Anyone with this sort of electrical knowledge? Charging my powered wheelchair (old chair with fairly new lead acid gel batteries), the plug into the chair and the socket are getting hot. Any idea what might be causing this? Charger or chair? It’s charging up fine, but I’m concerned about the heat.

Whatever you're up to this weekend, I hope you have an enjoyable one. #cartoon from the now (sadly) defunct Phoenix magazine. #art #caveart #artgallery

Cat being photogenic #caturday

anyway it's a delicious 17 degrees outside

as a result of yesterday's quiz which paired me with Mamdani I've been added to a moderation list of people who hate VR AI crypto smartglasses NFTs bitcoin - fair enough, altho I'd have preferred *despise*

Good grief, I am so sick of the immigration debate. Some parts of the world are going to become unliveable; everyone is going to have to budge up. Also, pay care workers more. Pay them enormous amounts of money and build in training and impressive qualifications. Make it an elite profession.

World Central Kitchen is en route to Venezuela to provide hot meals for those affected by the devastating twin earthquakes as well as first responders, a vital, life-saving service if you are able and funds allow, you can donate at the link below donate.wck.org/campaign/815...

disappointingly the thermometer has already climbed to 31 and I fear that the weatherman may once again have lied about the dwindling of the heat hell

alright

@maltjerry.bsky.social up your street? ⬇️

@completetripe.bsky.social right, scored some green mangoes had a look online - many and varied approaches to achaar - would you share your recipe? 🙏

a blessed 23 in and out. I can breathe! Cat not quite so long this morning.

Not particularly spectacular thunderstorm activity with accompanying drizzle ongoing not v helpful come on ye weather gods

it's still 32 out here and the sun has set

put a gel pack next to the cat (in long mode) she has got her tail on it - perhaps it's helping 🤷

31 in 40 out 👀

I have to say, it's making me feel a little insane hearing commentators say Ed Miliband shouldn't be chancellor because of his "ideological zeal" for Net Zero, in a week where temperatures are so extreme that my kids are being sent home early every day and it's regularly 30 degrees inside my house

The great Beckett actor Peter Marinker has Alzheimer's. He's doing Krapp again, which he last did in 1983. Beckett's estate has such respect for his work that they've allowed some changes to the staging to make the production about his disease - www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/j...

50 country artists sing "cold beer" www.youtube.com/watch?v=lR2p...

I can just about manage myself in this 🥵 by not moving around *at all*

The ubiquity of recipes for "comfort food" in newspaper supplements is a collusive psyop to keep the British middle class in a stupefied state of nostalgic docility while reconciling them to a post-Ottolenghian standard-of-living decline through rebadging cheaper ingredients as aspirational.

sipping fancy iced herbal infusions all day and yet nothing has slaked my thirst like that cuppa just now

don't know how I filled my days before the need to maintain a liveable temperature indoors took up all my time

Mafted

MOT flying colours no advisories woohoo

saw that Darren the stalking horse Jones is on here. Made the mistake of having a look at his t/l and repliers. not recommended

28 in 35.5 out toying with a little salad

brexit ref anniversary t/l - complete ptsd nightmare this morning

the wood pigeons round here honestly - all spring shagging now they're spending summer bragging about it 🔊📢

22 in 20 out - not a breath of wind seems to have been a little rain but no storms round here MOT day 🕯️🙏

Damn they know how to hurt him

28 in 35.5 out hung out a bit of washing, need a shower now

25 in 28 out with nice breeze wafting through flat at correct angle

21.8 in 21.2 out go Cape Verde!

The most dangerous thing about AI is not that the machines might one day think. It is that we are being trained, by men with enormous financial gains riding on our acquiescence, to stop thinking for ourselves.

I'm selling a professional (very heavy) woodturning lathe - where do I advertise it?? It's in Oxfordshire. Vicmarc VL300 ESVX +magnetic remote switch Vicmarc 1000mm Bed Extension Vicmarc VM120 Chuck Woodcut Straight Head Pro-Forme Hollowing Tools Vicmarc Camlock Banjo Vicmarc 600 mm Tool rest

24 in 32 out temperature control - go me

16.9 in 16.3 out

Absolutely the most interesting thing I’ve read on Burnham. First rate.

23 in 23 out - noon-ish very comfortable

the Richard Williams obit

Glad Midsommar!

A history of Resonance FM with Stewart Lee, tomorrow at 8pm BBC Radio 4! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Glad midsommar / Happy midsummer! Today, Friday, is midsommarafton (Midsummer's Eve) the biggest Swedish festival/holiday apart from Christmas. I took this photo in May on my trip to Öland - a long, narrow island just off the southeast coast of Sweden flic.kr/p/2sjAJhG

Should have acknowledged this before. Drawing is based on a photo by @damianmoney.bsky.social xx

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