Paul Barnfather

"But who will pay for all this?" I hear you cry.
TL;DR: finance is cheaper than fuel.
It's an economic no-brainer.
#energy #farming #solar

[Episode #256] – Electric Farming in New Zealand | The Energy Transition Show What can the world learn about the potential for the energy transition from the world’s first all-electric farm in New Zealand?

Politicians need to hear this: a 20-acre farm in New Zealand has gone fully electric (with 1 acre of solar), turning $50k/year diesel cost into $40k/year electricity credit. This is transformational for the rural economy! Let's encourage solar uptake, not hinder it. ☀️xenetwork.org/ets/episodes...

Both our @campfiresocial.bsky.social and @chromabanduk.bsky.social play Alexander’s in Chester on Sunday 24th August supporting @adwaithmusic.bsky.social tickets are £13 in advance

Nice Tatra 613 👌

Both 👌

This is from the Observer RE the Vance visit to the Cotswolds. If I go silent on the Grealish loan, it's because I've been identified as a threat to national security, which seems fair tbh.

READ MORE The Telegraph has launched a new campaign against Labour's housebuilding plans

Remember that viral story last week about Angela Rayner bulldozing allotments? Which even the allotment society somewhat debunked?

I looked into one of the sites and it’s wilder still: they are *increasing* the number of allotments, not cutting them. capx.co/angela-rayne...

Jim Bob - Song By Me - HappyToast video version

This the most joyous thing I've heard in ages.
Do check out the full sweary version with @happytoast.co.uk video for maximum positivity youtu.be/zCafaTPwN6M

Sandstone former defensive town wall with small gate on the left. Railings on left hand side. Sunny day with sunlight coming through and leafy green trees ahead

Sunlight on the Chester Walls - one of my favourite views. Join me on a walking tour to find out about this spot & much more. My tours for the rest of August:
- Wed. 13th at 2pm
- Tues. 26th at 2pm
- Fri. 29th at 10.30am

Book online at chestertours.org.uk or meet me by the Town Hall statue £12pp

No you read this and then spent the next 5 mins mucking around with a shit bit of Javascript to test the idea out

Letter of the day (in the Times)

cover slide: Lore Harp & Vector Graphic: Forgotten history from Silicon Valley

Last month, I gave a talk at the Computer Conservation Society on Lore Harp. Founder of Vector, she was a key figure in early computing.

It's now online. I explore both her incredible story, and how sexism (then and now) has led to her being almost entirely forgotten www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMVc...

BBC among media misreportimg/exaggerating scale of asylum protests

Median protest is a few dozen, below 100.

"Usually Several hundred at a time" is false.
- should say *occasionally*
< 1/10 protests have 200 people

"Sometimes thousands"
I dont think a single 2025 protest had > 2000 people yet

We've never played up in the North East before, so there's a strong chance we've bitten off more than we can chew by putting our own night on up there, but nothing ventured..

Anyone game?!

skiddle.com/e/41288679

Someone got paid to do this 😵‍💫

Dispelling harmful misinformation about M&S 'trans' bra fitting row Dangerous misinformation over an M&S 'trans' bra fitting story is spreading online; here's what we actually know.

The moment I saw that "trans bra" M & S story I sensed it was nonsense.

Seconds later, having read the Telegraph piece I knew it was worse than that. It was deliberate hate mongering completely devoid of evidence, names and facts.

Superb job of debunking it here
www.thepinknews.com/2025/08/06/m...

Oh boy, you are SO going to regret this... 😬

Sunday Mirror "Confidential" page from 23rd November 1997 https://www.docdroid.net/file/download/Mlycz1D/bl-0002137-19971123-070-0014-2-pdf.pdf

JUST weeks after ditching his second wife, America's best-known billionaire Donald Trump has fallen under the spell of a 20-year-old English girl. Trump, 50. who has failed in his bid to secure the services of Princess Diana's butler Paul Burrell, was in search of another British trophy when he met London model Anouska De Georgiou at a party in Manhattan. Several American millionaires already had their eyes on Anouska. But she was there with Robert Maxwell's daughter Ghislame, who has introduced several of her attractive friends to the property developer. And none of his would-be rivals owned a vast mansion in Florida like Donald does: Mar-a-Lago (where I have dined with him and his outgoing wife Marla) is enough to make any young girl go weak at the knees.. After their meeting, Trump flew Madam Maxwell and the model south to the sunshine state, where all three enjoyed a happy weekend together. When they returned to New York, Anonska was installed in one of Donald's many apartments there. Ms De Georgiou likes older men - she went out once or twice with Joanna Lumley's ex-husband Jeremy Lloyd, who is 15 years her senior. Doubtless it is the start of a long (by Trump standards it already is) friendship.

This Sunday Mirror article from 23rd November 1997 cooing over "Madam Maxwell" setting 50-year-old #trump "billionaire" up for a weekend away with a 20-year-old "trophy" Anouska De Georgiou is really quite something 😳

What happened to Foxconn? A look at the $1.2 billion spent and where it all went In 2018, President Donald Trump came to southeast Wisconsin to proclaim the coming of “the eighth wonder of the world.” But what actually happened?

Yeah, and what happened to the $1.2 billion US investment deal and 13 thousand high wage jobs that Foxconn committed to?

Never happened and this one won’t happen either

www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/w...

47% of people think immigration is primarily illegal. There were 4% irregular arrivals in March

New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation

Lord Dannatt urged ministers to crack down on Palestine Action at request of US firm Police officer was concerned ex-army chief, a Teledyne adviser, sought to have ‘input’ into factory attack investigation

2011: David Cameron 🔷 recommended Dannatt to be a Lord

2022: Palestine Action caused damage to Teledyne factory

Teledyne then employed Dannatt as an paid adviser

Then Dannatt wrote privately to Home Office ministers to 'address the threat'

#FollowTheMoney

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

I originally thought it a good thing when dog-whistling politicians finally allowed their racism to show overtly. I thought they’d be seen for what they were, booted off the media and thrown out of their parties. I was a fool.

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Oh yes 🎯

Lovers Always Win, by The Sun Kings 13 track album

If you're looking for new tunes on #bandcamp Friday, then I can highly recommend this beauty from The Sun Kings.
This is the joyous Welsh Calyso that you didn't know you needed in your life 😍
thesunkings3.bandcamp.com/album/lovers...

It's Bandcamp Friday, gang. This means that for 24 hours, admin fees are waived on all purchases, meaning flailing DIY acts like yours truly get all the funds.

So, if you've been deliberating getting a copy of This Blue Earth, then today's the day..

theshipbuilders.bandcamp.com/album/this-b...

Oh boy, this is phenomenal writing from @iandunt.bsky.social
TL;DR: "treat them like a fucking human being"
Exactly.

What a photo!

I love that line! Have used a few of those request stops, so I enjoyed this video immensely. 🫶
A vote for 'documentary style' from me ✅

Then land-girl Thora Hird murders a bunch of Germans with a captured machine gun, taking to the barricades to defend the village until they can get word of the German invasion out.

One of the greatest WW2 (and suspense) movies ever made. Absolutely not joking.