Hey does anyone remember how we had like a decade of near zero interest rates? Thank god the USA spent that time investing in infrastructure! What a calamity if we had just squandered the last best chance of our lives
My bike commute to work has gotten so expensive since the war started. Just kidding, it's free.
I cannot wait to go to the gas pumps and make some money!!!
Advertising poster or magazine ad featuring a village scene with people talking, a dog, and a person riding a bicycle. Text: "Get there on a Hopper cycle"
"Get there on a Hopper cycle"
Elswick Hopper Cycle and Motor Company, based in Barton-upon-Humber, UK
An oil tanker approaches the strait of Hormuz, collects a gold star and passes through while safely invulnerable
I think I may have cracked it
It's kinda amazing how an open source medium distributed on RSS has been so effectively locked down by platforms like Spotify and Apple podcasts so they can put it back under the control of their algorithm.
Large poster in the Brompton facility with an image of a Brompton bike and the tagline “refuel cities”, designed like a sign at a gas station with the prices of unleaded, super, and diesel fuel all really high, and the cost of cycling and coffee both marked as free.
Meanwhile, at the @bromptonbicycle.bsky.social facility…
bsky.app/profile/kiwi...
Presentation at the rail engineering institute session on this
Picture from the 1880s of the railway just after it was extended
TIL that the UK’s first electric railway - Volk’s Electric Railway in Brighton - was both *approved* by Brighton and Hove Council *and built* by Magnus Volk in just SEVEN WEEKS
EU impotence extends to decarbonisation
If you read one thing about Iran & geopolitics & economic fallout & climate, make it this @martinsandbu.ft.com column
The only line that matters in this whole piece:
“The Government could get them [electric trucks] rapidly adopted simply by offering soft finance – comparatively little money for the gain in fuel security.”
Same is true for better PT, EV, + E-bike financing/funding
A reminder - 1984 & the Rogernomics revolution is to 2026 what 1944 & the Bretton Woods Agreement was to 1984.
IOW, the economic paradigm which has dominated policy for the last 40 years has run its course. We need a fresh approach which recognises climate change & our strategic vulnerabilities.
2026 Frank Sinatra: Stop spreading the news
Catching up after a busy week on @marcdaalder.bsky.social’s work, and this is a real treat.
What stands out to me is the patchwork nation is the one where we are worst off economically. Thanks for your explainer, Marc!
newsroom.co.nz/2026/03/04/c...
Utah's regional rail has a rolling capital program - including electrification - with clear service goals. It's managed by the state and funded via 5 year funding frameworks. Vs. Metrolink is struggling to get hourly service on many lines w/ no electrification plan. A lot to learn!
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
100%. Enough to make my kids want to live there, no other influence needed.
In January the mysteriously-funded Institute of Economic Affairs was adamant that reaching net zero will cost the UK £9 trillion, prompting eyerolls from actual experts.
Well, the CCC put it at £100bn, with a return of between £2 and £4 for every pound invested.
www.carbonbrief.org/ccc-net-zero...
Road with a tram and sharrows
![VMS that says
Petite Chapelle 12 minutes
À Velo [by bike] 14 minutes](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:oqefyfnonijpiov7jv4vjnsk/bafkreig23ckdpo7tuomzcpvjmg7g4jr662kfg5lchpzkdkk5hguk7urwei)
VMS that says Petite Chapelle 12 minutes À Velo [by bike] 14 minutes
Journey time VMS including bike times! Definitely a first for me
Impeccable timing. ⛽️⛽️⛽️⛽️
Saint Sebastien tram-train station
Closeup of the Citadis and the TGV
Myth: Mixed-traffic trams are slow and unreliable
Fact: Citadis tram(-train)s and TGV trains mix just fine
(To be fair the Nantes tram-trains are outrageously infrequent, and quite pointless since through-running onto the tram network was never actually implemented)
Graphic with busy car congested road. Text says car dependency is the opposite of freedom. Mobility freedom comes from mobility choices. Ad is from the Urban Truth Collective.
How about those gas prices? Brutal, huh?
You know what really costs us all a lot?
Car dependency.
#UrbanTruth
modal filter at the intersection of bute street and robson street.
modal filter at the intersection of bute street and haro street.
modal filter at the intersection of jervis street and maxine lane.
modal filter at the intersection of bute street and davie street.
in the west end, #vancouver uses a lot of small public plazas as modal filters, which allow bikes and pedestrians to go through, but not cars. not only do these places make the city safer for all, they're also great third places.
Well done Telegraph, that’s exactly how that works.
Yes. I get that it is waaay more efficient, but there is something good in the modular, mix n match ability of the mini. Own screen (back to you OP), eGPU if / when needed, two Thunderbolt busses for lots of storage options. eGPU definitely power hungry but only when turned on for gaming.
It's never too late to
✅ make our building stock more energy efficient
✅ heatpumpify/ electrify
✅ build renewables
We need to wean ourselves off burning stuff
Copy finally arrived here in NZ, just beating the shipping chaos. Looking forward to reading! Thanks @ecominimalnick.bsky.social!
Mine is an i5 not i7, and using Turbo Boost Switcher to keep temperatures down. CPU scores arent going to set the world alight, but the GPU is decent enough even if it is using Thunderbolt not PCIe.
Kinda like this
Been comparing m4, m5 models to my 2018 mini + egpu/rx6600 setup, hoping the M graphics were becoming good enought for gaming at a decent price, but I think it is going to be another generation or two still.
