By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 20/04/2026I once lost a fight to get permission to put a little glass greenhouse on my balcony on the grounds that it would "alter the facade" of the undistinguished low-rise 1960s industrial building I live on top of. 25/ 1623
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 20/04/2026The fact that HMG is going to tell your facade-obsessed neighbors to fuck off all the way into the sun so that you can hang solar panels off your balcony is nothing short of a *miracle*. Comrade Putin's contribution to oil-soaked Britain's energy transition can't be overstated. 26/ 211414
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 20/04/2026Thanks to "free market" policies sending energy prices soaring after the Ukraine invasion, Brits installed so much solar (*despite* the impediments) that now the government is *begging* us to use *more* energy this summer. 27/ 1636
Captain Hurley 🇺🇦 🇵🇸🏳️⚧️🇪🇺 @zoonie.bsky.social · 22/04/2026I should have read further on, shouldn't I ;) 010
