Andy Gates

This is not a joke. Consider this.

Its 150 gigs for images and all.

That's literally less than one AAA game.

We’ve collected the oldest ice core, now it’s time to analyse it! 🔍 💻

The @newscientist.com have a new icy-cool video, speaking to BAS scientists about the Beyond EPICA project, highlighting why this work is so important in the face of climate change.

www.newscientist.com/video/249042...

Bike reclining by Killerton House.

Bright ride out to Killy for a cheese scone and breathing exercises.

Rich people are sadly just dragons, sleeping uneasy on a hoard.

I need to grow my beard back...

Me writing Street Sharks is more impactful than me writing Storm. I say that because Storm would be what's expected of me, Street Sharks is a project that normally would not go to someone who looks like me.

I'm a Black woman who can write Black women/girls AND sharks with abs.

GPS art! <3

An upside down cat's paw pad with a smiley face drawn on the top toe bean to make it look like a teddy bear. The text says "cats paw pads are really tiny teddy bears"

In English a cat’s paw pads can be called “toe beans.” In German, I’ve heard them referred to as Zehenbeere, or “toe berries.” In Japanese they are 肉球 (“flesh buns”). Norwegian has tredeputer, or “stepping pillows.” And a colloquial Korean name for them is 냥젤리. It essentially means “meow-gummies.”

Times, Telegraph, Spectator, Spiked Online? Good Lord. The British Right is currently like a poor AI model, intensely hallunicating a world that simply doesn't exist.

They can ask the slop bot for references... and it makes them up. Pure slop centipede.

I'm seeing less posts about the Visa and Mastercard situation and I want to make it plain as day. You need to keep calling and bothering them, and losing them money.

Because if we lose this, they are going to cut more and more from what's available until you can only buy what they approve of.

It's compelling marketing, at least.

Sturdy casks be sturdy. The engineering isn't the problem, it's the jingle jingle bullshit bells.

NOAA-15, 0823 UTC Overpass: The remains of Storm Floris still just within our view... @drgeoffsmith.bsky.social @lindahughes.bsky.social @fifeweather.co.uk @weathermizu.bsky.social @just-me123.bsky.social @wgoodf.bsky.social (is your antenna still in the same county as yourself?)

This is the most intense tsunami footage I've ever seen.

It purportedly shows the tsunami from the 29 July Mw 8.8 quake in Kamchatka, Russia, filmed in that same region.

Source: seismic.kiwi on TikTok, although I've seen this video all over the internet and may originally be from VK or Telegram.

Trans people are human. Human rights are at the core of a socialist party.

a leopard is sitting on a tree branch in the desert ALT: a leopard is sitting on a tree branch in the desert

Nom nom nom

Just had a Met Office weather warning for ‘Storm Floris’, and I’m sorry but that’s clearly the lead male character in a spicy romantasy novel

Polenta caek!

Did a make-up run, yay cafe!

Exmouth sea front from Bumble and Sea

Parkrun in spirit, 5k up and down the Muff belly breathing, then a fancy coffee and ice cream.

This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered

Fireball as a Ukrainian drone hits Novokuibyshevsky refinery. Caption reads "Just Stop Oil"

Drone refinery >boop<

London Edinburgh London 2025 Britain's greatest cycle challenge. Ride from London to Edinburgh and back in five days. 3-8 August 2025

If you're riding London Edinburgh London this week, please share updates with the tag #LEL2025
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Of course I didn't oversleep... (jealous)

Bad petrostate getting decarbonised by force!

My mistake, that one exists. Confused it with the SMR bros. Neat design.

Still has the nuke issue of being so expensive it'll always run at 90% or lose money.

Future tech doesn't count. Especially novel nukes, which have novel challenges.

Big cheap batteries are here now.

"Baseload" isn't an aspiration, it's a curse: things you can't easily turn off and on.

This turning of the Wheel is Hotter And Sexier. And this season the crew really gelled. Something something water and shade!

Not to be that guy, but it will sigmoid out eventually. Tech adoption charts always do. (There's no "exponential forever".)

Don't forget batteries. Big batteries are game changes and they're now tech not future tech.