I can’t comment on the immigration complications to it, but with regards to GRC and access to hormones, it’s a right pain in the arse.
If you can afford the private fees, it’s simpler. Though you will have to pay £100s for things like blood tests, and medication.
If you would like a broader view of costs, let me know.

I think a lot of people use private services as a stop gap while they wait for the wheels to turn/find a GP who isn’t obstructive.

I’m not sure if I want to put my hopes for affordable electronics in manufacturer’s accidentally oversupplying due to the US tariffs!

2 days later, squiddy will be buying the books. Ideal christmas gift for your parents!

VAT on meat you say…

And expensive. Imagine the cost of changing the entire road network over to use metric.

“Minister, we have a cunning way to lower the speed limits, and go metric, at the same time…”

But how will I get an “ooh”?!

I mean, we should be able to interact with mastodon via fedipub, right?

If we had a separate server, it might be messy, as then there are two sets of accounts.

I’d say the conservatives do a pretty bang up job treating disabled people badly.

https://www.timeline.tv/ might be suitable.

It’s more on the technical side, but could suit you.

You don’t understand though, by being visionaries who disregard accepted margins of safety, they lowered the cost per (attempted) launch by almost 3%!

I’ll keep an eye on the feddit.uk applications for grauniad@theguardian.com in that case!

And the SM57 for things you don’t need a screen on.

Too many places treat CCAS as plan A, but it does make sense doing it in the background as a plan B.

It does worry me though, that everyone is just going to go “eh, we’ll just capture it in 20 years”.

With a bit of luck, native RTC support means 2-way comms using reolink doorbells is close at hand.

A discussion on the other site claimed that the fuck-up was in the copy that Universal sent to Mattel.
And that wrong websites frequently end up on packaging in other industries.

Mattel seem to be doing the sorry-dance for it, so no idea if it’s true. Though I’m sure Universal would be very keen to not be involved.

Frank Zappa: I’m the slime

I once changed a friend’s autocorrect from “regards” to “lots of love”.

And I somehow managed to keep my mouth shut long enough for a lecturer to get a very funny email.

Network Rail (who own and maintain the track/infrastructure) are state run.
It was privatised for about 5 years, it was a disaster, and it was brought back in house.
Trains are run by TOCs, though these are being gradually coming back to the state too.

The honest answer is, we have a fuckton of track, much of which has been there since victorian times.
Couple that with diesel-electric trains that run at 125mph already, a lot of track that doesn’t get that much use, and the electrification number is low.

We’re slowly getting there.
New lines are electric from the start, and electrification projects are rolling out.
It can be a pain in the ass though (GWML, for example. We had to order bi-mode trains to continue down to the westcountry, and while the electric part was completed.)

Plus the issue that any track that’s busy enough to prioritise electrification on is going to be more complex because of the impact any downtime causes on a busy route.

I’m just waiting for a third python to arrive with minor problematic differences.

Originally, council housing was supposed to be available for everyone.
A socially funded, reasonably priced, decent accommodation for anyone.
With the added bonus for the council that they have properties vulnerable people could be housed in at cost.

And there are still legacy tenants from those days happily living in their council places.

R2B was brought in, with the stated idea of giving long-term renters the opportunity to buy at a discount.
A leg up onto owning and running their own house.
Unfortunately with the way it was implemented, it ended up gutting the supply of council houses, until we reach today.
Where only the most vulnerable have a sniff of a chance of being allocated a council house.