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Sugden A48 amp looking great and sounding good too. Not bad for something made in 1978. A missing strip at the top for dial labels but it’s fairly obvious what’s what. Next to test phono preamp section and complete repairs on the turntable. #Repair

At the root of all our problems stands one travesty: politicians’ surrender to the super-rich | George Monbiot There are many excuses for failing to tax the ultra-wealthy. The truth is that governments don’t tackle the problem because they don’t want to, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Don't imagine for one moment that it ended with Epstein. Treating human beings as counters in a board game is what the super-rich do. Every. Day. It is fundamental to the model. The politicians they support and fund are those who implement their cruel desires.
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Time to end royal families. What an utter waste of money and resources pandering to their needs. Holidays, helicopters, police protection, hidden finances. Time to move on.

Mixed results at the Repair Shop yesterday. Tannoy subwoofer power board has really bad damage from components that have overheated and destroyed the pcb in the process. Common fault. Sugden amp progressing well with cover being resprayed after cleaning and testing. Working on record deck next.

Satellite proposals threaten the night sky In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the agency responsible for authorizing satellite launches and operations…

The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan.
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The Keeling Curve The Keeling Curve is a daily record of global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration maintained by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.

429.95 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in air 20-Feb-2026
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Or what? These platforms need blocked if they don’t comply. Labour don’t have the confidence to really act tough and protect women in this situation. 48hrs. What a joke.

Working on this amazing old amplifier. Uk made. Company still operating and making very fancy audio amplifiers. This one harms back to 1978 approx. Completed a safe power on, cleaned pots and sent signal through from tape1 to spreader1 ports. More to test before we connect it up to try #Repair

Where do we look for vision and leadership? Not to POTAS who doesn’t understand basic science. Not to u-turning leaders. Not to rich twats who blame immigrants and don’t pay taxes. Not to royal families who hide truths about sex creeps. Not to Olympic red tapers who won’t allow a memorial hat.

US President Donald Trump has reversed a key Obama-era scientific ruling that underpins all federal actions on curbing planet-warming gases……..

DONT LOOK UP!

Dear America. WTF. Remove this twat and his followers from office now. By the scruff of the neck if you have to.

Don't Look Up - Wikipedia

Perhaps - don’t look up

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YouTube video by wocomoDOCS Russians at War - Inside a Russian Battalion on the Front Lines in Ukraine (Full Documentary)

What a documentary. Just pointless war keeping a few rich while many die or are scarred for life. Pointless. SMO my £@@(. - youtu.be/PFDTM2XPn3U?...

The Keeling Curve The Keeling Curve is a daily record of global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration maintained by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.

428.63 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in air 24-Jan-2026
keelingcurve.ucsd.edu

Wind and solar overtook fossil fuels for EU power generation in 2025, report finds Researchers say event described as ‘major tipping point’ for clean energy in era of destabilised politics Wind and solar overtook fossil fuels in the European Union’s power generation last year, a report has found, in a “major tipping point” for clean energy. Turbines spinning in the wind and photovoltaic panels lit up by the sun generated 30% of the EU’s electricity in 2025, according to an annual review. Power plants burning coal, oil and gas generated 29%. Continue reading...

Wind and solar overtook fossil fuels for EU power generation in 2025, report finds

What a load of tripe. BBC Verify team and going to have to spend months redacting all the lies he’s spouting. Stolen elections, Iceland!, Canada only there because of America! US Economic success. Walk out people. Don’t listen to this crap.

Plenty of Repair work to get through at the Repair Shop. Chairs,tables,radios,lamps,amplifiers,a garden umbrella,dehumidifier,mug,steam mop and much more. #Repair #Linlithgow

ICE, Drill baby Drill, MAGA, Greenland, Epstein Files, Global Tariffs, Whitehouse Ballrooms, Nobel Prizes. Trump branding everywhere. What a lot of $h1t - America needs to reset. “We the people…” not “Me the President…”. Impeach this twat and get back to planet reality.

The Keeling Curve The Keeling Curve is a daily record of global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration maintained by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.

429.04 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in air 16-Jan-2026
keelingcurve.ucsd.edu

"A species capable of extraordinary insight, yet seemingly incapable of acting in its own long-term interest": Professor Kevin Anderson on the C02 Newsletter - All Our Yesterdays From 1979 to 1982 American geologist William N. Barbat published 18 issues of the CO2 Newsletter. His family have kindly supplied copies and given permission for these to be digitised and shared. Ever...

A short reflection on William Barbat's 1979 "CO2 Newsletter". allouryesterdays.info/2026/01/11/a...

Timeseries showing coherent changes in emissions, global temperature, UK temperature, and hottest day of the year for Central England

The UK's warmest year (for now)

And introducing a ‘causal chain’ for changes in extreme UK heat

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In a newly published paper, we find that in 2025 human emissions of greenhouse gases added around 23 billion trillion joules of heat to the world's oceans – 39 times as much as the annual energy produced by all human activity on Earth. link.springer.com/ar...

Don’t give them airtime.

Just repaired a machine that was failing to make a cup of coffee due to one tiny o-ring deep inside the machine. Average owner would have thrown it out. Excessive design tech crap.

Go the whole hog and block the x domain and their crappy AI domain addresses too.

Trump withdraws US from key climate treaty and dozens of other groups The White House says the decision was taken because those entities

Trump withdraws US from key climate treaty and dozens of other groups www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... - time to impeach this twat. America is in a downward spiral with full throttle. To survive, Americans must be bold and say NO to such idiots and their mates.

Walk around the Loch this afternoon. Cold but warmed up in local coffee shop afterwards.

Greenland has a 'vital strategic asset' A sheet of ice two miles thick (and also some remarkable people)

As everyone talks about Greenland, don't forget its actual global significance--a two mile thick sheet of ice that if melted would raise the sea level 23 feet (and long before that choke off the currents of the Atlantic)
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Near completion on repairing this coffee machine. Symptom was - 1st cup would work ok but subsequent ones would pour water into tray. Fault. A few worn o-rings. #Repair #AvoidedRecycling

"Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot."

– Carl Sagan

Venezuelan people should double down on cheap renewables and close down their oil and gas wells. Then tell Trump where to go.