#MusicChallenge #DavidsMonthOfMusic February 26): A song from 2005. Dance Me In by Sons And Daughters www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4FR...

2025 data quietly released by EPA shows harmful increases in dangerous air pollution attributable to Trump, personally, with 6 TX power plants that Trump exempted from stronger safeguards, for example, experiencing an astonishing 48% increase in sulfur-dioxide emissions collectively in 2025. 1/

@manmademoon.bsky.social If you haven't seen this, it'll make you laugh. A real hollow one.

My Trade Secrets today. The Trump tariff refunds saga is blackly comic. About 20% of tariffs levied on Chinese exporters are paid directly by those exporters. So they get a refund windfall, having largely passed the tariff costs on to US co.s & consumers. I know, right? as.ft.com/r/30dbb3e0-8...

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In honour of the Sunday Telegraph's editor and offical maddest columnist, we have created the Allister Heath headline generator... stirring-fox-7e1fab.netlify.app

Italian Chapel, Orkney.

A busy night tonight at Drummonds on Belmont Street. First up, it’s The Cords, followed by Pulse Thursdays, back after my week off. We’re open till 2am and it’s free entry after the band. My set as always is sponsored by @doricstudio.bsky.social doric.studio

Music Venue Trust and The National Lottery are launching EVERYWHERE AT ONCE... the UK’s biggest ever grassroots festival.

Plenty of wind and cheap imports for UK electricity today.

Here is a pre-announcement of a very exciting event: I will be hosting Greg Jackson, Founder and CEO of @octopus.energy at @orieloxford.bsky.social for a conversation on Thursday 7 May at 5 pm in the beautiful setting of the Senior Library. Booking opens soon and we expect tickets to go rapidly.

Looking east, then west. St Magnus, Orkney. No cruise ships.

Yes, good news www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If you get a red card you just have to go! A ref should know. 🟥 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Excellent But also need bands to stop thinking Scotland is Glasgow and Edinburgh......they need to be encouraged to come further north too!

Remember Death

Get yourself trained in Orkney...

🔥 LIVESTREAM TODAY 4pm UK 🎙 Redefining Energy @orieloxford.bsky.social Is the energy transition accelerating, stalling or being rewritten by politics? Join me & @laurentsegalen.bsky.social for an unscripted, audience-driven debate. 👉 www.youtube.com/live/tojs9ds...

Dead Kennedys – still stable reactions 👊 #deadkennedys #punkrockhistory

Look here i can't go but you must! Next time I'm sure The Cords will check my diary.....

Breakfast

Can this sabotage be overriden by national government? @dangrey.bsky.social

Aberdeen Airport Empty.

Finally, the bug is back with a round of the Guinness.

Just an average thing that anybody would have in their handbag. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

@electrifymyhome.bsky.social Saw you had a heat battery in your house, do you have any knowledge or experience with SumAmp as heat battery for water heating. Looks like we might go down that route, as it would work well (?) with our thermal solar tank. But tie into ASHP. ......and space!

Closer than it should have been.

None of this crap would be happening if we'd picked the experienced, capable prosecutor.

Just when you think you've seen the most brain-dead hysterical media reporting on nonsensical anti-renewables "fears" whipped up on deranged Facebook groups, along comes the epic nonsense below:

Germany only has 2% smart meters installed in households, so can't take advantage of lower time of use pricing!

🎙 Redefining Energy LIVE | Oxford | 25 Feb 2026 Is the energy transition accelerating, stalling — or being rewritten by politics? Join me, Gerard Reid & @laurentsegalen.bsky.social at @orieloxford.bsky.social for a no-script, audience-driven live recording. 👇 www.oriel.ox.ac.uk/events/oriel...

Yes RIIO-3 is initially £18b on gas network and £10bn electricity but I think that grows over the period, £90bn or something for both Which sounds like a big number until we consider the rates that utilities can borrow at and the repayment per year, then it works out £30 per household.

@electrifymyhome.bsky.social Views?

Probably more use if 47 sent it up the Mississippi.

Bone spurs have healed?

Aberdeenshire get your Jags (And everywhere else too) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Excellent www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Every time I write about measles, experts warn that polio is next. But it's been so long since we had polio outbreaks, there are very few doctors who even know how to treat its long-term health issues. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

#409, Rua Reidh, Wester Ross, Scotland, 29/12/2013 The majestic Rua Reidh lighthouse at the entrance of Loch Ewe in Scotland. #photography #scotland #lighthouse #architecture

Reform mayor courted US oil and gas executive about fracking in UK

#OnThisDay, 24 Feb 1968, Jocelyn Bell Burnell - along with her male supervisor and three other men - published a paper confirming the discovery of pulsars. She had built the array, picked up the signal and argued it was not an anomaly. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory 🗃️ 1/2

the greatest compilation album ever! followed closely by Pillows and Prayers.

In a couple of months, it'll be the 40th birthday of the C86 cassette. So why not prepare for the occasion by reading the Penderyn Prize-shortlisted, Richard Osman-recommended book on what happened next to the 22 bands on the tape? Available wherever you usually buy your books.

Proves at least he does have a shadow.

Nige seems to have a simple "ABC" process for his time as a constituency MP. Anywhere But Clacton......

Nice 8k this morning Deer bouncing in the fields, and the not too distant warble of the curlew.

Stewart Lee: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse all work for Pimlico Plumbers www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

Join me and my big sis?

Snowdrop corner Fetternear