Kate’s Agate

Just discovered that Gen AI has ruined Etsy… so that’s a bummer.

Amazing news!!

Let’s sell all out public property to Goldmoney Inc, what could possibly go wrong?

Next on the agenda for approval, a 25 year IT contract with Cyberdyne Systems. I hear they’re making amazing strides in the AI space.

Goldmoney Inc feels like the “LexCorp” of a very lazy or unimaginative comic book writer. I’m sure they made their name in Unobtanium mining.

A SKALATON WONDRING WHY ANY ONES STILL USING "DA NAZI BAR" IF THERE NOT ENJOYING ALL DA RIGHT WING BULL SHIT IN THERE, IF YOU ROOTED AROUND IN THE PORTOPOTTY EVERY DAY LOOKEN FOR TURDS AND SAID IT WAS BECAUSE YOU WANTED TO SAY THE TURDS ARE BAD, I DONT THINK ANY ONE WOULD BELIEVE YOU, AT THE END OF THE DAY IF YOU GOT SHIT UP TO YOUR ELBOW'S YA GOTTA ADMIT THAT YOU LOVE THE SMELL, ANY WAY A SKELATON IS AT SELF CHECK OUT AND THINKEN ABOUT MOVING ITEMS AROUND IN THE CORECT ORDER, EVERY LEVEL OF CAPTALISM IS ABOUT PAYING AS LITTLE OUT TO LABOR AS POSSIBLE, EVEN THO ITS MORE FUN TO SHOP WITHOUT TALKING TO ANY ONE IT WAS A SIGN THAT THE RULING CLASS WOULD RATHER PAY TWICE AS MUCH TO BUY A COMPUTER THAN TO HIRE A WORKER, ITS CLASS WARFARE AND IF YOU AINT FIGHTING THEM YOUR LOSING, ANY WAY DA TEXT SAYS "LOL IF YOUR USING TWITTER IN 2025, IF I WANTED TO BE YELLED AT BY A BOT I WOULD MOVE ITEMS TO THE BAGGING AREA WITHOUT SCANNIGN THEM "- DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

LOL - dashare.zone ADMIN

"great!"

Me in December 2024 referencing my work from earlier in 2024

www.wheresyoured.at/godot-isnt-m...

There’s a persistent myth that new solar farms don’t really help tackle climate change because panels are “made with coal” and “never pay back” their carbon debt.

This is simply false.

- UN: solar ~8x cleaner than gas, ~19x than coal per kWh
- panels repay CO2 in 4 months; save 57x over life

WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for.

Stop using WeTransfer.

Shopping is such a fascinating and knotty problem - especially given that many ships being delivered today will still be in operation in 2050.

Interested in than projection though. Around 40% current shipping is moving fossil fuels, is that doubling in a Net Zero world?

I'm all for trying to ease intergenerational tensions, but the people who are most opposed to reaching net zero by 2050 are literally those who will not be around to face the consequences.

We’re doing something quite good it turns out 😉

Here we go

BMH Productions Presents: Twelfth Night - Oxford Castle & Prison Join us for an unforgettable live performance of Twelfth Night at Oxford Castle, presented by BHM Productions of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

You can buy tickets at www.oxfordcastleandprison.co.uk/events/event...

And our Instagram is @oxfordclarion.bsky.social approved. Check it out for more photos and a sneak peak of the fabulous cast www.instagram.com/reel/DKw-7yi...

The actors playing Orsino, Viola and Olivia demonstrate the shows central love triangle. Orsino gazes lovingly at Olivia, who yearns for Viola, who looks out at us longingly from the centre of the tangle.

A bright pink advertising banner for Twelfth Night in front of Oxford’s Castle Mound, with its iconic twin trees. The sky is bright blue with wispy clouds.

Lovely people of Oxford/Eynsham etc. for the last 6 months ago I have been plotting and working with a group of lovely people to put on a play.

Twelfth Night opens on Monday at Oxford Castle and runs for two weeks. I think it’s something really special, made by local people. Won’t you come along?

Debonair ne're-do-well.... debone're-do-well

A promo image for Nickelodeon show Rocko's Modern Life, except the text has been edited to read Rocko's Modern Basilisk.

Is this anything?

Brilliant deep dive!

They dropped the asking price from more than half a mil by £40,000 - less than 8%. They want to make £330,000 profit - more than a 200% profit margin.

If so that's £14,000 per year, more than minimum wage for the first 14 yrs!

If the house isn't selling, it's not worth what you're asking.

Now looking at property sale records, this is trickier - I think the name might have changed at some point. As that property name has no sold records.

But there's a detached house in that postcode with a name now not coming up on Google that sold in 2002 for £145,000.

Because the #BBC have given us a picture and a village, I've found the house which is on the market for £475,000 - it's a detached 3 bed, but one of the beds is on the ground floor.

With the street name and a bit of Google Streetview the property is easy to find. Looks like the name is out front!

Gwynedd house prices plunge as council acts on second homes House prices in a Welsh county have fallen by more than 12% year-on-year, according to new figures.

Mr Williams has owned a second home in the area for for 20 years... they had had little interest from potential buyers, despite dropping the price by £40,000.

Let's ask the fun question, how much did you buy it for and how much are you trying to sell it for?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Great news for biodiversity in #Oxfordshire thanks to Botley West plans - and should put paid to claims of a “glass and steel wasteland”.

@eynsham1.bsky.social @libdemsoxon.bsky.social @calummillerld.bsky.social

Study: Solar farms could help boost numbers of birds and wildlife New study by the RSPB and the University of Cambridge suggests that where renewable energy projects are managed to deliver nature benefits they can result in more biodiversity than arable farming-domi...

It's official: solar farms are good for birds. www.businessgreen.com/news/4409747...

It’s genuinely bad at the one thing it does. It can’t even reorder lists reliably and blames its own “human error” when it does

And yet the solar NIMBYs keep a sky why we need to do grid scale solar? And why near them?

Just reread this and the Hemlock Queen. Can’t wait for the final book in July.

And interesting point I’ve heard recently. Since the 80s the cost of “luxuries” and “necessities” have reversed - it used to be that furniture and goods were expensive and shelter and groceries were cheap, now it’s the other way round. You can furnish somewhere, but can’t afford to live there.

This would be great!

In Oxford the McDonalds even closes its loos to paying customers after 8pm! Finding somewhere to even pay to use a facility is almost impossible.