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A typical European car is parked 92% of the time. It spends 1/5th of its driving time looking for parking. Its 5 seats only move 1.5 people. 86% of its fuel never reaches the wheels, and most of the energy that does, moves the car, not the people. Sound efficient? HT @ellenmacarthurfdn.bsky.social

submitted 2 days ago • 32 comments

no he didn't that's not him what the fuck is wrong with you freaks

submitted 5 days ago • 639 comments

the state of Twitter: you can reply to any image of a woman with a request to Grok to undress her to her underwear and it will comply and post the reply in thread: www.404media.co/elon-musks-g...

submitted 6 days ago • 205 comments

Please share. From @theonecalledjai.bsky.social thepeoplesunionusa.com

submitted 6 days ago • 12 comments

Another thing about this - often ignored - is that not just are Labour already losing a higher % of voters to LD/Grn than to Ref, but a much higher % of the potential Reform defectors have defected than potential LD/Grn defectors. Future pain is not going to come from Reform.

submitted 8 days ago • 10 comments

If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read. - Carl Sagan, Cosmos #booksky

submitted 10 days ago • 25 comments

This is real

submitted 9 days ago • 5659 comments

Reform have some ugly online supporters. X decided this pro-violence account is inside their rules

submitted 10 days ago • 30 comments

Tony Blair is literally being paid by a man with one of the highest carbon footprints on the planet - Larry Ellison. The founder of Oracle is his biggest funder & these techsolutionist remarks have to be seen for what they are: tech lobbying www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

submitted 13 days ago • 104 comments

Labour is handing this country on a silver platter to Reform. People do not vote Labour because they hate immigrants and want Reform-lite. They vote Labour because they want it to make a positive difference to their lives.

submitted 10 days ago • 305 comments

Welcome to Brexitland, US, in which waywardness is described as "strategic uncertainty", restrictions on trade boost performance and self harm is lauded.... Spoiler, it does not end happily www.ft.com/content/342d...

submitted 11 days ago • 30 comments

Apologies for the length of this post, but this is something important that needs to be said. This thread is from “Fight Club.” 😉 1/15

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

“A family earning £100k a year will now find themselves on minimum wage after taking part in just two drug binges a week.”

submitted 12 days ago • 99 comments

A "direct inverse correlation" between fluoride exposure and low IQ" means the more fluoride you get, the higher your IQ. What he's looking for is a "direct correlation," but he doesn't know what any of these words mean or how science works.

submitted 12 days ago • 346 comments

1/12 Tony Blair Institute have released a report which is getting a lot of coverage in UK today It says the drive for net zero emissions is flawed and some media outlets have gone to town However it’s a bit odd By odd, I mean there’s a lot of bollocks in it and shouldn't be taken seriously 🧵🧵

submitted 12 days ago • 72 comments

Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...

submitted 13 days ago • 1344 comments

I've just seen some staggering data on how badly infections are affecting urgent care here now. It's hard to comprehend. It's hard to get your head round it. You need to see it to believe it. 👀

submitted 13 days ago • 36 comments

In the last year before Covid arrived in England, 4,059 people waited more than twelve hours to get admitted to hospital after the decision was made to admit them to hospital. During the emergency phase of the pandemic that number rose to a staggering 48,626.

submitted 13 days ago • 6 comments

There's so much crap happening that this major news managed to slip past my attention: 'this office — which supported the efforts of previous Administrations to hobble the United States through participation in UNFCCC and other agreements is unnecessary' www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

submitted 14 days ago • 34 comments

Please can people stop reporting the former comedy writer’s take on why he is not wanted - it is not just a difference of views, he has relentlessly bullied and harassed many cis women feminists for not agreeing with him and called on his followers to join the attacks

submitted 15 days ago • 20 comments

Incredible findings on impact of LEZ & ULEZ ⬇️ significantly reduced PM10 & NO2 levels ⬇️ sick leave reduced by 18.5% ⬆️ improved general health ⬇️ reduced incidence of long-term health conditions and respiratory issues ⬆️ mental well-being & happiness 💷 est. savings exceeding £37 million per year

submitted 17 days ago • 5 comments

Israeli forces have now dropped more explosives in Gaza than fell on London, Dresden, and Hamburg during the Second World War. The region’s hospitals have not been spared; most are no longer functional. Clayton Dalton writes about the devastation.

submitted 18 days ago • 49 comments

The reason why older generations burnt the shit out of their meat and boiled the shit out of their vegetables, was your kid died if you didn't. Medium rare steaks and roasted Brussels sprouts are a side effect of an intact food safety infrastructure

submitted 17 days ago • 21 comments

Here's a little thread on why Ed Miliband was right on the Today programme when he blamed gas for the UK's high electricity prices. I'm going to write this for a general audience so it will be simple and without jargon. Policy nerds, don't come at me! 🧵

submitted 17 days ago • 9 comments

Gary Lineker tells the truth about Gaza - and absolutely humiliates the British media

submitted 18 days ago • 34 comments

Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —Arrested at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

submitted 20 days ago • 759 comments

"The Hand That Signed the Paper" by Dylan Thomas. #MAGAmerica 🇷🇺

submitted 66 days ago • 1 comment

My PhD student's NSF grant was terminated today. Her dissertation investigates why air pollution monitoring, metrics, and regulations don't properly capture the harms experienced by marginalized communities--esp in the most polluted Detroit neighborhoods. She and I are happy to talk with press etc.

submitted 21 days ago • 45 comments

WATCH — @carolecadwalla.bsky.social : “The Russian and American presidents are now speaking the same words. Telling the same lies. We are watching the collapse of the international world order in real time… it is already later than we think.”

submitted 23 days ago • 226 comments

INCREDIBLE opinion by Wilkinson refusing to stay Judge Xinis's orders in the Abrego Garcia case, condemning DOJ's arguments as "shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 25 days ago • 284 comments

NEW: The Fourth Circuit REJECTS the Trump admin's appeal of Judge Xinis's orders to "facilitate" Kilmar Abrego Garcia's release: "We shall not micromanage the efforts of a fine district judge attempting to implement the Supreme Court's recent decision." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 25 days ago • 79 comments

I've been reflecting some more overnight on the For Some Women Scotland case. 🧵

submitted 25 days ago • 39 comments

I will never understand how a group of bigoted women go all out to destroy the rights of a tiny, marginalised group of predominantly harmless women instead of using their centuries of built up rage to actively destroy the patriarchy and the actual men who do us real harm.

submitted 25 days ago • 147 comments

Palantir (Wes Streeting's partner of choice for your private medical data) is helping Donald Trump draw up a list of targets for deportation. Are you still relaxed about it holding your medical data? www.404media.co/ice-just-pai...

submitted 26 days ago • 38 comments

Oh dear, antivax scaremongers are trying to generate panic and more antivax sentiment with another bad study. First note this is a pre-print, no expert has looked at it yet, and that shows. 🚩🚩 Yet, anti-vaxxers are already abusing it. 1/8

submitted 26 days ago • 3 comments

Our beautiful birds of prey are routinely and illegally slaughtered on driven grouse moors . If you are as sick of this criminal persecution as me then please sign this ⁦‪@wildjustice.bsky.social petition petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... Please RT

submitted 27 days ago • 59 comments

We're looking to appoint an Organ Scholar for the academic year 2025-2026. The scholarship offers the opportunity to work with the music department at an exciting time in the Cathedral’s ministry and musical development. Visit stedscathedral.org/vacancies for more information.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

🚨Some major errors & misleading claims from experienced presenter Nick Robinson on BBC Radio 4 Today, when discussing British Steel with Treasury Minister James Murray I hope these are corrected on tomorrow's programme, and Robinson sticks to the facts in future. Here's what he got wrong... 🧵

submitted 28 days ago • 88 comments

Are Muslims really banning dogs in parks? 🤔 Let’s look at this perfect example of how rage baiting works, and how disinformation spreads, sticks, and fuels division, even years after being debunked… 🧵1/22 (1/1)

submitted 29 days ago • 46 comments

'She can't spell AI!' MSNBC's Rachel Maddow speechless at Trump official's 'terrible' flub www.rawstory.com/linda-mcmaho...

submitted 30 days ago • 2 comments

does Musk know what he's talking about, when he talks about climate? spoiler alert: no. youtu.be/IcnLcEGTikk

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments