@jacksonj04

Advocate of technology for good and awesome. Building things at @dxw. https://xitter.cf/t.co/L1DoMTBMNQ. @nickjackson@mastodon.me.uk

 Leeds, UK
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Lovely day out on @WorthValley. Had to make sure Frank the giraffe saw the engine too!
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Spotted and reported a bug in the @GivEnergy API this morning. Huzzah!
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Tom Forth@thomasforth4 Aug 2023
How we started it. How it's going.
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Business is haunted by Brexit – and this safety mark fiasco is its latest nightmare | Polly Toynbee theguardian.com/commentisfre…

Business is haunted by Brexit – and this safety mark fiasco is its latest nightmare | Polly Toynbee

Money, time, effort all wasted: you can wrap the new red tape three times around the world, one manufacturing boss told me, writes Polly Toynbee

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Taking a van to the EU as a @scouts volunteer- a thread. Buckle up! In my volunteer role in Scouting I use my D1E to support teams of younger leaders who don’t have D1 on their license as that was removed on 1st Jan 1997. I was asked to drive a 3.5tonne van to Switzerland /1
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Don’t interpret a close by-election result and one poorly designed policy as Britons cooling on net zero: the British public — including Conservative voters — is fully behind ambitious green growth. Confident parties and leaders would channel those sentiments, not undermine them.
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Famously, David Cameron moved in 2013 to "cut the green crap" in a short-sighted bid to cut energy bills. It had the opposite effect, with the resulting poorly insulated homes and over-reliance on gas adding £9.8bn to UK energy bills over the past year xitter.cf/DrSimEvans/status/1638…
Simon Evans@DrSimEvans21 Mar 2023
NEW ANALYSIS UK energy bills are £9.8bn higher than they would have been if “green crap” climate policies had not been scrapped over the past decade, new @CarbonBrief analysis shows This updates figures first published last January: carbonbrief.org/analysis-cut… #greencrap
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Of the 30 hottest days ever recorded, no fewer than 21 have occurred THIS MONTH. Temperatures in July 2023 could well be the highest for 120,000 years. This story is the lead on the BBC website, 7th on The Times, 69th on The Daily Mail, & hasn’t yet been mentioned by The Sun.
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So heart warming to see British Gas's hard work, innovation and entrepreneurial spirits finally rewarded with such bumper profits!
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Over 100 trans men enter Miss Italy pageant after organiser says only “women from birth” allowed 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻😆😆😆 uk.news.yahoo.com/amphtml/ov…

Over 100 trans men enter Miss Italy pageant after organiser says only “women from birth” allowed

After the organiser of the Miss Italy beauty pageant declared that trans women are excluded from the competition because contestants should be “women from birth”, over a hundred trans men decided to...

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If corporate infosec is texting a personal number, they've stepped squarely into the line of fire...
Rufo@hilare_belloc25 Jul 2023
sending goatse to gift card scammers
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Braverman broke the law by withholding £3 per week support for pregnant asylum seekers & their children under 3. The court also found a woman in her 80s had been unlawfully denied this support. This is our monstrous refugee “deterrence” policy in action theguardian.com/uk-news/2023…
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For those wondering, if the distribution was normal (hint. it isn't) and the climate was not changing (hint. it is.), then 6.4 standard deviations would correspond to odds of about 1-in-13,000,000,000 (1-in-13 billion).
Prof. Eliot Jacobson
@EliotJacobson24 Jul 2023
Wow, just wow. The planet is breaking. Antarctic sea ice extent is the headline for me this morning. There was actually a net *decrease* in ice extent day over day, and it's mid-winter there, peak freeze season. Extent is now 6.4 standard deviations below the 1991-2020 mean.
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Hey Government Minister, Want to support the engineering supply chain in the UK? I’ve got an idea for you - invest in rail infrastructure in the North. Yours, Exasperated of West Yorkshire. gov.uk/government/news/uk-an… – at Yorkshire and The Humber, England

UK backs £680m loan guarantee for new high-speed electric railway in Turkey

UK government backing enables completion of a 286km electric railway in southern Turkey, connecting major cities with a high-speed, lower-carbon route.

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Marc Stears@mds4923 Jul 2023
A political culture war on climate change will be a disaster for Britain. We must all hope for better – at Hackney, London
Financial Times
@FT23 Jul 2023
Grant Shapps vows to ‘max out’ UK’s North Sea oil and gas reserves on.ft.com/43Fq4Et

Grant Shapps vows to ‘max out’ UK’s North Sea oil and gas reserves

Energy minister says Britain has ‘no option’ but to extract remaining fossil fuel reserves to ensure energy security

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Farrukh
@implausibleblog21 Jul 2023
Uxbridge & ULEZ 1. ULEZ was initiated by Boris Johnson long before Sadiq Khan. 2. The Conservative government under Grant Shapps made expanding ULEZ a condition of providing financial support to TFL during covid. 3. The Conservative government have provided funds to cities such as Birmingham (with a Conservative mayor), but not to London (with a Labour mayor). Clean air is good, we need more of it. Underfunding from the Conservative government which has caused the ULEZ charge is the problem. - Billions given to bankers in tax cuts, billions wasted in PPE/covid fraud, billions wasted on refugee bargees. We need a different and better government. A pity the people of Uxbridge voted for more of the same.
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Ben Welby@bmwelby22 Jul 2023
A Labour Party that was interested in *leading* the country into the future would not run away from ULEZ, it would talk about how they'll complement strategically as a competent government. "Kick the can down the road" is not the policy position of a credible opposition.
Chaminda Jayanetti@cjayanetti21 Jul 2023
This is brain meltingly stupid. Delay it til when - til it takes us closer to the GE? Til it becomes an issue at the next mayoral election? The impact of ULEZ expansion will likely be less than feared, so surely the objective is get it done fast
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Will@wsebag21 Jul 2023
Johnny Mercer is right, we don't want Parliament to become like the Inbetweeners. Can you imagine if the government was made up of unlikeable, incompetent, idiot boys with problematic attitudes towards women who all went to school together?
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Robert Colvile@rcolvile21 Jul 2023
The most important statistics in these by-elections: 2.6%, 3.3% & 1.7%. Vote share for Labour and Lib Dems in seats they didn’t win. Appreciate it’s a by-election but tactical voting on even a fraction of that scale would be very bad news for Tories.
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