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Creator of good books such as Trans Britain and Pressing Matters. Lifetime Achievement Award PrideOfManchester 2021. Drove an 8 year old #EV called Peggy and […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://mastodon.green/@christineburns, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
"Karen has no criminal record. “I don’t even have parking tickets”, she says. “I am not a dangerous criminal. I didn’t enter the country illegally and I had everything I needed to be there.”
So why did ICE detain her, and keep her locked up for so long? As Karen got to know the guards at the […]
I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve re-listened to all the episodes of Round the Horne in the last few years, thanks to the streaming services. It used to be the backdrop to Sunday lunch with my parents in the mid 1960s. I’m still amazed that they didn’t turn it off as it was laden with […]
REACTION: China's 15th five year plan Share China's five year plan: a missed opportunity China released its 15th Five-Year Plan (FYP) during the Two Sessions. The plan reinforces the rapid expansion of clean energy, but it does not translate this momentum into stronger binding emissions targets. A central climate target in the plan is a 17% reduction in CO₂ emissions per unit of GDP by 2030 from 2025 levels (starting at 3.8% by 2026). This is lower than the 18% reduction target set for the 14th FYP period (2021-2025), which China failed to meet according to calculations by Climate Action Tracker. However, intensity targets allow emissions to move upwards and international good practice is to move away from these towards absolute mission reduction targets as the main focus, and China needs to do that soon. If China’s GDP grows conservatively at the lower bound of its 2026 annual target (4.5%), the proposed carbon‑intensity target would still permit roughly a 3% increase in absolute carbon emissions by 2030. The plan places strong emphasis on expanding clean energy. It includes a target to double non-fossil energy over the next ten years, underscoring the continued priority China is giving to clean energy development. However, the CAT cannot quantify this goal until the official documents are released: it is unclear whether this refers to share, capacity, or generation, and there is no specified baseline year. Unfortunately, this latest plan does not match the urgency of action and the need for China to move into a leadership position on climate action globally. "China's 15th five year plan is a missed opportunity. While it does continue the strong emphasis on clean energy development, it could have gone further,” said Norah Zhang, Climate Action Tracker's China country lead. "In 2025, renewable electricity generation in China grew faster than overall electricity demand, which helped reduce coal-fired power generation and lowered CO₂ emissions in the power secto…
China's latest five year plan is not strong in terms of climate action or accountability
I see "overpromise, under-deliver" a lot here but that feels pretty flimsy for a country with climate harm the size of China's
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How many volatile excursions in gas and oil prices will it take for the world’s governments to decide that accelerated widespread adoption of renewables and transport electrification are not just “optional net zero tree hugger stuff” but serious economic strategy and national security […]
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This is why blocking ads and trackers is not just a suggestion. It should be a baseline of your online existence.
We have lived during a decade of Trump’s political dominance,
as the philosopher Antonio Gramsci foresaw,
in an interregnum,
“The old is dying and the new cannot be born.
In this interregnum many morbid symptoms appear.”
The term Interregnum was first applied to the five-year reign of Oliver […]
Will Indiana be the next state to invalidate drivers licenses and IDs for trans residents?
@transitics.substack.com spoke with government employees from various states about the capabilities of their bureaucracy. She identified Indiana as the most likely state to follow Kansas. Worth a read.
@2legged That reminds me of a little book of academic cartoons I bought in the mid 1970s: ‘Not Academic But You Can Dance To It’. The one I loved the most depicted a gormless wannabe radical holding a lump hammer which he had just used to break the elevated cistern of an old fashioned toilet. A […]
Latest front cover of Private Eye.
#HannahThePlumber #PrivateEye #GortonAndDenton
I could be wrong but I think that this section of hedge is yew. Oddly, however, I thought it propagated by birds coming and eating the red berries when they appear later in the year. I guess the clouds of pollen contribute to the earlier stage of pollination — although the only thing the clouds […]
Yesterday afternoon, walking home with a neighbour and the small boy she’d just collected from school, I saw something I’ve never seen before. The boy was the one who noticed it. He said the hedge near my house was “smoking”. Sure enough, as the handlebar of his scooter disturbed the wall of […]
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For anyone who enjoyed the documentary I shared last night here’s a whole set of episodes of Ivor the Engine. It takes you back to a simpler time. https://youtu.be/dPae_D6Ehxo?si=OpmmecG1wC4sN_vS
I’m enjoying this wonderful documentary about the two lovely creative men who brought us the likes of Ivor the Engine, Bagpuss and The Clangers (to name but three). Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin, making teatime TV entertainment in an old stable with hand painted sets and gorgeous characters […]
Ollie North's mugshot from his arrest related to the Iran-Contra Affair
Ollie North on Fox "news", a few decades after Iran-Contra
The guy on the left was a US Marine Lt. Colonel who was arrested and convicted for selling missiles to Iran.
The guy on the right is a Fox "news" *snicker* "military analyst" who says Iran shouldn't have missiles.
They're the same guy.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren: "I just left a classified briefing on Iran, and here's what I can say: it is so much worse than you thought. You are right to be worried. The Trump administration has no plan in Iran. This illegal war is based on lies and it was launched without any imminent threat to our […]
@2legged Ha ha. (Corrected now). I’m not in her constituency.
Now compare that with March 2026.
This is what a month’s British car deliveries looked like just four years ago in March 2022.
@clairewillett - honestly the best marketing scheme in history is men successfully getting away with calling women the 'more emotional' gender for like, EONS, because they've successfully rebranded anger as Not An Emotion
Men: redefining human emotion one punched-wall at a time
This afternoon I went out for a meeting in Manchester without a coat. That’s the first time for 2026. As far back as I can recall that milestone has usually had to wait till the second half of the month.
Bold black text 9n a white background: "Number of British Sunday newspapers with a front page article about the 80+ Iranian children killed on Saturday in an Israeli missile attack on their school in Minab, Hormozgan province." Below that text, in huge black type with drop shadow, the single word "zero".
Number of British #SundayNewspaper s with a #frontpage article about the 80+ #Iranian #children killed on Saturday in an #Israeli missile attack on their #school in #Minab, Hormozgan province: zero.
#iran
A bar chart showing cumulative numbers of EVs every month going back 5 years
There are now over 2 million EVs on Britain’s roads (2,018,300). With around 30 million cars and vans in total that’s roughly 1 in 15. The growth is steady.
Pregnant women prisoners in England are being handcuffed to prison officers — often male — during intimate vaginal examinations and long, agonising births […]
The level of misinformation spread by proponents of youth gender medicine, many of whom have a professional stake in it and many of whom have fancy letters and affiliations affixed to their names, is really demoralizing. Jack Turban MD @jack_turban O ..• This of course runs counter to the recommendations of all major medical and mental health organizations, as well as all existing
Jesse Singal now appears to be siding with Ken Paxton on forced mental health conversion therapy for trans youth.
Two pie charts side by side. One shows new car registrations by fuel type, with the proportions sold within each type by manufacturer. The other chart shows the same registrations by manufacturer market share. For each manufacturer that share is then broken down by fuel type for that company
25% of all the new cars registered in Britain in February were pure battery electric — level pegging with the number of non-hybrid petrol cars. 4% were diesel powered. But apparently “nobody wants EVs” so presumably nobody wants petrol cars either. 😂 Nearly […]
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in YouGov poll 50% of Americans now back abolishing ICE, compared with just 39% who want to keep. That top number includes 52% of independents.
**Leaked E-Mail where Pete Hegseth, War Minister of the United States of America claims the war on Iran is preparation for the return of Jesus.**
NCO Email to MRFF (_As redacted by MRFF_):
> From: (Active Duty Military NCO and MRFF Client’s email address withheld)
> Subject: Unit combat […]
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Mar 2 Horton
NHS announces study of under-10s called Project R22 which considers social transitions as a safeguarding risk for referral to authorities and attempts to head parents off before they can consume info from affirming sources.
Still not a peep on the things Mamdani can do for trans youth after hospital closures.
No activation of H+H to take patients. Trans patients are a rounding error for the $10B program.
No movement on human rights complaints.
No promise to restore care.
Rarely have I been so disappointed.