This world is getting wilder and wilder...

A US town rejected solar panels amid fears ‘they’d suck up all the energy from sun’ A retired science teacher said she was concerned the panels would prevent plants in the area from growing

British photons being captured and sold for profit by global capitalists, leaving local people in the dark...

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

'Industrial scale' solar farms attacked by Norfolk's Green The county council's Green leader says solar panels should be locally owned and put on roofs.

I see the Greens are opposing (checks notes) solar power now.

It also says she said they should be smaller, so unless it misrepresented her, she is arguing for less solar power generation.

Mick Kelly: We’re only ever nine meals away from anarchy. That risk is no longer just theoretical Ireland is sleepwalking into a food security crisis. We have just 74 field-scale vegetable growers left, down from around 600

This is as ridiculous as saying Manhattan is facing food insecurity, it's not because it's part of the US single market providing it with every foodstuff except coffee & bananas, same with us we are part of a huge single market, a market in which we specialise in the things we are exceptional at.

Dad brains: How fatherhood rewires the male mind From before their babies are born, men undergo serious hormonal changes that can powerfully influence their behaviour – with consequences for their child's wellbeing.

A fascinating read

www.bbc.com/future/artic...

I’d Love to Pass Through the Strait of Hormuz, but No Worries If Not “I’m reaching out because, well, I’ve got this shipment of 2.1 million barrels of crude oil, and I would LOVE it if I could just squeeze on by and pass throu...

"I don’t want you to think I’m asking for special treatment. I’m sure you’re absolutely swamped with 'I need to pass through the Strait of Hormuz' asks these days. Everyone is like, 'I’m carrying fertilizer or natural gas or another essential commodity!' Ughhh, must be so annoying."

"Your plaice or mine?"
Was good fun IMO, but had to suspend your critical faculties in some parts. Most Dr Who fans would either watching enjoy it, or enjoy complaining about it afterwards.

Manchester greeting me with its world famous drizzle. You can see why so many Irish emmigrants made this their new home.

Excerpt from the piece: "This past January, the Beth Israel synagogue in Jackson, Mississippi was firebombed. Not to be confused with Temple Israel in Michigan, where last month an attacker rammed his truck into the synagogue building, which also houses a children’s nursery. Or the Adath Israel Synagogue in Melbourne, which was targeted by a terrorist firebombing attack in 2024. "Inevitably, there will be those who look at the names of these synagogues and try to connect them to recent actions of the State of Israel, in some warped attempt at justification. So at this point it may be apposite to point out that this is not the first time that part of Beth Israel (founded in the 1860s) was destroyed in an antisemitic attack. In 1967, scant months after it opened at its current site, the synagogue was bombed by the Ku Klux Klan. Not to be confused with the Beth Israel synagogue in Meridian, Mississippi, which was also bombed by the Klan, in 1968."

I wrote about how those who blame Israel for a rise in antisemitism have - deliberately or not - massively missed the point.

www.jewishnews.co.uk/blaming-isra...

Siri show me the pure definition of beautiful irony

Fucking hell, though.

"Your bougies have entirely healed my stricture"

The Great Marx Beam!

www.facebook.com/share/v/1GKQ...

So it wasn't just Matt Goodwin and Reform, Orban was bankrolling US politics too.
@petergeoghegan.bsky.social

How to Transform Your Sleep With an 8-Hour Power Nap at Work

How to Transform Your Sleep With an 8-Hour Power Nap at Work: reductress.com/post/how-to-transform-yo...

DOGE turbocharged the deficit.

budgetlab.yale.edu/research/wea...

Tapiseach Micheál Martin awkwardly shaking hands with US VP JD Vance.

Uh-oh.

Into the sea with you, then...

I continue to be amazed how Catholic converts rush to tell the head of the church he's doing it wrong.

Were you born near the International Date Line, or is time dilation involved?

Post a picture of yourself as a doctor

I was always slow on the uptake, I recall once not realising what friend was after on a drunken night out until she picked this video for us to watch

What Péter Magyar’s victory in Hungary means for Ukraine Kyiv is cautiously optimistic it can rebuild normal ties with Budapest now that Orban is gone.

A bit of goodwill on both sides will go far and, FWIW, Ukraine is further away from ratification of EU acquis than suggested by some, so a fair bit to go before that's an issue IMO

www.politico.eu/article/what...

elizabethrosehalligan 11h So I'm not trying to knock the gesture here, I get the sentiment. I feel for the astronaut who lost his wife as it was devastating to lose my father-in-law, who | loved very much, to globlastoma suddenly in 2023. But 4 astronauts deciding to name a spot on THE FUCKING MOON after ONE GUY'S WIFE while the other 8 BILLION of us down here have no input on NAMING SHIT ON THE FUCKING MOON still feels like colonizer behavior to me. I don't care if one of them was a black dude.

Words have no meaning anymore

I am a linguistic nihilist

How to do it America.

In fairness. I expected the whole Revelations/antichrist/4 horsemen/angels etc to be more thrilling than stupid, but here we are.