@richardbuckle
He/him. Mostly retired. Mostly harmless. Delightfully married: we've a sprocker and a chihuahua. #critter #vamily Mastodon: https://techhub.social/@RichardBuckle Can't use DMs cos my stupid govt requires that I disclose PII to prove my age.
Reaching net zero by 2050 is often framed as a cost burden.
The UK Climate Change Committee’s latest analysis suggests the opposite.
The real risk is fossil fuel dependency.
Stars and Stripes huge headline HITLER DEAD
I wonder what our headlines will look like when it happens.
Two spaniels asleep on my lap
Happiness is a snoring dog. Or two.
Crude oil prices, showing a very sharp increase in the last day, from around 65 to 101 dollars per barrel..
Oil prices wouldn't be all over the news today if more of our economy was powered by local, secure renewable energy.
This isn't an "energy crisis". It's a fossil fuel crisis.
44% of UK electricity came from renewables in 2025. More of that plus an electrified economy => no more oil shocks.
treated image of Tony Blair, Larry Ellison, Donald Trump, Rupert Murdoch and Benjamin Netanyahu with the caption: "As Tony Blair criticises Starmer for not joining Trump’s war, read Carole Cadwalladr on Blair, Big Tech and the Israel connection"
As the right wing press praises Tony Blair for his "rebuke" of Keir Starmer for not supporting Donald Trump's war on Iran ("We should have backed America from the very beginning."), time to re-up @carolecadwalla.bsky.social's investigation into the Tony Blair Institute
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Telegraph: Blair rebukes Starmer of failure to back Trump's war
Mail: Blair delivers a stinging blow to PM over war
Man who dragged Britain into an illegal war in the Middle East scolds other man for not dragging Britain into an illegal war in the Middle East.
Elon Musk has already started plans to launch a million satellites.
Yes. A MILLION.
This is a colossally bad idea, and it's not too late to make your voice heard. I explain everything:
www.scientificamerican.com/article/ramp...
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It’s hard to properly convey the lunacy of these proposals to people outside aerospace.
Reflect wants to put gigantic mirrors in orbit and beam down sunlight at nighttime.
SpaceX wants a million more starlink sats.
If either of these actually happens, space will be unusable.
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Reform fury as someone else wins by Our By-election Editor Tim Shipsink The losing candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election, Matt Goodwhinge, has demanded an immediate re-run of the election on the grounds that he lost comprehensively to someone else. "It's totally unfair and rigged," said Goodwhinge. "I shouldn't be required to sit there and suck it up, just because I lost." Mr Goodwhine continued, *I can't believe that all those voters I demonised failed to back me. Especially after I was endorsed by Tommy Robinson and ten million Russian bots on X. "We have clear evidence of family voting, where people voted in order for me to stop deporting their families." Mr Badloser concluded. "I'm the victim of colour prejudice. They didn't vote for me simply because I'm not green." Reform leader Mr Farage, speaking from a sun lounger on a rock near the Chagos Islands said, "It's a tragedy that the people of Manchester won't see Matt in Westminster, but my constituents don't see me in Clacton either." PLUMBER DEFEATS MATT GOODWIN Photo of Hannah Spencer with speech bubble saying… I've stopped the cock
Beautiful from Private Eye on the massive toddler-tantrum that Matt Goodwin and Reform are having, because they got whooped in Gorton and Denton.
You know that scam where some dude claims he's videotaped you and whatever smut you're looking at and is going to e-mail to to your friends if you don't give him money? Imagine the government doing that. Imagine a phishing scam stamping on a human face forever.
What they want is access to everyone's internet activity. They want to know what you're watching, reading and whacking to. They want to shame you at will with something like, "Weren't you looking at tentacle porn?" The internet could go from the freest to the most restricted mode of communication.
The recording light can be hacked and turned off. There is now an app to let you know when the glasses are being used nearby
techcrunch.com/2026/03/02/n...
Last year when I was checking into a hotel, the desk person was wearing Meta glasses. I kindly asked them to take them off. They were annoyed. I said, “I do not consent to you looking at my credit card and ID with Meta glasses on.” My instincts were correct: www.bbc.com/news/article...
I didn't think Meta's creep glasses could get any creepier but "an army of contractors watches everything you record to render your life into AI training data" is creepmaxxing
I continue to be fascinated by the phenomenon whereby an expert engages with any of the LLMs on their field of expertise and is instantly horrified by the wrong answers, and then goes on to use it for things they are not experts in as though it won’t be just as bad for those.
I am seeing many similar reports. Perhaps it’s something my wife will watch with me. We’ve been a bit short of common shows recently.
Peter Mandelson, the Russian superyacht and the scandal we completely misread. By Tamsin Shaw. Pictured: Peter Mandelson in front of a picture of a yacht
Remember Yachtgate - the original Mandelson scandal?
In 2008, he was caught on an oligarch's boat in Corfu. The Epstein files now reveal the full picture: a web of Russian money, paedophile kompromat and New Labour access that shaped a decade of British politics
www.thenerve.news/p/peter-mand...
Developers, managers, executives: If you don’t understand what Jason is saying here, _please be curious enough to ask._
So, just to be clear, don't point me at a massively complicated function in a massive change set as your proof that Claude Code produces better code than a good software engineer.
I might not stop laughing.
Happy Birthday to the great, @mariancall.bsky.social. All of her music brilliant, but this one is currently my favorite song of all time. I love it so much that I even have a line from it tattooed on my arm. I highly recommend checking out her work, if you haven't.
youtu.be/tURjlDQU5ws?...
Yes, and the accommodations extended to those who had injured their writing hand/arm.
Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.
Now that I hear Bandcamp integration is a thing, please enjoy this most marvellous song by @mariancall.bsky.social that has been reminding me to quit my doomscrolling and go to bed since 2017. mariancall.bandcamp.com/track/good-n...
Back in the day, disabled students would have someone called an “amanuensis”, a senior member of the faculty who would take dictation from them and hand-write it.
When the big breaking news finally comes, before they even have the chance to lower the flags to half-mast, the entire world will be like...
It’s my birthday and I’ve been arrested, do you think pizza express will refund the deposit for my party? No sweat if not.
I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland.
And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.
