“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.” (Last Chance to See)
“Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.” (Dirk Gently)
The year is 2054. Average vehicle speed in Cambridge is 2.7mph. Wild packs of driverless buses fight for dominance in Drummer Street. The results of the 2053 mass transit study will soon be released directly into the ceremonial shredder, unread, as per custom.
This is a comic about Dan Brown books.
The paint represents DNA bases and therefore the flaking paint represents the accumulated damage to DNA over time that leads to cancer and age-related diseases.
Definitely not just lack of funding or effort.
That's a pretty generic "circular multipole connector", not sure they have a particular name.
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You're in my neck of the woods, this is very familiar territory to me. Especially the long wait for connections! Once you get north of Cambridge service frequencies could really stand to be improved, especially the XC and EMR long-distance regional services.
Sixth paragraph almost gets there: "It raises a question: is something more fundamental going wrong that could plague people across the UK travelling here for work, to see family or for holidays, for years to come?"
I dunno, you're the BBC, maybe have a crack at finding out.
The speed limit reduces to 30mph a bit further down the road. They could have bought that limit further back and made this junction much friendlier. But no, gotta be able to drive round it at speed.
(Also note the lorry parked in it, blocking the crossing. That happens constantly.)
A street view image of a road junction. The junction has wide turnouts to aid traffic flow. A shared use path crosses the junction with a crossing set back from the road and dropped kerbs.
This is a junction down the road from me that will one day lead to some light industrial land units probably. The main road is 40mph. A very wide turnout and set back crossing forcing users of the shared path to do an awkward diversion.
I've just discovered her thanks to The YouTube Algorithm. She's really good!
Hilarious that MBDA, a defence company, have jobs posted on a climate change jobs website.
Unless the point of the site is to make climate change worse.
climatechangejobs.com/companies/mb...
I'm 99% sure this is Styal? So presumably AWC on diversion when you took this!
(I hope I'm right, this took me AGES to find)
Interesting. I do worry that we've just reinvented the pacer and put batteries in it.
I suspect it gives them some basically free publicity. Only costs some capital outlay for the charging infrastructure and I assume the unit itself is incredibly cheap to lease and run. I doubt that they'd specify "we want converted D-stock" otherwise.
Forgetting the battery, I'm honestly surprised the 230's meet modern crashworthiness standards for mainline running.
every time i see a white guy in their fifties radicalized by the twitter algorithm into racism and extremism i think about how it's a total failure of the youtube algorithm to instead radicalize him into home brewing, elaborate A/V setups, or DIY solar
It didn't even personally affect him, he was just bored and got sucked in. In another (better) world he'd have joined a local choir instead and everything would have been fine.
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"4,519 km of roads
41 km of designated cycleways"
Maybe if total cycleway length were more than 1% of total road length, there would be fewer drivers and fewer potholes.
Politicians: don't use AI to make your maps.
"Centre of the rail universe" the faint screams of outrage you can hear are from Derby.
A bin, in pink and blue chalk: TERF storage, anarchist circle a's and a gender anarchy sign.
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Merry Christmas to everyone at @trashfuture.bsky.social, I'm now up to 2022 in the back catalogue and at current rates I will catch up to the podcast in about 2030 when I'm sure we'll be living under fully automated luxury gay space communism.
Merry Christmas @politicanimal.bsky.social , to you and your now larger family! The words "Ooo, Jo Kibble has a new video out" are some of the happiest uttered in our house, long may it continue.
Merry Christmas @jagohazzard.bsky.social , you make some of the best content there is, I always get a little lift when I see a new video. Here's hoping for a great 2026 for you & the channel!
(Also please do a video on Rayner's Lane at some point, I spent a lot of time there as a kid)
Merry Christmas @daveeddy.com , you are a really good explainer and educator, you make really good, accessible content.
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