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@TBallam @cobm123 How do you do this?

And this delight blocking the cycle lane. Reported to TfL. Delightful when he threatened to knock me out while shouting (and basically spitting) in my face. Hope the £30k he said he’d spent on the car compensates for his many other obvious persona inadequacies.

As a google-born 90s kid I haven’t spend much of my time in mines but I’m quite accustomed to data mining. I hope that you haven’t spent much of your time worrying about @JohnLeePettim13 thread. Earth will not be destroyed because of energy transition related mining.🧵1/26

@GergelyOrosz Same store is in the UK also, although a lot of banks are now using MasterCard and it works pretty seamlessly. Well the charging part does- calculating what you actually pick up seems pretty hit and miss 😂

This is hilarious. Aldi created an Amazon-like “grab and go, zero staff” store in the Netherlands. Except no customers enter b/c to do so, you need to register *with a credit card*. The majority of the population in the Netherlands doesn’t have a credit card! They have debit.

@nordhagen @heroku @salesforce Hi @heroku this is STILL broken and I can't unsubscribe. Can you please help?

Tim Loughton(Tory MP) - I'm a 16 year old orphan, from an East African country, escaping a war zone & religious persecution, & I have a sibling legally in the UK... what is a safe & legal route for me to come to the UK? Suella Braverman flounders badly

In my reporting on clean energy misinformation I've seen one argument over and over. Wind turbines kill birds. While this is true, it misses an important piece of context: Fossil fuel power plants kill 35x more birds per GWh than wind turbines do. 🧵

I've seen a lot of people asking "why does everyone think Twitter is doomed?" As an SRE and sysadmin with 10+ years of industry experience, I wanted to write up a few scenarios that are real threats to the integrity of the bird site over the coming weeks.

After nearly 25 years, I’m publishing the Distributed Computing Manifesto in its entirety, an internal document from the early days of Amazon that transformed the architecture of our e-commerce platform. allthingsdistributed.com/2022/11/amazon…

@floopily Wait until he hears about serverless!

One of the clearest, frankest accounts of how Brexit has damaged the UK economy.

Press photographer @tomsdinner was arrested this week for filming the @JustStop_Oil protest from a public footbridge. Officers then raided his house at 11pm “I’ve not seen anything like this happen before. I was fucking livid”

Some things shouldn't return to pre-pandemic 'normal' - London car pollution at greatest levels since the start of the pandemic standard.co.uk/news/london/lo…

Luxury cruises are punctured garbage bins on water >47 cruise ships emit 10 times more sulphur dioxide in European waters (2017 data) than all of Europe’s 260m cars combined >That's just 1 of 3 air pollutants discharged from the ships’ smokestacks And it gets worse THREAD

Recently I learned about a man who has trained 1,000+ people to block wind and solar projects. I read through all his training materials, presentations, and seminars. Here's what I learned about him and how his students plan to "win the war on clean energy." 🧵

Boris Johnson: - backed a known sexual predator - said ‘let the bodies pile high in their thousands’ during the pandemic - called Black people 'piccaninnies' - lied to parliament over Downing Street parties Ghouls want his return. Do they really have such selective amnesia?

🚨 BREAKING: The government has announced it will impose a windfall tax on renewable energy firms - but NOT on fossil fuel giants. Fossil Fuel profits totalled close to $100bn in the first 6 months of this year. (can you reference this?) Why the double standards?

Amount of land in the UK taken up by: Golf courses = 1,256 km2 Solar farms = 230 km2 If government ministers want to put our land to better use, why don't they take a look at golf courses first?

@axios @afreedma @ProjectDrawdown @GlobalEcoGuy @Allbirds Boom: "there will be two types of businesses, the ones who take climate change seriously and the ones who don't exist anymore"

America now builds more 3-car garages than 1bdrm apartments. Our nation has an average of 1,000 sqft of parking for each car vs. 800 sqft of housing per person. bloomberg.com/news/features/…

From the cost of living to war in Ukraine to climate change to Covid to tensions with China to the UK getting a new PM. I’ve tried to show how these stories connect. In 4 mins…