Share an 80s movie you will always love!

For me, the honour goes to Mad Max 2.

An electrical battery is a hell of a lot simpler than trying to store and transport liquid hydrogen a few degrees above absolute zero.

Cheaper too.

Cheap Batteries Are Taking Over the World’s Power Grids (Bloomberg) -- Around the world, a wave of mega installations of batteries are lining up to be connected to the grid this year — from solar hubs in Texas to grasslands in Inner Mongolia and the site o...

“We’ve now crossed into a point where anytime anyone is looking at investing in the power system, batteries are one of the most attractive options,” said Brent Wanner, head of the power sector unit at the International Energy Agency.

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Bar chart showing proportion of councillors held by each party from 2016 onwards.

Handy chart for anyone interested in local government (elections) in England and Wales from the @financialtimes.com

Palantir in the NHS is linked to Mandelson

Mandelson is linked to Wes Streeting

Wes Streeting is defending Palantir’s involvement in the #NHS

Nothing to see or everything to see

Palantir must be removed from the NHS

Yes that is weird. By all means use parking charges to manage demand...but then use the money to improve access to the hospital, e.g.

- Better public transport infrastructure
- New foot/cycle access
- Lighting and signage

People are less hostile to charges if they can see some greater good.

Car parking is expensive to provide. If a hospital spends (say) $10m building a new multistorey car park, that's 10 mill that cannot be spent on:
- staff
- medicines
- buildings
- repairs and maintenance

Also this uses up land.

No-one likes paying for car parking, but free parking has a high cost.

Will it be a drum and bass album?!

The new Paul McCartney album will feature a duet with Ringo Starr Paul McCartney recently announced “The Boys of Dungeon Lane” and released its first single, “Days We Left Behind.” On this record, he revisits his formative years as a musician, including references t...

The new Paul McCartney album will feature a duet with Ringo Starr

Wellesley St shops and bus stops.

Wellesley Street shops and bus stops.

Entrance to Elliot St.

Three more photos of Wellesley Street transit mall. It combines high-quality public realm with frequent bus (& soon rail) services.

As Mr Spock might* say: "It's a transport interchange Jim, but not as we know it."

*FAO any Trekkies on Bluesky I know that the original phrase is a misattribution ;)

Wellesley Street with buses and Civic Theatre, looking east.

People crossing Wellesley Street.

Person waiting for bus in Wellesley Street.

Wellesley St, looking east.

Better public realm supports better public transport which enables public life.

Auckland's Wellesley Street bus interchange is now complete.

Soon City Rail Link will be open. It will become the best-connected street in Auckland.

Well done to all involved!
#PublicTransport #UrbanDesign #CityCentre

Artist: Dennis Goris

How tragic that you could publish, then re-publish, then re-publish, then re-publish, then re-publish a cartoon like this over and over again...

The insurance industry is likely to make the clearest call for climate action...because perpetual disasters are *really* bad for business.

It's a capitalist take on the Gulag Archipelago. A major point of *that* book was that the USSR depended on the Gulag system for its economy and society to function.

America has painted itself into the same corner with its private prisons.

One of the many bizarre and horrible things in the USA is the system of for-profit prisons.

If your investors' returns depend on prisons being well-used, there will be all kinds of lobbying to ensure that plenty of people are sent to prison.

It's a warping of public policy to boost asset values.

Motornormativity, again.

There should be a law passed, and enforced, that we will no longer have for profit prisons of any kind! Ever again! Incentivized incarceration should be a crime against humanity and should be retroactively enforced! They know what they are doing is wrong!

Safe streets are a manifestation of transport planning informed by human rights.

NYC study shows men are 2.6x more likely than women to bike to work. When protected bike lane coverage is high, women’s cycling rates rise significantly faster than men’s.

When protected lanes are limited or fragmented, women’s participation drops sharply.

Good bike investments give women choices.

The perceived limit on the size of one's personal library was a trigger for many people.

From what I can gather, Marie Kondo *never* said: "You must have no more than 30 books in your house."

She said: Only keep the books that you actually like & give you joy.

I do this...and I have hundreds 📚 😁

I don’t think we talk nearly enough about the fact that corporations like Amazon, don’t pay a single cent to maintain the roads they use, the transportation system they use, the courts they use, they pay nothing for the infrastructure that is absolutely critical to their business.

WE Pay for

Cool. Does it say what did give JRR the idea for the scouring?

I'd heard that The Scouring of the Shire was an allegory to Britain in the late 1940s (see also: '1984')

Austerity, rationing and extra rules borne of six years of total war and a new socialist government.

For someone like Tolkien, this would have been likely to be quite a jolt from normality.

Indeed. Naming your company after the second-most evil object in LotR does suggest a longstanding desire to be Lord Sauron, who is *not* the hero of this story!

Healthy accountability is triggered by evidence, points upward at power, and happens in public. Disordered accountability protects insiders and aims its punishment outward. What the document does is argue for the second while calling it the first.

It's a good idea. Here in New Zealand car insurance isn't compulsory (which I think is weird) but we do have ACC which covers personal injury costs and basically eliminates the ambulance-chasing sector of the legal profession.

Yep. The principle of public transport as a public service was severely weakened by bus deregulation and rail privatisation.

People benefit from being able to get places. Who'd a thunk it?!

£300 would be a fairly cheap insurance policy these days.

Alan's 'James Bond' Schedule | I'm Alan Partridge | Alan Partridge YouTube video by Alan Partridge

Great idea!

Even if it does remind me of Alan Partridge's Bank Holiday plans 😅

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Text saying “CONSPIRACY: Turns out the REAL conspiracy was right under their noses the whole time.” Subtext says “ 1 Hour Cities are the Conspiracy. 15 Minute Cities are the Truth.” Via the Urban Truth Collective

Some very wealthy corporations and people want you to think the idea of “15-Minute Cities” is a scary conspiracy.

But it’s really just common sense. More things nearby without always needing a car.

But have you heard of the “1-Hour City Conspiracy?”

Stay tuned.

#1HourCityConspiracy #UrbanTruth