PedalPower

#FPL fan; #space4cycling

[Alec Stapp @AlecStapp]

Still laughing about the time a computer scientist who had his bike stolen tried to explain binary search to a cop

[PedalPower @PaulBremner]

@NiceUrmston @YPLAC @gmptraffic This roundabout needs seriously reworking. You shouldn't be able to park on a roundabaout. And why is there a bus stop on it too? Never seen anything like it anywhere else.

[Leon Simons 🌍 @LeonSimons8]

Net-zero CO₂ by 2050 is possible if:

-8,500 coal plants stop burning coal.
-we stop heating homes.
-we stop driving the 1.4 billion cars in the world.
-planes stop flying 100,000 times a day.
-we stop eating tens of billions of animals per year.
-we stop shipping stuff.

[Peter Dynes @PGDynes]

If you don’t understand thermal inertia and why the oceans have been protecting us from the massive amounts of heat entering the system - then you need to look at the difference between heating water and air. It takes a hell of a lot more energy to heat water!

[Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @IrishRainforest]

I'm blue in the face saying this.

[Tony Tassell @TonyTassell]

A parable of HS2 from Andy Haldane, formerly of the Bank of England and now FT contributing editor. A sharp critique of short-termism in this oped https://t.co/zc8Z4OR0qc

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

All of Rishi Sunak's £36bn transport plans don't start till 2029.

His BS education doesn't start till 2033.

Smoking ban 2028.

We are wasting time talking about stuff that he will never do.

Don't feed his lies, see them.

RT if you do.

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

Sunak didn’t just cancel HS2…

He authorised the sale of the land that would form part of the cancelled route

So no other leader could reverse his decision.

This major decision

One he took unilaterally

Without consulting parliament

…without anyone having voted for him.

[Laura McInerney @miss_mcinerney]

My absolute favourite part of the new Network North document - which is almost insulting in the way it tries to convince northerners they haven’t been shafted by HS2 cancellation - is the part where they promise…

To fix potholes in the South of England.

[Alex Kealy @alexkealy]

Does feel sort of mad that a Prime Minister who wasn't even a full ranking cabinet minister at the time of the 2019 election & is 20 points behind in the polls just gets to cancel the country's largest infrastructure project, which his party's manifesto committed to completing

[Bev Craig @bevcraig]

Just a reminder, the Govts own analysis showed an integrated HS2 and NPR would:

- Add £9bn to GMs economy each year
- Add £24bn a year to the Norths economy
- Create 96,000 jobs
- Improve capacity and connectivity
- Close the productivity gap with London

Levelling up is dead.

[Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy]

This is why the Conservative Party is no longer the Conservative Party. It got taken over by UKIP from 2015-2020.

[David Frankal 🟣 @DavidFrankal]

Incredible graphic

[Andy Burnham @andyburnham]

It’s coming up 10 years since Osborne’s “Northern Powerhouse” speech and the Tories are set to scrap the last of his rail pledges.

The result?

The southern half of England gets a modern rail system and the North left with Victorian infrastructure.

Levelling up?

My a**e.

1/2

[David Ullrich @DavidUllrich202]

The 1.5 °C threshold will be exceeded this year.

[gaut @0xgaut]

ok this is absolutely *wild*

using AI to live translate and sync your lips

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

Today in “assault doesn’t count if you’re driving a car”

[Peter Dynes @PGDynes]

The summers you used to know are over. These types of Omega domes will become commonplace on a yearly basis bringing sweltering heatwaves and devastating floods across the Globe.