"Low-income households will get [free] plug-in solar panels to cut their energy bills, the Government has announced."
This is how you do a just transition.
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
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!
Agami Herons.
Not to be seen on the BBC TV News, doesn’t suit their agenda .
Also not to be seen in the Telegraph, Express, Mail, Sun, etc.
And nowadays not in the Guardian either.
My advice to Labour is don't let Starmer resign as the press will chase out the next one too, and the next one. Just go fuck it.
Maybe I could write that as my big airport inspirational Ted Talk book, "Fuck 'em, they hate you anyway, don't play by their rules, you can't win. Just go fuck it."
Got our solar panels installed this AM. They came at 8:30am and we're gone by 1:30pm. 13 panels and 10kwh battery.
We can't export to the grid yet (the network operator has been flooded with new requests) but we charged our car with the sun this afternoon. Great feeling, strongly recommend.
"I am not a fan of Starmer but. . ." I have never seen as many comments like this before. He is so good on the national stage.
Hand-knitted jumper, on display at the National Library of Scotland
What every well-dressed librarian is wearing @natlibscot.bsky.social
If a 600-ton excavator can be converted from diesel to electric, pretty much anything can.
And thanks to Dementia Don and the oil crooks pulling his strings, the world is now - finally - scrambling to break decisively with fossil fuels.
electrek.co/2026/04/18/m...
The info wars logo except now it’s rainbow and the O is an onion. (The Onion bought the site)
Genius
Excellent speech from PM Keir Starmer who has clearly been let down by some members of his backroom staff.
Starmer MUST NOT resign over this - people are using the #Mandelson issue to score political points.
Stand Firm Sir Keir #IStandWithStarmer
The Qiantang river's tidal bore is the world's largest and most powerful of its kind. Sometimes two tides meet together forming a shape like a cross, that can become even more captivating at sunset.
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Despite the media desperate to destabilise a Labour govt they have NOTHING on which to do that .Starmer was NOT told, so now they say yea but he should not have appointed him.. except the very SAME media was praising the appointment and opposition parties had no complaints then ! Don’t let them win!
In a nutshell. 😊
A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning,
as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.
- Anaïs Nin
Andy Saunders - Bluebell Wood.
Oil on board.
Happy 80th birthday to the fab Tim Curry, pictured with Rocky Horror creator, Richard O'Brien as Riff Raff & Patricia Quinn as Magenta. I once interviewed O'Brien who said that Frank n' Furter was a reflection of his own diverse sexuality. For moderns who like absolutes -sometimes there aren't any.
Description from The Met’s site - “Inspired by the modernity of London’s subway system, popularly known as the Tube, Power featured it in many of his signature linocuts. The disengaged passengers on this crowded subway—a scene familiar to many urban dwellers—prefer to read their newspapers rather than interact with one another. Alienation, a by-product of modern life, is a theme often present in Power’s images of the London Underground”.
The Tube Train, by Cyril E. Power, linocut, 1934.
The 3.5 metre wide Coronation Mantle of the Holy Roman Empire. Arabic script says it was made in Palermo in 1133 for Roger II of Sicily. Byzantine silk, gold, cloisonné-enameled jewelled plaques and upwards of 100,000 seed pearls...
Kaiserliche Schatzkammer, Hofburg, Vienna.
#Photography #Vienna
A 4-panel comic. I'm going around leading a normal life-- buying groceries, working, cooking. A huge big black blob labeled "GRIEF" follows me around. In the last panel, Grief randomly punches me.
I didn't post about it here, but it's been a rough week. I'm in a choir since September, we were hard at work setting up a big show in June. Suddenly and unexpectedly, our choir director passed away last Tuesday. He was a brilliant mind and we're all in shock. I drew this because this is how I cope.
These incredible Buff Tip Moths blend in so well with branches that you might mistake them for sticks. Nature's masters of disguise are truly fascinating!
Idk who did this comic but it's hilarious
Nah
PHOTO by Quang Vuong. A narrow aisle stretches deep into a monochrome labyrinth of tall bookshelves, packed tightly with aged spines and endless stories. Overhead signs mark categories—Poetry, U.S. History, Literary Bios—dangling above the quiet corridor. A lone step ladder waits mid-path, inviting the seeker upward. Fluorescent lights cast a sterile glow, yet the space feels timeless, suspended between thought and memory. The silence is thick, broken only by the imagined rustle of turning pages.
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
- Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
NASA captured one of the most detailed views ever taken of Jupiter
