Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.

Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.

China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics The world’s biggest manufacturer now has an interest in the world decarbonising

The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."

Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative

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Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Power price stability and the insurance value of renewable technologies - Nature Energy Increasing solar photovoltaic and wind generation capacity beyond European 2030 targets could make electricity prices more stable, with reductions in sensitivity to fluctuations in the price of natura...

Two new papers find renewables are good insurance (they stabilize electricity price volatility in welfare improving ways)

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Worth looking at DVD loans from your local library as well.

Usually BluRay players will play DVDs and BluRays, and work the same way as a DVD player, but will give you more options when looking at charity shop bargains.

Ed Davey MP: "But it’s clear that only proper recognition the of Palestinian state by the international community will finally make way to a two-state solution."

“The PM should make clear to Trump that the UK will lead the way in recognising the state of Palestine."

CHLOE KELLY UNDERSTOOD THE ASSIGNMENT #Euro2025 #England #Lionesses

In just 10 years, the UK's electricity sector has gone from #1 emitter to #6 emitter... what a transformation 👏🇬🇧

Now to see what clean power can do to help cut the other sectors..

Violence plummets in men's prison after inmates were taught philosophy Inmates at HMP Wayland, Norfolk, were taught how to live virtuous, peaceful lives based on resilience, rational thinking and self-discipline.

Phenomenal news story this and I love how the Mail seems quite supportive of it.

Since installing just 7 panels last November on our Southeast England home: in the first half of this year we've had over half our electricity from solar. Looking forward to seeing the second half of the year, although obviously days are getting shorter now. But it's outdone our expectations!

China now has 1 terawatt of solar capacity. For reference, the entire US power grid has 1.3TW of capacity.

Whimsical additions by locals

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What Britain looks like after Brexit DANIEL HANNAN JUN 21, 2016 It's 24 June, 2025, and Britain is marking its annual Independence Day celebration. As the fireworks stream through the summer sky, still not quite dark, we wonder why it took us so long to leave. The years that followed the 2016 referendum didn't just reinvigorate our economy, our democracy and our liberty. They improved relations with our neighbours.

Happy Daniel Hannon Day to all who celebrate it. I hope you all enjoy the fireworks as we mark perhaps the worst piece of political forecasting going.
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In front of green ferns is an oak tree trunk, taking up the central third of the photo. About two thirds high, nailed to the trunk, is a wooden board, with black writing on it. The writing reads "BEWARE! ENTER GOBLIN'S ALLEY AT YOUR OWN RISK"

I only spotted this sign after exiting the muddy, shaded woodland path it guards. I did not see any goblins.

That extra fee at the grocery store for a plastic shopping bag isn’t just an inconvenience –– it is actually making a difference for marine ecosystems, according to a new study. cnn.it/4le6Y1q

"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm

there’s a reason bluesky is a retirement home for millennial posters - we grew up before algorithms and were not used to having content shoved in our faces unasked for

we chose to click on those terrible threads ourselves

I'm a blood donor - but due to work travel I haven't been able to donate for about a year.

Next appointment is booked in July though!

Please sign up and donate - it's a really good reason to lie back and relax for 15 minutes, and then have a cuppa and biscuit. And relish the smugness.

Chris McCall @Dennynews NEW: The SNP is set to hold the Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse constituency at today’s by-election, modelling by @BritainElects has predicted. The polling experts have Labour in second but “can’t rule out” Reform overtaking them. 8:33 AM · Jun 5, 2025 · 41.8K Views

Pretty sure that had Reform won Hamilton - or even come second - the story would be leading every single news hour this morning.

This is what comes from pollsters emphasising (and maybe massaging) possible margins of error only ever towards the sensational and never towards the conventional.

A Norwegian name for a reset switch (or a solution so basic even a fool can grasp it) is “a Swedish button.” A Swedish name for a plastic bag is a “Polish attaché case.” And a Finnish phrase for something that doesn’t work is “like a Russian ass buzzer; it doesn’t buzz and it doesn’t fit in the ass”

Only if the pieces are glued together!

But obviously a Lego model as well!

Personally I also think there should be a 'touchable' model too, so that visually impaired can get some idea of the external architecture and decoration.

Wow, look at this: the carbon intensity of UK electricity is currently only 32g/kWh and 86.5% of our electricity right now is coming from renewables.

Come on world, this IS possible!
And it will only get better (meaning: cleaner, healthier, less intrusive) 🎉

(graphic from grid.iamkate.com )

Farage looks furious, Twitter melts down: a Brexit Deal FAQ Everything you need to know about the new Brexit Deal, why Farage hates it, and what’s next

“This deal doesn’t reverse Brexit. It doesn’t roll back the referendum. It simply tries to make the current arrangement less disastrous for the people and businesses who’ve been living with the fallout for the last eight years”

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What Are People Still Doing on X? Imagine if your favorite neighborhood bar turned into a Nazi hangout

"X is racist. The only thing up for debate is whether this is a feature or a bug for those in charge," writes Charlie Warzel.

It was!