traveling whaleburys

the UK government is introducing tax changes which will effect the motability scheme which enables disabled people like my bestie Jade to lease vehicles - the changes mean journey limits and black box trackers for those under 30, its draconian

please share and sign now to help stop this ✏️

Tee hee arm pump giggles.

Suspiciously tidy backpack!

I got tired of Substack platforming Nazis, white supremacists, and convicted rapists, so I made a browser extension.

Kill Yr Substack intercepts every Substack link and redirects it to `archive.is`. They never see your traffic. You still get to read the thing tho.

jasoncosper.com/kill-yr-subs...

Chart of 12-month rolling totals of world electricity generation by source, from January 2020 through February 2026. Over most of this time period, the order of the sources from largest to smallest was coal, gas, hydro, nuclear, wind, solar, other fossil (oil), bioenergy, and other renewables (geothermal). Wind generation has been rising, however, and solar has been rising even faster, so that solar surpassed wind in late 2025 and both solar and wind surpassed nuclear around the start of 2026. Data from https://ember-energy.org/data/electricity-data-explorer/.

Ember has (finally) posted world electricity data for December, January, and February. Based on the 12-month rolling totals from this data, the order of the 4th, 5th, and 6th place sources has reversed:

Solar 8.96%
Wind 8.87%
Nuclear 8.78%

🔌💡

Volvo's new trucks. Give 'em a moment to get to market!!

China and Europe are on electric trucks already. Charge in the time it takes for mandatory driver breaks.

Like my new sticker?

Runs on Aussie sunshine ☀️

No fuel stops. No price shocks. Just charge at home and drive.

This isn’t a drivetrain swap, it’s a system flip. From imported oil to rooftop energy.

Once the fleet scales, the economics break fast.

Cost always wins. #Bettrification

Mpg isn't the city problem with old combustion cars, it's the particulates in their exhausts. And air quality is already better in London.

Wait Mary Anning (fossil collector by the seaside, 💯) is in a Fate game?

URBANIST: [taking a selfie video] Hey folks! I'm here at the now-CAR FREE Pike Place Market -I'm walking around this iconic local spot without having to worry about BEING MURDERED BY A CAR -Notice how peaceful and calm everyth--ope! [they bump into another person taking a selfie video) URBANIST 2: Sorry! I'm just documenting how nice it is here without cars, for my urbanism blog! URBANIST 1: So am I! URBANIST 1: I have 2 words for you: retractable bollards URBANIST 2: Oh god yes [They make out in the middle of the road as people continue to walk by]

"Hot Urbanist Spring"
#DOOMLOOP #seattle #urbanism #pikeplacemarket

Biologically, when a man encounters a baby in the wild, he can and will eat it. After siring offspring, the man's mate or keeper will take care to smear them with a sticky, inedible paste, allowing the man to spend time with his own young without devouring it.

Ed Miliband to double down on net zero with measures to combat Iran energy shock As fossil fuel prices soar ‘the era of clean energy security must come of age’, energy secretary will say

I have a request in to Ed Milliband's people for a pod interview. If you have any connections or inside info, help me out! Put in a good word! Really want to talk to this dude.

I like the reminder here that a lot of cities have changed since COVID, and people might not even know about new bike lanes. Always like to plug CyclOSM 🚲
www.cyclosm.org
#bikesky

Giant yank wank tanks are silly. But that's a choice.

That new Honda kei thingy has a heated cupwarmer...

At least it doesn't pollute like the old ones.

do the thing

There is no other way of describing this other than to say that it looks like a very small sheep is balancing carefully on a wooden pole.

There was another exciting aspect to our hike today.

For years I believed that the Tiny Balancing Sheep breed was just a myth, as I've done so many walks and hikes through the British countryside and never seen one.

But reader, I was mistaken. And I have proof.

"Enshittification" is a very real thing with online platforms, such as DeviantArt.
If you're a creative, you can't think of any one site as your online "home".
"Home" is other people's awareness of your work, one built via communication.
Spread out. Post on every site you can.

Introducing:
Scarlet Skips !

Now I feel bad for not unclogging my roomba! Poor little dude!

HDBuzz is launching Fund the Buzz, our spring fundraising campaign!

en.hdbuzz.net/fund-the-buz...

So that's what happens to frozen water when it gets hot!

💖

Iconic! I remember doing a pixel version on my ZX Spectrum and it probably took all weekend.

We need some large ladies taking sledgehammers to Saruman's orb.

📬 Love badgers? Stay in the loop! 📬

Get the latest on how we're protecting badgers across England & Wales - straight to your inbox every fortnight.

Be part of the movement. Sign up today and join the clan 👉 buff.ly/pbzxgF3

📷@jorendejager

So that's why you've got a knife!