Absolute scenes 😂

Oslo and Berlin train link to launch as soon as 2028 It will run with stops in Moss, Fredrikstad, Sarpsborg, Halden, Trollhättan, Gothenburg, Halmstad, Helsingborg, Lund, Malmo, Copenhagen airport and Copenhagen H, Odense, Kolding, Padborg, Hamburg traveltomorrow.com/oslo-and-ber... #ActOnClimate

Bruce Springsteen has no fucks to give. 👏

As a teacher of English, I can definitively state that yes, this is exactly what happened. Particularly, the curse words. ◡̈

Quite. We have lost more than 1% GDP in fuel duty over last 20 years. Every chancellor for 15 years has promised at least to maintain real value of duty. Not one has done so. And now this govt backs down at first sign of trouble. Expensive & poorly targeted

We are a nation run by cowards. In almost every respect.

Got to be honest, loosening sanctions on Russia before we’ve even tried any basic demand-side measures is not filling me with pride or joy

returning to its spawning ground

Bit of a Ceaușescu on his balcony moment from Eric there.

I think this maybe the most niché bit of trivia I’ve ever heard.

See what she did there?

One copper with a helmet cam, riding a bike a few hours a day, with a reporting system for red light jumping and mobile phone using motorists, could net hundreds of thousands of pounds of fines and probably find three more coppers every year. But they won't do it. They just won't.

Calling protected bike-lanes “vanity projects” should be automatic evidence that a political candidate has no idea what they’re talking about when it comes to public safety, urban mobility and congestion, geometry and urban space, fiscal responsibility, or the successful positioning of cities.

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Wes Streeting is already facing growing calls to stand down as PM

When we say medical misogyny kills people, this is the shit we mean.

WE DON'T NEED PETROLEUM-BASED PLASTICS ANYMORE! "The [bamboo plastic] outperforms most commercial plastics and bioplastics in mechanical and thermo-mechanical metrics while maintaining full biodegradability in soil within 50 days and closed-loop recyclability with 90% retained strength."

None of us alive will experience climate better than what we have now. How much worse it gets is up to us.

The US or any other country that ends gasoline and diesel taxes won’t make much of a dent in the war-caused economic disruption, but will lose revenue and incentivize more fossil fuel use, then find it politically very difficult to reinstate those taxes after the Iran war and associated damage end.

This graph shows two things, 1) obviously that the cameras reduced speeding, but 2) that the improvement kept getting better over time. Speeders tend to get one or two tickets and then learn and change their behaviour. This isn't a cash grab, it's an extremely useful intervention.

Satya will be fine here. Anyone who has ever heard this man talk knows that he sounds like an MBA course taught by a man with a concussion. It will be totally impossible follow what he’s saying. A master of the art

YANG GANG ASSEMBLE

hating ai is a pro-social activity

unfortunately, kim il sung's clothes hang a lot better

Career goals

It’s increasingly hard to argue with the idea Kemi Badenoch is a good leader of the Conservative party, because it’s difficult to argue while laughing.

Wow, I can't believe Labour's tactic of yelling "DON'T VOTE FOR THESE GREEN CUNTS, THEY'RE DANGEROUS, VOTE FOR US, WE HATE IMMIGRANTS IN A BETTER WAY THAN REFORM!" hasn't led to them keeping all their council seats.

Best evidence yet that LLMs can match human capabilities in doing science.

I think lost in all the effortlessly irritating “Normal Island” discourse is that the UK does have a pretty normal European political landscape. It just doesn’t have a normal electoral system.

“If I can bicycle, I bicycle.” Sir David Attenborough. Happy 100th birthday to a legend. He has never passed a driving test and doesn’t own a car.

This is important. Labour won a commons majority on 1/3rd of the popular vote. Refuk (maybe with a punt from the last ever Tories) could do the same in a few years.

Once again: close an area to cars, business *increases*. Every time. And yet every new proposal to close an area to cars meets the same resistance from business owners. I'm starting to wonder whether business owners really are rational self-interest maximizers, I tell you!

"The UK has avoided the need for gas imports worth £1.7bn since the start of the Iran war, as a result of record electricity generation from wind and solar, reveals Carbon Brief analysis" www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-win....

I feel like small matters such as “selling off most of the things that help governments to make themselves useful, out of pure hardcore ideological conviction” and “a pathological loathing for investment in services and infrastructure” may also have contributed

Titanic's captain writing in, "Do not hit an iceberg. Steer the ship to avoid hitting any visible icebergs. If you see that the ship is on course to hit an iceberg, change course to avoid a collision. Avoiding the iceberg is more important than crew and passenger comfort," and nodding in relief.

People pointing out that this would be unlawful are, I think, underestimating the extent to which Reform intend to abuse what passes for our constitution- specifically the idea of Parliamentary sovereignty, ie that Parliament can essentially pass any laws it likes- in order to achieve their aims 1/🧵

oops! you're right, I plotted and schemed against you. Here's my breakdown of what happened. I: * Contacted your bastard son * Convinced him to raise an army against you * Paid informants to familiarize myself with your habits * Slipped poison into your nightly tonic Going forward, I promise not t

We must stand in solidarity with Jews being attacked by antisemitic criminals and terrorists: no ifs or buts. We must stand in solidarity with Palestinians being murdered by the Israeli government: no ifs or buts. These are not contradictory positions. They are consistent ones. 🧵1/5

Britain's productivity problem illustrated by our Prime Minister. Folding machines are available and cheap - yet Starmer is folding leaflets by hand. You could get roughly a 5000% increase in productivity here with a small capital investment.

Hey I heard the EU are trying to ban everyone from getting a tattoo saying I AM A HUGE MORON on their forehead, pass it on to the Tumble Dryer Second Amendment guys

The BIG problem is because of massive car manufacturing influence, most media and political energy is going to EVs, with not NEARLY enough going to fewer cars and less driving. But the priority HAS to be the latter, since it’s the part of the solution that will actually do much more public good.

“What they’re doing is saying to my children, and your children, and their children: ‘tough luck’” “The first role of any government, in my view, is to leave something better for the next generation than your generation inherited”

"No one could stop the US raiding modern shipping, but it doesn't because it knows it benefits far more from unmolested maritime trade than any potential piracy spoils", used to be my go-to example illustrating how international law works. Will need to update with a "fucking idiot" caveat.

Replace CEOs with AI Raise worker wages

Some useful public speaking tips from Freud here.

LAMBO!!!!!💥💥💥💥 #WorldBollardAssociation

this is an absolutely extraordinary scoop by Guardian: Nigel Farage was given £5m by the crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne shortly before announcing he would stand in the 2024 British general election, the Guardian can reveal www.theguardian.com/politics/202...