the country, according to Newcastle University hydrology researcher Dr Anna Murgatroyd."
Now at the Central, #gateshead. A lovely old pub with a peculiar shape. Tonight it has more space than patrons, hence I have this entire lounge to myself.
"In a typical week, Stuart Manley, from Barter Books, in Northumberland, would sell two or three thousand books. But one recent single bulk order from a Canadian company equalled what he would expect to move in seven days."
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"But the suspicion is that they are not being bought for avid overseas readers but instead something else with a voracious appetite for new information: AI."
Superficially twee, but really rather profound.
Topical, certainly.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m002xhy2/ann-droid
I'm sitting next to a troupe of sword dancers. Doesn't happen very often. ⚔️
#durhamminersgala #durham
Why am I getting posts in my feed from organisations I don't follow? Have mastodon.social started doing algorithms?
Wild garlic and bluebells in Watergate forest park, Gateshead.
#gateshead #bloomscrolling
Had a bit of a nose around Sheffield the other day. They have a good-looking tram system which I've not yet had a chance to ride on.
#sheffield #tram #urbanlandscape
Went for a walk through Watergate Forest Park today. The lake was almost completely frozen over. Ducks making heroic skid landings on the ice. 🦢🦆❄️ #gateshead
Fungi of Gateshead.
Locomotion No1 replica in steam earlier today at Shildon, County Durham. #railway200
Botanists investigate trackbed of the Stockton & Darlington Railway
https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/25169161.botanists-investigate-trackbed-stockton-darlington-railway/
Brusselton Incline, near Shildon, on the original route of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, visited yesterday.
#railway200
