Free plug-in solar panels to be rolled out to some households The technology is designed to be a simpler and more affordable way of benefiting from renewable energy

"Low-income households will get [free] plug-in solar panels to cut their energy bills, the Government has announced."

This is how you do a just transition.
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Sun pillar. Lough Neagh.

Epic Frames
Crystal River Through a Forest
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NC dentists begin public push for increased Medicaid payments • NC Newsline Some NC residents who use Medicaid cannot find dentists who accept their insurance. Dentists say Medicaid payments need to go up.

“Children are living with pain,” said Crystal Adams, director of the N.C. Oral Health Collaborative. “Adults are unable to find employment because of their oral health. That should not be the reality in our state.” ncnewsline.com/2026/04/21/n... @lbonner.bsky.social #ncpol

In February 1777, General George Washington ordered the first mass immunization campaign in American history by mandating that his troops be inoculated against smallpox. He protected the Continental Army from an epidemic that was deadlier than British forces.

249 years later, we have this idiot.

The moon tonight

The Brits appear ready to shame the US news media into covering this, distracted as they are by gazing at their own navels ...

A thin sickle moon in the evening sky, glimpsed among the branches of the trees

Moon! 🌙

"This is an important thing to think about."

Walt Disney World Now Capable of Being Operated 100% by Solar Power Walt Disney World has announced that it now has enough solar power to power the entire resort during sunny, daytime hours!

Walt Disney World Now Capable of Being Operated 100% by Solar Power

Michael Beggs
Swimcart Beach East Coast Tasmania

This morning’s pretty sky 🌞🩷

It’s beautiful but this is why we must resist the urge to touch it.
They must have found this out the hard way at one time.

Starting February 18, 2027, smartphones and many portable devices sold in the EU must have batteries that users can remove and replace more easily. That means #Apple #Samsung #Google #Xiaomi etc may need to redesign future devices to meet the new rules www.business-standard.com/technology/t...

There really is no such thing as race. We all came from Africa. We are all of the same stardust. We are all going to live and die on the same planet, a Pale Blue Dot in the vastness of space. We have to work together.
— Bill Nye

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BREAKING: BBC alleges that the Trump admin may be engaging in insider trading...

💖 She's living her best life
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Alice Perry in B&W head and shoulders photo #WomenInSTEM #WomenInEngineering

Alice Perry 1st woman in #Ireland to graduate w' engineering degree. Only woman to have been Irish County Surveyor (Engineer), but not allowed to do job permanently. Factory inspector, later published poet. Uni of Galway named building for her. d #OTD 21 Apr 1969 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_P...

#BrightSun and #Clouds

#samsung #photography #phonephotography #sky #eastcoastkin #nature #skyscape #cloudscape #skyjunkie #lookup

Virginia Woolf, more than a hundred years ago:

This Isn't Trading. It's Theft from Your Retirement. Someone keeps making perfectly-timed bets right before the President speaks. The victims are your pension, your 401(k), and the country I took an oath to defend.

Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them.
New piece ↓
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Apropos of nothing trending . . .
I'm sharing this photograph of Humphrey Bogart because some things are worth just looking at.

#Mondaythoughts and #Moviestars

#Tonight's #Sky just #Before #Sunset

#samsung #photography #phonephotography #eastcoastkin #nature #skyscape #clouds #cloudscape #silhouette

#VoteYesVirginia
To all my Virginia friends
Tomorrow is election day
VOTE YES
AND
Please call your neighbors and friends
YOU......VIRGINIA CAN STOP TRUMP
Thank you
iwillvote.com

“you are the poet, you walk inside my dreams”

~anaïs nin

🎨 olga petrikova "wildflowers"

Lord of the Rings - Lighting of the Beacons [HD Test] YouTube video by engchi93

Dear Americans: It is time. Light the beacons.

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Photo of a large rock face comprised of many thin layers. The photo shows jagged layers overlapping other layers, looking like large, pointy saw teeth. The rock face is grey with some lighter streaks.

Another area of seaside cliffs near my home town in #Newfoundland, Canada. #geology #hike #trail

“The wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish have been so calculated, so malignant and so devastating that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored because it cannot survive their being repeated.”

—Justice Robert H. Jackson, Chief American Prosecutor, Nuremberg, 1946

Amy Carter Gives History Geek Cardi B a Signed Copy of Jimmy Carter's White House Memoir on Her Final Tour Stop In a surprise political and musical crossover, former first daughter Amy Carter presented rapper Cardi B with a priceless gift at a backstage meet-and-greet in Atlanta

“Amy Carter gives U.S. history geek Cardi B a signed copy of Jimmy Carter's White House memoir at final stop of her tour.”

"Cardi thanked Carter, 58, profusely, multiple times, giving her a hug before their meet-and-greet time was up.”

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