Wow. I’ve the tiniest London home. I can fit 4 panels only. With old outputs, 4 panel install costs vs output didn’t make sense. We’re getting to a point where adding 4 might.

Let's look inside. #biobased #renewablematerial #strawhouse #carbonstorage 🧵 1/ of a lot, be sure to like and share this post so others can see that climate adaptive building is in the pipeline for elderly people, child care and social housing e.g.

The biohackers subreddit banned all posts about peptides and HRT because peptide companies were spamming + manipulating the sub in order to manipulate Google AI and ChatGPT answers. Very insidious industry that is drastically changing the internet www.404media.co/companies-ar...

“in pursuit of the familiar, the Democratic Party all but passed the baton back to reactionaries working toward something revolutionary.” A very good read

Literally this

the framing about 401ks is a little weird but the actual story is more interesting: Musk is somehow getting the not-yet IPO’ed SpaceX stock forced into the indexes so that if you hold an index fund, you hold SpaceX, which would be fine if SpaceX was qualified for inclusion, but it does not.

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

A public service.

Australia has progressed so far they are considering free electricity for three hours a day. Bothering to use delayed start on your washer etc could easily pay off.

Colbert guest hosted a public access TV show in Monroe, Michigan a day after the Late Show ended. Guest star: Jeff Daniels Special appearance by: Eminem Musical director: Jack White Genius. youtu.be/jJTXB5uT_C4?...

Possibly the most infuriating sentence I've read this century. Not only us Drax filthy but it receives £1bn a year in taxpayer subsidies. 'Drax, the UK’s biggest carbon emitter, is set to bypass the UK Government climate rules to power a hyperscale AI data centre.' bylinetimes.com/2026/05/29/k...

lol. Bang on. Lazy grifter

If you look at other North Sea countries with really successful uptake on renewables, you'll see a strategy: community buy-in through community ownership. 52% of Denmark's wind farms are community owned. It's 50% in Germany!

I’m amazed anyone needs reminding of this, but local government spending power per person fell by 18% from 2010 to 2024 (would have been 26% but for increases in council tax). At the same time, social care pressures on local govt have grown a lot. The decay of the public realm is NOT a mystery

Casual sub heading. Let’s work together against the international criminal court. Says one of the worlds largest criminals. Le sigh. What are we doing.

Put in on a shirt. This is the exact reason LLM / AI use is pushed so hard to do basics. We should be training expert systems to do things we cannot. Not things we can. Protein folding. Yes. Write a letter. Maybe some code. WFT.

the generational de-skilling is almost the entire point of this technology. its architects are very open about wanting to bring about a new feudal order, with themselves as its barons.

Don’t fall for their manipulations. Seek out alternative lifeway arrangements that lean into community and participate in circular systems of regeneration.

If you’re regularly told “great idea” please consider. A woman work colleague probably told it to you not long ago. You don’t “listen” deeply enough to attribute. Instead just enough to have it rumble around in your head for a while until it pops out as your own down the track. Take the hint.

New study shows that if you want a secure supply of energy, long-duration energy storage (LDES) is more effective than gas plants.

A great read.

Chinese researchers have created a bamboo-based plastic as strong as petroleum-based plastics, which can fully biodegrade in soil in just 2 months phys.org/news/2025-10...

Love to see Australia slowly getting it right.

Loving this positioning. We now have good solution for most of their use cases. Time to wind them down before they kill us off.

Love this. 🩷 When you encounter joy in public spaces and activities, it’s really noticeable. We need to cultivate more of that as part of the structure of our neighbourhoods - not just for occasional events. Also: big fan here of ‘third spaces’ - kids & youth need to feel welcome.

Everything they enjoy in life is provided by people they won’t pay tax to support. Disgusting really.

I feel genuinely bad for people who, for various ideological or factional reasons, have backed themselves into solar skepticism. What a bummer to have this amazing, rapid transformation, this technological & humanistic miracle, happening all around you & be forced to ... grump about it.

Washington is pretending to look busy with phony investigations—but don't let them distract you from the cover-up. The Epstein files remain hidden, and Pam Bondi still hasn’t appeared for questioning. No hearings. No deposition date. No answers.

#oopsie Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/anthrop...

Look, for my money the absolute game changer technologies right now are batteries and biosciences, not statistically modeling a mid conversation, but you do you.

The Supreme Court long relied on careful, time-tested procedures to issue decisions. But secret memos by the justices, obtained by The New York Times, show how the court decided to bypass those procedures and create its modern “shadow docket.” See key takeaways: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

Let me introduce you to The Big Oil Grift. Below is a chart showing the amount of money paid out to shareholders of Alberta’s four big oil sands companies (Suncor, Imperial, Cenovus and CNRL) — all of whom have been recording record production and profits while employing fewer and fewer Albertans.

Our slop era intrinsically leans fascist.

It's such a low-key resistance move but talking about not using AI, especially in a professional context, is so important in working against "inevitability" narratives and so powerful in identifying who your people are — and in ensuring there are more of us all the time.

“It’s deeply shocking that Reform has developed such close ties with Orbán’s regime, an authoritarian govt with an appalling record of rolling back democracy and civic rights” Where ‘deeply shocking’ = entirely on brand. Hungary shows us we must never give them power. www.desmog.com/2026/04/08/m...

They want us to be. THAT’S the conspiracy. #UrbanTruth

Further building blocks in the Trump / Silicon Valley data juggernaut, for automating loyalty tests and repression as a service. OPM was the federal agency used by Musk to send his "5 bullet points" emails. It remains compromised.

It is hard to point to a historic example of such a catastrophic defeat. The US has damaged its relationship with its allies in the Gulf, engendered a structurally higher oil price for at least six months, and has forced its allies in Europe to look to China to replace oil with electricity.

The DOJ quietly closed 23,000+ criminal cases in the first six months of Trump’s second administration, abandoning hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime, drugs and other offenses as it shifted resources to pursue immigration cases. 🔗 Full story: https://propub.li/4e5vZLL

So why does this matter if you don’t care about Twitter plagiarism drama from years ago? Because it shows how very easy it is for AI to remake the truth according to the agenda of bad actors who are smart in using the internet to seed factless yet confident narratives that they wish were true. /end

If you want to combat species extinction, then make a change in construction, in the way we build. The loss of biodiversity IS linked to the extraction of raw materials from nature. Hanging up bird boxes, efficiency and using renewable energy is great, but it doesn't solve this problem. #RMI #TMR

Since people are doing "is AI conscious?" discourse on here again I feel like this philpapers.org/rec/BIRACA-4 by @birchlse.bsky.social remains my favourite piece on the current state of affairs.

They targeted a desalination plant that makes their water. Someone needs to intervene

Someone pointed out that the all the noble manly working class jobs that the right get excited about (mining, manufacturing) were only good jobs because they were unionised. They were never inherently well-paid or decent they just *had unions*.

Just had the best slice of home made no kneed sourdough toast with lashings of butter, cheddar and ham with an ice cold coke. Life really is about the simple things. Sorry pigs but on occasion. I eat you. I’m proud it’s about a 1/5th of what I used to and surprised by how much better it makes it.

Hot take. So many issues are caused capitalism, big one is. Those that are so consumed by capitalism and greed they no longer feel part of a culture or community are terrified of the immigrants who still have these things. There are terrified of loosing what little identity they have left.

Good luck America.

Oh shit. I’d forgotten this part. Damn. To be in Dubai right now. How long does their food supply last?

every time i look at instagram, i feel like im the only adult who doesn't know how to make money

Strongly recommend this excellent piece. It actually understates the US failure: Brazil and S. Korea aren’t outliers. Quite the opposite. Since 2010, 31 democracies have convicted or banned leaders from office. Accountability is the democratic norm. America is the sole outlier.