That’s amazing. So you could plug any of those appliances into a Jackary like this one and run them outside of solar hours. www.amazon.co.uk/Jackery-Expl...

Love it. If I had a grid connection I’d time all my loads for cheapest and cleanest times, run heat pump to maximise water tank, charge home/car batteries, run dishwasher and washing machines, then batteries would cover expensive times, and I’d never touch a fossil fuel. Boat equivalent incoming.

Imagine your house was a camper van and just start shoving things in there.

Getting a big Jackary or similar would a good start.

Smart plug on a timer means you could auto charge that during the solar hours every day.

It could power TV or electric hobs in evening, or run fridge all day and night.

Getting bikes posted to a bike shop and giving them your fit so it’s built and everything at the right height is a favourite power move of mine.

Works just as well for new or used bikes. Just phone up and check it’s cool first. Some say no but most will say yes.

Oh I was asking if you get cheaper rates from their panels but you get FREE electric from their panels. Cool.

I guess you mean they don’t let you charge batteries, but… how would they know if it’s consumer side? Some just plug in.

Also things like storage heaters could you heat at night for free.

Do you get a cheaper rate for electricity provided by their solar panels?

Ahhh yeah who knows. I got this in the states. If there’s a bike you want in Europe they’ll consider it used soon as you’ve ridden it at all. Buy one on the continent and cycle it home. Nice trip, cheaper bike, everyone happy.

This is the hardest thing to explain to conservatives: Make it free for everyone, or see it constantly attached and slashes to pieces until it’s eventually axed altogether. There don’t seem to be third options (look around).

AI making the world dumber.

Bow I’ve got massive batteries and huge inverter I’m switching gas appliances to electronic. Then the diesel engine goes. Thought I’d have got further in a year but we are getting there!

Ahhh this is so good. I just commuted to work, with a sandwich I made from my fridge that’s got actual food in it.

If this sounds pretty basic to can imagine how excited you would be if you’ve not been able to do any of that for months.

Thankfully work is a woodland, it’s a @protect.earth day!

Fuel duty is *already* 34p per litre lower, in real terms, than in 2010

Its been frozen or cut for 15 years

Its cost the Treasury over £200bn in tax - and hugely incentivised people to keep using ICE cars and driving. It's favoured the richest

If anything we should be restoring it to 2010 levels

NEW ANALYSIS: Record wind and solar generation saved UK from gas imports worth £1bn in March 2026

📈Wind+solar were up 22% year-on-year in March to a record high for the month
⛴️This avoided the need for gas imports worth £1bn at current high prices

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Trials and Tribulations of Touring Tubeless Tubeless in cyclocross and mountain biking these days is pretty much the default, but going tubeless for road is a long frustrating drive on the struggle bus for a couple of reasons. Finding the right...

It’s a bit of a faff sometimes, but importantly it’s a faff when you’re *at home* and a life saver out there in the randomness. I swear by it.

From the archives, a few things to watch out for.

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Absolutely no complaints, other than the integrated hangar which I will be avoiding if I ever buy a new bike. I wanna carry spares and not be trying to realign it with a rock in the mountains.

Ah this is Wizard Works. Getting them sent off to be waterproofed now they’ve got a new lining out. Helps the speedy bikepacking be more year round.

Huge tranches of it likely have, but the more they integrate with more hospitals the more they get. We can stop them getting new data either way.

Thank you! It’s my old cyclocross racer, a Ritchie Swiss Cross. Kept me at the pointy end and looked damn fine doing it.

Much of the coding is just an extension of what IDEs have been doing for ages. Autofixing, refactoring, hoisting, etc. as the code is very definitive and metadata / language servers make it very simple. The rest is StackOverflow copy and paste on steroids.

A canal boat moored on the river Avon, with a tyre on the floor and a mop bucket with warm soapy water, and a bike with the wheel off.

Now that the electronics on my boat are overhauled I’ve had my first boat shower in FOUR MONTHS.

I’m excited to get back to running, cycling, and river swimming now I can wash.

Reinstalling my tubeless tyre now on the side of the Avon so I can use the van a lot less.

Next up: washing machine. 😍

Creatives are being fired and those who keep theor jobs are paid to edit sixth fingers out of slop instead of doing anything close to creative work.

Coders getting the same treatment. It’s like constantly trying to train a really bad junior dev that never gets any better.

AI is inherently ideological. It’s at its core a tool of neoliberal capitalism.

Deregulation.
Austerity.
Theft.
Wealth redistribution.
Enshitifaction.
Data hoarding.
Mass unemployment.
Fascism.
Genocide.

Keeping Palintir the hell away from NHS data is more common sense than ideological.

The number of people who act like AI is going to do our jobs for us then our jobs become constantly dealing with their bullshit instead.

That’s not happiness that’s relief we actually got down in one piece. 🤣

“actually people dying in house fires is rare”

BECAUSE OF BLOODY REGULATIONS WHICH MEAN SHIT DOESN’T JUST SPONTANEOUSLY COMBUST

Some of the trees I’ve coppiced will perhaps not make it but I’d not say my job is killing trees.

Beavers don’t want to be going for veteran trees and clearly there needs to be substantially more woodland around so they’re not after the one tree left in a valley.

Thankfully they’re doing that.

No, I really didn’t.

So back to Simon’s rancid “everyone dies in the end”, he knows the unregulated toothless system we had harmed poor people, woke students, and immigrant communities the hardest, and he knows wealthy developers and Reforms petrochemical donors will benefit the most. Just convince folks it’s “red tape”

Last chance to stop spamming me with patronising unsolicited introductory nonsense before I block you.

“We don’t want a National Regulator of Construction Products to tell us that we can’t cover people’s homes in whatever toxic, flammable, or carcinogenic shit we feel like. We preferred it when there were 30,000 unregulated products profitably going into mainly social and student housing.” Reform /s