Pete the Geek🔶🇪🇺🇬🇧

For impressum see @PeteWestLD.

@all_thyme_high @PolitlcsUK @joepike There's no recall mechanism for councillors.

@PolitlcsUK @joepike 10 days and the constituents can trigger a by-election no?

🚨 BREAKING: Labour has suspended 11 Councillors in Greater Manchester who were members of the WhatsApp group where offensive messages were posted

@chuffnut21 @taxiport_ @SnakePassRoad A555 is closed in multiple places FYI. The section near the runway has been closed since New Year's Day due to flooding. x.com/StockportMBC/s…

@taxiport_ @SnakePassRoad This is the route I intend to use maps.app.goo.gl/2XjJ2MMKhhEw3a…

Current update is that the road is closed. Has anyone attempted to travel?

@AlexBolewski @turner_hull @Hullccnews He's talking about his local city taxes. That's the total amount for schools, parks, libraries, museums, roads, social housing, elderly care, children's care, regeneration, public health, police etc. He pays in realty about $5/month for trash.

@turner_hull @Hullccnews Shit I pay $100/mo for a 3 cu yd dumpster picked up weekly! £130 for them to not handle one extra bag after the holidays is insane. This wouldn’t happen in a high-trust society.

Remind me why I pay you over £130 a month @Hullccnews

@OctopusEnergy Why does your balance forecast tool, which you have used to set my payments, not accurately reflect my actual balance. My actual balance means your "prediction" will keep my account nearly £150 in credit, never below 0. It's misleading

A sediment core from the Dead Sea covering the past 220,000 years reveals a link between the response of North Atlantic sea-surface temperatures to global forces and rainfall in the Mediterranean region, with implications for current drying. In PNAS: ow.ly/gYO550U7PBv

Went to bed not long after I heard about PA turnout. As I feared.

🧵 This week’s column is about vaping Nicotine addiction is at its highest level since the smoking ban. Nearly 40% of 16-24-year-olds regularly take it in some form This might be tolerable if smoking rates were plummeting too. They are not. @thetimes 🔗 thetimes.com/article/47946c…

Ex-stonemason Marek Marzec, 48, has given a powerful and incredibly brave account of his diagnosis with terminal silicosis after cutting kitchen worktops.🧵

Ironically if this applies to you, you probably won’t see it, but I suspect this platform might be unfollowing people again from my account without their knowledge. If you see this note perhaps through a retweet and think you’re following me, maybe just check. Thanks as always.

@Derbyshirecc I thought this closure was to fix Doctor's Gate? x.com/Derbyshirecc/s…

Thanks for all your patience while the pass was closed. There are some more closures coming up for more tree work by Severn Trent from 2 to 14 December from 8pm to 6am – these will be on the A57 end towards Sheffield.

We’ve just re-opened the A57 Snake Pass following our maintenance work.

@MaryRegW Off a balot yes, but it's still published in the register of members' interests in all but exceptional circumstances.

This is excellent news from Rayner - but cllrs have been able to leave their address off ballot papers for years - the real issue is the new ICO guidelines and imprint rules that mean an address must be provided on all literature and Social media. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@lib_urgh_al Some of us remember the same attempt by the last Labour govt who promised universal computer record access by 2005. They spent circa £12bn and abandoned it altogether concluding that it was not deliverable. thelancet.com/journals/lance… independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…

Everyone is worried about privatisation. I'm worried about another government trying to understand an IT project this large.

Cutting UK research funding in upcoming budget would be 'false economy', warn @sciencecampaign @UniversitiesUK @RussellGroup @wellcometrust and more timeshighereducation.com/news/cutting-u…

@geckobike The whole board are fairly recent appointments.

@Xmachina9607492 @H_H_Gray Some of them are more traditional. manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-m…

We are hiring! Excellent opportunity to work in the @Leicester_Phage And @LeicesterBRC to study #virome signatures in #lung diseases. Deadline 22/10/24. jobs.le.ac.uk/vacancies/1081…

1. I [care/ don't care] that human activities are risking a our children living in a world that is above 3C when they are older. 2. I would be open in telling others this / .....I wouldn't tell others or hide what I think (e.g. in case they think I'm odd/uncaring/a fanatic).

@richardparke15 @thomasforth So interpret it. As explained in a reply to a post you then deleted, the exact numbers on routes are commercially sensitive data. You literally can't get data of x y z people have gone from car to bus on a b c routes. Bus up a lot, car not as much is the best you can get.

@DrPWest @thomasforth What am I to make of this? Lots of things could explain this data. It requires interpretation

Good idea. 🤞

@FinnWhiteGPEW @lib_urgh_al The pledge was not "we won't raise taxes on working people" it was "...we will not increase National Insurance" This is an increase in NI.

It's quite a simple equation. There are nearly no scientists in parliament. The UK does not fund science or pay scientists enough. After a lot of hard work you could make it to professor to earn a bit less on average than a train driver.