Can't wait for the loosened up, non-perfect, but quickly shipped AI-enhanced updates to hit my banking and insurance services next year. Im sure there will be no issues there at all.

More and more of the web pages and videos I (and presumably you?) come across are AI slop. Think of all the resources and money and hype that went into giving us a markedly worse online experience.

The advice I’ve wanted since getting my thermal imaging camera youtu.be/8-pxHW2e34c?...

Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)? Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"

I’ve got a walk-in attic space like this that needs more work. An interior door to a cold attic space is not great, though it’s far from my house’s (or even my attic’s) biggest flaw at the moment. youtube.com/shorts/Ig8Qr...

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

HEY FRIENDS!! Did you know that Australia - #2 in the world for data centre investment - is now formally missing its climate targets thanks in large part to the resulting surge in power demand? It's massive news - @crikey.com.au let me NERD OUT to explain why: www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/04/d...

The kitchen floor insulation was definitely high effort, but even in this relatively mild weather (outside temperature 6-7°C, thermostat temperature 18.5°C) it’s keeping the floor 3.5°C warmer than the uninsulated dining room floor. #retrofit

👏 @glynhudson.bsky.social youtu.be/Tz0W9xCBxS0?...

Yinke Bankola says he was 9 when the sixth form Dulwich school prefect Nigel Farage, aged 17, asked him where he was from, then told him "that's the way back to Africa". www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I’ve had solar ~2.5 months now and the worst day so far came within 6 weeks of the best day, which generated 100x as much energy as the worst.

Marion Baeli is my guest this week on the podcast. It's over a decade since the Retrofit for the Future competition but have the projects stood the test of time? And if they have, what is the difference between these retrofits and those in the ECO programme? www.houseplanninghelp.com/392

Is this even possible? COP of 6? #heatpumps

What’s the best way to set a Vaillant sensocomfort to do hot water cylinder reheats in the cheap periods of a TOU tariff? (Eg @octopus.energy Cosy).

Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.

And still not a single mea culpa from the architects, many of whom continue to be regarded as sages by much of the press.

Was just writing about precisely this. www.businessgreen.com/blog-post/45...

Spent way too long insulating this dormer cheek. The tiny crawl space and exit hatch made it time consuming, and important to sequence things in order to escape at the end! The thermal image from the room shows 240mm woodfibre (red) 75mm shoved up blind, and no insulation (blue) #retrofit

Smart Tariffs are a game changer for the financial benefits of heat-pumps, household batteries and battery electric vehicles. We've cut our household energy, heating and transport costs to 39% of what they were before we fully electrified our house and car. The primary reason is Smart Tariffs.

It's a useful reminder that sometimes tech can make a task more efficient for one side (applying for jobs), and more efficient for the other side (writing job adverts), and yet make the system as a whole completely inefficient.

A job ad to work on sodium (sulphur) batteries for “power without pollution” from September 18 1977

It’s funny how different retrofit seems to be in the US from in the UK. Of course the core ideas of insulation, air tightness, ventilation and electrification are the same, but the dominant technologies, terminology and metrics are different. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

AEG’s website is shamelessly replete with AI slop 😳

Fly by private jet and you don’t pay tax on the fuel, and you don’t pay air passenger duty youtube.com/shorts/feOKF...

“People often think of climate change as a separate bucket at the end of a long row of other buckets of problems we're trying to fix that are wrong in the world. […] The reason we care about climate change is that it's the hole in every bucket." @katharinehayhoe.com

If you’re going to do some insulating or air tightness/draught proofing, I recommend buying or borrowing a thermal image camera if you can. It’s useful not just for identifying areas to insulate, but checking your work for defects that are often not obvious to the naked eye.

After years of research, scientist Leonid Pshenichnov concluded Russia + China cannot continue fishing krill, the main food source of many marine creatures, at current rates without risking breakdown of entire ocean ecosystems. Russia had him arrested: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Gas meter removal day today 🥳🐙⚡️

But seriously: I'm prepping for a panel on Abundance and climate and going down the rabbit hole of documenting everything so I can cite it, and I'm finding things are SO much worse than I even thought. Did you know that the Charles Koch Foundation was a sponser of Abundance 2024? No, really.

WOW: "Covid-19 vaccines... set off a powerful alarm that rallies the human immune system against cancer and nearly doubles the median survival length of patients, according to a new retrospective study by researchers at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center & the University of Florida."

Raggling/chasing rigid woodfibre. Palm router worked well for cutting a fixed depth, and creates loose insulation collected in the vacuum, which might come in handy elsewhere. #retrofit

Solar power but make it bad for the environment

📢 Episode 4 is out now! Last year, Spain was hit by one of the worst disasters in its history It was driven by climate change But it ended up boosting climate deniers... How can the world stop this from happening again? Listen now: overshootpod.com

This is incredible! www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

This is really good @overshootpod.bsky.social @laurielaybourn.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/o...

Funny how when it comes to phasing out fossil fuels, there was so much concern about a just transition for workers that they didn’t really want to encourage any transition at all, but when it comes to the prospect of “AI” eliminating vast numbers of jobs…

A #RetroFit #airtightness technique I’ve been using with areas that are awkwardly lumpy to tape, and with gaps too big to paint with liquid membrane, is to stuff the gaps with little clumps of woodfibre and then paint with liquid membrane.

Yes the CO2 rise 2023-2024 was faster than we predicted at Mauna Loa and was a record rise there - now the WMO confirm the global mean rise was also a record Also the rate of CO2 rise is now above the IPCC scenarios that limit global warming to 1.5C www.carbonbrief.org/met-office-a...

“This extra health cost was NZ$3,200 (£1,400) annually for each modern wood stove and as much as NZ$26,800 (£11,500) for each open fire” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Why are they even looking for more??? This is another 475 million tonnes of CO2 !!! "there’s no room for new fields to be opened. When you’re in a hole, you have to stop digging.” - Dr. Greg Muttitt, @iisd.org #ClimateEmergency

"Despite the communities efforts, their carbon footprint sits at 7tCO2, a long way from net zero. Flights represent the highest share of emissions. Proof that change will require a major shift in attitudes, even in an eco village."

Findhorn will always have exceptional architecture, but it’s exciting to think we’re on the way to it no longer being exceptionally low carbon, as the rest of Scotland adopts technologies that Findhorn pioneered. youtu.be/yVwrndbv-Xc?...

Wow, official tests show PHEVs environmental performance improving, but in the real world they are actually becoming more polluting. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Holy wow, +3.5 ppm CO₂ last year, up from +2.4 ppm average the past decade, and +0.6 ppm in the 1960s. It gets scarier the closer you look at it. All this is a stress test for the planet, and it's buckling. Two big reasons for the massive increase: wildfires, and the ocean sinks are shutting down.

This book finally got published today - free for download here cssn.org/news-researc... A monumental effort documenting climate obstruction across sectors, countries & governance levels, by 110 @cssn.org scholars I was chuffed to contribute to one of the chapters (thread)

“That’s what the planning system is for: to reconcile the need for development with other public needs.”

The Telegraph is now having to publish so many corrections to articles where it attempts to find *any angle whatsoever* to attack net-zero polices that it makes sense to start tracking them here. These are the ones published since Labour won the election. "We are happy to correct the record."