The New Coffee Room

@AndyD said: However our high streets may never be the same and certainly show no sign of recovery here in the North. That's been a downward spiral for decades. When I used to visit my parents in Preston it felt like every time I went the place got a bit more run-down and depressing. When I grew up there it was a pretty lively town, now it seems to be struggling to survive. Without the student population it feels like it would be dead. The big discussion topic seems to be immigration, and while it's a real issue, that's not really what's killing the northern towns. The idea that Nigel Farage will rejuvenate the north is quite amusing.

They’re doing one for Teddy Roosevelt in North Dakota. It’s the first thing I’ve seen that could make me step foot there.

it's a popular case on true crime. but there's a lot of true crime to go around. The most captivating one I've ever seen: (And don't worry, it has a resolution.) Link to video Random connection, that's the city where I used to work, in CA.

The Poles have made an arrest. Interesting to see where this goes. https://amp.dw.com/en/semyon-skrepetski-suspect-arrested-poland/a-77602774 If found guilty and incarcerated and the Kremlin lists him on a future spy swap with a nato country, we will know for certain who was behind the hit. From what I have read though, Skrebetsky was not that well liked by a host of groups out there including Navalny’s people and even the Ukrainians. In that part of the world, people play for keeps.

Never a Luca around when you need one.

Agree! Good on him. Let's hope it goes through.

Andrew isn't a royal, either, strictly speaking. [image: 1781695444842-fa061c27-cc09-4d17-806a-2c6c54136817-image.jpeg]

There's one quite near where I work. Sadly, nobody visits any more, and it's hard to justify expensing the meal if you're meeting on Teams.

No. Die cisgender scum.

His iPad drawings are wonderful. https://www.hockney.com/index.php/works/digital/ipad [image: 1781457644958-ace4f553-141c-4544-a894-c658f9c64128-image.jpeg] [image: 1781457722893-dfc773dd-128c-417f-be0d-3c8a218c5f12-image.jpeg]

I thought this thread was going to be releasing the audio of it, even though it was allegedly completely destroyed.

I guess I will always have the memories of the peaches we picked at the u-pick in California. It was mid to late season and we were naughty and broke the rules because the most perfect peaches were actually on the ground, and you could just bite them and it was just the most perfect peach.

A sneaky way to implement my desired voter literacy test. Whatever it takes.

It may end up being a godsend to the anti-data center crowd. About the only way I can imagine to remedy this is to make it very difficult to build them here.

Bill Reagan plastered his heart along America’s highways. He didn’t realize everyone would notice. It's weird how things work. One day, all you're doing is plastering your message along America's highways using giant advertising boards, and the next day, all of a sudden, people notice. LIfe is so random sometimes.

An inconvenient truth, eh?

I watched the video and this is my takeaway: "what a vacuous TEDTalk." Good thing it's only 5 minutes and I watched half of it at 1.5x speed, so I haven't sunk in too much of my time.