What happens if they invest in a huge solar farm to "make huge profits", but then electricity gets unlinked from gas prices?

Great to see our patron Stephen Fry on ITV's The Assembly!

Here's Stephen on the afterlife, the humanist approach to life, and finding wonder in the here and now 👇

Who are you, and what have you done with Ian?
This is a great day, I'm glad to be enjoying it along with you. Here's to more of these days!

Probably not helped by the way we treat the poor, as a society. Or maybe that's a consequence of this mindset? Maybe both, as a particularly vicious cycle.

I've just discovered shredded tofu. Get the firm sort, pat it dry and whack it in the oven or dry fry it a bit. Makes a great substitute for mince.

a man in a leather jacket is making a funny face while looking at the camera . Alt: a man in a leather jacket is tapping his head knowingly while looking at the camera .

Can't be railroaded if you're always off the rails!

My comisulations to you

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I’m a Green Party councillor for City Ward #Sheffield. It’s a densely populated urban ward.

I’m going to talk about digital advertising screens, which doesn’t sound exciting, but please bear with me.

I want to explain why I spend time objecting to so many of these.

Since 2023, I’ve …

You Do, In Fact, Have To Hand It To The Ninja Creami It is easy to dismiss the Ninja Creami as being cheap and unserious, but there is nothing like it at its price point.

It's easy to dismiss the Ninja Creami as a viral trend or cheap plastic appliance, but it's a bizarre machine and nothing does exactly what it does at its price point. aftermath.site/ninja-creami-d...

Electronic advertising is a climate crime that makes our public spaces more hostile - The Skeptic The giant screen at Euston boasts of saving energy, while using more electricity than the average street, just to show us ads we didn't consent to seeing

You might like this from @mrmmarsh.bsky.social
www.skeptic.org.uk/2024/03/elec...

Hah okay I think I have a lower standard for "really well" than you do! If I have to correct it every time, then it is adding workload not taking it away. So I guess I just want automation to actualy automate.

Very much this. Like with many automatic windscreen wipers, which manage to always be the wrong speed. If you are going to automate a task you have to do it *really* well, or just let the user have full control if they choose.

m.xkcd.com/3226/

Why So Many Control Rooms Were Seafoam Green The Color Theory Behind Industrial Seafoam Green

bethmathews.substack.com/p/why-so-man... a) amazing investigation of something you won't have consciously noticed but immediately realise is true and b) brilliant example of how game design is interaction design is safety design

Cynically, I think the thought process was "there's no such thing as bad publicity". Tbh maybe he shouldn't have named them

Photo of a cuneiform tablet with some dark spots on it.

We therefore learn from this learned commentary made by a Babylonian scribe over 2000 years ago, that in the Akkadian language, the word shitti means "shit"

That'll be the rocket equation working in your favour, you don't have to carry all those extra kWh on a lighter bike 😉

I'm in Paris for the first time right now. Bikes do indeed ignore red lights, go the wrong way. But they also stop, and dodge.
Cars also seem to ignore red lights, or at least the green man on crossings does not guarantee cars won't come through. Give me those bikes any day!

A tweet from Florence Schechter saying "PEOPLE there is a penis museum in iceland but no vagina museum ANYWHERE. Who wants to make one with me?" Around the screenshot is a montage of people enjoying the Vagina Museum. Mia, a young musician, plays the guitar on a stage in our industrial-vibe event space. Our gift shop looks warm, welcoming and cosy with shelves of books and vag swag. Dr Alex and Katja stand, smiling, outside our blue double doors. Lily and a group of volunteers pose wearing F Uterus t-shirts, a black shirt with a white graphic of a uterus where the tips of the uterine tubes are replaced with hands, middle finger up. They echo the pose, sticking their tongues out. A huge party rages in the event space.

Hey. Hey guess what. Guess what day it is? It's our birthday, and the Vagina Museum is nine years old today. The world has changed massively in those nine years. We started out with a tweet... and now we're a vibrant community space, dedicated to education and celebration!

Sizing chaos The inter-generational struggle to find clothes that fit more than a tiny portion of women

I assume you will have already seen this interesting article about variances across sizes, ages, time etc etc? pudding.cool/2026/02/wome...

a woman in a red uniform is standing in a room with a sign that says ' star trek ' on the wall Alt: Pilot Ortegas from Star Trek Brave New Worlds is piloting the Enterprise with the caption "Abso-friggin'-lutely"

Pilot O'rtegas

I grew up there, and I assumed that every seaside town must naturally have their own timeball tower. I only found out much later that there are maybe 2 of them in the country.

All words can be verbed if you brave enough 😉

Iran's readiness to make a nuclear strike. Always 2 weeks away.

Oof I had to read their headline 3 times just before I could see the way they claimed it was technically true. It's very good that this was confirmed as misleading.

It is the anniversary of the My Lai massacre today. I'd say that even more than most years, it's important to remember what happened.

And the role Hugh Thompson, an active serviceman, played in both stopping and publicising it. Despite enormous military, political and public pressure to stay quiet.

long stretch of worked roman stone on Hadrian's Wall.

If you ask someone today to name the builder of Hadrian's Wall, they would give you a funny look. But historical memory is odd, and right up to the 1800s we forgot who built it.

Until in 1840 John Hodgson, an obscure Northumbrian clergyman, published the LONGEST footnote in history... 1/22

Naturally they are not the people on here, because bluesky users very much care about pissing everyone else off...

Today we have a double debunk:

1. A debunk of the idea that 67 dog breeds are being banned in Britain

2. A debunk of what the usual suspects are saying online (because they are so tediously predictable!🙄)

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Hey if someone had paid me to stay up late reading books as a kid... Well to be honest they would have been totally wasting that money, no need for it at all!