Ofwat investigating ‘rip-off’ cost of water firms’ infrastructure works

I suspect I'll make myself unpopular again, but I welcome this. Small modular reactors make decarbonising heavy industrial processes; hydrogen production; grid balancing and other tasks easier. We don't need to choose between SMRs and renewables. We can have both. futurism.com/china-thoriu...

Only just occurred to me that Elon and Felon are uncomfortably close.

IMPORTANT I'm in full support of the Guardian/Observer journos striking today for the future of The Observer, threatened by The Scott Trust’s plan to sell to Tortoise Media. No logic behind the decision, while The Observer risks becoming a stripped-down website Follow @carolecadwalla.bsky.social

I’m sure the people that are furious about the NHS spending around £100m a year on translation services are going to go stratospheric when they see that £715m was spent on… well, nothing.

Take The Cannoli — theonion.com/take-the-can...

This is a splendid book, for those who like a bit of politics under their Christmas tree (also, follow @bearlypolitics.co.uk) www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk/collections/...

This is really starting to look terrible for Trump’s key picks. Will Hegseth pull a Gaetz? Stay tuned.

Gregg Wallace: MasterChef’s John Torode says allegations against co-host ‘truly upsetting’

This is pretty funny.

They have a point.

Here’s a visualization of all the curse words in real time, which is oddly satisfying: swearsky.bagpuss.org

Scratching the surface of Farage and his real political, er, leaning @adambienkov.bsky.social reports ⏬

Read Ian Hislop's comments about meeting Justin Welby the day after he resigned. www.thepoke.com/2024/11/21/i...

Trump & co

Ah, yes, the legendary Badlands Tweets!

1. I reiterate that I don't think bots/trolls get how comprehensive the "block" function here is. 2. I also think they don't quite get how prevalent "don't engage, just block" is as an ethos here. 3. Bluesky is a neighborhood party: everyone is welcome until they're a jerk. Then out they go.

To be clear, we do have plans for scaling, we just kinda expected more than a couple days notice before getting blasted with a million new users a day. The team is rapidly deploying fixes and new software to adapt. More servers in the mail.

Because some damn fool asked, here's a thread about Baxter. This was taken on the day I brought home Baxter and threw away all hope of an easy life. Look at him. Absolutely irresistible. And that's how they get you, the utter bastards

Apparently over at the bad place you can’t call Elon Musk a 40 pound toddler with a full diaper.

Red squirrels to vanish from England unless vaccine against squirrelpox funded

FUCK. YEAH. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Stag do at Wentworth Woodhouse

About time I posted more on here.

A number of artists and creators have made their home on Bluesky, and we hear their concerns with other platforms training on their data. We do not use any of your content to train generative AI, and have no intention of doing so.

I like hard SF (Hamilton, Reynolds) and wild fantasy (Abercrombie, McLean), but every now and then I like something a bit lighter - currently enjoying Violet Fenn's Netherweird series.

Deep joy. Snow possible on Monday 😕🌨️

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