I'd really like to see something written outside tech enthusiast blogs acknowledging the april 2026 local LLMs and whether they affect the calculation on data center expenditure, where suddenly a $1500-4000 macbook can run a 26B parameter model that's... 80%? as good at coding as the frontier model

"the dramatic cost declines in batteries have now made 'firm renewables' — solar or wind paired with batteries — cheaper than fossil fuels in many parts of the world." This is game changing.

The media forensically dissects the pasts of people who challenge the status quo, such as Polanski and Corbyn. Fair enough, up to a point: we should know about our representatives. But it's far less inquisitive about those who defend power, however great their misdeeds, such as Nigel Farage.🧵

When you see the relentless attacks from other parties on the Greens across the media remember this: They hate our plan to end Rip Off Britain. They don't want a wealth tax. They don't want public ownership & lower bills. They're trying everything in their power to stop us.

I'm so jealous. Lime, Spin, etc are fine but SO expensive. We need a more affordable bike share system in Minneapolis. usa.streetsblog.org/2026/04/21/b...

Every spring/summer on our mountain commonage, wild native tree seedlings like this rowan pop up, the seed carried by birds or wind. The baby trees always soon disappear, eaten by sheep. Trees mostly don't need to be planted, just given a chance to grow.

I don’t think we talk nearly enough about the fact that corporations like Amazon, don’t pay a single cent to maintain the roads they use, the transportation system they use, the courts they use, they pay nothing for the infrastructure that is absolutely critical to their business. WE Pay for

And yet mouth breathers say that people cycling need id plates so they can be identified. It works so well with drivers doesn't it?

The stats here are horrific. 300,000 uninsured drivers on roads every day. 1 person affected every 20 minutes by an uninsured driver. 1 person a day left with life changing injuries every day by an uninsured driver. Yet successive govts have failed to tackle this www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I don't know a lot about how EVs are perceived in other markets, do they have the "I might need to drive 500 miles in a day" brainworm in countries where that would cover pretty much the whole country

Your regular reminder 👇 🏥 81% want publicly owned NHS 🏫 78% want publicly owned schools 💧 73% want publicly owned water 🚂 70% want publicly owned rail ✉️ 70% want publicly owned mail 🚍 67% want publicly owned buses 💡 65% want publicly owned energy

Claims and ideas which happen to favour the ruling class don't dominate public life by accident. They're paid for by oligarchs and corporations then promoted by media outlets other oligarchs and corporations own. Once they've been drummed into our ears enough, they're internalised as "common sense".

When Labour next tell you there is no money left and that's why they can't help people to heat their homes, show them this.

so they're closing the West Coast Main Line for a week, huh? the single line connecting London to four of Britain's next five biggest urban conurbations? that's mad, weird that no one's ever thought to build an alternative route, perhaps even one that runs at a high speed, too. crazy

High speed rail in Canada is a good investment. It’s the kind of ambitious nation-building that actually makes Canada more resilient etc. No surprise, far-right Pierre Poilievre says he’d cancel it, saying it will go over budget. Spoiler—it will. Just like EVERY car highway does. But he likes those.

Would you guess that the Green Party would be tied with the Conservatives for the lowest support for Alto high-speed rail in Canada? Granted, all voting groups have net support. But the Greens are on the lower end, not the higher end.

Ever wonder why most of the media provide wall-to-wall coverage of everything the far right does or says, while ignoring far bigger rallies and events and far more interesting discussions elsewhere on the political spectrum? There's no mystery. It's because they want the far right to triumph.

Right-NIMBYism is the generally correct belief that you can keep your city exclusive by blocking new housing. Left-NIMBYism is the mistaken idea that you can keep your city affordable and attainable by blocking new housing.

NEW POLL: Greens continue to surge. 🚀 Let's go! 💚🙌🏽 inews.co.uk/news/politic...

"‘Europe learned the wrong lesson’ by doubling down on fossil fuels while India and China went green" 'Countries that invested in renewable energy in 2022 are better able to withstand the current fuel crisis, experts say www.euronews.com/2026/03/20/e...

The native Irish version, the Eurasian lynx, is only slightly bigger than a Labrador dog, lives alone in forests, *never* attacks people, and very rarely our livestock or pets. Wouldn't it be just so wonderful to have them back, sharing the landscape with us again?

I don’t think that left-NIMBYism is more common than right-NIMBYism overall. But it’s definitely the more common type of NIMBYism you encounter when you live in a central city rather than a suburb.

Erm.... Are these people ok? I don't think they're ok. Join.greenparty.org.uk

These people have a funny way of saying "Environmentalists have been proved right yet again."

Pro-war, pro-privatisation. Don't trust these people.. www.ft.com/content/be4b...

"It is outrageous that people will be buying homes that are expensively heated with gas when we have perfectly good technology – heat pumps – that can be installed instead." My comments @theguardian.com new homes in the UK still using gas heating. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This is insanity, especially when the world is in the middle.ofna fossil fuel crisis. I can understand the tories pandering to developers whims, but don't see what Labour has to gain from this. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Why the absolute hell does a child need to raise money for a zebra crossing so her and other kids can cross a busy road safely. That council should be ashamed of itself. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

The incompetence of those now in charge of transport in this country is staggering. This HS2 article is basically fact-free. All of its sourced assertions are bollocks - yet this rubbish is currently further wrecking HS2. www.thetimes.com/business/com...

Amnesty International say what is happening in Palestine is a genocide. The UN Special Rapporteur say it's a genocide. Countless genocide scholars say it's a genocide. How are we still doing this? And why is the BBC doing this? youtu.be/Es_wxH04bgs?...

Everything we need to do to stop climate breakdown, we also need to do for national security. Energy saving, more renewables, more electricity storage and interconnectors, electrification of transport, heating, cooking and industrial processes, plant-based diets. We win on all fronts.

Everything has changed ... except the claims of the fossil fuel lobbyists who infest politics and the media. www.ise.fraunhofer.de/en/press-med...

He says it will industrialise the countryside. Which is already industrialised. Tit. Frankly anyone objecting to renewables now isn't patriotic. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ahh I see we have reached the stage of fuel suppliers being accused of profiteering. Cos businesses making a profit is only bad when it comes to selling petrol for cars. Funny how so many unwittingly become communists when it comes down to filling the suv.

You’d think in this era of “MPs face increasing danger” there would be more outrage at newly elected Green MP Hannah Spencer being assaulted by transphobes but it’s nowhere to be seen on BBC News app even if you search her name

"The argument for electrifying our railways will become clearer in time." British Rail, 1979.

It's amazing how car blind uk society is. Replace e- bike and e-scooter with car in this article and you won't even get close to the scale of that problem. Parked cars clutter every road snd footway, and destroy every verge they come across. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

@infrastructure-ni.gov.uk today said "There has been no delay to the Belfast Rapid Transport 2 (BRT2) project". But the referenced press release from February 2025 says "Work will begin on this phase later this year [2025]." That looks like a delay to me. 🤔

there's currently a debate in nuclear circles on the relative merits of large reactors (~1500MWe) and small reactors (<400MWe). the answer is, as ever, we can and should do both. being able to spec either one or multiple small units or one large one makes it more flexible as a tech class anyway.

What we need, desperately, is reconstruction, and that means massive investment. One of the few upsides of Brexit is we are no longer bound by EU rules on state aid - which means we could pump enormous resources into our own economy without (further) penalty. And we're not.

It's completely beyond me how authorities can continue to ignore this fundamental issue, especially given that we KNOW that with climate breakdown floods will only keep getting worse. Pay farmers to rewild NOW.

I may delete this because it’s a bit spicy but it shouldn’t be lost on us that games being turned into TV is essentially harvesting the stories written by those who don’t have union representation or healthcare with WGA by those that do. Our stories are good enough for TV but the writers aren’t?

Well there is no chance of me visiting Ireland again. This is a victim blaming policy that will do nothing to reduce road danger (probably increase it actually) or KSIs. All it'll do is reduce the numbers cycling even further. Ireland is not serious about road safety.

It's been fun seeing The Consultants lose their mind about how they don't get this ad, which is the coolest shit she's done yet. (Also, yes, that's Matt Mercer, who I've come to learn since this ad dropped is more famous than Michael Jordan.)

Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York City campaigned on a promise of “fast and free buses.” One influential planning group is trying to change his mind with an even bigger moonshot plan: to expand the city’s century-old subway system.

I’m a lot more open to discussions of building aesthetics when they’re not about reducing density and housing supply.

Considering recent events, we're incredulous as to why the only place you can access real time updates on delays/issues/cancellations for Irish Rail is on X. We'll be writing to them next week calling for them to move this service off X & on to their website where it's more accessible for all users.

Privatisation has failed since 1989 People have no water because South East Water spent more on dividends that on infrastructure Fines = irrelevant Only way to get through to shareholders in 🇦🇺🇨🇦 is to take them out of the picture PUBLIC OWNERSHIP NOW www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Ed Miliband continues to preside over the only bit of the govt doing good stuff, today with the excellent announcement that the latest CfD auction has secured *8.4GW* of new offshore wind! Ed: “This is the largest amount of offshore wind procured in any auction ever in Britain or indeed Europe” 🥳🏆

Why rail fares are so high and why nationalising the loss making operators will not solve the real problem bit.ly/4jugYE9 the massive profits (£380m in 2 years for just one) of the rolling stock leasing companies on the £4.1bn annual cost of leasing and maintaining trains