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eBay users! Don't ignore today's email, even though it looks like a boring standard update to the User Privacy Notice. They want to use your data to train AI models. If you click the link over the words "the right to object", it takes you to a page with a toggle button letting you opt out.

The lettuce is still edible

If Putin stops fighting, the war ends. If Zelensky stops fighting then his country will be occupied, leaders murdered, language banned, businesses stolen, children kidnapped. That's what happens in Russian-occupied Ukraine.

the story about the ULEZ bomber, a white bloke in his 60s, still isn’t on the front page of the BBC News when it feels like quite a big story about online radicalisation & violence

Wow!

CARTOON OF THE DAY…

America, you are cooked. 😬

Perfection. (ht: @bobupstateny.bsky.social)

Another compilation video from yesterday's fascist paramilitary 'storm' action in #Dover town and at the Port of Dover. #FarRight Some national security-related observations below.

Scum

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Wow. A new Govt amendment to the Rep of the People Bill gives the Electoral Commission power to compel *any person* in the country to hand over documents about a political party's finances (There's no requirement to suspect wrongdoing and no court order needed. Criminal offence to refuse)

Strange that Farage isn't issuing an 'Emergency Address to a Worried Nation' over the exclusively white gang violence currently engulfing Middlesbrough.

It's plug-in solar day! You can now buy your own balcony/garden solar set-ups in GB (not NI) and install them without an electrician, provided the devices are 'compliant'. Let me know if anyone here is planning to do it and how you get on

Donald Trump is a murderer, rapist, pedophile, insurrectionist and yet control of the Senate is a toss up. There is something very rotten in America.

Journalist, "All vaccines are poison?" Trump supporter, "Yes they are" Journalist, "What about the polio vaccine?" Trump supporter, "There hasn't been a case of polio since 1960" Journalist, "Since the vaccine" Trump supporter, "Yeah"

Today’s leopard ate my face 😱

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Strait of Hormuz crossings back to zero. (via Schwab)

Solar is about to overtake wind. Generation is set to rise ~600 TWh in 2026, matching last year's record, putting it second only to hydro among renewables. And renewables together are on track to out-generate coal this year.

Reclaim's accounts are a fun read (Laurence Fox's party). Reclaim raised £200,000 last year from just one person (Jeremy Hosking), has no members' income at all, and spent £436,000 - almost all on consultants (Fox?) to contest...no elections.

Count Binface on the Clacton by-election on US TV, "If Nigel Farage strikes me down electorally I will become more powerful than he can possibly imagine" "Because the parliamentary committee will look into his £5 million unconditional gift" "But he didn't declare it"

Italian researchers found that semi-transparent solar panels over olive groves increased olive yields by 12%, reduced water evaporation by 19%, generated clean electricity, and even improved olive oil quality. 🌿⚡🫒 #Agrivoltaics #RenewableEnergy #Sustainability #ClimateSolutions

I would love to buy him a pint.

It's amazing how many times he told this lie. But the accordion hands were the tell all along.

"Sinking in Polls, Farage Plans Week of Attacks on Immigration" Reform plan to make next week Immigration Week It could finally be the moment for broadcast media to notice the > 75% drop in net migration since 2024. There is also a 42% drop in boat crossings

Elon Musk is planning to spend at least $100 million to help Republicans in this year’s midterms. That’s just 0.014 percent of his current $702 billion net worth. Oligarchs can rig the system at the expense of everyone else, and only spend pennies doing so. We must get Big Money out of politics.

"Renewable energy generated 52.1% of the UK’s electricity in 2025, exceeding half of total generation for the second consecutive year, according to government statistics." www.renews.biz/other-news/u....

It is two years today since this dimwit gave us the most hilarious demonstration of karma in history.

Farage having a strop about not being invited to discuss social care provision, is like Harold Shipman giving out for being excluded from a debate on GP home visits.

Sweet!

Pornainen, Finland (pop 5,000) is now heated by a silo of crushed soapstone. I spoke to CNBC about it. 100 MWh, charged when power is cheap, emissions down ~70%. Days to weeks of storage, no critical minerals. www.cnbc.com/2026/07/25/f...

Bordeaux is being partly evacuated due to uncontrollable fires. How *anyone* can take these Reform people seriously is a mystery.

Today’s I wasn’t expecting the leopard to eat my face

Some Friday number crunching.... From the latest issue of Private Eye - in shops now. Or save money and subcribe at www.subsonline.co.uk 📪

Not good

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The SI was laid before Parliament on 17 July, and comes into force 27 August 2026. So probably just about meeting the Govt's target of getting plug-in solar "this summer" It's a negative-procedure instrument so no debate is required unless its 'prayed' against (formally opposed in Commons/Lords)

Someone posted the up to date version of this infographic...

Rattled, corrupt and nasty Nigel gets grumpy…

Football and tennis in one day 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Cooked

Mamdani: "As we mark 250 years ... we see the wealthiest country -- one where children go to sleep hungry while the world's first trillionaire hungers for more ... we see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans"

credit to Sally Nugent who just, in normal circumstances, brought Nigel Farage's political career to an end. If polls don't plummet after this, I will be truly astonished.