
Gareth Dennis
@GarethDennis
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Rail engineer and author of HOW THE RAILWAYS WILL FIX THE FUTURE. Hosts @Railnatter. Chairs @PWInstitution Yorkshire. Co-founder @LevelBoarding. He/him.
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Joined August 2009
So @Railnatter recently put out a new episode on @LevelBoarding - as both @northernassist and @ScotRail confirm that their new fleets will be low-floored to enable level boarding, it's worth stating: WE WON. It will be very difficult for new fleets not to be LB-ready now 🏆
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95% of the UK earns less than £55,000 a year. A lot of them are sick of all-channel coverage and content focusing on what the 5% like, what they need to feel secure, admired, thanked, and celebrated, and what they think is good for the 95% who are supposed to envy or aspire them.
Fascinating reflection of the British media that an article gets written about the "£100,000 tax trap" at least every week. The median wage is £36k. Never has an issue which effects so few people been given so much press coverage.
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I know that “one day, everyone will have always been against this” but it’s still jarring to see history being rewritten in real time by a politician who literally lost his seat for opposing a ceasefire.
Jonathan Ashworth: "I've wanted to see a ceasefire for 2 years" The collective position of the Labour shadow cabinet (which you were part of) for months after October 7th was to reject a ceasefire & Labour instructed its MPs not to vote for a ceasefire in Nov 2023.
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I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
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I'm never actually going to need to write another comment piece again am I? The right wing shit rags are just going to keep recruiting for us. Folks - want a better country? https://t.co/0qbagSvIYp
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hey chatgpt, recreate this diagram but using only the pig pooping meme
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genuinely such an abysmal story. how were the handsacre and euston legs of hs2 only saved bc of a last minute intervention by andy street in rishi's hotel room? this is banana republic shit, absolutely no way to run infrastructure projects
manchestereveningnews.co.uk
The former Conservative mayor claims the 'battle of Manchester' cost him his job
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🚇 Sydney Metro – Western Sydney Airport project update Over 25km of track has been constructed using more than 3,000 tonnes of Australian-made steel. That includes over 10km completed in both the north and south sections of underground tunnel and 15km along the viaducts and
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to suffer so much and then to stay “but we are not the story” and turning the narrative back to palestinians. greta thunberg you’ll always have my respect
Greta Thunberg shares a video detailing the conditions in which Israel is keeping Palestinian adults & children, following her release.
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Robin Williams' daughter Zelda tells fans: “Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad.” “If you’ve got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It’s dumb, it’s a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it’s NOT what he’d want. To
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AI uses up all our water. Increases energy costs. Makes us dumber. Allows corporations to obliterate jobs. Further obfuscates reality when we need the truth more than ever. But yeah keep asking it to write your little emails because you’re too lazy
Meta, OpenAI, and Oracle have collectively announced plans to spend more than $1 trillion on data centers in the next several years.
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Also see e.g. the war on terror, George Osborne, the all-channels hate campaign against the anti-austerity movement, Boris fucking Johnson and now Sir Keir Starmer. The hits just keep on coming and the lads just keep on yapping and yammering, but none of them can explain.
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Is it any wonder Britian is one of the most nature depleted countries in the world with a culture that can produce this?
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🇬🇧 | Projected result of this week's @YouGov poll — under PR ➡️ RFM: 27% | 179 (+83) 🟥 LAB: 20% | 133 (-101) 🟦 CON: 17% | 108 (-48) 🟧 LDM: 17% | 107 (+26) 🟩 GRN: 12% | 75 (+32) 🟨 SNP: 4% | 22 (+5) 🔲 PLC: 1% | 8 (+3) +/- vs. GE2024 [PR]
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this incredible house designed by tsubame architects and yuzuke sakazume in 2019... let me have it for free please I deserve it I promise
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The US gov has acquired stakes in a 3rd mining company, Trilogy Metals. The Trump admin now owns equity in rare earths (MP Materials), lithium (Lithium Americas) + copper. This "right-wing resource nationalism" derisks mining assets, inflates share values & deregulates governance
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We always knew that Labour cares about little else other than keeping private developers happy. But here's proof showing off to JP Morgan despite destruction of some of the "rarest creatures in our country." Let's make that description Labour votes. https://t.co/B3g4FnCAgY
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Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’
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Switzerland today for Swindon tomorrow - gearing up for the PWIs electrification challenge kicking off tomorrow.
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