@mydeisarms@tato_varka as a Polish person yeah, all of those are a huge disappointment. we could have had a łowiczanka or sarmata, tatars or even some witcher reference or ANYTHING, there were endless possibilities, instead we got generic ass shit :c
Snezhnaya's designs are so "Slavic" that I've seen literally zero debates and Slavic analyses on the teaser.
I feel like an old woman sitting on a bench near the entrance
@diluflins fr as a Pole I was hoping for at least one clear traditional folk costume or if they feel daring, a Polish sarmatian/husaria reference. At least make one generic panslavic outfit. just anything. I guess tsaritsa is wearing a kokoshnik resembling crown...
In England, you're allowed to clear about 20 metres of silt and rubbish out of a river on your own. Anything past that needs a permit from the Environment Agency. Paul Powlesland's volunteers cleared a 250-metre stretch of the River Roding with a hired digger, which is why a barrister who hauled out 200 bags of trash is now under criminal investigation.
The Roding runs through east London. Powlesland lives on a boat moored on it, and for years he and a group of volunteers have pulled out shopping trolleys, needles, old appliances, even weapons. Kingfishers, herons and dragonflies came back to water that used to be buried under junk. This one job took 10 days and a digger that cost £1,000 to hire.
The rule that caught him is oddly specific. Under England's water rules, scooping silt off the bottom of a river the agency officially manages counts as a "flood risk activity", and the law treats that the same as building a structure in the water. Do it without a permit and the offence carries up to two years in prison. The agency says it is also looking at waste the volunteers left on the floodplain. Powlesland is an environmental lawyer who has used these exact laws to protect rivers and trees, and a conviction could cost him his licence to practise.
The agency's reasoning isn't unreasonable. Dredging done badly can push flooding onto people downstream and wreck the habitat that protected animals need, which is what the permit is meant to prevent. The 20-metre allowance is there for small jobs. And no decision to prosecute has actually been made.
While investigators were knocking on a volunteer's door within a week of his cleanup, water companies discharged raw sewage into England's rivers and seas for a combined 3.6 million hours in 2024, more than 400 years of spilling packed into a single year. Only 14% of English rivers are in good health. Between 2015 and 2025, the Environment Agency investigated water companies for pollution 11,474 times. Fifty-eight of those ended in a prosecution. For serious pollution over the last five years, the number of water companies actually taken to court and convicted is zero.
So the message comes out backwards. Spend ten days and a thousand pounds making a river cleaner and an officer turns up within the week. Pump sewage into that same river for years and the chance of seeing a courtroom is close to zero.
the other day I applied for a paid dental nurse trainee job on indeed, they reached back to me and it turns out that actually *I* am the one paying THEM for the privilege???
Remember that story from a few months ago about the disabled guy who did a 9 month internship as a bin man then applied for the actual (paid) position when he was finished and got rejected twice? Yeah he was a canary in a coal mine. We are about to see that on a national scale
I think there’s something deeply wrong with the way I resent having a job. I know it’s fine morally to not want to be coerced to work for survival, but most people have the ability to suck it up. But I am haunted by the reality of my one life on this planet being owned by others.
well, I didn't like the trial, was offered a better pay, contract and benefits, took the job despite a bad feeling, hate the job and now 3 weeks in I learn the owner is selling the place? 💀💀 desperately looking for something else, but there's nothing out there
got a trial shift tonight for the first time in nearly 4 years, I'm so scared!!! I didn't expect to just walk in there with no cv, completely unprepared and get a trial on the same day