GOOD NEWS: The world’s largest steam-producing heat pump is now online in Finland, delivering 12 MW of superheated steam from waste heat and CO₂-free electricity.

Proof that industrial heat can be electrified at scale.

www.pv-magazine.com/2026/02/19/w...

‘The normal should be darkness’: why one Belgian national park is turning off ‘pointless’ streetlights The radical project is an attempt to preserve wildlife in one of Europe’s most light-polluted countries, but can they persuade local people they will still feel safe?

Safety is important, but in my experience, once I got used to places that are extremely safe despite having no streetlights (e.g. Sark and certain Danish "sommerhusbyer") I stopped equating safety with streetlights - and started enjoying natural darkness ✨ 1/3

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Scaly pangolin amongst leaves

Hurrah - it’s World Pangolin Day!

#StreetArt by Explicit Citizens.
Lisbon, Portugal, 2024. #Caturday

PLUS-SIZE PATTERNMAKING FOR WOMENSWEAR Inclusive Sizing, Pattern Drafting, and Fitting Gabby Brown & Leila Kelleher

Yay! It's in print and in my hands. Huge congrats to the authors. Do I want to draft patterns? Hell no! Will this help me understand clothes fit so much better? Definitely! And I saw adaptive clothing on my flip through, very cool. #sewing #garmentSewing

DYK I try to operate my business as #zerowaste? All my polar fleece scraps get turned into dog beds! Here's BMO & Leela test driving two xl beds, made with solar power from our offgrid homestead!

#reducereuserecycle #dogs #dogbed #sewing #furry #offgrid

More of this, please. The folks in this grassroots group are heroes.

Haven Watch lives by the promise, “No One Walks Alone.” Day or night, they show up. When people are released from ICE detention, volunteers meet them in the cold, disoriented, and exhausted.

Beautiful and devastating all at once.

Sorry, we can't accept the petition you supported - "End the use of Palantir in the NHS and MoD, to safeguard UK national security." It calls for action relating to a particular individual, or organisation that the UK Government or Parliament is not responsible for - except where the organisation's role or powers are set out in law, and the petition is to amend that law. We can't accept petitions which call for actions with regard to named organisations or businesses. You may wish to start a new petition clearly setting out what you would like the UK Government or Parliament to do without reference to any named companies or organisations such as Palantir. We only reject petitions that don't meet the petition standards: https://petition.parliament.uk/help#standards Thanks, The Petitions Team House of Commons

Amazing

I wish fishermen would be a little bit more aware of the trouble they cause when they abandon lures and hooks! Our beautiful Daisy just got one hooked through her lip and the other hook through her foreleg. Luckily I spotted her trying to walk, we managed to extract them, what a job.
#dogs

Does she know who she is?!?!? Her heritage?! Has she LOOKED in a mirror?!

VINTAGE POSTCARD Horse And Riding TOP Tunisia

www.cpaphil.com/en/p...

#VintagePostcard #HorseAndRiding #TopTunisia #TunisiaTravel #EquestrianLife #OldPostcard #RetroVibes #TravelMemories #NorthAfrica #TunisianCulture #DesertHorse #ClassicPhotography #CollectiblePostcard

I’m loving this ciliate in slo-mo! Such beautiful cilia action. Keep watching to see it whizz about in real time. ID help appreciated!

#marineplankton 🦑

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis

Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today.

We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.

The first time I filmed a goose doing this I assumed it was a weirdo individual trying to attract attention.
Turns out it's standard procedure.

“I’ve never protested before - but I just watched 4th & 5th grade kids run away from our own government.” 😕🇺🇸💔

(From @crindivisible.bsky.social )

EV sales by country 2025

#NewZealand manages to be ahead of...Albania

2023 we were doing so well. Sigh.

This is why electrification means more energy security:

In 2024, ~81% of EU electricity came from locally sourced fuels (57% excluding nuclear). Just 19% relied on imported fossil fuels.

Fossil fuels are mostly imported.

Source @ember-energy.org

If you thought that icebergs on the Delaware Bay were a joke look at this. Some of them got stranded on sandbars at low tide.

So the United States will only use empty warehouses to house people it wants to terrorize, not people it wants to shelter from the cold.

We really are not a very good-natured country.

Africa leads growth in solar energy as demand spreads beyond traditional markets, report says A report shows that Africa has emerged as the world's fastest-growing solar market even as global growth slowed last year, driven by a 60% surge in imports of solar panels from China.

Solar exploded across Africa in 2025:

apnews.com/article/sola...

A very small orange and black tarantula is taking a moment to rest. She is perched on some cork bark, moss, and a leaf.

miss sweetie new girl 🥹💖 #spider #tarantula #brachypelmahamorii #mexicanredknee #arachnophiles

#LOST #Westie called Trudy

Missing 2 years now
Please share❤️
#WestgateOnSea #Kent #CT8 #UK

#DogsOfBluesky #terriers

www.doglost.co.uk/dog/190509

The DOW isn't the only thing up.

#ClimateCrisis

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#FontsOnFriday & what must be one of the most remarkable Romanesque fonts in England - this gorgeous Hereford School example from Castle Frome

For more #ChurchCrawling in the Welsh Marches & Shropshire, watch the episode here >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNjB...

In Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine, animal volunteers are setting up "Points of Invincibility" for homeless animals so they can survive the freezing winter temperatures.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Caturday #dogsofmastodon #WARINUKRAINE

Picture of a green cargo ship with the headline "China starts sea trials for largest electric powered containership"

You can't prove received wisdom wrong if you don't try... and you've got to give China credit for not being afraid to try. A step on the way to serious reduction of shipping emissions by 2050? Or an expensive experiment with niche coastal uses? Time will tell!

maritime-executive.com/article/chin...