Broadsword calling Danny Boy, Broadsword calling Danny Boy

My taxi driver's sat nav has the voice of Kemi Badenoch.

I think we should on balance make it safer for people to cycle, by providing networks away from cars.

DEPLOY THE STRATEGIC SOLERO RESERVE

I'm getting a car go bye

Can’t believe that Andy Kim is in two of the most haunting pictures of the last few years.

not now deadly fungal storms

It's enshittification all the way down.

mandate fairies

Very opaquely written, doesn't explain terms but tldr I got that hyperscalers internalized the constraint of spending tokens and allowed the models to optimise for that so that vanilla users (customers in the old business) got left behind.

This article is just excellent. And spot on in a bunch of ways. I've been working in Silicon Valley for just shy of 30y and this place is unrecognizable. Nothing gets made here anymore except money for the oligarchs at the top of VC firms. Thanks @anildash.com for your honesty.

This photo of Andy Kim in the moments before ICE gassed everyone at Delaney Hall is going into the history books. We need more of this from our electeds.

'The Genoa - Milan high-speed, high-capacity line runs predominantly underground. Its core section, the 27km twin-bore Valico Tunnel, will be Italy’s longest railway tunnel and is designed for operation at up to 250km/h.' Meantime, in the UK.. www.railjournal.com/regions/euro...

Real Brexit hasn't been tried

Weird feeling watching SW1/commentariat picking through the pronouncements of Andy Burnham. Read his words carefully. He sends out signals while often leaving himself space to move, sometimes to positions quite far away from the signals.

Bluesky

Les engrenages

FPTP fragmentation advantages the party that is 2 parties to the centre of the new extremist insurgent.

WW3 is more of a fashion season than anything else.

Indeed. And shame on those Labour politicians who used to say all the right things but now lack the courage to.

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Very good piece on Andy Burnham. manchestermill.co.uk/stop-looking...

Hot Fuzz is about the violence of stasis, the villages inability to change with time and process loss ultimately causes it to become reactionary as it increasingly aggressively polices its own idea of itself. The escalation to murder, including of their own, the ultimate expression of that futility.

Fibre optic cable you say.

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

It's both cruel and impractical.

HS2 works are easily visible on a satellite view, snaking across southern England. Simon Jenkins: scrap this project.

What the government is doing to trans people is a society-wide version of Section 28. It is a level of bureaucratic cruelty that utterly decimates a whole group of people’s rights and puts anyone who doesn’t ‘look’ right in the eyes of others under constant surveillance. It’s a horrific thing.

Good summary of UK economic woes. youtu.be/nCSPGBmTS7g?...

I don't think it's a good idea to legally privilege someone else's discomfort over another person's rights.

Rousseau said that the greatest trick ever played was that the rich managed to get the poor to use their strength against themselves. That was in 1762. You would have thought we would have seen through it by now.

I'll put you down as a maybe then.

For clarity, today was the day the UK was going to ban imports of jet fuel and diesel made from Russian oil regardless of where it is refined. Last night, Starmer's government decided not to ban these imports, and instead to continue funding Putin's war machine. The EU banned them in January.

The era of supply shocks cries out for a politician willing to be straight with people: these shocks make us poorer, we have to divide out the pain while sticking up our values. None of these measures pass that test

Back in Charlottenburg, Berlin, for the past five years. My favorite café is now a bike shop. When bike shops can even displace coffee shops, you know what time it is.

find alternative transport to the pilates classes / lift sanctions on Russian oil to move the market a jot.

"10 out of 10 of the test subjects sustained life threatening injuries, at this point we decided to halt the research.

I'd rather not, but for folks who rely on petrol to get to work, they may not be quite so worried. Suggestions for them? Me, I'd just have to forgo seeing my granddaughter and pilates classes....

Germany is the epicentre of the China Shock 2.0 reverberating in global markets In a new joint paper, CFR's Brad Setser and I show the shock is a key driver of Germany’s economic malaise. And it's accelerating Berlin needs to stop admiring the problem, and join efforts to fight back 1/many

We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas.

Subsidies for solar, heat pumps, e-bikes, industrial electrification, tax breaks for energy efficiency investments, tax holidays for domestic hospitality (hotels etc.), increased public transport subsidies.

We can make our own entertainment here.

Wait. Why don't you just boil water, place the (rinsed rice) in the boiling water, lower the tempearture and then let it simmer until it absorbs all the water?

“for the longest time the question of European strategic autonomy has been a French obsession, a German embarrassment, a British irritation — and that today, nolens volens, it has become a European necessity.” franziska-brantner.de/news/the-lon...

Cameras locked off on the B-1 sitting at Fairford.