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Let’s try this again…

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Can we spread this single piece of information around a bit, not just on Bluesky. Send a paper printout to your grumpy old 'net zero will make us all poor' Uncle, or Auntie.

11.03.2026 12:09 👍 89 🔁 38 💬 1 📌 1

Seems like there’s strings attached to this hobby.

10.03.2026 15:06 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Tories oversaw the degradation of UK gas storage capacity - 2010 to 2017.

Thatcher privatised the gas and oil industry - 1982 to 1986.

Thatcher closed the collieries - 1986 to 1991.

This woman is an idiot - 1960 to 2026

09.03.2026 13:57 👍 731 🔁 215 💬 42 📌 14

“I appear to have been hoisted by my own petard…”

09.03.2026 19:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It’s maths. The crust thickness adjusts the radius available for toppings, while at the same time being the maximum impact area for an addition in the crust.

If ‘superior’ to the buyers taste (hot dog) then it adds value. If it’s inferior (sauce) then it detracts value/cheaper to make.

08.03.2026 09:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Cheese? yes.
Hot dog? yes.
Sauce? Hell no.

08.03.2026 09:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A hotdog stuffed crust is an upgrade.

Chicago Town’s ‘sauce stuffed crust’ is a crime against humanity and does what this person says. Shrinkflation but pretending to be ‘more’

Like those arseholes with Aero selling ‘more bubbles’

08.03.2026 09:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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a man in a tie is holding a lighter in his hand ALT: a man in a tie is holding a lighter in his hand

“Looks like I picked the wrong time to delay getting off of fossil fuels…”

06.03.2026 19:24 👍 343 🔁 39 💬 16 📌 1

Lovely blog, IMO vans ‘being there’ is that where they are is often parked ‘ad hoc’ at a job or site which is when it would be perfect to charge, but can’t.

Charging on the way from/to would be seen as ‘money lost’, see also ‘driving style’

We differ on numbers but a ‘lot’ could adapt though.

05.03.2026 11:08 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Oh now I get it. Dubai is Golgafrinchan Ark B.

03.03.2026 15:00 👍 1816 🔁 410 💬 198 📌 107

Also chasing clicks & giggles so focused on emotive topics like immigration and if your Party’s donors aren’t the same people writing the headlines you’re inevitably going to struggle.

03.03.2026 13:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Those old enough to remember Leaded Petrol are also suffering from lead poisoning and can’t remember that leaded petrol no longer exists and need the reminder.

03.03.2026 10:26 👍 17 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This MEGA Solar Farm Is Powering 300,000 Homes!
This MEGA Solar Farm Is Powering 300,000 Homes! YouTube video by Everything Electric TECH

Putting this up because... well... Everything Electric continues to be LAME at putting their content up on BlueSky.
(Looking over my glasses at YOU, @bobbyllew.bsky.social!)
Anyways, always good watching...

youtu.be/TUi03zA4DAM?...

25.02.2026 17:07 👍 70 🔁 6 💬 5 📌 0
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This is the real measure of global overheating. It’s looking incredibly bad: | Rupert Read This is the real measure of global overheating. It’s looking incredibly bad:

“25 Hiroshima bombs per second…”

22.02.2026 14:51 👍 29 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0
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Phil Noble the photographer has just snapped history

19.02.2026 19:35 👍 141 🔁 21 💬 12 📌 4

This isn't a purely philosophical or semantic argument about what "British" means.

Once you accept different tiers of British citizenship you gain a way to formally discriminate.

USSR documents famously had a "5th line" denoting ethnicity. Stalin's nationalist repressions used this as their basis.

15.02.2026 14:01 👍 533 🔁 143 💬 14 📌 2

My first memory of being ill is when I had measles as a kid

The morbidity and mortality of this disease allowed to run unchecked is high. Children may die

This is engineered by grifters & bad actors, exploiting parental concerns

Wish I’d had the vaccine.
Protect your kids by vaccinating them now

14.02.2026 19:36 👍 102 🔁 35 💬 7 📌 3
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It is so embarrassing that it has taken nearly a decade for a British minister to say this, a statement of the absolute bloody obvious

11.02.2026 07:40 👍 4979 🔁 1289 💬 169 📌 64

No-one seems to have noticed, but many of the core developments in the Mandelson/Epstein story these last few days have been broken on this website. @pickardje.bsky.social and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social are both posting each breaking development on BlueSky, not X.

10.02.2026 11:40 👍 3045 🔁 677 💬 63 📌 12

gotta agree with this. at some point we all have to contend with what good faith is actually for and extend it accordingly

07.02.2026 15:51 👍 2484 🔁 434 💬 36 📌 11
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everything is terrible so here’s the swedish chef doing rapper’s delight

11.07.2025 03:28 👍 4865 🔁 1345 💬 154 📌 112

This opening ceremony is exactly what I’d expect and exactly what I want it to be.

06.02.2026 19:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Say no to Palantir in the NHS NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir - fight back

Get Palantir out of the NHS

https://notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-target/stop-palantir-in-the-nhs/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_campaign=PalantirNHS&utm_medium=social_media

05.02.2026 16:36 👍 446 🔁 229 💬 14 📌 10

Mandelson’s malign influence runs right through the heart of this Government.

Not least in the govt’s NHS data deal with Palantir – a spy-tech firm co-founded by a man who thinks the NHS should be ‘ripped up.’

I've written to Wes Streeting urging him to ditch this dangerous deal.

05.02.2026 12:48 👍 2366 🔁 861 💬 105 📌 72
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

05.02.2026 11:50 👍 32288 🔁 13860 💬 589 📌 1595
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Sadly, this is NOT satire.

03.02.2026 16:03 👍 12552 🔁 4814 💬 631 📌 291

🧵1/ Mandelson should never act as a legislator again. However, an Act of Parliament to penalise an individual is flawed on multiple counts. I see why Starmer wants this behind him, but we should have a proper discussion about addressing any failings in the existing regime and then fix them

03.02.2026 14:08 👍 45 🔁 10 💬 5 📌 0

2/ All governments should consider how their actions might be abused by a future government from another party with a large majority. But they never do. If they did, we would have PR by now.

03.02.2026 14:08 👍 41 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0

‘…but the people who fund us are’

03.02.2026 13:13 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0