Mastodawn

Current regime using the Defense Production Act (1950, Korean War) to gift #millionaire #coal #barons a handout w our #TaxMoney.
Article jokes that new #PhoneBooths are next, coal use has gone down so much. They explain that more ppl in U.S. work in a #WaffleHouse than in the #CoalIndustry.
Biden = 0 new coal permits
Now = 76 new coal permits
Revived/ revised promotional #mascot "Coalie" w huge eyes, hardhat... the department defended the use of the #cartoon.
#pollution
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/04/trump-coal-defense-production-act

N-gated Hacker News May 21

🤣 Ah, the British obsession with listing defunct phone booths that nobody uses anymore, let's compile a neat spreadsheet of obsolete landmarks! 📉 Maybe next, they can catalog every cobblestone in London for those with a real thirst for historical irrelevance! 🕵️‍♂️
https://www.thek6project.co.uk/ #BritishHumor #ObsoleteLandmarks #PhoneBooths #HistoricalIrrelevance #Cobblestones #HackerNews #ngated

The K6 Project

Hello and welcome to the K6 project, a personal adventure to travel the length and breadth of the UK finding old red telephone boxes, the k6 used to be everywhere before mobile telephones became the prevalent form of telecommunication.

The K6 Project

Hacker News May 21

Where are all the UK red telephone kiosks?

https://www.thek6project.co.uk/

#HackerNews #UKtelephonekiosks #redkiosks #Britishheritage #phonebooths #urbanlegends

The K6 Project

eurozerozero Aug 10, 2025

It seems some Australian payphones, like the one down the road from here, have now been updated with USB charging ports (both USB-A and USB-C). Nice idea!

(for several years, all of the 12,000 or so phone booths in Australia have been free to use, with more than 3,000 offering free Wi-Fi as well)

#Australia #PayPhones #PhoneBooths #Telstra