Ed Hornby

" The Maryland Transportation Institute analyzed “an anonymized national panel of mobile device data from multiple sources,” in 2021, 52% of all trips in the US, all modes of transportation, distances of less than three miles. 28% of trips were for less than one mile 2% were greater than 50 miles."

Life of Brian Robson

A social media post discusses the catastrophic effects of the Tehran oil refinery bombing, mentioning toxic rain, Gulf War Syndrome after Kuwaiti oil fires in 1991, and the impact on Tehran’s 10 million residents.

Tehran’s oil fires will kill people for the next 30 years.
Benzene soaking into groundwater. PAHs settling into soil. Crops absorbing it. Acid rain. Children are getting hit hardest. Benzene is one of the most well-established causes of childhood leukemia we know of.

"The pollster Peter Kellner has calculated that if the referendum were rerun today, instead of a leave win by 1.3m votes, remain would win by 8m. There’s no historic parallel for the injustice of that"

Today is Bandcamp Friday.

It's either 2 or 5 because of the handle

"Yea, we built them their own lanes, and you might see a few people using them in rush hour, but the rest of the time those lanes are unused. What a waste"
#FourEmptyDrivingLanes
#Cycleway #C3 #CS3 #Embankment

The Department of Education has hung a massive banner honoring a racist college dropout who built a lucrative career out of targeting professors for harassment

‘Cash cow’ Send schools backed by firms linked to Bono and Sheikh Mansour Analysis shows private equity funds, including offshore entities, are making millions while councils struggle to meet Send demand

Private equity companies linked to Manchester City owner, and Bono making millions in profit through taxpayer-funded special needs schools.

20%+ profit margins. Children are cash cows.

Councils pay up to £350,000 a year to support pupils.

Money ends up in offshore tax havens.
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Don't let Reform's toxic language gaslight you, the truth is in the numbers.

It really is one of the greatest unforced errors I’ve ever seen in British politics - they have a huge majority and, from day one, have had a laser focus on squandering it though obsessing over people who will never vote for them, and spitting in the faces of those who might.

image showing Halvemaansteeg, Amsterdam, then and now. Top: black-and-white photo from 1979 with cars and a taxi dominating a narrow street, people squeezed onto small pavements. Bottom: modern colour photo of the same street, now car-free with a child cycling on the cycleway

Halvemaansteeg & Rembrandtplein, Amsterdam in 1979 and today.

From car-choked streets with little space for people to a lively car-free area with only trams, pedestrians & bikes permitted. Cafes and outdoor seating dominate the area.

A reminder to politicians: design streets for the city you want.

Brown dropout, but remains full of sh

No sanctions over Reform's by-election rule breach

Reform UK Reform UK's Matt Goodwin faced GB News complaint over colleague's claim of 'inappropriate comments'

Members of Reform's campaign team shared racist content online and aligned themselves with far-right groups

We have found that five of Matt Goodwin's campaign team have made antisemitic or Islamophobic comments. Most alarming is one of Goodwin's campaign managers, Adam Mitula. "I wouldn't touch a Jewish woman," Mitula has posted on X. Elsewhere, he has posted the n-word and engaged in Holocaust revisionism, questioning the number of Jewish dead. Mitula has also said that "60-70%" of trans people are paedophiles. Photo of the two of them grinning and Matt doing a thumbs up Hope not Hate donation tab

So, Matt Goodwin cheated, he had a Nazi-sympathising campaign manager, a team of racist campaigners aligned to far right hate groups and he himself was accused of sexual harassment by a colleague at GBNews.

Please god don’t inflict this foul piece of shit on the rest of us, #GortonandDenton

Creepy weirdo

“astrology for men” was too generous

People in Clacton are calling Nigel Farage:

Nigel Mirage.

Toronto shopping street

Half of business owners on this Toronto street estimated that more than 25% of their customers arrived by car.

In fact, it was 4%.

And the % of customers who who walked or cycled? 72%.

Retailers routinely overestimate the # of “car customers.” Via @carltonreid.com www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...

This is the kind of thing a rich CEO says at the beginning of a science fiction movie to establish for the audience that he is a sociopath and the villain.

Statement from Virginia Giuffre’s family: “Our broken hearts have been lifted by the news that no one is above the law, not even royalty... He was never a prince. For survivors, everywhere, Virginia did this for you.”

The Manchurian Muppet

and are the most divorced men in history

It is absolutely not a coincidence that all the AI-pushing techbros are the same guys who have systematically eliminated women from their workforces.

Btw, the reason all these rich guys are having to turn to AI assistants to run their lives is that they don't realise how reliant their predecessors were on the invisible labour of women.

Fair point

A wap bap a loop bap a lap bam boom

I'd say that it's not databases or spreadsheets that replaced jobs, it's email and digital storage that replaced physical documents that got rid of the legions of typists and postal, but then we realised we needed call centres ( then we moved them overseas to save a few quid...)

I like the government pivot to reminding voters that Farage is an avowed enemy of NATO & Europe & an ardent admirer of Vladimir Putin, who routinely orders the murders of critics & opponents. It is politically effective & morally essential.

Latest in the series of “literally every poll question you can think of shows how dumb and fatally flawed the strategy that the McSweeneyites have pursued is”.