Rhys

Architectural Assistant, Computer, Engineering and Fantasy enthusiast. Probably lost in the mountains.

[Rhys @RhysBailey9]

@RetroDiscoFreak @lucynavt Controller would be fantastic if they could but GW2 core gameplay buttons are too complicated for it. Many keys would need to be combo buttons.

UI updates would be great, the game is still a bit complicated when it comes to navigating menus.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Dead internet is no longer just a theory

[Rhys @RhysBailey9]

Longdendale Trail, enjoying the weather!

[Rhys @RhysBailey9]

@BenGrahamUK It would encourage companies to install air con and ensure it is working in their workplaces if not already present, something they should be doing anyway to cope with these hotter summers. People work best in comfortable environments. The limit should be reasonable though.

[Arthur MacWaters @ArthurMacwaters]

We are living in the best timeline

If this doesn't inspire instinctual awe in you, I don't know what possibly could

Humanity will be multi-planetary

[Andy Burnham @andyburnham]

@afneil You need to get out of London, Andrew. You’ve clearly got no idea how much people here are struggling. And, yes, a lot of it can be traced back to Margaret Thatcher.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Paris pollution after they added bike lanes and restricted cars

[CrémantCommunarde #GreenTransitionNow💚 @0Calamity]

A certain Mr Corbyn of Islington might have something to say about this.
Farage has been given an easy ride throughout because he is, essentially, an establishment man, funded by multi-billionaires and serves a useful purpose in the pursuit of the continued asset-stripping of the UK.

[Loïc @Fremond_]

If anyone thinks Reform are going to be a pro-builder, YIMBY party that will overrule Bob & Linda 70 ans, think again.

Nigel cast his vote in the local elections yesterday in Walton-on-the-Naze, known as the most NIMBY local authority in the country. A harbinger of things to come.

[Mitt @MittCPA]

walkable neighborhoods should be a human right

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

Lots of accounts on this site are financially rewarded for spreading lies and convincing you that everything is getting worse and you should be afraid. The good news is it's not: homicides in England and Wales are their lowest level in five decades and killings involving a knife are at their lowest recorded level

[Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧/🇨🇾 @vivamjm]

The UK should realise where its place in the world is ..as soon as bloody possible. It needs to reverse being a vassal state of either the US, China or the EU (just a matter of how much to each) & rejoin the EU as a leading nation - making the rules rather than following them - within it. Stop the whole bloody nonsense: join Schengen & the Euro too.

[Ted Smith 🇪🇺 @TedUrchin]

I’m pig sick of these continual attacks on Keir Starmer.
He is doing a great job and in very difficult circumstances.
Not only is he repairing the colossal damage done by 14 years of Tory mismanagement, not an easy task, but he is representing us superbly on the international stage.
I suspect there is a concerted and clandestine effort to remove him originating from some very dodgy people indeed, not least the disgraceful administration in the US including the criminal Trump himself.
Don’t be persuaded by these bastards, they seek to overturn our democratically elected government.
Fuck ‘em, I say.

[Trevor Acorn 🔰🌹🇺🇸🌎 @trevoracorn]

“The neighborhood is the amenity” is exactly the kind of neighborhood I want to see built in the world.

A bunch of independent complexes with their own private gyms, pools, etc seems…boring and sad honestly.

[Terry Flewers @terryflewers]

Sir Alex Ferguson managed through every era you can imagine, from the 1970s to 2013, adapting to massive changes in tactics, money, and player management. That is why he is the greatest.

Put him in today’s game, with the Premier League’s financial power, and he is winning titles again, no question. He would be going toe to toe with Pep Guardiola year after year. That would have been the era, Ferguson versus Pep dominating everything.

[Gina Miller @thatginamiller]

In other words, Starmer/Labour is finally accepting independent expert analysis - domestic and international - that the economic damage from Brexit is large and structural, and their current alignment strategy is incremental and asymmetric, not a fundamental repair job.

Up to now, closer EU alignment under Starmer has been a political compromise, softening some of the Brexit economic self‑harm without confronting the underlying choice or its distributional consequences.

For my perspective as a economic and transparency critic concerned with fairness and social justice, it has been progress compared with the previous government, but still far short of the transparent, transformative policy the evidence would justify.

I hope this new economically and democratically honest approach #KeirStarmer is proposing includes:
- Stating clearly that Brexit has made the UK poorer, and that reversing parts of it would improve living standards
- Building a phased roadmap towards much deeper integration: veterinary and SPS agreement, youth mobility, mutual recognition for professional services, Critical Medicines Alliance, structured participation in EU energy and climate frameworks, and ultimately a public debate on re‑entering the single market or rejoining.
- Embedding redistribution and regional policy alongside alignment: targeted support for sectors and places most damaged by #Brexit, workers’ rights guarantees, and active industrial policy rather than relying on “market plus alignment” to do the work.

@PolitlcsUK

[Rhys @RhysBailey9]

@CarbonCriminal Even if people got a vote on the matter, and they probably will via a second referendum, we'd rejoin the EU. Polling shows strongly in favour of that now since leaving in the first place was clearly a mistake.

[Both sides of the Tweed @Dr_W_E_Bulmer]

See, Starmer is not perfect, but he is the most sensible, reasonable and realistic PM we have had for a long time.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The audition math on this casting is absurd.

HBO reviewed over 32,000 children for three roles. 500 to 1,000 audition tapes per day. The search took months. For the lead trio alone, the hit rate was 0.009%.

Lox Pratt is 14. He just signed a contract that will define his entire career through age 24. Seven seasons. One role. A decade of his life locked to a single character during every year that matters for a young actor's development.

Tom Felton was 13 when he first played Draco. He's now 38, still primarily known for the role, and just announced he's playing adult Draco on Broadway. The character followed him for 25 years. He gave Pratt his phone number and told him "there's quite a lot of weight now."

That's the part people miss about franchise casting at this scale. The role doesn't end when filming wraps. Daniel Radcliffe spent a decade on Broadway actively trying to build an identity beyond Harry Potter. Emma Watson stepped away from acting almost entirely. Rupert Grint disappeared for years.

Pratt's other confirmed role is Jack in BBC's Lord of the Flies. After this, every casting director on Earth will see Draco first. The $1.3 billion mini city HBO built for this show will be his workplace from adolescence to adulthood. Hans Zimmer is scoring his Tuesday afternoons.

The career upside is generational wealth and permanent name recognition. The career risk is becoming so synonymous with one character that the industry can't see anything else.

Felton handing over his phone number tells you everything about what this role costs.

[Rhys @RhysBailey9]

@HubGeology Went last year and stayed in Pozzuoli, breathtakingly beautiful. Just a shame the Solfatara was closed at the time.