this has blown up and people keep chiming in to suggest that the existence of unhoused people riding transit all day for free is a problem that has to be solved before others can take advantage and that's blatantly untrue; zero fare reduces conflict and increases ridership, which make transit safer

Those skills look simple, but they’re not, and they’re vital.

Yes there's certainly a lot of that too.

🧵More than a few Bluesky people have been defending Starmer's Sun piece, saying this is "only rhetoric", which is fine because the piece upholds the UK's commitment to net zero. Here's why such claims are objectively false.

Knowledge of the Russia detox thing is somewhat niche ime. I suspect it's rare even amongst members of the media.

ICYMI: yesterday, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer penned an oped in The Sun titled "I will not sacrifice Great British industry to the drum-banging, finger-wagging Net Zero extremists."

Although contingent on the percentage of their electorate reading the Guardian - which itself points to the more immediate issue of their narrowing appeal.

Their update back-peddles this to mostly moral support.

The US ultimately underwrites their debt - not just defacto, but dejure. www.cgdev.org/blog/whither...

Specifically they could literally bomb the international airport multiple times in a row and it was just 'strikes'.