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Cytuno. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The Germans are switching their heating technology to heat pumps. A deliberate move to make the country more sustainable and independent of energy imports. HT @janrosemow

"To put it bluntly, an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago." If you think it is necessary to be on Twitter to communicate your fact-based worldview, the reality is that worldview is being smothered.

US property purchases in Spain rise as Americans seek high-end homes reut.rs/4tcXLKY

Blodau gwyllt Astwrias: helianthemum (melyn) a lithodora (glas) ar y ffordd i'r clogwyni

Duchess of Calabria, no less.

A key function was the 24/7 telegram system to flash vital messages to Embassies around the world. Many young women were recruited for the cypher room, working alongside men. They were in the basement during the Blitz, but by 1941 were in the grand Locarno Room. More on women in the FO next week!

Trump declares war on nature

🍄 I mounted a few prints of this limited-edition fly agaric for an art fair & there's one mounted one left, signed, numbered and dated & ready for framing shop.frankduffy.co.uk/product/fly-... #art #artsky #mushroom #printmaking v grateful for all shares ✨

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A feel-good story if you need it. Solar farms, wind turbines and geothermal heat pumps are breathing new life into former collieries bylinetimes.com/2026/04/09/f...

National Geographic Award winning photograph of the year. So beautiful. 🐝🐝🐝

Where are my fellow treehuggers?🌳 Let me introduce you to the ancient woodland, known as Ty Canol, in Pembrokeshire. #trees

This is top-class reporting on a vital issue 👏

A French coder estimates that using Claude Code will account for 1 tonne of CO2 over a year - 10% of the average French individual carbon footprint. We have never encountered emissions-intensive software like this, ever before (with the sole exception of Bitcoin) www.linkedin.com/posts/gwitte...

From Catalan independentist to the Spanish left's working class hero, Alan and I had an interesting discussion on the trajectory of Gabriel Rufian with historian Andrew Dowling:

Paul Robeson, singing with a Welsh choir in The Proud Valley (1940). 🎬 The American bass-baritone was born in Princeton, New Jersey, on this day in 1898. A strong supporter of workers’ rights, he formed a lasting bond with the mining communities during filming in Wales.

When I started writing this book set against the context of the 14th century Avignon papacy and the futility and hypocrisy of wars against Islam in the Middle East in the name of Christendom, it wasn't supposed to be a cutting allegory of modern times FFS.

Very sad to read of the death of Doug Allan, inspirational wildlife photographer, cameraman + adventurer. Interviewed him 30+ yrs ago + ws captivated by his tales of life in the Antarctic filming seals+ penguins. A life spent showing us a wild world worth saving. www.scotsman.com/news/pioneer...

There was once a point where you could justify this kind of Theon Greyjoy bullshit. But it's now clear what it is: the tacit support of genocidal rhetoric, which serves to encourage, not obstruct, his actions.

Es i ar y cwch post o Nelson 40 ml yn ôl. Fferm cregyn gleision oedd un o’r llefydd aeth e. Prynais rai mawr â stribed gwyrdd llachar, a’u cael i ginio gyda thrigolion eraill yr hostel ieuenctid. Caniatad arbennig i brynu gwin at y pryd! @zaichishka.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/travel/2026/...

this was a bad idea from people that are unbelievably high off their own supply

Esto ye pa echase al monte...🙈 Lo que nun diz la conseyera la Conseyería Cultura, ye que lleven dexando esbarrumbar, con lluz ya "consenti ya mientu", horros, paneres ya cabazos, 25 AÑOS con una llei vixente pa protexelos.🤬 #horru #panera #cabazo #Asturies

Ieithoedd lleiafrifol a busnes: Just Eat yn hysbysebu yn Catalaneg yng ngèm Barcelona - Atletico Madrid @cymdeithas.cymru

Doing a basic calculation using a chatbot instead of a calculator uses between 2.5 million and 62 million times more energy. And using chatbots for calculations is *extremely common* - the companies have marketed these systems as general purpose, everything-apps!

Any mutuals know anything about UK employment law? We have an interim CEO who apparently likes to record conversations with staff (then play them back via Claude each night) My question is, if he starts talking to me & presses record without me consenting first. can I tell him to fuck himself?

¡Patriotas millonarios! => Daniel Carvajal, David Silva, Santiago Cazorla, César Azpilicueta, Juan Bernat, Giovanni Lo Celso y Thomas Partey son los futbolistas que han sido implicados en calidad de investigados en una causa de presunto delito de contrabando. => elpais.com/deportes/fut...

BREAKING: Iran told mediators it will only join planned talks with the U.S. in Islamabad if a cease-fire is reached in Lebanon. Source: WSJ

I’ve started up on Substack, to discuss matters pertinent to the Senedd election in May & stopping the far right. You can subscribe here: open.substack.com/pub/leannecy...

Have they learnt nothing from the Greensill scandal?

In Spain's newspaper of record: "I, Donald Trump, am the Empire at the end of the decadence." elpais.com/internaciona...

The colors spill softly across the dawn, blending like damp pigments thinned with light. Tender as spring, the horizon bathes everything in gold and green. @prystauk.bsky.social @stefanangelinam.bsky.social @cathaguamia.bsky.social @stevegwrites.bsky.social @norisroberts.bsky.social

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Israel hit all over Beirut. Strikes were in nearly all the neighborhoods surrounding my house. Reports saying many injured and dead. Israel seems to be intensifying before a ceasefire is implemented

Edrych ymlaen at weld hwn @pixieglas.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Cross-border subsidy war

Mae lluarth angen gwaith - ond heddiw cawn giniawa fel y crachach: arroz primavera gyda merllys a ffa llydan

French MOD says they've kept the HEU and plutonium from the warheads dismantles after the Cold War and will use it for the increase of the nuclear arsenal recently announced by Macron. www.ledauphine.com/defense-guer...

Haunted Neath 👻 Filming something a little spooky in Castell Nedd today, inspired by a very odd case recorded by Robert King 20 years ago. Coming soon....

Cyngor yn ymgynghori ar ddyfodol llyfrgelloedd yn y cymoedd Mae Cyngor Rhondda Cynon Taf eisiau ailwampio gwasanaethau llyfrgell gyda chefnogaeth y gymuned leol ✍️ Anthony Lewis (Gohebydd Democratiaeth Leol)

Trump frena a Trump después de viajar a la cara oculta de la Luna. A Netanyahu no lo frena nadie. Ursula von der Leyen aún no ha recuperado el habla. León XIV ha dado una lección. Sánchez ha sabido decir que no, cuando era arriesgado decir que no, y Feijóo vio una luz ayer. Continuará…

'accuse'

The IDF confirmed on Wednesday continued "combat operations and ground activity" against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon "in accordance with directives from the political leadership," amid confusion over the scope of the ceasefire. www.jpost.com/middle-east/...

Before posting, don't forget to let Reform Ltd & Nigel Farage know your heart-felt feelings about them all over the leaflet ... meme via Paul Hodgson

BBC reports Starmer going to Gulf. French radio on Macron bringing together 15 govs on next steps and saying no peace if Lebanon excluded. London media ignores what Paris doing, saying & vice versa. Same old, same old. Europe still can’t speak w one voice @emilythornberry.bsky.social

Just to take an example, when the NI protocol was renegotiated, the UK asked to rename it, because it believed NIP had a bad juju Europe let the UK choose the name, hence "Windsor framwork", which is still the NIP So, if FOM is called the Paddington-James Bond-Ascot-Arrangments, does it matter?

Bore da, you gorgeous madafakas 😘 I love the smell of coffee in the morning and for once the mug gag seems fitting Hope you all have a splendid day. Sending out coffee and cwtches 😊😘

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