"growth growth growth!"

catching up with @nogodsnomayors.com and @mattielubchansky.com - do NOT think you got a Natasha Bedingfield reference under the radar, thanks for the sideswipe

Hidden in the controversial about UK "choking ban" proposal are a host of even more egregious proposals that could: * make camming illegal * redefine escort ads as pimping * render model contracts unenforceable * criminalize discussions of teen sexuality And a whole lot more ...

every single one of these emails is someone I already hate messaging a notorious pedophile to say "Thanks for the great time! I had fun doing pedophile stuff with you. P.S. Trump was there with us the whole time"

just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:

Gonna add to the pile and recommend "How Railways Will Fix the Future" by @garethdennis.uk , can't say enough good things about it. It's complimentary to Life After Cars. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/761930...

Honestly doesn't look bad given what it's for. ★★★★☆ #RateMyBuffers

Reserve a book from the local library and get a bonus nursery rhyme on the reservation slip. I’m going in @garethdennis.uk ❤️

This distraction is photographed just west of where an eastbound driver zoned out at speed and ran into the back stationery traffic killing a young boy in the back of a car.

In 2018 Jesse Singal's story about how scary it is that trans kids exist dominated the front page of the Atlantic while stories about the lethal effects of white supremacy and our lack of pandemic preparedness sat up in the corner.

Ignoring the pathetic, tragic jingoism of popping a bunch of nylon flags on the posts of road signage along a bypass, but these are such obvious hazards it should genuinely merit a national restraining order on the flag twats.

We can’t afford to do what every other country did years ago for our railways, but people need to drive their kids to school in a tank

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

Excellent essay here on the slow strangling of mass literary culture in the West - most clearly in the US, but it's obviously happening here too

Grim re supply chains and skills investment 😞

When Green party critics call our thoroughly researched policies that are often worked through for years "simplistic" "undeliverable" etc, they are never specific about which policies or why. That's because it would reveal that what they really mean is "our donors don't like them"

The ability to convince capital markets to hand you a trillion dollars on the strength of obvious bullshit paired with the inability to get a single human to sincerely and spontaneously say they love you is some real punishment of the gods shit.

LET'S GO 🏳️‍⚧️

Sharing this for my York comrades @yorkgreens.bsky.social good opportunity to visit and do something for your social media in solidarity

It brings me immeasurable pleasure and joy to announce that the UK Labour Party is entering Cuomofication

At a time when Labour are failing to deliver on one of its key promises the Guardian publishing this drivel as an “exclusive” tells you more about the Guardian’s client journalism and how desperate the Labour right has become than anything else.

If you're in York, head down to St Helens Square for 1200 🚨TODAY 🚨 to join a big pro-trans rally. Get your raincoats on, get out and get loud - we'll be there, it would be great to see you there too! 💚🏳️‍⚧️

This isn't just poverty of aspiration, it is incompetence. www.ft.com/content/5ecd...

doing battle with my local briefcase boy MP on twitter dot com

broken Britain latest

this is a problem

had very much soured on cask or "real" ale back home, but they just do it better here

Thank you, New York City. Together we made history. Now let’s get to work. transition2025.com

dawg not the steakhouse wedding font

The EU is winding down freeports due to money laundering and tax evasion. Britain is expanding them. Please read and share my latest article on Substack 'The Magic Money Tree: How Brexit Unlocked Britain's Corporate Welfare Bonanza. It is absolutely explosive. open.substack.com/pub/european...

"The Communication urges Member States to assess and plan" "the Communication sets the ambition of significantly cutting the duration of popular rail journeys across Europe" That's going straight in the metaphorical back cupboard to be forgotten in Member States transport ministries

today's Labour party posting versus yesterday's Labour party posting:

This good stuff right here is why boomers are so desperate to stop millenials from entering the political arena. They know we are gonna start doing good things as soon as we get in there, and they would rather destroy the world and die rich.

Dick Van Dyke has OUTLIVED Dick Cheney

“Why should trans people build their lives in a country which continues to demonstrate its hostility? Unless the government takes urgent action, the threat won’t just be to trans people’s human rights, but also to our economy as we make life harder for business, and drive talent away.”

God showing biologists this after the proboscis monkey:

NHS Sussex are forcibly detransitioning trans people. These patients need full restoration of their healthcare, and everyone involved in doing this needs to be sacked.

I sometimes have chats with NHS managers about how to “restore trust” and it’s amazing how poorly they react to the suggestion that people who harm patients should lose their jobs.

Cars the U.K are up to 55% larger today than they were in the 1970s and there are twice the number of motors on our roads as there were 30 years ago, but anti-Low Traffic Neighbourhood and anti-cycle lane campaigners keep claiming they 'cause congestion'. Okay.

The government spends £2.7 BILLION a year on TAX BREAKS for oil and gas companies Those companies pay billions to their shareholders And then lay off their workers Think that's unfair? Tell Rachel Reeves to stop propping up oil and gas companies and back workers instead…

People can call that "name-calling" but if you lived in a street where the far-right felt they could canvas you door-to-door and watched your agemates grow up to be actual far-right politicians then it feels a bit rich to be told "you just don't get it". Honestly - I wish I didn't.

I’ve been warning families in Gaza for a few weeks that the shutdown/ end of SNAP benefits in the US may really impact their fundraising but I gotta say I’m surprised how stark it’s been. Really says something too about who has been donating 💔

Wise words from @garethdennis.uk and some stunning images out of Sydney.

The Amazing World Of Tomorrow

People can and should have nice things. If someone writes a report saying "we build transport that is too nice and that's why projects are expensive and that's why we don't build more of them" then not only should their analysis be discarded as junk but they should be pilloried.

man admires Deltic

two cool train guys with a cool train

at York Tap