Why planning policy matters: a short cautionary tale. As I keep saying, the new draft National Planning Policy Framework fails to mention safety for women and girls (or indeed to include the word woman at all) Why this is important is explained by the picture below. 🧵

The root vegetables of Scotland Maslow's hierarchy of neeps

This whole thread is very troubling.

A lot going on here and all ugly, but one thing I still can't get my head around is how any British government can do business with Thiel at this point.

Reminder that "jaywalking" was literally made up by american car manufacturers to shift the blame for accidents from drivers to pedestrians. "Jay" was a slang term meaning "idiot" or "rube".

Also relevant to how we think about buildings data I suspect.

Haven't read either of these reports (just glanced) so probably should refrain from commenting, but important to remember that average HP efficiency/running costs, whatever dataset you subscribe to, are not entirely the point. Real trouble arises from the HUGE variability in performance.

"Heating systems alone do not deliver warm, healthy or affordable homes." As I keep hearing, we need to be very careful that installing low carbon heating doesn't end up making people's living conditions worse. @passivhaustrust.bsky.social passivhaustrust.org.uk/news/detail/...

Actually what? (second time govt has caused me to exclaim that today 🥴) Did a *really poor* AI write this? County of Bedford, Virginia? And I know we all give our data away on a daily basis, but still....

Actually what, MHCLG?

This thread is worth reading right to the end.

How? How do you double-check the accuracy, if you're not already an expert? Ask a different GenAI? Or do you, you know... Have to go and do the research you would have done anyway, pre-AI? Because I'm buggered if I can think of how you do that in a way where the GenAI saved you time.

I tried the government's new 'AI Skills Hub'. Let's just say I was underwhelmed. tommorris.org/posts/2026/t...

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I think I have very good reasons not to feel confident using AI at work, thank you.

Definitely agree with this - he's barely a journalist at all

Love this

It's difficult to convey the face I'm making in words but essentially it's eyes of horror with a strong grimace and an angry frown and a general air of weary despair.

Exactly what I was shouting at the BBC today

Seems a bit of an oversight @rspb.bsky.social !

I mean call me Cassandra but I was worrying about this 20 years ago (though I didn't expect the facism to kick off quite so early in the process, tbf)

Jesus. This poor family. Yet PIV manufacturers go on pushing it - and ofc blaming installers when people are harmed. Unfortunately Awaab's Law as it stands drives dangerous quick fixes like PIV and chemical washes/mists over actually tackling the causes. Which, as here, can just make things worse.

Isn't this a telling aspiration? To want robots to look after your kids, so you can do stuff, rather than robots to do stuff, so you can spend time with your kids? The darkness inside these shrivelled men must be like a gaping unfillable void.

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My new laptop has offered to turn itself on every time I am near. Like a lovesick Karen Carpenter. Tech is so weird nowadays.

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

Updated for 2026

Keir Starmer failed to answer my question at PMQs, so today I’ve written to his minister to demand action. She should strip South East Water of their licence immediately. Thousands of people are still without water. The Government has no time to lose.

How many years of your life could you stand to lose because of where you are born? Across the UK, that number can be as high as 16. We asked rapper and campaigner Darren McGarvey what he thought was driving this - to him the answers are obvious. This is what he had to say. 👇

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The Reform pitch is increasingly “the last government was terrible, so we’ve hired everyone who was in it”.

I am calling for a complete and total boycott of the Mercator projection in all news stories about Greenland until every member of the American public has seen this

"Do you agree that electric boilers should play a limited role in decarbonising heat?" FUCKSAKE Desnz could you try drafting your consultation questions so I know whether to say yes or no 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ No I don't think they should play a role but yes if it is it should be limited WHAT IS YOUR QUESTION???

OMG yes

Anyone complaining about solar panels taking up space needed for growing food needs to look hard at this chart. Solar panels are *massively* more efficient than biofuels.

Now 30,001 and counting. My 86yo mother, with Alzheimers and severe arthritis, is without water. Their response is to dump a pack of bottled water on her step. She can't pick them up. She can't open a bottle top. Fuckers.

in fact, it's not the job of women to fix men. That includes but is not limited to girls being sat next to disruptive boys in school to "calm them down"; telling knobs not to be knobs in meetings, etc etc.

The problem is that 90% of what we provide for teenagers in parks is 90% used by boys and young men. So Abigail set out to talk to teenage girls, find out what *they* wanted and get it built. She runs events, gets swings and play areas built, organises sessions for them. It's great

We can safely assume it won't be the last though

I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.

Absolutely! It really shouldn't be hard. So much tech effort wasted on problems we don't have, and yet....

This pisses me off so much! Where we live its quiet enough that I can and will just walk in the road, but that certainly doesn't apply in most places. If they are sending gritters out anyway, just WHY do pedestrians not count???

Gosh, I can't think how anyone will be able to do an EPC assessment under the new SAP, if *this* is what you need 😲 (spoiler, it goes way beyond just having to measure the windows...)

Broke my hand doing bone-strengthening exercises

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imagine a cheery BBC news report in 1938 breezily asking "which countries could be in Hitler's sights after the Sudetenland?"

oh noes, urgent contact to establish steps they have taken, they must be quaking in their boots, this will put a stop to it at once

Hopes and prayers is all he can muster