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Hinkley Point C is now expected to cost EUR 55bn in today's money.

That's a whooping 17,000 €/kW.

Or about 10x the per-kW price of a wind turbine and 30x solar.

Nuclear is a lot of things, but one thing is it not: cheap.

Bespoke: data centers save water by displacing meat farming

I get the feeling he lives a very nicely boring life and has remained faithful to his wife because when your parents are doing mob weddings and fleeing communist retribution you probably can’t prove anything by drinking a beer at age 15

BREAKING: Government to consider introducing legislation to remove Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor from the royal line of succession, Sky News understands.

Absolutely not: you’re either committed to this magic bullshit or you aren’t

John Rentoul @rentouljohn.bsky.social • 4m "Tony Blair stopped by to make sure nobody did anything stupid", but Donald Trump was Bored of Peace - Sean O'Grady

LOL is that what happened, is it

"is there a technology the left are actually excited about?"

an advert for a curry served in a garlic naan bowl

unbelievable things are happening in glasgow cuisine

my favourite thing here is housing where i have to listen to ten thousand arguments about how the only thing that can result in enough housebuilding to meet demand is the private sector and yet in real life the miljonprogrammet worked

Great work

It strikes me that what the conspiracy theorists get wrong about Epstein is that he was not leading a plot towards some abstract political aim, but literally was just a 'launder my own reputation' activist. That seems to have been the only real cause.

Underrated I think how Epstein waw basically a conman. In his 'professional' life, and in his illegal activities. He was just a liar through and through

Can YOU be agile in a fast moving policy environment

Gotta say this being Trump Whitehouse counsel clearly offers opportunities for real creative lawyering

Yep. Labour's main aim in the Gorton and Denton byelection is to lose to the fascists rather than lose to the Green Party.

Their entire strategy is based around helping Reform to win by attempting to split the anti-Reform vote.

Guys. The people raping the kids created and disseminated QAnon because they knew it would come out and they were trying to control the story. Very common PR tactic. It was Bannon and his creepy crew doing a/b testing on 4chan and 8chan

Prince Andrew, leaning back in the back of a car looking stressed and putting an ugly face after being arrested

Like you and I have been brought up being told we should be bowing down to this odious despicable nonce scum of the earth.

screengrab from youtube CHOMSKY & EPSTEIN: WHY? [a composite picture of chomsky and epstein set against a black background] WTF Was Chomsky THINKING? - His Epstein Links EXPLAINED Owen Jones 41k views • 11 hours ago

okay but owen has somehow made this look like they're in a relationship and he's super disappointed about it.

ngl ik chomsky is a big thing in some circles but 'old white guy lefty academic is rapey' is not the hardest sell in history tbqh.

There will be a lot more of this in May.

[TW Suicide, sex work, drug use, addiction, tabloid hacks]

That last response, Jesus fucking *Christ*

There have not been nearly enough repurcussions for what the News of the World did. Rebekah Brooks got promoted and is currently CEO of News UK.

close-up of the front page of the daily mail today headline says “Richard Kay fear Andrew will bring down house of Windsor pages 8 and nine”

Don’t threaten is with a good time Richard!

Smart glasses in court are a privacy nightmare Putting smart glasses on trial.

“The fact that Meta’s legal team appears to have come to this hearing in a trial over the dangers their systems cause equipped with invasive glasses that put jurors and others in the courtroom at risk is a bit on the nose.”

america really is the world’s police they’re fueled by cocaine and run by the mob

Guardian headline that reads, 'Ignore the smears: I was never a close friend of Peter Mandelson. And I fully understand the lessons we must learn' by Wes Streeting.

The names change, the desperate attempts to distance themselves remain the same...

Or, as Viz put it at the time

watching liberals like this dude, Jo Maugham and Robin Ince getting radicalised in real time has been fun

so what. who cares. parliament is sovereign. they could fix this tomorrow.

finally we have created the silver bullet from Fred Brooks' classic essay "No Silver Bullets"

in which I write many things which will look ironic when I am starving in the gutter begging for a few hours work tagging images for my robot overlords.

backofmind.substack.com/p/finally-we...

Which is to say: the situation is the same under Trump as it was then. It’s more overt and lacking artifice, while also dumber much more dangerous, because he’s a clueless, spiteful, increasingly elderly fruitcake whose brain doesn’t work very well.