This beggars belief. It is insane to be spending almost twice as much upgrading the UK's gas network than its electricity network. The gas network must quickly become legacy, not future-proofed. www.theguardian.com/money/2025/d...

Nils "nominative determinism" Pratley at it again. If only there was some magical technology that could multiply the calorific value of the limited gas by 3-4x, then all our heating worries would be solved. Oh wait, there is. Heat pumps = energy security. www.theguardian.com/business/nil...

Hey Melbournians! There's a neo4j meetup tomorrow night. One talk on graphs and AI, and me on some cool research on scalable transactions for graphs. Sign up here: www.meetup.com/graphdb-melb...

That @joneaves.bsky.social fella is fine company, highly recommended. Didn’t try to factorise large primes even once.

To paraphrase Alf Dubs, "there goes one more Labour vote." Mine.

While I do not condone violence, there is straightforwardly no equivalence between antifascists and fascists. Feels like Germany has gone down this path before and it did not end well. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

This is an excellent piece on graphs and semantics. Very balanced and well researched: substack.com/inbox/post/1...

Hey journalists! I know you're very smart and literate, but you are not very numerate. This should say "your already very expensive shopping is going up by another 3.6%" Instead you imply things are getting better for me, rather than getting worse at a slightly slower rate than feared.

This is simply lovely - the agentic graph of Stranger Things. Feels like a return to form for @neo4j.com's nerd-led marketing! neo4j.com/blog/news/ho...

Heh, science.

Not so much solar power in these Autumnal days. Elon pushed a new firmware update to my batteries that is "smarter" and greatly limits the amount of (cheap, off peak) electricity I import. Now I don't have enough battery power to get through the day if I do laundry etc.

Today in “politicians don’t understand computers”

This will not end well.

Pratley by name...

I could definitely argue any parking fine for this, right?

JFC. Seems like the UK Labour policy wonks have been kicked in the head by a horse. The alternative: Tax heavy polluting vehicles properly, including stupidly large EVs, through VED. Stop subsidising fossil fuels. Increase benefits for low-income people to offset the removal of said subsidies.

No Nazis on scooters?

TIL that I badly mispronounce the Spanish verb to pay (pagar). Thankfully the bloke at the cafe had a sense of humour when I told him “I’d like to hit with my card, please.” (pegar)

I’m hoping this is the Guardian being the Guardian. The Bank of England should know that private schools fees are not in its basket of goods and services for measuring CPI, I imagine because so few people pay private school fees.

Me: which cities or towns are in more than one country. AI: Cities located in more than one country are rare, but examples include Istanbul (straddling Europe and Asia). The same company's knowledge graph could, no doubt, have answered correctly.

This is the most thermodynamically illiterate BS that I’ve read in a long time: www.theguardian.com/business/202... note also the 2% by volume which is much smaller as a proportion of energy. Absolutely dismal.

Incredibly sad and shameful.

No Pasaran.

This is the confluence of two things I really like, graph databases and renewable electricity: neo4j.com/customer-sto...

LOL, ok boomer.

Does anyone know how to completely turn off (not just tone down via accessibility) the transparency options on Mac OS? It's dumb that I see through web pages to other stuff that changes the colours of the page I'm viewing.

The UK has no domestic uranium mining nor does it have the technology to reprocess waste any longer. This is swapping one set of overseas dependencies for another, even if the tech can be made to work. This does not make any sense. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Man has poor accelerator control. I had a family member with the same - constant speed up or slowdown which made us feel seasick. They changed, the symptoms stopped. This is not an EV problem. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Mark summarised the growing conflict well when we spoke: “The basic idea is whoever controls the energy infrastructure of the 21st century runs the world, and the Americans are very scared that it's not gonna be oil and gas, and they're doing everything they can to make sure that it is." /9

Did some exploration over the weekend on how to enhance @neo4j.com Cypher MCP server. Here are my thoughts: towardsdatascience.com/preventing-c...

It’s deeply disappointing that all the new Labour corpses and pol profs are now on here as well as Twitter. They’re on a intellectually equal footing with any bunch of drunks with opinions down the spoons.

I'd be interested to know whether any of the people complaining about solar being deployed on farmland are aware that solar is many orders of magnitude better for nature and biodiversity than almost all conventional agriculture.

BUT RENEWABLES ARE INTERMITTENT!!1! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

You hear a lot about how AI will revolutionise fields like medicine. So for balance here’s a redacted transcript with a medical doctor and clinical researcher.

Not even three fifths of fuck all: Some notes on Australian Gas Infrastructure Group's desire to pat themselves on the dick for their Gladstone renewable hydrogen project. They want you to be left with the impression that they have a future. They don't.

Nuclear power is not about low carbon. It’s about money. The Brits are having their wallets inspected before a single Watt is generated.

Andy here is explaining a fundamental truth about British politics. But continuity remain never internalised Reagan’s saying, “When you’re explaining, you’re losing.” And that is a significant factor in how we ended up here in the first place.

This is a really good and interesting conversation between my colleagues @jimbobc.bsky.social and @alekusi.bsky.social from @neo4j.com about new ideas and research for a #graph #database #runtime and gratefully focusing on system engineering and little on AI for a change.

Big news for Cypher users: versioning is here! 🤩 Two tracks, one goal: balance stability and innovation. Cypher 5 is now frozen and stable, perfect for production environments that value consistency. +

Join us this week and hear about Neo4j Research’s radical new graph-native runtime that rewrites the rules of query execution youtube.com/live/sZketgH... #neo4j #cypher #database #research

In this week's #neo4j live we look at the work of our research time. Meet Aurendil: a bold reimagining of what a graph database engine can be. youtube.com/live/sZketgH... #research #cypher #database

The Guardian, bless ‘em, seem to struggle a lot with concepts like “area under a curve.”

The shot, the chaser. The liberal in-house magazine shilling for nukes yet again.

With my sincerest apologies to Leslie Lamport.

Interesting article, but slightly off on the evolution of British English. We are snooty about Americanisms (I particularly dislike “oftentimes”) but words from other languages and cultures permeate our language quite well. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Methane companies in the UK will get to fleece us for network upgrades for a product we cannot safely use. Meanwhile badly needed electricity grid upgrades are much lower. I cannot wait to disconnect permanently from the methane network.

If you're into distributed systems and consensus protocols then I'm going to present something hopefully new and interesting at conferences.ncl.ac.uk/ideas2025/.

Re-using a golden oldie (GraphConnect 2017) by @technige.bsky.social where I will introduce something that I now think could change the way we think about transactions and distributed systems. "They needed only to rise up and shake themselves like a horse shaking off flies" -- Orwell