PV providing 589 watts, 345 baseload usage, battery charging at 244 watts.
By 8:15am today solar was generating 70% more than our baseload usage.
On a cloudy day, in England, in April!
OMFG I had to go and check that this ACTUALLY happened.
Since when does the BBC ever do chyrons with a political party's branding, rather than their own? Not to mention this is during a pre-election campaign purdah.
(h/t @iainsol.bsky.social)
If you read one thing today ...
An essential article by the great @billmckibben.bsky.social
billmckibben.substack.com/p/big-oil-br...
The Reform councillor, the unpaid debts and the paper trail that wouldn’t go away
northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politic...
What should have happened: the REIT paid no tax but the Tice companies holding shares in the REIT paid £98k tax on the dividends they received. What actually happened: none of the companies paid any tax.
Our new report: Richard Tice signed accounts wrongly claiming £98,000 of tax exemptions
A 🧵 with the evidence:
We live in a country where the two most dynamic, charismatic, eloquent politicians of this century have the first names Barack and Zohran. This is what bothers the white supremacists so much.
🇺🇸🇺🇦 U.S. Army Secretary Driscoll:
The Ukrainians have fundamentally altered how humans engage in conflict.
They have done an absolutely amazing job of innovating, and I am publicly on record saying we are learning a lot from them and we are changing to a lot of the lessons that they have taught us.
In the village of Pohreby, near #Kyiv, civilians have suffered greatly from Russian attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure.
About 200 homes were damaged by Russian strikes, and residents have experienced horrible, traumatizing things.
📹 DW
The gang of four: How a cabal of property moguls is laying waste to the Tees Valley (Part 2)
This article will tell of one particular strip of tarmac, the Darlington North Link Road and its links to the Skerningham Garden Village project
northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politic...
🙏 Horrific drone strike in Chernihiv at night
🙏 Danube Biosphere Reserve, port transport and residential infrastructure were under massive drone strikes in the Odesa region.
❗️Fires broke out on the territory of reserve. Administrative buildings, equipment and containers, 6 private residential buildings were damaged.
So it turns out Nigel Farage's widely-reported claims that 'Boriswave' migrants will cost every household £20,000 are based on dodgy figures and inflated assumptions.
Reform have simply invented their own numbers…” say experts.
bylinetimes.com/2026/04/16/e...
Head of Russia's Central Bank:
For the first time in modern history, Russia's economy has faced a labor shortage,this is a new reality for the authorities and businesses.
She said that external conditions continue to deteriorate on an almost regular basis, which applies to both exports and imports
Dnipro💔
In Kyiv 4 people were killed and over 50 injured in overnight russian attack‼️
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte:
Russia is struggling on the battlefield. Winning is now a distant dream for Putin.
He is understanding that his economy is in a bad shape.
Yes is winning on 58%
Mail is running a poll on whether the UK should rejoin the EU.
Takes seconds to vote and it's going hilariously well...
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
While the world has been watching Iran, what about Ukraine? All you need to know right here 🎧👇
Important story by Max Colbert here:
🔴 GB News Hosts Reform UK and Conservative Politicians and Activists Posing as Ordinary Voters
The individuals were presented as ordinary members of the public, without informing viewers of their political affiliations, a new Byline Times investigation reveals
🇺🇦😎 For the first time in the history of the war, Ukraine captured an enemy position solely using ground robotic systems and drones. The occupiers surrendered. The operation was carried out without the use of infantry and without casualties on our side, — Zelensky.
Precision strikes by Defenders of Raid 413 deep in occupied Zaporizhzhia.
Targets hit: logistics warehouse, hub, and fuel tanker - all with domestically produced UAVs.
Disrupting Russian supply chains and degrading their ability to fight in the south.
📹: Defense of Ukraine
Screenshot of POLITICO London Playbook email, showing Palantir sponsorship
Oh, FGS -
@politico.com is taking sponsorship money from Palantir - running their ads through news updates.
That's absolutely the *last* thing we need in our politics, Palantir going straight for the political-media environment at a time when we need massive scrutiny of their contracts in the UK.
Russia continues destroying Ukrianian cultural heritage.
That's what they do best - destroy, lie and steal.
Russian forces have destroyed the historic Kharytonenko estate in the village of Kyianytsia, Sumy region, located about 15 kilometers from the border with Russia.
Russian-occupied Oleshky, Kherson region.
Yet another city destroyed by Russia's "liberation".
Russia is effectively keeping the city under blockade: without fuel, electricity, medicine, and food. About 2,000 people currently remain in the city, including fifty children.
Ukrainian volunteers evacuated a bedridden elderly woman from the settlement of Bilozerka, Kherson region. That day, an artillery shell directly hit her house.
During the evacuation, Russian forces continued shelling the settlement. Fortunately, no one was hurt.
📹: andry_boxer/Instagram
If a wealthy individual can pull the strings of big tech to bury a story, then the law isn't protecting women.
Do you agree?
goodlawproject.org/liv-nervo-told-her-story...
😡 Russian-style truce: drone attacks ambulance in Sumy region, three medics injured
The deputy leader of Reform UK, Richard Tice, owns a property company - Quidnet REIT.
From 2020 to 2022 it paid Tice and his trust £600k in dividends. Quidnet should have paid £120k of tax on those dividends. It didn't.
A 🧵 with evidence from the company's own filings:
🙏 Massive drone attack on Odesa: fires and strikes on residential areas recorded
More than 20 more UAVs are heading to the city.
This is important (Brickell chairs the APPG on anti-corruption)
