A cat ran out in front of my car earlier, no warning, just shot out straight in front of me ... 😲
I was able to stop in good time though, because I was doing 20mph, because that was the speed limit, because of cats and children.
So there you go.
My entire childhood, I was told that America was innovative. However, we have had multiple decades of lead time abt climate change and renewables, and our business and political communities have spent more time, energy, and money blocking innovation than fostering it. 🥺 We are being out-performed.
Today’s unwanted take:
When walking or biking, if a driver properly yields right-of-way, I give the little thank-you wave.
No, it’s not required, you do you. Yes, everyone should do the bare minimum. But I believe in positive reinforcement and moments of social connection.
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
Good. It’s easy to forget that climate change denial & shilling for fossil fuel companies provided a template for Tufton Street, Brexit & pretty much every egregious example of persuading populations to vote against their own interests. The story of Don Pearlman should be taught in kindergartens…
Sorry. Maybe I’m just tired…
But I don’t think there’s anything funny about any of it. Our politics has become a total minefield… so much damage done by some really nasty and incapable people… the very worst of whom - Farage’s lot - stand to gain from the mess. And Labour will fail to learn. Again.
In February 1777, General George Washington ordered the first mass immunization campaign in American history by mandating that his troops be inoculated against smallpox. He protected the Continental Army from an epidemic that was deadlier than British forces.
249 years later, we have this idiot.
Starmer’s handling of the vetting story has somehow become a bigger problem for Starmer than the vetting story. Extraordinary.
I think it's more of a character thing. A friend likes to arrive and just walk on to the plane. I'm appalled - what if the M25's blocked? I hate airports but arrive hours and hours early, find the quietest, most expensive bar and sit with eggs Benedict and champagne for as long as necessary.
The EU now requires all Mobile Phones to be sold with easily replaceable and standardised batteries, as they used to be.
From 2027 they all will be again, in Europe.
EU: The European Union will require sale of mobile phones with “user-replaceable and longer-lasting batteries” starting in 2027.
The regulation demands “availability of spare parts and manuals for 10 years to curb planned obsolescence”.
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.
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I'm sure the people who could actually remove him know perfectly well what is the situation is - but they're profiting greatly from letting him just carry on, so hey, why disturb a winning streak, eh?
Pure speculation on my part, but if I were Olly Robbins looking to override the vetting process, I’d be WhatsApping Morgan McSweeney.
Not for a green light, but an imperceptible nod.
ENDS
#RISEUP We must be what they fear. The #USA is an evil Empire of corporate interests. There is no republic, no great leader coming to our rescue. Just regional managers as far as the eye can see.
Important story - few will be surprised, but the detail is fascinating.
It began with coal and steel. But from the very start, our Union was always meant to be much more.
75 years ago, in Paris, with the signing of the Treaty of Paris, Europe chose a different path.
One of unity over division, of peace over war.
Nothing like enough. And anyway, on that basis the EU wouldn't have us back
That the president of the United States is personally looting the treasury to the tune of literally billions of dollars and that he is not being immediately removed from office and tried for high crimes against this country is a devastating indictment of every part of our political system!
I don’t think this is enough.
In fact I think when politicians or other such people go on radio or TV and make grossly 8na curate statements like this they should have to appear again in the same programme and time slot to be publicly corrected…and cannot go on (BBC etc) until he or she complies.
Tipping point?
"New electric cars now cost £42,620 on average, compared with £43,405 for petrol models."
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Thank Christ someone who understands the nuts & bolts spells this out (as @iandunt.bsky.social certainly does : see his book “Brexit: What the hell happens now?”)
The rest is a distraction.
If, as is probably truth of matter, Mandelson was to be appointed Ambassador, come what may, because Trump was a sui generis problem which needed addressing in a sui generis way - a Trump-whisperer - then PM should just say that.
The faultlines are developing from pretending that was not the case.
Because there are too many Americans who are ignorant, stupid or corrupt. As soon as that changes, he'll be got rid of.
I doubt if they have a chance of winning. I've never voted Tory in my life, but I'd do so without hesitation if there were a two way fight in my constituency between Con and Reform. Meanwhile I'm just hoping they continue to split the right-wing vote between themselves
Isn't it lovely? Wish I could dance as well as that
The nervous politician overcoming the sensible economist. A bit sad really
Provision of suitable infrastructure should (obviously!!!) be the starting point of any development contract (along with ground/air source heat pumps). Corruption, indolence, ignorance and lack of funding defeat the whole thing. It's an outrage; one despairs
Critically developers need to deliver the community infrastructure before they are allowed to sell more than, say, 50% of their houses.
At the moment grandiose future promises are made but never delivered, thanks often to extremely weak planning enforcement.
I just spoke again with Prime Minister-elect Peter Magyar.
Hungary has returned to the very heart of Europe, where it has always belonged.
This is, above all, a moment for the Hungarian people. For their voice, their dignity, and their future in a safe, prosperous Hungary inside a strong Europe.