Mary Elkington 💙💛🇺🇦

In China, the AI bubble has already burst reut.rs/4BlW1Uh

It's 26.10.26 today I'm feeling the balance

It's not just this one - Ali if the Southwest's reservoirs are very low. Sure it's raining today, but every thing you do is effected by the Earth System www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

www.samdumitriu.com/p/how-much-u...

60 or so years ago you could ride a horse into a pub, feed it a bucket of stout and ride it back home. These days you can’t even drink outside after 11pm. Decline.

This has my vote 👍 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

“The USA haven’t spent a single cent on Ukraine since January 2025, so more than 1.5 years. We in Europe are doing it.” So why are MAGA still whinging?

Blood boiling at that piece on #r4today where Nick 'Reform Mouthpiece ' Robinson repeatedly said RNLI was involved in political campaigning. Suggest he goes to sea or gts a VHF radio and listen to what they really do!

What sort of pothole excess tax is it going to pay?

Don't suppose they said anything about electrification where you have constant salt water spray? Asking for everyone who lives west of Starcross 🙃 (srsly - great post on may levels)

Taxing private jets at the same rate as regular flights, and ending the tax exemption on plane fuel could give the Chancellor an extra £2.7 bn. £2.7bn for our green transport networks! With other MPs I am calling on the Govt to end the tax breaks for wealthy private jet users. buff.ly/B65XyNf

Oh yeah. And why hire someone to keep an eye on the fridge temps when you can jus let HAL rub the show ..

What a weird world we live in - Ukraine hits a data centre deep in Russia - Irish twitter users see racist posts about IPAS centres in Offaly fall off a cliff

Robo-mops cleaning the aisles, self checkouts, automated warehouses for shop-from-home No job opportunities now in an industry that used to provide steady work for large numbers of people in their local communities... And we wonder why so much worklessness...

Look at the graph of US support for Ukraine, and how it disappeared when Trump entered his second term. The Russia hoax was never a hoax

Can we please: - Put guardrails on GB News - as a news channel should be subject to laws/policy? - Create parliamentary standards for social media actions by MPs & sanction/strike off any future standing as needed? - full disclosure/limit any social media spend by any parties & co. Thanks 4 attn

Top story in torygraph home page today ⬇️

Wow. Donald Trump is giving money to Putin’s war machine so he can keep killing innocent Ukrainians and attacking democracies across Europe. The UK must lead a coalition of the willing that stands up and says no.

This is completely outrageous and disgusting. This must immediately be blocked by Congress and Trump should be impeached for this. The US is now funding Putin’s war machine as he murders civilians including children. We are lost as a country.

logging on after getting the failed Darth Maul surgery

"Oh no! Not another one" Social media + russian money * disaster capitalits = bad outcomes for society, justice, and economy www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

OK, but how about ensuring childcare vouchers can not be redeemed by private prep-schools running pre-reception services. Or has to be used for childcare within X miles of home address? Of course Tory policy don't care about social justice.

Three cheers for low picket fence. The gawd awful close boarded 2m fences of suburbia are a social and visual blight

And in other long term economics and politics news... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

For people talking about build homes on public land... Sure, have a look Using the Homes England Land Hub - GOV.UK share.google/sKc70VJ5r5qc...

This is very not normal www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...

When do nominations open for Biggest Snowflakes on the Internet? I've found a contender: Facebook Private Landlords groups. Just whisper into their echo chamber something about hard work of tenants who pay rent (their mortgages) and the tantrum outbursts and name-calling are unbelievably OTT! 😃

London’s most expensive house, the Reform UK Treasurer, Holly Valance, one of Labour’s biggest donors, a £265m sale, and a curious loophole we’ve uncovered that could slash the taxes earned from elite London properties. London Centric x Dan Neidle collab. www.londoncentric.media/p/londons-mo...

Read this thread

Ocean anomalies up to +14°F! While El Niño drives global weather patterns, its biggest impacts are arguably local in #Peru, #Ecuador and the #Galápagos Islands. The extreme warmth along the coast is disrupting one of the most productive ocean ecosystems on Earth. 1/

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@channel4news.bsky.social has done an excellent job reporting. Of course I'm guessing not one Reform voter will have watched that, and there willl be spinning away at GfB'News'

So she's not courting the Landlord vote?

Melbourne has officially recorded the warmest winter since records began in 1855, with a mean temperature of 12.8 degrees – just above the 2013 record of 12.7 degrees.

Great statistic by @pmsmith.bsky.social speaking to the difficult realities that the NPPF is easy to edit, and hard to enforce.

As if the man supposedly in charge sitting up all night reposting AI images of himself in ludicrous situations isn't enough absurdity

Feeling motivated for a trip to Scotland now!

Oookaaaay... Odd that "it could fund" isn't followed by something a bit more homes and community building rather than Lethal weapons. Homes and infrastructure help the economy as much as military spend, non?

About a month until 8,000 volumes on British postwar planning and housing history gets pulped. Unless we can find someone to save it municipaldreams.substack.com/p/a-good-hom...

This CNN article and infographic is probably the best summary I’ve seen of how much traffic has actually been passing through Hormuz over time, and via which routes.

Objectors say 150 homes will "result in a thousand extra car journeys a day" 🤣🤣🤣 Those objectors to think critically for one minute. How many in those homes will be retired? WFH? Every household taking 6 "trips" a day? Sigh. www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/2645093...

Downplay a book or film: The Adequate Seven

This really cheesed me off this morning. There was no “slight confusion”; NF told a straight-up lie. No wonder so many people no longer engage with BBC News content…

10 things I'm 100% in favour of. Please note that nowhere does it imply these are inconsistent with delivering much needed homes. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Paging @countbinface.bsky.social

ALL of britain's large developers are lobbying to bring back help to buy - post 2008 recovery up to 40% of their market sales were HtBuy and evidence clear it raised new build house prices (along with turnover).

Wondering how strongly facebook/meta went out for the rightwing candidate in Columbia? @carolecadwalla.bsky.social

Reform spent £4,376,601 on campaigning last year, essentially flat on the general election year - but £8,944,096 on unexplained "office costs". No breakdown anywhere. Much smaller parties than Reform give detailed breakdowns of what went into those figures.