Mike Page @mikepage.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Well, you know my answer! I prefer the straw, on the grounds that the hempcrete has a high-carbon material (lime) added for no apparent (good) reason. It makes the insulation value worse, and adds embodied emissions. Perplexing. 021
Mike Page @mikepage.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Whatever that article is, it is not the “good explanation” you claim. 020
Mike Page @mikepage.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Man/Woman/Chainsaw being excellent at The Globe, Cardiff. 010
Mike Page @mikepage.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Well that sounds ominous. Why should our “peace of mind” be affected by a change of administrator? Is there a risk that this information will become unavailable and, if so, shouldn’t you be keeping copies of all the relevant information? 000
Mike Page @mikepage.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Had a lovely rough swim at Dunraven Bay yesterday evening (somewhere in the third picture). Great photo. 011
Mike Page @mikepage.bsky.social · 14/09/2026A King Seiko hi-beat? Love it. There is no hope for you now. Wait until you get two automatic watches, then you’ll need an automatic watch winder to keep them both wound. 010
Mike Page @mikepage.bsky.social · 28/08/2026For anyone who doesn’t know, there is probably no better person in the world to visit, if you want to know about the theory and practice of sustainable bio-based building materials, than @michaelburchert.bsky.social Thanks for a brilliant day. 040
Mike Page @mikepage.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Thanks, Nick. We’re going to play it safe by standing on high ground overlooking the sea. That should give us a good chance, fog and wildfires notwithstanding. 110
Mike Page @mikepage.bsky.social · 27/07/2026We’re heading for the middle of the north coast of Spain, so please don’t tell me there’s a problem there too. 110
Mike Page @mikepage.bsky.social · 27/07/2026It was relatively low-tech and so probably not high profit. This perhaps explains why it’s a sadly neglected approach, overdue a revival. sdg21.eu/en/db/solare-nahwaerme-ack… 000
Mike Page @mikepage.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Nice to see interest in thermal storage, but this shouldn’t be news. 20 years ago in Munich a thermal store was built, using 6000 m³ of water to store around 450MWh of seasonal heat. Integrated into the landscaping, it doubled as a tobogganing hill. 100
Mike Page @mikepage.bsky.social · 15/07/2026It’s that day again. I think we’re fairly safe from a deluge this year. Any excuse, though, to enjoy the genius of @billybragg.bsky.social… youtu.be/Bl0cXwSa6VY?is=LnpzjvJixZ4… 000
Mike Page @mikepage.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Sorry to be a grump, but does this really tell us why? It seems to tell us that the good language learners have something different about their brains…but we knew that anyway, didn’t we? 010
Mike Page @mikepage.bsky.social · 26/05/2026@ianwalker.bsky.social Have you done anything on what you might call “aeronormativity”, i.e., the identification of medium/long distance travel with flying? As a non-flyer, I feel I encounter it quite a lot. 000
Mike Page @mikepage.bsky.social · 17/05/2026The key point, though, is that you avoid all the disadvantages of policymaking by an elected elite (usually an odd, unrepresentative and biddable bunch) that Bouricius outlines so clearly in his short video. 000
Mike Page @mikepage.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Yes, Guerrero covers this and much else (in exhaustive, philosopher’s detail) in Lottocracy. Essentially it’s sortition all the way down/up — specific committees for ensuring consistency between Single-Issue Legislatures, possibly drawing on some ex-members of those SILs. 100
Reposted by Mike PageMichael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Please consider sharing this information; it’s important and it costs nothing. 01311
Mike Page @mikepage.bsky.social · 16/05/2026www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jul/… www.lottocracy.org 110
Mike Page @mikepage.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Hi, John. Electoral representative democracy is vulnerable to Pan, as you say. Here are three sources on a different democratic form that Spock might like to consider (in ascending order of attentional demand) youtu.be/rqWWCzbcttc?si=FSfuW5-Ctya… 100
Mike Page @mikepage.bsky.social · 02/05/2026The Windy through-wall AC unit was just available at the time. Today, I’d use a less bulky unit, e.g. Panasonic RAC Solo. These will dehumidify as well, and work well with a ducted ASHP hot-water tank like the Nuos, with no external heat exchangers. For larger houses an air-to-water HP is fine. aircareappliances.co.ukPanasonic RAC Solo 16 - R290 - 1.7kW Compact All in One AC System - VACompact Design, Powerful Performance The RAC Solo is built for modern spaces that demand efficiency without bulk. Its full-metal body is only 16.5 cm deep, offering a sleek profile that fits discreetl... 120
Mike Page @mikepage.bsky.social · 02/05/2026…non-biobased insulation (owing to space constraints) but now I would probably use cellulose (hemp batts, wood fibre, etc.) with a better vapour control layer on the inside. I am working on a build system for full-sized buildings, where the insulation thicknesses are more easily managed… 120
Mike Page @mikepage.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Thanks, Michael. Yes, all the QBs (1-3), had mechanical heat recovery and ventilation. They were really just (somewhat portable) demonstrations of low-carbon techniques and technologies, so heat pump, MHRV, solar, LEDs, etc. were all important, and included since 2009 (QB1). The earlier models had… 110
Mike Page @mikepage.bsky.social · 27/04/2026I’d be happy to meet for a chat if you have some time spare. Veilleicht kann ich die Gelegenheit nehmen mein Deutsch zu üben… 110
Mike Page @mikepage.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Meant to ask: how is the Dwarf 3 for objects that occupy a smaller portion of the sky, e.g. planets. Is resolution then an issue (i.e. one that can’t be as well compensated by long exposures)? 100
Mike Page @mikepage.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Seeing how beautifully it touches the ground makes me even more annoyed by the way those egregious glass wedges over the tube steps (and the permanently and scrappily taped off area between) violate the view from Charing Cross Rd. 110
Mike Page @mikepage.bsky.social · 19/03/2026These are incredible, Ian. Extraordinary to get such images from a 35mm aperture, but I guess it’s just collecting photons over time rather than over area. The tracking and/or coregistering must be proper clever. Need to buy… 021
Mike Page @mikepage.bsky.social · 14/02/2026Just caught up. A wonderful contribution. (And dead right, of course, about the yellow.) 000
Mike Page @mikepage.bsky.social · 05/02/2026This is mostly what Miller (1956) was saying, isn’t it?7+/-2 points on a scale will give you all the information you’re going to get. People often think that paper was about sequence span but, in as much as it was, it was wrong. 110
Mike Page @mikepage.bsky.social · 07/11/2025A very pleasant surprise to hear you on my radio this morning, Kevin. A tremendous contribution, as always. 020
Mike Page @mikepage.bsky.social · 02/11/2025After your previous message, I was on tenterhooks waiting for this one. 000
Mike Page @mikepage.bsky.social · 22/10/2025It’s not bad. It’s set (and was filmed) where B grew up, so has become a bit of a favourite. York, MacCorkindale, Agutter - what more could you want for a Sunday afternoon? The book is very good, if you like derring-do (and can ignore the anachronisms). 010
Mike Page @mikepage.bsky.social · 11/10/2025@karlwiderquist.bsky.social I thought you’d like this quote from jacobin.com/2022/04/socialist-femin… I’m sure you’re already across it, but I saw it and thought of you. 110
Mike Page @mikepage.bsky.social · 03/10/2025Agree. And after that @dieworkwear, whom I think @deevybee.bsky.social follows… 000
Mike Page @mikepage.bsky.social · 20/09/2025Can very much recommend “Limitarianism” by Ingrid Robeyns, for a very thoroughly argued case along exactly these lines. 010
Reposted by Mike PageRichard Herring @herring1967.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Grandad, grandad. Why didn't you do anything to stop it all? Yeah in hindsight we should have done more. Also in foresight. But I think we just hoped someone else would sort it out for us. Felt like they should. But they must have been waiting for us to do it. Sorry. 712117
Reposted by Mike PageProf. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 18/09/2025BILLY ELLIOT 2 (2028) -Da, I wanna be an offshore welder -No son o' mine is gonna weld! Look, lad, just study finite element modelling. It's not fancy, but it's an honest life -It's over, da. Keir Thatcher's closin' all t'unis -You'll feel different once your first grant-- -THERE ARE NO GRANTS! 1364
Mike Page @mikepage.bsky.social · 09/09/2025Sorry to kibbitz, but maybe dried cranberries (esp. if it’s a FODMAP thing) 120
Mike Page @mikepage.bsky.social · 09/09/2025Thanks, Aidan. I think that’s right. As long as management behave like a “professional managerial class”, by appearing to defend government against staff rather than staff against government, our mutual interests are catastrophically deemphasised, with the consequences that we see. 031
Mike Page @mikepage.bsky.social · 09/09/2025I suppose we ought to consider, too, what alternative course of action, might extract the sector from the race-to-the-bottom implied by your three points (of which 3 is, of course, the most galling, as John notes), if strike action were definitively off the table. Ideas? 100
Mike Page @mikepage.bsky.social · 09/09/2025…refused to sign up to a collective, sector-wide campaign might actually focus all our minds on the underlying funding issue, common to all. The key problem, I think, is that VC’s are selected for a lack of solidarity with the staff body from which they sprang. Maybe not irredeemably so, though? 100
Mike Page @mikepage.bsky.social · 09/09/2025Pragmatically, I think you are right, of course. And yet such a management stance would lack any logic. VCs WANT higher unit funding (some have been v explicit in saying so); between them, they have a monopoly degree-awarding powers.  Selective strikes in institutions where the VC…1/2 100
Mike Page @mikepage.bsky.social · 09/09/2025But what if a strike were aimed at addressing 2 first, and thence 1? That is, a strike that tried to unite staff and management (yes, inc. VC’s; UUK, etc.) in pushing Gov to increase home-student funding. Along the lines of: No home degrees to be awarded until unit funding somewhat restored. 200