“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done” Various permutations of rugby, music, history, farming, rare breeds, food. With a bit of earth sciences, physics, and energy.
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Last Notes npub1w0xm4r0kvk2gwkwlpt2qseyxvc8x4f9tyja49jv8k2je5hu4tjtslz7pwt BashStKid @npub1g0t…tvm4 I wonder if that will also drag the local Lodges into the light a bit more, given the crossover in membership. npub1w0xm4r0kvk2gwkwlpt2qseyxvc8x4f9tyja49jv8k2je5hu4tjtslz7pwt BashStKid @npub1scr…teus moved on from Apple having time-travel vaccines then? npub1w0xm4r0kvk2gwkwlpt2qseyxvc8x4f9tyja49jv8k2je5hu4tjtslz7pwt BashStKid @npub1psd…9sr7 Well, that’s not great. Bees are already having trouble with the extended wetter weather, don’t want to cede any ecological niche to this lot. npub1w0xm4r0kvk2gwkwlpt2qseyxvc8x4f9tyja49jv8k2je5hu4tjtslz7pwt BashStKid @npub1uw8…88kr Hand shears because clippers get jammed? npub1w0xm4r0kvk2gwkwlpt2qseyxvc8x4f9tyja49jv8k2je5hu4tjtslz7pwt BashStKid @npub1dgz…p74y I suspect Starlink is more to do with orbital willy-waving than any social good that wasn’t already provided by existing satellite constellations. npub1w0xm4r0kvk2gwkwlpt2qseyxvc8x4f9tyja49jv8k2je5hu4tjtslz7pwt BashStKid @npub1yyx…qa5g With her Rachel Reeves Lego minifig haircut. npub1w0xm4r0kvk2gwkwlpt2qseyxvc8x4f9tyja49jv8k2je5hu4tjtslz7pwt BashStKid @npub1psd…9sr7 Missing one crucial email might be incompetence. Missing three is credible perjury. npub1w0xm4r0kvk2gwkwlpt2qseyxvc8x4f9tyja49jv8k2je5hu4tjtslz7pwt BashStKid @npub14k2…ed68 You might miss the Børsen … npub1w0xm4r0kvk2gwkwlpt2qseyxvc8x4f9tyja49jv8k2je5hu4tjtslz7pwt BashStKid @npub1v5a…5yax Am I right in reading this as many of them object to onshore turbines, not just the pylons? npub1w0xm4r0kvk2gwkwlpt2qseyxvc8x4f9tyja49jv8k2je5hu4tjtslz7pwt BashStKid @npub1yyx…qa5g is ‘nepo baby’ better or worse than hereditary aristocrat? Damn those meddling kids looking for some job stability or financial security. npub1w0xm4r0kvk2gwkwlpt2qseyxvc8x4f9tyja49jv8k2je5hu4tjtslz7pwt BashStKid @npub1jc0…sldg While you’re here, have you got a link to your podcasts of early computer history? I couldn’t find them. npub1w0xm4r0kvk2gwkwlpt2qseyxvc8x4f9tyja49jv8k2je5hu4tjtslz7pwt BashStKid @npub1jc0…sldg Hi there, haven’t seen much of the Emperor, or yourself, lately? npub1w0xm4r0kvk2gwkwlpt2qseyxvc8x4f9tyja49jv8k2je5hu4tjtslz7pwt BashStKid @npub1uw8…88kr I was going to ask about the humidity as you must still have the heating on. npub1w0xm4r0kvk2gwkwlpt2qseyxvc8x4f9tyja49jv8k2je5hu4tjtslz7pwt BashStKid @npub1tpj…fmcs It’s quite something you’ve been able to monitor the polarisation at all! Maybe in the future you’ll be able to resolve possible magnetic reconnection events? npub1w0xm4r0kvk2gwkwlpt2qseyxvc8x4f9tyja49jv8k2je5hu4tjtslz7pwt BashStKid @npub1v5a…5yax I hope you weren’t standing in the rain in order to stay out of the car! npub1w0xm4r0kvk2gwkwlpt2qseyxvc8x4f9tyja49jv8k2je5hu4tjtslz7pwt BashStKid @npub1v5a…5yax Wow. Glad you’re ok, that’s not the way to start the weekend. npub1w0xm4r0kvk2gwkwlpt2qseyxvc8x4f9tyja49jv8k2je5hu4tjtslz7pwt BashStKid @npub1tsq…t4z7 @npub1g0t…tvm4 Actually there’s a two-for-one benefit from these schemes, with modest thermoelectric generation from the constant temp differential between deep and shallow, plus the gravity storage in the shaft. If you added turbines on the surface, you could probably keep the local area self-sufficient in electric and reduce Grid edge demand. npub1w0xm4r0kvk2gwkwlpt2qseyxvc8x4f9tyja49jv8k2je5hu4tjtslz7pwt BashStKid @npub1psd…9sr7 @npub19sp…rerx @npub1y04…cm6q Very much so. But - where does that put us in the likely outcome of Starmer and Reeves parroting fiscal discipline and making the best of Brexit? npub1w0xm4r0kvk2gwkwlpt2qseyxvc8x4f9tyja49jv8k2je5hu4tjtslz7pwt BashStKid @npub1psd…9sr7 @npub19sp…rerx @npub1y04…cm6q Oh, I completely agree on the reality. But naturally they don’t see themselves as the villain, and this is the type of excuse/ limited perspective/ rationalisation probably going on in their heads. npub1w0xm4r0kvk2gwkwlpt2qseyxvc8x4f9tyja49jv8k2je5hu4tjtslz7pwt BashStKid @npub1psd…9sr7 @npub19sp…rerx @npub1y04…cm6q Perhaps, from Sunak’s viewpoint, that is now another push for a May election. The current Rwanda bill will only generate more failure and weakness when it returns to the Commons, better to drown it in the wash up and start campaigning on fresh new nonsense unconstrained by procedure? Or, possibly, include it in the manifesto with a view to pushing it through the Lords under Salisbury? npub1w0xm4r0kvk2gwkwlpt2qseyxvc8x4f9tyja49jv8k2je5hu4tjtslz7pwt BashStKid @npub1qw5…037m I was waiting for this to become topical again … npub1w0xm4r0kvk2gwkwlpt2qseyxvc8x4f9tyja49jv8k2je5hu4tjtslz7pwt BashStKid @npub14k2…ed68 For all those of us getting fruit & veg from Spain, here are the Almeria greenhouses, easily visible from space. Agriculture is, in a sense, a big water export. https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/112/036/770/435/930/691/original/c547ab2ac81d1f83.jpeg npub1w0xm4r0kvk2gwkwlpt2qseyxvc8x4f9tyja49jv8k2je5hu4tjtslz7pwt BashStKid @npub14k2…ed68 Two things, I suppose: (a) diagenesis forming a local concretion rather than an extensive strong rock matrix - if this was pyritised in shallow marine mud, bacterial breakdown of the soft parts and local sulphide diffusion to form the pebble? (b) all a bit useless without also forming competent pyritised layers on the shell surface so that the pebble splits into the part/counterpart showing the ammonite? Otherwise it would just be a remnant imprint in the matrix. npub1w0xm4r0kvk2gwkwlpt2qseyxvc8x4f9tyja49jv8k2je5hu4tjtslz7pwt BashStKid @npub1g0t…tvm4 Depressingly, I’m not sure women can always unreservedly trust female officers either. Which is an indication of how deep the institutional blinkers are. npub1w0xm4r0kvk2gwkwlpt2qseyxvc8x4f9tyja49jv8k2je5hu4tjtslz7pwt BashStKid @npub1psd…9sr7 @npub1gva…r9v2 available with an ‘uninstalling bastards’ progress bar on the back? Or is that too 2010? npub1w0xm4r0kvk2gwkwlpt2qseyxvc8x4f9tyja49jv8k2je5hu4tjtslz7pwt BashStKid @npub1psd…9sr7 Entrepreneurial breakout from shitty seasonal events and grotty grottos into an all-year fleecing of punters. If I were cynical, I’d suggest this is a sequential setup of pop up, local advertising, get the money, shut down, move onto next big town away from the previous council enforcement area, recycling all the advertising / socials as they go. npub1w0xm4r0kvk2gwkwlpt2qseyxvc8x4f9tyja49jv8k2je5hu4tjtslz7pwt BashStKid @npub1uw8…88kr How does moose compare to reindeer, or does it depend a lot on the cuts? npub1w0xm4r0kvk2gwkwlpt2qseyxvc8x4f9tyja49jv8k2je5hu4tjtslz7pwt BashStKid @npub1psd…9sr7 Not for the first time, I’d point out how easy it is to subvert a law if you have (a) enough money to bring what amounts to an endless private prosecution, and (b) a game plan of steamrolling underfunded tribunals and boards while avoiding senior courts. Once you’ve established any edge case as a precedent, and have the funds to crush appeals, you’re good to go. npub1w0xm4r0kvk2gwkwlpt2qseyxvc8x4f9tyja49jv8k2je5hu4tjtslz7pwt BashStKid @npub1pes…0vfa Were the sunsets purple and red and yellow and on fire in this other song? (ignore if you really meant ‘Both Sides Now’) npub1w0xm4r0kvk2gwkwlpt2qseyxvc8x4f9tyja49jv8k2je5hu4tjtslz7pwt BashStKid I don’t agree with everything Varoufakis says here, but he’s not wrong about the stupidity of Rachel Reeves. Why is Labour still using the self-defeating, discredited ‘maxed out credit card’ analogy? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/15/labour-credit-card-analogy-mendacious-tory?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other npub1w0xm4r0kvk2gwkwlpt2qseyxvc8x4f9tyja49jv8k2je5hu4tjtslz7pwt BashStKid @npub1g0t…tvm4 I’d cynically add all the evidence in the world won’t help if the SFO can’t stump up for prosecuting lawyers and discovery budgets on the same scale as their opponents. npub1w0xm4r0kvk2gwkwlpt2qseyxvc8x4f9tyja49jv8k2je5hu4tjtslz7pwt BashStKid @npub1psd…9sr7 Absolutely no problem with that. But with this shower in charge of building safety / road safety / any bloody safety at all I’d say a non-legislative change would be a lot quicker. npub1w0xm4r0kvk2gwkwlpt2qseyxvc8x4f9tyja49jv8k2je5hu4tjtslz7pwt BashStKid @npub1psd…9sr7 It might be harder for HMRC to define, but it would be nice to supertax anything with a pointless high bonnet that means you can’t see a child. npub1w0xm4r0kvk2gwkwlpt2qseyxvc8x4f9tyja49jv8k2je5hu4tjtslz7pwt BashStKid @npub183w…mdyy @npub1pes…0vfa Deception won’t work if the pod people are more empathetic and caring than the politicians they’re replacing. npub1w0xm4r0kvk2gwkwlpt2qseyxvc8x4f9tyja49jv8k2je5hu4tjtslz7pwt BashStKid @npub1yyx…qa5g Is it one of their ‘buy unnecessary insurance from us’ ? npub1w0xm4r0kvk2gwkwlpt2qseyxvc8x4f9tyja49jv8k2je5hu4tjtslz7pwt BashStKid @npub1v5a…5yax Apropos of nothing, Dwr Cymru contacted me last week about a colony they’d found on the underside of a main drain cover in the village. Warm and humid, they were unbothered about the frosts or anything else. npub1w0xm4r0kvk2gwkwlpt2qseyxvc8x4f9tyja49jv8k2je5hu4tjtslz7pwt BashStKid @npub1v5a…5yax You’re not having much luck, are you? Can you find any other mystery holes on the outside? (Too much insulation in the roof and draughtholes in the wall) npub1w0xm4r0kvk2gwkwlpt2qseyxvc8x4f9tyja49jv8k2je5hu4tjtslz7pwt BashStKid @npub1v5a…5yax Poor and unsafe. The lights should be in cans on the backside to prevent heat buildup and physical contact with the insulation. Have they messed up the extractor fan as well, or is that not in the ceiling? npub1w0xm4r0kvk2gwkwlpt2qseyxvc8x4f9tyja49jv8k2je5hu4tjtslz7pwt BashStKid @npub1v5a…5yax Too late to add a windmill and a water turbine to the solar package, then? More seriously, it might be a bit cold for your heat pump efficiency, depending on which one it is. Hopefully the rain will come with positive temps … npub1w0xm4r0kvk2gwkwlpt2qseyxvc8x4f9tyja49jv8k2je5hu4tjtslz7pwt BashStKid @npub1v5a…5yax “Boilers? Where we’re going, we don’t need boilers” Maximal sunshine and clear skies for you. npub1w0xm4r0kvk2gwkwlpt2qseyxvc8x4f9tyja49jv8k2je5hu4tjtslz7pwt BashStKid @npub1pes…0vfa Long ago I found this on a pub jukebox, presumably someone at the rental company having a laugh. The landlord excised it after asking ‘how long does this go on for’ 15 or so minutes in. npub1w0xm4r0kvk2gwkwlpt2qseyxvc8x4f9tyja49jv8k2je5hu4tjtslz7pwt BashStKid @npub1g0t…tvm4 Would it be too cynical to say that’s PR at its finest - make a splash about exoneration & compensation while quietly burying the idea of prosecuting all those extremely culpable Post Office folks who’ve risen and befriended various politicians? “When she (Seema Misra) was convicted, bosses celebrated. David Smith, managing director, hailed her imprisonment as ‘brilliant news’ “. Some overdue karma there … npub1w0xm4r0kvk2gwkwlpt2qseyxvc8x4f9tyja49jv8k2je5hu4tjtslz7pwt BashStKid @npub1v5a…5yax Lofts are like the magic porridge pot. npub1w0xm4r0kvk2gwkwlpt2qseyxvc8x4f9tyja49jv8k2je5hu4tjtslz7pwt BashStKid @npub1pes…0vfa I don’t recall so much concern when those same journalists were getting their knockoff viagra. So you’re probably right. npub1w0xm4r0kvk2gwkwlpt2qseyxvc8x4f9tyja49jv8k2je5hu4tjtslz7pwt BashStKid For anyone who hasn’t seen it yet, some pliosaur: (iPlayer link, probably < uk) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001txg2 npub1w0xm4r0kvk2gwkwlpt2qseyxvc8x4f9tyja49jv8k2je5hu4tjtslz7pwt BashStKid @npub1v5a…5yax We all have plenty of empty buildings, and no white knight is coming to fix them. Sure would be nice if funding were easier to come by, though. npub1w0xm4r0kvk2gwkwlpt2qseyxvc8x4f9tyja49jv8k2je5hu4tjtslz7pwt BashStKid @npub1v5a…5yax Sigh. It’s a painful bad habit. npub1w0xm4r0kvk2gwkwlpt2qseyxvc8x4f9tyja49jv8k2je5hu4tjtslz7pwt BashStKid @npub1uw8…88kr No chance of getting them to go pirate and sit on your shoulder? (Probably wouldn’t help when eating, admittedly) npub1w0xm4r0kvk2gwkwlpt2qseyxvc8x4f9tyja49jv8k2je5hu4tjtslz7pwt BashStKid @npub1v5a…5yax That makes sense. It’ll be the iron-rich marl being washed out. Down here we see the same sort of thing coming from the iron layers in the Pennant sandstone. The only plus is not having to give the pigs iron supplements… npub1w0xm4r0kvk2gwkwlpt2qseyxvc8x4f9tyja49jv8k2je5hu4tjtslz7pwt BashStKid @npub1v5a…5yax Ironstone outcrop further up the hill? npub1w0xm4r0kvk2gwkwlpt2qseyxvc8x4f9tyja49jv8k2je5hu4tjtslz7pwt BashStKid @npub1yyx…qa5g I hope you're getting a separate Xmas present as well ... npub1w0xm4r0kvk2gwkwlpt2qseyxvc8x4f9tyja49jv8k2je5hu4tjtslz7pwt BashStKid @npub14k2…ed68 That should mean the julebryg, the best harbinger of Jul, is available … npub1w0xm4r0kvk2gwkwlpt2qseyxvc8x4f9tyja49jv8k2je5hu4tjtslz7pwt BashStKid @npub1g0t…tvm4 That was fun, thanks! As a rambling open question, how would you compare Blue Note and Verve as labels? npub1w0xm4r0kvk2gwkwlpt2qseyxvc8x4f9tyja49jv8k2je5hu4tjtslz7pwt BashStKid @npub1v5a…5yax Casualty of the wind? At least you now have a handy hogspital. npub1w0xm4r0kvk2gwkwlpt2qseyxvc8x4f9tyja49jv8k2je5hu4tjtslz7pwt BashStKid @npub1yyx…qa5g +1 for Amish Siouxsie, another +1 for the guy at the back *not* wearing a swastika like the original idiot. Serafinowicz doesn’t get out enough these days. npub1w0xm4r0kvk2gwkwlpt2qseyxvc8x4f9tyja49jv8k2je5hu4tjtslz7pwt BashStKid @npub1cfp…94fe not to mention the investment focus needs to be on renewables, nuclear already has plenty of capital behind it and should keep its nose out of the subsidy trough. npub1w0xm4r0kvk2gwkwlpt2qseyxvc8x4f9tyja49jv8k2je5hu4tjtslz7pwt BashStKid @npub1psd…9sr7 @npub1fny…zngp I don’t suppose your cat sitter sprayed some feliway around? npub1w0xm4r0kvk2gwkwlpt2qseyxvc8x4f9tyja49jv8k2je5hu4tjtslz7pwt BashStKid @npub1knz…c73p Nice alt-text joke.