GET A GRIP Ireland is building a battery that contains no lithium. No cobalt. No rare-earth metals. Instead, it stores energy using carbon dioxide. The project is designed to hold 200 megawatt-hours of electricity, making it one of Europe’s largest long-duration energy storage systems.

Rushed for last hour to get 12:53. Arrived 2 mins before and delayed 10. Shows cancelled on train pal ? Ticket from machine. Google says go to Spalding I want Grantham. Going to Grantham regardless. Pushchair in one bike space. Cont....

Popped in to Sandringham to do another quick tweak to my big ring

Russia Captured Chernobyl. The Wildlife Cameras Kept Recording. Gift 🎁 article A rare camera-trap study logged the effects of armed conflict on wild animals in real time. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/s...

The danger of using voxpops in place of real analysis. Cameras are a magnet for motivated activists. These two made it into four different reels + a dozen print pieces. The illusion is that we're getting an insight into "Clacton voters". In truth, we just know what Farage Megastans Jim & June think.

Blood donor team celebrating the partnership with Metallica! 🙌🏼

How to prepare for cycle ahead? This works right?

Horrible new bullshit from the sea every time. It’s never ‘oh we found a new pink fish that is so happy’ it’s always stuff like this, the crush-depth screw-headed dongwongler, and it’s got to have big long creepy bits. Sick of the ocean tbh.

Mexico v England was the most-watched football game in American TV history, the NYT reports. Nearly 45 million people in the US watched the game — 23.2 million on Telemundo Sports and 21.7 million on Fox.

Yes, I do indeed still have chips left over on my plate

Just imagine someone telling Mozart, "Hey Amadeus, in a few hundreds years time, your music will be played to deter young vandals" 🤣 Northern backs use of 'old fogey' music to deter troublemakers - BBC News share.google/cAmaq1uP1Emp...

In case you missed it, here's Count Binface's appearance on the BBC this morning.

That's most of this part of UK coast now cycled with the odd gap which is harder to do

Hello Cromer

Hello Cromer

Off we go on another mini adventure

The state of Gabriel. Our regal tuxedo cat plotting world domination from his throne, subtly judging our life choices

Just turned on TV to see the tennis and Fery's last game. Wowsers

Today I was mentioned during Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons! From station cat to Parliament… what an incredible honour. Thank you to everyone who’s followed my adventures and made this possible. ❤️🐾 thank you Cat Eccles www.youtube.com/live/q_D6IIR...

Sometimes, being British is a delight.

A great podcast taking about a possible solution A Land for All www.alandforall.org/wp-content/u...

Having been with them for 25+ years, the amount of times we had to play the game to get our bills down before finally leaving this year. So very very shocked as it happened to us

Amen

On my way, Clacton.

QUICK, SELL YOUR SHARES IN MILKSHAKES!

Oh get on with it, you whining coward.

Belgium players mocking the US and Trump's meddling in the World Cup by doing the Trump dance after scoring the 4th goal against the USMNT

No, I'm not watching Tour de France on S4C via BBC iPlayer #WeirdS4CisOniPlayer

40s weekend at the SVR. Just popped by as we were out walking in the Wyre Forest

Bloody Shropshire roads. Shallowish potholes broke the holder for camera which flew off into the road

I would kill or die for Larry

I love the earnestness of Swedish academics complaining that Eastern Vikings were more likely to be oarsmen than Western. Meanwhile, Norway is in the round of 16, the smallest country (by population) to be so (unless Cape Verde beats Argentina?!).

Far Right Jamboree agenda. Remarkable to see all the worst people in one place. Obi-Wan Kenobi gif 1/2

Since the hard-won, fragile, and crucial consensus on climate change was unpicked by the right wing, some on the left are happy to join this regressive attack. What does Graham tell her members about failing crops, coastal erosion, and global instability? Tough tits? It is so disheartening to see.

What an interesting sewing kit.. 🪡🧵 It's a 'Knit Patch' kit used as a mini darning loom designed for repairing holes in fabric. The kit allows users to weave new fabric directly onto damaged cloth items like jeans, socks or bags. #sewing #repair #tool #cloth

😂 Douglas Adams strikes again. Marvin the Paranoid Android.

some amazing things happening over on threads — ever since they “shut down CERN”

Meta's lawyers have still not heard of Streisand. youtube.com/shorts/dpJQj...

As you do, you set up the telescope after being at the pub. The Andromeda Galaxy M31, the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way and only 2.5 million light-years away 🔭

Still warm so off to a local. This also has 1940s steam train weekend so queue at bar extended to the back of the pub. So got two each

I could legit watch this all day. The goalies 🥰

Think I'll go with a 7/10 as I thought the empowerment aspect of the film really well done. Think the more violent aspect may have shocked a few if the younger kids in the cinema. Only one of the three (maybe four) characters in the poster was super though boxd.it/eXOc8T

No you're in the cinema to keep cool as it's 32deg all over the house. Supergirl time 🦸🏼‍♀️

I have written a short piece in @uk.theconversation.com on the end of the ISS, what it means and who pays... TLDR: it is very uncertain and too low on the to-do list. theconversation.com/cracks-in-th...

OMG. Pre conditioning for the car not only heats but cools. Bliss

Bear absolutely loves his ice-block treats at any time, but especially now in the summer heat. 😋 Of course, now he's seen where they appear from, any time I'm near the freezer, or if he hears the freezer door open, he's there in 5 nanoseconds, investigating expectantly and enthusiastically 🫣🤣 #dogs

Sunrise today from high up in the Dolomites 🇮🇹

In 1946, a captured German V-2 launched from White Sands carried Clyde Holliday’s 35-millimetre DeVry motion-picture camera above the Kármán line and returned the first photographs of Earth from space on film recovered after the rocket crashed in the New Mexico desert share.google/6P9DnfQuwIgn...

Just one of the many queuing for the Waverley

And not a squeak from Farage, Lowe, Robinson or Tice. Nothing. Literally nothing.