Notices by Peter Brown (peterbrown@mastodon.scot), page 2

@CloudyMrs can confirm

@CloudyMrs @radiojammor utterly disrespectful and ignorant, but sadly completely predictable to conflate England with UK

@CloudyMrs @bobjmsn @LaChasseuse clearly as an over 50 white male I wouldn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell. I don’t tick any of their boxes.
I did apply to Scottish Canals last year but they weren’t interested either .

@CloudyMrs @bobjmsn @LaChasseuse community councils, local voluntary organisations, neighbourhood groups, and basically any kind of local organisation should flag up to, for example, the green party to keep themselves in the loop and get involved in their organisation.

@CloudyMrs @bobjmsn @LaChasseuse Certainly it is a type of quango.
I believe there is a material difference between the organisation of the Cairngorm park and Loch Lomond, in terms of local involvement.
I think the reason that Isle of Harris were not allowed to proceed with the National Park was that the council did not want to give up powers to the national park.

It’s all about being in there at the beginning and making sure there is enough local representation, not the usual suspects.

@CloudyMrs @bobjmsn @LaChasseuse I think the main benefit is in planning. There is a presumption in favour of development, but in a national park, this is mitigated in a way that planning law alone cannot do.
Properly constituted, it can protect local activities like fishing whilst prohibiting it for visitors and large boats, as is the case in La Maddalena national park in Italy.
National Park status can also give an income stream which is not available to the council for local improvements.

@CloudyMrs @Delphi indeed! The only fish supper you’ll get for that price would be the half size OAP version.

@cferdinandi @clacke @yogthos I can’t believe the complete lack of respect that would allow them to go in and steal what few possessions somebody has.
It’s on a level with removing their tents and their sleeping bags .

In Scots Law, it is a crime - called hamesucken. (similar in essence to breaking and entering a property to steal, but in a situation where the door is not locked)

@CloudyMrs @servelan @jbond @bobjmsn @ScottishGreens for minimal upheaval perhaps you should consider an air to air heat pump?

@CloudyMrs @servelan @jbond @bobjmsn @ScottishGreens here’s an encouraging heat, pump experience https://mastodon.online/@dbenton/111624614028757409

@CelloMomOnCars @breadandcircuses in many Scandinavian towns the carriageway is not cleared of snow until the sidewalks and cycle routes have been dealt with.

@12thRITS @CelloMomOnCars @breadandcircuses “Three times as many people are injured while walking in icy conditions in Sweden than while driving. And the cost of those injuries far exceeds the cost of snow clearance.”

“So the order was reversed. Municipalities faced no additional cost for clearing pedestrian paths first. And it reduced injuries, in addition to being objectively fairer.”
Here’s a link
https://usa.streetsblog.org/2018/01/24/why-sweden-clears-walkways-before-roads

@12thRITS @CelloMomOnCars @breadandcircuses well they concluded that it was actually to address feminism because in one-car households, the male usually drove, leaving the female to take the children to school and then go to work. And that journey was done entirely on the sidewalk.
Furthermore, in order to open schools, factories and other buildings, there first need to be janitors and cleaners on the premises and they walk to work.
Cars just bend, people, especially older people, break bones.

@LALegault if no action results against Israel the message is that might is right and rule of law is not worth the paper it’s written on.
Carte Blanche for Russia, China and of course Israel.

@ChrisMayLA6 in contrast, the Scottish Government has removed peak fares for a trial period to increase usage. But the media are absolutely silent about it because nothing the Scottish government does can ever be portrayed as good.

The consistent narrative is that Scotland is shite.

@CloudyMrs @simon_brooke @therightarticle well the owner of Lego is a massive landowner in Scotland, but we can’t buy land in Denmark because non-nationals cannot own land there. It’s not an uncommon law, and it’s something we should maybe actively consider.

@CloudyMrs and the time when he said the EU had destroyed his father‘s company, and a journalist went to speak to his father and discovered it was a complete lie.

@CloudyMrs I think that’s what one of the parents of the Bay City Rollers used to do

@thomasfuchs @clive less safe? Yes, cars were. And cars nowadays are subject to very tight safety regulations.

But anything over 1 1/2 tons is exempt from all these regulations, so in fact they are less safe nowadays. They do not need to be crash tested, they have no crumple zones, and they are more prone to rolling over in a smash.
They not only kill cyclists and pedestrians with greater frequency because they can fall underneath the vehicle, but they also kill their users when they roll over.

@CloudyMrs @Funwithphotos probably to coincide with the publishing of the Covid enquiry. Or the almost forgotten Russia report.