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Calming
The first episode of The Clangers was originally broadcast on this day in 1969.
November 16, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Calming
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In 2024, renewable energy accounted for over 90% of global power capacity expansion. That is because it makes economic sense. IRENA_DAT_RE_Capacity_Highlights_2025-1.pdf
November 16, 2025 at 11:22 AM
In 2024, renewable energy accounted for over 90% of global power capacity expansion. That is because it makes economic sense. IRENA_DAT_RE_Capacity_Highlights_2025-1.pdf
Out for a walk down in the Linn Glen in Dalry. There's a few unusual sites.
November 8, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Out for a walk down in the Linn Glen in Dalry. There's a few unusual sites.
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Which one is more English?
November 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Which one is more English?
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World's largest commercial sailing ship, the 136-metre Neoliner Origin, successfully completes first Atlantic, voyage crossing, from St Nazaire 🇫🇷 to Baltimore 🇺🇸
World's largest cargo sailboat makes first transatlantic crossing | REUTERS
YouTube video by Reuters
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November 1, 2025 at 8:02 AM
World's largest commercial sailing ship, the 136-metre Neoliner Origin, successfully completes first Atlantic, voyage crossing, from St Nazaire 🇫🇷 to Baltimore 🇺🇸
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The speedy gleams the darkness swallow’d;
Loud, deep, & lang the thunder bellow’d:
That night, a child might understand,
The Deil had business on his hand…
—Robert Burns’s “Tam o’ Shanter”, read by Hamish MacDonald; illustrations by Gary Welsh
Happy #Halloween!
#C18
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAqV...
Loud, deep, & lang the thunder bellow’d:
That night, a child might understand,
The Deil had business on his hand…
—Robert Burns’s “Tam o’ Shanter”, read by Hamish MacDonald; illustrations by Gary Welsh
Happy #Halloween!
#C18
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAqV...
Tam o Shanter: The Comic
YouTube video by ScotsHoose Yaldi
www.youtube.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:52 PM
The speedy gleams the darkness swallow’d;
Loud, deep, & lang the thunder bellow’d:
That night, a child might understand,
The Deil had business on his hand…
—Robert Burns’s “Tam o’ Shanter”, read by Hamish MacDonald; illustrations by Gary Welsh
Happy #Halloween!
#C18
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAqV...
Loud, deep, & lang the thunder bellow’d:
That night, a child might understand,
The Deil had business on his hand…
—Robert Burns’s “Tam o’ Shanter”, read by Hamish MacDonald; illustrations by Gary Welsh
Happy #Halloween!
#C18
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAqV...
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But, but…Matt told us renewables are more expensive
“Mudgee winery has become the largest of its kind in Australia to go completely off the electricity grid. More than 400 solar panels power the cellar door, winery, machinery, processing plant and restaurant”
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
“Mudgee winery has become the largest of its kind in Australia to go completely off the electricity grid. More than 400 solar panels power the cellar door, winery, machinery, processing plant and restaurant”
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
Winery becomes Australia's largest to go off the grid
Going off the electricity grid has been transformative for Mudgee's Lowe Wines, which had been struggling with high power bills and supply shortages for years.
www.abc.net.au
October 31, 2025 at 12:29 AM
But, but…Matt told us renewables are more expensive
“Mudgee winery has become the largest of its kind in Australia to go completely off the electricity grid. More than 400 solar panels power the cellar door, winery, machinery, processing plant and restaurant”
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
“Mudgee winery has become the largest of its kind in Australia to go completely off the electricity grid. More than 400 solar panels power the cellar door, winery, machinery, processing plant and restaurant”
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
This is a fun piece of nostalgia - picking out the characters and games.
"RetroSpectrum - Reloaded"
Digital collage made in Photoshop based on the glorious games of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum 😍
#zxspectrum #retrogaming #pixelart #8bitart
Digital collage made in Photoshop based on the glorious games of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum 😍
#zxspectrum #retrogaming #pixelart #8bitart
October 29, 2025 at 7:57 AM
This is a fun piece of nostalgia - picking out the characters and games.
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Elizabeth Blackwell (1707-1758), Scottish botanical illustrator known for the book "A Curious Herbal" 1737. Blackwell published her hand drawn, engraved and coloured work in order to raise funds to free her husband from debtors prison. #ReframingWomenPrintmakers
October 26, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Elizabeth Blackwell (1707-1758), Scottish botanical illustrator known for the book "A Curious Herbal" 1737. Blackwell published her hand drawn, engraved and coloured work in order to raise funds to free her husband from debtors prison. #ReframingWomenPrintmakers
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“Thou shalt go no further, nor touch the man; go back with all speed”
The first recorded sighting of a monster connected to Loch Ness is given in Adomnán’s VITA COLUMBÆ, c.7th/8th century CE. St Columba sends it packing
📷: Rodney’s Stone, Moray
#BookWormSat
sourcebooks.fordham.edu/basis/columb...
The first recorded sighting of a monster connected to Loch Ness is given in Adomnán’s VITA COLUMBÆ, c.7th/8th century CE. St Columba sends it packing
📷: Rodney’s Stone, Moray
#BookWormSat
sourcebooks.fordham.edu/basis/columb...
October 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM
“Thou shalt go no further, nor touch the man; go back with all speed”
The first recorded sighting of a monster connected to Loch Ness is given in Adomnán’s VITA COLUMBÆ, c.7th/8th century CE. St Columba sends it packing
📷: Rodney’s Stone, Moray
#BookWormSat
sourcebooks.fordham.edu/basis/columb...
The first recorded sighting of a monster connected to Loch Ness is given in Adomnán’s VITA COLUMBÆ, c.7th/8th century CE. St Columba sends it packing
📷: Rodney’s Stone, Moray
#BookWormSat
sourcebooks.fordham.edu/basis/columb...
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This is astonishing. I wonder what the trend has been in the UK?
The average age of U.S. homebuyers is now 56, up from 49 last year.
In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.
In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.
October 21, 2025 at 9:37 PM
This is astonishing. I wonder what the trend has been in the UK?
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Exciting news for Great North fans (kickstarter expected in Q1 of 2026) as well as some more previews of my art here!
The Great North Is Great
A blog about role playing games (particularly D&D and Cyberpunk), fantasy fiction, science fiction, and related themes from the author of Yoon-Suin.
monstersandmanuals.blogspot.com
October 21, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Exciting news for Great North fans (kickstarter expected in Q1 of 2026) as well as some more previews of my art here!
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Today is when the Amazon brain drain finally sent AWS down the spout
Today is when the Amazon brain drain finally sent AWS down the spout
When your best engineers log off for good, don’t be surprised when the cloud forgets how DNS works
column "It's always DNS" is a long-standing sysadmin saw, and with good reason: a disproportionate number of outages are at their heart DNS issues. And so today, as AWS is still repairing its downed cloud as this article goes to press, it becomes clear that the culprit is once again DNS. But if you or I know this, AWS certainly does.…
dlvr.it
October 20, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Today is when the Amazon brain drain finally sent AWS down the spout
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The point being that the rule of law is logically impossible without a basic assumpton of equality between everyone it might apply to. (This has often been an ideal towards which we've fallen short...but it remains...or remained...a principle nonetheless, without which all there is is violence.)
In some ways ,modern civilization can be said to have begun when John Locke put forward the idea that a contract between a British and Dutch person (say) has the same legal and moral standing as a promse between Englishmen. (This was about 1690)
Katie Lam made a case against, in principle, treating UK government promises *if made to foreigners* as promises to keep. Given "sacred duties" to Brits
So can grant people permanent status but renege. Can agree treaties + renege. Argues it may be naive to play by the rules of a multilateral system
So can grant people permanent status but renege. Can agree treaties + renege. Argues it may be naive to play by the rules of a multilateral system
October 19, 2025 at 9:32 AM
The point being that the rule of law is logically impossible without a basic assumpton of equality between everyone it might apply to. (This has often been an ideal towards which we've fallen short...but it remains...or remained...a principle nonetheless, without which all there is is violence.)
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you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you
October 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you
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An important (global) public service announcement from Ed Miliband on the day that renewables have over taken coal as the largest source of electricity.
"Clean energy, it's happening and it's the future."
"Clean energy, it's happening and it's the future."
October 7, 2025 at 4:04 PM
An important (global) public service announcement from Ed Miliband on the day that renewables have over taken coal as the largest source of electricity.
"Clean energy, it's happening and it's the future."
"Clean energy, it's happening and it's the future."
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In 2012, I published a book about the collapse in trust in the mainstream media. I argued that a widely trusted media establishment was probably incompatible with a polarized party system that is heavily sorted by ideology. /1 www.jonathanmladd.com/why-american...
October 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM
In 2012, I published a book about the collapse in trust in the mainstream media. I argued that a widely trusted media establishment was probably incompatible with a polarized party system that is heavily sorted by ideology. /1 www.jonathanmladd.com/why-american...
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Occasional reminder that the best version of Sabotage is this version of Sabotage - also under three minutes! #chooseday
youtu.be/eAE1j3Rea6c?...
youtu.be/eAE1j3Rea6c?...
Zig and Zag - Sabotage (The Two Elvis version)
YouTube video by DoubleZCreative
youtu.be
September 30, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Occasional reminder that the best version of Sabotage is this version of Sabotage - also under three minutes! #chooseday
youtu.be/eAE1j3Rea6c?...
youtu.be/eAE1j3Rea6c?...
Tonight's listening.
September 23, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Tonight's listening.
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York Minster’s Doomstone. A rare survival from the Norman Minster on the site, it depicts the mouth of Hell, with sinners being pushed into a boiling cauldron by demons. #yorkminster #doomstone #mouthofhell #medieval
September 17, 2025 at 6:29 PM
York Minster’s Doomstone. A rare survival from the Norman Minster on the site, it depicts the mouth of Hell, with sinners being pushed into a boiling cauldron by demons. #yorkminster #doomstone #mouthofhell #medieval
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Slogan ideas…
“Smoking hot body or your money back”
– crematorium
“The first one’s on the house”
– chimney installers
“We’re not afraid to raise a few eyebrows”
– plastic surgeons
“We’ll help bring out your inner child”
– maternity ward
“There’s no turning back now”
– neck brace manufacturers
“Smoking hot body or your money back”
– crematorium
“The first one’s on the house”
– chimney installers
“We’re not afraid to raise a few eyebrows”
– plastic surgeons
“We’ll help bring out your inner child”
– maternity ward
“There’s no turning back now”
– neck brace manufacturers
September 10, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Slogan ideas…
“Smoking hot body or your money back”
– crematorium
“The first one’s on the house”
– chimney installers
“We’re not afraid to raise a few eyebrows”
– plastic surgeons
“We’ll help bring out your inner child”
– maternity ward
“There’s no turning back now”
– neck brace manufacturers
“Smoking hot body or your money back”
– crematorium
“The first one’s on the house”
– chimney installers
“We’re not afraid to raise a few eyebrows”
– plastic surgeons
“We’ll help bring out your inner child”
– maternity ward
“There’s no turning back now”
– neck brace manufacturers