But y’all are most welcome up here. And I mean that.

Y’all are most welcome up here.

Britain breaks solar energy record twice as UK’s biggest solar farm gets approval Record high set on Monday and raised on Tuesday, with 14.4GW of electricity generated in sunny spring weather

Cloudy, rainy Britain is deriving more and more of its electricity from solar.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A chill on tourism in Florida’s ‘Little Quebec’ | CNN Along Florida’s Atlantic Coast near Fort Lauderdale, businesses in towns like Hollywood and Hallandale Beach are reckoning with a drop in French Canadian visitors. “It’s serious,” said one local hotel...

Désolé, pas désolé, eh?

The snowbirds of #Quebec shun the USA, turning Hollywood, Florida into a ghost town.

www.cnn.com/2026/04/08/t...

annotated apple maps map showing the new cities that are getting bixi in 2026.

6 new cities are getting the #biximtl bike share system this year, including suburbs far from the centre of montreal.

1 - sainte-thérèse
2 - boisbriand
3 - sainte-marthe-sur-le-lac
4 - dollard-des-ormeaux
5 - dorval
6 - chambly

Regional council approves Wallenstein footbridge Wallenstein footbridge gains regional council approval

Very exciting news! The Guelph to Goderich is one of Ontario’s longest rail trails. This new bridge will fill in a missing gap and crest a 35km stretch of continuous trail through some beautiful landscapes and interesting places.

www.therecord.com/news/council...

US carmakers accuse EU of blocking supersized pick-up trucks from roads Brussels is proposing to tighten safety rules that apply to a small number of specialist imports

As an American, I'm 100% on Team 🇪🇺 here.

Monster trucks don't fit on US streets, let alone European ones.

Usha Vance Catches Husband Measuring Her Skull Again

Usha Vance Catches Husband Measuring Her Skull Again

The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins - Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world--and a weed that grows in human-disturbed forests across the northern hemisphere. Through its ability to nurture trees, matsutake helps forests to ...

Highly recommended! Beautiful writing on how not to destroy the planet.

"...collaborative survival within multispecies landscapes, the prerequisite for continuing life on earth."

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I tell the whole story in this week's High Speed dispatch:

www.highspeed.blog/a-wintry-rid...

I took a cold-weather journey north from #Montreal on @viarailcanada.bsky.social Train 601, bound for Jonquière.

It’s cheap, fun and, thanks to the roomy 1950s rolling stock, very comfortable…

🧵

Our monster trucks are awesome, bro! (Why don’t Europeans love us?)

Providence almost had a subway system 100 years ago. Why it went nowhere Providence drew up plans as far back as 1913, inspired by the success of Boston's historic subway line. Here's why it never went anywhere.

The subway would have gone from the East Side's Red Bridge to Olneyville - and from North Main St. to Trinity Square in South Providence

It would have cost less in today's dollars than RI is spending to tear down and rebuild half the Washington Bridge

www.providencejournal.com/story/news/p...

Whether or not you think a PVD subway was a good idea - this map in the city archives is a piece of history and work of art. It needs restoration.

When we unrolled it the paper began to crack.

@brown.edu @risd1877.bsky.social @risecstate.bsky.social

www.providencejournal.com/story/news/p...

Providence almost had a subway system 100 years ago. Why it went nowhere Providence drew up plans as far back as 1913, inspired by the success of Boston's historic subway line. Here's why it never went anywhere.

More than a century ago Providence abandoned plans for a 2-line subway system similar to Boston's Green Line.

The decision haunts city and transit experts to this day.

The story of what happened and why 👇

www.providencejournal.com/story/news/p...

So he admits they control the SoH:

$2 million per ship — to cross a Strait that was free six weeks ago.

@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/w...

Never forget: thousands of people are suffering, right now. They’re being killed and maimed by bombs and shells. While warmongers go to their beds tonight, comfortable and self-satisfied. This has to stop.

Doesn't mean it won't be back exactly the same, or worse somehow, in a few days.
He needs to be removed and rid of, immediately.

Word.

This is the most egregious Little Boy Who Cried Wolf episode in my lifetime.

The little cred the demented grifter had is gone.

From now on, the world will be moving on.

So it is #TACO Tuesday.

But a line has been crossed. Threatening to end an entire *civilization* goes beyond even genocide.

B/W image of London Underground train describers : westbound platform at St. James' Park station : c.1925 : large box supported by brackets off wall and showing various train destinations & terminal points. These are 'indicated' by a series of "I 2 3" arrows adjacent to the enamel plates that can be back lit to show the order of train arrivals. The station still has its original overall glass roof (removed c.1927) - walls have many adverts. A handful of passengers move around inc, some at a kiosk.

ca.1925 London Underground train describers on the westbound platform at St. James's Park station (with one plate in Johnston typeface). Signal driven technology - amongst the earliest examples of 'automated' passenger information. A version still survives in use at Earls Court station.

(LU image)

Échangeur XXL, plus grand escalateur du monde... Immersion à Chongqing en Chine !｜TF1 INFO YouTube video by TF1 INFO

Chongqing (重庆), Chine avec :
🛣️ un échangeur autoroutier de 5 niveaux
↗️ un escalier mobile de 905 m de long, 242 m de dénivelé
🚇 un métro qui passe à travers un bâtiment

I tell the whole story in this week's High Speed dispatch:

www.highspeed.blog/a-wintry-rid...

I took a cold-weather journey north from #Montreal on @viarailcanada.bsky.social Train 601, bound for Jonquière.

It’s cheap, fun and, thanks to the roomy 1950s rolling stock, very comfortable…

🧵

Screenshot of a post from Donald Trump: A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!

The President of the United States is openly threatening to commit genocide against 90 million people.

Prime Minister Carney: if there was ever a moment to denounce this illegal war, withdraw your support, and call for accountability for war crimes—it’s now.

The Budd Co. was the Philadelphia-based manufacturer of all kinds of rolling stocks, including DMUs of the kind you’re referring to.

“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” -Trump
Article III
The following acts shall be punishable:
(a) Genocide;
(b) Conspiracy to commit genocide;
(c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide;
(d) Attempt to commit genocide;
(e) Complicity in genocide.

The president speaks genocide The words, the law, the future

“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.”
These are the words of the president of the United States, today.
The president speaks genocide. And so we too must speak. Not only about crimes, but about their legal punishment.
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