Jay
@jaywhittaker.bsky.social
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Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
December 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
The media and political environment in Australia has been disgraceful this week.
December 22, 2025 at 8:08 AM
The media and political environment in Australia has been disgraceful this week.
The new #Myki readers being rolled out to trams in #Melbourne seem like a huge improvement. But often mounted way too low to view the screen. I and several others had to stoop to see the display. There is a lip above the screen that hampers viewing.
December 4, 2025 at 9:21 PM
The new #Myki readers being rolled out to trams in #Melbourne seem like a huge improvement. But often mounted way too low to view the screen. I and several others had to stoop to see the display. There is a lip above the screen that hampers viewing.
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"Perhaps the most striking findings is that the British public vastly overestimates the cost getting to net zero by almost 14,000%, fueling scepticism & a reluctance to pay. On average, they estimate it will need 28% of GDP by 2050, compared to @thecccuk.bsky.social forecast of just 0.2%"
"Perhaps the most striking findings is that the British public vastly overestimates the cost getting to net zero by almost 14,000%, fueling scepticism & a reluctance to pay. On average, they estimate it will need 28% of GDP by 2050, compared to @thecccuk.bsky.social forecast of just 0.2%"
Are the advocates for net zero losing the fight?
The cost of misunderstanding: How public perception shapes the net zero debate
fgsglobal.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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"Perhaps the most striking findings is that the British public vastly overestimates the cost getting to net zero by almost 14,000%, fueling scepticism & a reluctance to pay. On average, they estimate it will need 28% of GDP by 2050, compared to @thecccuk.bsky.social forecast of just 0.2%"
"Perhaps the most striking findings is that the British public vastly overestimates the cost getting to net zero by almost 14,000%, fueling scepticism & a reluctance to pay. On average, they estimate it will need 28% of GDP by 2050, compared to @thecccuk.bsky.social forecast of just 0.2%"
Long. Good. youtu.be/QwpanShgOp4?...
The Unforgivable Sin of Ms Rachel
YouTube video by Lindsay Ellis
youtu.be
September 2, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Long. Good. youtu.be/QwpanShgOp4?...
Uber at Melbourne airport should be enough to convince us all that airport rail should be built already! #ubersucksnow
August 28, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Uber at Melbourne airport should be enough to convince us all that airport rail should be built already! #ubersucksnow
Jacinta Price should become opposition leader. They’d do just great /s
She is odious.
She is odious.
May 3, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Jacinta Price should become opposition leader. They’d do just great /s
She is odious.
She is odious.
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Many folks assume global heating means continuity, but with a few more weather disasters.
It doesn't. Heating means unpatterning.
Wild weather fraying ancient ecological connections, breaking previously stable cycles, scrambling the calendar, pushing critical systems past their operating limits.
It doesn't. Heating means unpatterning.
Wild weather fraying ancient ecological connections, breaking previously stable cycles, scrambling the calendar, pushing critical systems past their operating limits.
Weather is getting more variable, creating unpredictable energy demands, and challenges for agriculture and health. Over 60% of the globe has "experienced more frequent, intense, and rapid flips since 1961, and this trend will expand to most areas in the future."
Rapid flips between warm and cold extremes in a warming world - Nature Communications
Rapid temperature flips between hot and cold extremes will become more frequent, more intense, and more rapid globally by the end of the twenty-first century, which is exacerbated in world’s breadbask...
www.nature.com
April 23, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Many folks assume global heating means continuity, but with a few more weather disasters.
It doesn't. Heating means unpatterning.
Wild weather fraying ancient ecological connections, breaking previously stable cycles, scrambling the calendar, pushing critical systems past their operating limits.
It doesn't. Heating means unpatterning.
Wild weather fraying ancient ecological connections, breaking previously stable cycles, scrambling the calendar, pushing critical systems past their operating limits.
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The NYC council voting for this downgrade was just such an own goal.
April 21, 2025 at 2:20 PM
The NYC council voting for this downgrade was just such an own goal.
I hope Americans realise that regular people in the rest of the world - of ALL backgrounds & ethnicities - are openly discussing rethinking travel plans and using burner devices if they go to the USA.
April 15, 2025 at 6:24 AM
I hope Americans realise that regular people in the rest of the world - of ALL backgrounds & ethnicities - are openly discussing rethinking travel plans and using burner devices if they go to the USA.
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If you're an American, your *personal* exposure to climate risk (and its economic fallout) is skyrocketing right now.
This will not end pretty.
This will not end pretty.
Today's US EO orders the Attorney General to identify + take expeditious action to stop enforcement of "all State & local laws... purporting to address “climate change” or involving “environmental, social, and governance” initiatives, “environmental justice,” carbon or “greenhouse gas” emissions."
This executive order confirms that. They are attacking all "state laws" that address climate change, ESG, environmental justice and/or greenhouse gases.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
April 9, 2025 at 4:46 AM
If you're an American, your *personal* exposure to climate risk (and its economic fallout) is skyrocketing right now.
This will not end pretty.
This will not end pretty.
I never ever want to hear that the Republicans are better for the economy.
If 40 years of history and evidence is not enough. Perhaps this glaringly obvious self own wouldn’t be either. But we can hope.
Republicans and any party motivated by spite and ignorance will always be a net bad.
If 40 years of history and evidence is not enough. Perhaps this glaringly obvious self own wouldn’t be either. But we can hope.
Republicans and any party motivated by spite and ignorance will always be a net bad.
April 4, 2025 at 11:18 PM
I never ever want to hear that the Republicans are better for the economy.
If 40 years of history and evidence is not enough. Perhaps this glaringly obvious self own wouldn’t be either. But we can hope.
Republicans and any party motivated by spite and ignorance will always be a net bad.
If 40 years of history and evidence is not enough. Perhaps this glaringly obvious self own wouldn’t be either. But we can hope.
Republicans and any party motivated by spite and ignorance will always be a net bad.
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"We cannot overstate what has just happened. It took just 71 days for Donald Trump to wreck the American economy, mortally wound NATO, and destroy the American-led world order"
from @jvl.bsky.social
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...
from @jvl.bsky.social
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...
The American Age Is Over
Emergency Triad: The United States commits imperial suicide.
www.thebulwark.com
April 4, 2025 at 11:21 AM
"We cannot overstate what has just happened. It took just 71 days for Donald Trump to wreck the American economy, mortally wound NATO, and destroy the American-led world order"
from @jvl.bsky.social
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...
from @jvl.bsky.social
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...
US apps updating: “Embrace the spring season with a new seasonal theme…”
Australians: “… um .. what.. no”
Australians: “… um .. what.. no”
April 3, 2025 at 10:41 AM
US apps updating: “Embrace the spring season with a new seasonal theme…”
Australians: “… um .. what.. no”
Australians: “… um .. what.. no”
It’s a stupid as you think.
james surowiecki has discovered where the completely fabricated trump tariff rate has come from for each country
"...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."
"...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."
April 3, 2025 at 1:46 AM
It’s a stupid as you think.
Some of the worst of Twitter is seeping into the debate here. Pointless and overly focussed on personal vs the issues we all face.
Gentle disagreement is fine folks.
Gentle disagreement is fine folks.
March 29, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Some of the worst of Twitter is seeping into the debate here. Pointless and overly focussed on personal vs the issues we all face.
Gentle disagreement is fine folks.
Gentle disagreement is fine folks.
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Today we're publishing a monster feature that dives deep into the initial six weeks over Elon Musk's government takeover. Our entire newsroom came together to help make this story happen. Read this culmination of our blood, sweat, and tears:
Inside Elon Musk’s ‘Digital Coup’
Musk’s loyalists at DOGE have infiltrated dozens of federal agencies, pushed out tens of thousands of workers, and siphoned millions of people’s most sensitive data. The next step: Unleash the AI.
www.wired.com
March 13, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Today we're publishing a monster feature that dives deep into the initial six weeks over Elon Musk's government takeover. Our entire newsroom came together to help make this story happen. Read this culmination of our blood, sweat, and tears:
Trump is Liz Trussing the whole economy.
Just the dumbest moves with the least earned confidence.
Just the dumbest moves with the least earned confidence.
March 13, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Trump is Liz Trussing the whole economy.
Just the dumbest moves with the least earned confidence.
Just the dumbest moves with the least earned confidence.
Surely the experiment with young Cooper Connolly and Jake Fraser McGurk is over for a while until they get bat on ball. Swinging like a rusty gate and not enough 🧠 #ausvind #cricaus #championstrophy #cricket
March 4, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Surely the experiment with young Cooper Connolly and Jake Fraser McGurk is over for a while until they get bat on ball. Swinging like a rusty gate and not enough 🧠 #ausvind #cricaus #championstrophy #cricket
Trump needs to apologise to Zelenskyy (won’t happen)… America needs to apologise to the world.
What an utter disgrace Trump is. US lost a century of soft power. Weak and selfish man he is.
What an utter disgrace Trump is. US lost a century of soft power. Weak and selfish man he is.
March 1, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Trump needs to apologise to Zelenskyy (won’t happen)… America needs to apologise to the world.
What an utter disgrace Trump is. US lost a century of soft power. Weak and selfish man he is.
What an utter disgrace Trump is. US lost a century of soft power. Weak and selfish man he is.
#channel7 is such an awful tv channel. Ads are too frequent and irritating. The news breaks are sensationalist slop. I wish Kayo had these cricket matches.
February 1, 2025 at 4:53 AM
#channel7 is such an awful tv channel. Ads are too frequent and irritating. The news breaks are sensationalist slop. I wish Kayo had these cricket matches.
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I think Ganz is really on to something with this distinction between the old bourgeois right & the new right, the mob.
Mob Rule
On Social Media and the Universal Experience of Poverty
www.unpopularfront.news
January 16, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I think Ganz is really on to something with this distinction between the old bourgeois right & the new right, the mob.
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The electricity market was designed around fossil fuels and was not set up for rooftop solar. This is why we're calling for electricity market reform that ensures fair pricing for Australia's 4 million households with solar. www.smh.com.au/national/vic...
Victorians with rooftop solar will get virtually nothing for feeding power to the grid
A glut of energy during the day and rapid uptake of rooftop solar has prompted the Essential Services Commission to propose slashing the feed-in tariff.
www.smh.com.au
January 13, 2025 at 3:11 AM
The electricity market was designed around fossil fuels and was not set up for rooftop solar. This is why we're calling for electricity market reform that ensures fair pricing for Australia's 4 million households with solar. www.smh.com.au/national/vic...
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No functional institution designates as true whichever idea excites people the most. The creation of modern society is in many respects the creation of systems to carefully adjudicate which ideas are true, and act on them. But social media and the internet has dissolved that.
January 9, 2025 at 4:08 PM
No functional institution designates as true whichever idea excites people the most. The creation of modern society is in many respects the creation of systems to carefully adjudicate which ideas are true, and act on them. But social media and the internet has dissolved that.