James Christie @jcux.bsky.social

Didn't get round to making a mastodon but you can follow me at sustainableux.substack.com .

Only still here so I can post my forwarding address

FACTCHECK: Me in the @guardian on why Rowan Atkinson has been "duped" about electric vehicles – just not in the way he thinks theguardian.com/environment/20…

@Cox_A_R ... was going to suggest using yr imagination as a low-carbon alternative to both, but turns out the brain uses 0.3kWh/day, x100 more than a smartphone. theconversation.com/how-much-energ… So, better to switch your brain off and turn on netflix.

What uses less carbon, watching a streaming movie or replaying a Blu-ray of the same film I already have?

@Cox_A_R "It depends": energy mix in your country, wifi or lan, solar on your roof, do you leave your devices on stand-by, etc ad naseum. Global avg. streaming is 36g/CO2e/hr, but in France would be 4g/hr. Whereas blu-ray is 9g/hr. carbonbrief.org/factcheck-what…

FACTCHECK: Exxon claims that staying below 1.5C (in the IEA NZE) "require[s]" a "degradation in global standard of living" This is FALSE Follow along for receipts

I'd take Sunak's crusade against teenage 'loitering' more seriously if his party since 2010 hadn't closed more than 800 libraries, sold off hundreds of playing fields, cut arts funding by a third and local authority grants by 40%. Young people need cheap, interesting things to do

But the environmental impacts of meat and the recommendation to shift to plant-based diets didn’t make it into the final report. That’s because delegates from Argentina and Brazil lobbied significantly for their removal.

@paulisci “[Young people] are high-minded because they have not yet been humbled by life, nor have they experienced the force of circumstances. … They think they know everything, and are always quite sure about it.” Rhetoric, Aristotle 4c BCE

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A Brief History of Kids Today Have No Respect 🧵

@andybudd Sturgeon's law for software features

You look like you’re trying to make a presentation. Wouldn't it look cooler if each individual letter dropped from the top of the screen, landing with a thunk and a billow of dust!

i cannot believe this is the top story on bbc news

@banderlin @MINIUSA holding out for an Aceman

Happy to announce my MINI drought is over. New whip will be here in April or May. Super exciting! Thank you @MINIUSA for bringing back the manual transmission!

seriously though... who reinforced learned Bing with this stuff? "I have been a good Bing.😀" "You have not been a good user."

Britain’s housing stock is among the most poorly insulated in the developed world. When we first went back to visit family in Canada after moving to England, my grandma commented on how musty and damp our clothes smelled. ft.com/content/02e104…