That's actually really bad, beyond the Green Party fighting against renewable energy stuff.

This requires both a writer and an editor who are too online. It also suggests something about their audience.

Somehow I missed this news. My BlueSky timeline is not doing its job. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Zohran Mamdani said he's going to start taxing rich people who buy luxury housing in NYC but don't actually live in there, and the former CEO of Twitter/X called it "actually one of the scariest things I have ever seen."

Millennials truly are gods chosen people

still one of my favorite maps

Sondage @pallasdata.bsky.social : « Avez-vous une impression favorable ou défavorable du chef du Parti québécois, Paul St-Pierre Plamondon ? » Détails → lactualite.com/politique/pa...

Today, Danielle Smith and the UCP caucus unveiled plans to rig the next election: A new motion indicates the UCP's plans to manipulate the election maps for the next election in their favour, and without any requirement to consult the public. This has never been done in Canadian history. /1

I genuinely forgot this movie was coming out.

Some interesting revealed preferences here

Paris announced on Tuesday that it will double the tax rate on vacant housing next year Estimates suggest there are 300,000 unoccupied homes in the city www.bfmtv.com/immobilier/u...

Nobody talks about the time when Razorlight got radiation poisoning from the polonium meant for Litvinenko.

This is much of the situation that the UK faces right now and let me tell you; it sucks

My problematic and often ineffectual post-war international order, what have you saved us from?

Fascinating paragraph from Scott Alexander, where he admits he’s the dog that caught the car

I believe it

Fucking hell, though.

The guardian article says a bunch of weird things but this is a key if expected insight.

This is a greatly overlooked piece of unethical hiring by Spielberg. While he went out of his way to find a legitimate T-Rex actor to serve as an important character, that same effort wasn't put into finding velociraptors, possibly as no individual velociraptor had a prominent role.

Turns out there are still novel findings to add to discourse about generational conflicts in politics.

(A number of our respondents got rather salty in the open-ends that we were even *asking* them about such a silly topic as dinosaurs, which just goes to show what we're up against as a society.)

The swedish anti-sketchiness force-field is powerful. sketchy.boats/9260823 sketchy.boats/9311622

American conservative politician Clare Boothe Luce converted to Catholicism in 1946. In a 1953 meeting with Pope Pius XII, she was fiercely lecturing the pontiff on the Church's moral duty to fight communism when the Pope finally interrupted her. "You know, Mrs. Ambassador, I am a Catholic too."

Dangerous bar chart to post as Ref+Con are at 49%, so the argument is that basically every single Lab+Green vote needs to swing to Lib Dem.

It's not as high profile as all the other failings of the last government, but the total collapse of the court system thanks to Chris Grayling is one of the most damning.

It's kinda interesting to think about how differently Justin Trudeau and Stephen Harper have spent their retirement years

It's perfectly reasonable to challenge ministers on N Sea oil & gas as a response to the energy shock. But this is the exclusive framing for EVERY interview on this topic. No minister or opposition leader is ever asked if they'll "max out" wind/solar. It's always framed as fossil fuels v inaction

I hadn't clocked that the NSW vs Vic fuel crisis response would be a great natural experiment to determine the effect of free public transit on usage levels, but it is. So far, the results are very much in line with the previous literature (ie it does sod all to drive modal shift from cars)

Everytime a new episode of Daredevil comes out I think about how in the 2000s marvel tried to argue that the characters in its action figure line weren’t representative of human beings (for tax reasons, long story) and the argument against Wilson Fisk‘s humanity was “fuckin’ look at him, he’s huge”

There was literally a pangolin that flew combat sorties with the CIA in a dirty war in Laos that then died after drinking too much gin, so there’s at least one pangolin whose record is morally ambiguous

This is more than legislation. This work is personal to me. theonion.com/illinois-bec...

Twink coded Gex can still happen if people want it bad enough

Don't hack phones

genuinely, this has been a big issue with translating Trump's comments without sanewashing into Korean for me (for other people, I presume other languages too). I feel like trying to do the most literal direct translations still sanewashes a bit and leads to this effect (assuming 4D chess)

I think the most straightforward way to see this is the extremely large increase in adult children living at home. The most irrefutable evidence that material conditions in the UK are significantly worse for 22-35 year olds.

Has the goal of fostering echo chambers been this explicit before?

On France’s shift to Linux. It’ll be interesting to watch the tag on effects: with the public sector preferring other products, what will universities and companies do? www.heise.de/news/Frankre...

I think this framing understates that the margins do matter, but it is essentially true, and the two priorities are heavily interlinked.

Every line a banger

Don't let paperwork pile up, if you keep your shredding on schedule you don't end up in situations like this.

This is NUTS www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-usai...

Huh??

This reminded me how furious I am that this government is simply not doing any more rail electrification, allowing all those skills to be lost so we have to start from scratch in future.

I worked on Crossrail 2, we met with many of the team of CR1 constantly and we had lots of design contractors from that scheme on CR2. The engineering director of CR1 was going to transfer over. That’s all in the bin now, if CR2 ever happens we will no doubt repeat mistakes

*sobs*

Have seen this old story gaining traction again, I assume due to oil crisis. It's interesting, but not a huge source of lessons. The secrets include have geography conducive to hydropower, and simply don't provide electricity to much of your population. www.independent.co.uk/tech/renewab...

after they do this, you'll explain to newcomers to the city that they used to just pile trash on the sidewalk and they'll think you're fucking with them and telling an obviously made-up tall-tale

The next Health Minister of Hungary.

It is absolutely incredible that HMRC thought (and still thinks) that it is acceptable to tell every sole trader in the country that they have to file digitally, but that HMRC isn't providing any means to do, that you probably need to get some software from somewhere, and that it sucks to be you.