There's other more proven measures that suit more cities, and are still needed in cities with congestion charging: -- Systemic reallocation of space (Paris, Amsterdam, London, Utrecht etc). -- Traffic circulation planning, including larger schemes (Ghent) or slower rollout (Amsterdam, Utrecht etc)

A hundred years ago, the U.S. had a nationwide network of short-line railroads that connected most urban and rural communities. By the 1940s, most of it had been dismantled ... by the barons of the auto and oil industries. 😑

A crow landed on the gutter outside my office window today with two full Tuc crackers in its beak. What a day for that crow, and for me, the man who got witness it

Excited that InfoWars has switched sides in the infowars

It is both true that rural areas are subsidized by urban areas and that planning (or lack of) in rural areas has made the provision of the most basic services incredibly difficult and impossible in somecases... Making rural areas hard places to live

More from the "no traffic problems whatsoever so we don't need decent public transport" city.... www.independent.ie/regionals/ga...

THREAD: The IEA global energy review 2026 * CO2 record high, but growth nearly ground to halt * Clean energy shaved 3bn tonnes off CO2 * Fossil-fuel power pushed into reverse * Age of Electricity "confirmed" * "Extraordinary" solar growth * Batteries up 40% * EVs up 20% 1/10

A lot of very 'respectable' people involved in creating and maintaining a system like this.

It feels like yesterday that online-engineers-of-a-certain-age were saying that heavy freight could never be electrified. To quote William Gibson, "The future is here. It’s just not widely distributed yet." Fossil fuel interests want to keep it that way.

Me normally: one very frustrating thing about being on the left is that a huge chunk of the movement is obsessed with defending the abusive, repressive monster that was the Soviet Union Me after reading this article: gulag gulag GULAG FOR THIS FUCKER FOR ONE THOUSAND YEARS

A former Clare Street office now houses up to 22 people paying up to €890 for bed spaces, despite no registration with the RTB. jrnl.ie/7007748

The decision of a Prime Minister Only one person decided to appoint Lord Mandelson The Empty City blog emptycity.substack.com/p/the-decisi...

Only the New York Times, run by a fourth-generation nepo baby for an imagined audience of other elites with Roman numerals after their names, could treat such a small-bore common-sense tax proposal as the peak sign of a class war. If this is the peak of the "anti-rich current," they'll be lucky.

19 April 1943 | Groups of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto began the uprising against Germans. Their heroic battle lasted 27 days. Today we remember the bravery & sacrifice of people who chose to resist against impossible odds to die in dignity & save the human spirit. More: https://t.co/OoVGtqwWPu

After selling Adare train station for €216k just over a decade ago, Irish Rail pays €2m to buy it back for temporary Ryder Cup platform Irish Rail has bought back the station house and grounds at Adare's former train station for €2 million to accommodate a temporary station for the Ryder Cup,…

"The one thing saving our society from chaos is that none of these other suffering groups would conduct a similar blockade because they are committed to an ethic of care."

Cllr Dermot Lacey suggested in a council meeting that the reason that the South East sees disproportionate investment relative to other areas of the city is that they have (his words) "better councillors"

Probably just a coincidence that there’s a shortage of rich people near there.

Crows remember human faces. For years. If you wrong one, it will tell other crows about you — and they'll harass you too. Even crows that never met you! This is not just a bird. This is one of the most intelligent animals on the planet. #birds #crows #animas #nature

The reasoning here makes me uneasy about government and civil service. “She’s not going to UK as first trip” Get over your post colonial inadequacies “UK and US not attending” well both countries have basket case leadership Eventually they admit it’s a reasonable place for her to go

It’s so impressive how quickly Jesse can produce new fully thought out outstanding lyrics.

Market concentration → Less competition → Higher prices for consumers → Corporate profits at record highs → Record stock buybacks → Higher shareholder value → More power for corporations and the rich. How do we fight back? Break up monopolies and rebuild union power.

The Govt actually supports the President's participation, something only admitted late into this weird recitation of anonymous grumbles.

O'Donovan loves to be the big tough no nonsense straight talking man of action until he says something incredibly stupid, and then he's all heyheyheyyy c'maahn I'm a little minister, I'm just a little ministerr, noo, it's also my birthday, I'm a little birthday ministerr somehow this always works

That's some take from Gavin Lowbridge. No wonder the far-right never go after the local drug dealers, they only go after 'foreigners'. The drug cartels that have ruined this island are idols to these bigoted scumbags. Daniel Kinahan is one of the greatest scumbags we've ever had. archive.ph/rwjqt

throwing flashbangs at the fbi director to rouse him from a drunken slumber

Escalation without a theory of victory isn't strategy. It's a managed failure playing out in real time.

Stop the Game #StopTheGame

#Hogsbreath is too stupid to be the Secretary of Defense!

🎨Georgy Kurasov

Baby elephant holds the caretakers hand while it falls asleep. 😴

An phábháil faoin bpábháil.

Lebanese civilians are crossing the Litani River to return to their homes in southern Lebanon after Israel destroyed the bridges.

Pope: [moral critique of illegal war] President: I am Jesus. Thr pope is gay Media: they are feuding😳

I can’t say enough good things about the medical team at St James’ looking after me. Three different doctors & a consultant pharmacist working with my private docs. All for free. So far only €20 for an emergency prescription that had to be shipped to Ireland overnight! We live in a great country*

I would simply not have placed the US military under the control of a bunch of dudes who think logistics and planning are gay.

HEADS-UP, IRELAND: A likely ICE flight has just landed at Shannon again, likely to refuel before delivering shackled migrants to god-knows-where. This is the same plane that sent migrants to Uganda — a country they had never been to before — on April 1. #spéirghorm

So the media is a bunch of villainous Jews and Trump is Jesus. I fully expect the NYT to sanewash this antisemitic lunacy. So far, they’re ignoring it.

My local church has gone all sciencey and it's quite nice

Apple chutney in the first stage of production

Well...

That train of thought paints many of these agri grievance protests and movements as political blank sheets with single financial issues as opposed to expressions of deeply conservative and often reactionary ideology.

Look at this incredible woman. Then think of Michael Healy Rae. Whose Ireland would you prefer to live in? Whose Ireland are you actually living in?

This is how 91 year old ladies protest in Ireland.

Friends of the Sacramento Library is offering these free for AAPI month I have read so much work like this, but this might be the single most painful one because, well, everything is local. I drive through Florin often (It's now South Sacramento), SF is where my mom lives, his dad was my age when

Flour comes from a plant, sugar comes from a plant, and chocolate comes from a plant. So, basically a chocolate chip cookie is a salad. Thank you for coming to my Ted talk