John Lee

Ornament is not decoration. A personal account. Here you read my mind, not my employer’s.

[John Lee @rotoscoper]

@AvantiWestCoast I have a west coast mainline ticket. How do I add a bike reservation to it? I’m travelling on Monday.

[cluedont @cluedont]

Anyone know if the Strait of Hormuz is open? Someone on my local Facebook community group is asking.

[Dr Francis Young @DrFrancisYoung]

People are claiming Pancake Day wasn’t originally a pagan festival, when you only have to look at the name to know it was once a day when cakes were offered to Pan

[Tom Forth @thomasforth]

Beautifully clear demonstration of the very high cost of HS2, amid unusually easy terrain and with proven technology. https://t.co/cDNY9Ad7EN

[Qagggy! @Qagggy]

We should redesign cities for autonomous kids, not autonomous cars.

[John Lee @rotoscoper]

@createstreets this just in from Altrincham. About 5yrs ago I spoke to the Portuguese craftsman as he laid the setts. I hope he never sees how this utility co has brutally savaged his work…

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

It is one of the great scandals of our time.
Drax, which generates electricity by burning trees imported as pellets from North America, is more expensive than gas, more polluting than coal and more dependent on imports than oil.
Yet it is, incredibly, designated as ‘sustainable biomass’, pocketed £870m in subsidies last year and will likely trouser another 2 billion subsidies over the next four years – all to allow Ed ‘The Zealot’ Miliband to include Drax in his net zero calculations.
Not just a scandal but an expensive scandal for the taxpayer.

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

NEW: Is the internet changing our personalities for the worse?

Conscientiousness and extroversion are down, neuroticism up, with young adults leading the charge.

This is a really consequential shift, and there’s a lot going on here, so let’s get into the weeds 🧵

[Claire Lehmann @clairlemon]

💯

[Micah Springut @mspringut]

Imagine hundreds of robots working 24/7, tool paths generated automatically, robot pickers mounting and moving blocks with NASCAR efficiency.

That’s how stone becomes default in architecture.

[Ed @edmsren]

Maurice Glasman - founder of @blue_labour - on excoriating form when it comes to the lanyard class:

[OnlMaps @onlmaps]

Sheep density in Europe

[John Lee @rotoscoper]

Star War The Third Gathers - Backstroke of the West (Highlights) https://t.co/r7wIlgdqOn via @YouTube

[Building Design @BDonline]

Bartlett named world’s best architecture school for third year in a row: Manchester School of Architecture holds its place in the global top five, while Cambridge’s architecture school is ranked 12th in the 2025 QS World University… https://t.co/eXmorLqxVk #architecture #news

[John Lee @rotoscoper]

@BBCArchive Cue a nation of 60-somethings popping to the bathroom…

[Julia Davis @JuliaDavisNews]

“You don’t look grateful.”

[Ekaterina Zaharieva @EZaharievaEU]

From today Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are fully independent from Russia's and Belarus's electricity systems.
This is an important step towards strengthening the energy security of the Eastern Baltic Sea region and the EU as a whole.

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

About 8 minutes after liftoff, Falcon 9’s first stage will return to Landing Zone 4 at Vandenberg Space Force Base, announcing its arrival with a sonic boom unique to reusable vehicles returning from space

[The Spectator @spectator]

‘The fatal error, for both Reeves and Truss, was making the assumption that markets would see their long-term strategy, understand the need for investment, and be willing to ‘finance the transition’.’

✍️ Kate Andrews
https://t.co/aSzBjP9y1M