Richard Lane

Oops that one is on the list 😳

"It's Not" is just sublime, "let me kiss you like a drug, like a respirator". Hope she gave herself the afternoon off after coming up with that one.

I'm just happy to see @aimeemann.bsky.social getting some of the coverage she deserves for her towering canon. You've got a Forgotten Arm track but nothing from Lost in Space?? Guess it's tough when most of the albums are masterpieces.

Wat????

At the inaugural Clean Energy UK conference this week, NE region mayor Kim McGuiness urged us all to speak up for net zero in the face of reactionary political pushback. So let's check in on what her political party in government is doing for climate protest. A bit reactionary political pushback-y?

Also came here to post that

"Spark gap" is the daft jargon that folks in the sector have come up with to describe the difference in cost between a unit of gas and a unit of electricity, usually when used for heating. Sorry. Engineers make it a point of pride to be understood by as few people as possible.

Have to say I agree with this. Haven't looked up the figures but people who pay for electric space/water heating will be paying more than gas heated houses so my instinct is that this should be good for fuel poverty figures. And it reduces the spark gap for decarbonisation.

I'm thinking this is just a schoolboy translation mistake and they meant that they're small criminals, like short enough to get through small windows.

Very happy to discover that @lauratmurphy.bsky.social is on Bluesky and that she's just as badass as I imagined. Yes I just read the Guardian article.

That looks delicious

Computer game difficulty levels shouldn't be Easy/Medium/Hard but rather 'Not really paying attention'/'Want to enjoy it'/'Have something to prove'.

I guess: rich men who still earn enough to support a household on a single wage, most of whom are canny & cynical enough to spot an exploitable grievance when they see one.

A younger relative of mine aged maybe 15 or 16 wore a pair of trainers with the anarchist symbol on them and absolutely refused to accept it had any political meaning.

Come work with me!

Think it's just 'Jucika and the flighty husband' dictzone.com/hungarian-en...

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The more he reassesses the better tbh

Well when I say 'me making', they even took the shovel off me in case I broke it.

Selfie of me (unremarkable middle aged man wearing glasses) in a Big Solar Co-op hi-vis & anorak with hood up in a field of rain with fencing and digging equipment visible behind me, also mud.

Look it me making community solar with mud and rain.

York Community Energy is delighted to (finally!) be joining Bluesky -we're really excited to connect with friends passionate about community-driven solutions to the climate crisis and to share the work we are doing in York! ☀️

I'm *hoping* this is an obscure reference to a much-repeated comment briefed about a previous Green leader and not just you being mucky.

Sounds like the journey that the established western churches might be on today (🤞)

Realised I'm definitely a solar energy professional because I just referred to "generating season" and then remembered that most people call it "summer".

Course the week's not over yet

Three stories this week: record carbon emissions, the failure of government insulation schemes & the probability of towns/cities becoming unviable due to climate impacts, have all been 'told you so' moments for groups I've been personally involved with over the past two decades. So, yeah, yay us 🫤

The cover of a fairly nondescript report by Renewable UK entitled "Electric Dreams: how the planning system can help deliver the UK's low carbon energy" and showing a white male in a high vis apparently explaining/expounding some technical plans to a darker skinned woman.

A graphic advertising a 2020 event held by York Community Energy also entitled "Electric Dreams", subtitled "a brief history, and some possible futures, of our electricity grid". The image is of a landscape in which a pylon in silhouette with transmission wires disappearing into the distance where the sun is setting behind a power station. A wind turbine is also shown in silhouette and the low sun is causing lens flares, making for a very dramatic image.

Who wore it better?

Who's he sponsored by, can you be more precise?

I imagined everyone who's ever shaved off a beard has done this. Would not share the photos with strangers though, before anyone asks (no one was going to ask).