From noted Marxist newsletter, Forbes

To AC or not to AC is not the right question. The right question is how to reduce suffering and death from extreme heat. AC is just one tool. It is not a technofix for life on a superheated planet.

Yes, obviously it is suspended, but is it operating or not? Useless TfL app.

This is flat wrong from Unite. It’s just not true there’s been ‘almost no thought for jobs, skills and national security’. There’s been a huge amount of thought on all these issues and a decision has been made that jobs, skills, and security all benefit from a faster clean energy transition.

nobody in British politics seems to want to say it but the single biggest driver of their inability to keep a prime minister for any length of time is that Brexit was stupid and ruinous and made everyone’s lives worse

Exactly 10 years since the Brexit vote, the verdict is in.

"I have accepted Keir Starmer's resignation as my chief servant and have invited Andy Burnham to lay out details for how many meals a day he'll give me"

united kingdom politics, 2016-2026

I've expanded the graph. Personally, mine veers a little towards Coach Dad, but remains firmly in The Lawn Zone™

Anyone know if Robotaxis are being tested or scoped in Auckland currently? Saw a vehicle with lots of cameras on, labelled "test vehicle", carrying what looked like US plates in the Britomart area today.

Great playground. More please. www.nzherald.co.nz/world/what-t...

More seriously, new followers on here might like to know that I've been saying for over a decade that electrification isn't the magic fix for transport that a lot of people would like it to be: www.theguardian.com/sustainable-...

“The world is not going to be saved by big electric SUVs,” says Renault’s chief design officer…”The world is going to be saved by small electric cars. We need them to become as popular as other cars.” More small electric cars, but also fewer cars overall, driven much less thanks to more choices.

We could build an entire HS2 for the amount we’d lose through a Heathrow Expansion

Here's an idea for @andyburnham.bsky.social. Run on a platform to spend a few less billion on transport projects with entirely negative return on investment, and a few more billion on active travel projects which return between £5 and £19 for every £1 spent.

US: flexpost is infrastructure Lyon: how about adding an edge on top of the curb, just to be extra sure nobody parks on the sidewalk?

This is the way

Citroën Karin (1980)

@countbinface.bsky.social for PM Fabulous stuff

The latest ECMWF det. run, a model not known for overdoing max temperature predictions, has 38°C in the London area on Tuesday. If not for 2022’s event the national record for any time of year would be under threat. As it is, the June record could be well exceeded.

Three faces of the #Makerfield by-election. Campaigners from Labour, Reform and Restore.

This might be one of the funniest chart about energy scenarios I’ve seen. You can hardly see “actual” for gas

His parents must be SO proud. #WorldBollardAssociation

whoever this is, they are amazing

Retail giants join UK government drive to boost ‘plug-in’ balcony solar panels Asda, Amazon and B&Q among retailers in talks to sell devices that feed into household sockets and can cut electricity bills by 30% www.theguardian.com/money/2026/...

"why does everyone listen to music out loud on their phone now?"

Loch Coruisk

What if we just believed young people when they say it’s because of climate change and being broke?

#BusNews: Sunday saw the introduction of the 17 and 15 which replaced the 172 and the 154.

The sushi train cometh

at a loss of words.

Pre-delivery site visit yesterday. Suspended timber floor on metal screw piles, treading on the ground lightly. No concrete used on this project.

One of the dirtiest and most painful secrets of our publics finances. Sitting there in plain sight in the RBNZ’s accounts.

The great challenge of our age: How to redirect this enormous Boomer energy and power into aiding productive change at all levels, for people and planet, and not just trying to stop small changes?

PSA for local customers - warning, some stops are being closed or moved with no warning, and in some cases no information provided at closed stops. This also affects school bus routes. (Pic of closed stop, no information provided)

That’s going to be some consultation

the charcoals Hockney made in 2014, after a stroke, that show what it is to make something: you show up every day and look at it, wrestle with it, honestly. it’s in the doing. RIP to the master.

As suggested by @florianbonet.bsky.social I toured these "transit gates" in Quai de Pierre-Scize. To make room for boarding Island alongside the VL3 major bike route, the curbside bus lane + 1 car lane shrinks to a 1-lane pinchpoint at stops. Buses are given priority thanks to an actuated signal.

I am sooo looking forward to this. Frequent route = an end to years of watching the 6:45pm local bus drive off just as the train pulls in, leaving an hour to the next one.

Timeline cleanse. This will make your day.

I have seen the future

“Compared with non-active travelers, the cyclists had a 19% lower risk of all-cause dementia, a 22% lower risk of Alzheimer's, a 40% lower risk of young-onset dementia (before the age of 65), & a 17% lower risk of late-onset dementia.” Cycling linked to reduced dementia risk. #HealthyCities

I wonder if when Spanish people visit here, they marvel at & romanticize the highway interchanges, the 4 lane fast boulevards through our cities, the beg buttons.

Free and open to all. Today’s Chorus on how Aotearoa’s political economy actually works. It’s optimized for leveraged and tax-free gains on residential land values. Not GDP growth or housing affordability. #nzpol thekaka.substack.com/p/auckland-c...

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The World Cup is about celebrating exotic host nation cultures

Today is the first episode of YIMBY Country, my podcast miniseries about what happened after New Zealand legalized housing. It's a conversation with @philtwyford.bsky.social, described as "the primary architect" of the country's historic nationwide upzones. I hope you'll subscribe! Links above.

A new @pewresearch.org study finds that infill housing near jobs, stores, and transit costs governments ~$21,000 less per home to serve, cuts long term infrastructure maintenance costs in half, and generates 13% more in annual property tax revenue per acre than sprawl.