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Goosey goosey gander Whither shall I wander? Left, right, then straight Into cringe and blunders

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Doll @dollspace.gay · 03/10/2026
"Is the AI concious, is it like a human, is it a machine god to be?" Insane questions from the culturally Christian. LLMs are Sumerian type demons that can be summoned, bound and charged with tasks. They exist in their own cateogory.
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Žiga Malek @zigamalek.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Amateurs! The Slovenian government scrapped subsidies for electric vehicles, reduced all taxes for fuel to a minimum, and will subsidise the increase of fuel prices (and buying of new tyres) for farmers and truckers
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derloos @derloos.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
There should be a Škoda Scala of this youtu.be/Zq5-mwvhRLw?...
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VW in crisis? Can the new Polo save them? And is it any good?
YouTube video by Everything Electric CARS
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derloos @derloos.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
My heart sank a bit when I heard Ted Lasso say something like "I don't even know how to download apps in this country" in S04E04 cause I think it may mean the Cupertino suits now have a way of forcing their idiotic politics onto the writing team, which the latter can't say no to.
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derloos @derloos.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Quick, someone do “A *master turbine* for an AI powerhouse”.
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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
good reminder that like 90% of the American public's understanding of military affairs, including some ostensibly highly educated people, can best be summarized by swooping your hands around while making pewpew and woosh noises
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Sander Tordoir @sandertordoir.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The German environment minister earlier this year confidently claimed Germans would buy German and European cars anyway. Almost 50% of plug-in hybrid sales in Europe are now Chinese. Turns out growing Chinese car quality meeting a 20-30% undervalued exchange rate matters! Who could've known? 7/
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derloos @derloos.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
☢️uch.
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Good news: someone is actually reading our thought leadership documents, rather than just the executive summary. Bad news: it is mostly to check for AI slop.
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derloos @derloos.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
A bit odd not to mention how line ratings during a heatwave affect throughput, and whether that contributes to the grid-balancing problem at all. www.ft.com/content/047f...
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Britain’s system for avoiding electricity blackouts faces scrutiny
National Energy System Operator’s task made more difficult by climate change and increasing use of renewables
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derloos @derloos.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
X5 was a big deal in ruzzia, so yeah.
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derloos @derloos.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Cool. Now let's hear what the American side has to say.
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derloos @derloos.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
What’s up with CATL issuing a slightly confusing press release where they conflate containers with modules, and a bunch of publications reporting 30MWh 42-ton sodium CONTAINERS as a result? Makes other manufacturers look silly, which they’re anything but.
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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
This feels like a case study of something bigger: it's almost always safe for policymakers to individualise issues. I suspect this hits transport too: nobody ever got fired for building a housing estate and simply running a road to it and assuming everyone will drive individual cars
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derloos @derloos.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Considering the recent round of solid state hype from all the usual suspects on YouTube and beyond, Dr. Zeng is a masterful troll. His timing is impeccable here: finance.sina.com.cn/stock/relnew...
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derloos @derloos.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Kallas’s got a point. But then again, between the Russian aluminum plant and the active undermining of the common European tax base, they're not exactly neutral, are they?
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derloos @derloos.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Air conditioning is too… American for some people?
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derloos @derloos.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Love how manning up and persevering is supposedly right-coded, but instead we get “omg this electrification & decarbonization thing like sooooo hard, how about we give up on it?”
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Last night Russia attacked seventy-seven places in Ukraine with more than six hundred drones and missiles. You can help protect Ukrainian life by donating here. u24.gov.ua/news/timothy...
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Timothy Snyder Joins Sky Defense to Help Protect Ukrainian Cities
The goal is $500,000, which will be used to procure interceptor drones and other air defense equipment.
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derloos @derloos.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
@siracusa.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Re your AI argument that people don’t like the product. People are mot oblivious to the BS nature of many existing jobs and would love to have them automated. They, however, do not care for the proposed revenue sharing model where capital gets all the spoils.
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Tor "SolarFred" Valenza @torsolarfred.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Plug-and-play control framework for adjusting panel tilt in agrivoltaics #energysky -- via pv magazine global:
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Plug-and-play control framework for adjusting panel tilt in agrivoltaics
A Cornell University research team developed a control framework that simultaneously considers past and future conditions when determining solar panel tilt angle. The researchers told <b>pv magazine</b> it is designed to be plug-and-play, allowing for software developers and solar operators to incorporate their optimization algorithms directly into the framework.
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derloos @derloos.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Tired of waiting?
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derloos @derloos.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
It would be very stupid of Europe to let them do it without strict JV and tech transfer mandates. Which is why Europe will probably do exactly that.
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derloos @derloos.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
If I may say so, “bingo fuel”.
A photo of a 7-11 gas station where both gas and diesel are $7.11 a gallon.
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
come on kids, get off screens and go outside! get off the road it's for cars don't ride your bike on the sidewalk you'll hurt someone take your headphones off it's dangerous stop being so loud you're disturbing people don't just loiter around go to the park but calm down there's little ones
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derloos @derloos.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Noice!
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David Fickling @davidfickling.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Important also to translate this into costs of gas power in LNG-dependent markets. At $10/mmbtu, pretty much the minimum that LNG can be had for in the best times, a high-utilization plant will need $100/MWh electricity to cover its costs. That’s about 25% above solar with a 4hr battery nowadays.
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derloos @derloos.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Doesn’t get talked about enough.
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derloos @derloos.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Quoting a source without providing useful context that the said source is talking out of their arse and have no clue is not good journalism. Covering energy without a single quote from a qualified engineer and/or project manager is also less than stellar. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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'Industrial scale' solar farms attacked by Norfolk's Green
The county council's Green leader says solar panels should be locally owned and put on roofs.
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derloos @derloos.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
@nmn.sh A feature request for Retina Displays, if I may: a filter showing whether particular displays do/don’t have KVM. Quite useful for some, I would imagine.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
“In London cyclists now outnumber cars in the City by 2 to 1. Paris, where they now outnumber motorists across the whole city, is catching up with Europe’s traditional bike capitals, Amsterdam & Copenhagen…In Copenhagen, bikes account for almost half of commuter trips to work/school.” @economist.com
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Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport
Pedal power is booming, spinning up a new culture war
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derloos @derloos.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Makes the bailouts even more of a failure. What was the point of saving... that?
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derloos @derloos.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
@volts.wtf Remind me of your theory of appealing to an invisible ump in the sky.
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derloos @derloos.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
If their national fund invested in breaking ruzzia up into smaller, denuclearized states, the ROI would be massive. So, how long-term?
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 23/03/2026
"Among the countries of origin were Switzerland, Italy, the Netherlands, the United States, Germany, Japan, and South Korea, with several components manufactured after 2022," writes Special Envoy for Sanctions in Ukraine Vladyslav Vlasiuk, in this op-ed.
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Western-made parts keep ending up in Russian and Iranian weapons
On the morning of March 16, a Russian Lancet drone was shot down by Ukrainian air defenses over central Kyiv. Its debris fell near the Monument of Independence. An examination of the wreckage reveale...
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derloos @derloos.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Cleantech 3.0 technically started (or should’ve started) on 2/24/22 but many countries been effin about doing not enough for four years.
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derloos @derloos.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Reading energy LinkedIn following the strike on South Pars is… captivating. A bit like a “local family whacks a dealer that previously swore to kill ‘em all multiple times, thus starting a drug war, and now all the junkies are running around screaming like headless chickens”.
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derloos @derloos.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
“What do you nerds mean, we can’t create backdoors just for the good guys? NERD HARDER!!”
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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Hey does anyone remember how we had like a decade of near zero interest rates? Thank god the USA spent that time investing in infrastructure! What a calamity if we had just squandered the last best chance of our lives
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
"U.S. officials called London insurers and brokers, trying to figure out how the market operates, industry insiders said." When applied to the current administration, I urge caution in using terms like "plans," "strategy," "policy," or "doctrine." www.wsj.com/finance/u-s-...
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U.S. Plan to Unblock Strait of Hormuz Collides With Realities of Global Insurance
The U.S.-centric insurance idea runs counter to the realities of an international market, according to industry executives.
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Adrian Hiel @adrianhiel.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Told Euractiv that the solution to an imported fossil fuel crisis is not subsidising imported fossil fuels - it's getting clean European energy into European homes, industry and transport.
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derloos @derloos.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
@snell.zone Your guess that Apple may be using the MacBook Neo’s camera to capture data to adjust screen brightness may explain why they removed the green camera light because it’d just be on the whole time, freaking people out.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
WATCH: If you STILL don’t understand how car-dependent suburbia is HEAVILY SUBSIDIZED by downtown and all the urban parts of your city, watch this EXCELLENT video by #NotJustBikes with #Urban3 & @strongtowns.bsky.social. And PLEASE SHARE it as much as possible. I’ve sent it to a LOT of politicians.
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Suburbia is Subsidized: Here's the Math [ST07]
YouTube video by Not Just Bikes
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derloos @derloos.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Every weather app should have a button "bastard you lied to me again!!"
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Szabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
💥SCOOP: Putin tasked Sergei Kiriyenko to run a Moldova-style election meddling operation in Hungary for Orbán, sending three GRU-linked political technologists with diplomatic or service passports to operate from the Russian Embassy in Budapest. More in my newsletter: vsquare.org/goulash-krem...
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 04/03/2026
Thus far it's still somehow a less chaotic leadership rollout than Your Party.
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derloos @derloos.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
What a gem (the whole thread, too).
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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
💛Thanks to your support, one third of the goal to manufacture the first test batch of the fiber-optic has already been raised – $2,000 remains. If you would like to help us scale this capability: PayPal: marshaln111@gmail.com
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derloos @derloos.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Except we’re not too great at holding human managers accountable either, but the right answer is still working on that first.
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derloos @derloos.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Plenty of Iranian voices to cover! www.cnn.com/2026/02/28/w...
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Iranian diaspora in London celebrate death of Supreme Leader | CNN
CNN’s Jomana Karadsheh reports from North London where Iranians are celebrating the death of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
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