Gas demand overall was at its lowest since 1992.
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Gas demand overall was at its lowest since 1992.
NEW ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 2.4% in 2025 as coal fell to a 400-year low. Incredibly, we used less coal last year than than in 1600, when Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne and Shakespeare was writing Hamlet.
All the details in our article: www.carbonbrief.org/...
💯endorse completely, especially the (good) list of problems.
my app telling me the panels are making 4.8kW, the battery is full, the house is using 200W, the rest is going to the grid
something i didn’t appreciate before getting solar panels is how little a household consumes, if the heat pump and car charger are off
i have compiled a list of noted economic nationalists :
- friedrich
good morning everyone project your personal imposter syndrome onto this gif ur welcome
China removes all tariffs for imports from 53 African countries starting May 1. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
via @asbradbury.org, a really nice document distilling the essence of coding agents: minimal-agent.com
Also the history of the history of the history of ideas, en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...
god bless wikipedia, whose page for "The Man" includes the phrase "In the Hebrew Bible," en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man
alan greenspan turns 100 on friday. which is a good time to remember he was an ayn rand fuckboy, lol
"brotherhood of man" is such a wonderful phrase, i want there to be some alternative as fraternal but without the frat
interesting statement by outgoing mayor christian dupessey of annemasse: « i am proud of our town’s inequality, that it is not reserved for the rich. this town attracts those with money but has never sought to get rid of those less well off. » www.ledauphine.com/elections/20...
you have heard of history, and the history of ideas. but have you heard of the history of the history of ideas en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelle...
While we sit around to find out how bad exactly it all is, a bit of cheer: the best baguette of Paris competition was won by a Sri Lankan who appears to have started as a dish washer in restaurants and eventually trained as a Boulanger.
www.paris.fr/pages/la-mei...
i don’t know very much about karl polanyi but respect to his « radical bourgeois party » for a name that goes hard
"the way forward is indie art" yes largely absolutely. but sometimes art costs a lot of money!!!!!!!!!!! now bear with me. what if the "means" by which the art was "reproduced" was "seized" in some way
This is a fantastic interview. Must-read for leftists and progressives everywhere, but all the more important for a Spanish-speaking audience. I hope @jacobinmag.bsky.social translates it.
Easily one of the top charts of all time
Worked pretty hard on this one and I'm proud of the milestone! Lots more to do for a truly ergonomic dev experience but finally having the REPL in the browser is a huge deal.
graph of energy consumption showing periodic heat pump cycling, a big jump of solar production, and the evening’s electrons fed by the battery; 29kWh produced, 18 kWh consumed
yesterday was the first day since installation in the dark of november that the solar panels made more energy than the house used 💅
The Clean Capacity Club (clean power capacity > fossil power capacity). www.reuters.com/markets/comm...
Oh noooo, the company that extracted our data for their models is having others extracting data for their models
A bit late and not yet finalized, but our program for MoreVMs'26 is online.
Early registration deadline is in a few hours, but will remain open afterwards still.
Join us in Munich for a day of talks around language implementation!
2026.programming-conference.org/home/MoreVMs...
A high-tech digital dashboard titled "WORLDVIEW" showing a global flight tracking map in a vivid green night-vision (NVG) aesthetic. Hundreds of bright green airplane icons swarm over a dark globe. A sidebar on the left lists data layers including "Live Flights" (5.8K), "Satellites," and "CCTV Mesh." The UI includes tactical markings like "TOP SECRET // SI-TK // NOFORN" and various filter toggles at the bottom for CRT, FLIR, and Anime styles.
A comprehensive geopolitical dashboard titled "MONITOR" showing a "Global Situation" map. The map is covered in red "Breaking" hotspots and blue markers for military activity. The bottom half of the screen features a live Bloomberg news feed, AI-generated strategic insights, and a "Country Instability Index" ranking nations like Iran, Ukraine, and Russia. The top header shows a "DEFCON 5" status and a UTC clock.
A web browser window displaying a 3D globe interface called "GEMINI EARTH: Orbital Omniscience System." A hover-state popup for London, UK, displays humorous, cynical text about rain and the property market. On the right, an "Intelligence Brief" sidebar shows images and info for Bangkok. The UI has a dark, futuristic aesthetic with a "Shoggoth Thought Stream" text box and a URL bar showing a local development environment.
A photograph of a tablet displaying a real-time urban monitoring interface centered on a map of New York City. A "Focus Mode" sidebar on the left shows a grid of CCTV camera thumbnails, while a larger "Live" window in the top right shows a real-time feed of traffic on the BQE at 49th St. The map is peppered with points of interest like L’Industrie Pizzeria and Union Square, styled with a dark, high-contrast "Intelligence Platform" skin.
We need a dashboard to monitor the situation of situation monitoring dashboards.
« how did toad get his money? was toad’s family in the slave trade? » omg 😂😂
tbf i think that even complete misunderstandings about "foreign" goings-on can be useful if they lead to better things happening domestically
Buen hilo. Diría que la tradición marxista, cuando ha sido útil, ha bailado en el filo inestable de esos dos barrancos. Al final siempre termina cayéndose, y entonces toca aprender a bailar otra vez.
couple weeks i think
