I re-covered and repainted my desk chairs (black is before, colours are after!)
Process pics in the thread...
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Fabric people, how do you store and organise samples? At the moment mine are a random pile stuffed into a zip folder and I am not satisfied.
What I REALLY want is a searchable filterable digitised database which cross-references to indexed entries in something like a ring binder... but I'm not sure I am willing to put in the effort required to create (and most importantly maintain) such a system.
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@maxleibman@beige.party When I first read this I thought it said "neurodeterrent", but of course that's the perfumed soap
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Transport for Wales is (at least partly?) funded by the Welsh government. So this isn't just a nonsensical failure of capitalism, it's also a waste of actual taxpayer money.
The only reason I can think of for execs to approve of this is because it makes rich non-train-users feel better about being TOTALLY SURE that poor people aren't getting any free train rides.
Anyway I started a petition suggesting they put the money to better use elsewhere: https://petitions.senedd.wales/petitions/246387
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I made the FOI request because I had encountered teams of "revenue protection inspectors" several times over the summer. Each time, a group of three or more staff members boarded the train. And then either did literally nothing (stood around in the vestibule), or walked along asking for people's tickets (sometimes minutes after the conductor had done just the same), and then got off after a few stops.
It seemed like a ridiculous waste of staff and money, so I thought I would check. And it is!
Good morning. Today I got a very interesting response to a freedom of information request from Transport for Wales.
They pay almost £800,000 per year to an external contractor for "revenue protection" (which means enforcing ticket fines).
They earn ~£80,000 per year from ticket fines and penalty fares.
Which means they're paying ten times what they're making back from this process.
Edit: petition in thread