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🐈⬛Research finds that cats set-paw over our thresholds far later than originally thought finds @gregerlarson.bsky.social @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social
📸 We'd love to see some snaps of the feline friends that make your house a home! Share with #SocSciHome
More: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
📸 We'd love to see some snaps of the feline friends that make your house a home! Share with #SocSciHome
More: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Cats became our companions way later than you think
In true feline style, cats took their time in deciding when and where to join us on the sofa.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 22, 2025 at 11:17 AM
🐈⬛Research finds that cats set-paw over our thresholds far later than originally thought finds @gregerlarson.bsky.social @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social
📸 We'd love to see some snaps of the feline friends that make your house a home! Share with #SocSciHome
More: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
📸 We'd love to see some snaps of the feline friends that make your house a home! Share with #SocSciHome
More: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Just discovered that Gen AI has ruined Etsy… so that’s a bummer.
November 2, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Just discovered that Gen AI has ruined Etsy… so that’s a bummer.
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"great!"
"The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year... In a way, then, America has become one big bet on AI."
America is now one big bet on AI
It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy
www.ft.com
October 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
"great!"
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September 21, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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There’s a persistent myth that new solar farms don’t really help tackle climate change because panels are “made with coal” and “never pay back” their carbon debt.
This is simply false.
- UN: solar ~8x cleaner than gas, ~19x than coal per kWh
- panels repay CO2 in 4 months; save 57x over life
This is simply false.
- UN: solar ~8x cleaner than gas, ~19x than coal per kWh
- panels repay CO2 in 4 months; save 57x over life
August 30, 2025 at 8:46 AM
There’s a persistent myth that new solar farms don’t really help tackle climate change because panels are “made with coal” and “never pay back” their carbon debt.
This is simply false.
- UN: solar ~8x cleaner than gas, ~19x than coal per kWh
- panels repay CO2 in 4 months; save 57x over life
This is simply false.
- UN: solar ~8x cleaner than gas, ~19x than coal per kWh
- panels repay CO2 in 4 months; save 57x over life
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WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for.
Stop using WeTransfer.
Stop using WeTransfer.
July 14, 2025 at 11:05 PM
WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for.
Stop using WeTransfer.
Stop using WeTransfer.
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I'm all for trying to ease intergenerational tensions, but the people who are most opposed to reaching net zero by 2050 are literally those who will not be around to face the consequences.
July 8, 2025 at 6:05 AM
I'm all for trying to ease intergenerational tensions, but the people who are most opposed to reaching net zero by 2050 are literally those who will not be around to face the consequences.
We’re doing something quite good it turns out 😉
June 25, 2025 at 6:40 PM
We’re doing something quite good it turns out 😉
Lovely people of Oxford/Eynsham etc. for the last 6 months ago I have been plotting and working with a group of lovely people to put on a play.
Twelfth Night opens on Monday at Oxford Castle and runs for two weeks. I think it’s something really special, made by local people. Won’t you come along?
Twelfth Night opens on Monday at Oxford Castle and runs for two weeks. I think it’s something really special, made by local people. Won’t you come along?
June 19, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Lovely people of Oxford/Eynsham etc. for the last 6 months ago I have been plotting and working with a group of lovely people to put on a play.
Twelfth Night opens on Monday at Oxford Castle and runs for two weeks. I think it’s something really special, made by local people. Won’t you come along?
Twelfth Night opens on Monday at Oxford Castle and runs for two weeks. I think it’s something really special, made by local people. Won’t you come along?
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Brilliant deep dive!
Botley West Solar Farm promises enough clean energy to power 330,000 homes. It also promises to cover 3,200 acres of farmland north-west of Oxford. Worth it? We take a deep dive into Oxfordshire’s biggest energy project.
oxfordclarion.uk/botley-west-...
oxfordclarion.uk/botley-west-...
Energy: Will the sun shine on Botley West Solar Farm?
With a government determined to “sprint towards clean, homegrown energy”, it’s a good time to be an investor in solar farms.
Ed Miliband, the Secretary of State for Energy, has made no secret of his ...
oxfordclarion.uk
March 12, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Brilliant deep dive!
Mr Williams has owned a second home in the area for for 20 years... they had had little interest from potential buyers, despite dropping the price by £40,000.
Let's ask the fun question, how much did you buy it for and how much are you trying to sell it for?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Let's ask the fun question, how much did you buy it for and how much are you trying to sell it for?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Gwynedd house prices plunge as council acts on second homes
House prices in a Welsh county have fallen by more than 12% year-on-year, according to new figures.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 17, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Mr Williams has owned a second home in the area for for 20 years... they had had little interest from potential buyers, despite dropping the price by £40,000.
Let's ask the fun question, how much did you buy it for and how much are you trying to sell it for?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Let's ask the fun question, how much did you buy it for and how much are you trying to sell it for?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Great news for biodiversity in #Oxfordshire thanks to Botley West plans - and should put paid to claims of a “glass and steel wasteland”.
@eynsham1.bsky.social @libdemsoxon.bsky.social @calummillerld.bsky.social
@eynsham1.bsky.social @libdemsoxon.bsky.social @calummillerld.bsky.social
Liz Truss called solar farms a “blight on the landscape”, but researchers have found they are actually better for birds than farmland
Solar farms in East Anglia had greater bird diversity & bird abundance than nearby arable land, a study finds
Paper here later www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Solar farms in East Anglia had greater bird diversity & bird abundance than nearby arable land, a study finds
Paper here later www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
February 13, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Great news for biodiversity in #Oxfordshire thanks to Botley West plans - and should put paid to claims of a “glass and steel wasteland”.
@eynsham1.bsky.social @libdemsoxon.bsky.social @calummillerld.bsky.social
@eynsham1.bsky.social @libdemsoxon.bsky.social @calummillerld.bsky.social
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It's official: solar farms are good for birds. www.businessgreen.com/news/4409747...
Study: Solar farms could help boost numbers of birds and wildlife
New study by the RSPB and the University of Cambridge suggests that where renewable energy projects are managed to deliver nature benefits they can result in more biodiversity than arable farming-domi...
www.businessgreen.com
February 13, 2025 at 12:51 PM
It's official: solar farms are good for birds. www.businessgreen.com/news/4409747...
And yet the solar NIMBYs keep a sky why we need to do grid scale solar? And why near them?
Government is right to say electricity market reform, planning reforms, and CfD auctions can close this gap, but equally Cornwall Insight is right to highlight the scale of the current clean power shortfall. www.businessgreen.com/news/4402499...
Study: UK forecast to miss 2030 wind and solar goals by 32GW
But government says it does not recognise figures from Cornwall Insight that suggest UK is on course to miss 2030 clean power goal
www.businessgreen.com
January 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM
And yet the solar NIMBYs keep a sky why we need to do grid scale solar? And why near them?
In Oxford the McDonalds even closes its loos to paying customers after 8pm! Finding somewhere to even pay to use a facility is almost impossible.
January 26, 2025 at 7:25 PM
In Oxford the McDonalds even closes its loos to paying customers after 8pm! Finding somewhere to even pay to use a facility is almost impossible.
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I've built a machine that can be Confidently Wrong. It can also make pictures that all look a bit the same, as well as make a video of you kissing any celebrity or person you know. In payment, I'd like to boil the world's oceans dry, & steal all literature. For some reason, my head is not on a spike
January 24, 2025 at 10:56 AM
I've built a machine that can be Confidently Wrong. It can also make pictures that all look a bit the same, as well as make a video of you kissing any celebrity or person you know. In payment, I'd like to boil the world's oceans dry, & steal all literature. For some reason, my head is not on a spike
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Now offering my free online workshop “How *not* to use ChatGPT for fun and profit.” Here’s the outline:
1. ChatGPT is bullshitting you.
2. Yes, more than you already think.
3. Yes, it’s getting worse, not better.
4. Only a fool willingly adds more bullshit to their life.
5. Don’t be a fool.
1. ChatGPT is bullshitting you.
2. Yes, more than you already think.
3. Yes, it’s getting worse, not better.
4. Only a fool willingly adds more bullshit to their life.
5. Don’t be a fool.
January 2, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Now offering my free online workshop “How *not* to use ChatGPT for fun and profit.” Here’s the outline:
1. ChatGPT is bullshitting you.
2. Yes, more than you already think.
3. Yes, it’s getting worse, not better.
4. Only a fool willingly adds more bullshit to their life.
5. Don’t be a fool.
1. ChatGPT is bullshitting you.
2. Yes, more than you already think.
3. Yes, it’s getting worse, not better.
4. Only a fool willingly adds more bullshit to their life.
5. Don’t be a fool.
Carry On is a bad, dumb film. Films do not need to be clever to be good, but this as an incredibly stupid plot masquerading as a clever thriller. Also just wrong, wrong about many things in a plot altering way. I wish this was a better film, but it is not.
December 20, 2024 at 9:12 PM
Carry On is a bad, dumb film. Films do not need to be clever to be good, but this as an incredibly stupid plot masquerading as a clever thriller. Also just wrong, wrong about many things in a plot altering way. I wish this was a better film, but it is not.
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Solar farms arent harming the countryside, you just don’t like the way they look.
Example 103: insect populations boom from shade and wildflower habitat.
phys.org/news/2024-01...
Example 103: insect populations boom from shade and wildflower habitat.
phys.org/news/2024-01...
Insect populations flourish in the restored habitats of solar energy facilities
Bumblebees buzz from flower to flower, stopping for a moment under a clear blue Minnesota sky. Birds chirp, and tall grasses blow in the breeze. This isn't a scene from a pristine nature preserve or n...
phys.org
December 2, 2024 at 7:46 AM
Solar farms arent harming the countryside, you just don’t like the way they look.
Example 103: insect populations boom from shade and wildflower habitat.
phys.org/news/2024-01...
Example 103: insect populations boom from shade and wildflower habitat.
phys.org/news/2024-01...
Make Batman fun again
a man in a batman costume is standing in a room with other people .
ALT: a man in a batman costume is standing in a room with other people .
media.tenor.com
September 25, 2024 at 7:16 PM
Make Batman fun again
What if rewatch Bridgerton 3 and just stop after episode 4?
September 24, 2024 at 8:10 PM
What if rewatch Bridgerton 3 and just stop after episode 4?
Tom Bombadil is a wife guy
Tom Bombadil made being a bachelor who lives in the forest cool again
September 6, 2024 at 3:52 PM
Tom Bombadil is a wife guy