The savings speak for themselves. ⚡ 🏠 The average UK household can save around £1,000 a year on electricity bills by installing solar panels and a battery. 🍦 Styles Ice Cream saved £14,000 in 2025 by producing and selling ice cream using solar power.

So Badenoch would recruit a neo-Nazi but *not* someone who didn’t want to leave the ECHR or someone who supported our NetZero commitments. Second chances for this guy but not Dominic Grieve. The Tory party is truly wretched. It’s screwed the country, betrayed its own and lost its tiny mind.

I was at the 50th anniversary reunion of the first company I worked for last weekend. Our founder recalled that 8MB of additional RAM for the Prime minicomputers in 1981 was £100K, so £200m for 16GB ... without allowing for inflation. The RAM for the ZX81 was clearly a bargain ...

L Break Into Program@breakintoprogram.co.uk · yesterday

The ZX81 16K RAM Pack retailed for £29.95 in 1981. By my reckoning, it would have cost £29,950,000 to buy 16GB back then, not adjusting for inflation.

Finally added a copy of Hisoft's "Pascal" interpreter / compiler for the MZ-700 to my archive! mz-archive.co.uk/downloads/ES...

After the cruel impact of changes to the skilled worker visa scheme, there’s another hostile action from the Home Office, this time directed at EU citizens granted right to remain after Brexit. These life shattering letters disrupt peoples’ lives built in the UK and are are utterly shameful.

Solar powers record share of Britain’s electricity mix in July

Solar powers record share of Britain’s electricity mix in July

Farms and rooftop panels contribute 14.4% to the grid – and figures reveal a surge in new installations Solar energy supplied more power to Great Britain’s grid in July than in any previous month as households turned to rooftop panels to cut their energy bills. Solar farms and rooftop panels provided 14.4% of the country’s electricity after some parts of the UK recorded almost twice the average sunshine hours for the time of year. Continue reading...

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Aerial images of the river Otter catchment in Devon, where beavers have been living under a licensed trial scheme since 2015 and known to have been there before then, show how their activities have created wetlands with lush vegetation, even as the landscape around has become parched.

Beavers create wetland areas that stay green and boost resilience in drought

Images show how beaver dams and ponds provide a refuge for other wildlife and help humans in dry conditions.

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We are now in a fundamentally different place from when we left the EU 10 years ago - Trump in America, Russian aggression and a predatory China. The EU was founded to prevent war and ensure peace in Europe. It is in our best security interests to be a member of the European Union.

Sunset over Ottery #Devon

Bridget Phillipson, reflecting on her years spent standing idly by while UK higher education crumbled into the abyss and tens of thousands of university workers implored her to do something, literally anything, to save their jobs: BUT WHAT ABOUT ME THO www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

‘It hurts to lose a job you love’: Starmer loyalist Bridget Phillipson fights on despite cabinet demotion

Exclusive: The former education secretary on her new role as Labour chair and continuing as the minister for women and equalities

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🎉 Congratulations Dr Esther Cohen-Tovee, our next President-Elect! Following a vote of the society's membership, Esther has been elected as President-Elect for 2026-2028. A huge thank you to our members who voted and the candidates who put themselves forward. 👉 www.bps.org.uk/news/results...

Strange decision given Jodrell Bank is probably the most iconic symbol of science in the North of the England. I would imagine our new Prime Minister, who is very focussed supporting the North, will have something to say about it.

Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understands

Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.

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I'm absolutely devastated for colleagues at Jodrell Bank who found out this morning that funding for the UK's e-MERLIN radio telescope array will be terminated. This is a short-sighted move, to save a tiny fraction of the overall UK science budget. #SaveJodrellBank 🔭🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understands

Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans@astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 3w ago

“What will the Lovell Telescope discover/enable 20 yrs from now? I can’t tell you, and that’s the point. It will either be something extraordinary that none of us can yet predict, or we will defund it and leave Cheshire with a rusting monument to unfulfilled potential and discoveries never made.” 🔭🧪

101 BASIC Computer Games project for the Ben Eater 6502 homebrew computer #retrocomputing #retrogaming

101 BASIC Computer Games (for the Ben Eater 6502)

After building Ben's 6502 computer, and having gotten to the point it was running his build of MS-BASIC, I wanted to play around with some...

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Save yourself £12. It’s terrible.

LibDemTim@libdemtim.bsky.social · 2w ago

I’ve signed up to The Spectator on a cheap deal as an experiment. These are the three most prominent articles on their website this evening. I fear that much of conservative Right-wing politics has been radicalised by click bait journalism. Minds are being poisoned.

This disingenuous commentary doesn’t help anyone. Frauds start unravelling pretty quickly. That you apparently cannot afford to put your oven or treat yourself is quickly undermined by the question “so why are you spending £50 per week on petrol?” Then, it turns out, she has an agent and /1

Ash@queerash.bsky.social · 2w ago

Elaine in this article "can't remember the last time she used her oven" but also spends £200 a month on petrol (so driving probably ~50 miles a day?) (she's also a professional old person; she was on Good Morning Britain last year, and then also at the Nov budget, and the year before lmao)

Buses, famously for the richer classes and upper orders.

This is how "The Nerd" ends up on the news representing the retro community. They get your number and then just call you every time they need a rent a quote. They don't care if you talk shit. Ie the same nerd who claimed he remembered queueing up for a ZX Spectrum at launch at the age of minus 1.

Sometimes the rules of sport induce some strange behaviours. But there probably haven't been many stranger football matches than the 1994 game between Barbados and Grenada. Why, with just a few minutes to go were Grenada trying to score in both goals? open.substack.com/pu...

I conducted a lot of less than perfect tech demos in my career and had to cover up mistakes, but this literal cover up is astonishing. Full credit to the presenter for not getting too flustered!

Rav@rvbdrm.com · 2w ago

Quick thinking having a tablecloth handy. I didn’t even notice the twitching from that dead robot.

Released on this day in 1977: My Aim Is True, the debut album by #ElvisCostello youtu.be/ztZcktJFLnc?si…

This idiot has probably never been to the BOREAL FOREST a day in his life. It is 5.5 times the size of Texas. You cannot "groom" it. It's burning because of climate change. The utter bullshit from these climate deniers. Canadians are sick of this bullying and they are not going to take it.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Rep. Jeff Van Drew: "Canada isn't working because they are so far left. This should be a warning shot to them. You better come to America, say, 'We're sorry, we're gonna mend our ways and do what we used to do and groom and maintain the forest.'"

The smoke from the North American wildfires has definitely reduced our solar production today. When sunny, it normally tops out at around 5kW in the middle of the day due to the inverter's power limit, but has only reached 4.65kW today. And Burnham's about to drill for more oil? Madness.

Today was the first time I've touched my #PicoMZ project since last November! Fixed a bug that stopped SAVE from working that I'd introduced when tidying up the code just before the 3.0.0 release (and then didn't test that bit again, d'oh).

Burnham’s right: the cost‑of‑living crisis is hitting people & families hard. There’s a simple way to start fixing it - repair our broken relationship with Europe. Burnham should scrap Labour’s Brexit red lines, urgently negotiate a new customs union & re-join the single market.

I am wholly opposed to a reorganisation of local government that produces 'Devon Coast and Countryside' as an outcome next year. Separating the more expensive-to-run rural and coastal areas from the urban economy of Exeter makes no sense. 1/2 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

What does local council shake-up mean for Devon?

The changes are the biggest made to local government in more than 50 years.

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Given there's no agreement on what consciousness is, let alone whether the "hard problem" is just a combination of "easy" problems, I'd argue that (a) this question is unanswerable and more importantly, (b) a distraction from the very real harms that so-called AI is causing.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w ago

Could AI be conscious?

My @libdems.org.uk MP colleagues and I have been consistently calling for this unworkable, costly, intrusive policy to be scrapped. It would have discriminated against the digitally excluded and the money can be much better spent elsewhere, Right decision. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Andy Burnham to scrap digital ID to focus on 'helping with cost of living'

A spokesperson for the incoming prime minister says his Government would “put its focus where people need it right now”.

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