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I was clearly bringing the coolness down. Good job I moved a few years ago! 😄

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If we are to avert global climate catastrophe, this is going to be critical. A new study confirms solar and wind costs are still falling, gas costs are soaring, and battery energy storage systems are now cheaper than gas peaking plants pretty much everywhere. www.businessgreen.com/news/4537069...

businessgreen.com

'Decisive and widening': Battery storage undercutting gas peaking plants on cost, study shows

Wood Mackenzie calculates four-hour battery storage projects are now less expensive than open-cycle gas turbines in all major markets

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Chris @chris4man.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I wonder how that worked out?

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Chris @chris4man.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Me and my brother* had the traction engine version of this. * Technically it was his as he's two years older than me.

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Chris @chris4man.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The depressing thing was that I actually watched it as the script was quite interesting. I just wish that it had been narrated by a person.

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Chris @chris4man.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

One can only hope. Though that does mean that the right wing vote has nowhere to go apart from Reform/Restore.

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Chris @chris4man.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Just seen an AI narrated video about Colossus: The Forbin Project. Somewhat ironic wouldn't you say?

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Chris @chris4man.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

You don't get a true appreciation of their size until you see something of a known size next to them. I'm constantly surprised how big they are!

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yes indeed I'm rather tiring of the coverage... a convicted perjuror who brazenly lied his way through life and continued to attend the House of Lords even as this poor woman's life fell apart.

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Chris @chris4man.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Isn't lying part of the job for politicians though? Most election manifestos are lies*. Most of what politicians say during elections is lies*. Most of what politicians say to the media is lies*. * or at least distortions.

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Chris @chris4man.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I "like" that even when you *could* receive a fatal dose of neutrinos there are many other ways in which you would die first.

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Chris @chris4man.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Is it bad that when I read the name I heard Leslie Phillips?

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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 05/10/2026

I often see people argue that clean energy is not reducing emissions, because it just adds to rather than replaces fossil fuels. This argument is deeply misguided – clean energy built since 2005 has displaced 23 billion tons. I dive in over at The Climate Brink:

theclimatebrink.com

What if the world hadn't built wind and solar?

Clean energy does not simply “add to” global energy use; it displaces fossil sources that would otherwise get built.

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

As ever, and for the last time in connection with lying shit Jeffrey Archer, we remember Monica Coghlan, whose life he destroyed.

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Chris @chris4man.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I managed to avoid reading any.

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Chris @chris4man.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I was in a Harrogate hotel room prior to seeing a Michael Nyman concert when I saw on the news that Archer had been jailed.

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Bob Larkin’s cover to 1980’s Crazy #60 featuring Spock & Kirk from Star Trek and, from The Muppets, the Pigs In Space. It’s a great tragedy that nobody in power saw this & thought, this is exactly the kind of movie we ought to be making.

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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

never the wrong time for this classic

Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?"
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”

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Chris @chris4man.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Fuck nostalgia. Especially rose tinted nostalgia. Cause of so many problems these days. I'm not going to list all the things that were bad "back in the day" because I've got better things to do.

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does: If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives

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Chris @chris4man.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's really unnerving when people you consider the "bad guys" talk sense. I suppose in this case he's putting an even "badder guy" in his place!

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Chris @chris4man.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Picture rails are a thing. You don't have to have a traditional one, we put up a simple rail on brass hooks in a previous house. Very effective.

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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent

Diagram of absorption of emf by water. There's a gap right that dips in the 500 nm range

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Just one of many problems with Braverman's definition of 'pureblood' Englishness (all-English parents/grandparents) is it excludes millions of white, English-speaking people with English-sounding names, who she/everyone would just assume are 'English'. #MudbloodsAreUs

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Chris @chris4man.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Damnit. The important bit: "$500,00 a day" is missing from the thumbnail. #AI

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Parkscope Joe @parkscopejoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I don’t believe AI has consciousness because it seems all discussion around it is marketing fluff.

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Chris @chris4man.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I know I probably wouldn't actually enjoy it, but right now I want #CelebrityTraitors every night rather than twice a week. Waiting until next Thursday to find out if they got Richard is going to be torture.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

By Suella Braverman's definition of Englishness as being "a lineage, an ancestry, a connection to the heritage of this country which dates back a few generations," I'm no longer English. So where shall I go and live when Reform comes knocking?

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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/10/2026

remember when every company was like "we're gonna make a leaderboard for uses the most AI" until someone looked at their budget

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Chris @chris4man.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

All three of our dogs have been rescue cross breeds (2) or street dogs (1).

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Dr_Aust_PhD @draustphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Crikey. Even bulldogs were once proper dogs. Feel sorry for the modern ones I see now, and for all the snuffling flat-faced breeds. Staffie crosses for me, though ours was formally a dog-home foundling whatever, though clearly half staffie. Find modern dog breeding absurd & creepy.

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Kumail Nanjiani @kumail.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

AI will never be able to make art. Thanks.

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Claire @clairepull.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"I've worked all my life and paid into my pension and now it's being taken away from me" NOT TRUE! There is no giant pension fund. What you paid in for all those years paid your parent's and grandparent's pensions. The youngsters of today are paying your pension. State pension IS a benefit.

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Chris @chris4man.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Oh, it can work. The Star Trek changes are a good example, but even those don't give the ships the same sense of "weight" that they had from model shots. It's highly subjective, which is why I'm always glad when you're given the option of which effects you see.

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Chris @chris4man.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Similarly with updating special effects. Some of the best effects were obtained by working round limitations. When you can create anything digitally then you sometimes lose the magic of wondering how they achieved the effect.

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Chris @chris4man.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm sorry but the idea of turning black and white movies and photos leaves me cold. Yes, I know the argument that if they could the old film makers would have used colour, but they didn't have the technology so did amazing things with what they had.

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Bex is WEAK on crime @bextraordinary.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Lately I've been thinking a lot about Terry Pratchett's "Reaper Man" and AI. He was so ahead of his time in so many ways - or maybe squarely in his time but so many missed the very obvious signposts of where we were heading. Gonna be spoilers in this thread for a 25-year old book.

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Chris @chris4man.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My money is on him being a serial liar.

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James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

UPDATE: it was an existing fan script that was fleshed out with AI graphics, so not 'AI generated' at all.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 30/09/2026

5 4 3 2 1 Thunderbirds Are Go! Filmed in VIDECOLOR and SUPERMARIONATION. Gerry & Sylvia Anderson's Thunderbirds started 61 years ago today on ITV. @gerryanderson.bsky.social

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Chris @chris4man.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So not binding at all then. The AI companies have no morals. Also they're not going to self police when there's the potential for great profits, or (more likely) continued venture capital investment. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

theguardian.com

Trump announces vague ‘morally binding’ AI deal among tech CEOs for ‘tremendous self-policing’

US president also issues executive order officially rebranding ‘artificial intelligence’ as ‘superintelligence’

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