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John T @jayt22.bsky.social · 15h

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Yes, but we need more storage to cover the gaps and emissions free baseload helps.

Wind power has cut £104bn from UK energy costs since 2010, study finds

Reduction comes from energy generated from windfarms and lower cost of gas owing to lower demand

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John T @jayt22.bsky.social · 1d

@theobserveruk.bsky.social TV switch-off date could cut access for 10m UK viewers share.google/GTaaU9OtKD2E...

Your headline's broken. 2025 is this year, one year ahead of the decision date.

TV switch-off date could cut access for 10m UK viewers

Plans to move to internet-only streaming by 2025 are moving too fast for many British households, according to a new report

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John T @jayt22.bsky.social · 4d

If we carry on as we are, we will burn all that is economic to extract within a century or so. We are borrowing energy from the deep past. If we don't have something to replace it when it runs out, the consequences of that will be severe.

John T @jayt22.bsky.social · 4d

@beyondfossilfuels.bsky.social Something I never see talked about much in the climate change debates... in burning fossil fuels we are getting back very old stored sunlight. Energy captured by plants hundreds of millions of years ago, that took hundreds of millions of years to turn into oil & gas.

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John T @jayt22.bsky.social · 5d

You can't store 400MW of electricity. Sigh, guess Paul Murphy means 400MWh, but who knows....

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'Design failure' poses fire risk at Navenby battery storage site

A government body warns plans for the battery storage site at Navenby put people's health at risk.

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John T @jayt22.bsky.social · 6d

John T @jayt22.bsky.social · 6d

Found this in a coffee shop in Stirling at the weekend and had to buy it to celebrate the 47th president of the United States.

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John T @jayt22.bsky.social · 7d

agilemanifesto.org/principles.h...

People who develop software agile is the best way to develop software bar none.

The problem continues though with bodies like the Project Management Institute, big consultancies and scaledagile.com peddling their snake oil.

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Principles behind the Agile Manifesto

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John T @jayt22.bsky.social · 11d

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Legal challenge to Palestine Action ban can go ahead, court rules

Judges reject Home Office attempt to block judicial review of group’s proscription under Terrorism Act

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John T @jayt22.bsky.social · 11d

Larry Ellison's latest craze: Vectorizing all the customers • The Register share.google/zYxOqjuEmk1t...

Larry Ellison's latest craze: Vectorizing all the customers

Comment: Oracle slurps your data whether you like it or not... for the good and bad of the planet

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John T @jayt22.bsky.social · 12d

It's really Orwellian.

The US VP accuses the UK of restricting freedom of speech because we arrest and charge people with inciting hatred and will not allow intimidation of vulnerable people.

Meanwhile Trump administration is using Federal Government resources to suppress dissenters on campus.

John T @jayt22.bsky.social · 12d

mikedietrichde.com/2025/10/14/o...

Oracle Ai Database 26ai... E-I-E-I-O...

Old MacDonald Had a Farm share.google/GoXeoGBb9TZb...

Oracle AI Database 26ai replaces Oracle Database 23ai

Larry Ellison announced Oracle AI Database 26ai today in his keynote at Oracle AI World conference in Las Vegas. And I am pretty certain you may want some clarification on what this means exactly.…

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John T @jayt22.bsky.social · 12d

George Orwell did not quite forsee Trump.

Orwell called it "newspeak", it should have been "negaspeak".

Spoken by Trump's true MAGA believers, whatever the fact is, loyalty to MAGA means finding the opposite of the truth and sticking to it.

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John T @jayt22.bsky.social · 12d

A cheery thought for the end of the week... to follow Trump and Kennedy's declaration that paracetamol causes autism - it doesn't - his administration has ordered the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission to review whether ionising radiation is really so bad after all.

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President Trump's radical attack on radiation safety - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

If President Trump's executive order results in a new public radiation exposure limit of around 10 rem—that opponents to the linear no-threshold (LNT) model for radiation exposure often advocate for—t...

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John T @jayt22.bsky.social · 12d

Is there a regulator that should stop abuse of using excessive market share to influence the decisions of democratic governments?

Source: Ryanair Corporate
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RYANAIR CUTS 800K SEATS & CANCELS 24 ROUTES FOR W25 DUE TO GERMAN GOVT’S FAILURE TO REDUCE HIGH ACCESS COSTS

Ryanair, Europe’s No.1 airline, today (Wednesday, 15th October) announced that it has reduced its German Winter ’25 capacity by over 800,000 seats and cancelled 24 routes across 9 high-cost German air...

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John T @jayt22.bsky.social · 16d

www.theguardian.com/thefilter/20...

... Or spend a bit more on a laptop with user-replaceable and upgradable parts that could last 20 years?

Do you really need to buy a new laptop? When to upgrade – and when to hold off

Don’t splash out just yet! Your existing laptop may have plenty left to give

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John T @jayt22.bsky.social · 16d

I guess we're going to find out.

It's not the name that's threatening their livelihoods, it's the impact of their farming practices on climate change.

BBC News - No more veggie burgers? EU parliament votes to ban meat names for plant-based foods
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EU parliament votes to ban meat names for plant-based foods

Pressure to ban meat labels for plant-based products comes from Europe's livestock farmers.

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John T @jayt22.bsky.social · 17d

What is it with hotel WiFi? Why do they expose customers to risk of having their data stolen and not warn them?

If you use hotel WiFi without a password your data is not encrypted. If your apps or websites do not encrypt your transmissions, anyone on the network can see what you typed.

John T @jayt22.bsky.social · 17d

US voting democracy has been broken since the electoral college became an anachronism necessitated by the speed of coaches pulled by horses.

US democracy has become broken more recently by the loss of the ability to disagree agreeably.

The state of US democracy is a threat to the human race.

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John T @jayt22.bsky.social · 17d

NPR @npr.org · 17d

Alexandra is among the people who lost their jobs for posting about the conservative influencer’s death. She described the online mob that got her fired as “state-sponsored censorship."