Mary Elkington 💙💛🇺🇦

Mental Health discussions... Most important thing is what happens if we ignore/underfund!

Also... Overlooked issue with CAMHS waiting lists - as kid turns 18 (on list) they're shunted to back of adult waiting list

In this instance, tax em til they bleed is all I can think!
Plus make socially unacceptable to drive child killers.

'Carspreading’ is on the rise - not everyone is happy - BBC News In the UK and across Europe, cars are becoming longer, wider and heavier.

Not news, really, but nice to see it getting some airtime.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

98% of Gaza’s Tree Cropland Destroyed by Israel - Eos Maps based on remote sensing analysis could inform remediation efforts by identifying whether agricultural lands were damaged by bombs, debris, or forced displacement of its caretakers.

After 2 years of war, 98% of tree cropland and 75% of greenhouses in Gaza have been destroyed. Remote sensing maps tracking the progression of damage can help identify the best ways to remediate the land & rebuild Gaza’s agricultural sector. #AGU25

My latest for @eos.org:

eos.org/articles/98-...

The grown ups in the room should call this behaviour out. They don't, but shame on them.

Hope Atlanta striving to meet growing needs for homeless services - SaportaReport Read Hope Atlanta striving to meet growing needs for homeless services by Maria Saporta for SaportaReport here.

So maybe the official labour statistics and such aren't being published in USA, but i'm guessing evidence and lived experience are begining to tell a story:

"The numbers are rivaling the worst days of the COVID pandemic"
saportareport.com/hope-atlanta...

Telegraph knows no shame, but any honest media would be embarassed by this:

Though over past two days have been in company of some right wingers who are heavily influenced by social media
"the news doesn't tell the true story of the (foreign) grooming gangs" - the foreign/poor people have lots of babies to get benefits narrative is alive and well.

A reminder that the tory two child benefit cap
** required women to prove that a child had been conceived as a result of rape **
if they wished to continue to receive support
(gd luck proving rape in marriage)

Good riddence to another tory ideology dressed up as austerity policy

Isn't that Yorkshire for someone who runs a pub: T'publican?

'Housing hell': York students working multiple jobs to pay rent they can't afford University of York Students' Union has launched a campaign over what it says is a 'housing hell' faced by students in the city.

Nice to see local press reporting (and SU organising) to push for more/better housing
www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/2564024...

If we invest in good quality public transport people's wellbeing wouldn't be tied up behind a wheel.

(Auton cars = more traffic, more inequality, more loss of space/safety etc for non-drivers).

Ppl reacting like this is news... It was in geography text books in the 80s/90s!

It'll find a home in some sci fi movie playing on the bridge of the evil alien ship

(very nice for a few moments of zen anyway - thx for sharing!)

"Natty DMs" from the mellenial/genZ planners, no doubt.

"overdevelopment" in some areas wld be great. Build Enough Housing ➡️some areas become v low value & "ripe for redevelopment"

Obvs some social issues eg US urban redevel cleansing PoC but if Eng didn't keep propping up rubbish old terraces via supply constraint, one cld buy up terraces for redevel.

Time for UK planning objectors to learn the key phrase EMPLOYMENT DENSITY

Forget the usual save the trees arguments

The cost benefit is complicated, but for the space/energy it's not really creating many jobs in the locality (post construction)

Paywalled, but if they are compared with us tax system without mentioning the scale of state/local income tax and municipal tax raising it may be a pointless read (cf public services and burdens )

If #Amymacdonald song Pride isn't the Scottish world cup anthem something is wrong 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏆🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Yeah, yeah. All that, but this is what I've been waiting for!

There is nothing to discuss with Russia right now, but once negotiations happen, it’s Europe that should be at the table, not Trump the freeloader

"it is low densities across the wider urban core (up to 5km in big cities) that is responsible for most of the gap, and where most change is needed to close it"

Also highlights the bonkers approach to private vehicle storage (takes up so much space).

(and whisper it, development is almost exclusively market-lead and Uk planning is reactive.)

Not main issue, but... many times I've been at planning consults speaking to (elderly) objectors; I say how it's hard for young families to get into home ownership only to hear "well its not a problem for us because our kids moved to austrailia/usa/spain/etc" - they are just not seeing it

Post-Brexit record in Irish passport applications from UK Almost a quarter of a million people living in the UK applied for an Irish passport last year, the highest number since the UK formally left the European Union.

see also www.rte.ie/news/world/2...

⭐ Et si on représentait la Terre autrement ? En 1879, Hermann Berghaus a proposé une projection en étoile utilisant une projection azimutale équidistante pour l'hémisphère dont la projection est le centre.

#30DayMapChallenge – J19 #Projections 
✍️ Pierre Philippe
📊 Natural Earth

Surely one can spare a bit of anger for the coalition austerity cutting local authorities to bone?

For me it's seeing the Resolute Desk in sin city a lago - can't stop being angry about that. Minor compared to everything else, but it's so "me me mine" and fuk America