Al Gore:
“This is the most corrupt administration not only in American history, but more corrupt than I could ever have imagined a president would be able to get away with to the extent that he has. It’s shocking to me.”
Thread.
Solidarity with Zimbabwe today
“The escalating repression of anyone who dares to question or even discuss President Mnangagwa’s ‘constitutional coup’ is alarming
The UK must use all diplomatic tools at its disposal to support the Zimbabwean people’s rights to human rights and democratic freedoms.”
1/ I’ve grown accustomed to seeing the aviation industry calling for special treatment, but this is something. 🧵
The many cyclists in our fair borough...
As we head full pelt into election season, it’s pretty😯🤪🤯to think how far things have come in @citywestminster.bsky.social . For decades, this borough was the "missing link" in London’s cycle network. In 2026, it is starting to become the heart of it. Here’s why the shift here matters👇
Number crunching: Iran war
From the new Private Eye, out now.
Breaking: New study using observational constraints projects that the Atlantic Ocean circulation #AMOC will weaken ~50% by 2100, even for medium emissions and without Greenland melting. 🌊
More realistic models means stronger weakening - not entirely unexpected.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
a chart showing 3 msft gas data centres vs countries
a chart showing 3 msft gas data centres vs countries
New @stand.earth: Microsoft's 3 new gas data centres will
- Increase Microsoft's emissions 160%
- Have higher emissions than power sectors of each of Greece, Ireland, Sri Lanka, NZ etc...
- Have higher emissions than pwr sector of 15 lowest-emitting countries combined
stand.earth/press-releas...
Thanks @carlafrancome.bsky.social for the pleasure of your company.
It was a great showing you around the amazing Royal Docks Corridor which has transformed Walking and Cycling in the south of the borough.
I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but London is utterly wonderful, and so much better now the air is so much cleaner
Some good environmental pledges from Magyar. He wants to end dependency on Russian energy by 2035, & double renewables by 2040. Plans to improve energy efficiency in 25% of homes within 10-15 years. Introduce strict enviro sanctions, increase recycling & stop supporting polluting foreign investors
Fascinating piece into developing research in human ability to withstand heat. We’re closer to physiological limits than previously thought. Rising temps threaten survival in huge swathes of Earth inc ‘top end of Australia and much of the tropics, but especially in India and the Middle East’.
Map of the Peak District National Park, designated 13 April 1951
Happy birthday to the Peak District National Park, designated #otd 13 April 1951. Originally 555 square miles of moor and valley, the 'great north roof of England.' It would never have happened but for one woman... 1/4
I did appreciate the Russian doll with Orbán on the outside and Putin inside at the Tisza party 😀
Schubert's Hungarian Melody, played by Andras Schiff, who has been refusing to return to his native Hungary under Orban (out of principle, and also b/c pro-regime elements were threatening to break his hands if he returned).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm39...
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/...
It's a good night to read this excellent piece, on the Orban regime's network of financial support for the nationalist right in Britain.
For many on the radical right, the tills are about to stop ringing.
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/orbans-brits
Kaine: "You don't sucker punch somebody in a bar and then blame your buddies when they don't join the fight with you. If the president wanted the support of allies, he should've respected them instead of putting tariffs on their economies and trash talking them."
An underappreciated dynamic of recent Hungarian politics is how several ex-intel officials and generals joined Magyar's team early on. Most professionally minded police, intel and army officers in Hungary just wanted to rejoin the big kids table in NATO and the EU
One thing I’m thinking about this evening is the extent to which the enormous bravery and sacrifice of the Ukraine people in facing down Russian threats - first electorally & subsequently militarily - blunted the appeal of pound-shop autocrats with a line to the Kremlin and revealed their corruption
The EU is perhaps also a factor in Orbàn not going down the Erdoğan route and simply arresting Magyar. Just enough space was left for this, because Hungary has some external checks & balances
Harsh, but…
Two recent studies have re-examined risk of birds colliding with rotor blades of wind turbines.
Research found that there was not a single collision.
"The results from Aberdeen Bay show that modern offshore wind farms can be operated with low risk to wildlife."
www.euronews.com/2026/04/11/t...
Another one who thinks the response to a global shortage of something which makes it more expensive is to subsidise people to buy more of it. Truly British politics is blessed with genius.
Apparently it’s National Pet Day…so here’s Donald Trump with one of his faves.
*embroidery
I intend to spend months dying on this hill.
