Frank Aaskov

If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.

Aaaaaand gilt market hates it

I've always found the UK's decline into major gas import dependency troubling and seen the electrification of demand and efficiency as the core solution to energy security AND decarbonisation (climate change is also hugely worrying to me).

🧵/ How far does the public support net zero?

Support: 60%
Oppose: 25%

Net support by party
Green: +81
Lib Dem: +67
Lab: +64
Con: +11
Reform: -44

yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

Hundreds of thousands of people, dead because of a decision made by the world's richest man

Q: Why can’t the UK do more rail electrification?
A: because it is too expensive
Q: why is rail electrification so expensive in the UK?
A: because we do so little of it
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Welcome to the treasury logic that prevents sensible rail electrification investment, with your guide @noeldolphin.bsky.social

Because it’s cis kids.
The NHS will quite casually give cis kids whatever treatment they need, even PBs👇
No trials. No concerns about side effects. No moral panic.

Wow - those are quite phenomenal headlines given the details of the story.

Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done.

You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story!

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Your daily reminder that the government continues to commercially support an individual who wants to destroy it through fascist violence.

The same is true of the Black Death, Mount Tambora’s eruption and the Mongol Invasions.

Elon Musk: "It is time for the English to ally with the hard men, like Tommy Robinson, and fight for their survival or they shall surely all die" 29th October 2025. 2 million views in its first hour.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

"The Right in 2025 Sounds a Lot Like the Nazis in 1925"

Today’s far right may know it’s wrong to talk about a “superior race,” so it just frames it as a “superior culture” instead:
zeteo.com/p/the-right-...

Wind power has cut £104bn from UK energy costs since 2010, study finds Reduction comes from energy generated from windfarms and lower cost of gas owing to lower demand

UK wind power benefits and costs 2010-2023 :

Lower energy bills through avoided gas: £14.2bn
Avoided infra & new gas generation: £133.3bn
Subsidies paid to wind power: - £43.2bn

Overall benefit to UK economy **£104bn**

Don't believe the wind power haters

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

You know how sometimes you watch a sci fi movie and they’re on an alien planet and it’s got like the Big Wall of Storm advancing rapidly and messing with your sense of Euclidean geometry? I just think we should all remember that’s also this planet, and we keep choosing to piss it off for some reason

Racist incidents against UK nurses surge by 55% Royal College of Nursing calls on government to stop using anti-migrant rhetoric, which it says emboldens racist behaviour

This is what tolerance of anti-migrant political rhetoric leads to. A surge in racial abuse against nurses and care workers. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Conservative Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp repeatedly refusing to say that he thinks Reform MP Sarah Pochin saying she doesn't like seeing black people on TV was racist.

Says he wouldn't use her "language" but it's right for her to express "legitimate concerns" about migration

Slight problem with these headlines in that the report literally recommends keeping the clean power target. institute.global/insights/cli...

Draft Tory legislation on removing indefinite leave to remain is insane.

Would chuck out those not earning over £38K - including many pensioners!

+ social protections seems to include child benefit, so load of people with (British!) kids!

They'd remove my sis & mum who've been here 50 years.

Disappointed in Labour (again) but very relieved to see this scandal gathering pace when it felt like hardly anyone had noticed it on Monday. Fair play to @sundersays.bsky.social for highlighting it tirelessly.

I think we can now dispense with those saying “Labour shouldn’t need to respond to every mad rant from a Tory backbencher”, since Lam is not a backbencher and her proposal has been backed by her party.

Energy bills likely to rise by 20% in next four years, says Britain’s biggest supplier MPs told that even if wholesale prices plummet, consumers face higher bills owing to costs of government policies

Probably worth injecting some context into this headline.

There are problems in non-commodity costs at the moment, granted. However, Octopus is being really crafty choosing a 4-year horizon to make this (actually quite dubious*) claim.

See below.

www.theguardian.com/money/2025/o...

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.

Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

One part of the energy revolution

The rapid decline in battery pack prices, matched by increased uptake

Batteries can be used to match the daily cycle of solar energy, discharging in evening/night after being charged during the day

They are solar power enablers

ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...

Ah, NESO Winter Outlook day. That wonderful time when even though the *actual report* states barely anything of concern, grifters get to invent totally made up scenarios that imagine all ICs are unavailable at once because a lack of wind turns off French nuclear....or something.

Funnily enough, this popped up on my 5 minute daily sojourn onto LinkedIn this morning (I can't physically tolerate more than that).

Given the age of the model, the Leaf is emerging as the yardstick to measure how much better EVs are getting.

And we have even less protection here. Trump can't fire judges who have constitutional protection. A government here could pass a law allowing them to do so with a majority of one in the Commons.

It’s a race .. the old world vs the new, the dirty tech vs the clean, the current superpower vs the next .. no prizes for guessing who is winning the race

Source: Bloomberg