Tim Green  🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💨☀️⚡️💡💻

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

move slow and repair things

I want to see The Good, The Bad and The Ugly annotated and see how many times the swap around during the film.

Interesting perspective on new nuclear and a great graph

It's always about the oil. In 1914, Persia/Iran wanted to remain neutral in the First World War, but the British were determined to defend their oil interests.
This National Army Museum picture shows British and Persian officers of the South Persia Rifles in 1918.

I'm not offened by how stupid they are*.

I am offended by how stupid they think everyone else is.

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* Ok maybe I'm a little offended by how stupid they are.

#USEmbassyUK #Bastards
How quintessentially English!😂😂🔥

Man walks past the US embassy in the UK shouting 'bastards'!

Correction. Orwell never said this. He did however, warn that: "political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” (That's Politics and the English Language, one of my favorite essays)

Those paid a fortune to assess global risks say ‘not these global risks’.

Current UK electricity supply btw.

It’s not. It’s a trial of a commercial proposition on a heritage railway.

White, Green and Red mug withe text “Nid oes a gen tyeysog at Gymru” which translates into English as “We don’t need a prince of Wales”. #Republic

St David’s Day. Celebrating with tea in one of my favourite mugs. #Republic

a red dragon on a green and white flag ALT: a red dragon on a green and white flag

Dydd Gwyl Dewi Hapus 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Happy St David’s Day 🌼

This reminds me of that Frankie Boyle joke about how Americans not only come to your country and kill your people, they also come back twenty years later to make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers sad.

A country surrounded by the ocean, with active geothermal zones, buffeted by winds and basking in sunshine should not be relying on tanker loads of oil, gas and coal shipped half way across the world to run its energy network.

#OnThisDay 146 years ago the District Railway extended from West Brompton to Putney Bridge (& Fulham) via Walham Green (Fulham Broadway) and Parsons Green. Image of Putney Bridge with posed people and clean brickwork suggests it's around the time of opening: LT Museum collection buff.ly/4kpx2qX

Meanwhile

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Aberdeen Hydrogen bus fleet to be sold off - Aberdeen Business News Aberdeen City Council is set to sell its entire fleet of 25 hydrogen double-decker buses and exit a £20 million joint venture with oil giant BP, marking the

I've largely stopped posting #HydrogenSoufflé because it seems distasteful to dance on the graves of so many dreams. But... Aberdeen is flogging its hydrogen bus fleet for scrap.

How much money was wasted on this 100% predicable outcome? Will heads roll?
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US designates Iran as ‘state sponsor of wrongful detention’ The U.S. on Friday designated Iran as a “state sponsor of wrongful detention” and demanded that the country release any Americans in its detention. Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued the designatio...

Somehow this isn't an Onion headline

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> @covie93.bsky.social

You misunderstand I think. That modified 08 is being tested on the SVR. The intention is for it to get used on the big railways.

Does anyone know the FIFA Peace Prize selection criteria?

A Swiss railways electric shunter with pantograph for overhead line. It’s in red livery and photographed at Brig station while on station-pilot duties shunting coaches

Or put wires up.

Or buy purpose built battery shunters.

www.claytonlocomotives.co.uk/shunters-loc...

A closer look at a battery-powered Class 08 prototype | The Railway Hub Trials are underway using a battery-powered Class 08. Richard Clinnick attended the launch of the locomotive at Barrow Hill.

They taken an old diesel Class 08 shunter are rebuild for hydrogen fuel cell. Two years ago another firm rebuilt an 08 with a battery. They should you the right way to do it already.

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Severn Valley Railway launches hydrogen-powered locomotive The locomotive's hydrogen fuel cell charges the battery and powers the existing electric motors.

Just NO. This is stupid. Hydrogen trains make no sense, trials have been abandoned and we don’t need another. Why buy expensive hydrogen, put through an inefficient fuel cell and then an electric drive train when a battery could fed that drive train instead.

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Taking the quiet car of the train for my commute to work regularly made me realize once again, we need more silent public spaces. There is just too much noise everywhere!

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