Yes, they're contractually obliged is my understanding

Congrats!

Feel like I'm good for hearing this person's extended thoughts. I get the gist already

A brown raccoon mascot with a white beard stands in a shopping mall.

Higezo, a raccoon with a white beard, is the mascot for Shirohige Home Care Clinic in Edogawa, Tokyo.

This a lot less significant (in both economic and environmental terms) than either side think, and it's a sign of how unserious politics is at the moment that the whole thing has become such a totem.

UK to receive last tanker of jet fuel from Middle East this week Industry warnings of disruption contrast with government calls for calm

Hilarious how for years serious people have said that you can't rely on renewables because they are prone to disruptions in supply www.ft.com/content/19f1...

A yellow dragon mascot stands beside a treasure chest and juggles purple balls.

Hyoga is a juggling yellow dragon from Hamamatsu City. He is an evil dragon because he eats his roommate's ice cream without permission.

aye sir

We're all going to be using our devices for longer than we planned so my advice to you: settings > battery > charging > set limit to 80% [on iOS or macOS]. Making sure your computer or phone never goes above 80% will *quadruple* its life compared to charging it to 100% every evening.

I've filled up my pantry with a big ASDA order containing a years worth of cupboard staples before the food inflation hits bsky.app/profile/dunc...

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I recall an anecdote about people buying the Morning Star back in the day because it had the best horse racing tips

Andrew Drummond: The Dreadful History and Judgement of God on Thomas Müntzer

Interviewed Andrew Drummond about his @versobooks.bsky.social on Thomas Müntzer the Reformation (proto) revolutionary. Good book, get the book open.spotify.com/episode/5jp2...

“You are an abolitionist, ain’t you?” “As to that, I cannot so readily answer. If by abolitionist you mean a zealot, I am none; but if you mean a man, who, being a man, feels for all men, slaves included, and by any lawful act, opposed to nobody’s interest, and therefore, rousing nobody’s enmity, would willingly abolish suffering (supposing it, in its degree, to exist) from among mankind, irrespective of color, then am I what you say.” “Picked and prudent sentiments. You are the moderate man, the invaluable understrapper of the wicked man. You, the moderate man, may be used for wrong, but are useless for right.”

Herman Melville on moderates, all the way back in 1857:

Funny bit of trolling by the civil servant who put together this chart in the Land Use Framework.

Solar energy - a fixation of the rural right - so negligible in percentage land use terms there's not enough space to put a number.

mlbbox has me covered now :)

Where are you watching it? I can't find a stream anywhere

"Solar panels in China are cheaper than a same-size piece of window glass. You can use panels as siding and fencing as if it’s a building material that just happens to produce some electricity
The future is panels everywhere"-@dfeldman.org
Thread: Solar Hockey Stick of Hope bsky.app/profile/70sb...

1/ Disruptions mean countries will rush to exit US-led oil order

Worst case scenario for oil companies (best for rest of us) is that people permanently shift...what they call “demand destruction“

i.e short term pain but Long: Iran war will accelerate ongoing STRUCTURAL shift to solar+EVs+batteries

After two years in bed with insane heart palpitations I finally booked my holiday to Marseille in June - I'm going to see the Chateau D'If and hang around the Cours Julien. Pop to Aix-en-Provence to check out the Zola and Cezanne landmarks - I'm so excited :)

In his last political act, Habermas tied the survival of the public sphere & the democratic ethos of the Federal Republic of Germany to genocide denial & the state repression of its critics. He died in principled solidarity with the barbarism of 21st century liberalism

The Best Chili Ever Recipe The best beef chili combines puréed chiles, short ribs, tender kidney beans, and an array of umami-boosting ingredients.

I just make this with extra beans instead of meat - it's so good

www.seriouseats.com/the-best-chi...

A fuzz brown mascot in a blue shirt stands on grass in front of a white tent, playing the saxophone.

Seto-kun is a mascot from Seto City and is based on a historical ceramic guardian dog from there. He plays a mean sax.

MacIntyre is cool in the sense that his Marxist background and subsequent Catholicism make him interesting to the left and the right, even if his vision is not an attractive alternative. He's cool!

The radar installation in Qatar that was destroyed by Iran was a strategic level asset.

You're probably picturing a big radar dish. The AN/FPS-132 is more of a massive, multistory concrete building that looks like a cut pyramid. A major civil engineering project. There was ONE in the Middle East.

Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy by Bernard Williams, After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre

This is the largest oil supply shock in history in mb/d
The enemy gets a vote. Iran is now delivering pain to Trump via multiple paths
(1) Gulf Kings
(2) Financial meltdown
(3) AI tech oligarchs
(4) Fuel, fertilizer, food disruptions
Read our Polycrisis Dispatch:
buttondown.com/polycrisisdi...

"Compared to the last maximum disruption during the 1956 Suez Crisis (as a percentage of total liquids demand), this represents the largest oil supply loss in history, by a factor of two

Worse, unlike in past crises, there's zero spare capacity available"- David McNally of Rapidan

it is a bit of a slog at points don't worry

This seems like a good time to remind people that much of what has recently been glossed as a hostility to nuclear energy in the 1970s and 1980s is better understood as a hostility to nuclear weapons that was neither irrational nor incorrect.