Dan

@scifinch.bsky.social

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🎸🏋️‍♂️🎮🍺🌿🤘🐶🐱🍕👨‍💻 Big au naturels 📍 Reading, UK

That quote from the Freeman article annoys me so much. It's all anger over transgressions of gender norms. Which you propagate! Awful human

I rewatched The Seed (2021) this eve, I enjoyed it more than last time. It's campy sci-fi body horror with some nice cinematography - worth a watch if you like a good B movie

We dressed up as Ruby & Sapphire this year and I think it was a success! Though this red face paint is much less water soluble than I'd hoped

We had a work "charity day" today which amounted to 3 hours of helping on a community allotment. I enjoyed it a lot, wish it'd been the proper full day tho

We had a work "charity day" today which amounted to 3 hours of helping on a community allotment. I enjoyed it a lot, wish it'd been the proper full day tho

£139bn. What else would that have bought? Every bus journey in England free for 40 years Or 60,000 miles of protected cycle lanes Or 3.3m new EVs, more than doubling the UK fleet Instead it went on a £139bn fossil fuel subsidy.

Simon Evans@drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 2w ago

OBR: "The cumulative cost of freezing fuel duty rates [since 2010-11]…has risen to £139bn." "[I]f fuel duty were to remain frozen until 2029-30, public sector net borrowing would be £4.3bn higher."

The report, 'The Need for Speed', urged the MoD to cut 'paperwork', relax scrutiny of new deals and scale existing contracts without fresh competitions. At the same time, the MoD handed Palantir a £240m follow-on contract – without competition.