This. Although if you want the real reason why "it won't work here" for the UK, look at how our planning process made HS2 the most expensive railway in the world per mile of track

US anti-high speed rail people: It won't work here because America is too big.
Me: [Points at China]
UK anti-high speed rail people: It won't work here because the UK is a small, densely populated island.
Me: [Points at Japan]

Critter, I presume?

I mean I spent 29 years in markets and know that second-guessing them is frequently, even generally, expensive. But the last time I remember this level of refusal to acknowledge disaster would be 2007-08.

If you're worried then I'm worried.

I'm back to, "oil futures prices reflect the best case scenario bc anything less is so bad that prices won't matter because contracts won't matter because force majeure."

Way smarter people than me think differently. I just can't find a way to agree with them based on what I see actually happening.

Beth worked as a doctor for years until a transphobe turned up. Now, she's had to leave her job, leave her home, move to the other side of the world and is still being hounded and harassed by the media and cult.

She did nothing but exist as trans in the orbit of Sandie Peggie.

Did Navratilova misread lesbian visibility week as an invitation to show her entire arse? 🙄

Tweet by Martina Navratilova. "Predator. That is how he should register. A sexual predator…" quote-tweeting a tweet by "Biology Rules OK" about Dr. Beth Upton, a trans woman

This tweet is highly defamatory and Martina Navratilova should be fired from BBC Sport for it.

It demonstrates an horrendous level of hatred for a trans woman (who was cleared of all wrongdoing in a recent tribunal) because she is a trans woman.

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Probably running GPS the whole time?

I would love Stonewall's to have an epiphany at this. If bigots approve of you, you're not doing your job!

But back on our actual timeline, they're going the way of the EHRC, and consigning themselves to the bin of history.

Telegraph newspaper editorial on Mandelson's appointment in December 2024 versus editorial today

Very sympathetic to all of this. But "removing all gas from the grid" is a very long-term goal. For now, I'm looking to Spain as an example of decoupling the price of electricity from gas ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

Pie chart: Do you actively avoid content you suspect is AI generated? 97.8% yes

Sometimes it's worth stating the obvious. People hate AI content.

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"you're not gay, you're just confused" but for trans kids, and enforced by the state.

"King Cnut can't win here!"

Context: Gender exploratory therapy "discourages gender affirmation in favor of exploring the potential pathological roots of youths’ trans identities."

GET is being promoted by the NHS. In denying trans identity, it is effectively conversion therapy.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I went and watched the segment on iPlayer. This is absolutely wild. It’s basically doing a free micro political broadcast for Reform during BBC Breakfast.

@brokenbanker.bsky.social relevant to your interests?

This is the most Democrat thing ever

"Evidence based" - so much to unpack there. So much bad faith on somebody's part.

yeah, as i posted last week; i just got back from China and in the big cities MORE THAN HALF of the cars (and all the busses and most trucks) are electric. i only knew of BYD, but there are at least a dozen or so other EV brands that I saw.

There’s a real disconnect in anglosphere discourse because a lot of it centres in the US where people aren’t seeing Chinese EVs at all, while much of the rest of the world is

I stared at this photo *way too long* wondering when they jettisoned Orion's heat shield - and how they found it on the seafloor - before I realized the divers took the photo looking *up* at the bottom of Orion.

It bears repeating that historically, the #1 thing that keeps people alive in hard times and disasters is “the ability to play well with others”

Seal-point ragdoll. Goodbye Ziggle. We'll miss you.

Thank you. She was 9yo. Brain tumor. Had an operation to remove it but just too much to recover from 🙁

🫂 I understand, but sad to see you go. Take care of yourself.

Just had to say goodbye to our cat 😔

it was perhaps my naïve hope that this was going to be a short lived account when I started it.