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Jason Edwards

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North-East England, helps people do useful things with data, musical taste of a teenage lesbian (according to our daughter)

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Jason Edwards @ghiberti.bsky.social · 3h

Here you go

www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

Politics expert eats his book live on Sky News after election error

A politics expert ate his book on live TV after underestimating Labour's election performance.

www.standard.co.uk

Jason Edwards @ghiberti.bsky.social · 12h

"With significant reserves of lithium, rare earth elements, and other valuable minerals like zinc and beryllium, Nigeria is positioned to become a key player in the global mineral supply chain"

www.sfa-oxford.com/lithox/criti....

Nigeria | Critical Minerals and The Energy Transition

Nigeria's minerals strategy: Harnessing vast mineral wealth for economic diversification, sustainable development, and global trade.

www.sfa-oxford.com

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 2d

“I have never been in any rich man's house which would not have looked the better for having a bonfire made of nine-tenths of all that it held"

- William Morris

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

something under discussed is the fact that white house renovations are currently being spearheaded by someone with famously bad interior design taste

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Jason Edwards @ghiberti.bsky.social · 2d

Will they be getting an intern in to do the heavy lifting?

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Tom Forth @tomforth.co.uk · 2d

"Evil or Irrelevant: pick one." > I wrote up why I'd usually prefer to have an 'evil' company succeeding in Leeds than a good one succeeding in London. (But really it's about Stoke-on-Trent). tomforth.co.uk/evilorirrele...

Evil or irrelevant: pick one.

Why I’d probably rather have an evil tech company in Leeds than a good one in London.

tomforth.co.uk

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Jason Edwards @ghiberti.bsky.social · 2d

Looking forward to "Police confirmed a 65-year old man is helping with enquiries"

Jason Edwards @ghiberti.bsky.social · 5d

“The Church embraced that great invention of the day to literally change humanity,” Gelsinger said of the printing press.

Quite a take

Jason Edwards @ghiberti.bsky.social · 5d

Watched this just last night, genuine edge of the seat throughout the whole film

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Jason Edwards @ghiberti.bsky.social · 5d

And the sky-rocketting house prices that gave so many of us decade-long access to a domestic cash-point

Jason Edwards @ghiberti.bsky.social · 5d

Who's getting the ball when it gets kicked out of the ground? imagine the added time at the end of the match

Jason Edwards @ghiberti.bsky.social · 6d

In a £200 chair?

Jason Edwards @ghiberti.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks, that looks a great read

Jason Edwards @ghiberti.bsky.social · 8d

Chunk of this believed to be linked to the early release scheme and prisoners who'd originally been convicted under a repealed law which wasn't picked up during early release checks (i.e. they weren't actually eligible for early release)

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Jason Edwards @ghiberti.bsky.social · 10d

After that heroic occurrence I'd prune it from the backlog :)

Jason Edwards @ghiberti.bsky.social · 12d

Ta v much!

Jason Edwards @ghiberti.bsky.social · 12d

Congratulations for avoiding the temptation to work his gun celebration into the joke :)

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Jonathan Liew @jonathanliew.bsky.social · 12d

reckon lawrence freedman could fashion a decent robbie keane joke. problem here would be the lack of opportunities. very dry military, geopolitical subject matter. would have to wait and wait for the right moment, and then nail it. which ironically is what made keane so deadly as a striker

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Jason Edwards @ghiberti.bsky.social · 12d

Based on panels/batteries purchased?

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Jenny Chase @solarchase.bsky.social · 13d

Time for 2025 updates to my annual “opinions about solar” thread. If you like these, you might like the second edition of my book, Solar Power Finance Without The Jargon. A 30% discount code WSQ0437 is valid on publisher website until end of November 2025.

www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook...

Solar Power Finance Without the Jargon

www.worldscientific.com

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Jason Edwards @ghiberti.bsky.social · 13d

The lads who installed ours at the end of June simply carried them up a ladder

(21 panels!)

Jason Edwards @ghiberti.bsky.social · 13d

What does "buffer/unknown" represent pls?

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Jason Edwards @ghiberti.bsky.social · 14d

Some autumn colour from the back garden

(Himalayan firethorn, apparently)

Jason Edwards @ghiberti.bsky.social · 15d

And Princes

Jason Edwards @ghiberti.bsky.social · 16d

That's made me properly lol

Jason Edwards @ghiberti.bsky.social · 17d

[PTSD from command-line install of slackware years ago triggered]