If you see this, post your getaway vehicle

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle

The BBC visited one of our Zero Bills homes, where resident like Steph pay £0 for energy (for 5 or even 10 years!) Zero Bills Homes are popping up across Britain, Germany, NZ and France. We’ve just secured another £100m funding, unlocking 1,000+ more affordable Zero Bills homes across the UK ⚡

All I want from @bsky.app is for the following feed to be presented as a linear timeline (preferably in reverse) that always opens at the last viewed position. Reading the day's events backwards can be so confusing.

We might have FINALLY met our match… #WorldBollardAssociation

We are living in the world that could rapidly become the Star Trek ideal. UBI, free healthcare, many jobs done by machine, freeing up humans to pursue the arts, education, exploration. But it's being run by the fucking Ferengi.

Continents xkcd.com/3159/

Let me tell you a story (before the ship explodes):

Some absolutely top notch orange cattery here

I wrote about how and why social media has largely become boring and why it's a bad idea to eat your own brain: www.forkingpaths.co/p/is-social-...

In the late 1970s I worked in a computer shop where we sold 4kb memory cards for £100 (£550 in today’s money). So… if those prices had held, the 24gb of main memory in the computer I bought today would have set me back £3,300,000,000! Exponentials are wild.

protonsforbreakfast.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/w... Why you should care about Net Zero. My attempt to sum it up in 450 words for the good people of Maidenhead.

Don't threaten us with a good time, Daily Express.

Blustery day, isn't it? Here's the National Grid: Live generation data. Wind and solar are generating 74.2% of our electricity. Gas is generating 13.1%. And yet our household electricity prices are pegged to... the volatile price of gas. Which is the basis on which the right attacks... renewables.

Bad Keyboards Thread: So I like to make intentionally bad keyboards, in part because of my unfulfilled blood feud with mechanical keyboard enthusiasts, but mainly because I like being a chaos gremlin. Most recently, the Juggling Keyboard: bsky.app/profile/foon...

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

Look what we have here then.

Harry Enfield and Ronnie Corbett's "My Blackberry is not working" sketch. God, it's *exquisite*. Not a line out of place, everything works beautifully and there's some free Harry *almost* corpsing thrown in as well. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAG3...

Reconstructing animals from their fossilized remains requires meticulous artistry and scientific rigour. What was done to bones partly of a woolly rhinoceros discovered in Germany in 1663 arguably involved neither. Behold the 'Magdeburg Unicorn' in all its tea-spitting glory. (Yes, it's real.)

Happy "aktually, equal light and dark occurs a few days later" Day to those who celebrate. www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/eq...

Trans people are not a threat to women’s safety. Over 52,000 women have signed the open letter to say not in our name. Will you join them? notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...

The iMac G3 from 2001 is my favourite-looking computer of all time, but it's completely unusable these days because of its age. So I tore out its insides (leaving the CRT screen intact of course) and replaced them with a brand new Mac Mini M4.

Star trek strange new worlds has been bought by itvx for any uk fans who don't want to bother with paramount plus. Spread the word.

"I'm not angry, just disappointed"

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

In one of our archive strong rooms there is a shelf. The shelf does not contain the most exciting or interesting item in the archive but it does contain something amazing. Read this short thread to find out more. 🧵👇

As I travel through the British countryside I realise I love seeing solar and wind farms. They look cool and represent something hopeful and inspiring about a possible future of energy independence and resilience. Also I know they annoy Liz Truss and Donald Trump which is a bonus.

The only people who have spoiled the nature of this area were the mindless thugs who came to our homes last evening and created chaos. I’ve never been scared by the asylum seekers. I’m terrified that the angry mob will return. So, how do I get *my* country back from them? I’ve genuinely no idea

Last night made me so incredibly happy. We were sat eating dinner with friends and I noticed right outside the dining room window two bats were flying around 😁😁😁 My efforts to increase biodiversity in our garden seem to be paying dividends. #bats #bat

Building a swing for the garden: "Which nuts go first?" "In the bag labelled D" "So, D's nuts?" #gotem

You wouldn’t think so from many news outlets but a recent study of 3k householders with heat pumps indicate they are more satisfied than those with gas boilers 94% satisfied or extremely satisfied v 85% for gas. apple.news/A6NpS4w8YSCS...

This is such an incredible poster.

We're back with another set of Reverse Trivia episodes! In this, the first of four, I make what is possibly the most niche joke I've ever done! If you've not watched before, it's a comedy panel show quiz thing that really doesn't take itself seriously!

Age verification? I remember when your mam would shout up the stairs demanding you get off the internet because she was wanting to phone your nan.

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

If "AI" was as valuable as they say it is, they wouldn't be selling it to you. They'd be using it themselves in secret to make the next Minecraft, the next Avatar, the next Hello Kitty and then they'd sell that to you. They're trying to sell you a sick goose, while pretending it lays golden eggs.

I don't want generative AI in every piece of software I want tiny decorative cats bring back the tiny decorative cats

London’s low-traffic zones ‘cut deaths and injuries by more than a third’ | Low-traffic neighbourhoods | The Guardian share.google/whCf2BUlykBs...

A Government with a huge majority that collaborates with companies who pay poverty wages and forces those in work to rely on food banks and benefits is not running the economy for the benefit of the majority, let alone the whole nation. I can't believe I have to spell that out.

David R. Hagen just solved a small mystery that I mentioned 13 years ago in the mouseover text of a comic drhagen.com/blog/the-mis...

Why’s it called A Grand Day Out and not Projectile Gromit?

british fan chat

Rate everything! Review everything! All the time.

African developers make a game where African characters steal back actual artefacts that are actually kept in Western museums and private collections while teaching you about the artefacts. This looks awesome.

Today is the 91st anniversary of the last diary entry of the first man who tried to climb Everest solo. Mind you, his plan had been to crash land a plane 14,000 feet up and then stroll the rest of the way, so perhaps he wasn’t destined to succeed