It may, but it should also stop lots of odd energy behaviour, and make it cheaper overall.

This is a Good Thing.

That Mitchell And Webb Sound - No-One Drowned YouTube video by Robin Verhagen-Guest

youtu.be/fqYyxvM85zU?...

This is essentially the Mitchell & Webb sketch about the correct number of warning signs around a pond should result in a rare drowning, rather than no drownings.

EU: The European Union will require sale of mobile phones with “user-replaceable and longer-lasting batteries” starting in 2027.

The regulation demands “availability of spare parts and manuals for 10 years to curb planned obsolescence”.

au contraire, mon petit formilier, I've been banging on about Green NIMBYism for years, as a subset of my banging on about all NIMBYism for years. You may be trusting enough to imagine they'd be fine with vote-losing solar farms, so long as they're publicly owned. I don't believe it for one second.

Much like HS2, the Greens fight any sensible, achievable, environmental measure. No real world compromise is ever pure enough, so no progress is made. Then when it's almost too late, they reverse-ferret saying "akshully we support it now". Ironically, they are a waste of everyone's energy.

“The hand of the Lord was on me there, and he said to me, "Legit question for rural Americans - How do I kill the 30-50 feral hogs that run into my yard within 3-5 mins while my small kids play?"

Hmmm...can't decide whether that makes it more or less silly.

I'm disappointed that Bluesky hasn't united in scolding SNP for dairy intolerance, coeliac and vegan erasure.

One of the silliest ideas to come out of politics in a while.

Screenshot of FT Exclusive headline "Meta Builds AI version of Mark Zuckerberg to interact with staff". It shows Mark Zuckerberg's face wearing those weird Meta Ray-Bans that are popular with perverts.

So having ditched the concept of talking to your colleagues via legless avatars in Horizon because *this isn't a thing anyone wants*, Meta are building an AI replica of Mark Zuckerberg to "connect with employees".

Here's a non-exhaustive list of the reasons this is a terrible idea.

READ MORE Building on brownfield sites alone can't fix the UK's housing crisis

"The Government’s housing target can be met twice over without touching any green spaces, by building on brownfield sites, renovating empty and dilapidated homes and repurposing office space no longer needed because of home working."

No! It! Can't!

I was thinking this morning how both Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan would have been delighted to see a Westward-looking, centre-right party defeat a pro-Russian autocrat in a former Eastern Bloc country.

France 🇫🇷 doubles electrification support to €10bn/year through 2030 — EVs, heat pumps, industry.
The reason?

The Strait of Hormuz crisis making fossil fuel dependence impossible to ignore.

Geopolitical shocks don’t just raise prices. They change what’s politically possible.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Hmm... The OG Old Testament god used to be quite happy to bless a conflict; he used to love a war, especially ones where they got to kill any women who weren't virgins.

It's not too awful, it's basically a pared back Arc de triomphe. (Aside, I snapped one of the reliefs on the Arc de Triomphe and Grok kindly animated it for me, which I thought was magnificent)

Swollen RFK Jr. Warns Americans Not Eating Enough Bees Kennedy Vows To End ‘War’ On Stinging-Insect Diets

Swollen RFK Jr. Warns Americans Not Eating Enough Bees theonion.com/swollen-rfk-jr-warns-ame...

The real headline: crypto crook (who pleaded guilty to breaking US money laundering rules) plans to try and buy UK politics www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

The £100M Bat Tunnel YouTube video by Martin Robbins

Good morning! Behold my latest adventure in film!

The £100M Bat Tunnel YouTube video by Martin Robbins

You may have heard of the multimillion pound HS2 bat tunnel, but you probably have no idea how insane it actually is. An incredible short film from @mjrobbins.com youtu.be/CUetUfeEZZY?...

Just use Claude to rewrite the tweet using every possible time stamp, then when it happens get Claude to delete all the wrong ones. You'll be hailed as a seer, and maybe get a statue. On a horse.

You at the back! It's SHOO-IN. Not shoe-in because what the fuck is that supposed to mean? "Relax, you got the job, we just need to kick you through the FUCKING DOOR?" Shoo-in. FUCKING SHOO-IN. Like an old-time cinema usher, go on, you're all right, in you go. Kindly. Not shoe-related. Fuck's sake.

What happens to Britain's radical right if Orbán loses? Inside the money, power and patronage connecting Hungary and the British right

"Matthew Goodwin has been paid a salary of up to €10,000 a month [from Hungary's state-funded MCC], according to leaked documents obtained by Hungarian investigative journalists Direkt36 and reported by the Good Law Project"

That could all end if Orbán loses...
open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

doing a “husband’s run” (early morning grocery run for a missing breakfast item, because i get to wander the store and get whatever else i want) but committing the “husband’s folly” (forgetting the one item i was asked to get, eggs)

NYTImes calls NATO the “North American treaty organization”

It’s a real problem that our elite institutions are just much stupider now than they used to be

Christ is harrowing hell at the moment, turning it from a prison into a temporary resting place for souls before resurrection (until Milton/Dante). In a few hours, he becomes proper magic Jesus, who can disapparate and walk through walls.
Seems a touch far-fetched.

Don't subsidise energy prices during a supply crisis: give cash transfers to low-income and vulnerable households instead.

I like to use this gif from time to time.