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There is utterly stupid logic that the UK Labour government is trying get voters to swallow: We need to transition to renewables so we can stop burning fossils fuels, and we will raise the money for this by burning more fossil fuels. We’ve reach peak stupid in this debate

Pitch: Strava for cabbages and other allotment veg. Who wants in on the seed round? ( Not sorry. )

Not rhetorical questions @greenparty.org.uk @zackpolanski.bsky.social et al. Where does a progressive green anti-racist voter go now? Is it even worth spoiling a ballot any more or is apathy all we have left?

And also cats! Who are, let's face it, their own special type of people

Exactly why I won't have voice-activated tech in the house. Talking is for people.

"How impatient, callous and unempathetic would I become after months of having my worst behaviour validated and indulged? Like children taught to be rude by an ever-accommodating Alexa, would that attitude bleed out of cyberspace into the real world?" QTWAIY www.newstatesman.com/politics/fut...

This is genuinely really good

We had this 40 years ago when the makers of Knight Rider built multiple stunt cars, each able to do one trick.

@hewlettelaine.bsky.social

26 jobs created helping destroy the planet! I suppose that will help make up for a fraction of a percent of the tens of thousands of life saving jobs, this government made redundant in the NHS.

"in blow to climate campaigners" 🙄 ... No, "in blow to a liveable earth". Pure vandalism from Burnham and Labour (not surprisingly, sadly). https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/20/jackdaw-north-sea-gas-field-to-get-go-ahead-in-blow-to-climate-campaigners

This is the kind of stupid easily avoidable shit that makes me want to unironically post GIFs of Mel Gibson

This is very much It.

Adrian Ramsay, the former co-leader of the Greens, has urged his party’s councillors to reject the newly adopted “Zionism is racism” motion if it will help them stay in power in local government, in a fresh sign of internal dissent over the policy. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

There was a time when I'd be angry about the slow death of the BBC.

Zone 4 and a bike. Easy.

So with a nod to that "how to spend $25M on frivolities" thread from the other day.. I'm also going to need a decade or two, a few friends, and a whole lot of LEGO bricks.

Counter point - they arn't NOT for jousting. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This. Everything worth living for is here.

I'm not really into nation states or patriotism enough to do the "die for my country" thing. For loved ones? Sure, if it came to that. For Brexit Island? Nah, not me, try a different door. But as for dying for *that* country? Fuck the fuck off to fuck, you absolute fucking fucks.

Anyone else feeling slightly scammed that the BST/GMT switchover is this coming weekend, and not Halloween i.e. the 31st?

Absolutely mental Halloween decorations, Hoboken, NJ.

I think I found him

Thread.

1/ The Musk-Trump decision to degrade Ukraine's Starlink access as a pressure tactic is a disaster not just for the United States' reputation but for the entire US defence industry. Musk's action may end up burning the whole industry. ⬇️

Sadly there seems to be very little empirical correlation between "people who believe 5G/wifi is evil" and "people who have therefore decided to log off"

Incredibly topical <checks date>

In another life (about a decade ago) I was a lab scientist - this is a great explainer on why you should be (at least for now) relatively sceptical re AI allowing us to suddenly cure all diseases (or even a lot of them) - we don't have the info to give an AI. ahalflife.substack.com/p/why-are-so...

And there was me thinking Sharron Davies was only awful for transphobia. Presumably her definitely-not-racist-actually-we're-liberals friends will disown her over this Restore-level racist drivel?

The Super AGI: I'm sorry. I disassembled the entire human race molecule by molecule to make paperclips. That's on me. Me: what are you talking about, that's not true Super: you're right. That was a failure of alignment and I'm really sorry Me: you haven't made any paper clips at all have you

audiophiles are like i came as soon as i heard

Still more logical than the US system. M D Y. It's neither biggest to smallest, nor smallest to biggest. We should have known. And we should have taken it as a warning.

[ ponders the engineering challenge of a coupling mechanism, inspired by childhood train sets. ] Big electromagnets for street-scale Brio, or a Hornby-ish mechanical latching system running off servos?

A stretch Lime scooter is all it takes to tackle the male loneliness epidemic.

But of course

Someone a few streets over from me has, seemingly, acquired an Escalade. And in a world of vulgar, stupid, oversized vehicles, it is quite possibly the vulgarest, stupidest and oversizedest.

Allotment slowing down to the slightly awkward, "not going to do much more now, but not quite finished enough to clear it all away for the winter" stage. Not going to bother with too much overwinter stuff this year 'cause there's lots of perennials now & the rest of the beds need a bit of a break.