Paul Boldrin

Got a new job! Finally escaped from the ivory towers to work in a startup on low carbon metals production - specifically low temperature alkaline electrolysis of oxides. So I've escaped from hydrogen as well! Still based at Imperial for the time being - they can't get rid of me that easily.

It is absolutely wild how little Spurs are being mentioned in all these articles about Kane. In this one there are 11 paragraphs about his 3 seasons on loan as a teenager before he returns to Spurs for half a paragraph (10 seasons), leaving for Bayern after a brief 30 words.

One of my cycling follows had an entire thread on dynamos the other day, maybe someone can find it.

I think this is happening. Wow, what a terrible night for some of the worst people in the world.

What is Kemi Badenoch’s new big idea? Exactly the same as the Conservatives’ old big idea: unfunded tax cuts. It’s the lack of imagination as much as the fiscal incontinence that stands out torstenbell.substack.com/p/kemis-big-...

I'm not sure "I thought it was real" is a great defence when one of the things you've done is dropped what you apparently think is a real live baby from a great height.

A Reform council vote to end free parking as it didn't increase footfall and cost £1.8M a year. Round our way Tory-controlled Enfield have just introduced free parking and will no doubt get the same results.

This is fun:

This is a cool and simple demonstration. Might have to do it for my kids later!

This is actually kind of a superpower once you work it out with the only problem being that people who do this *really* don't like being called out on it.

Great article but from an English football perspective this had me cry/laughing, Boehly being Chelsea's current owner, having bought out Roman Abramovic, Putinist oligarch, after Abramovic was forced to sell after the invasion of Ukraine. Who knows what horrors await Chelsea's boardroom next?

Wow, I think this is the worst framing I've ever seen. "Passed to close to cyclists" = deliberately drove into them. Pathetic sob story about the high blood pressure to start the piece as well.

Kids were at home alone today so got to make their own lunch. Just found out what it was... A toasted cheese and mini sausage roll sandwich...

We (Ironic Metals) are in this one! Didn't go to the retreat but had fun at the bootcamp.

Wow, outstanding and brave journalism here. These guys will be lucky if they just end up in jail rather than mysteriously turning up dead.

DEKI!

One of my first games at WHL was Coventry's last game there before this one. They lost 3-0 that day and I was (correctly) certain they were going to go down. They look a lot better tonight.

Just realised unusually both my NFL and football teams are playing Monday this week, both with a chance to move to 6 - wins in the case of the 49ers 🎉, points in the case of Spurs 🤮

People thinking that the car will ever be real is crazy but also crazy is people in the comments fixating on compressed gas being the big danger when the actual big danger would be allowing drivers to try and fly a car with rockets. One death per attempted flight would be a bare minimum expectation.

Appropriate day for Chris Hawkins on 6music to be kicking off the time machine with Bombtrack. Don't think it's ever been more relevant.

I do sometimes daydream about how amazing it would be to be able to do a riverside walk along the Fleet all the way from Hampstead Heath to St Paul's. This should be a great documentary when it's finished.

These people have entirely lost their minds.

Important consultation for people to respond to (especially cyclists):

This is excellent news for the climate and for UK green industry. Lots of investment somehow still not fully believing that CBAM will come into force (despite the fact it's only months away) and things like this make it more likely that it will.

The police have foiled the start of a stereotypical British film, but is it a zombie movie, an organised crime heist, a rural murder mystery or a porno? Comedy or drama?

The men's race also demonstrated this. McNulty owes Jorgenson and Simmons all the pints after that one.

Just catching up on the end of the cycling world championship road race and I don't think there's any event in sport other than marathon which demonstrates so visually how close to the edge of human ability athletes are.

Going to dive into the important issue here - what the hell is going on with this graph?!

Wow, this is so sad. Should be a reminder to anyone who hasn't been for a while to go and get checked out by your GP.