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People want enormous amounts of change from the electricity system and it will never be delivered in existing utility commissions. The disappointment of being misled about this is going to be widely felt.
November 14, 2025 at 10:11 PM
People want enormous amounts of change from the electricity system and it will never be delivered in existing utility commissions. The disappointment of being misled about this is going to be widely felt.
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Data centers are concentrated in these states- and here's how that is effecting electricity prices: www.cnbc.com/2025/11/14/d...
Data centers are concentrated in these states. Here's what's happening to electricity prices
Residential utility bills rose 6% on average nationwide in August compared with the same period last year, according to the Energy Information Administration.
www.cnbc.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Data centers are concentrated in these states- and here's how that is effecting electricity prices: www.cnbc.com/2025/11/14/d...
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Happy 77th Birthday, King Charles… 🫠
Homan: "I don't think the UK is a friend to this country and friend of the president"
November 14, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Happy 77th Birthday, King Charles… 🫠
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The Labour government’s acquiescence to Trump’s wishes shows us all how vulnerable the UK has become on the world stage. Its weakness has been seized upon by Trump’s supporters in the UK to suggest the BBC should be dismantled altogether ✍️Ben Wildsmith
The BBC row shows just how fragile Britain’s sovereignty has become
Ben Wildsmith This week’s controversy over the BBC illustrates how precarious UK sovereignty has become since Brexit. Whatever our views on the Beeb’s honesty and competence, it is a national…
wp.me
November 14, 2025 at 9:01 PM
The Labour government’s acquiescence to Trump’s wishes shows us all how vulnerable the UK has become on the world stage. Its weakness has been seized upon by Trump’s supporters in the UK to suggest the BBC should be dismantled altogether ✍️Ben Wildsmith
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This is from the Castle Market piece…
“As a child, it seemed to have come straight out of Hieronymous Bosch.
“‘Lovely FRESH pipe and bag!’” — Pipe was a euphemism for intestines, and bag meant stomach, and both would be draped palely across the stalls like something recently washed up on a beach.”
“As a child, it seemed to have come straight out of Hieronymous Bosch.
“‘Lovely FRESH pipe and bag!’” — Pipe was a euphemism for intestines, and bag meant stomach, and both would be draped palely across the stalls like something recently washed up on a beach.”
Farewell to Castle Market
Rachel Cooke: The whelk stalls and aniseed balls that were such a part of my childhood are gone – and the wrecking ball will be moving in on the site of Sheffield’s improbably weird and lively institu...
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:19 PM
This is from the Castle Market piece…
“As a child, it seemed to have come straight out of Hieronymous Bosch.
“‘Lovely FRESH pipe and bag!’” — Pipe was a euphemism for intestines, and bag meant stomach, and both would be draped palely across the stalls like something recently washed up on a beach.”
“As a child, it seemed to have come straight out of Hieronymous Bosch.
“‘Lovely FRESH pipe and bag!’” — Pipe was a euphemism for intestines, and bag meant stomach, and both would be draped palely across the stalls like something recently washed up on a beach.”
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A duck goes into a bar at the Kennedy space centre and says to the barman "I'd like a pint of lager please"
The astonished barman says " this is amazing, you should apply for a job with NASA"
The duck looks at him and says "why the fuck would NASA need a plasterer??"
The astonished barman says " this is amazing, you should apply for a job with NASA"
The duck looks at him and says "why the fuck would NASA need a plasterer??"
November 14, 2025 at 7:48 PM
A duck goes into a bar at the Kennedy space centre and says to the barman "I'd like a pint of lager please"
The astonished barman says " this is amazing, you should apply for a job with NASA"
The duck looks at him and says "why the fuck would NASA need a plasterer??"
The astonished barman says " this is amazing, you should apply for a job with NASA"
The duck looks at him and says "why the fuck would NASA need a plasterer??"
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Microsoft, Google say their data centers create thousands of jobs. Their permit filings say otherwise
https://restofworld.org/2025/data-centers-jobs-microsoft-google-chile/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=1763146621
https://restofworld.org/2025/data-centers-jobs-microsoft-google-chile/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=1763146621
November 14, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Microsoft, Google say their data centers create thousands of jobs. Their permit filings say otherwise
https://restofworld.org/2025/data-centers-jobs-microsoft-google-chile/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=1763146621
https://restofworld.org/2025/data-centers-jobs-microsoft-google-chile/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=1763146621
Grrr
The Senedd has refused to release details of who worked for Nathan Gill when the disgraced former leader of Reform in Wales was a member of the Welsh Parliament ✍️Emily Price
Senedd refuses to release details of who worked for disgraced ex-Wales Reform leader
Emily Price The Senedd has refused to release details of who worked for Nathan Gill when the disgraced former leader of Reform in Wales was a member of the Welsh Parliament. Gill recently pleaded gui...
wp.me
November 14, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Grrr
Starmer's cheeks-splayed approach to US relations is going well, I see.
Homan: "I don't think the UK is a friend to this country and friend of the president"
November 14, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Starmer's cheeks-splayed approach to US relations is going well, I see.
All the gear, no idea.
True comedy is watching Dave Portnay trying to use a hammer
November 14, 2025 at 5:56 PM
All the gear, no idea.
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Read 'em and weep. (www.nber.org/system/files...)
November 14, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Read 'em and weep. (www.nber.org/system/files...)
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Thames Water tried to make MP pay its legal fees of up to £1,400 an hour, he asked the Court to put TW into special administration.
Blatant attempt to silence MPs.
TW paying £200m a year to advisers, charges customers for its failures.
Abuses will continue until execs held personally liable.
Blatant attempt to silence MPs.
TW paying £200m a year to advisers, charges customers for its failures.
Abuses will continue until execs held personally liable.
Thames Water tried to make MP pay its legal fees of up to £1,400 an hour
Exclusive: Charlie Maynard accuses the utility of ‘retaliation’ over his push for government to gain control of company
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Thames Water tried to make MP pay its legal fees of up to £1,400 an hour, he asked the Court to put TW into special administration.
Blatant attempt to silence MPs.
TW paying £200m a year to advisers, charges customers for its failures.
Abuses will continue until execs held personally liable.
Blatant attempt to silence MPs.
TW paying £200m a year to advisers, charges customers for its failures.
Abuses will continue until execs held personally liable.
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The EU’s new 2035 target is far from 1.5°C aligned, our analysis shows.
To align with 1.5°C, the EU would need net reductions of at least:
• 77% below 1990 by 2035
• 90–95% by 2040
achieved domestically.
🔗 climateactiontracker.org/countries/eu...
To align with 1.5°C, the EU would need net reductions of at least:
• 77% below 1990 by 2035
• 90–95% by 2040
achieved domestically.
🔗 climateactiontracker.org/countries/eu...
November 14, 2025 at 3:19 PM
The EU’s new 2035 target is far from 1.5°C aligned, our analysis shows.
To align with 1.5°C, the EU would need net reductions of at least:
• 77% below 1990 by 2035
• 90–95% by 2040
achieved domestically.
🔗 climateactiontracker.org/countries/eu...
To align with 1.5°C, the EU would need net reductions of at least:
• 77% below 1990 by 2035
• 90–95% by 2040
achieved domestically.
🔗 climateactiontracker.org/countries/eu...
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the astonishing thing about this wave of denialism is that we have more or less decidedly hit the point where clean energy is the *cheaper* option by some distance
I'm kind of baffled how the "moderates" have apparently all decided to turn against climate policy at once, just as China reaches green electrostate liftoff mode. I thought these people were all about National Greatness and making Hard Choices
November 14, 2025 at 3:25 PM
the astonishing thing about this wave of denialism is that we have more or less decidedly hit the point where clean energy is the *cheaper* option by some distance
The Internet was invented for a reason :
THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent sheep I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
November 14, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The Internet was invented for a reason :
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Having rolled the pitch for broad based tax increases, better projections feels like a golden opportunity to make the move, bank any unexpected windfall, and go long on public service delivery (+a pre election sweetener budget in '28/29)
But no, muddling along through managed decline it is
But no, muddling along through managed decline it is
November 14, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Having rolled the pitch for broad based tax increases, better projections feels like a golden opportunity to make the move, bank any unexpected windfall, and go long on public service delivery (+a pre election sweetener budget in '28/29)
But no, muddling along through managed decline it is
But no, muddling along through managed decline it is
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If the grouse shooting industry are to be believed, Susie probably stamped her own chicks to death before turning the gun on herself.
Oh well. By a happy coincidence, less hen harriers means more red grouse for the toffs to shoot.
@raptorpersuk.bsky.social
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/14/h...
Oh well. By a happy coincidence, less hen harriers means more red grouse for the toffs to shoot.
@raptorpersuk.bsky.social
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/14/h...
Hen Harrier ‘Susie’, whose chicks were stamped to death in 2022, has been found dead on a North Pennines grouse moor with gunshot injuries
If ever there was an example demonstrating the high level of persecution faced by Hen Harriers on UK grouse moors, the lack of consequences for the offenders, and the lack of justice for the victim…
raptorpersecutionuk.org
November 14, 2025 at 7:48 AM
If the grouse shooting industry are to be believed, Susie probably stamped her own chicks to death before turning the gun on herself.
Oh well. By a happy coincidence, less hen harriers means more red grouse for the toffs to shoot.
@raptorpersuk.bsky.social
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/14/h...
Oh well. By a happy coincidence, less hen harriers means more red grouse for the toffs to shoot.
@raptorpersuk.bsky.social
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/14/h...
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The irony is that the Right used to cast the 1970s as the nadir of Britain's postwar decline, from which it had been "rescued" by Mrs Thatcher.
Labour was invariably said to want to "take us back to the 1970s".
But the 80s is less attractive to Reform's new voters, so the 70s are being repurposed.
Labour was invariably said to want to "take us back to the 1970s".
But the 80s is less attractive to Reform's new voters, so the 70s are being repurposed.
"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
November 14, 2025 at 1:57 PM
The irony is that the Right used to cast the 1970s as the nadir of Britain's postwar decline, from which it had been "rescued" by Mrs Thatcher.
Labour was invariably said to want to "take us back to the 1970s".
But the 80s is less attractive to Reform's new voters, so the 70s are being repurposed.
Labour was invariably said to want to "take us back to the 1970s".
But the 80s is less attractive to Reform's new voters, so the 70s are being repurposed.
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A Budget rewritten in panic cannot deliver for Wales.
Westminster’s uncertainty creates chaos and it’s our communities that pay the price.
Plaid Cymru is the only party fighting for fairness for Wales – demanding the billions owed from HS2 and a fairer tax system for all.
Westminster’s uncertainty creates chaos and it’s our communities that pay the price.
Plaid Cymru is the only party fighting for fairness for Wales – demanding the billions owed from HS2 and a fairer tax system for all.
Income tax – live: Markets spooked after Reeves U-turn on major Budget tax increase
Chancellor reported to have abandoned plans over fears they could anger both voters and backbench Labour MPs
www.independent.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 12:56 PM
A Budget rewritten in panic cannot deliver for Wales.
Westminster’s uncertainty creates chaos and it’s our communities that pay the price.
Plaid Cymru is the only party fighting for fairness for Wales – demanding the billions owed from HS2 and a fairer tax system for all.
Westminster’s uncertainty creates chaos and it’s our communities that pay the price.
Plaid Cymru is the only party fighting for fairness for Wales – demanding the billions owed from HS2 and a fairer tax system for all.
Oof.
November 14, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Oof.
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Bigger picture of Labour's tax shenanigans is to delay once again, possibly beyond the next election, the point at which UK politics makes some attempt to compromise with reality.
November 14, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Bigger picture of Labour's tax shenanigans is to delay once again, possibly beyond the next election, the point at which UK politics makes some attempt to compromise with reality.
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The Financial Times has a "Special Report" on "The Electrification of Everything."
6 of the 7 stories they display in this section of the site are negative.
That is a comical level of bias for this topic.
6 of the 7 stories they display in this section of the site are negative.
That is a comical level of bias for this topic.
The electrification of everything
Many countries are moving away from fossil fuels by turning to electricity produced from renewable sources. However, the electrification of areas such as transport, heating and industry will cost bill...
www.ft.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:47 AM
The Financial Times has a "Special Report" on "The Electrification of Everything."
6 of the 7 stories they display in this section of the site are negative.
That is a comical level of bias for this topic.
6 of the 7 stories they display in this section of the site are negative.
That is a comical level of bias for this topic.