For weeks I have been telling reporters that #Trump could have the power to switch off our tech in #Europe. It felt a bit alarmist until I just read that #Microsoft, on the behest of the #US gov, has suspended the email account of Karim Khan, the #ICC chief prosecutor.

One of the most important international courts and a legal bulwark against #genocide, crimes against humanity, and #warcrimes is threatened by #BigTech dependency.

https://apnews.com/article/icc-trump-sanctions-karim-khan-court-a4b4c02751ab84c09718b1b95cbd5db3

#DigitalSovereignty #FOSS #EthicalTech

Lead story in the Süddeutsche Zeitung today: "The great dumbing down...How the US government is destroying the world's collective knowledge."
Our nation is not only an embarrassment in history. It is destructive of intelligence.

This is how to honor teachers.

Midlands Connect proposes a £1.75bn investment into the Midlands Rail Hub project which will see up to 300 extra trains (per day I think?) across the region,
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpd4v85xyq8o.amp

Why did 30 Met officers kick the door down at a teenage tea and biscuits meeting in a Quaker house?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/10/police-raid-london-quaker-meeting-house-very-worrying

Masked ICE agents arrest the Mayor of Newark New Jersey, while he was going to check out an ICE detention facility in his city.

The facility is suspected of operating illegally. He was accompanied by members of Congress. Seeing this shit reminds me of Nazi Gestapo in WWII. Instilling fear by use of force. What kind of monster does that for a job & enjoys it? I don’t care what Tom Homan says. “Just following orders” didn’t cut it as a defense during the Nuremberg trials.

#FascismInPlainSight

Work commences on world’s oldest in-situ cast-iron railway bridge, part of the ongoing Transpennine Route Upgrade
https://www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/news/work-commences-on-worlds-oldest-in-situ-cast-iron-railway-bridge

Global Ferry Electrification Accelerates: 70% Of New Orders Go Electric

https://cleantechnica.com/2025/05/05/global-ferry-electrification-accelerates-70-of-new-orders-go-electric/

We used 223kWh of grid⚡ in Apr-2025 with
45kWh for EV
168kWh general household activity
152kWh for ASHP
Delivering 541kWh heat
our PV generated 376kWh, with 312kWh self consump and ~64kWh export
Total cost of elec: £43.83 inc VAT and standing charge (but excluding FiT payments for our PV).

We used 223kWh of grid⚡ in Apr-2025 with
45kWh for EV
168kWh general household activity
152kWh for ASHP
Delivering 541kWh heat
our PV generated 376kWh, with 312kWh self consump and ~64kWh export
Total cost of elec: £43.83 inc VAT and standing charge (but excluding FiT payments for our PV).

@EarthOrgUK great visual

A few moments of contemplation. Listening to Sketches of Spain by Miles Davis. Recorded 1960 and still a masterpiece.

@EarthOrgUK think of it as not adding but substituting

That's over 23yrs of continuous recording of my quarterly household electricity and gas (now at zero) use. We now have an EV and fully electric heating and appliances so our electricity use is somewhat higher than 20yrs ago, but overall our energy use is down approx 75%.

That's over 23yrs of continuous recording of my quarterly household electricity and gas (now at zero) use. We now have an EV and fully electric heating and appliances so our electricity use is somewhat higher than 20yrs ago, but overall our energy use is down approx 75%.

Nearly 300 apply as French university offers US academics ‘scientific asylum'
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/apr/17/nearly-300-applications-to-french-university-offer-to-take-in-us-academics

Harvard University rejected Trump's 10 demands, including restricting acceptance of international students "hostile to the American values and institutions." He also wants a third party to audit programs that it says "fuel antisemitic harassment or reflect ideological capture."
The regime now freezes $2 billion in federal funds.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/harvard-rejects-trump-administration-demands-threats-funding-cuts-rcna201203

@suihkulokki absolutely.

Hydrogen vs. Battery Buses: A European Transit Reality Check
https://cleantechnica.com/2025/04/14/hydrogen-vs-battery-buses-a-european-transit-reality-check/

Whilst fast fashion is a scourge the US tariffs are certainly not the solution. Stunned by Trump’s tariffs, world clothing suppliers are preparing to squeeze workers (in already low wage countries). https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20250408-stunned-by-trump-s-tariffs-world-clothing-suppliers-are-preparing-to-squeeze-workers