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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 7h

Just boosting this in case any #Lewes mutuals want to join me? Might go on my own but it would be more fun with company.

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 9h

I do seem to have mis-remembered about 2nd hand though! I've seen that same data in articles under the headline "all EVs" but that's not correct, it is for new cars. The 2nd hand market still has a way to go but there are a couple of Niro/Konas (brilliant cars) for around £8k.

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 10h

I don't, but Autotrader do. New (assuming total cost over three years, which is the only sensible way to look at a new car purchase) has been cheaper for some time, second hand caught up earlier this year.

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 11h

I know I bore on about this but it's no longer true. Maybe it was until a few years ago but currently an EV is the cheapest way to get on the road. Which sorta proves George's point!

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 14h

This is a really good article and yes I will be downloading the remake next time I have a couple of hours free! www.ign.com/articles/for...

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Forgotten Gems: Lucasfilm's Rescue on Fractalus! - IGN

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 14h

It's a simple but effective technique that I didn't learn about until years later, the gap between landing and the knock on the door is randomised so you have time for the tension to build. Really decent flight sim dynamics by 8-bit standards too!

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026

Age yourself: My first experience of horror as a genre.

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026

This scared the absolute living crap out of me when I was a kid!

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Lisounours @lise-l.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Ils étaient mi-cerf mi-escargot, et re mi-cerf derrière

Image de deux cerfs allongés devant des rouleaux de foin

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Jenny Chase @solarchase.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Time for 2026 updates to my annual “opinions about solar” thread, now with storage. If you like these, you might like edition 2 of my book, Solar Power Finance Without The Jargon. A 30% discount code WSQ0437 is valid on publisher website til end of Nov 2026. www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook...

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Solar Power Finance Without the Jargon

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Friends of Friendless Churches @friendlesschurches.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Covered in crumbled plaster, decades of dust, and spider’s webs, the pews inside St Helen’s, Biscathorpe are 19th-century benches with poppy-head ends. 1/8

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026

One of my absolute favourites this, introduced to it by my mum when I was probably a little too young. It still scares me in a really comforting way!

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026

Heating's come on for the first time! Big temperature drop in just a few days. Which reminds me - I have a #VisitAHeatPump event booked on the @nestauk.bsky.social website on the 17th if anyone in the #Lewes area wants to see it in action!

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

An energy efficiency expert looks at the Tory claims scrapping the Future Homes Standard would knock £50k off the price of a new home and concludes they are utter nonsense. www.businessgreen.com/opinion/4536...

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026

That struck me as well. When I was teaching (EFL rather than state schools, often with teenagers 16+) I used to roam the classroom. You don't know what everyone's doing from the front.

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026

Didn't see it but there was an owl hooting outside in the early hours. It sounded like it flew right past the bedroom window, lovely to know we have owls about!

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026

I enjoyed each episode (feel free to tell me I'm wrong) but it was too much having them running all together. One or two episodes like that as part of a longer run would have been fun.

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026

After watching Definite Article for the first time my wife turned to me and said, "are you even aware that all your material comes from this?" Yes. I very much was aware.

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026

Dusted off the CD and am listening now, having caught this conversation and read the article earlier. It's an absolute cracker, thank you for the reminder. Dread to think how many years it's been since it was last out of its case!

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026

I didn't post at the time to conceal my actual birthday but I recently celebrated my Captain Picard Day. Andrew's thread is the musical equivalent and even better/more depressing, depending how you feel about it.

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026

Sorry, @artofstartrek.bsky.social but I couldn't resist ruining your morning by tagging you in this!

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

Was she named after *that* Henry Ford? I can see an American of the time doing that but it feels odd for a Brit!

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

Price of scrap must be *way* up to risk that.

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026

This has brought back a vivid memory of the time I saw a then-new Class 465 coming into Waterloo East then departing, with the horrified expressions of passengers who'd been expecting the doors to open automatically!

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026

Strong childhood memories of seeing the deer at Knole! Lovely, glad you had a good time.

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026

Brave of you to bait Star Trek fans (and I am one) but I think that's an excellent description of 2009.

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Robin Hawkes @robhawkes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Ever wondered what that wind farm or gas plant nearby is? Well wonder no more as my patent-pending* Energy Radar will tell you! radar.robinhawkes.com *Not really patent-pending, it just sounds cool

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The great Tim Curry excelled at brash, over-the-top characters, but his quieter turn at the tragic, well-meaning Petrov in The Hunt for Red October allowed us to see a different side: a character blinded by devotion to duty

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Tim Curry's Most "Normal" Role Was Also His Oddest - Reactor

In a career full of over-the-top performances, his quieter turn in "The Hunt for Red October" stands out

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026

I don't interact with you very much but I always read the posts with interest! Thank you for what you do.

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026

I wasn't expecting this practice to turn out to be widespread!

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026

I love this idea so I have just bought a stranger a book! I hope they find something they really enjoy.

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026

This happened to a former colleague when she dug a pond. Working theory was that the builders just dumped and buried any spare parts at the end of the terrace when it was finished.

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026

Completely made up, to encourage us to take more care when crossing, not walk in the road etc.

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026

Head of sixth delivered an assembly looking very sad and telling us that one of our number wasn't in today and wouldn't be in for the foreseeable future, having been hit by a car when walking to school. He obviously intended for us to think someone had died.

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 22/09/2026

I don't generally use the Google assistant so it was surprised to be woken up by Alexis saying "hey Google" just now...

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 21/09/2026

I'll be honest... I loved the puppet episode, having expected to hate it ever since it was trailered. I like the high jinks but I wonder if the balance has been a little off this season, something serious in between the silliness might have just evened it out a little?

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Nicola Miller @nicmiller.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Come listen to me interview @meemalee.bsky.social and Tim Anderson in what promises to be a delicious conversation about the ever-evolving relationship between author & reader and the responsibilities, challenges and pleasures inherent in writing about food. www.burylitfest.co.uk/product-page...

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 20/09/2026

I'm into folk music so I have seen a *lot* of man-with-guitar acts and honestly most of them are just as good. I don't see why he specifically became a massive star out of all of them. As another reply has noted, KT Tunstall does the technical bit much better (I think she has better tunes, too).

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 19/09/2026

Oh my god. A chance to see Ghostwatch and on the big screen. Elder millennials, get ready to panic! lewesdepot.org/halloween

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Depot

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026

A huge career but she's always Carolyn in Cabin Pressure to me - an actor who's brought me many laughs and many hours of pleasure. Go well. BBC News - Tenko and Coronation Street actress Stephanie Cole dies aged 84 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Stephanie Cole: Coronation Street and Doc Martin actress dies aged 84

She was best known for playing the character Dr Beatrice Mason in the 1980s BBC wartime TV drama

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026

I worry about sounding a bit tinfoil hat when I say this but it's completely true, misinformation is the key. Had a similar conversation with a colleague recently and he just ran through all the tropes (batteries wear out after a couple of years, there's no charging infrastructure)...

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 16/09/2026

I've always wanted to do this and never dared!

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Crime Girl @crimegirl.co.uk · 16/09/2026

I spent 8 years living in a village in the middle of nowhere not far from an immigration detention centre. On one evening I was locking up the pub (for clarity I worked there I hadn’t just broken into it) Two men appeared from the pub car park shadows. They were walking slowly towards me

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 15/09/2026

(Can't believe I'm the first reply saying this) Hove, ACTUALLY.

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 13/09/2026

Oh, of course. But it's years out from actually getting made, if it ever is made. Lots can and will happen in that time.

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 13/09/2026

I've learned to completely ignore this sort of speculation and just judge the new thing on its own merits when it comes out. I'm going to sound like an old fart here but it's one of the downsides of the internet - it's cheap and easy to publish crap like this.

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 13/09/2026

I've *just* noticed what the berths in Lower Decks are modelled on.

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