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build wind farms and solar arrays write bad poetry RT *everything*
well, you can actually breathe the air in major cities these days. that's a plus, imo.
Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 16h agoFood, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.
the level of “…all I said was ‘do you want the meal deal or just the burger?” in that Roisin Murphy tweet tho
David, in Brighton, in 2026@davidbtn2.bsky.social · 2h agoOk, so Madonna who's attained a level of success, wealth, critical acclaim and global adoration from the public and her peers that Roisin Terfy could only dream of has jumped on the 'TQ bandwagon'? 🙄 This same Madonna who in the 1970s was dancing with us in underground queer NY nightclubs... 1/
So this is just a call to violence, right? Just because Falkner is appealing to prosecco stormfront doesn't make this any less of a 'guess someone's going to have to take matters into their own hands 👀🤐' comment.
Kittie 🖤🦝@tenredpencils1.bsky.social · 10h agoI just have a piss & wash my hands and leave
If the Burnham government wanted a REALLY ambitious target to improve the life of the nation, it would be "Solar panels & aircon for your home for five grand, AND we'll lend you the money interest-free", and then building the infrastructure to deliver it.
Dave Andress@davidandress.bsky.social · 6h agoThe thing is, you can right now if you want have a combined solar/aircon install that will mean you are pretty much in profit on electricity generation forever after, and safe from a heatwave. But you have to own your home, & have five digits to spare.
They're using our money to buy the world, so they can continue ruling over it as the tyrants they are, even when the oil's finally gone.
Kate Mackenzie@katemac.bsky.social · 5h agothe thing is how it's just mentioned in passing that these rich petrostates are going hard to guarantee their post-oil economic security; like it's hardly worth elaborating upon and yet it's very significant in the context of more, er, 'frontier' petrostates, or indeed oil demand
pretty standard Sprung Structure, but it was briefly the only place on earth you could see people in Stanford sweatshirts assembling cars by hand (see top middle photo) www.sprung.com/projects/tes...
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in 2016 Elon Musk said he would build a fully automated factory in Fremont, California for the upcoming Model 3 and he then spent on the order of $2 billion on production lines that didn't work, forcing Tesla to assemble cars by hand in a tent but sure, now he's gonna do it on the moon
I'm as shocked as you are, dear reader, that the leader of the Conservative Party would omit to mention or factor in the 11,651 prison places that were closed over the same period due to either prison closures or cell dilapidation.
Full Fact@fullfact.org · 5h agoAndy Burnham has claimed only 500 prison places were added between 2010 and 2024, but Kemi Badenoch says the Conservatives created 14,000 new places. Can these two claims add up? We’ve had a look at the figures 👇 fullfact.org/crime/how-ma...
andy burnham could've stopped this btw
Equality and Human Rights Commission@equalityhumanright.bsky.social · 10h agoOur code of practice for services, public functions and associations comes into force today. It provides practical guidance on how the Equality Act 2010 applies to services, public functions and associations. Find out more: https://ow.ly/alIf50Zwrkx
Premier League Season Previews are back, covering all 20 clubs, out August 17. Last year, we called Cherki's £34m City move "a bit of a heist" and said Reijnders' £50m fee wasn't worth it. Cherki had one of the league's best creative seasons; Reijnders didn't back his fee. We got both calls right.
Hesiod, again, understood himself living in the Age of Iron, which succeeded the Age of Bronze -- something he meant both metaphorically and also quite literally. He didn't know that we'd eventually have an Industrial Age, of course, but he did know about the iron.
Rape is the central pillar of the right-wing agenda, the right to terrorize other people in the most intimate way possible.
Task & Purpose@taskandpurpose.com · yesterdayArmy ends anonymous reporting for harassment complaints trib.al/oQU93m2
Also the discussion of how Homer was no stranger to the Rule of Cool (honestly I think the Rule of Cool was probably invented by the first person to ever tell a story to another person).
Murderous heat, an endangered food supply and no net zero: this is the life the radical right wants you to have www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Murderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George Monbiot
As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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We're literally just letting the richest man in the world commit vandalism on an extraplanetary scale.
SpaceX rocket thought to have crashed into the moon in unintentional collision
Four-tonne piece of SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket believed to have hit lunar surface on Wednesday at 5,400 miles an hour
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If you don’t like it, well, anyone is free to pay Tufton Street lobbying firms or the Tony Blair Institute to represent their interests, stoke up a series of national media panics and then force through whatever crazy measures they want. And what could be more democratic than that?
Once you know this, it makes perfect sense that the national equality body should be a little death-star full of vicious crackpots and roaring wingnuts that floats around the country zapping transgender people for Rupert Murdoch, and so on. That is just how Britain works.
It’s not that Britain doesn’t have regulators and other oversight bodies. We do have those. It’s that these are politicised bodies tasked with helping the right sort of chaps to get away with whatever horrifying shit they want to do this week, while providing a thin veneer of public accountability.
To explain for foreigners: our energy regulator rubber-stamps price rises; the water regulator tuts while rivers fill up with human shit; the press regulator wags an occasional finger, and the national equality body enforces press campaigns against groups of people they hate and wish to damage.
flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 9h agoBritain, where the national equality body is a boobyhatch jam-packed with wingnut cranks who fervently believe their job is creating weapons for police to hammer minorities that the press hates and wants to harm.
Embittered Raisin Won’t Shut Up About How It Could Have Been Wine https://theonion.com/embittered-raisin-won-t-shut-up-about-how-it-could-have-1827840677/
Heccy B is such a great lad. Was never the same after that knee injury but glad to see him playing and happy at Betis.
Sid Lowe@sidlowe.bsky.social · 8h agoWhat a pleasure it is to speak to Hector Bellerin. Today he plays against Arsenal, his Arsenal, for the first time. www.theguardian.com/football/202...
thus do we understand half the reason for the NYT’s seething anti-Mamdani grudge
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 16h agoNew York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
I worked on a proposal for the adjacent east chicago public library and had the privilege of learning about this building and its architect. good stuff.
Lee Bey@leebey1.bsky.social · 7h agoMy architecture column today. "Built in 1973, St. Mark AME Zion Church is one of the finest works of pioneering Black architect Wendell Campbell’s distinguished 50-year career."
this *should* be incredibly insulting, but. well.
The answer is, of course, that very little in British politics is actually real except for expediency and convenience. It’s not a double standard because *there are no standards*, and there are no rules that apply to everyone. There’s only ever what’s entertaining the lads this week.
I can’t believe we’re still having a debate about whether there’s a trade off between job creation and measures to green the economy. There isn’t. The evidence was clear years ago - a green economy creates far more jobs than the fossil fuel economy it replaces. Come on Labour, catch up …
Government contracts to require job creation instead of green targets under new rules
Louise Haigh says taxpayer money must benefit local communities amid backlash from environmental groups
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