Solar’s price drop is astonishing: panels are now 98% cheaper than when I first analyzed them in 2004. Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.

I'm sure I signed a similar petition last year and the year before. Still, never mind, here's another one. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

I absolutely snorted out loud in an important, quiet historic reading room. And then had the giggles for 5 minutes. Fingle rows of tentaculated fuckers!

Lest we also forget the contribution of the BBC's ex-political editor, Laura Kuenssberg, as the official stenographer for the Cummings/Johnson political project. An absolutely extraordinary state of affairs for the supposedly impartial national broadcaster. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/cum...

LOL, of course the thing that topples the most right-wing leadership of the BBC in my lifetime is lèse majesté to the Orange King. This tells you everything you need to know about the extent of far right capture of both the UK's public-service broadcaster & the incumbent govt of toadying lackies.

This is great to see. Phillips is completely snookered by @zackpolanski.bsky.social by knowing his history and explaining it clearly and concisely and in enough detail to snuff out Phillips' attempted Culture War attack.

In 2015 45% of the railways in India were electrified. A decision was made that year to make it 100%. Ten years later they’ve reached 98%.

I am hearing there’s a political campaign against the BBC by cynical liars and frauds who don’t care what’s real and only want to destroy it, and I can say: LOL too bad lads, you could not possibly more deserve to get wrecked by the wingnuts and cranks you were once so happy to promote.

Unless there's an unbreakably valid safety reason why not, all button-operated pedestrian crossings should activate the lights in pedestrians' favour instantly when pressed.

what star wars really need is a HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER style submarine thriller

If we could place a 2000km wide black disc on Mars, we could turn the whole thing into a giant poppy. Surely this is the incentive the British space industry needs?

grumpily, sneezily seconded

Pteranodon Ptwins. A new portrait of perhaps the most iconic pterosaur. #SciArt

PUTTICE [put•is], PUTTAS [put•us] sb. A weasel; a stoat.

If you’re wondering what a “least weasel” is, they absolutely live up to the name. This is the least amount of animal you can have that can still meet the bar for “is weasel”

One of the worst features of the 21st century discourse is the "complex problems require complicated solutions" trope. The solutions are generally, at heart, simple. Carrying them through tends to require strategy, planning, leadership, advocacy, persistence, resources. Oh, and courage.

I made a “how do you do, fellow kids?” joke to someone in their mid 20s who, it turns out, was too young to have heard of that meme. So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”

This is what they took from you

'Hop Alleys.' In the 1950s, William Townsend began a series of paintings based on the different methods of stringing Kentish hop alleys - a pretext for complicated geometric abstraction without the need to paint abstract pictures.

Friends fear he's trying to make sense of one of the densest novels in the western canon again

oh yeah I remember this XCOM map

hey @thomeagle.bsky.social know anyone?

PLEASE REPOST: a couple of bar staff urgently needed for shifts in Stratford tomorrow - it's a West Ham home game and I've had staff drop out so you can borderline name your price

FOLKESTONE GIRLS [foa•ksun galz] FOLKESTONE LASSES [foa-ksun las-sez] FOLKESTONE WASHERWOMEN, sb. pl Folkestone girls; the name given to heavy rain clouds.—Chilham.

Mum, hating the SUVs parked in her little street: “Look at these big stupid cars. I would like to scratch them with my poppy pin.”

He tried to read an elementary economics text; it bored him past endurance, it was like listening to somebody interminably recounting a long and stupid dream.

the sandwich guy walking away from the court house and suddenly, his limp disappears

AND HE WAS LIKE, BUT NOT MY FACE, RIGHT? AND I WAS LIKE WELL IT'S A FACE, SO

It's over: I've already depicted you as the seething broad gauge train, and myself as the smug narrow gauge!

Growing concerned that Boo Boo might be the world's most photogenic kitten.

my conspiracy theory is that lewis grassic gibbon was simply a pseudonym for ukelele legend, george formby

If Mamdani was a Labour mayor Starmer would deliberately misspell and mispronounce his name and then kick him out of the party for antisemitism.

Labour leftists need to bite the bullet and go Green, and Labour voters who're really just social liberals need to bite the bullet and go Lib Dem along with any One Nation Tories with an actual conscience. At least give us the *hope* of a hung parliament with a Green/Lib Dem coalition as option.

Took my first scooter ride in a while today (been doing Metro bike) and it’s so depressing what a missed opportunity that was for cities. We did to scooters everything we should have done to cars: - capped speeds with governors - refused to give curb space - made heavy pedestrian areas no go zones

The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.

Huge congratulations to Steve Roud on being awarded a honorary degree by The Open University in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the study of folk song and culture!

we live in a world where this splendid animal exists, wow

Until I die, I will never understand why so many motorists think that “having a car” should give you special protections from doing crimes.

Someone produced an infographic for telling students how to use genAI in their work, and apart from my fundamental disagreement with the content, they said "this is littered with errors because it's produced with AI" sorry why are you suddenly allowed to present work "littered with errors"

FOLKESTONE-BEEF [foa•ksun beef] sb. Dried dog-fish.

I’ve just seen a narrowboat that looks like it’s entirely crewed by cats, and it’s not even 10am

I love that Mamdani is what the right claimed Obama was: A Muslim socialist born in Africa. The right practically manifested Mamdani into existence.