Richard Lane

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Having done an electronic engineering degree with specialism in audio, I just thought that if things had gone differently I could have been the guy whose job it is to ensure that train announcements are completely unintelligible.

What on earth happened in this field?

Maybe this sort of thing always happens eventually when organisms start with tool use. Maybe a couple of million years is all you get before inevitably doing something stupid enough to wipe yourself out, and that's why there doesn't seem to be anyone else out there.

Just found this screengrab I took of a Family Guy episode a few years back 'cos I wanted to see what the music was briefly shown on the piano... it's the top line of the Family Guy theme song. Now you know.

Next Tuesday is our AGM! We welcome Leo Murray of @ridingsunbeams.bsky.social to give the headline talk on the potential of communities to power Great British Railways. Come along 7:30 for the talks, 6:30 if you want to join in the AGM business fun yorkcommunityenergy.org.uk/event/people...

@susiedentwords.bsky.social Hello! Don't suppose you'd spell out the Czech Word of the Week you gave in Unspeakable s4e1 broadcast this Monday? My Czech partner was a bit mystified.

It sounded like it would be complicated, it is complicated.

I'm the last person to attack climate action but looking at how policy around Net Zero is being implemented - in a bureaucratic fudgestorm of dodgily awarded contracts to corporate blaggers in a desperate search for economic growth - it is only a matter of time before it becomes indefensible.

Thanks to our @rachaelmaskell.bsky.social for signing it also.

New Esk video dropped! (or 'released' if you're over 30) yesterday: m.youtube.com/watch?v=LxcU... I enjoyed filming it a lot more than it looks like.

people saying "huh eclipse who cares boring" ... blimey not to be rude but you guys are all dead inside, hollow shells inhabited only by the last joyless fumes of rotted humanity burped out by a dying imagination. but in the nicest possible way.

Every damn website I go on is all "ohh go on download our app for some reason" and I never do, but meanwhile Google Earth, which has worked brilliantly as an application for ~20 years is saying "oh no we're a website now". They can't even be annoying in the same direction.

It's important to only get mad about things that are real.

Hanging around a 16th century guard tower smiling at strangers in an official capacity this morning.

Renewables are now the world's largest source of electricity – and the main source of new supplies

This is kind of what TikTok seems like to me.

Seems v plausible that the grid might be teetering in the heat & that the operator might try to keep that quiet. But what doesn't ring true is that anyone legit would take those concerns to shadow equalities minister Coutinho, who famously hallucinated a meal tax. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Incredible to see the smoke from the Dovestone moorland wildfire creating a brown haze all the way down into Cheshire - just passing Sandbach and I can still see it stretching off into the distance

If you're personally kind but publicly cruel that probably means you're basically cruel but can choose who you mix with.

SO happy to share the news that @ridingsunbeams.bsky.social is working with our friends @ycenergy.bsky.social on a feasibility study that could see the first MW scale solar farm to connect to a mainline AC electrified railway in the UK be led & majority owned by the local community! 😎🤩🚀

RENEWABLES: They're still wildly popular with the British public, not that you'd realise from news coverage * Only 4% are opposed Even for wind/solar farms in your local area, opposition is very low * 74/68% would either be happy to have a local solar/wind farm, or don't care

In the category of "things that I wouldn't have expected ten years ago," the solar farm I'm project managing for @bigsolarcoop.bsky.social has been featured in a supportive CPRE article www.cpre.org.uk/stories/grou... - complete with a selfie of me & the gaffer.

Make hate cost more. Support our new Crowdfunder: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/fight-the-... Show that there is a real cost to pushing hateful rhetoric.

The reality is that successive governments have done bugger all in terms of preparing the UK for today's much hotter climate. let alone what's coming Nothing less than a war-footing is going to cut it, and even then future decades are going to be grim www.theguardian.com/education/20...

This week is a great time to learn the habit of not boiling more water than you need, if you haven't learnt it already. Don't bring in more heat than you need! Or have a pint of water at 90 degrees heating up your kitchen! (This post is mainly aimed at the people who share our office kitchen.)

The burning of fossil fuels in the past should have been prevented The burning of fossil fuels in the future is still preventable We can stop making the same mistake Help us do that

Put up an external blind ahead of the heat arriving today. Window on the right has been painted with yogurt (not my idea, apparently a suggestion from the University of Loughborough, though could be the agricultural marketing studies dept).

So yeah we got those panels up. You wouldn't believe how long the last little bit is taking.

I have been bitten by an insect right on the nipple, the little pervert.

Cory Doctorow: “The most important thing about the gadget isn’t what it does, it’s who it does it for and who it does it to.” - I wish someone had expressed things that pithily when we are all arguing about GM foods in the 00s.