Spain's renewables build-out has structurally decoupled its electricity prices from gas markets. Gas now sets the price in only 15% of hours, compared to 90% in Italy. Countries that invested early in clean power are far less exposed to fossil fuel price shocks. Those that didn't now pay the price.

I knew Metal Gear Solid V would be a long game, but I really didn't think it would take me 65 hours to finish Chapter One.

Yes, Carrey and Keanu are back, which is awesome, but what really got me about this teaser is the orchestra playing the riff from "Sonic Boom". We're getting a Hollywood movie adaptation of Sonic CD. What is this timeline. #SonicMovie4 www.youtube.com/watch?v=YShj...

Finally, a real use case for JavaScript

7.7 trillion penny sweets.

One thing that's very cool about solar panels is that even just the sunlight reflected off the houses opposite generates measurable electricity. Our panels face west, so the peak is around 3 PM, but there's a smaller peak about 9 AM when the sun is directly *behind* them!

STICK IT ON A FIVE POUND NOTE

PSA!!!!

It's a start, but they'll need more than one.

I have a joke about waiting for ages for a drink at a party, but the punchline is so long

I never knew Dr Robotnik was Irish.

I don't want to ask the assistant a fucking question – why would I want to ask the fucking assistant a fucking question, I'm very obviously WhatsApping my fucking wife for fucks sake, when will this shit fucking END, get out of my fucking sight, sorry for swearing

Natasha Weaving, 37, made the chilling discovery on Monday when she noticed colleague Eddie Albington, 38, using his laptop in meetings before fully saying the stupidest shit she had ever heard in her life.

I have an artificial intelligence joke but it’s someone else’s

You hide in the toilets because your colleague eats an apple criminally slowly at exactly 10am every day. A non-exhaustive catalogue of sensory malfunctions. open.substack.com/pub/nothingb...

Airlift the container ships using the Fulton balloons from Metal Gear Solid V

I know I'm a year late to this, but Lady Gaga's song "Shadow of a Man" is a first-class banger. Major '80s anthem / Michael Jackson vibes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJEE...

We've got sports-washing for sports. We've got funny-laundering for comedy. (well at least I do.) For games... screen-cleaning? Washware? "PR"PGs?

Every year when I wake up the morning after the Oscars, I have to rush to Wikipedia to see if Oscar Hammerstein is still the only Oscar to ever win an Oscar. (He is.)

Apparently it just includes 16GB of RAM

Among all the horrors of the news, this thread gives some room for a bit of (cautious, careful) hope.

You know that scene in The Two Towers where Aragorn arrives at Helms Deep, Gimli hugs him and Aragorn says “where is the king”? Well that’s me coming home from work but I’m Aragorn, my fiancée is Gimli and the king is our cat.

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

The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit

Fun fact: in Germany, they (used to?) use H instead of B for that particular note. The letter B is (/was?) instead used for what the rest of us know as B-flat.

An incredibly bleak but important read. Fuck generative AI, and all the havoc its wreaking within video game journalism and development.

As you use AI to simplify easy yet mundane tasks, like writing emails, you get increasingly dependent on it. You get lazy, less skilled, use your brain less, and (you may not want to hear this) get stupider as a result. Don’t let them take away your ability to think. Stop using it. Now.

Another day, another stupid Excel chart.

One of my favourite literary put-downs is from Douglas Adams's The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. Zaphod Beeblebrox, who often reacts in erratic ways, claims to be “pretty dangerous when I'm cornered,” to which Ford Prefect responds “you go to pieces so fast people get hit by the shrapnel.”

Forgot to mention, the reason I got this game is it’s currently £2.69 on the Nintendo eShop, an 80% discount, until the 20th. Well worth it for a couple of hours of puzzling, for a much more agreeable price.

I need to be put into the machine that heals pokemon at the pokemon center

in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy

They really should have called Last Blood "Rambo Number Five"

When the clocks go forward:

Signs you’ve been playing too much Blue Prince

I think this is about the temperature but honestly it works for decades as well

I know ppl here never want to be “uninformed” but it’s ok to not log on to a website that is just “oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck” on an endless scroll even if that is a justified reaction

no really, holy shit

Eating soup while drunk is fascinating because it either means you are at the absolute lowest point in your existence, or at a wedding

Who wants to play Guess The Animal Noise? Come on, it'll be a hoot.

Welcome to the Garyneum, the 13 day period between the birthdays of Gary Numan and Gary Oldman.

I emitted an audible laugh playing Stealth Crossword this morning. The pitch is "the forced stealth mission in a game that really shouldn't have one." It nails that perfectly. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivRs...

This bit in the From Russia With Love game made me laugh out loud. You've got a fairly grounded, low key fight based on the one in the movie, then the most video game looking fucker of all time slides into frame.

In case of emergency: A map of every capybara in the UK and France www.google.com/maps/@/data=...

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

Woah Black Betty…

Flew a kite this morning. Never thought it’d ever be a thing I’d do successfully. Now I see what Mr Banks was on about.

unfortunately I lost it at this extremely stupid New Yorker cartoon

I really, really hope this works. The talent driving this thing is immense, it deserves recognition. Unknown comedians need somewhere to go on UK television where they are able to actually put new stuff in front of you.

The One Where Nintendo’s Lawyers Suddenly Become The Good Guys