20 years for refugees to settle. 20 years! I am still shocked by how cruel this is. People who've fled war, famine or persecution will be kept in constant precarity and prevented from rebuilding a life free of the worry of being deported. Shameful, shameful, shameful.

To all those who celebrate (and I mean CELEBRATE)

We're just normal men@wejustinnocentmen.bsky.social · yesterday

We’re just innocent men (10-year, non-Monday anniversary edition)

Make the Patient Griselda rise again!

c.c. o'hanlon@ccohanlon.bsky.social · yesterday

The wooden, 28-foot, gaff-rigged Patient Griselda, a boat I've loved ever since I first saw her in the south of England, four years ago, is being sold for just £200 by the Dart River Harbourmaster: "She's very nearly due to be scrapped." Heartbreaking. www.dartharbour.org/about-dart-h...

ARRESTS ONGOING After almost 6 hours the Met Police have arrested less than 200 of the around 400 people holding signs outside the US Embassy in London. This Trumpian ban is absurd, dystopian and unenforceable. Sign up at www.wedonotcomply.org

You definitely need a car to take a room's worth of laminate flooring to a recycling centre, right? #CarryShitOlympics #Quaxxing

The government would like the Thames Valley to have a mayor, but what does that mean, and which areas would it include?

Fuel duty is lower than it was in 2010 and drivers are still complaining because cheap fuel has enabled them to choose car dependant lifestyles. And now it bites. Not the govts job to bail you out www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I earn £30,000. I'm angry there was no fuel duty cut in the Budget

People on a range of incomes from £4,062 to £150,000 a year tell the BBC what they made of this year's Budget.

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Just imagine what we could have done with this money: finishing HS2 in Full, Crossrail 2, Leeds Tram, Bristol BRT, etc etc etc. And of course the knock on congestion savings might well have ended up saving drivers money.

Martin Price-Phillips@mpricephillips.bsky.social · 6d ago

A gentle reminder that the state's effective subsidy of driving an ICE vehicle, since Government lost any gumption to raise fuel duty in 2010, currently stands at £120 billion.

A gentle reminder ... £120 billion could do a great deal to improve our streets. @betterstreetsforbirmingham.org

Martin Price-Phillips@mpricephillips.bsky.social · 6d ago

A gentle reminder that the state's effective subsidy of driving an ICE vehicle, since Government lost any gumption to raise fuel duty in 2010, currently stands at £120 billion.

Unfreezing fuel duty to go up with inflation LIKE BASICALLY EVERYTHING ELSE would bring in billions Hell, just reversing the "temporary" 5p cut that's lasted through multiple Prime Ministers would really help but both are staying, aren't they? but at least motorists will stop moaning, right? 😜

Listening to a report about Google chopping down a quarter of a million trees in Finland to build a data centre while washing out yoghurt pots for the recycling

I wonder if the left are also more prone to emotional hedging: I have certainly bet on the side I think will win, but don't want before.

Josh Fruhlinger@jfruh.bsky.social · last wk.

so obviously a lot of ppl betting on the brazilian election on kalshi are trying to accurately produce the winner but a certain percent are either in right-leaning info environment or simply think betting on bolsanaro is equivalent to rooting for him so it skews the results

it's bc betting on elections is right-wing-coded, here to help

G Elliott Morris@gelliottmorris.com · last wk.

Brazil elected Lula again tonight. Poll averages appear to have had Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro effectively tied, maybe Bolsonaro up 1 on Lula — so not sure why the markets had this race at 80-20 Bolsonaro. Markets might miss big in the U.S. midterms in 9 days too.

Here's an idea for editors, let's do a little roleplay. Writer: "I have a contrarian take!" Editor: "Is it fucking stupid?" Writer: "Well yes, but it bucks the consensus. No one else is saying it." Editor: "Is that because the consensus is correct?" Writer: "... yes but... " <hang up>

I get obsessed with the stuff on grid.iamkate.com. Average UK wind generation for the past year was 10.95GW. On the 8th of December 2016, we first reached a *peak* of 10GW. Change is coming!

National Grid: Live

Shows the live status of Great Britain’s electric power transmission network

grid.iamkate.com

The only thing drivers understand is bollards. If it's possible to drive into a gap they will do so, no matter how stupid a place it is.

Owler Nook@owlernook.bsky.social · last wk.

Motornormativity latest. Newspaper and residents side with man who destroys planting because they blame the cycleway. www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/2666214...

The Government™ has made an ad about all these protests happening around the world, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

"why have they been hanging around for so long?" You ask? Well it's because their train was a Crosscountry, of course.

Every time I hear 'cycling enthusiasts' talk about how we don't need bike lanes because trails, etc... I imagine a racing enthusiast who insists that we don't need roads and parking, because they do most of their driving on a closed course track.

It would be such a shame if people registered under fake student addresses and the organisers had to individually check attendees

Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 2w ago

Tickets are available on Eventbrite. To minimise no-shows, Reform state “Please use your Oxford student email when signing up for this ticket. Non-student emails will be cancelled” – a surprising endorsement of cancel culture. Student emails take the form firstname.lastname@[college].ox.ac.uk.

ok but this is actually an appropriate way to honor Bacchus and i think the ancients would have agreed

CNN@cnn.com · 2y ago

Italian officials are trying to identify a young woman who was filmed kissing, humping, and grinding against a statue of Bacchus, the God of wine and sensuality, in Florence over the weekend.

Like, if you tell me Person A is more likely to follow the rules (but not 100%) and has a gun and Person B is less likely to follow the rules and has a pool noodle, I know who I'm more worried about.

Dread and Rosie@rosiemund.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The idea that cyclists are less law-abiding than drivers has been discredited everywhere it's ever been studied but also it's a deeply weird argument: if it were true, it'd still mean legal driving is statistically far more dangerous than illegal cycling? This isn't a good argument for cars?

Bad news for users of pavements: the Labour Government is making it easier to get an electric vehicle charging socket with no safe means of connecting it to a car. Expect even more trip hazard cables.

Anneliese Dodds MP@anneliesedoddsmp.bsky.social · 2w ago

This is great news for electric vehicle drivers who don’t have driveways (ie loads of people in Oxford). Glad to see the Labour government getting this fixed! buff.ly/0JgEBU0

It’s pretty funny to be called “elite” for supporting trans people by a cigar-smoking, champagne-swilling, yacht-owning billionaire, but hey, why shouldn’t we all bow to the opinion of someone not trans, not queer, not a doctor, not a scientist, but who’s really really rich?

Based on the information I have available to me, and the breathless non-working slop PoCs I have seen, and the fact that the actual bug reports all say “on the same worker”, I’d say eliastaylor.com/noexploit/ feels more likely than not

Obviously it would be really childish if loads of Oxford students booked out this event and then didn't attend it. I might ping my kids to see if they have friends at Oxford who would agree with that sentiment. It's important not to be childish, even though it's a form of free speech.

Adam Rutherford@adamrutherford.bsky.social · 2w ago

Offered without comment. www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening...

Important news of a sentient refuse receptacle variety.

Pub urinal at the centre of Count Binface's manifesto has been moved

metro.co.uk