There’s light at the end of the tunnel. 🔦
TfL uses as much electricity as 600,000 homes, but the network is officially shifting to be part-solar powered.
We’re on the fast track to a 100% renewable commute by 2030.
This is absolutely bonkers and infuriating.
Must-read reporting by ProPublica.
I realize that to people outside the PNW this is just an interesting news item, but if you're in the PNW, where tracking orca pods is a local religion, this is basically like being visited by alien gods
Infuriating that this has a direct impact on peace in Europe yet the right wing lament how we should be honouring the special relationship. Intellectually and morally bankrupt
Cor, sure would feel great right now if we were self-sufficient in renewable energy, and laughing at all the rubes reliant on global oil supplies. We'd have a bit of a swagger in our step today.
The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.
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The Lords select committee is very clear on where it stands: ‘AI may contribute to our future economic growth, but the UK creative industries create jobs and economic value now’
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Made it to Friday but at what cost
my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels
On this, the fourth anniversary of Russia's failed attempt to wipe Ukraine from the map, I spoke to @johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social about the war, about Ukraine's heroism and about what it means for all of us. Have a listen!
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"Keep your side of the road clean." In a world of dolourous news, all you can do is find one small thing - then try to fix it. And so me and the British Society of Magazine Editors are launching this - to find the next generation of writers AND PAY THEM. Screw you, AI. We still believe in writing.
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.
there's always an undertone of violence in every sufficiently developed bourgeois idealism that sees the body as nothing more as a useless belly that it'd be better to liquidate if we could
The Dracula cover I worked on is finally revealed.
I am very stoked about this project, because doing a cover art for a classical book is a dream I didn't know I had, and also because they agreed to have the cover art minimalistic and elegant, and I AM SO HAPPY ABOUT IT.
Alysa Liu: "THAT'S WHAT I'M FUCKING TALKING ABOUT" 🗣️
Pure enjoyment of the sport. Good for her!
Ahahahahaha omfg the joy of it!!!
This is just brilliant.
I will never forget the coverage from Chicago the night Obama won, with the closeup of Jesse Jackson with tears running down his face. RIP, Mr. Jackson.
I regularly post updates on this story because it's an atrocity on an incomprehensible scale but people don't really talk about it
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
It was believed in medieval times that hedgehogs had spikes so they could roll over fruit to carry home to their children, which is not true but is a really cute idea
“I’ve reviewed over 50 sticky toffee puddings” is an incredibly powerful way to begin a video
It is so embarrassing that it has taken nearly a decade for a British minister to say this, a statement of the absolute bloody obvious
In good news, a little one was born in Utah🦒
www.sltrib.com/news/2026/01...
Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.
I whooped when I heard McSweeney was gone. And then realised he's resigned and not been fired, and that his deputies might be up for joint chiefs. Was so rooting for this government but feels like the majority been pissed away at a time of such immense probs &that Starmer doesn't learn from mistakes
I grew up with the Washington Post, wrote editorials for the Washington Post and published a column there for more than 15 years. To watch its owners destroy it, seemingly deliberately, in just a year and a half is devastating.
This is brilliant.
George Saunders is such a treasure.
www.thenerve.news/p/george-sau...
The priest at my church got beat up at an anti-ICE protest on the peninsula this week, and when he showed up for Mass today with a black eye all the church ladies swooned like they had seen a Backstreet Boy.
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