New CMO report out today on health trends and variation in England. My team delivered this using a RAP developed in R, which made a nice change from lots of people running around putting numbers into excel then pasting into powerpoint... Was not without challenges though! www.gov.uk/government/p...

Nonetheless, this is a remarkable piece of writing. I haven't posted all the best bits here. Go read it. And congratulations to you, @kerryhowley.bsky.social!

Had a great conversation with @edzitron.com - check it out!

Turning worn out pavements into works of art: more of the mosaics set into damaged sections of the footpaths in Queen's Park in Glasgow. #glasgow #queenspark #mosaics #ceramics #tiles #tiling #streetart

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

🎧🎵🎶 rise and shine 🌞 #musicsky youtu.be/GPTY6l_PX5k?...

📈 Cargo bike use in London has doubled over two years! 🚲 A win for clean air - but diesel vans are the #1 source of NOx in central London. 💡 Authorities must back residents & small businesses with grants and secure storage for cargo bikes to keep momentum rolling. cleancitiescampaign.org/carg...

On anti-Faragism, the point of the Lib Dems and Ed Davey finding himself unmarked in front of an open goal www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I have expected neurodivergent people to find themselves increasingly presented as a new culture war target for a while now, since I started noticing a lot of morbid fascination with autism and ADHD in anti-trans circles.

It's weird - but now in Oslo, there's so many EVs that you notice the noise and the smell from individual ICE cars, and you realise how much we've been normalising it for ever. You can smell them half a street away. And inside parking lots are just *quiet*.

But how is her strudel? bsky.app/profile/knif...

"Tax the rat farms" said Vetinari

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While the early microcomputer era allowed you to get dozens of pieces of software for a very low price right from your newsstand or library rack, there was also inevitably errata to follow - unless you did painstaking bug hunting yourself.

UK energy regulator Ofgem has picked 77 "super battery" projects - Li-Ion batteries, flow batteries and pumped hydro storage - to support peaks and troughs in wind and solar power And hopefully, to cut constraint payments to windfarms (£1bn+ in 2024) ofgem-newsroom.prgloo.com/news/super-b...

It’s clear that the cruelty is the point. Anything to distress, frighten, undermine, create divisions. And the answer has to be to say ‘no’, ‘never’, not ‘this wouldn’t work’. Anything less is complicity.

Repost for Irish Film Classifications by Damien Owens, because it's just come up in FB memories and it's still *brilliant*.

#geos 🤔😅 https://youtu.be/TCobr35ddJI?si=CFONo8k_chTdp16l

Bill payers to back 'super-battery' projects Long-duration energy storage (LDES) is hoped to address the problem of intermittent supply from wind & solar, which often produce excess power that can't be used at the time nor stored for later ✍️@pkelso.bsky.social news.sky.com/story/energy...

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the bone farmer, revisited | patreon.com/lubchansky

Small boats: TV coverage - day after day after day after day.... PPE scandal: TV coverage - let's stick this powerful, enraging documentary on at quarter past ten on a Sunday night.

Yes. Two related points: 1) it’s incoherent to say that all speech—even if incorrect, scientifically inaccurate, cruel, or fascist—furthers the marketplace of ideas, except one kind of speech uniquely: “that guy is racist and should be fired,” which is special bad speech that ruins the marketplace…

Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum. This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.

Everything about this headline is hilarious. And the YouTube views are a reflection of how wildly the right has overblown the number of people paying attention.

If you love the song “Me and Bobby McGee” you absolutely must read @elongreen.bsky.social on the life of the woman who inspired the song.

I’ve been working on this for a while. (I tried to find Bobbie more than a decade ago and failed.) Please do give it a read.

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Today we biked to the soccer game, biked to the light rail, took the train to the birthday party, and will light rail + bike home Putting a cargo bike on the light rail is the best life hack and all transit should be built for this All parking garages need bike cages that work for cargo bikes too…

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"They shrank their audiences" Keep in mind that with rare exceptions I cross-post the exact same info/links across all 5 platforms at the same time.

"New surveys by Sayer’s team have revealed that 22 of the ghost ponds restored since 2022 now support 136 species of wetland plant. This represents 70% of the wetland flora found in more than 400 ponds on ... an internationally important nature reserve whose ponds have survived since the ice age."

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Jarvis: I hate to say this to my friends here at CNN, mass media is dying, so they're taking the last of these vestiges of institutions that matter and they're trying to turn them into propaganda organs under threat from the head of the FCC

If you told me the most stacked sports team, with billions in funding, found a solution to dramatically improve performance? I’d be sus If you said the solution was a mic yelling random instructions, I’d call you delusional If you said the training data was mostly middle school pickup games? Bruh

So, Generative AI is a stochastic parrot regurgitating the average of all the world’s most mediocre code… Yet, somehow, the “upper elite 1% of talent” is getting massive productivity gains from it? To the point where Elite Performing tech corporations mandate it? That doesn’t add up

I'm enjoying how little YouTube Music's AI is understanding what music I'm playing

Brand new recipe blog post - it's a creamy, tomato, Italian sausage pasta dish. snigskitchen.blogspot.com/2025/09/ital...

Felony murder charges are how police departments make a truly *staggering* number of deaths caused by police during police pursuits look smaller overall. The police aren't charged with the death: the person they were pursuing is.

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.

As happens with every. Single. Pilot. Program. That ever looks at anything akin to UBI, it is cheaper to just straight up help people get to a modest financial baseline than to deal with the outcomes of not helping people in poverty. It’s not news until we deploy it at scale.

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NEW: Britain’s fiercest libel firm, Carter-Ruck, acted for the $4bn OneCoin fraud and threatened its critics. Now they’re being prosecuted at the SDT. Their response? An anonymity order to cover it up. But Carter-Ruck just lost that order - and it's all coming out. Thread

Trump censors. Read @adapalmer.bsky.social who makes the point that censorship is made visible as a deterrent, as censoring everyone is impractical, but showing people that they should avoid mentioning things that would be censored is a powerful way to shape behaviour www.exurbe.com/tools-for-th...

Evergreen:

The LRB takes the long view on the current political crisis, but it may not be enough to look back 60 years to a very different media environment @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/se...

Something really intriguing to me about this from a livable streets perspective is the potential to one day pair rail shipping with the use of e-cargo bikes and/or smaller trucks for last-mile delivery in urban areas. Reducing 18-wheelers in our cities is a huge win. cc: @velospence.bsky.social

I have dealt with my BIG FEELINGS about people saying mean things about London by writing this about 57 things I love in London. There were 100 things I loved, but it got too long for one email. London is inexhaustible. naomialderman.substack.com/p/57-things-...

This is all he said.