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IMPORTANT: The Dutch invest €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart governments do the math on investing in better mobility. Let’s be clear— it wastes public money to NOT do it. #CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.com

ladies and gentlemen...we got him

UK politics as The Monkey’s Paw: in this essay I will etc

The catastrophic mess at Kent County Council shows what happens when a populist party, with no idea how government works, gets into power ✏️ @edjennings.bsky.social

Judge rules George R.R. Martin and other authors can sue OpenAI for copyright infringement • Said ChatGPT generated 'Game of Thrones' content similar enough to infringe copyright • OpenAI’s motion to dismiss was denied

Great to visit the car dealership stunt at Parliament today by @transenvuk.bsky.social and @olord.bsky.social showing clearly just how huge and heavy cars have become making the case for fair tax by vehicle weight.

Wow - those are quite phenomenal headlines given the details of the story. Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done. You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story! 🧵 1/9

Politico: "MPs should consider deleting X, according to a committee led by Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle... "On social media, the report said MPs should feel “empowered to step away from platforms that pose more harm than benefit.” Absolutely. Please get on with it.

Adverts should be representative of traditional British families

Adverts should be representative of traditional British families.

WSUS attacks hit 'multiple' orgs as Google and other infosec sleuths ring Redmond’s alarm bell

My most popular cartoon by a long chalk is also oddly niche, in that it mostly appeals to a generation who remember the song it refers to and enjoy the nostalgia for their youth. I can draw one for you if you like. www.worldofmoose.com/collections/...

Adverts should be representative of traditional British families

“‘Go home’ is a chant used by people who are bigoted or racist – so we have to be very careful when using phrases like ‘go home’, when talking in particular about legal migration." I really hope the unnamed Tory scrolls back a couple of years to find the Theresa May vans using those words

Reuters reporting on what we already know - that Reform is accepting crypto donations. As a former anti-corruption specialist, let me be clear. Crypto should be nowhere near UK politics. The risks around anonymity, tracing ownership & manipulation of instruments are all good reason to act.

It’s very important that men aren’t accused of domestic assault cause it will destroy their careers.

Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.

Remember how BBC sold bake-off to channel 4 ? Strictly is expensive and the ratings are dropping

EMILY DICKINSON, JEDI KNIGHT Not so clumsy, nor so random - As a blaster - in its rage More elegant - the weapon More civilized - the age

Just remember that any laws they don't like can be interfered with www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022...

The great British energy rip-off is now killing our green energy hopes – and the chance of cheaper electricity www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/10...

Protected cycle lanes =/= Painted lines

Sunday Times interview Tory "rising star" Katie Lam She is clear she wants lots of legal migrants to be told to "go home" so as "to leave a mostly but not entirely culturally coherent group of people" (The interviewer suggests she is scrapping ILR or stripping people of it)

One significant thing to note here is that Nathan Gill wasn't FOUND guilty, he PLEADED guilty to the eight charges of bribery. Presumably because the case against him was so overwhelming. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Weird how he keeps getting exposed for hanging out with wrong uns.

Farage partner involved in fraud investigation www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

This.

The more you learn at the moment the more you realize that so much of what’s going to pop the bubble is straight up physics and resources. It’s not clear if you can even build a gigawatt data center campus let alone power one, and GB200s have a negative 100% gross margin. Oracle bought 400,000!

He hid in a castle to avoid the law, then he paid lawyers a huge amount of money to make it impossible for Giuffre to take him to court and have to settle out of court, and now he expects to still be called prince. And the family have enabled this by inaction. REPUBLIC TIME

womp womp

“Now Scientific American has updated and re-released what it calls the “classic graphic” that shows that a human on a bicycle—able to coast, or freewheel, without pedaling—remains the world’s most energy effecient traveler.” @carltonreid.com on the re-release of the iconic graph in @forbes.com.

You’ll get what you vote for with reform!!!!

👏 "We've lived here all our lives. And I have never felt so unwelcome in my own hometown as I do since your party came into Caerphilly." "With all the rhetoric that you bring in, I have to say to my sons, please don't go there. Please don't do this." "I blame you for that."

Cardiff will be the first UK city to introduce a surcharge for oversized SUVs and trucks, "while very large vehicles – those over 3,500kg – will be excluded from residential permits entirely."

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I really don't believe that wealth taxes will happen because the pigheaded insistence that income tax won't change is a non-negotiable; given that it was a daft promise, and the subsequent errors unearthed from last Tory budget give the opportunity to break from them

Universal basic income is too serious a matter to leave to economists: "the research reveals that #ubi secures daily survival, improves performance of daily occupations, increases care and social engagement, and raises hope through opportunities to choose and plan for the future." @scottsantens.com

The use of AI to marionette a woman whose tortured existence was spent trying to carve her own life and identity out of the space men forced her into is both damningly macabre and a surprisingly perfect encapsulation of the problems with this ghoulish use of technology.

There’s a task that shouldn’t be left to @bylinetimes.bsky.social alone: The fourth estate has a job to do in defence of freedom and democracy. Are they too keen to report on the chaos of a Reform government (until that time when mass deportations and arrest of “dissidents” begins?) Too late then.

“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.” Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt. futurism.com/artificial-i...

The green cross code is the most disastrous public information campaign in history. It has made generations believe that pedestrians are responsible for avoiding crashes. Crashes are actually the responsibility of the operators of the massive motorised lumps of metal.

Venezuelan opposition politician María Corina Machado has won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. Last year, Nash Colundalur interviewed Machado, who is in exile, for Prospect: “Is there a risk that I could be put in prison? Yes, certainly.”

Who benefits from the abolition of stamp duty land tax? The first answer: people buying very expensive homes. Average saving for someone buying a £10m+ home is £1.7m. Average saving for someone buying a £250k-£500k home is £5k.

Universal Basic Income makes far more sense than this.

Am wondering if all of those suddenly deciding they’re against communities living “parallel lives” might reconsider their support of religious schools? Or indeed private ones?

Tonight in Conservation success stories. news.yahoo.com/articles/isl...

"And let us enforce the same rules. When you have a newspaper, you are responsible for what is published in it. When you have a social network, you must be responsible for what is published on it."