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It’s done.
This is the moment Britains last remaining coal power station came off the electricity system for the final time, marking the end of 142 years of coal generating electricity in Great Britain.
HT National Grid ESO
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@alina Absolute nonsense, this is obviously just propaganda from the potato lobby! We need to stand up for our blood farmers, and stand up against "Big Potato". @alina las minute save. Because I bet that someone has been scientifically studying it, I mean, just to know how, funded by someone else who really thought what if. @muiren @shonalika just watched this minutes ago. Reminds me of the sinister undercurrent in cottage core as discussed by Trash Discourse. I'm sure it is just a coincidence that the disability and long-term sickness rates in three nations starting rising at the start of the #COVID19 pandemic and are still rising almost five years later, despite the fact the global health emergency ended. Data shown is for Spain, the US, and the UK.
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 @augieray@mastodon.social The UK has also had substantial cuts to healthcare funding. It would be useful to know if that isn't true in terms of the US and Spanish systems.  @augieray don’t worry, our grandkids can pay for it. where should we brunch? @augieray Sorry, but there's something odd with these data. The figures for US (~6 million people) and UK (~2 million) are very far away from Spain's (30% of adult population!!! That's over 10 million people!).  @vrandecic "End of the collection period: 9-Oct-2024" Well shit.  @aiefel @mathew @pcgaldo @davidgerard "And we’re sure you’ll be delighted to hear that there’s no Hello Dolly and Akismet plugins bundled with ClassicPress." @dec23k @aiefel @mathew @pcgaldo @davidgerard thanks for this! Going to port all my WP sites, BRB. One of the #solar panels for the awning arrived with microfractures and larger cracks. It can’t be returned, resold or recycled because of manufacturing constraints. I asked if we could keep it because I had “an idea”. I love my idea. We’re using a resin to solidify the cracks and now we have a #solarpunk table top. Next up is to recover chairs for outdoor use. The entire set was discarded in storage when we bought the house. #upcycle #furniture
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@jodmentum I would be a bit concerned that it still produces some current inside? Maybe best to keep it in the shade or use a tinted resin to block most of the light?
 Dustin Yellin, "Study for Psychogeography" (2024) Explore more from the artist on Colossal: https://www.thisiscolossal.com/tags/dustin-yellin/ when I first ran D&D, my grandmother, who had bought fully into the IT'S SATANISM hype, insisted on sitting and watching the first session about an hour in, she threw her hands up and yelled 'THIS IS JUST MATH' and stormed off
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whoa this popped off unexpectedly today, keep current with my thoughts at https://open.substack.com/pub/senatormeow?utm_source=mastodon @AlisonCreekside @pluralistic that fits with Wilhoit's Law: "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect." https://crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/liberals-against-progressives/#comment-729288 Essentially they want the law to be a parent which protects only them with no responsibility to follow it, much like a spoiled child.
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 @AlisonCreekside @pluralistic That's an incredibly insightful take. Never thought of it that way before, but he's right. @AlisonCreekside @pluralistic I would say this is too simplistic. When I consider my parents who got old and then they were confronted with say "THE INTERNET", they basically ignored it for 20 years. Then my mother told herself for 5 years that she is too stupid for it and now did some first steps in using WhatsApp. And this is how conservatism plays out even to the point that "the internet" is never touched at all to stay at this example. @AlisonCreekside @pluralistic "But we're Xtwitter! Where else will you possibly go" *I was here long before you, and I'm gonna get memed, screenshotted and pirated long, long after you  @bruces There is no Internet without L. Elon Musk. Chant L. Elon L. Elon L. Elon he will certainly have Xenuitter favor you. welcome to the world #climatedenial #climatechange #denial #ignorance gave us and it's going to get worse source: #NOAA Joint Polar Satellite System #JPSS, Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Day-Night band onboard the GOES-20 #Satellite https://www.facebook.com/JPSS.Program/videos/1039185644197896/ #globalwarming #climatecrisis #climateemergency #hurricanehelene #helene #hurricane  Each storm is its own (un) natural disaster. Whole towns have yet to see help. There are people that did not survive in the debris. It will get very grim.  @dashlion if anything it’s weird you think it could be weird to find joy in learning a new fact or skill, one of the most human things. Be curious!
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 This is one of the first things you have to learn at a shipyard. Working every day and all day long with electric extension cables, gas hoses, welding equipment cables all over 50 yrds, you are totally lost if you don't know how to left-right roll your stuff! I really am begging organizations to stop using Facebook or Twitter as the only way they distribute information. Please don't make me make an account to see information
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@annaecook I just ran into the same problem yesterday. A local café had all their information including menus on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok, so I immediately set it on my blacklist (= ResQ Club will no longer send me notifications about leftover food they sell for cheap in the afternoon/evening). Obviously they don't want my business, so they're not getting it. *shrug*  @annaecook I'd like to add: Please give us at least an RSS feed. If you don't want to don't want to discuss with us anyway, someone will create a bot to send the RSS content into the Fediverse.
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 Yes, I'm sure the people to listen to are the most implacable opponents of decarbonizing energy supplies, who have spent immense lobbying efforts over the years to literally make the most realistic alternative (for many purposes) to fossil fuels illegal in New Zealand and Australia. Thanks Ika Makimaki! My son and I have put in submissions opposing the Crown Minerals Amendment Bill. Good comments there about the spill and how we're not preparing to handle the response. The Army was called up to mop up the oil after MV Rena sprung a leak. I wish I could go back and amend my submission to start with: “On the week when the United Kingdom stopped their last coal-fired power plant and North Carolina, US was submerged by torrential rains, you slid out the world’s tiniest submission window about increasing oil and gas exploration? U wot, m8?” @ClareBear Almost an eleventh hour , but I have written my best argument against the bill and submitted. Most soft plastic collected for recycling is burned, campaigners say |
@janrosenow Pumpgen?
@janrosenow I'm probably preaching to the converted here but please everyone switch to a 100% green energy supplier.
Small acts on a mass scale can change the course of history. It also sends a message that this is what people want.
@janrosenow Jan, I only just saw this through a boost (though I knew about the switch off through other posts).
What amazes me is that here in Australia we have RWNJ COALition politicians promoting nuclear instead of renewables purportedly because it is cheaper than a transition to renewables (from a standing start - as we have NO nuclear power in AU at all).
Of course, the reason they're promoting nuclear is purely as a delaying tactic; to keep coal and gas running, and to delay the energy transition in line with the agenda of the lobbyists who drive the policy.
If nuclear was that good - cheap, reliable; why is it less than half of the energy generation compared to gas and biomass, in a country with a long history of nuclear power generation?
Because, obviously, it's neither cheap, nor particularly reliable overall, with extended plant shutdowns for overhauls and other reasons.
#auspol #energy #energymastodon #energytransition
@janrosenow Jan, I only just saw this through a boost (though I knew about the switch off through other posts).
What amazes me is that here in Australia we have RWNJ COALition politicians promoting nuclear instead of renewables purportedly because it is cheaper than a transition to renewables (from a standing start - as we have NO nuclear power in AU at all).