Solar farms could increase global crop yields by hundreds of billions of pounds, thanks to the protective microclimate created beneath their panels.
www.positive.news/environment/...
Morning
Looking forward to the Green Party receiving as much media attention as Reform based on their polling. That weekly seat on BBC Question Time must be about to start any moment.
Cycling in Dublin for commuting rises 50% as most residents back more bike lanes
The vast majority of residents across the State’s five main cities want increased investment in cycling infrastructure, even when that results in less road space for cars.
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dubl...
So TUI - you think it’s ok for drones to monitor people on holiday?
I recommend a Gibson.
18 Mancunians died for voting rights at Peterloo in 1819. This Plumbers’ Society banner celebrates the 1832 Reform Act which created the South Lancashire Parliamentary constituency that preceded today’s Gorton and Denton. The plumbers who made this banner would vote for Hannah Spencer. Vote Green.
"And one thing characterizes all genuine systems, whether they be mechanical, like the control of a missile, biological like a tree, or social like the business enterprise: it is interdependence."
Peter Drucker: Management Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices
No other word has done more damage to the craft of writing in recent years than “content”. Even if you’re using the word “content” ironically, or as a cute little joke, don’t. When someone calls writing “content” they’re pissing on someone’s hard work & passion. “Content” is Technosatan’s henchword.
“... epistemic legitimacy: the question of whether a story reflects genuine knowledge of the terrain it purports to describe, or whether it is a construction produced at sufficient distance from that terrain to be, in the most fundamental sense, fictional.”
thecynefin.co/twelvetide-2...
On the 0821 train to London for a team meeting; people working on the new HS2 viaduct by Millennium Point in the mizzle; eating a mushroom omelette with feta roll; paying £100 instead of £200 for just-as-flexible tickets:
split.traintimes.org.uk/BHM/EUS/n/08...
Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.
The stuff of Arthur Jackson's dreams....
Are we talking the legendary “two sheds” Jackson?
I learned today
While falling apart
The most eloquent way
To speak or to pray
Is straight from the heart
Jesse Jackson playing basketball with Marvin Gaye
Jesse v Marvin
You’ve been cold to me so long
I’m crying icicles instead of tears
You can make the new He-Man movie look more vintage by the power of greyscale.
Happy St Pancakes day!
Brighton Argus ad board: NUNS IN FIGHT AGAINST STRIPPERS.
To be fair, this is every Friday and Saturday night in Brighton.
Keep it stupid, simple
Revised #KISS principle: keep it stupid, simple
It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this
