soyagi

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Earlier in the year they removed the trial offer. Now it's returned, but worse than before.

 

Earlier in the year they removed the trial offer. Now it's returned, but worse than before.

 

While the mayor doesn't have any authority in the matter (considering he's in charge in a different county) he's at least got some attention and likely isn't the only person feeling this way.

Archived version: https://archive.ph/00MAo

Andy Street has called for the Crooked House pub to be “rebuilt brick by brick” after it was demolished following a huge fire over the weekend.

The building, known as the Britain’s “wonkiest pub” and dating back to 1765, was gutted by a fire on Saturday night just two weeks after it was sold to a private buyer.

On Monday the remains of the building in Himley, near Dudley in the Black Country, were demolished, hours after Staffordshire police said they were gathering evidence as part of an investigation into the cause of the fire.

It is not yet clear who demolished the pub.

Street, the mayor of the West Midlands, said he had written to the leader of South Staffordshire council, Roger Lees, asking him to ensure the building was rebuilt, and any application to change its use was blocked.

“This pub may be just over the border in your county of Staffordshire, but it clearly holds real cultural and historical significance to the West Midlands. We therefore found it deeply upsetting to see the iconic location gutted in this way,” the letter read.

“We therefore ask you to consider ensuring the property is rebuilt brick by brick (using as much original material as possible) before any further discussion about the future of the site take place.”

He added: “We would strongly ask you to consider not allowing any alternative use and instead keeping this iconic location as a pub. It is in all our interests that we do not allow the Crooked House pub to be consigned to history.”

On Monday, Staffordshire police said they were “reviewing all of the available evidence alongside fire investigators to determine the cause of the incident”.

Firefighters said they struggled to access the building when it was ablaze on Saturday as large mounds of dirt were blocking the road leading up to it.

The station commander, Liam Hilton, from Staffordshire fire service said they were “a good 800 metres to approximately 1,000 metres distance” from the building meaning they had to get water from a “high volume pump”.

In another letter to the chief constable of Staffordshire police and the chief fire officer, Street said “there are major questions to be answered given how swiftly this fire happened following the sale of the pub to an unknown private developer”.

“We are also intrigued by the fact your officers faced blocked access when trying to get to the scene,” he said.

Staffordshire police and Staffordshire fire and rescue service have been approached for comment.

 

Archived version: https://archive.ph/rXLlw

A man has been arrested on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm after a stabbing near the British Museum in central London, Scotland Yard has said.

Officers said a man was being treated for a stab wound to his arm and his condition was being assessed after the incident at the junction of Great Russell Street and Museum Street at about 10am on Tuesday.

“This was an isolated incident and there is no outstanding risk to the public,” the Metropolitan police said. “It is not being treated as terror-related.”

An area was cordoned off while officers investigated and police said they expected it to remain in place for much of Tuesday. A police tent was erected on the pavement on the museum side of Great Russell Street, just metres from the entrance.

The London ambulance service said its medics treated the man at the scene for his injury “before taking him to a major trauma centre as a priority”.

A 27-year-old woman from New York said she was about to enter the queue at the museum when police told her to leave because someone had been stabbed.

She told PA Media: “I was standing across the street at the Starbucks walking out to get into the line. We decided it was a good time to go, then we walked out and a cop directly in front of us told us we needed to leave and that the crime scene was large.

“I heard that someone was stabbed and the ambulance was parked inside near the grass area and then rushed down the street, right by me, with police following behind. A cop told me the museum is completely closed until tomorrow.”

The museum is one of the country’s most popular tourist attractions, receiving about 2 million visitors between April 2021 and March 2022.

 

Archived version: https://archive.ph/rXLlw

A man has been arrested on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm after a stabbing near the British Museum in central London, Scotland Yard has said.

Officers said a man was being treated for a stab wound to his arm and his condition was being assessed after the incident at the junction of Great Russell Street and Museum Street at about 10am on Tuesday.

“This was an isolated incident and there is no outstanding risk to the public,” the Metropolitan police said. “It is not being treated as terror-related.”

An area was cordoned off while officers investigated and police said they expected it to remain in place for much of Tuesday. A police tent was erected on the pavement on the museum side of Great Russell Street, just metres from the entrance.

The London ambulance service said its medics treated the man at the scene for his injury “before taking him to a major trauma centre as a priority”.

A 27-year-old woman from New York said she was about to enter the queue at the museum when police told her to leave because someone had been stabbed.

She told PA Media: “I was standing across the street at the Starbucks walking out to get into the line. We decided it was a good time to go, then we walked out and a cop directly in front of us told us we needed to leave and that the crime scene was large.

“I heard that someone was stabbed and the ambulance was parked inside near the grass area and then rushed down the street, right by me, with police following behind. A cop told me the museum is completely closed until tomorrow.”

The museum is one of the country’s most popular tourist attractions, receiving about 2 million visitors between April 2021 and March 2022.

 

Archived version: https://archive.ph/rXLlw

A man has been arrested on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm after a stabbing near the British Museum in central London, Scotland Yard has said.

Officers said a man was being treated for a stab wound to his arm and his condition was being assessed after the incident at the junction of Great Russell Street and Museum Street at about 10am on Tuesday.

“This was an isolated incident and there is no outstanding risk to the public,” the Metropolitan police said. “It is not being treated as terror-related.”

An area was cordoned off while officers investigated and police said they expected it to remain in place for much of Tuesday. A police tent was erected on the pavement on the museum side of Great Russell Street, just metres from the entrance.

The London ambulance service said its medics treated the man at the scene for his injury “before taking him to a major trauma centre as a priority”.

A 27-year-old woman from New York said she was about to enter the queue at the museum when police told her to leave because someone had been stabbed.

She told PA Media: “I was standing across the street at the Starbucks walking out to get into the line. We decided it was a good time to go, then we walked out and a cop directly in front of us told us we needed to leave and that the crime scene was large.

“I heard that someone was stabbed and the ambulance was parked inside near the grass area and then rushed down the street, right by me, with police following behind. A cop told me the museum is completely closed until tomorrow.”

The museum is one of the country’s most popular tourist attractions, receiving about 2 million visitors between April 2021 and March 2022.

 

Archived version: https://archive.ph/rXLlw

A man has been arrested on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm after a stabbing near the British Museum in central London, Scotland Yard has said.

Officers said a man was being treated for a stab wound to his arm and his condition was being assessed after the incident at the junction of Great Russell Street and Museum Street at about 10am on Tuesday.

“This was an isolated incident and there is no outstanding risk to the public,” the Metropolitan police said. “It is not being treated as terror-related.”

An area was cordoned off while officers investigated and police said they expected it to remain in place for much of Tuesday. A police tent was erected on the pavement on the museum side of Great Russell Street, just metres from the entrance.

The London ambulance service said its medics treated the man at the scene for his injury “before taking him to a major trauma centre as a priority”.

A 27-year-old woman from New York said she was about to enter the queue at the museum when police told her to leave because someone had been stabbed.

She told PA Media: “I was standing across the street at the Starbucks walking out to get into the line. We decided it was a good time to go, then we walked out and a cop directly in front of us told us we needed to leave and that the crime scene was large.

“I heard that someone was stabbed and the ambulance was parked inside near the grass area and then rushed down the street, right by me, with police following behind. A cop told me the museum is completely closed until tomorrow.”

The museum is one of the country’s most popular tourist attractions, receiving about 2 million visitors between April 2021 and March 2022.

 

Archived version: https://archive.ph/rXLlw

A man has been arrested on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm after a stabbing near the British Museum in central London, Scotland Yard has said.

Officers said a man was being treated for a stab wound to his arm and his condition was being assessed after the incident at the junction of Great Russell Street and Museum Street at about 10am on Tuesday.

“This was an isolated incident and there is no outstanding risk to the public,” the Metropolitan police said. “It is not being treated as terror-related.”

An area was cordoned off while officers investigated and police said they expected it to remain in place for much of Tuesday. A police tent was erected on the pavement on the museum side of Great Russell Street, just metres from the entrance.

The London ambulance service said its medics treated the man at the scene for his injury “before taking him to a major trauma centre as a priority”.

A 27-year-old woman from New York said she was about to enter the queue at the museum when police told her to leave because someone had been stabbed.

She told PA Media: “I was standing across the street at the Starbucks walking out to get into the line. We decided it was a good time to go, then we walked out and a cop directly in front of us told us we needed to leave and that the crime scene was large.

“I heard that someone was stabbed and the ambulance was parked inside near the grass area and then rushed down the street, right by me, with police following behind. A cop told me the museum is completely closed until tomorrow.”

The museum is one of the country’s most popular tourist attractions, receiving about 2 million visitors between April 2021 and March 2022.

 

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[–] soyagi@yiffit.net 2 points 2 years ago

To be honest, I don't even know what instance I'm looking at most of the time. My app doesn't show the instance name, only the community name, and the community names are often all identical across instances.

[–] soyagi@yiffit.net 0 points 2 years ago

I wasn't talking about markdown language. I was talking about the end user experience. In my email client for example, I can write a single line break and it is formatted as such. The end user shouldn't have to know/worry/care about the underlying technology; the technology should work to meet their needs.

[–] soyagi@yiffit.net 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Thank you for the explanation. Good to know single line breaks are possible. However, other web services allow the user to use a single line break and it's displayed in the same way. While you give a good technical reason why it is this way, I'm not convinced it's the most user friendly approach.

[–] soyagi@yiffit.net 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It could be added in the community info, just under the name of the community.

For example:

Jerboa

jerboa@lemmy.ml

Created two years ago

[–] soyagi@yiffit.net 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Just to put this into context for some people:

The UK’s biggest energy supplier reported profits of £969m for the first six months of 2023, up nearly 900% from £98m in the same period last year.

Profits up nearly 900%. Fucking disgusting.

[–] soyagi@yiffit.net 7 points 2 years ago

There’s an obvious critique of all of this, and that’s that it comes from a place of privilege. I can go to the rose garden, or stare into trees all day, because I have a teaching job that only requires me to be somewhere two days a week, not to mention a whole set of other privileges. Part of the reason my dad could take that time off was that on some level, he had enough reason to think he could get another job. It’s possible to understand the practice of doing nothing solely as a self-indulgent luxury, the equivalent of taking a mental health day if you’re lucky enough to work at a place that has those.

This paragraph stood out to me. It's so hard for most people to "do nothing" even if they really wanted to, and would potentially be the people that would benefit from it the most.

[–] soyagi@yiffit.net 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Perhaps it’s an issue with Lemmy.world It's exactly that. See: https://lemmy-world.statuspage.io/

[–] soyagi@yiffit.net 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Whoops, my math was off there. You're right.

Funny you should mention teachers but a very recent report says that a quarter of teachers have had allegations made against them, and 10% have been subjected to a formal disciplinary process during their career. Source: https://www.tes.com/magazine/news/general/teacher-allegations-parents-pupils

There's no uproar because the majority of allegations are just that. Allegations. While I have no doubt there are bad people in all walks of life, I do not believe most allegations hold weight. In both policing and teaching there is a power balance that works to and against each party's advantage. Making allegations against a person in a position of power is a strong weapon (though, yes, on the flip side, taking advantage of being in a position of power is also something people can do).

[–] soyagi@yiffit.net 2 points 2 years ago

Does not say how she died and 56 is not very old and then there is her son… Yeah, I think quite a few of us are thinking along the same lines there :/

[–] soyagi@yiffit.net 4 points 2 years ago

The cause of death hasn't been given, though considering what we know about them, many of us are probably thinking the same :/

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