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Engineer of net zero 🏛️, lover of sustainability🪴, about 5 📚 on the go at once and eternally online (🌎🌍🌏)
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“Tesla’s driverless ‘robotaxis’ could launch in Austin as soon as June 22. But a demo in Austin today showed a $TSLA, manually driven to test its Full Self-Driving system, failed to stop for a child-sized dummy at a school bus—and hit it.” @cbsaustin @velez_tx

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Domestic Heat Pumps: Barriers to Installation (2022) - A case study in the friction in specifying and installing a heat-pump in the UK, even for a savvy early adopter. #heatpump #netZero #futureReady - https://www.earth.org.uk/heat-pump-barriers.html

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Testing 54 different combinations of solar-assisted heat pumps – pv magazine International www.pv-magazine.com/2025/06/09/t...

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AESC has paused construction of its battery plant in SC. This will be part of our update on Trump 2.0 + 5 months showing the impacts on clean energy manufacturing projects. You can see where things stood for Trump 2.0 + 4 months here. www.the-big-green-machine.com/post-trump-s... 🔌💡🔌🚗

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I’m not sure if it’s widely appreciated *how much* oil and natural gas is now being produced in 🇺🇸. 🔌💡 www.eia.gov/todayinenerg...

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Good morning with good news: UK EV share jumped to 33.7% in May 2025 from 25.7% in May 2024. Full-electric EV (BEV) sales skyrocketed 26% in May 2025, compared to May 2024. Plug-in hybrids (PHEV) surged 51%! Internal combustion engine autos fall! #energysky cleantechnica.com/2025/06/08/e...

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“Congratulations you are a 2025 contract lawyer of the year,” said the unsolicited email asking me to then contract with them for me to pay a large amount in return for a brochure saying this, and you may now see a flaw in this proposal.

submitted 6 days ago • 15 comments

“A Busy, Busy Day at the Airport” By Ruben Bolling Genius. Click in.

submitted 10 days ago • 26 comments

Interesting on how requests for push notification data are being made by governments, circumventing encryption etc.

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I'm sorry, I know this wasn't supposed to be the take home message, but how the fuck do you paint a flat so badly it lowers the value??

submitted 12 days ago • 12 comments

Fab and fun column 'vibe coding' by @sarahoconnorft.ft.com:

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

I'm not sure how to express that the judicial system was not designed to work this way

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The best thing about ageing is remembering your mistakes in far less detail.

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Imane Khelif must undergo mandatory sex testing to compete, World Boxing says

submitted 16 days ago • 83 comments

The “lets tell anyone we dont like to kill themselves” crowd are not welcome here sorry

submitted 20 days ago • 53 comments

This team’s work is why we know how disinformation spread on Twitter. When I teach my class on conspiracy theories, Kate Starbird’s work always sparks the most “aha!” moments. It’s hard to describe how demoralizing this all feels, esp (as she says) for jr scholars whose ideas won’t get a chance

submitted 17 days ago • 9 comments

Truly magnificent

submitted 17 days ago • 25 comments

🎶"... These are a few of my favourite things..."🎶

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Well, this has set the cat amongst the Telegraph pigeons. Sumption goes against the entire Telegraph-GB News line that Lucy Connolly's conviction is wrong and an attack on free speech. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05...

submitted 20 days ago • 12 comments

Good morning with good news: Solar globally reached for the first time an historic milestone in April, generating 10% of the world's electricity! Solar April Share: 2025: 10% 2024: 7.91% 2023: 6.34% 2022: 5.44% 2021: 4.35% 2020: 4.22% 2019: 3.20% Solar may generate 20% by April 2029! #energysky

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

Some Equality law advice to arts and charity staff signing open letters post For Women Scotland Supreme Court case www.linkedin.com/posts/audrey...

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

Thanks Nate “Bluesky honestly feels like a miracle where you take the most annoying people in the world and stick them in a broken elevator together.”

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Hang it in the Louvre

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

Bluesky honestly feels like a miracle where you take the most annoying people in the world and stick them in a broken elevator together. | Details | Interest | Feed |

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

A really joyful chart here for you to take into your weekends, courtesy of Sean Monahan (the guy who came up with "vibe shift"). I particularly like how the "death of the West" is presented as "divine" - someone needs to tell Liz Truss what she's up against www.8ball.report/p/all-the-en...

submitted 30 days ago • 2 comments