Alan Clarke
@alanclarke.bsky.social
Energy & buildings engineer, Passivhaus, mountain biker, veg gardener/rewilder
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If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
![[Scene is the entrance cabin to a NATIONAL TRUST PROPERTY AND GARDENS]
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NATIONAL TRUST EMPLOYEE [inside cabin]:
Hello there
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[A young family - two parents two kids - have arrived at the front desk].
DAD:
Hi - do you have an activity trail, for the kids?
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NT EMPLOYEE:
Of course – you’re just in time for the Autumn Gammon Trail!
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MUM:
That sounds fun, doesn’t it kids?
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NT EMPLOYEE [handing an activity sheet and pencils to the kids]:
Every autumn, the Reform Trust gammons flock back to the National Trust for the AGM. Just follow the trail round the grounds, and see how many you can spot!
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NT EMPLOYEE [hearing something in the gardens]:
Listen - that's their call
[Calls emanating from the landscape]:
tut-tut
woke-woke
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NT EMPLOYEE [showing the family an apparently empty fenced enclosure with some bushes in]:
They are extremely sensitive and fragile...
But you can bring them out of hiding if you put a little sign down mentioning slavery.
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KIDS [pointing]:
There they are!
[Some little red faced PEOPLE wearing Barbour jackets and gilets emerge cautiously from the bushes. They are creeping towards a TINY SIGN in the middle of the enclosure].
[Little people noises]:
woke-woke
tut-tut
woke-woke
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[Close-up of the TINY SIGN - we can read that it says]:
Slavery had a bit to do with building this massive house.
[Noises from the little people again as they inspect the tiny sign]:
tut-tut
woke-woke
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MUM [pointing]:
What's that one doing there?
NT EMPLOYEE:
Oh, that's so sweet…
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[We see that one of the people is sat on a rock, with a little laptop open on a tree stump, and they are furiously typing away].
NT EMPLOYEE:
I think he's writing a column for the Daily Telegraph…
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[We see close up to the little person’s screen, it is a word document reading]:
Are National Trust scones secretly WOKE?
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October 31, 2025 at 9:02 AM
If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
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A reminder that some of the money you spend at Amazon this Christmas will be used to build a tacky ballroom for billionaires.
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 7:15 PM
A reminder that some of the money you spend at Amazon this Christmas will be used to build a tacky ballroom for billionaires.
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Recently, we switched out the old wood stove in our house for an electric one.
✅️ Heats room quickly
✅️ Not killing my neighbours
✅️ Still hygge
✅️ No ashes to clean
Win, win, win, win 🏆
✅️ Heats room quickly
✅️ Not killing my neighbours
✅️ Still hygge
✅️ No ashes to clean
Win, win, win, win 🏆
October 23, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Recently, we switched out the old wood stove in our house for an electric one.
✅️ Heats room quickly
✅️ Not killing my neighbours
✅️ Still hygge
✅️ No ashes to clean
Win, win, win, win 🏆
✅️ Heats room quickly
✅️ Not killing my neighbours
✅️ Still hygge
✅️ No ashes to clean
Win, win, win, win 🏆
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Some places still available for passivhaus open day at Old Holloway on 8th November
Book 👇
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/old-hollow...
Book 👇
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/old-hollow...
October 22, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Some places still available for passivhaus open day at Old Holloway on 8th November
Book 👇
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/old-hollow...
Book 👇
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/old-hollow...
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Time for 2025 updates to my annual “opinions about solar” thread. If you like these, you might like the second edition of my book, Solar Power Finance Without The Jargon. A 30% discount code WSQ0437 is valid on publisher website until end of November 2025.
www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook...
www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook...
Solar Power Finance Without the Jargon
www.worldscientific.com
October 20, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Time for 2025 updates to my annual “opinions about solar” thread. If you like these, you might like the second edition of my book, Solar Power Finance Without The Jargon. A 30% discount code WSQ0437 is valid on publisher website until end of November 2025.
www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook...
www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook...
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Still plenty of time to book places for the winter version of Passivhaus open days in November 👇
Do you live in, design, or build #Passivhaus projects? 🏡 Open your doors & inspire others during the #PHOpenDays 2025!
Whether it’s a #home, #construction site, or #commercial space, we’re calling on UK hosts to share their #PassiveHouse experience 👉 https://bit.ly/PHopendays2025
Whether it’s a #home, #construction site, or #commercial space, we’re calling on UK hosts to share their #PassiveHouse experience 👉 https://bit.ly/PHopendays2025
October 19, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Still plenty of time to book places for the winter version of Passivhaus open days in November 👇
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In Wales, Cornwall, Edinburgh, London and so many places when most 30mph roads were changed to 20mph, people injured or killed by motor vehicles reduced by 20%+. With minimal change to journey times and £2bn saving in insurance costs it's a huge win. bit.ly/4gIBPlJ
October 11, 2025 at 6:18 AM
In Wales, Cornwall, Edinburgh, London and so many places when most 30mph roads were changed to 20mph, people injured or killed by motor vehicles reduced by 20%+. With minimal change to journey times and £2bn saving in insurance costs it's a huge win. bit.ly/4gIBPlJ
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NEW: Biofuels globally emit more than the fossil fuels they replace, our latest study shows.
The first-of-a-kind study looks at global biofuels production today and the potential impacts of government biofuel targets.
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The first-of-a-kind study looks at global biofuels production today and the potential impacts of government biofuel targets.
🧵⤵️
October 9, 2025 at 1:39 PM
NEW: Biofuels globally emit more than the fossil fuels they replace, our latest study shows.
The first-of-a-kind study looks at global biofuels production today and the potential impacts of government biofuel targets.
🧵⤵️
The first-of-a-kind study looks at global biofuels production today and the potential impacts of government biofuel targets.
🧵⤵️
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Don't threaten us with a good time, Daily Express.
October 9, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Don't threaten us with a good time, Daily Express.
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Migrants, and the children of migrants, have been caring for my 92-year-old Mum after a nasty fracture and helping her back to independence, this past 6 weeks. Where we would be as a family without them, God only knows. We thank each and every one of them from the bottom of our hearts ❤️
Anyone who really knows migrants knows this. We know how hard it is to move to another country, and how much commitment and heartache it takes.
Migrants already "earn the right to settlement" through extortionate visa costs, which can run into tens of thousands of pounds. They prop up key services, including through the Immigration Health Surcharge.
Pushing the hostile environment on steroids helps no-one.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Pushing the hostile environment on steroids helps no-one.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
September 29, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Migrants, and the children of migrants, have been caring for my 92-year-old Mum after a nasty fracture and helping her back to independence, this past 6 weeks. Where we would be as a family without them, God only knows. We thank each and every one of them from the bottom of our hearts ❤️
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ummm.. holy shit? tool use in bovids confirmed? holy holy shit?
September 27, 2025 at 1:13 PM
ummm.. holy shit? tool use in bovids confirmed? holy holy shit?
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Via The Independent: Donald Trump’s false claim that London ‘wants to go to Sharia law’ has been described as ‘appalling and bigoted’ by Mayor Sadiq Khan.
The Muslim Council of Britain responded: “We pray for Mr Trump's health and wellbeing as his hallucinations seem to be getting worse by the day”
The Muslim Council of Britain responded: “We pray for Mr Trump's health and wellbeing as his hallucinations seem to be getting worse by the day”
September 24, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Via The Independent: Donald Trump’s false claim that London ‘wants to go to Sharia law’ has been described as ‘appalling and bigoted’ by Mayor Sadiq Khan.
The Muslim Council of Britain responded: “We pray for Mr Trump's health and wellbeing as his hallucinations seem to be getting worse by the day”
The Muslim Council of Britain responded: “We pray for Mr Trump's health and wellbeing as his hallucinations seem to be getting worse by the day”
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A new study, based on a survey of 1,150 workers suggests that the injection of AI tools into the workplace has not resulted in a magic productivity boom and instead increased the amount of time that workers say they spend fixing low-quality AI-generated “work.”
🔗 www.404media.co/ai-workslop-...
🔗 www.404media.co/ai-workslop-...
AI ‘Workslop’ Is Killing Productivity and Making Workers Miserable
AI slop is taking over workplaces. Workers said that they thought of their colleagues who filed low-quality AI work as "less creative, capable, and reliable than they did before receiving the output."
www.404media.co
September 23, 2025 at 3:53 PM
A new study, based on a survey of 1,150 workers suggests that the injection of AI tools into the workplace has not resulted in a magic productivity boom and instead increased the amount of time that workers say they spend fixing low-quality AI-generated “work.”
🔗 www.404media.co/ai-workslop-...
🔗 www.404media.co/ai-workslop-...
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Nazis ban comedians shock.. NYT, 4 Feb 1939
September 19, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Nazis ban comedians shock.. NYT, 4 Feb 1939
It's not summer any more
September 13, 2025 at 7:18 PM
It's not summer any more
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waka wake
September 1, 2025 at 7:43 PM
waka wake
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EXCLUSIVE - ASK NIGEL is back!
This week an anonymous Prime Minister asks, 'How can I stop fixating so much on foreigners?'
open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
This week an anonymous Prime Minister asks, 'How can I stop fixating so much on foreigners?'
open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
Ask Nigel
An anonymous Prime Minister asks 'how can I stop fixating so much on foreigners?'
open.substack.com
August 31, 2025 at 6:49 AM
EXCLUSIVE - ASK NIGEL is back!
This week an anonymous Prime Minister asks, 'How can I stop fixating so much on foreigners?'
open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
This week an anonymous Prime Minister asks, 'How can I stop fixating so much on foreigners?'
open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
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You could make it up, but people would think you were having them on. LOCAL FLAG TWAT FORMER PEOPLE SMUGGLER SHOCKER.
manchestermill.co.uk/manchester-f...
manchestermill.co.uk/manchester-f...
Manchester’s chief flag-raiser has put his people smuggling days behind him
Flags protesting unchecked immigration have gone up across the city, led by a man caught smuggling migrants into the country in the back of a van
manchestermill.co.uk
August 30, 2025 at 12:57 PM
You could make it up, but people would think you were having them on. LOCAL FLAG TWAT FORMER PEOPLE SMUGGLER SHOCKER.
manchestermill.co.uk/manchester-f...
manchestermill.co.uk/manchester-f...
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As Farage pledges to open up Britain for fracking, hilariously the Reform-led council in Lancashire says “oh, there’ll be no fracking HERE”
Self-serving shambolic hypocrisy, borne out of knowing that fracking is deeply unpopular in Lancashire - and everywhere
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Self-serving shambolic hypocrisy, borne out of knowing that fracking is deeply unpopular in Lancashire - and everywhere
www.bbc.com/news/article...
No fracking in Lancashire, says Reform-led council
Reform UK councillors say a wider promise to restart fracking will not affect the county.
www.bbc.com
August 28, 2025 at 10:22 AM
As Farage pledges to open up Britain for fracking, hilariously the Reform-led council in Lancashire says “oh, there’ll be no fracking HERE”
Self-serving shambolic hypocrisy, borne out of knowing that fracking is deeply unpopular in Lancashire - and everywhere
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Self-serving shambolic hypocrisy, borne out of knowing that fracking is deeply unpopular in Lancashire - and everywhere
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Today in AI Is Not A Good Source For Learning About The World's Most Misunderstood Body Part, meet this ChatGPT gem.
Funnily enough, we're actually going to talk about how most of this is kinda sorta right (for small values of right), as a cautionary tale about generative AI.
Funnily enough, we're actually going to talk about how most of this is kinda sorta right (for small values of right), as a cautionary tale about generative AI.
August 27, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Today in AI Is Not A Good Source For Learning About The World's Most Misunderstood Body Part, meet this ChatGPT gem.
Funnily enough, we're actually going to talk about how most of this is kinda sorta right (for small values of right), as a cautionary tale about generative AI.
Funnily enough, we're actually going to talk about how most of this is kinda sorta right (for small values of right), as a cautionary tale about generative AI.
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🤔How does Passivhaus design help keep buildings cool?
Read our summary of Passivhaus summer comfort strategies & sign up for our upcoming webinar:
www.passivhaustrust....
Read our summary of Passivhaus summer comfort strategies & sign up for our upcoming webinar:
www.passivhaustrust....
August 27, 2025 at 6:00 AM
🤔How does Passivhaus design help keep buildings cool?
Read our summary of Passivhaus summer comfort strategies & sign up for our upcoming webinar:
www.passivhaustrust....
Read our summary of Passivhaus summer comfort strategies & sign up for our upcoming webinar:
www.passivhaustrust....
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As someone living in Germany, I can attest that external shutters & inward opening windows, which also tilt, are amazing for keeping heat out in summer & warmth in in winter. Better for sleeping too, as rooms remain dark and external noise ⬇️. Cleaning outside of windows easy too. No brainer really👍
August 26, 2025 at 7:40 AM
As someone living in Germany, I can attest that external shutters & inward opening windows, which also tilt, are amazing for keeping heat out in summer & warmth in in winter. Better for sleeping too, as rooms remain dark and external noise ⬇️. Cleaning outside of windows easy too. No brainer really👍
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I’ve documented protests for decades. The asylum hotel protests I’ve photographed have all been very small. When I first turned up at the Newcastle protest, and asked the police where the protesters were, they pointed to one man and said he’s over there.
August 24, 2025 at 10:28 PM
I’ve documented protests for decades. The asylum hotel protests I’ve photographed have all been very small. When I first turned up at the Newcastle protest, and asked the police where the protesters were, they pointed to one man and said he’s over there.