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Hold on in there, in 57 days time the days start getting longer again Only around 45 days until the earliest sunset #endofBST

Say hello to #Cornwall Council's Dragonfly Squad! A Cormac Environment team has come up with a rather unusual way to keep biting insects at bay - dragonfly hats. Operative Harry Blake had the idea, and the team reckons the decoys have worked a treat, with no need for insect repellent.

the museum sounds great i hope they also build one for women

Semaphore xkcd.com/3295/

Cornwall’s newest electric buses will soon be taking over the Truro Park and Ride service. Get a sneak peek tomorrow, Tuesday, September 8, when the Transport for #Cornwall team will be at Lemon Quay in #Truro from 9.30am to 3pm to answer your questions about buses.

At what point does a British by-election get awarded to the silver medalist, à la Ben Johnson and Carl Lewis? Asking for a friend of a friend, i.e. me. #Clacton

For thousands of years, a solar eclipse has been a prophetic harbinger of a spectacular, epoch-making event. Just saying. #VoteBinface #Clacton

Every so often at work, a well meaning user suggests using what3words and I gently explain why we'd never consider it. And that's just little old me, how did Network Rail get in so deep with them? A similar pros/cons from 2 mins of research would give you some pause.

If you can see the sun this evening you can watch the solar eclipse... ie. There's no special location you have to be in (you don't need to climb on top of a mountain, or drive a few hundred miles to the coast, as some seem to suggest!) 🌞🌑

I've seen people suggest you look at the eclipse through a colander. Don't do that, you'll strain your eyes.

Blackout warnings in Hungary, triggered by an outage on a gas plant and the shutdown of a nuclear plant due to low water levels. Damn that intermittent power…

So, it turns out 38.0°C was the maximum on 26 June 2026, not the provisional 37.7°C www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new... 5th hottest day by maximum temperature on record in the UK.

Short-sighted, stupid cuts to the UKRI budget include shutting down Jodrell Bank, the icon of British astronomy. (Many other cuts too, including 20% to our brand new @vrubinobs.bsky.social). Interesting politically to shut down a major facility in...um..Manchester 🔭 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Jodrell Bank? JODRELL FUCKING BANK??? Fuck off and tax the super rich you absolute bellends.

When the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this. Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it.

So the efficacy of AI currently relies on the 5% (or less) of archives that have been digitised being the good 5% As for creativity (the groundbreaking type), pretty sure that still requires original thought and can’t be conceived from what has gone before then summarily and illicitly pinched

Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface

I recently read or heard someone say something like "if AI was so good, they wouldn't be shoving it down our throats at every turn to justify the effort going into it." Credit goes to the source I have now forgotten.

Heh

Those in the northern hemisphere mid-high latitudes who don't enjoy hot weather should be thankful that aphelion occurs during boreal summer. If we had perihelion instead, summers would be somewhat hotter (& winters a bit colder). Vice-versa for the southern hemisphere.

Are Falmouth trolling Charlestown here?

AI slop has finally made it's way to energy… To be fair we reached that point a while ago but wow has it got bad lately. A particular favourite has to be this bizarrely-proportioned map of Britain that claims to show the TNUoS demand zones that "exactly align with the country's 14 DNO regions"

my kind of Jubilee, the Japanese national team vs. 100 kids

BBC News: "A Reform UK councillor's bid to scrap his authority's climate emergency declaration has been delayed because the chamber was too hot to debate it." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Beam Pipe xkcd.com/3257/

One of the more misogynistic takes currently trending in the AI policy space is "women use less AI than men because they have less tech literacy" Ok but have you considered that women use less AI than men because we have more tech literacy?

In case anyone is after a #referral code for #switching to #EDF #Energy here's one that will currently get you a £75 credit on switching! edfenergy.com/quote/refer-...

My @ubiquiti.bsky.social Dream Machine died today, weeks past 5 years old, makes me sad a £330 purchase is no longer with me 😢 Invoked DR & got Network restored to my CloudKey, stuck in an extra AP & switch in the office & dug out the ISP router & back in business, now what to replace it with!? 🤔

Working my ass off today with a bunch of volunteers. Just looked at my inbox to see if we got any new donors, and nope, we LOST one monthly subscriber. Warleigh Nature Reserve will bankrupt Protect Earth if we don’t get this crowdfunder. Get involved.

Can I just ask, #r4today, as you seem to be very keen to talk about and investigate Polanski’s council tax issue, why not the same feverish scrutiny over the far more troubling and glaringly corrupt £5M bribe Farage took from that crypto billionaire, Harborne? We can hear your strings being pulled.

How does this add up @metoffice.gov.uk Got excited at a day of sun for tomorrow, then looked at the detail! 🤨

This horse has a one-of-a-kind sense of humor. Watch as it teases the cat and then puts on an innocent face when caught in the act.

In a rational world the government would be asking people to respond to the current fossil fuel crisis by car sharing, turning lights off, and generally saving fuel and energy. And yet Ministers can’t even propose better efficiency standards for tumble dryers without the right wing press going mad.

Race to buy 'missing piece' of nature haven #Kernow #Cornwall

Tregothnan Gardens to open to public for one weekend only #Kernow #Cornwall

oddly hypnotic

Artemis 2 was the furthest human voyage from Earth. Per the final JPL Horizons trajectory I estimate the max distance from the geocenter was 413145 km at 2304 UTC Apr 6 (about 4 km less and 1 min later than PAO's report at the time). (1 / n ).....

We've reached the point that they're using the Epstein files to cover up Iran

Ah fuck the internet tells me it’s International Beaver Day and @protect.earth can’t afford a massive heap of marketing folks with silly themed calendars to post regularly scheduled content for every bloody thing like that but here’s a thing I wrote about beavers recently.

Windy weather, so many of you are looking forward to the UK tradition of BigJetTV. BUT... What most won't know is Jerry (from BigJet) has had to battle through emergency heart surgery, two strokes and loss of vision in one eye. Today is his first, tentative and limited return. Send him some love!

🎥 The Chough webcam is NOW LIVE! Chicks bred this year will help support the growing flock of released choughs in Kent, as part of the ongoing Chough Reintroduction Program, in partnership with Kent Wildlife Trust and Wildwood Kent. 👉 Watch the action live paradisepark.org.uk/events-and-n...