There's a global race to secure EV battery gigafactories & reduce reliance on China.
But not all clean-tech projects are created equal. Some generate good jobs & domestic capacities, others produce ecological harm & low value-added enclaves.
New paper & thread 👇
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Somewhere Bismarck is looking down in confusion as Germany projects power by sending 4,000 pensioners, 12 buffet stations and a TUI loyalty program through the Strait of Hormuz
#Straya #auspol #FossilGas @albomp.bsky.social @australianlabor.bsky.social
Support for conscription in East Germany (and amongst extreme right #AfD voters) is significantly lower because of the long standing impacts of pro Russian disinformation & propaganda.
Would you agree?
Good decision by French Open to ban cameras from private player areas after the #AusOpen player surveillance debacle
Iga Swiatek: „Are we tennis players or animals in the zoo?“
#tennis #AO26 #AO27 #Melbourne
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...
The incoming health minister of the future Magyar government, upon learning of the election results last night
(From Instagram)
Amnesty SG drags Kaja Kallas for her UN speech "lamenting the gravest violation and breakdown of international law since WW2"
It contained 10 mentions of Russia, zero of Israel, zero of the US
"The double standards inherent in Ms. Kallas speech are destroying international law"
🤣😵💫🤣
Tausende junge Menschen können bald wieder kostenlos mit dem Zug durch Europa reisen, denn die EU-Kommission verlost Interrail-Tickets. Die Bewerbungsphase bei „DiscoverEU“ läuft noch bis zum 22. April. Teilnehmen könnt ihr, wenn ihr zwischen dem 1. Juli 2007 und dem 30. Juni 2008 geboren seid.
💥🇭🇺With 95% of votes counted, Hungary’s map shows the opposition Tisza party crushing Fidesz 94–12 in constituencies. Péter Magyar has secured a 2/3 majority, asked President Tamás Sulyok and other Orbán loyalists to resign immediately, and announced his first visit to Warsaw.
People in the Budapest Metro, Hungary, shouting: “Russians, go home!”
#Hungary 🇭🇺🎉🤩🎉
The Strait of Hormuz crisis is doing something a decade of subsidies and mandates struggled to achieve:
making millions of people want an EV who previously discounted them.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The EU is sitting on €6.4 *billion* in grants for Hungary
With a likely constitutional majority enabling Magyar to govern with a freehand, I suspect that money will flow quickly
Ukraine's €90bn loan will also be approved
Hungary will now move into the European mainstream
Unbelievable heat anomaly unfolding across China — vast regions up to 16°C above normal for this time of year. The climate crisis isn’t future tense — it’s now.
Urgent action is needed. 2050 targets are too late. #ActOnClimate
#ClimateCrisis #Heatwave via @PGDynes
Time series showing Southwest U.S. maximum temperatures from 1895 to 2026, which is a long-term warming trend and record for 2026.
Sooooo, the Southwest U.S. was more than 5°F warmer than the previous March record high for maximum (daytime) temperatures.... 🫠
Graphic from www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monit...
The European Union is tightening the regulatory backdoor through which US automakers have been quietly importing around 7k large SUVs and pickup trucks/year. “The revised rules, expected to launch in 2027, are designed to close loopholes that Brussels says allow unsafe vehicles onto European roads.”
Beyond low income outer suburban areas, please don’t forget rural and remote areas, for which travel costs are even higher
@ptua.org.au #equity #PublicTransport #PublicTransit #springst
@richarddenniss.bsky.social, you should not be promoting Yanis Varoufakis, who has discredited and compromised himself.
#Russia
I still missed it - and it’s one of my big interests!
#ActiveTransport
When I'm not doing other stuff I listen to an awful lot of radio. This, by @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social, is one of this week's (and, indeed, the next three weeks') absolute must-listens. Really fascinating - and one for fans of @jburnmurdoch.ft.com and @naomialderman.bsky.social too.
Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google.
My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!
go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
You “don’t mind“ the Russian language at all? Does that mean that you feel indifferent to Russian, that you no longer relate to Russian as your native language, the language in which you are more proficient and comfortable?
It’s bizarre that @vicgovau.bsky.social can release an #ActiveTransport plan and keep it completely hush hush.
I only just found out!
@yarrabike.bsky.social
@streetsaliveyarra.bsky.social @portphillipbug.aus.social.ap.brid.gy @docsenvaus.bsky.social @3crmelbourne.bsky.social #springst
