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this could be the very definition of a win-win season!

I know many are against this but, for some of us, Arsenal grinding out a league title with a series of 1-0 wins would have a warm, nostalgic glow. Raised on 70s/80s pragmatism, seduced by 90s beauty, now loving some pragmatic beauty!

I think that is what the article is proposing, indirectly?

Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman

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Genius!

This is absolutely amazingly creative!
Seriously - invest 5 minutes.
It will amuse.

IOP Physics Hub: Marie Curie Book now for IOP Physics Hub on Thursday 5 March at 7pm online. At this Hub we focus on Marie Curie and her pioneering work on Radioactivity. Marie and her husband, Pierre, discovered two new radioactive elements, polonium and radium. The Curies shared in the 1903 Nobel prize for Physics and Marie went on to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911. Marie and her daughter, Irene, spent much of the 1st world war trying to save lives on the battlefield with their mobile x-ray equipment. Irene got

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Guardian reports that Iran’s nuclear programme has been among the reasons Israel and the US have given for the attacks, alleging Iran was getting too close to being able to eventually make an atom bomb.

'...too close to eventually make....'

Does that translate as ...'not close'?

a graph, showing peaks in time with the music.

My bbc:microbit listening in on the opening bars of Under Pressure. 🧪(open.spotify.com/track/7rgZTz...)

Even worse - this chart is the unit charge. The UK's standing charge is about £0.60 per day and €0.73 per day.

In France it is €0.16 ...

If I remember the logic at the time, prices were ramped up before deregulation. We were told that prices had to be higher to attract competition into the marketplace so that they could then get cheaper. Or something like that. Perhaps I misunderstood.

Followed a link from @duncanjonesmerrion.bsky.social to find this really interesting chart: I can remember when Ireland was one of the cheapest for electricity in Europe, but then it was deregulated to make it cheaper...or something like that.

"Starter homes"
Brits being "trapped in the first home they buy"

There will never be homes for everyone as long as people continue to think of homes as merely investments

This week's theme was St Paul's Cathedral.

Hope you enjoyed it!

Take a look over the timeline for full details of these and the rest of the featured pieces.

What a great photo from the Bohs v Shamrock Rovers game!

3 points clear having played Rovers and Derry! #Bohs

#Mixtape on RTE is good ... but so confusing! I got used to it being filmed in Dublin, though it's based in Sheffield. But now one of the characters has moved to actual Dublin! It's like a bit-part player playing two (simillar) roles.

If tactical voting means voting for the party most likely to defeat reform, then I suppose that would give the Greens a slight edge. But how remarkable that tactical voting - which has maintained the Labour/Tory duopoly for a century could now act against both.

It is a challenging scenario for anybody on the left looking to make a tactical decision on voting! But what an indictment of the voting system if reform get in on that sort of vote share.

Yeah. We got that yesterday in Dublin. But there's a cold wind on its way to you right now, so don't pack up the winter coats just yet!

It's the distance light travels in a day. Something like 26,000,000,000 km

Voyager 1 will reach one light-day from Earth in 2026. Here’s what that means | CNN Voyager 1, NASA’s deep-space probe, could soon become the first spacecraft to reach a historic milestone. In November 2026, the probe will be one light-day from Earth.

🧪Voyager has always helped me get some (small) sense of the vastness of space...
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Points for not losing too badly!

I loved this!

UNREMARKABLE POSTCARD SERIES, No. 106.
Torrance, Calif. 1960.
Looking down Sartori Ave. from Marcelina Ave.

Drop an album that was important to you when you were 19...

YOU ARE NOW ENTERING FREE MINNEAPOLIS painted on a wall in the style of the Free Derry Corner.

This rules. I love how delighted they all look!

If I had to describe the last 6 weeks in Ireland it would be that horrible feeling when your sleeve gets wet when washing your hands but for your soul.

This is so true! Everything in the online world pushes us to extremes: full-on vegan or right-wing influencers mocking the very idea of eating a vegetable. But most of the eco-issues with meat eating are about scale: cutting down on meat is so easy - and opens up a world of interesting dishes.