I do love a tortured intro.

This is absolute madness. Carbon capture and storage has failed time and again. Labour has slashed reliable green programmes, to pour vast sums of our money into a complete crock. The only possible explanation is lobbying by fossil fuel companies.🧵 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Labour to commit almost £22bn to fund carbon capture and storage projects

Investment will fund two CCS clusters – but environmental campaigners have criticised plans

“We may have mistakenly sent our notes to President Nixon.” ‘Not to worry, boys. Could happen to anyone’

i've started just saying "twenty gallons of water" immediately and flatly whenever someone tries to tell me how they used ChatGPT on some work project and boy it's pretty effective to dissuade people from using ChatGPT

This isn't perfect but there are some actual numbers here. I can also tell you that Iowa residents have seen 30% increases in water bills and 20% increases in electricity bills as a direct result of the chat gpt plant's gluttony. www.kcci.com/article/ai-t...

AI technology behind ChatGPT was built in Iowa — with a lot of water

Few people in Iowa knew about its status as a birthplace of OpenAI’s most advanced large language model, GPT-4, before a top Microsoft executive said in a speech it “was literally made next to cornfie...

"Heading into the Autumnal months, heavy downpours and prolonged periods of rain can be expected to overwhelm the UK’s drainage infrastructure". A reminder: in the 6 months ended 30/09/23, Anglian Water revenue went up £66.6m (+8.8%) to £827.5m... www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/local-n...

Anglian Water had biggest increase in sewage spills over last two years

The study compared figures from 2022 and 2023

The Conservative Party have nothing to be proud of, they achieved nothing in 14yrs of government except record levels of corruption, soaring costs, sewage in our rivers & coastlines & the destruction of our services & standards. They wrecked the U.K. & blamed it all on various scapegoats.

As an editor, I help people say what they mean--and not say what they don’t mean. Here are some common not-quite-right words or expressions that I often see. This is not to embarrass anybody--I've made many of these mistakes myself. Please share your favorite fixes at the end of the thread. (1/n)

🔴 Big scoop in Democracy for Sale newsletter (and Times) today Rachel Reeves' advisor works for a firm that's lobbying for Shein, Chinese fast fashion giant accused of human rights violations Great to work with @georgegreenwood.bsky.socialdemocracyforsale.substack.com/p/new-rachel...

SCOOP: Rachel Reeves advisor's firm lobbies for Shein

Kamella Hudson is a partner at FGS, whose clients include Chinese fast fashion giant accused of human rights violations and now seeking a stock market listing in the UK.

So Jenrick thinks threatening us with leaving the ECHR without a referendum is “finding the common ground of British politics” does he? This nasty little Farage tribute act is so far away from the common ground, he’s never going to find it now. #r4today