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France's ghost car scandal that allowed one million illegal vehicles onto the roads Fake dealerships were manipulating the state vehicle licensing agency's official records, France's auditor has found.

@allshorts.bsky.social @richardknott.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Looks like AI has a problem with volume and size. Reality is the amount of trucks needed to do that would be astronomical let alone the infrastructure needed to make it possible.

Did Vikings drag ships over land to avoid choppy Scottish waters? Archaeologists have been gathering evidence of places where warships were dragged across land.

How about some portage?

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This bench was designed to make you leave YouTube video by Luke O’Sullivan

This bench was designed to make you leave youtu.be/YZUcsqHIi50?... via #YouTube

Important thread

Google starts rolling out Gemini in Chrome to users in Canada, India and New Zealand After debuting in the United States, Gemini in Chrome is now making its way to Chrome users in Canada, India and New Zealand.

Google starts rolling out Gemini in Chrome to users in Canada, India and New Zealand #ai ino.to/8M8Jyq0

The war makes it more urgent for journalists to call out Trump’s derangement | Press Watch The commander-in-chief is unfit for duty.

This is a good summary of the situation.
presswatchers.org/2026/03/the-...

I rode a Grand Central Voyager! YouTube video by GLovesTrains

I rode a Grand Central Voyager! youtu.be/tbEqAySrm-Y?... via #YouTube via @glovestrains.bsky.social

We are facing an energy crisis. Britain is the worst exposed in Europe with only 2 days gas supply stored. If only we had our own gas to exploit. Or our own oil. Or our own coal.... Blame @Ed Miliband (Allison Pearson on X)

If only we had clean, renewable energy and were not beholden to a dirty, expensive, dangerous commodity that pollutes our environment and is the source of most of our geopolitical woes.

Very good from Jonn Elledge and the truth is that many people on the further edges of the right have always been like that.

Why Russia Wins from the Iran War

Why Russia wins from the Iran war
youtu.be/duBtEu70Dv8...

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It's been another amazing Opposites Day in the United States.

@robespierre1794.bsky.social said the same thing in today or yesterday's video

My crazy prediction?

Trump will do a "Mission Accomplished" thing and then blame the lack of regime change on "cowardly" Iranians not rising up and overthrowing the government.

He'll then move on to some other distraction.

I give it a week or so tops.

Fun fact: no Trump fought in any of the major wars of the 20th or 21st century.

That must be some kind of record.

Any time soon they'll be embracing 15 minute cities

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AI fakes spread disinformation. Is the distrust they create even worse? Manipulated images undermine our shared reality—and the democracy built upon it.

Manipulated images undermine our shared reality—and the democracy built upon it.

Exploring Norfolk by Visiting Every Railway Station YouTube video by JenOnTheMove

Exploring Norfolk by Visiting Every Railway Station youtu.be/OK6cgnfERFs?... via #YouTube via @jenonthemove.com

Ugh, another reason I can’t wait for the world to decarbonize asap.

The internet, on scientists: They're secretive gatekeepers, they hoard esoterica/the truth, they don't want anyone in their ivory tower little clubs

Actual scientists: LOOK, WE FOUND A 300 MILLION YEAR OLD FOSSILIZED CLOACCAL IMPRESSION AND THE VENT IS HORIZONTAL! PLZ READ MY 67-PAGE PAPER ABOUT IT

I don't think you have to Nostradamus to figure that bombing Iran might raise oil prices. And it seems pretty obvious that buying oil in advance of causing an oil price spike might just save Americans a lot of money. But...

...maybe there wasn't much planning?

Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño

Mainstream/centrist parties have failed to address this. We need the Greens.
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Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds

Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

@ottoenglish.bsky.social @allshorts.bsky.social @richardknott.bsky.social Not sure if I said, a few days after the attack on Iran, when fuel prices first went up, my friend's fuel bill went up £20,000 a day, he could be looking at £40k to £60k. He even trades fuel in advance if he can get it cheaper

Nailed it.

6/- it is well known before this war the USA had limited supplies of tomahawk cruise missiles due to supply chain issues but above all the DOD/congress not ordering more & letting production line almost closed down so any more orders are leading to shortages of supply parts and trained personnel

5/- thinking some more I not sure if the submarine let a lone the UK version of the tomahawk cruise missiles can be fitted or work with USN ship MK41 vertical launch system without having to be returned to the USA for maintenance, upgrades and rework to fit and work.

4/- they need a harbour and certain equipment to remove the tomahawk cruise missiles and then reload them onto another American ship or submarine.