It is likely that 2025 will be the warmest year on record for the UK. Why does this matter? Burning fossil fuels is warming the planet, including the UK, causing heatwaves to get hotter. For Central England this is happening 2x faster than the mean change. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Greta Thunberg arrested for holding a sign opposing genocide. When peaceful protest is a crime, democracy is in deep trouble. Happening under a Labour Government.

Nonetheless I've always thought we should have an Erasmus-like scheme for people who weren't in education. Just take a checkout worker at Aldi in Plymouth and let them be a checkout worker at Aldi in Bruges for a year or something. Never does harm to let people see a bit of the world.

If your cost-benefit model tells you it isn't worth investing in a tram or light rail system for an urban area with a population of well over 1m, like Leeds-Bradford, your model is wrong and should be thrown in the bin.

These people should be nowhere near government, as I hope events across the Atlantic have sufficiently demonstrated.

"Goddamn tree-huggers, taking our votes!" "Boss, it appears the racists might have taken a few as well?" "I know, I know. Which is why we must appease them and win back their trust.." ".. and the same for the tree-huggers?" "ABSOLUTELY NOT EVER. Cut down every tree, leave not one newt alive."

In 1991 Mt Pinatubo spewed out 50 MILLION TONNES OF CO₂!! That's a ridiculously MASSIVE amount!

I always reflect on the response to the 'Rivers of Blood' speech. Powell expelled from the Tories, Wilson calling him evil. And yet Powells views were popular. His speech at the time was popular. Where is that spine now when these views have massively decreased in popularity?

Best description of the challenge of communicating the climate crisis I’ve ever read.

WHY ARE YOU ANNOYED THIS IS WHAT YOU WANTED TO HAPPEN

Pictured below: terrorism. Grans sitting around with slogan t-shirts and cups of tea: Not terrorism. Whether or not you agree with their slogans: Not a factor.

Give a kid a calculator, and he'll use it to write 8008135. Give a kid a data centre with 3.5 exaFlops of state-of-the-art, lake-boiling GPU compute, and he'll.. yeah, much the same actually.

Really Sir Keir? "Watering down" protections against torture and inhumane treatment? On #HumanRightsDay?

Growth is the priority when it can be used for punching hippies, but appeasing racist pensioners is more important.

Normal?

Take #Treebybike 's name out of your mouth, slop merchants. Or I'm going to go ask ChatGPT why your burgers that look so nice in the bus adverts are so sad and depressing when you actually buy one.

Item 1 A highway that will cost billions, take 20 years and contribute to the destruc.....Approved! Item 2 A bike lane that will cost almost nothing, reduce traffic and align with our climate emerg...Do you have approval from every living and deceased resident in the city?

"I love the taste of boot leather. Especially in orange, it's the best! Indeed, people that don't like it make me really cross."

Labour are attacking Greens. Fine. I have yet to see any party that has entirely affordable aspirations. But at least the Greens HAVE aspirations. Labour have seemingly decided the status quo cannot be touched, even when it doesn't work for 90% of people, or the viability of life on the planet.

I'll accept the train being covered in ugly-ass flags if, in return, we get a country covered in trains.

"Hi, this is Green Party HQ. We need to order another eight-hundred.. no, make that twelve hundred vegan brownies. There's a queue of women outside going twice around the building. ASAP, yeah, thanks."

Latest from me: on overdiagnosis, a craze/bandwagon the govt is indulging by commissioning an official review, complete with the clunky blurring of mental illness & neurodivergence www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

July sunshine in a bottle. Was going to save this for the winter solstice, but today's weather was a case of "break glass in event of emergency..."

Pretty tired of the negativity and scorn directed at the Green Party, also by some here. Is every policy spot on perfect? Of course not; though I agree with more of theirs than I do other parties’. Don’t mock people for engaging, for having ideals, for refusing to play our flawed electoral system.

So, get things moving at a suitably urgent pace on climate, and rejoin the EU so youngsters have the freedom to work abroad...? Nope, didn't think so. 🤦🏻

(For context, I’m not an AI advocate; i just am very fluent in how working coders think, and it’s very different than tech tycoons and much more similar to writers and other creatives. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... )

Amazing how the money can be found to buy a few square miles of extra land and build a mile of runway on it, *and* reroute the M25 around it, but they can’t find the money for high speed rail projects which would largely obviate the need for more flights anyway.

I see the Infinite Growth on a Finite Planet lot are waving their Sensible Grown-Ups flags again. I don't really buy the MMT thing, but OTOH.. *third fucking runway*? So not a great interview for Zack Polanski - but the other two come across IMO as apologists for years of failure. No-score draw.

Just electrify the railways already you cowards

Zipcar is shutting down its UK operations, basically the only car club that worked in London. Massive kick to anyone who tries to live in capital without owning a car. Having been a customer for 17 years and used Zipvans to move house repeatedly, this is.... very bad! (Zipcar is owned by Avis)

I just don't need to know what the Telegraph has written about Dungeons & Dragons. It's a newspaper for people who are frightened of samosas.

state paternalism is good, actually - it's what the state is fucking *for*

To be clear, Jones is breaching the Green Party's code of conduct here. GPEW policy is now explicitly pro-HS2 and high speed rail, and at minimum she should state at much in her tweet.

Party of the Sensible Grown Ups™ having a normal one there.

Bit of #cycling good news from my lunchtime excursion. Southend Lane, probably the most dangerous junction on the Waterlink Way, finally got a push-button crossing. Thank you @willnorman.co.uk & others responsible! (Probably old news to you @rahario.bsky.social @lewishamcyclists.bsky.social ?)

Well worth a listen. Solid interview, solid responses. Particularly a fan of the section around 42:30 - GDP vs quality of life.

If you need an excuse to join the amazing @londoncycling.bsky.social here's a good one. But really, amazing benefits and you support the work me & my team do nonstop to keep making London better, particularly for cycling.

Coherent? Nope, never heard of it.

OK, who wants this one for their new avatar then 😁

"If there's a Labour national government, London's Labour mayor will get a better deal..." ... oh. www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

The most depressing thing about this is that - as with so much of the Reform-aping coming out of Labour lately - these are people with the intellect, the education, and the moral capacity to know better, and to do better. They haven't the excuse of greed or ignorance to hide behind. Just cowardice.

To take this decision would be to hand a literal license to the fossil fuel industry to carry on drilling like there's no tomorrow. The climate -- and everyone's health and safety -- can't afford that approach.

Would you believe me.... if I said 2025 is likely to become the warmest year on record? 2022 is the current record year. The year which featured 40C for the first time, right at the end a rather cold December. It would be imperative we avoid a mild Dec.

I'm old enough to remember when the Labour party said they would be the greenest govt ever. Now they are committing to build ever bigger airports and move motorways to accommodate them. It's not like there is a climate emergency or anything. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Here's a couple of charts. They both, in their own way, matter. But those responsible for the one on the left needs to pay a little more attention to the one on the right - as that one represents something far more fundamental. Nature bats last.

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

Music production got me through some rough patches. A degree in computing seemed more likely to keep a roof over my head, what with this new-fangled Internet thing everyone was talking about. Happened to land at the time and place those paths intersected. After that, mainly hard work and good luck.

As we inch ever closer to politicians no longer being able to plausibly pretend the bridge will reopen to cars, the time may finally soon be here for an honest conversation about more realistic solutions

¿Cómo se dice "check his hard drives" en Español?