Joe

Fan of nuclear power and LFC.
Moderate Labour🌹🇬🇧🇺🇦☢️

[FC Barcelona @FCBarcelona]

79' Origi scores, Liverpool now ahead on aggregate
🔵🔴 #LFCBarça (4-0, agg 4-3)

[Joe @js_87654]

@echetus Sandbrook being a WWI Germany apologist is a deeply un-sound, for an otherwise top chap

[Mike Bird @Birdyword]

This will get a lot of negative reaction (and rightly so, I think it's an awful mindset and that this kind of producerism is a malignant influence on politics), but in identifying the tradeoff it's actually more intellectually honest than a lot of commentary on this issue

[Joe @js_87654]

The thing I don’t understand about the Green Belt is that this map implies you visit a mega city around Norwich

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

The UK has what has to be the world's most obviously fixable housing crisis.

[Moments of Brazilian Politics @MomentsofBrazi1]

A diferença da qualidade do ar em Paris ao longo de 17 anos (2007 x 2024)

A cidade eliminou estacionamentos, dificultaram o uso de carros sem necessidade e encheram a cidade de ciclovias.

[Joe @js_87654]

@edwest I actually think that sounds more pleasant than flying 16 hours Aus to Middle East, siting in some dystopian airport for 3 hours, then managing another 7 hour flight to the UK

[Joe @js_87654]

@SebMilbank Why has Cod become so expensive?

[Joe @js_87654]

@michaelgj And god forbid you read those books at 9pm instead of 5am

[Joe @js_87654]

Why don’t all people who get up at 4:30am and got to bed at 8:30pm simply sleep from 11-7 instead like a normal person? The hours are literally the same!

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

My current lifemaxxing stack:

- 4:30am wake up
- Read classic books
- 3 hours creative work before 8am
- Lift/run 6x/week
- Eat single ingredient foods
- Present time with fam/friends
- 20-min evening sauna
- Wild Roman skincare routine
- 8:30pm bedtime

Wouldn't change a thing.

[Joe @js_87654]

@AaronBastani @ClarkeMicah Head south to St Helens to see ‘The Dream’, essentially a giant white head on a mound

[Joe @js_87654]

@v_j_freeman @BristOliver BlueSky seems to be exclusively the workforce of the Guardian, the left half of the FT and the remnants of FBPE twitter. An odd bunch.

[Mike Tapp MP @MikeTappTweets]

We owe them our freedom.

🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[Joe @js_87654]

This is an interesting case in point. This station - which doesn’t include any new track - cost a quarter of a billion. Part of the reason why costs balloon are all these extra demands placed on construction projects.

[Network Rail Anglia @NetworkRailAng]

As part of the #CambridgeSouth station project we have set a target of 10 per cent net gain in biodiversity for the #CambridgeSouthstation project by including a range of mitigations to offset the loss of habitats from the station construction area.
#WorldEnvironmentDay

[Joe @js_87654]

@Sam_Dumitriu Also these campaigns never suggest which taxes should rise to compensate for the loss of revenue

[Joe @js_87654]

@lionel_trolling You eat cheese from a squeezey tube

[Leo Gibbons @Layo_FH]

I imagine like 90% of voters would support policies like capping grocery prices, freezing rent, wealth taxes yada yada because from a glance, they sound great! It’s only really wonks, politicos, or a tiny section of hyper-engaged voters, who examine policies in finer detail and assess second order consequences etc. It’s why politicians are consistently more economically liberal than their own voter bases.

If you poll voters via single issues, the overwhelmingly majority would come across as essentially, ‘populist-Left authoritarians.’ It’s not particularly a Gen-Z thing.

However, the reason why 90% of voters don’t rally round that one agenda is most voters vote on vibes, feelings, cultural/tribal attachment - a vibe of ‘who reflects me’. They don’t vote for a list of policies.

[Joe @js_87654]

@K_Niemietz Kenyon went on quite a tirade against building on the green belt during the show, including claiming the issue brought him into politics. It feels like the last throw of the dice for a doomed candidate - many such cases!

[Joe @js_87654]

Adopting a “degrowth” agenda to mitigate climate change is a complete non starter and lefty economists who propose it should be shunned

[Thomas Piketty @PikettyWIL]

The key finding of the report is that energy transition alone will not suffice.

We need to combine it with "sufficiency" to stay within 2 degrees. This includes labour hour reductions, growth caps in rich countries, less material consumption, and changes in food habits.

[Joe @js_87654]

@richardmarcj @MatthewWest2004 @peter_sarris @1967Rogerwade Interesting point, I’d add that it was more of an acceleration of a trend that began under New Labour

[Aidan James @mcandidate]

absolutely fucking not