@jim.londoncentric.media as you know…. E-bike injuries are a massive burden, say surgeons www.bbc.com/news/article...

@thecatreviewer.bsky.social exceptionally friendly cat in Nohedes, in the Pyrénées-Orientales, southern France. He even has a street named after him! 10/10 for local hospitality

Everything is too much for Monte

Clearly starved

Our report last night. Such a harrowing case - and incredibly sad one - to be in court at, for the hearing.

Google develops AI tool that fills missing words in Roman inscriptions

Final aside on big tech, btw: the data centre energy use to supply streaming for TikTok, youTube, Netflix, iPlayer, your smart TV , etc, *vastly* outweighs what LLMs use. As does the 'normal' AI power needs to sort search results, scoial media algorithms, online shopping, etc (for now).

This is incredible

Assuming the 10 billion figure is correct, that makes data centre usage is 27 million litres a day. Versus a projected UK shortfall of 5,000 million litres a day by 2065. So 0.5% or so of that projected shortfall. It’s just not a major part of the problem, at all.

Feline fans: A) Have any of you got your cat a cooling matt and b) crucially, does your cat use it?

Manchester United’s open-top bus parade in Kuala Lumpur after finishing 15th in the league followed by their defeat by an assembly of random locals is absolutely the ending this season merited.

The idea that people think these accounts are legitimately from Gazans is crazy to me. We live in an era of extremely low social trust—*except for complete and total strangers on the internet spamming threads asking for money*

Sea lions!

Come to Ecuador. See a black cat

At Madrid airport yesterday on a flight bound for Quito - a priest got on the plane, and as he walked down the aisle the cabin burst into spontaneous applause.

Britain's puffin population has received a huge boost - thanks to Brexit. Alex Thomson explains why, as the annual count for this vulnerable 'sea parrot' takes place on Northumbria's Farne Islands.

This is a great use case for generative AI - do give it a read. Also worth noting that it's being used to triage, not do the actual fact-checking. The humans do the proper knowledge work, as should always be the case (via @alic.bsky.social)

What's the carbon footprint of using ChatGPT? @hannahritchie.bsky.social answers a #QTWTAI Very Small Compared With Most Of The Other Stuff You Do www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/carbon-foo...

Monte in his bow tie to celebrate our wedding

An exclusive poll for the Channel 4 News Special 'Election 2025: The Debate' reveals 'none of the above' as the most popular leader choice with voters. Read more here and watch our debate with politicians and voters in Hull tonight, at 7pm.

Make streets safer for cycling, you get more cycling. Astonishing stats from the City of London: 🚗⬇️ Motor vehicles down by 34% from 2017 baseline 🚴‍♀️139,000 cycle journeys per day (up from 89,000 just two years ago) 🚲🕗 Massive cycling peaks at commuting times; bikes making up 56% of all traffic

Monte contemplating the plants

Wow! Biggest increase in cycling in the City of London since records began💥 🚲139,000 people cycling a day ⬆️ 50,000 more than 2022 ⬆️Cycling up 70% since 2017 ⬇️Motor traffic down 34% Building cycleways is working! Inspo for @citywestminster.bsky.social next door? 😍 More info: bit.ly/3RzS4FY

CPJ has issued a safety advisory for journalists traveling to or entering the US: cpj.org/2025/04/cpj-...

Volume Up 🔊📢 This is the sound of a Bus Gate working Hackney, London Fields

Bless them 😢 "Our centres are full of black cats which sadly no one wants to adopt". www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/2508220...

Europeans are cancelling their travel to the United States

Ever since AI took off, I've been trying to nail down one question: what's the climate impact of this technology? The initial impressions are not good. A new IEA report this week is the gold standard and shows emissions from data centres rising significantly: www.economist.com/science-and-...

A fantastic talk by @lindseyhilsum.bsky.social on poetry and war at @journalismfestival.com Really worth a watch

Fascinating thread on AI and climate. Read beyond the first post!

Fabulous talk with Lindsey Hilsum on poetry and war, at @journalismfestival.com

OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD! MICHELLE AGYEMANG WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!!?? Debut England Goal and an absolute beaut! What a moment! ❤️⚪

Monte’s attempt at yoga

A little while ago, my parents' cat Bridget went missing. As the weeks dragged on, they became extremely worried. My dad devised a way to distract himself: he began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up in some of art and music's most iconic scenes.

As the article (in thread) says, outsize SUVs cost the public purse more in terms of strain on the infrastructure & pollution, and are far more dangerous for pedestrians & cyclists. Yes, we should tax them and their usage heavily. Why on Earth should the rest of us subsidise this obnoxious trend?

In a _tour de force_ of irony, Land Rover this week announced the Defender Awards, which offers humanitarians and conservationists the chance to win a brand new SUV and £100,000.

It’s the latest Premier League stadium - could it be the greatest?.. Make your own mind up by watching our report inside @evertonstadium.com ft. @metromayorsteve.bsky.social ⚽️ 🏟️ 🎥 www.channel4.com/news/inside-...

Forgot I was on a phone call about council tax Them: What band are you in Me: Erm, The Charlatans Them: Your council tax band? 😬

I am quite tired of posts going "I asked AI <question> and it was wrong!" Of course it gets stuff wrong. It's not a knowledge engine.* Really feels like you're doing these posts for the clicks now. *The big general public LLMs are always going to hallucinate ...

Minimum wage for a 9-5 full time job (40 hours a week) is, as of today, £25,396 a year for anyone over 21. Which is why it's amazing to see journalism jobs requiring a degree, job experience, and driving licence advertised at a "competitive salary" of £22,380. tindlenews.co.uk/careers/jour...

‘Real dolls’ look so much like humans they have resulted in numerous false alarms when people have mistaken them for bodies

Come and work in my world-beating LSE department of media and communications. We have a couple of LSE Fellow posts open. Please share! jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

An unusual item has come into my collection, Mister Black’s Secret by Catherine Barr. At first it seems like an early example of ‘I can has cheezburger” speech but it was actually written in a shortlived teaching alphabet called ITA.

You can stand next to the Shard and find yourself unable to send a WhatsApp message. We ask the experts why central London is a signal black hole

BREAKING: After a ten-month battle our FactCheck team has obtained NHS data revealing 1 in 3 of England's hospitals are missing at least 10% of their planned-for nurses across their wards.

James Johnson, a pollster and political advisor, gives his personal reflections on a focus group conducted for Channel 4 News about the political swing in the UK. Read here:

A teenager who killed his mother, sister and brother had also planned to carry out a mass shooting at his former primary school in Luton. Nicholas Prosper, who has admitted murder, will be sentenced on Wednesday. Jamie Roberton has the details.

Germany to spend €1 trillion after an historic vote in the Bundestag. As @georgvh.com explains, half of the money will be spent on defence, in reaction to the looming threat from Russia. www.channel4.com/news/germany...

Who is Manchester United’s new stadium for? Very good oped by @edwinheathcote.bsky.social, noting it will be visible from Liverpool and “the gossamer tensile fabric covering with its pinkish glow looks a little like an overstretched strawberry condom” www.ft.com/content/469f...