@andygeology.bsky.social
Lib Dem Councillor, Bramcote Ward Broxtowe BC. Scientist, father, atheist, cyclist. Middle age fat bloke. I block racists, bigots and idiots. If I block you choose your category Views mine and do not relate to my employer.
SNP support Scottish independence.
In other shock news, Sun comes up in the morning.
I employ really smart, really hard working PhD / post-doc level scientists. The "here's a real problem scenario..., based on your experience and expertise, how would you solve it?" interview questions would really find such people out.
Genghis Khan is giving the right vibes
Its just troll-speak. Add it to your mute words list.
Old people. Homeowners, with good pensions who can't abide young people have anything good in their lives and an absolute hatred of the 21st century.
Its a Ponzi scheme. This stops once we stop propagating it. We just have to collectively say no.
TBF the list of things less popular than Kemi Badenoch begins and ends with "Vomit virus," "stepping in dog pooh" and "shutting your fingers in the car door."
I'm reviewing a grant about AI in environmental science. I'm can't say what it's about or by who. But to anyone saying "AI is all rubbish" you are completely wrong. This is mind-melting in capability for good and impossible so recently.
My last grant submission on using AI was pretty smart too
Absolutely, the government must incentivise homeowners, private / social landlords to improve homes. This can only be done by the private sector, monitored by public regulators to make sure its done properly. Reducing demand is a key part of NetZero, space heating is 40 % of all UK energy use.
Weight, width and bonnet height are the criteria they should be looking at. UK government should be capping / super-taxing each of these for private vehicle and banning personal import of vehicles that break these limits
A cyclist speaks...
headwind into work
headwind home
As a parent with a school age kid I worry about knives, traffic, drugs. I don't worry about guns in school anymore than lightening strikes. That UK was so revolted by this tragedy, collectively saying "never again", facing down interest groups for public good, makes me so proud of my country.
Agree with every word of that bit. But you need huge amounts of capital to do those things
Absolutely that's a vital part of it. But that will not get us close to NetZero without large scale capital intensive infrastructure that needs private investment.
I proudly work in the UK public sector but there are limits to what can be achieved without big business. UKPS is bad at innovation.
People are starting to see through his BS.
We agree local solar and small turbines are essential, but so are massive offshore wind, nuclear as baseload and CCS for contingency and industrial emissions. Plus reengineering the grid for distributed generation. All capitally intensive and need major govt funding to happen.
But this misses one problem, getting planning permission with no intention of building soon so speculating on land values as permission can raise land values 10x. There has to be clear carrots (tax breaks) or sticks (surcharge) for not quickly developing land with permission.
Please watch this based on @centreforcities.bsky.social research. Densifying cities benefits the local economy, saves greenbelt sprawl, less traffic (you don't need a car if you can walk to all facilities and services you need) and raises productivity.
youtu.be/scJP80Lltt4?...
There are decent Green local councillors but the national platform is nonsense. Power is about choices. If the Greens see decarbonisation as no 1 priority (as I hope) then free National Care & changes to water & energy supply are unaffordable. What next free broadband like Corbyn?
When looking for our 1st house we saw a really bodged house with the kitchen door moved to under the stairs. Something looked odd. The door lintel (also supporting the stairs) was a tapered concrete fence post!
We bought another house (with plenty of bad DIY but fixable)
RIP
Kingdon's internet law: the more someone rants about Churchill, the more likely that they'd have been a Moseleyite traitor if they'd been alive during WW2
And the voters
ANDREW NEIL: I'll say any old crap for money
The last house share I lived in (95-96) by the River Trent had a gas boiler (so old it's maker's logo should have been in hieroglyphs) that blew out whenever the wind blew. We'd come down to a kitchen full of gas. The wind whistles down the Trent, this happened a lot, Landlord cared not.
You must be the living definition of "buyers remorse." If your kids survive to adulthood and leaving home, congratulations to you and your partner for a job well done.
Its grim weather for an important game
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McCluskey's UNITE leadership and interference with Labour was characterised by bullying, cronyism and ineptitude. Their members have been saddled with a worthless hotel. Its to UNITE's benefit to spend time getting their own house in order.
I'm no fan of Starmer (Lib Dem now) his failures are on him. But UNITE's involvement in Milliband years actively harmed them through manipulating selections etc and guaranteed failure during Corbyn year where electability took second-stage to pontificating.