Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

I can’t believe that Reform UK turned out to be financed by a bunch of money laundering fronts for Russia. It’s just so unexpected.

It's been 1yr since I installed a Grant HP290 heat pump and @newarkcylinders.bsky.social in my house! 🏠 Space heating SCOP 4.8 🚿 DHW SCOP 4.3 📊 Combined SCOP 4.7 💰 Running cost on Agile with battery: £567/yr 🛢️ Previous oil boiler would cost £2k to deliver same heat (72% saving)

the non-pervert use cases for pervert glasses are just so *lame*. These things will literally never happen with pervert glasses, which are aimed pretty squarely, as we know, at perverts. www.meta.com/en-gb/blog/m...

As predicted, the roof is on. Metal roofing, windows and roof & floor insulation next.

Juraj Mikurcik@jurajmikurcik.bsky.social · 4w ago

A week on and most of the walls are up. At this rate the house will be under the roof by the time I get back from holidays!

Just looking at a PV system quote and how many "car" miles of CO2 it would replace - it's a big expensive PV system and it's not many miles - we need to be not making combustion engine cars anymore

People with asthma got better when they replaced their gas stove with electric. “Our improvement was about twice as much as you typically see with medical treatment of asthma,” www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...

Researchers used electric stoves to treat asthma. It worked.

The latest evidence that gas is bad for your health.

climatecoloredgoggles.com

It’s time to accept that the American Experiment failed. The King needs to reclaim the territories. For the sake of humanity.

1) It is not politically toxic but, as many large surveys show, widely supported by the public 2) Political retreat is not an accident but result of well-funded political and media campaign by fossil fuel interests. 3) This is a war on our liveable future. See it!

Arieh Kovler@ariehkovler.com · 3w ago

In two years Net Zero went from broad political consensus to politically toxic, without any particular scandal over the policy.

[boldly] I just don't think the British government needs to have Shabana Mahmood in it, I think we managed fine without her and we can just keep going without her, it's fine, Andy Burnham doesn't need to find a space for her in cabinet, there are other MPs

"Good governments have a vision. They know what they want to achieve, can articulate why, & work out in public how to get there. They don’t just spout slogans about economic growth, because growth is meaningless unless we know what it's for" @fionaharvey.bsky.social on @mazzucatom.bsky.social's book

‘Make people dream’: how to build an economy for the common good

Economist Prof Mariana Mazzucato says governments must ‘get back their mojo’ and believe they can change the world

theguardian.com

I especially love this diagram.

This is new - time for bed and I want to open up the windows for night cooling - but it's still warmer outside! Yesterday was 22 C at this time, today 27 (and 25 C inside)

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Tarmac playgrounds and windows that don’t open: why hot spells turn our schools into heat traps | Harry Paticas

Our schools are a dated mix of single glazing, dodgy pipes and atriums like Kew hothouses. They urgently need retrofitting for a changing climate, says architect Harry Paticas

theguardian.com

You all don't get the joke. Let the #AI explain:

Ladies and gentlemen, for your entertainment I present to you what might well be the most carefully compiled word search ever.

can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

From 7am - great job on night ventilation for cooling in living room, but it smells kind of damp in here! I suspect 97% RH is a bit inaccurate but pretty sure >90%

Mechanism and updated prediction for the epic fail of Lincoln Memorial Bioreactor's polyurea coating! First chemistry, then physics It was sprayed in big sections. In addition to pool edges, failure will concentrate at the OVERLAP SEAMS between sections because they likely barely bonded at all. 1/x

Does the country have enough PV and battery storage? Clearly not:

Energy Stats UK@energystatsuk.bsky.social · last mo.

National average pricing for Octopus Energy Agile Tariff: Wed 24-06-2026 Min: 15.1p (13:30) Max: 81.9p (21:00) Avg: 33.7p Avg Excl Peak: 30.6p Peak 4pm-7pm: 54.3p Get graphs & pricing for all 14 UK regions at http://energy-stats.uk/octopus-agile-tariff-pricing/

An aspiring Telegraph columnist is “thrilled” that her four-year-old daughter is autistic, due to all the hand-wringing articles she can get out of it about her horror at not getting exactly the child she wanted, throughout the daughter’s teens and even well into her adult life.

Mother of autistic daughter excited about all the self-pitying newspaper columns she’ll get out of it

An aspiring Telegraph columnist is "thrilled" that her four-year-old daughter is autistic, due to all the hand-wringing articles she can get out of it about her horror at not getting exactly the…

thedailytism.com

NEW PODCAST: Bill Butcher and Chris Herring, founders of 21 Degrees, give us the lowdown on their own group self build project. www.houseplanninghelp.com/400 #Passivhaus #PassiveHouse #SelfBuild

A few thoughts from me on this populist sillyness about air con (not) being banned in new builds and why it's perfectly reasonable and sensible to focus on fabric measures first to reduce overheating. Air conditioning alone will never keep Britain cool www.lbc.co.uk/article/air-...

Air conditioning alone will never keep Britain cool | LBC

The Tories' promise to overturn a 'ban' on air conditioning in new homes doesn't tell the whole story, writes energy expert Dr Richard Lowes

lbc.co.uk

About time I did this - retrofit external blind for velux roofwindow

passivehouseaccelerator.com/events/live-... Looking forward to this with Jon Broome this afternoon (5pm BST)

Ahh, I can see we’re entering “weird European Puritanism about air conditioning while people die of heatstroke” season

We're especially worried about climate change in archives because there's going to reach a point where it's too hot for corduroy. A lot of archivists will have to fundamentally change their fashion choices. The rest of us will die with our honour.