Old timey euphemisms for gay sex

I can't articulate this well at the moment, but it feels like a lot of our problems stem from the concept of organization becoming female coded and therefore considered kinda gay by society at large.

In a city that has literal building sized murals glorifying the actions of terrorist organisations.

This would be great in London

Montreal’s Bixi which designed the bikeshare technology Toronto’s Bikeshare is based on, now has rentable bike trailers. #topoli

AV, negative voting, (fractional) approval voting, range voting, D21, and Borda Count are interesting voting systems which have weird strategic incentives for politicians or voters in niche situations. To resolve this, I propose (half-jokingly) the random count system of elections. 1/🧵

Unionist/Loyalist groups are increasingly mobilising along general anti-immigrant. Northern Ireland is integrating with GB politics in the worst way possible.

Let’s talk about driver solidarity: whenever there’s a news piece or social media post about a driver clearly at fault for hitting a pedestrian or cyclist, other drivers flood the comments to justify the driver’s actions and victim blame the person who’s been hit. Like clockwork. Why is the case?

The NIMBY-industrial complex has given up on even bothering to write 'think-pieces' about actual attempts to build housing, and make up fact attempts to build stuff to be angry about. These people will never be satiated by any actual policy solution.

AC is SO MUCH EASIER to decarbonize than heating...we're already like halfway to carbon free AC in the US, while heat is like 10% of the way there.

Well, Well,Well, Not So Easy To Find A Government That Doesn’t Suck Shit By King George III

Should note on Azerbaijan: It is a horrible dictatorship that kidnaps, imprisons and murders any who oppose the regime. The fact that Azerbaijan is a Western ally does not change that fact. In fact, it should matter more to us.

Since Mamdani won the Dem NYC mayor nomination with a free bus proposal, let's talk about free transit. Research suggests that free transit: a—increases ridership b—doesn't get people out of cars c—benefits youth, elderly & low-income ppl d—doesn't add employment e—maybe ups operational efficiency

Honestly, y'all, this is the best of both worlds here, copyright is still enforceable, pirating training material is punishable, and this will likely force training to require explicit copyright licensing and push more models to be trained on entirely public domain/fair use sources.

I think Labour may be underestimating the electoral impact on them of London feeling a bit shabby, especially in ways that visitors notice (public transport and street crime). It acts as a shop window for Labour policies, whether they want it to or not. 1/3

As Toronto prepares for its first heat wave, it’s important to recognize the impact waste heat from cars have on city temperatures. Car traffic can generate up to 3 times as much heat as all a city’s body heat… even in cities where most people don’t drive. www.preventionweb.net/news/how-tra...

The "slavery was unsustainable" theories largely ignore that maintaining slavery was more desirable to the white South than economic progress. Slavery was a social structure more than an economic one; it's why poor white people willingly gave their lives to defend it.

Amazing to hear how much discussion there is over dangerous "e-bike" riding (usually always electric motorbikes) compared to the amount of discussion over the constant dangerous driving everyone encounters daily. It's so normalised we don't see it any more.

There are some big things driving social disconnection and undermining cohesion: but don’t underestimate the impact of smaller soulless, price of everything mentality things like this. Rather a society where traffic went a bit slower & kids high five the lollipop man www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Kathleen Stock turning into a firebreathing anti-choice campaigner is one of those things that was in retrospect both entirely predictable but is also just so funny to witness

This floating bus stop design in Vancouver,WA is one of the best I’ve seen for both bikers and blind/disabled transit riders. I’m guessing the large blind community there had a big part in shaping this. 4/

For me as a low vision biker, high contrast edges are important, especially- for instance these curbs on downtown Seattle are really hard to see for me. We mark car lanes with reflective paint, why not edges of bike infrastructure? 2/

I’ve been getting a lot of questions about what makes bike lane design accessible for disabled biker. First, making sure lanes are wide enough to offer clearance for a range of adaptive, family and cargo bikes! Crossings where car traffic is expected to fully stop! 1/

Not even nearly the same thing, but as a _sweaty guy_, there are journeys that I should be able to make by bike, but because cycling in mixed traffic makes it both substantively safer to cycle fast, and induces a stress reaction, I can't cycle and the Tube becomes even more overcrowded. 1/🧵

I intentionally make stuff look crappy because it’s funnier to me

"Following a thirty-minute meeting with Sir Graham Brady earlier this morning, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei will be making a statement on Iranian State TV.".

I’ve long said this but the actual applications for “AI” (LLM’s) which can return a profit are probably going to be B2B SaaS products or internal tools which consumers won’t even know exist. the *gross* margin on ChatGPT $200/mo subscriptions is still not profitable

I think the UK and EU have taken - broadly - the correct foreign policy position. But, it feels weird that we're not acknowledging that what's happening between Israel and Iran is a war, and that the EU is engaged in a proxy war with Russia.

Aaaand the Greens have lost my vote. Guess I'll be spoiling my ballot.

We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.

why is the president the only person testing the limits of his power? everyone should see what they can get away with. what if zookeepers gave helicopters to gorillas? nobody has tried this

A very simplified history of the Conservative party is that it developed out of the pro-monarchy faction, into a pro-aristocracy party, then into a pro-business party, supported by a pro-order, pro-system faction of the middle/working class who preferred stability to everything else.

It's been clear for a few years already that this is a post-Tory Conservative Party as radicalisation on right destroyed the last vestiges of the Tory tradition by 2019

Tolkien used hobbits to represent traditional English values. This is why Bilbo leaves his home, lies to a foreigner, steals his treasure, and causes a war which kills and displaces millions of people.

I strongly believe in a true abundance agenda: -Open borders (goods + people) -UBI funded by land value taxes -Zoning Reform -Gov't investment in renewable energy I think this agenda could make the country more prosperous with minimal market disruption/redistribution It polls at probably 12%

I might not have liked the season finale of Doctor Who or the overall plot but it really did have some fantastic episodes in its last 2 series run. Seeing a lot of mean comments being made about RTD, cast, & generally about DW but it wasn't that bad. It just needs a more thought out & clear story.

If you really think trans women playing sports is such a toxic issue for Democrats you should probably stop talking about it all the time!!!!!!

Why is *water use* such a meme? The legitimate concerns with data centers are the electricity use, land use, waste heat, embodied carbon in construction, job sprawl, and e-waste. Water use is a rounding error.

I can't blame the exact amount of people in a pithy blusky post.

She bigenerated she served cunt then she died

Imagine a #BetterByWard

While Robert Jenrick MP spends his days wandering about the underground tackling fare dodgers and going on about the capital for clicks... his constituency has a genuine problem. ● Newark crime rate: 123 crimes per 1,000 ● London 105.8 per 1,000 But you know... "Sadiq"

Love the bollards all over London

Not sure how I feel about this. Take the fictional characters quiz and post the first four you know.

In short, Starmer has taken a massive hit among Labour voters, for no gain elsewhere, while boosting Farage's popularity, including doubling his ceiling among Labour voters. I.e., the political scientists were right, Morgan McSweeney was horrendously wrong.

The fact that Reform's economic policy is Truss On Crack gets overlooked

Getting rents down in London means getting more homes available to rent. The easiest way to get more homes available to rent is to build more homes.

Rent growth is inversely correlated to vacancy rates. You see it everywhere, all the time.