This will not end well.
November 10, 2025 at 9:52 PM
This will not end well.
I could definitely argue any parking fine for this, right?
November 6, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I could definitely argue any parking fine for this, right?
JFC. Seems like the UK Labour policy wonks have been kicked in the head by a horse.
The alternative: Tax heavy polluting vehicles properly, including stupidly large EVs, through VED.
Stop subsidising fossil fuels. Increase benefits for low-income people to offset the removal of said subsidies.
The alternative: Tax heavy polluting vehicles properly, including stupidly large EVs, through VED.
Stop subsidising fossil fuels. Increase benefits for low-income people to offset the removal of said subsidies.
November 6, 2025 at 10:29 AM
JFC. Seems like the UK Labour policy wonks have been kicked in the head by a horse.
The alternative: Tax heavy polluting vehicles properly, including stupidly large EVs, through VED.
Stop subsidising fossil fuels. Increase benefits for low-income people to offset the removal of said subsidies.
The alternative: Tax heavy polluting vehicles properly, including stupidly large EVs, through VED.
Stop subsidising fossil fuels. Increase benefits for low-income people to offset the removal of said subsidies.
TIL that I badly mispronounce the Spanish verb to pay (pagar). Thankfully the bloke at the cafe had a sense of humour when I told him “I’d like to hit with my card, please.” (pegar)
October 19, 2025 at 9:46 AM
TIL that I badly mispronounce the Spanish verb to pay (pagar). Thankfully the bloke at the cafe had a sense of humour when I told him “I’d like to hit with my card, please.” (pegar)
I’m hoping this is the Guardian being the Guardian. The Bank of England should know that private schools fees are not in its basket of goods and services for measuring CPI, I imagine because so few people pay private school fees.
October 16, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I’m hoping this is the Guardian being the Guardian. The Bank of England should know that private schools fees are not in its basket of goods and services for measuring CPI, I imagine because so few people pay private school fees.
Me: which cities or towns are in more than one country.
AI: Cities located in more than one country are rare, but examples include Istanbul (straddling Europe and Asia).
The same company's knowledge graph could, no doubt, have answered correctly.
AI: Cities located in more than one country are rare, but examples include Istanbul (straddling Europe and Asia).
The same company's knowledge graph could, no doubt, have answered correctly.
October 14, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Me: which cities or towns are in more than one country.
AI: Cities located in more than one country are rare, but examples include Istanbul (straddling Europe and Asia).
The same company's knowledge graph could, no doubt, have answered correctly.
AI: Cities located in more than one country are rare, but examples include Istanbul (straddling Europe and Asia).
The same company's knowledge graph could, no doubt, have answered correctly.
This is the most thermodynamically illiterate BS that I’ve read in a long time:
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
note also the 2% by volume which is much smaller as a proportion of energy.
Absolutely dismal.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
note also the 2% by volume which is much smaller as a proportion of energy.
Absolutely dismal.
Energy firms complete UK’s first ‘hydrogen blending’ trial to power grid
A 2% blend of low-carbon gas injected into gas grid to fuel Brigg power station in North Lincolnshire is a UK first
www.theguardian.com
October 13, 2025 at 5:18 AM
This is the most thermodynamically illiterate BS that I’ve read in a long time:
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
note also the 2% by volume which is much smaller as a proportion of energy.
Absolutely dismal.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
note also the 2% by volume which is much smaller as a proportion of energy.
Absolutely dismal.
Incredibly sad and shameful.
#OtD 9 Oct 1945 the UK Labour govt defended its jailing of 226 Spanish Civil War and anti-Nazi resistance fighters, describing them as "members of an enemy paramilitary organisation". Some killed themselves, others were deported to Spain for execution stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1094...
October 9, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Incredibly sad and shameful.
This is the confluence of two things I really like, graph databases and renewable electricity:
neo4j.com/customer-sto...
neo4j.com/customer-sto...
Enel Rebuilt Its Grid as a Digital Twin — Now It Sees, Plans, and Acts in Real Time with Neo4j
ENEL delivers real-time grid intelligence across 9 countries, automating 80% of customer quotes that once required manual processing
neo4j.com
September 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
This is the confluence of two things I really like, graph databases and renewable electricity:
neo4j.com/customer-sto...
neo4j.com/customer-sto...
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Does anyone know how to completely turn off (not just tone down via accessibility) the transparency options on Mac OS?
It's dumb that I see through web pages to other stuff that changes the colours of the page I'm viewing.
It's dumb that I see through web pages to other stuff that changes the colours of the page I'm viewing.
September 25, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Does anyone know how to completely turn off (not just tone down via accessibility) the transparency options on Mac OS?
It's dumb that I see through web pages to other stuff that changes the colours of the page I'm viewing.
It's dumb that I see through web pages to other stuff that changes the colours of the page I'm viewing.
The UK has no domestic uranium mining nor does it have the technology to reprocess waste any longer.
This is swapping one set of overseas dependencies for another, even if the tech can be made to work.
This does not make any sense.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
This is swapping one set of overseas dependencies for another, even if the tech can be made to work.
This does not make any sense.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
UK and US line up string of deals to build modular nuclear reactors in Britain
Agreements include plan to build 12 reactors in Hartlepool with Centrica, creating 2,500 jobs, and fast-tracking UK and US safety checks
www.theguardian.com
September 15, 2025 at 7:21 AM
The UK has no domestic uranium mining nor does it have the technology to reprocess waste any longer.
This is swapping one set of overseas dependencies for another, even if the tech can be made to work.
This does not make any sense.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
This is swapping one set of overseas dependencies for another, even if the tech can be made to work.
This does not make any sense.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Man has poor accelerator control. I had a family member with the same - constant speed up or slowdown which made us feel seasick. They changed, the symptoms stopped. This is not an EV problem.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Extreme nausea’: Are EVs causing car sickness – and what can be done?
Phil Bellamy’s daughters refuse to ride in his electric car without travel sickness tablets. Are there other solutions?
www.theguardian.com
September 13, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Man has poor accelerator control. I had a family member with the same - constant speed up or slowdown which made us feel seasick. They changed, the symptoms stopped. This is not an EV problem.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Mark summarised the growing conflict well when we spoke: “The basic idea is whoever controls the energy infrastructure of the 21st century runs the world, and the Americans are very scared that it's not gonna be oil and gas, and they're doing everything they can to make sure that it is."
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Trump Is Trying to Kill Renewables Everywhere
The US government is trying to strangle renewables to save fossil fuels. Trump wants other countries to do the same.
drilled.media
September 8, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Mark summarised the growing conflict well when we spoke: “The basic idea is whoever controls the energy infrastructure of the 21st century runs the world, and the Americans are very scared that it's not gonna be oil and gas, and they're doing everything they can to make sure that it is."
/9
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Did some exploration over the weekend on how to enhance @neo4j.com Cypher MCP server. Here are my thoughts:
towardsdatascience.com/preventing-c...
towardsdatascience.com/preventing-c...
Preventing Context Overload: Controlled Neo4j MCP Cypher Responses for LLMs | Towards Data Science
How timeouts, truncation, and result sanitization keep Cypher outputs LLM-ready
towardsdatascience.com
September 7, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Did some exploration over the weekend on how to enhance @neo4j.com Cypher MCP server. Here are my thoughts:
towardsdatascience.com/preventing-c...
towardsdatascience.com/preventing-c...
It’s deeply disappointing that all the new Labour corpses and pol profs are now on here as well as Twitter.
They’re on a intellectually equal footing with any bunch of drunks with opinions down the spoons.
They’re on a intellectually equal footing with any bunch of drunks with opinions down the spoons.
September 7, 2025 at 10:12 AM
It’s deeply disappointing that all the new Labour corpses and pol profs are now on here as well as Twitter.
They’re on a intellectually equal footing with any bunch of drunks with opinions down the spoons.
They’re on a intellectually equal footing with any bunch of drunks with opinions down the spoons.
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I'd be interested to know whether any of the people complaining about solar being deployed on farmland are aware that solar is many orders of magnitude better for nature and biodiversity than almost all conventional agriculture.
August 17, 2025 at 10:42 AM
I'd be interested to know whether any of the people complaining about solar being deployed on farmland are aware that solar is many orders of magnitude better for nature and biodiversity than almost all conventional agriculture.
You hear a lot about how AI will revolutionise fields like medicine. So for balance here’s a redacted transcript with a medical doctor and clinical researcher.
August 11, 2025 at 9:03 AM
You hear a lot about how AI will revolutionise fields like medicine. So for balance here’s a redacted transcript with a medical doctor and clinical researcher.
Reposted by Jim Webber
Not even three fifths of fuck all:
Some notes on Australian Gas Infrastructure Group's desire to pat themselves on the dick for their Gladstone renewable hydrogen project.
They want you to be left with the impression that they have a future. They don't.
Some notes on Australian Gas Infrastructure Group's desire to pat themselves on the dick for their Gladstone renewable hydrogen project.
They want you to be left with the impression that they have a future. They don't.
Australian Gas Infrastructure Group’s push to tell you all about their tiny Gladstone hydrogen park
Recently I came across something on LinkedIn (I *know*! Shut up!) from the Australian Gas Infrastructure Group that I think you need to…
timinclimate.medium.com
July 31, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Not even three fifths of fuck all:
Some notes on Australian Gas Infrastructure Group's desire to pat themselves on the dick for their Gladstone renewable hydrogen project.
They want you to be left with the impression that they have a future. They don't.
Some notes on Australian Gas Infrastructure Group's desire to pat themselves on the dick for their Gladstone renewable hydrogen project.
They want you to be left with the impression that they have a future. They don't.