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I don't think this is a huge problem: building new liquefaction plant is presumably reasonably easy. But it's a kind of extraordinary fact
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I don't think this is a huge problem: building new liquefaction plant is presumably reasonably easy. But it's a kind of extraordinary fact
For the night is dark and full of Elvis Impersonators
Morning.
I think SO MUCH about we could have just not done any of this
This is an image of the star WOH G64, taken by the GRAVITY instrument on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (ESO’s VLTI). This is the first close-up picture of a star outside our own galaxy, the Milky Way. The star is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, over 160 000 light-years away. The bright oval at the centre of this image is a dusty cocoon that enshrouds the star. A fainter elliptical ring around it could be the inner rim of a dusty torus, but more observations are needed to confirm this feature.
Astronomers watched as the star WOH G64 transformed from a red supergiant into a rare, shortlived yellow supergiant star...in just 12 years.
It's a dramatic, rapid instability in a star that is rapidly headed toward a cataclysmic supernova explosion. 🧪🔭
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Trump's not demented, totally normal talk for a president at war!
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There is no funnier train station sign than "Cambridge home of Anglia Ruskin University". Everytime I see it I'm impressed all over again at the level of trolling.
Its been over a decade since he came down that escalator and people still dont have a solution to the "The president just says stuff" problem.
Every day, 3 minutes before midnight, Times Square takes a break from the ads and displays art
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as do I
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(BTW @akshatrathi.bsky.social this newsletter says your $21 trn figure applies to getting to net zero in 2027...)
Imagine the reaction in the US if ~175 schoolgirls had been killed by a targeted Iranian missile. (Or anyone's missile.)
This is an atrocity.
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Posted simply for the headline. I loathe many things about the Guardian
But it's a good headline
This is drivel
Trump on if new Iranian leader has a target on his back: "Look, I had a target on my back because they caught the assassin that was after me. So we just got them first. But they caught the assassin."
If you are watching Trump's presser right now, you are seeing beyond reasonable doubt a person not mentally suited for any position of responsibility. Even running a small store.
GOP members of the House and Senate: You are seeing this too.
The case against an edit button
I notice that UKSovereignAI has an account on X but not here and that doesn't feel terribly sovereign to me...
If I had a nickel for every time Franz Ferdinand was involved in the precursor events of a world war, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice
Julie Brown really is what reporters should be
China has added yoke-style steering wheels to the list of restrictions that will take effect Jan. 1, 2027.
In the document, it noted that 46% of driver injuries are associated with steering mechanisms and said airbags in yoke-style steering wheels may deploy unpredictably.
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Also wild: Young Frankenstein is considerably older today than the James Whale Frankenstein was in 1974
The telegraph magazine story will I think be available online at some point. Also, as Nicholas kindly points out, if this is the sort of thing you think you might like there's a whole book of it available...
www.google.co.uk/books/editio...
Are electric vehicles denting oil demand? Yes.
By how much? 1.5 million barrels of oil a day, according to EV Curve Futurist.
Caveat: These estimates are hard, but the numbers are certainly adding up.
X post by Nicholas Booth (@thievesworld) with pictures of pages from the Telegraph magazine, March 7th, one of a spread devoted to Marianne Faithful one of a page in a piece by me. Text reads: "Splendid pieces in the Telegraph magazine - one about a new film about Marianne Faithfull which looks superb @NevittSteve @NigelStonier and another by @Eaterofsun about the Moon. Sorry, Oliver, reading the Marianne one first so might atone by... checks notes... eating a Mars Bars
Kind words in the other place
Waiting to cross the road & a humungous trailer-tractor thing rumbles past & the man waiting alongside me & I exchange bemused WTF expressions & I think probably one of my favourite things in the world is when you share a fleeting moment of complicity with a complete stranger like that.
The Trump era has given rise to this whole new emotion of being simultaneously angry over how evil something is and how stupid it is, which I'm sure the Germans have a word for but I don't.
Made me think of you
