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If you've got space away from trees, a simple pole hanging feeder works if you cover the pole in Vaseline. Easy and hours of fun watching them try. Plus the squirrels end up with beautifully moisturised feet.

I agree, it would solve so many problems - but it would either cost about £100bn or require some clever legislation that no-one's yet thought of.

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Thanks for the thread. What I don't understand is how the government invests in new grid assets (a substation, a new grid link) which are then ?owned and managed by the existing private DNO/TNOs? That's a nice gift for them if so. The lack of detail is confusing!

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Fahnbulleh's bit on Politics Weekly made it no clearer. I just hope *they* have an idea, but given that we're still waiting for GB Energy to find its role I'm not sure.

Richard Lane @richplane.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Heck of a regular excavation! If it's just for investigation, usually you do geophys or ground penetrating radar and look at what turns up in that. There's a solar farm planned for the site but it's across a couple of fields and none of the others have markings like this. Weird innit?

Richard Lane @richplane.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

What on earth happened in this field?

An aerial photo of a field next to the A12 which has a pattern of what looks almost like giant cross-stitch left in the crop.

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Richard Lane @richplane.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Net zero" is a Johnson era term and a lot of us (I think you also?) were unimpressed with it from the start. It's a weaselly indirect bit of skirting round the big issue (emission reductions) and I hate the idea that we might have to now defend it.

Richard Lane @richplane.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Maybe this sort of thing always happens eventually when organisms start with tool use. Maybe a couple of million years is all you get before inevitably doing something stupid enough to wipe yourself out, and that's why there doesn't seem to be anyone else out there.

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Richard Lane @richplane.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Doesn't necessarily extend to a proportionate response but still noteworthy.

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Richard Lane @richplane.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

That's the problem with getting Ed in positions of power, you get these sudden unexpected bursts of moral clarity.

Richard Lane @richplane.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

And the racist industrialist pioneering car manufacturing is almost too on the nose.

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Richard Lane @richplane.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Oh god yes, the first shot with her she had her hair up so you saw her beautifully long neck and you think: yeah, that neck could make history. Big old axe target.

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Richard Lane @richplane.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Well they don't put Sinner against Djokovic in round 1!

Richard Lane @richplane.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Just found this screengrab I took of a Family Guy episode a few years back 'cos I wanted to see what the music was briefly shown on the piano... it's the top line of the Family Guy theme song. Now you know.

A screengrab of one of the first frames of the opening titles of Family Guy showing the music on the piano before the family crowd round it.

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Richard Lane @richplane.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Last three mornings there's been a spider web over the top of the glass of water I keep by my bed. This morning when i opened a bleary eye the architect was sat there on the water, having fallen in, bobbing about & looking a bit sheepish.

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York Community Energy @ycenergy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Next Tuesday is our AGM! We welcome Leo Murray of @ridingsunbeams.bsky.social to give the headline talk on the potential of communities to power Great British Railways. Come along 7:30 for the talks, 6:30 if you want to join in the AGM business fun yorkcommunityenergy.org.uk/event/people...

Image advertising the York Community Energy AGM. Text says:

Tuesday 8th September, 6:30pm,
Harriet Centre, York Cemetery

People Powered Railways
York Community Energy's 2026 AGM

With guest speaker Leo Murray from Riding Sunbeams"

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Richard Lane @richplane.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This is one of those uses of "civilised" as in "only one third of the population of the town survived the civility of the Normans".

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Richard Lane @richplane.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

@susiedentwords.bsky.social Hello! Don't suppose you'd spell out the Czech Word of the Week you gave in Unspeakable s4e1 broadcast this Monday? My Czech partner was a bit mystified.

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Richard Lane @richplane.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Sounds like a straight up kind of gal.

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Richard Lane @richplane.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

It sounded like it would be complicated, it is complicated.

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Richard Lane @richplane.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I'm the last person to attack climate action but looking at how policy around Net Zero is being implemented - in a bureaucratic fudgestorm of dodgily awarded contracts to corporate blaggers in a desperate search for economic growth - it is only a matter of time before it becomes indefensible.

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Richard Lane @richplane.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I thought Bang Bang It's Reeves & Mortimer was pretty much that.

Richard Lane @richplane.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Beatrice has done her daily Whillp, why not endorse her? (Verification required)

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Richard Lane @richplane.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Looks like someone got lost on the way to Fesshole

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Richard Lane @richplane.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Gove's "the public have had enough of experts" was another one.

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Richard Lane @richplane.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Sometimes you hear something said which you worry might break the Overton window with the force of its own stupidity.

Well quite! that's the approach France took and I don't see their supermarket chains collapsing.

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Solar Canopies and community energy – Sharenergy

My colleague did a pretty deep dive on it, we found it's really tough to make it pay back without a chunk of subsidy. Not impossible, but difficult. We think vertical bifacial panels might be more viable, but then there's less shading & maybe issues with graffiti. www.sharenergy.coop/2025/05/21/s...

sharenergy.coop

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Part of it... It's the expense & disruption overall. I mean it can be done, clearly, and the problem is really that we (in the UK at least) require climate solutions to be profitable, which sort of misses the point of why we have a climate crisis in the first place.

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Richard Lane @richplane.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Them wires gotta go somewhere

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We should be taxing car parking - protecting city centres and discouraging car-based retail. And you could reduce the tax if your car park is covered in solar or trees (public good). This would be a good climate solution.

Richard Lane @richplane.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

This is no surprise. A lot of community energy groups looked into these and they're not usually viable: you can't sell the electricity for enough to pay for the steelwork and digging up the car park. Solar carports solve a bunch of problems but only get valued as one solution: energy generation...

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Richard Lane @richplane.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Cos basically it doesn't pay for itself. Steel is too expensive, the groundwork very disruptive... The UK prefers to leave this stuff to the market and the market won't do this.

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I assumed those 'plus codes' were a proprietory Google Maps gimmick, but your post propted me to check that. They kind of are but at least an open standard, so I leant something! But.other than that they don't seem any better conceptually than W3W?

Dr. Black's Medieval Remedies @winstonblack.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Thought "GAIL'S" must be some acryonym I'd not heard of but apparently it's a bakery chain that I'd not heard of. (I'm from the north)

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My god, what an image. Dead kings in a plastic box, carried off as the world burns.

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Change ringing now, oh yes, that stuff is good.

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I absolutely endorse this. York Minster spent something like £2m on a carillon that just sounds horrid. Walked part a while ago and heard someone was just noodling on it! No. No. Wrong. Ick. Get rid.

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Their heyday may have passed, but when I first joined there was really quite a startling amount of that stuff.

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The Chaffinch / The Blue Tit – Esk – folk viola and guitar

New Esk video dropped! (or 'released' if you're over 30) yesterday: m.youtube.com/watch?v=LxcU... I enjoyed filming it a lot more than it looks like.

m.youtube.com

YouTube video by folkviola

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Richard Lane @richplane.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I think he's cleverer than that. I think he knows he will face the investigation, and it may go against him. He'll be in a better place to fight a recall petition if he can say "look the establishment are making you vote again because they didn't like the result of the last one".

Richard Lane @richplane.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

people saying "huh eclipse who cares boring" ... blimey not to be rude but you guys are all dead inside, hollow shells inhabited only by the last joyless fumes of rotted humanity burped out by a dying imagination. but in the nicest possible way.

Richard Lane @richplane.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Every damn website I go on is all "ohh go on download our app for some reason" and I never do, but meanwhile Google Earth, which has worked brilliantly as an application for ~20 years is saying "oh no we're a website now". They can't even be annoying in the same direction.

Warning element appearing in the Google Earth Pro desktop app "Google Earth Pro on desktop will no longer be available for download beginning June 25, 2027"

Jenny Chase @solarchase.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

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It's important to only get mad about things that are real.

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Richard Lane @richplane.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Ah you get over it quite quickly.

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Richard Lane @richplane.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Hanging around a 16th century guard tower smiling at strangers in an official capacity this morning.

A red marquee surrounded by vaguely heraldic bunting up against the wall of Fishergate Postern Tower in York.