Yikes

"Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it" Or till the background is the street you grew up in. Hits home.

Carpool

I just learned about the "Divergabout" a mythical beats that is half Diverging Diamond, half Roundabout, and I honestly think that the North American road engineering profession is unredeemable.

"E-bikes are cheating," says man wearing a space helmet whose bike and components are made of ultralight materials designed by NASA and aerodynamically tested in wind tunnels for F1 racecars.

Climate change. Obviously. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

PSA - AKL Western line train stuck at Morningside. Wheels falling off, cant close doors or go anywhere

I want to see every train carriage & bus in the country plastered with this sign. Every wall. Every seat back. Hell, put it on the ceilings.

In East Anglia they even put their civic/ football beefs on road signs

Lighting the void

Morning all. Photographer Tony Ray-Jones. Weymouth 1968.

🎨John Bosley

Messing about with watercolour/coloured pencils/graphite sticks. Nice to turn the computer off sometimes

Timeline serendipity

One side obsession from my research into the 1920s is the extensive network of ELECTRIC trains that used to connect cities and towns across the central Midwest called the Interurban. We had this more than a hundred years ago. The things we had and the things we lost.

PERFECTLY NORMAL

Valuable reading for urbanists. pencillingout.substack.com/p/when-ameri...

Time we spent

Oh hey, the Tranzalpine is 25% off for locals in June, maybe I could go . . . Oh it's for Canterbury locals only 😑 Y'know Kiwirail, there's a whole other Region on the western end of the Midland line that might want to take the train . . .

Yup! Nice to see carmakers pushing back against this crap.

I would really like to see a "declouding" movement where consumers demand any software that doesn't strictly need to be in the cloud, be downloadable to run locally on their own hardware. The way that things used to be.

Sound Transit can halve the cost of light rail to Ballard and West Seattle by building them as a connected automated light rail line with slimmer stations, according to two transit experts who have launched the Sound Transit Now campaign. Guest op-ed: www.theurbanist.org/op-ed-reconn...

Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.

It makes perfect sense that 'car bloat' safety discussions focus on big SUVs & pickup truck But this NY Times essay complaining about how expensive our most basic cars have become also points out that sedans are much bigger & much more powerful than they used to be This is not safety neutral

Heat pumps are the most efficient heating technology ever invented. They harvest and compress pre existing heat in the air, ground or water and transport it where it is needed. That energy is all around us. And it does not have to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.

#sunset behind a tree! What a perfect photo!

If you read one thing on the fuel crisis, make it this: ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

Have to come clean here, I've rewatched this video maybe a dozen times today. Absolute cinema.

How to run a 21stC economy. #electrifyeverything

The BBC live reporting on the Artemis moon mission is being edited by Jenna Moon. Good morning.

“As you can see, it’s been brought to an entire standstill”. Except for the bike lane… that lady riding past couldn’t have been any better timed. 🤣

Price parity with diesel trucks, less service easier cleaner better www.abc.net.au/news/science...

‘Luggage’ is an everyday word I don’t really think about and then I realise it means ‘stuff I lug around’ and now I am very fond of the word luggage.

"Better choices instead of excuses."

The first national poll putting @greenparty.org.uk in first place (just) is an utterly extraordinary moment in British politics.

If you are scaring the extreme right, you must be doing something good

When bendy buses go wrong

... So that's a plus of at least £87 billion a year if we rejoin the EU. 😊 #RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺

Ye gods.

Electrify.

It's the inconvenience that I enjoy.

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This was so much fun!

Electrify everything

We have to ban these dangerous internal combustion engined cars. They keep going up in flames.

Vietnam ⬇️ "Vingroup has told Vietnam's government it wants to ditch ​a plan to build the country's largest LNG-fired power plant and embark on a renewable energy project instead, as ‌the Iran war has boosted the risk of the fuel becoming too expensive" www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

dashboard showing traffic dropping fast, and public transport up 11% in Auckland and 17% in Wellington. hormuz-458b0b.gitlab.io

”After five years of life, the diesel truck has its engine and gearbox replaced, and we think that’s the perfect time to convert it to electric.” thedriven.io/2026/03/30/i... #AusPol #EnergyTransition #EVs

Mike Casey spells out some obvious reasons and ways to electrify NZ. The current govt “got caught with its pants down” is charitable. youtu.be/X5RXdQyqikM?...