The ”upgrade” to junction 11 on the M5 is going to cost £363mn (fuck knows where the money goes) and is going ahead Reopening the Stonehouse station on the Birmingham / Bristol line would cost around £25mn but trying to get it funded is impossible

Muppets who wasted loads of money inducing demand and making traffic worse consider doing exactly the same thing again.

Looks like the "removal of statues etc is erasing history" folks are actually into doing those removals if the history being erased is the history of black people

Tories scrapped half of HS2, which without the other half would actually make many train times worse. People said “why don’t you focus on electrification of existing lines then” so now Labour, eager to proven they’re different from Tories, have scrapped all of that too.

Fifteen minute queue at service station Greggs. Wonder how many of these drivers say they don’t have time to charge an EV.

Got a short film trying to be shot in an ancient woodland I manage. They’re all about trying to be respectful and low impact. It’s Cornish cultural stuff not big money shite (me/charity get nothing). Tell me how to proceed. Set boundaries, manage expectation, oversight, big stick in case, but yes?

First time I took a bike onto a ferry I panicked and waited for the lovely seamen to help, but if you wanna have a say in how your bike gets tied up to survive stormy seas then here’s how I do it. Don’t forget to pat it and say “that’s not going anywhere” to ensure success.

Love the swoletariat. The right think they own being tough because they jump to violence the second they run out of steam in an argument, which is usually about one follow-up question in. Fighting fascism will require some actual fighting, so there’s no better time to get hench.

I met somebody in Amsterdam who flew there from Germany. What a fuckin baby. 🤣 It’s always the Americans, especially the libertarians. Big tough independent guy needs sky daddy captain to pamper him door to door in case he bumps into a POOR out in the real world, climate be damned.

NY Times can’t even get “up” and “down” right.

I’ve been wondering about bramble translocation to speed up woodland succession on dense monoculture grassland. Great to see it’s already a thing. If anyone is clearing bramble near Bath this winter I need a few tonnes please. 🤣

Progress made on buying this Bath land (which we completed the crowdfunder for A YEAR AGO) Solicitors finally all have their money and agreed all their instructions but weeks and months are zipping by. My lot have been on holiday for a month now doing four day week? No update til Monday. 😭

I demand more likes this was funny.

Which one is more English?

Deploy more solar, get more electricity. 🫡

This is absolutely appalling. "The UK will not contribute to a flagship fund for the world’s remaining tropical forests, in a bitter blow to the Brazilian hosts on the eve of the Cop30 climate summit." Absolutely pathetic. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This is deeply disappointing from Starmer. The UK *helped design* this 'TFFF' fund, designed to stop deforestation, and supposedly 'continues to back the fund' (in theory). But now isn't putting any money into it 🤯 How embarrassing for the UK. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

European countries want Brazil to increase forest conservation (it certainly can). But some of the world's best opportunities to spare & restore carbon in native forests—while displacing the least food production—actually lie in Europe. Our analysis shows this: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Me: “this is the heaviest I’ve ever been in my life. I need to diet even on this cycling trip.” Also me: “Pannenkoeken!!!!!!!”

Hedgerow vs Canal for holding fluffy suicidal escape artist idiots?

tempted to put googley eyes on my toenail clipper and give it a social media presence just to prove it's actually got more charisma than Kier Starmer.

Cycling to API Days Amsterdam (GenAI Edition) to see if anyone is doing anything useful with AI. Is it mostly corps selling shovels in a gold rush, or scammers hyping up a gold rush out of whole cloth, burning customer cash as they melt the planet for useless slop. Find out on @apisyouwonthate.com

Cracking idea for a man with the natural charisma of a toenail clipper. These weird nerds are still confusing the Mamdani effect with “get some slick videos and people will like you” instead of understanding it’s about being authentic _and_ having policies PEOPLE ACTUALLY WANT, YOU MELT. 🤣

Let’s ignore Musks nonsense about gangs of marauding immigrants raping everyone in every English village every day and focus on pushing the Tesla boycotts wider and harder until he’s completely bankrupt.

Can you imagine the culture wars if we tried to do this in the UK? Comically I bet the NFU would be all over it like a rash. Rare opportunity for a team up on climate action, urban planning, eroding car dependency, and ag lobby? 🤔

Do goats eat rhododendrons? They eat bramble and all sorts of other brash so I’d like to know. I want to hire this wide lad (so big I thought he was a camel or something at first!)

YAAAAS, I got back from Wales and Avon Fest to a boat boasting a 100% charge! I don’t know what my six bodged together solar panels put in their coffee this morning, but they pulled on their big boy pants and put in a solid shift. Not seen 100% in months!

BREAKING: Man who broke speed limit fined for breaking speed limit.

Buzzing! After breakfast I got a tour of the grounds of my B&B, and whilst it’s mostly lovely they’ve got loads of rhododendrons taking over their woodland… that they’re happy for @protect.earth to remove! Now I’ve just had a tour of a struggling farm that has land in need of reforesting. 🥳

Jealous! Netherlands "offers regions and municipalities the opportunity to choose measures that not only save energy but also contribute to climate and circular economy goals. This means a direct opportunity to include #biobased insulation materials as a preferred option"

Sad and angry, but I’ve spent the day smashing things with an axe for the benefit of conservation. A gappy old hedgerow is now a brilliant wildlife corridor, and five Welsh farmers/landowners have useful skills they didn’t have before. Work with what you have. It all has a place.

My new paper on how to increase sustainable food consumption is continuing to gather positive media attention 🙌 Link to paper: www.frontiersin.org/journals/sus... #sustainablefood #sustainability #vegan #greennudge

As a cyclist the vast majority of hedgehogs I see are two dimensional, flattened by cars and trucks. We can help hedgehogs by fighting against road building, creating more woodlands, and reinstating hedgerows to link them. We can also not burn them alive through sloppy lazy negligence.

That was a fun job. Ripping massive dense clusters of rhododendrons out of an ancient woodland with amazing people is exactly how I like to spend my time. You should too. More events to come on our website.

Just learned another Brooklyn bike mate is dead. Dude asked me to race an alley cat with him one time, and despite rolling out of his cancer surgery bed he absolutely crushed it. I ripped my legs off to stick with him, and we won the race, splitting the prize bottle of whiskey. Peace brother.

Gotta love Private Eye. Always cuts through the crap.

Once again the left and the right found accidental agreement. The right criticised Gates because they thought he was woke for caring about the climate crisis. The left criticised Gates for pretending to care just enough to push dangerous technofixes that wouldn’t work. 🤝

Flying with kids can be stressful. Trains give you room to move, time to play, and better views. You can take snacks, games, and no one minds a bit of noise. Plus, it’s better for the planet. 🌍 #FlightFree flightfree.co.uk/post/going-w...

The problem with assuming “when people see how bad climate change and effects really are they’ll get on board with fixing it” is it supposes people haven’t been consuming a steady stream of disinformation by well funded think tanks constantly tweaking and triangulating their messaging.

“It’s so endemic, it’s so pervasive, it’s so ubiquitous, that people don’t recognize just how much it is all around them” I've been talking motonormativity with @grist.org. Also features @sgoodyear.bsky.social and @brooklynspoke.bsky.social grist.org/culture/cars...

Labour is falling apart. Locally community alliances are picking up the slack, and Reform are proving they can’t operate local government, but we need to keep pushing for a national alternative. That is increasingly proving itself to be the @greenparty.org.uk.

Yaaaaaaaay.

I’m the first congressional candidate to be indicted under the second Trump administration. But if things keep going the way they are, I won’t be the last. That’s why I need to fight these charges with everything we’ve got. Help us do that here: katforillinois.com/legal

Yes, because Badenoch’s was a criminal offence carrying a custodial sentence, whereas Reeves’ was not.

Using Tolkein stories as a baseline for English lifestyle is hilarious. Maybe he should focus more on the Ents violent uprising against greed & destruction of nature.

The culture war right wingers started requires banging on about things that clearly don’t work but hopefully impress your target demographic when announced, and I’ve never seen anyone worse at playing the game than Starmer.

It’s nice to see the far-right fail but can we stop pretending squishy “centrist liberals” are the solution to anything other than more of the same shit that got us into this mess?

Smash your Ring doorbell to pieces first thing today if you haven’t already.

Elon is too busy researching “hard men” on the internet and trying to buy relevance or any friends to notice most of England has “shire” in the name because it literally just means “county”.