Mike Cookson 🔶 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

"I said it's quite bold of Nigel Farage to go to the US to side with Donald Trump against his own country. What did I say Roy?"
"You said he's a treacherous self-serving sack of shit"

“Dear Diary,
Super excited to say that I’ll be serving my Clacton constituents today by flying to Mar-a-Lago to meet Donald Trump and to undermine the UK government. God I love being a patriot!”

Two Spiderman meme

I'm so confused.

Are they releasing more Epstein Files to distract from the War on Iran, or is the War on Iran to distract from what's in the Epstein Files?

Wow! If you assume that the candidate voted for themself then not even both people who signed the nomination form voted for them 🫣.

Two BT Openreach vans parked on the brand new pavement.

BT Openreach taking full advantage of the new pavement.

Oh, just the business vehicle of Nigel Farage masquerading as a political party breaching its obligations at Companies House.

Excellent news. Keelmans has been a great partnership.

The Council could put in the money from the insurance money form from the payout following the fire....

Don’t let mega-constellation-building billionaires steal your night sky Satellites are wonders of modern technology that have improved all of our lives. But having more than a million of them in orbit could destroy our view of the heavens and seriously damage our planet

Satellites are wonders of modern technology that have improved all of our lives. But having more than a million of them in orbit could destroy our view of the heavens and seriously damage our planet

Took me nearly twenty minutes when I woke up on Thursday to realise it wasn't Friday morning.

The downside is I feel I've worked six days this week, but the upside is I've had two Friday mornings where I've looked forward to the weekend.

During the Second Reading of the Representation of the People Bill, MP after MP got up to point out what's missing from it: fixing the voting system.

The problems with FPTP can no longer be ignored - and neither can the growing calls for PR. 📣

Here are just a few highlights:

white painted bike lane Proposed bike lane cancelled after failing to get approval from every living and deceased resident within 25 km.

"Proposed bike lane cancelled after failing to get approval from every living and deceased resident within 25 km."

Take Big Money Out of Our Politics British politics is awash with money from super rich donors. In 2023, two-thirds of all private donations came from just 19 people. These so-called ‘mega donors’ enjoy privileged access to political p...

A crypto investor just donated £9 million to the Reform Party. Right now, billionaires can pour unlimited money into our elections, effectively buying our democracy. Think that's wrong? Add your name to call for a cap on donations today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...

A cartoon from the 1950’s that’s more relevant than ever 💔

Billboard ad for public transit visible from a freeway filled with cars and congestion, that says “You are not stuck in traffic. You ARE traffic.”

One of the best of all time.

“You’re not stuck in traffic. You ARE traffic.”

Wish we had come up with that one. #UrbanTruth

sharks in water City hands out goggles, flippers and shark repellent yet still Swim To School Day not getting the numbers they hoped.

"City hands out goggles, flippers and shark repellent yet still Swim To School Day not getting the numbers they hoped."

If it’s true Reform UK’s Treasury spokesperson Robert Jenrick told a business audience last night that renewable companies are "screwed" if Reform get in, it tells you everything about their readiness to inflict national self-harm in pursuit of ideological war on climate action.

Rachel Reeves is once again making mistakes.

If she really believed in energy security she would plough more money into renewable roll out and electrification, grid scale batteries, and other long term storage.

Oxford has pushed through the difficult part. When everyone is up in arms about the change and is coming out the other side.

Others should take note. Get through the point of resistance, and people start adapting and the anger dies down

A prerequisite of standing for high office should be having the words "it is not possible to bomb your way to peace" tattooed across your forehead.

This is interesting! 🤓
The net favourability of political leaders among voters who voted Labour in 2024:

🟡 Ed Davey +18
🟢 Zack Polanski +12
🔴 Keir Starmer -16
🔵 Kemi Badenoch -65
🔵 Nigel Farage -82

This is just the truth.

I've an idea of how I could use AI to illustrate how Crafty Grimes got his nickname, but I suspect it would be both illegal and get me banned from all platforms 🤣

We need to make it loads easier for residents to do the right thing and decarbonise.

That's why district heating at scale is so important. It allows Councils to do the big infrastructure changes, put in place the planning and grants, so residents can react in a timely manner.

No time to work out if we could get a grant for an Air Source Heat Pump.

No time to see if we'd need planning permission.

No time to get quotes for an ASHP, and work out where we'd have to put everything.

Who has time to plan to decarbonise in that level of detail just in case?

Cont.

So, we ordered a new gas boiler on the Monday, which came with a 10 year warranty, and was fitted by the end of the week.

I wish we'd had more time, but when you're faced with no heating nor hot water, there was no time to engage with the DNO to see if we could upgrade the electricity supply.

Cont

Have just fitted a new gas boiler. Disappointed in myself, but can't work out what else we could have done.

The 8 year old gas boiler died last week. Engineer was brilliant, but the idea of throwing £800 in parts and labour at it with no long term certainty of reliability wasn't appealing.

Cont.

Liquid hot cross bun

We tried the Red Velvet ones. Very weird.

But don't worry, Morrisons have got you covered.

Lovely 😍.

Not so lovely the "architectural" cycle parking.

Just your regularly scheduled share of this masterpiece by @tomgauld.bsky.social

Unfortunately its always "other" drivers that are the issue.

When drivers speed down someone else's street to save a few seconds, that's fine. But when other drivers speed down their own street, that's absolutely wrong.

Same outside schools, wrong for "other" drivers to do it, but OK for them to.