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Study finds 2/3 of microplastics in urban air is caused by car tires phys.org/news/2026-03...
The Daily Mail going to Tony Blair for a take on conflict in the Middle East, is it?
How much of this just relies on decarbonisation of the national grid though?
With your commitment to cut motor traffic across London stalled, your green claims are sinking.
“.. ‘many system vendors will go bankrupt or exit product lines due to a lack of memory. Mobile phone production will be reduced by 200-250 million units, and PC and TV production will be significantly reduced.’ Yikes.”
@pcgamer.com #DRAM
www.pcgamer.com/hardware/mem...
A Reuters photographer captured this image of a page from Pam Bondi's "burn book," which she used to counter any questions from Democratic lawmakers during an unhinged hearing today.
It looks like the DOJ monitored members of Congress’s searches of the unredacted Epstein files.
Just wow.
I think all of us need to move off google workplace which will be so annoying and painful. I’ve asked before for folks thoughts on this and there aren’t great alternatives but it seems imperative.
My latest: Without anti-authoritarianism, 'anti-imperialism' is just conservatism with left-wing aesthetics
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We need a UK Digital Sovereignty Strategy!
Our over-reliance on foreign tech giants is a huge risk to our security and resilience when faced with Donald Trump’s ever increasing belligerence.
Companies like Palantir have no place in our critical digital infrastructure.
Worth adding link to West Midlands Outcome Framework, key as devolution increases: www.gov.uk/government/p...
Let's hope next update due imminently does include active travel scheme delivery & road safety targets
✍ Sunday, Feb 1, marks 5 years since the military staged a coup in Myanmar, plunging the country back into authoritarian rule & pushing a lively, hard‑won media ecosystem underground.
Independent journalism is still standing, but only just.
👉 news.thin-ink.net/p/five-years...
At its headquarters in Geneva, signs warning of the situation have been put up everywhere. In an almost desperate attempt to save cash, the escalators are regularly turned off and the heating turned down.
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A manual for ICE's immigrant-targeting computer system, Palantir ELITE, was leaked today.
Let's look at it, then step back to evaluate how far we've come along a dangerous road and where that road might take us. 🧵
Latest evidence that UK Treasury has one rule for roads, another for public transport 🛣️⚖️🚋
Leeds tram delayed for a business case, meanwhile business case delayed to get building Lower Thames Crossing.
Ministers betting £billions on wrong horse 💸🎠
If not his health (air quality, physical activity and road safety) objectives as well as economic ones (good growth and congestion) too.
Another of Sadiq's Starmer scale u-turns!
Privatising Dartford tunnel is a hidden £120m annual cut to transport budget.✂️📉
It means less money for cycling, buses, trams, trains, road safety every year for ever 🚴🚌🚋🚅🚑
Talk about a bad deal!👎
And will this be the main offer on transport from outer London Labour candidates in the May elections?
Screenshot of green tinted map of London in report, headlined "strategic priority of modes across different areas of London". Infographic shows "car use reduced" just for central London, encourage modal shift in inner London and "improvements" including "targeting congestion hotspots" in outer London. Source: https://content.tfl.gov.uk/londononthemove.pdf
Has @london.gov.uk quietly given up cutting car use in most of the UK's capital?
In 2022, the Mayor's Transport Strategy was amended to commit to "reduce car vehicle kilometres travelled on London’s roads by 27 per cent by 2030". Today's London on the move plan appears incompatible with that aim.
30,000+ killed in 48 hours, many more since. What's still happening in #Iran is beyond horrific, no less so with minimal news coming out.
In the early 1930s the SA was roughing people up, creating chaos in neighborhoods, seeking to terrorize with the occasional killing. By the late 1930s it had been supplanted by the SS, which was much better trained.
While everyone is distracted by Circus Trump, European countries let his far-right sponsor and mentor of JD Vance in via the backdoor. No European government should work with Palantir. None.
The events of the last 24 hours show why it's important to build functional verification structures in public and counterpublic spaces to resist the authoritarian erosion of our democratic systems, as described in this thread.
This
America sneezes. We catch a cold.
And the UK is overexposed.
As long as foreign tech runs our digital infrastructure, our systems can be used as leverage or disrupted on Trump's say so.
Tell your MP to support the motion for #DigitalSovereignty ⬇️
action.openrightsgroup.org/tell-governm...
Table 5 on p118 of Mayor's Transport Strategy tracker showing mode share, active and safe outcomes massively off-track. Source: https://board.tfl.gov.uk/documents/s24052/board-20250611-item08b-mts-appendix.pdf
You've been criticised by two courts now for failing to intervene earlier here, despite having the legal responsibility and powers to.
With so many soundbites over action, so much dither and delay, no wonder your Mayor's Transport Strategy is ever more off-track.
Brilliant work, huge congratulations!! 👏
Not only major implications for London but beyond. This decision is very relevant for the Devolution Bill going through the Lords, and how Local Transport Plans are delivered (or not) in the rest of England.
Incredible focussed campaigning by @saveoursaferstreets.org made this win happen. 👏
But why has a community had to go through the stress of two court cases, when the Mayor of London could have used his powers to prevent the Mayor of Tower Hamlets making these unlawful changes in the first place?
Table 5 on p118 of Mayor's Transport Strategy tracker showing mode share, active and safe outcomes massively off-track. Source: https://board.tfl.gov.uk/documents/s24052/board-20250611-item08b-mts-appendix.pdf
Rahman was free to come up with alternative proposals that would deliver the same pollution, safety and community benefits.
London's air is not going to be cleaned up, its streets made safer unless Khan does his job and ensures boroughs deliver on their agreed plans, as required by Labour's GLA Act.
There's a lot of talk about rearmament and breaking US dependence. I understand the logic completely. But I wonder if people have fully absorbed the economic/consumption implications of serious rearmament, especially when we also consider the state of public opinion and the information environment.
Reminder that in the UK an incoming radical, populist government would have immediate access to immense, unchecked executive power.
And the current government is doing nothing to protect us from that.
I think the White House badly underestimates the strength of the pan-European folk memory of 1930s appeasement, and how deep it still cuts. I suppose this is what happens when you learn in school that WW2 started in 1941 in Hawaii.
