“One of the misconceptions about autistic people is we take things literally” #KiwiPyCon

Confirming the obvious: neither "surprising," "new," nor "insight."

It makes me very sad that Tatiana Schlossberg has to spend any energy whatsoever on RFK, Jr. A true indication of how awful he is that his dying cousin is spending what little remains of her time on earth denouncing him.

Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…

Jeeves? Fetch me my good weed. I need to erase the contents of my mind. Yes all of the contents.

"I love you, but I love fossil fuels more." 💔 COP = Conference Of Polluters #COP #COP30 #EndFossilFuels

Farage can now be easily boxed in to a corner where his only ‘defence’ becomes: “Yes I spouted Kremlin propaganda & Putin worship but, unlike Nathan Gill, I didn’t need bribes to do it.” It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.

There’s some very bad news hidden in the Ofgem price cap for January announced yesterday: the electricity to gas price ratio has jumped to 4.67, its highest level since before the energy crisis. This is a big barrier to households adopting heat pumps in Britain, and threatens our climate goals

That was fun: this week I’ve deleted 40,000 old emails including a 4,000 unread emails.

I treated myself to a late breakfast in the Regency Cafe this morning so tonight I’m watching layer cake.

Just realised this is referring to a church in North Carolina and not the Welsh singer

There is no technology that gets better results than a good teacher.

This is misinformation spread by Big Tricycle.

I dare him to say that to her face.

I was called yesterday to assist a young woman who had fell off her bike. Residential street among council blocks. Almost everyone stopped to ask if we needed help. A neighbour produced 2 blankets, we stayed with her until the ambulance arrived. People in London Absolutely do try and help.

As an absolute minimum Southern Water should be providing staff and equipment to help clean this up. Why are they not legally required to do this? More, why have they not offered? Relying on volunteers using dustpans and brushes is not going to provide the best outcome.

Okay, I can't let this one go. I live in Ireland, not the UK, but the use of this image by a supposedly socialist party is so stupid and offensive, I'm going to get stuck in. Let me explain to you why any experienced illustrator/designer could have stopped you making so many miserable mistakes. 1/

Hmmmmmmmm

For my friend, Ian Marchant. www.youtube.com/post/UgkxBam...

I’m just really upset about this and I’m not gonna hide it. This meanness competition on display is dragging us all down. Our lives, our work, our families, our communities. Cruelty in, cruelty out! And if you think you won’t be affected, spare a thought for those who don’t have that privilege.

I came to this country as a child refugee. No English, no certainty, no idea what my life could become. Britain gave me refuge. Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots. A thread 🧵 1/8 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

358 bus being powered up by pantograph at Crystal Palace.

If the UK is on the brink of civil war, as Musk claims, it follows that in 300 years time there will be be a new generation of civil war re-enactment societies. "Geoff,you defend Laurence Fox. Can you guys shout outside a hostel. Brian, i need you to relentlessly slag off Nish Kumar on Facebook."

How do we, as a society, let companies get away with this behaviour?

This please.

But more to the point - offering asylum to people fleeing war or torture or persecution is what decent nations do. It's what defines us. Without that it's just a race to the bottom.

There's lots you can and should criticise the BBC for. But it's our BBC - and it's important. Great to speak to CNN - Donald Trump shouldn't have his hands anywhere near our public services.

It’s a dumb headline. The article itself records that passenger numbers are up and emissions per passenger dropped by 2% and emissions per tonne-km of freight also down 2%. If that took cars and lorries off the road then it was good.

There is. She's right. There are many differences, in fact. One thing that is entirely the same is that they are both children, and neither can give consent to an adult who is raping them.

Over 2/3 of primary energy is wasted as heat. The transition isn’t about matching that waste — it’s about outperforming it with efficient clean energy technology.

Friendly reminder that dishwashers made after 1995 or so are so water and energy efficient that even if you ran them twice fully loaded it would still use less water than handwashing the same load. So many "green" things feel like sacrifices. Dishwashers are not one of them.

What on Earth is this? An "in depth" BBC article about free speech in the UK that only cites examples of right-wing/ 'anti-woke' speech being suppressed. How can you mention Lucy Connolly but completely ignore Palestine Action / Just Stop Oil? Gob-smacking. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Another early start to the day after a restless night. But what’s this? The signaller has marked the down fast line at East Croydon as “no go”. That can’t be good even for those of us hoping to travel on the up fast line. The slow lines have up, down and reversible options but no rev for the fast.

Well that was fun. The lad came back from university for the weekend. We did walks around the village, chatted industrial history, cooked lamb chops and pork belly. We also did our thing of watching threaded films: Argo; Vice and Zero Dark Thirty.

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

It blows my mind that there are real people who see a post like this and actually believe the whole “Christmas is being cancelled by Muslims” BS 🙄 Let’s have a quick look at what’s happening to Sheffield so you can put your Express reading uncle’s mind at ease!😆 1/15 🧵

Captain Steeve, as ever, a voice of compassion and knowledge. youtu.be/CmXLQHhUtv4?...

hey remember when the Supreme Court overturned this election on partisan lines and also ruled that it didn’t count as precedent against them in the future and here it is 25 years later and people are still going around talking about “American democracy” like it’s a real thing?

My ask of any science enthusiasts who tell the story of Rosalind Franklin: Don't make her life be about the DNA debacle. She died far too young, but she was a promising scientist in her own right, a mentor and scientific author. Not for Watson or Crick, but for her legacy.

New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009

I’ve been awake much of the early hours so I’ve just got up to go into work early and try to do something with the day (night!). Balcombe station rather quiet at 05:50.

“We keep coming across problems that have already been solved” is exactly right. Endless ministerial enthusiasm for what rail commentator Roger Ford calls ‘bionic duckweed’ aka alternative traction technologies like hydrogen stems *entirely* from the treasury allergy to capital spending

Gates' subtle anti-renewables messaging, possibly related to his investments in small modular nuclear reactors, was well known, but this is next level: financially supporting a guy whose core business it is to argue for less climate action.

Can we please call this what it is, r*pe of a child?

Niche interest: 3 diesel engines and one steam engine at London Victoria tonight. 73107 and 73213 top and tailing a rail head treatment train. 67024 in Pullman livery and Bullied-designed Merchant Navy class pacific 35028 “Clan Line” top and tailing a Pullman dining train. I have to ride a 387204.

The Quiraing, Isle of Skye, photo by Yorkshire-based landscape photographer Paula Beaumont.

My name was Ozymandias, King of Kings. My name is now Ozymandias Mountbatten Windsor.

Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.

I've seen comments along the lines of why did the police not shoot the perpetrators of the #Huntingdon atrocity, because it's cheaper to kill them straight away than keep them 50 in gaol. Turns out, that may not have been a good idea...