Sonic Sloth Scientist
@slothlydad.bsky.social
Bikes, synths, maps, LCC, homegrown, homebrewed, G/green.
Croydon / S London mostly.
https://cycle.travel/by/angus_hewlett
Personal views. Actual contents may vary. May contain cats.
Croydon / S London mostly.
https://cycle.travel/by/angus_hewlett
Personal views. Actual contents may vary. May contain cats.
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He's said shit like this before. London is, on the whole, safe. In fact London is safer than LITERALLY EVERY AMERICAN CITY. time.com/5266759/dona...
November 15, 2025 at 5:51 PM
He's said shit like this before. London is, on the whole, safe. In fact London is safer than LITERALLY EVERY AMERICAN CITY. time.com/5266759/dona...
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![4-panel vertical comic. (1) 100 Years Ago [two people standing next to bicycle with small car nearby] PERSON 1: It’s too dangerous riding a bike with these cars around. I should get a car, too. (2) 50 Years Ago [two people between smaller car and bigger car] PERSON 2 with short hair: Small cars are less safe in collisions with larger vehicles, so I should get a bigger one. (3) Today [two people between big car and even bigger car] PERSON 1: Everyone has huge SUVs now. If I don’t get the biggest one, I’m putting my family at risk. (4) Soon [two people next to large armored car with spiked clubs attached] PERSON 2: If I don’t install more whirling spike clubs, I’ll be destroyed by all the other drivers who...](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiby6can6k76yzfmv2czxs4pu2l7zie7bqbrpswi7h3ifmiadkuqvu@jpeg)
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The Lower Thames Crossing is unaffordable.
If fully publicly financed, it would need £16 billion of taxpayers' money!
transportactionnetwork.org.uk/chancellor-u...
If fully publicly financed, it would need £16 billion of taxpayers' money!
transportactionnetwork.org.uk/chancellor-u...
Chancellor urged to scrap Lower Thames Crossing in favour of stronger growth-generating rail projects
Chancellor urged to scrap Lower Thames Crossing in favour of stronger growth-generating rail projects In its Budget submission to UK Chancellor of the Exchequer [1], Transport Action Network (TAN) has...
transportactionnetwork.org.uk
November 14, 2025 at 10:58 AM
The Lower Thames Crossing is unaffordable.
If fully publicly financed, it would need £16 billion of taxpayers' money!
transportactionnetwork.org.uk/chancellor-u...
If fully publicly financed, it would need £16 billion of taxpayers' money!
transportactionnetwork.org.uk/chancellor-u...
The most galling thing about the end of salary sacrifice is that you just know they're going to spend the whole lot on mOaR bOrDeRs, or on inflated costs of delivering health and social care which have arisen due to mOaR bOrDeRs.
And all to appease people who contribute nothing.
And all to appease people who contribute nothing.
November 14, 2025 at 6:54 PM
The most galling thing about the end of salary sacrifice is that you just know they're going to spend the whole lot on mOaR bOrDeRs, or on inflated costs of delivering health and social care which have arisen due to mOaR bOrDeRs.
And all to appease people who contribute nothing.
And all to appease people who contribute nothing.
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One important thing to understand about these policy support mechanisms (“benefits for middle class voters”) being scrapped or slashed is that they are *expressly designed* to incentivise people with money to spend it on clean technology, on basis that public spending can’t deliver transition on own
Hundreds of thousands to lose heat pump subsidies in Reeves’s budget plan
Exclusive: Supporters say grants largely going to middle-class households, but experts warn move will slow transition from gas boilers
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:50 PM
One important thing to understand about these policy support mechanisms (“benefits for middle class voters”) being scrapped or slashed is that they are *expressly designed* to incentivise people with money to spend it on clean technology, on basis that public spending can’t deliver transition on own
.. and if we're going to need higher taxes anyway (which is inevitable), might as well do that with some social liberalism, hope and maybe even a bit of actual *joy* in public life?
(If you've seen the @zackpolanski.bsky.social / Jordan Stephens chat or his stage appearance, you know.)
(If you've seen the @zackpolanski.bsky.social / Jordan Stephens chat or his stage appearance, you know.)
More business people should endorse the @greenparty.org.uk
Massive investment programmes (both public and private), more money in consumers pockets and a more stable economy are all great for business
A little extra tax for the rich is a small price to pay for that
Massive investment programmes (both public and private), more money in consumers pockets and a more stable economy are all great for business
A little extra tax for the rich is a small price to pay for that
BREAKING 🚨 BBC Dragon’s Den star businesswoman Deborah Meaden endorses Zack Polanski 💚 (Source: LBC)
November 14, 2025 at 7:39 AM
.. and if we're going to need higher taxes anyway (which is inevitable), might as well do that with some social liberalism, hope and maybe even a bit of actual *joy* in public life?
(If you've seen the @zackpolanski.bsky.social / Jordan Stephens chat or his stage appearance, you know.)
(If you've seen the @zackpolanski.bsky.social / Jordan Stephens chat or his stage appearance, you know.)
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We are floating the removal of the ONLY tax break on cycles. (Yes, it’s imperfect, yes it misses out the chunk of population that don’t pay income tax).
We are definitely not going to restore the fuel tax on petrol to where it should be.
Remind me again why I voted for you?
We are definitely not going to restore the fuel tax on petrol to where it should be.
Remind me again why I voted for you?
November 13, 2025 at 9:17 AM
We are floating the removal of the ONLY tax break on cycles. (Yes, it’s imperfect, yes it misses out the chunk of population that don’t pay income tax).
We are definitely not going to restore the fuel tax on petrol to where it should be.
Remind me again why I voted for you?
We are definitely not going to restore the fuel tax on petrol to where it should be.
Remind me again why I voted for you?
It's hard to email one-handed while playing golf*.
* Curiously, if you estimate the number of such people who are said to be playing golf on any given day, and then count how many working-aged people are out playing at your region's golf courses, there appears to be a discrepancy.
* Curiously, if you estimate the number of such people who are said to be playing golf on any given day, and then count how many working-aged people are out playing at your region's golf courses, there appears to be a discrepancy.
Every office has an executive tier whose emails are like:
saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3
and a worker tier whose emails are like:
Dear Jim,
First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…
saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3
and a worker tier whose emails are like:
Dear Jim,
First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 13, 2025 at 9:35 AM
It's hard to email one-handed while playing golf*.
* Curiously, if you estimate the number of such people who are said to be playing golf on any given day, and then count how many working-aged people are out playing at your region's golf courses, there appears to be a discrepancy.
* Curiously, if you estimate the number of such people who are said to be playing golf on any given day, and then count how many working-aged people are out playing at your region's golf courses, there appears to be a discrepancy.
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Such concrete outcomes do not grow on trees.
Talk TV has sacked presenter Mike Graham over a racist FB post. He actually tried to blame “hackers”.
November 12, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Such concrete outcomes do not grow on trees.
The "infinite growth on a finite planet" consensus want to lecture Greens about maths?
GTFO.
GTFO.
And today it's the turn of The Times to try and patronise us all.
Every single day the right wing establishment tries to close ranks.
And every day we are growing.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Every single day the right wing establishment tries to close ranks.
And every day we are growing.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 12, 2025 at 3:27 PM
The "infinite growth on a finite planet" consensus want to lecture Greens about maths?
GTFO.
GTFO.
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And today it's the turn of The Times to try and patronise us all.
Every single day the right wing establishment tries to close ranks.
And every day we are growing.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Every single day the right wing establishment tries to close ranks.
And every day we are growing.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 12, 2025 at 8:33 AM
And today it's the turn of The Times to try and patronise us all.
Every single day the right wing establishment tries to close ranks.
And every day we are growing.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Every single day the right wing establishment tries to close ranks.
And every day we are growing.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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The easiest way to make housing affordable immediately without new building is to hike property taxes, which reduces asset prices by the NPV of the perpetual liability. This also helps young people buy, as they have future income rather than current wealth. Naturally we’re doing the opposite.
i think it's cool how Republicans are independently converging on neo-feudalism
November 12, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The easiest way to make housing affordable immediately without new building is to hike property taxes, which reduces asset prices by the NPV of the perpetual liability. This also helps young people buy, as they have future income rather than current wealth. Naturally we’re doing the opposite.
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Good morning to all those people who wasted the last decade saying, "there's no point tackling climate change in the UK, because China."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds
World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Good morning to all those people who wasted the last decade saying, "there's no point tackling climate change in the UK, because China."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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The BBC is in crisis in the same way that GB News would be if you put Owen Jones on the board armed with a veto and plenty of coffee.
November 11, 2025 at 7:48 AM
The BBC is in crisis in the same way that GB News would be if you put Owen Jones on the board armed with a veto and plenty of coffee.
Abolishing cycle-to-work schemes in the middle of a climate emergency is exactly the sort of thing this dour, unimaginative lot would do.
And then they wonder why people are deserting them en masse for the Greens.
And then they wonder why people are deserting them en masse for the Greens.
If you think that “the slow vanishing of employee benefits” is a better trade politically than “the other lot saying you broke your promise on income tax”, you are out of your tree: www.ft.com/content/1160...
November 11, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Abolishing cycle-to-work schemes in the middle of a climate emergency is exactly the sort of thing this dour, unimaginative lot would do.
And then they wonder why people are deserting them en masse for the Greens.
And then they wonder why people are deserting them en masse for the Greens.
Insomniacs of the world rejoice, @politicanimal.bsky.social has the cure you were looking for.
You’d need to reinstate Radio 4 Longwave in order to cover all the councils with alternate week collections in different parts of the borough.
‘SE7, dry recycling only, becoming non-recyclable waste later.’
‘SE7, dry recycling only, becoming non-recyclable waste later.’
A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
November 11, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Insomniacs of the world rejoice, @politicanimal.bsky.social has the cure you were looking for.
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Holy shit, an ‘expert’ on R4 PM just said ‘if your child has trouble with friends and there’s an AI chatbot that can make them feel better, where’s the harm in that?’
Seriously, what on earth? Not someone being critically interviewed but a co-presenter on AI.
Seriously, what on earth? Not someone being critically interviewed but a co-presenter on AI.
November 10, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Holy shit, an ‘expert’ on R4 PM just said ‘if your child has trouble with friends and there’s an AI chatbot that can make them feel better, where’s the harm in that?’
Seriously, what on earth? Not someone being critically interviewed but a co-presenter on AI.
Seriously, what on earth? Not someone being critically interviewed but a co-presenter on AI.
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at one point in his life, Andreesen invented the graphical browser. Ever since then, he has done his level best to make sure that rather than this, his obituary will read "That Shitco Guy".
It amuses me how low the Conehead has fallen. open.substack.com/pub/infinite...
Marc Andreessen as Avatar for Societal Decay
How one venture capitalist represents everything wrong with social media
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
at one point in his life, Andreesen invented the graphical browser. Ever since then, he has done his level best to make sure that rather than this, his obituary will read "That Shitco Guy".
Obviously with the state of our water companies, it's going to take more than one flush, but these turds just keep on coming back up river.
what do you MEAN Palantir UK is run by the grandson of Oswald Mosley
November 9, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Obviously with the state of our water companies, it's going to take more than one flush, but these turds just keep on coming back up river.
This machine kills fascists.
November 9, 2025 at 4:45 PM
This machine kills fascists.
Look peasants, it's complicated. We NEED more airports and we can't afford to electrify the railways. Stop demanding better or we'll set Farage on you.
EXCL: The Green party is offering “simple solutions to complex problems” and making “undeliverable” promises to voters ahead of next election, PM's chief secretary Darren Jones tells me 👇
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Greens’ ‘undeliverable’ promises will let voters down, says Labour minister
Exclusive: Darren Jones says Labour has to convince young people it is ‘modern party of the future’
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Look peasants, it's complicated. We NEED more airports and we can't afford to electrify the railways. Stop demanding better or we'll set Farage on you.
bUt wHy aReNt iNdIa aNd cHiNa dOiNg aNyThInG oN cLiMaTe
Here is an embarrassing graph I have just made for a report. Fun fact:
in 2020/21 Indian Railways added the equivalent of the UK’s *entire electrified railway network* (over 6000 route kilometers!) to their own electrified network - and then did this again in 2021/22
…and AGAIN in 2022/23! 🤯
in 2020/21 Indian Railways added the equivalent of the UK’s *entire electrified railway network* (over 6000 route kilometers!) to their own electrified network - and then did this again in 2021/22
…and AGAIN in 2022/23! 🤯
November 9, 2025 at 12:51 PM
bUt wHy aReNt iNdIa aNd cHiNa dOiNg aNyThInG oN cLiMaTe
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All those people who think they can dodge the effects of the climate crisis because they live in a nice developed country are about to get punched in the face. It’s coming in hard everywhere.
England facing drastic measures due to extreme drought next year
Government and water companies are devising emergency plans for worst water shortage in decades
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:04 PM
All those people who think they can dodge the effects of the climate crisis because they live in a nice developed country are about to get punched in the face. It’s coming in hard everywhere.
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‘Our priorities are growth and climate’
Oh rly???
Oh rly???
Govt scraps all electrification investment. Midland Main Line to stay forever diesel Leicester Nottingham Derby Sheffield. Hugely embarrassing and inexplicable
www.ft.com/content/5ecd...
www.ft.com/content/5ecd...
UK transport secretary says full electrification of railways ‘not affordable right now’
Heidi Alexander says focus will be on other projects such as HS2
www.ft.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:27 AM
‘Our priorities are growth and climate’
Oh rly???
Oh rly???