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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • It’s worth noting that most places without a “signature” style just use espresso as the base nowadays. Because espresso is a much easier way to start (as it’s a small amount of coffee syrup, without the water).
    And outside of speciality (pour-over/cold-brew), it’s the preferred extraction method.



  • ML summary:

    Jas Athwal, the Labour Party MP for Ilford South, is a landlord with properties that tenants say have poor living conditions.
    In the selection process for the Ilford South seat, Athwal won a higher percentage of votes from the party’s online “Anonyvoter” system compared to in-person votes, despite his opponent Sam Tarry winning more of the in-person votes.
    There are concerns about a lack of transparency and potential for fraud in the Anonyvoter system, which has also been used in other Labour candidate selection processes with similar results favoring more centrist candidates.
    Former Labour MPs Sam Tarry and Beth Winter have raised legal concerns about the use of Anonyvoter, and several Labour-affiliated unions have expressed doubts about the system.


  • That’s the gist to be honest.
    RTB gives people the right after a certain amount of time, but lack of funding meant that councils weren’t able to replace the stock.
    The discount is up to 70% too. So while each person who can exercise RTB gets an impressive leg up into the housing market, it’s contributed to even longer waiting lists for council housing.

    It also creates a bit of an ethical dilemma if you are in council housing.
    As if you start doing better financially, and are able to afford regular accommodation, you have an incentive to hold until you can RTB instead. (Though there are apparently now re-assessments at tenancy renewal time)

    Really, the answer is way, way, way more council housing. But the money just isn’t available.











  • A low-wiring way to do it would be to replace the bulbs with hue/similar bulbs, then just put a battery powered button in the location you want to have the controls. £10-ish for each button, plus however much the bulbs are.

    Then just have the button set to toggle the lights on/off (you can also call different presets like dim etc by pressing and holding).
    Then hass just directly sends the on/off commands to the bulbs.