'Trump bored, wanders off, others clean mess.'

NEW: Details of UK govt plans to "break influence of gas on electricity prices"

Carrot: Offer fixed-price "wholesale CfDs" to old renewables, replacing wholesale ££ but not RO top-up
Stick: Higher windfall tax of 45–>55% on 1 July for old renewables/nuclear
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Political Conversions: Going Fascist 275

This @ppfideas.bsky.social on Mosley's drift into fascism highlighted he was led as much by personal hubris and arrogance and a desire to be in charge as much as politics. The resonance with Trump is both obvious and disturbing.
www.ppfideas.com/episodes/pol...

Gas generation falls as wind farms set new quarterly generation record New data shows wind generation reached 29.2TWh during the first quarter, as gas power output fell 16 per cent year-on-year

Gas generation was down 16 per cent in the first quarter due to the UK's latest wind power generation record. If it weren't for renewables this fossil fuel-induced energy crisis would be even worse. www.businessgreen.com/news/4528492...

Memorable meeting, behind scenes secrets & tears of joy in non-league promotion story Guisborough Town have won promotion from the Northern League for the first time in 41 years

🔝 Guisborough Town have won promotion out of Northern League for first time in 41 years

🗣️ Interview with boss Nathan Haslam:

🤝First meeting
💻Extra work after training
👏🏻Trend-setting tactics
❤️Tears of joy
🆙Next season…’We have nothing to fear’
www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/260285...

Never a penalty, couldn't believe it was given 😩

Congratulations! ✌🏻

A large white waterfowl with orange feet stands in front of a door. On the door is a cardboard sign secured with tape that reads, "DO NOT LET THE DUCK IN." Adding insult to injury, I think the duck might be a goose.

Whatever you do,

Today was a bad food day, 80% or meals/snacks featured pastry in some shape or form and 50% were basically pasties. I am craving broccoli rn

The Trump Administration is 'owning' the Pope by saying 'there's this thing called Just War Doctorine, what about that Mr Pope??" without pausing to consider whether they've justified their war under it (or indeed any other relevant doctrine for that matter!).

All the isms ✊🏻

'Most popular' or 'least unpopular'? 🤔

Such a mad story
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AT THE BRITRONICA FESTIVAL w/ DJ LOOSE 12th April 2026 Playing Ambient, Drum & Bass, Electronica. In the wake of Perestroika, the British underground descended upon Moscow, hungry and penniless. Only some even got the chance to perform in this confused cl...

When Warp Records went on tour in the former Soviet Union in 1994! Pretty amazing episode...
www.nts.live/shows/your-s...

Nvidia’s Huang Urges Companies to Put AI Breakthroughs Before Profit Leading booster for AI says companies are too focused on an immediate payoff

AI continues to tap into millenarianism: the AI payoff will take place at the end of days, only true believers will be awarded sufficient tokens to pose prompts to the AI god and progress through to the AI enabled rapture.
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Map of the Peak District National Park, designated 13 April 1951

Happy birthday to the Peak District National Park, designated #otd 13 April 1951. Originally 555 square miles of moor and valley, the 'great north roof of England.' It would never have happened but for one woman... 1/4

>killed the pope
>killed Orban’s political future
>killed the prospects of a peace deal with Iran

Oban gone! 🤩

Open the Strait you crazy bastard!

The Reckoning • EQUATOR Hormuz and the end of American hegemony

Great article by @mona-ali.bsky.social in @equatormag.bsky.social reflecting on geo-political/economic transitions and where we might be with this particular one...
www.equator.org/articles/the...

I've had the unpleasant experience of happening across a 'Grokpedia' article that seems to have synthesised the life of Dan Davis, ancient history YouTuber with Dan “Tito” Davis, US fugitive with "hilarious" (or libellous) consequences.

Belle and Sebastian at Albert Hall in Manchester last night 😎

Électrification : les mesures annoncées par le Gouvernement | info.gouv.fr VIDÉO. Leasing social, pompes à chaleur, voitures électriques… : la France accélère son électrification pour réduire sa dépendance au gaz et au pétrole et renforcer sa souveraineté. Le soutien à l’électrification atteindra 10 milliards d’euros en 2030.

The French government has announced the measures of its plan to accelerate electrification:

- a ban on gas boilers in new houses from the end of 2026
- increased support for replacing old heating with heat pumps
- 100 regions will pilot comprehensive heat transition plans to phase out gas by 2030

Indeed! Worth reiterating that things are changing and will continue to move away from gas setting the price

Trump admin: "We beat expectations!"

a portrait of Tenochtitlan a 3D reconstruction of the capital of the Aztec Empire

Pretty cool 3D reconstruction of Tenochtitlan that you can play around and explore in tenochtitlan.thomaskole.nl

Hoping they will ban the cruel practice of the annual Easter Egg Hunt and replace it with drag hunting using a rag soaked in chocolate egg essence.

Ha, brilliant!

Such a good chart.

economist.com/britain/2026...