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Driverless car overturns
Driverless car overturns
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/live-south-gloucestershire-road-closed-9465043
Although I had no part in the
Although I had no part in the counter protest in Bristol last night (which easily outnumbered the EDL idiots), I was encouraged by their chant “We are many, you are few. We are bristol, who are you?”
The far right may be very vocal and they get a lot of media attention (Farage on the BBC all the time?), but there’s far more of us that enjoy having a multi-cultural society and welcome refugees despite the narrative that the mainstream media is pushing.
Spare a thought for the hard
Spare a thought for the hard working Amazon lorries that sometimes just need to lay down for a quick nap
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/amazon-lorry-side-avonmouth-dramatic-9457612
I can recommend running
I can recommend running pihole on your home network/router however it does cause a problem with Road.cc’s use of go.skimresources.com on most of the links.
Trains have been stopped
Trains have been stopped after a vehicle hit a bridge this morning (Thursday, August 1). Services are reportedly at a stand between Bristol Temple Meads and Bath Spa.
The incident was first reported by traffic monitoring site Inrix at 9.51pm. National Rail is expecting the disruption to last until 10.45am.
National Rail said in a post on X: “Delays between Bristol Temple Meads and Bath Spa expected until 10:45.”
Inrix adds: “Services at a stand on Great Western Railway between Bath Spa and Bristol Temple Meads due to road vehicle hitting a bridge.”
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/live-trains-stopped-between-bristol-9451746
Dramatic moment car crashes into van which smashes into Stockwood houseAn 18-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the incident
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/dramatic-moment-car-crashes-van-9451355
Avon and Somerset Police are now appealing for information from eyewitnesses. A spokesperson for the force said: “We were called at 9.51pm yesterday (30 July) to a report that a car had collided with a van, which subsequently collided with a property in Stockwood Lane in the Stockwood area of Bristol.Those autonomous cars!
https://abcnews.go.com/US/2-men-fatally-shoot-california-road-rage-incident/story?id=112413824
Two men are dead after they fatally shot one another in an apparent road rage incident in Southern California, according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department.
One of the men had his two children in the car — ages 2 and 5 — at the time of the double shooting.
jaymack wrote:
An interesting article but the more pressing concern is that the pictured Fire Fighting Squirrel doesn’t seem to know how to wield an axe properly. Is the arboreal world safe for those of a Sciurus Carolinensisian disposition? We need to know.They’re in training and looks to need quite a bit more. I think they’re mainly a danger to themselves.
Here’s a more proficient one
We actually have one in my city since a few years ago. Our stormwater tax applies to all properties, residential or business, and is based on the impermeable area which includes buildings and concrete or asphalt driveways. Mine amounts to a bit over $60 (£45) quarterly for about 22% of my ~12000 ft² / 0.25 acre / 1100 m² property being impermeable. You can get discounts if you add significant water retention features.We have a “combined sewer overflow” problem where a few times a year during heavy rain, an untreated combination of storm water and sewage goes into the major river that flows through town. The federal government (EPA) fines the city for each event. The tax is intended to fund fixing the system so that this doesn’t happen any more, but I haven’t seen much progress yet.
Don’t get me started on water companies pumping sewage into our waterways!
BBC arranging crashes for TV:Reminds me of this old one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Qir4EEpawE
Going a bit off-topic here:
Going a bit off-topic here:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/train-crashes-falls-homes-garage-214700501.html
The CSX locomotive reportedly jumped the rail at about 8:15 a.m. Monday, striking a garage behind the home located at 3272 Seneca Ave. Emergency response crews from CSX, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and the Niagara Falls police and fire departments remained on the scene throughout the day as they worked to remove the train engine and to clean up diesel fuel that spilled onto the property and into the nearby street.
It’s not the first time the same property was involved in a similar situation. In the 1970s, a train hit the garage behind the same house.
I liked them when it was all still secret. I kind of lost interest once magic was brought out in the open.I still remember his main character being so dismissive of “the Jesus Phone” (the iPhone) in the earliest novels…
I prefer the earlier novels too, when he seemed to be having a lot more fun with the ideas. I thought The Annhilation Score was a low point, but I enjoyed the elves in the follow up book The Nightmare Stacks.
For anyone that wants to read a sample for free, there’s Equoid available online: https://reactormag.com/equoid/
Well, as I always said about Covid: at least it didn’t turn into a Rage epidemic or the zombie apocalypse…
…yet
I didn’t expect to see
I didn’t expect to see Charles Stross mentioned here – I’m a big fan of The Laundry Files (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Laundry_Files ) which are like a modern day, humorous take on Lovecraftian horror, but with a lot more bureacracy.
