; BREAKING! 🚨 Farage wants to cancel Christmas and ban Easter! no Christmas lights in Trafalgar square, blessing of the crib ceremony cancelled, carol singing forbidden, Christmas tree can fuck off back to Norway, Good Friday crucifixon re-enactment cancelled. ReFoRm HaS gOnE WoKe!!!

Possible solution to the Strait of Hormuz?

Can’t believe nobody wanted to read the articles nobody bothered to write

Heat pumps are the most efficient heating technology ever invented. They harvest and compress pre existing heat in the air, ground or water and transport it where it is needed. That energy is all around us. It does not have to pass through the Strait of Hormuz or any other geopolitical chokepoint.

move slow and repair things

Irregular reminder that heat pumps work in old buildings - this is our local cinema, built in 1910, not insulated - but now warm thanks to air-air heat pumps

And all I want is #AbolishThePatriarchy 🫠

🙌52 new Passivhaus/ PHI LEB homes for Somerset! Greengauge was Passivhaus Consultant & M&E Designer on Nailsea social housing development, led by N. Somerset Council & Stonewood Homes. 44 homes certified @ Passivhaus Classic/ Plus 8 homes certified @ PHI LEB ggbec.co.uk/portfoli...

If you liked Guy Martin's House Without Bills, architect Hannah Dixon / Progress in Practice and the builder Josh Day / Mysza Group take a deep dive into this EnerPHit retrofit project From the @passivhaustrust.bsky.social Retrofit Case Study Series www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgY2...

Apropos of nothing in particular, just resharing this chart showing why North Sea gas is drying up (we burned it all already)

Honestly the collective national level of disdain for Brits living in Dubai on all my social media platforms today really is bringing the UK together as one in a way that's hard to achieve in the modern era.

The current argument of the British right is that Muslims turned out in "blocs" with "family voting" to cast their ballots for a party led by a gay Jewish man, and this shows that multiculturalism has failed, voting is "sectarian" and we are in a crisis. Hmmmmmm.

This looks logical enough - till you ralise there's actually a bloody great hole full of mud and water, untraversably bisecting the blue half 🤯 Map *actually* looks like this

Looking at these ebikes in pic I don't think the police are limited to 15mph here - would it be helpful to call them electric motorbikes? (can see motorebike helmet, I assume they are legally motorbikes)

Owners of Ring doorbells are being advised to smash them to splinters after a commercial showed how they could be used to surveil and identify humans with AI. Super Bowl LX may be remembered as the start of a counter-revolution against the technology. lloydalter.substack.com/p/the-smart-...

Another AI side-effect - computer chip prices have doubled! Motherboard on my PC just failed. RAM not compatible with new one so bothering to replace with 2nd hand from ebay (to save about £800 - also reflecting only performance upgrade I need is for it to work reliably)

Peaky blinder - Energy specialist Es Tressider transforms '70s Highland home into one of the best #retrofits we've ever published, using a high skillset & #retrofit innovation to create a comfy, healthy family haven with breathtaking views of Ben Nevis. mailchi.mp/passivehouse... #passivehouse

Do please respond to this consultation and push back on the government's sickening proposals to fuck up the security of our colleagues, neighbours carers and friends. Closes tonight. www.gov.uk/government/c...

Irregular reminder that heat pumps work in old buildings - this is our local cinema, built in 1910, not insulated - but now warm thanks to air-air heat pumps

I drew a face on a paper plate. Who could even begin to understand how it perceives the world or what it dreams of?

This is on tonight on Channel 4 at 9pm. Very interested to see how they make telly out of retrofit.

7 new petrol cars sold in Norway last month! www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Pretty happy with the final result!

Wood burners treble children’s exposure to pollution in homes, study finds - Research in Wales found that home, not outdoor travel, was largest contributor to children’s daily exposure #airpollution Story by @drgaryfuller.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

📺 Guy Martin's 'House Without Bills' Passivhaus retrofit takes centre stage in the Channel 4 programme Guy Martin’s 'House Without Bills' on Monday 9 February 2026 at 9pm. Read more: https://www.passivhaustrust.org.uk/news/detail/?nId=1534 AECB Passive House Plus Nesta Passive House Accelerator

Morning!

Tourguide welcomes you to Scotland in January youtube.com/shorts/vbtmA...

Isn't this a telling aspiration? To want robots to look after your kids, so you can do stuff, rather than robots to do stuff, so you can spend time with your kids? The darkness inside these shrivelled men must be like a gaping unfillable void.

How much #AirPollution is created when you burn wood? 👉 Defra approved/#Ecodesign stove = 400 times more polluting than a gas boiler. 👉 Open fire = 4000 times more polluting than a gas boiler. Please think twice about burning if you don't need to. #WoodBurning

Another proud day for America.

🌾 Some spaces still left for Wednesday's lunchtime CPD about EcoCocon straw wall system, aimed at construction professionals. Free to attend but registration required 👇

Just seen greenlands eurovision entry youtu.be/hS0wFiWpU4U

Just for the record, and it’s insane that the mad king made me look this up, there is documentation of the US giving up all claim to Greenland to Denmark when we bought the Virgin Islands from them in 1916. history.state.gov/historicaldo...

Updated for 2026

It took us too long to realise when Musk called that cave rescuer a "pedo guy" he meant it as a compliment.

This is the short edit. Find the full stress test on our YouTube 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=asiY...

On your question on required flow temperatures. That's an interesting one. It seems that there are a very large number of properties in the UK with sufficient existing radiators to run at flow temperatures of between 45-50C without radiator upgrades. This is what enables HeatGeek's ZeroDisrupt model

www.theguardian.com/environment/... Can anyone here sell me the battery bit? MCS work refed showed £600/a saving for PV and £180 for battery - is that worth maybe £5K to install? Is there a UK merit in batteries in houses vs on grid or at solar farms? And wont my next EV be grid linkable anyway?

Newbuild ventilation loveliness! Ensuite and bathroom extract were teed to same external terminal - flexi duct broke already and both now vent into the loftspace

NEW RESEARCH: UK heat pumps can perform far better than many think. Our analysis of HeatPumpMonitor.org data shows well-designed systems achieve ~40% higher efficiency than past trials (SCoP 3.86 vs 2.81), cutting bills (~£224/yr) and emissions. Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?

Just came across this presentation by @glynhudson.bsky.social of heat pump performance monitoring comparing self monitored installs with those on electricification of heat trial - great insight into what makes heat pumps perform well, and how to fix systems that don't www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiHt...

I would have saved myself a lot of grief had I just said this

Do you have a heat pump on HeatPumpMonitor.org? If so, we need your help to compile real-world maximum output test data. Watch the video below for how to contribute. There should be some cold temperatures tonight and tomorrow. Thanks! ❄️ 🤞

If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...

A reminder that some of the money you spend at Amazon this Christmas will be used to build a tacky ballroom for billionaires.

Recently, we switched out the old wood stove in our house for an electric one. ✅️ Heats room quickly ✅️ Not killing my neighbours ✅️ Still hygge ✅️ No ashes to clean Win, win, win, win 🏆