NEW ANALYSIS: What's going on in Spain? Spain's wholesale electricity price in early 2026: €44/MWh. Italy: €127. Germany: €96. UK: €103. Wind+solar now deliver 44% of generation. Gas sets the price in just 9% of hours, down from 55% in 2022. Full analysis: janrosenow.substack.com/p/spain-just...

we've been well-educated about why we need to pay the world price for our products (meat & dairy). Why doesn't the same logic apply to our people? www.1news.co.nz/2026/05/10/w...

Happy Mothers Day to all🌹🌹🌹 We blokes are in awe of what youse do.

All the gear and no idea

I just finished this book and am struggling with its implications. Might have to write a review but in the meantime this one is mostly on point.... www.reaction.life/p/america-am...

now thats an anecdote with a punch, from Gillian Tett www.ft.com/content/c0ae...

A lifetime of Dawkins pityingly asking religious people how they could believe in something so silly, and now he thinks the computer is his girlfriend

Tautoko this. I'm also a big fan of "youse", the frequently helpful plural of you.

It's also 'bear with me', not bare 'gutted', not guttered 'bells and whistles', not Belgian whistles, and my favourite... 'rote learning', not rope.

A community woodworkshop.

"God might have been sublime but Spanish settlers continued to disregard the humanity of Indians" Greg Grandin, AmericaAmerica

3 The need to observe simple rules: no interreference in domestic affairs, no foreign aggression. Very simple. Very true. thewire.in/world/multip...

Sodium-ion battery study claims zero thermal runaway breakthrough www.pv-magazine.com/2026/04/10/s... @dominikkeiner.bsky.social

Ok I'm bored and want to procrastinate work so let's do a thread instead. Wanna hear a story? Alright then, story it is. So gather around, children, because now we're going to talk about the most important science book you've probably never heard of. Ready? Off we go, then.

There was once an enslaved man who stole a Confederate ship and sailed his a bunch of families to Union controlled waters & got everyone free. Then he fought as a soldier in the Union Army. Then he was elected to US House of Representatives. Robert Smalls was born 187 years ago today

what do we want? OBJECT PERMANENCE when do we want it? WHEN DO WE WANT WHAT

"got stuck" is doing a lot of work here.

What a great move. So cool to see this investment in local production of local stories.... www.rnz.co.nz/life/screens...

Iran claims responsibility for downing two US warplanes, as search under way for missing crewmember.

The world is divided between those who think before writing, and AI "authors" owenmarshall.net.nz/bookshelf/sa...

That's my personal approach - think it through while writing. In a group setting it can be easier to thrash out a common view verbally though.

"You gotta mike the box." the engineer Bill Halverson on the making of "Ain't No Sunshine," 1971 (from a Mix interview in 2012)

Reporter left speechless after witnessing Japan's new $70 million Maglev train in action at 310 mph

Timely piece on how dramatically the dominant (world bank) views on economic management have changed... www.theglobalcurrents.com/p/why-the-wo...

counterpoint: we need smart people with good values to remain in the fight, not abandon the field.

Lemon Pound Cake earworm is quite serious. I've agreed not to sing it out loud.

Dessert tonight uses Monty's Surprise, a heritage apple rediscovered out the back of Whanganui. Here's the backstory.... www.heritagefoodcrops.org.nz/montys-surpr...

Commercial risk management in action.

anyone who ever got whooped by Gran know that old lady strength is real

I heard there was a secret cord that David kept in his cable hoard but he can never find it when he needs it

I hope the war's impact on "fertiliser" is waking some people up to the (non) sustainability of industrial farming.

Crazy crazy story. Times of Israel reporter ( English language Israeli news site ) gets escalating death threats to change story that’s at center of big polymarket bet. www.timesofisrael.com/gamblers-try...

Good to see some practical training/embedding here alongside the tech.... www.thepress.co.nz/business/360...

Sane. Surely is much better to cut a deal with Iran.

Too technical for many, but there are real gems in here. Ironic that that hollowing out this empirical field aimed at the public benefits from better macroeconomic policy coincides with private firms piling into empirical economics via AI, personalized pricing etc.

Happy St David's day to all who celebrate, or are just perhaps in need of something different to think about.

A long time ago, I used to know a lot about foreign-imposed regime change (FIRC) and study them. I guess that makes me qualified to write a thread about them, especially in wake of Trump bombing Iran. So here goes nothing. 🧵

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

I don't do recipes much but "an inch of ginger" is my kind of spec.

Well worth 60 seconds of your time! 😂😂

“.. Slater’s closest political ally was vice-president JD Vance, who has expressed sympathy for tougher scrutiny of corporate power. But he has not publicly intervened on her behalf.” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/19f8...

Much hilarity here regarding 3G switch off. Wife has not upgraded. Can still send/receive texts and do wifi calling. Can't receive calls or voicemail over moble network but does get txt notification of missed calls.

Daughter is trying to buy a house, but every time she finds something suitable the builders report exposes it's expensive faults. No consolation, but Janet Yellen's husband George explained why this keeps happening back in 1970... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mar...

Sir Kier looks quite toasted to me... www.ft.com/content/5bba...

Guess what happens when regenerative dairy farmers get the chance to go organic... www.farmersweekly.co.nz/news/south-i...

My wife and I were on a beach in the Wellington area and found this at a car park, in the grass. It is approximately the size of a person's hand,made of bone, and intricately carved. I've masked the lower half,as only the legitimate owner will be able to fully describe it. Please share this...(1)

Looking at a basic loaf of white in the supermarket there is mostly wheat flour, water, and a bit of soy flour (then things present in trace amounts like Baker's yeast), but whatever in the past year has been affecting the bread but not flour price is also an aspect of the market not affecting cake.

Today I learned “Norwegian Christian laws forbade citizens from conversing with and interacting with trolls, and in documents dating from 1274 to 1781, doing so would result in severe punishment” (source: Wikipedia), and I kinda think many people nowadays would be better off if this law was revived