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Rachel, a Thinker

@WinterSling

Crone and Matriarch. Humankind exists because mothers birth babies. How we relate to each other matters and Love matters most.

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Rachel, a Thinker
Rachel, a Thinker@WinterSling·
Councils will be burdened with yet more liabilities at a time when these care costs are spiralling. And what happened to inclusion? Has something been repealed?
Bridget Phillipson@bphillipsonMP

Labour is delivering the biggest funding injection to create specialist places for children with SEND – part of over £3bn of investment. Councils must prove it will be spent building nurseries, schools & colleges where every child can achieve and thrive. theguardian.com/education/2026…

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Rachel, a Thinker
Rachel, a Thinker@WinterSling·
@s8mb The area between Didcot and Harwell is similar as is ‘West Waterlooville’. These places are soulless and desolate. My only hope with the Future Homes Standard is we go back to building terraces like the Edwardians did to get all the PV on the roof.
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Sam Bowman
Sam Bowman@s8mb·
I think everyone excited about New Towns should visit Northstowe, a new New Town outside Cambridge (about 40 mins away), and the largest New Town in England since Milton Keynes. It's been a disaster so far. It's been built very poorly/cheaply made and planned. The housing stock is ugly and cheap. It doesn't have a shop, a GP, or a gym, and it's been kind of a ghost town the times I've been. A lot of the residents are furious and feel totally misled into buying there. And yet *it's probably the most prime place in England to build a New Town*! So what's the problem? Partially it's lots of costs being put on to the new housing, including a 40% affordable requirement, which means developers build cheaply and cut corners to be able to have something to sell at a price people can afford (in the same way high land costs mean new builds are worse quality). Partially it's because Homes England, the Quango delivering it (and likely any future New Towns), is useless. Labour's supposed wave of New Towns (I actually doubt any will happen of any significant size) will suffer from all of these problems. And most won't even have the benefit of being a short commute away from Cambridge!
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Sam Bowman@s8mb·
40% affordable means these plans are just dead on arrival. New Towns were already dubious: people want to live in and around existing cities where jobs are. But it’s hard to imagine any of them getting built with 40% affordable housing requirements. Bad, unserious policy.
Hugo Gye@HugoGye

New Angela Rayner will use speech tomorrow to set out 5 criteria for Labour's new towns: - 40% affordable housing - 'characterful design' - high density - comes w good infrastructure - green space Story @theipaper: inews.co.uk/news/politics/…

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𝒩𝒶𝓉𝒶𝓁𝒾𝒶
𝒩𝒶𝓉𝒶𝓁𝒾𝒶@classicspilled·
The solution to the fertility crisis isn't vitalist hypersexual fertility cults. It's religion and marriage. @CRPakaluk in her book shows that college educated women have children because they value it over other goods. Religion, specifically Christianity and Judaism, helps support this belief. It gives women strength, connects them to a body greater than themselves, and promotes a value for human life.
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Rachel, a Thinker
Rachel, a Thinker@WinterSling·
@Joeblogs1947633 @redrumlisa It could be. My 2 bed is heated by this A2A system and it’s very efficient. We have next to no insulation so it would be even better in a new build and contrary to the OO’s opinion, it doesn’t take up a lot of wall space.
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Lisa Mckenzie
Lisa Mckenzie@redrumlisa·
Unless you are buying a 5 bed detached on one of these developments for £750k plus not sure how those heat pumps will fit into the tiny new builds without limiting living space even more than they already do.
BBC Breakfast@BBCBreakfast

Developers will be required to install solar panels and heat pumps in all new homes in England as part of updated planning requirements published by the government. Energy minister Michael Shanks told #BBCBreakfast plug-in panels that homeowners can self-install on balconies will also be available in supermarkets in the coming months bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

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Eleanor Parker
Eleanor Parker@ClerkofOxford·
Today is the feast of the Annunciation to the Virgin Mary, 'Lady Day'. In England it was once the spring quarter-day, when contracts would begin and servants took new jobs, and until 1752 it was also the start of the New Year. A day for new beginnings, new life of many kinds.
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Rachel, a Thinker
Rachel, a Thinker@WinterSling·
@cjsnowdon @miriam_cates There’a whole stack of costs sitting on top of any base commodity price that weren’t there a decade ago. Standing charges were under 20p and are now as high as 60p. Govt is ashamed of this and wants to relive this feeling by buying the children presents.
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Rachel, a Thinker
Rachel, a Thinker@WinterSling·
@lara_e_brown @TwaiteShad Just say sex, it gets easier the more you do it and keeps the correlation between male and female as sexes away from infinite genders.
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Rachel, a Thinker@WinterSling·
@aDissentient I think they can see the Utopia of a completely carbon-free future where costs will be perfectly understood so the feeling is we just need to keep going to get there. Ed is on the Hero’s Journey and wants us to be too.
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Andrew Montford
Andrew Montford@aDissentient·
"The definition of madness is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result."
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Andrew Montford@aDissentient·
Electricity prices have risen pretty much every year for over 20 years as we have added renewables. How can any rational person suggest that renewable energy might be cheap in future?
Times Radio@TimesRadio

“It defies logic for us to be buying energy from abroad.” Though Ed Miliband may be correct in saying that in the long term renewable energy will be cheap, in the here and now we should be taking any economic advantage we can from the North Sea, says Times Radio presenter @adamboultonTABB

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Rachel, a Thinker
Rachel, a Thinker@WinterSling·
Here in the UK too, reproductive rights and bodily autonomy as framed by feminism are explicitly against pregnancy and birth. The wonder and power of birth are subsumed by our recently minted right not to be prosecuted for abortion at term.
Fairer Disputations@FairerSexFD

This week, Amber Adrian argues that modern feminism must embrace the birthing body, and "advocate for women as they do what only women can do." fairerdisputations.org/birth-needs-fe…

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Rachel, a Thinker
Rachel, a Thinker@WinterSling·
@simonwatt85 It’s going down for you and the Octopus go is also going down. I would be very surprised if the two are not connected.
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Sensible Simon
Sensible Simon@simonwatt85·
In the hope of saving a little on my electricity bill I have 8 solar panels on my roof. You would have thought that with electricity being such a sought after commodity the export tariff would be going up. Fat chance, it is going down this March from 15p to 12p per Kw. ☹️
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Rachel, a Thinker
Rachel, a Thinker@WinterSling·
Why are the Police able to be used as a weapon in a civilised society? Countless men and women have been visited like this at the behest of an anonymous demon and the Police need to think about how they deal with this because the endpoint is State terror.
Connor Tomlinson@Con_Tomlinson

Just had the police show up at my door, investigating an "anonymous" domestic abuse and "coercive control" allegation made against me. Two officers spoke to my wife, and concluded it was malicious and politically motivated. The police were professional and apologetic. I won't share their identities when they were just doing their job. They shouldn't have their time wasted like that. But this is a new low. Disagree with me about anything you like, but leave my family out of it.

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Rachel, a Thinker
Rachel, a Thinker@WinterSling·
@LoftusSteve Why £10k? If there is no gas connection, that’s a saving and PV is very cheap if you already have scaffolding up and roofers and electricians already on site. If Air to Air heat pumps are installed then the cost goes down further. This knee-jerk cost argument is ill informed.
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Steve Loftus
Steve Loftus@LoftusSteve·
The government really haven't thought this through. This will have £10,000 to the cost of a house. That's £10k added to your mortgage. So you will end up paying around £20k (with interest) over 30 years for a heat pump that might last you 10 and solar that might last 20.
BBC Breakfast@BBCBreakfast

Developers will be required to install solar panels and heat pumps in all new homes in England as part of updated planning requirements published by the government. Energy minister Michael Shanks told #BBCBreakfast plug-in panels that homeowners can self-install on balconies will also be available in supermarkets in the coming months bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

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@roddreher @s8mb @classicspilled @GChristiemd @CRPakaluk @Joeblogs1947633 @redrumlisa @cjsnowdon