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Energy. euanmearns.com/eroei-for-begi…

@daisyldixon If it's any consolation, that Seven Pillars of Wisdom chap lost his first manuscript on a train and had to re-write the whole damn lot ... And then there's poor Miss Prism ...

crying and throwing up, my Mac just seemingly deleted my draft paper which had all my thoughts in that I’ve been working on for weeks. This is the error message. I went to ‘save’ it and Word just said the file was missing. The file is not in my trash. Please someone help me recover it 😭

Just imagine what he could have done if they'd won their referendum ... Is he related to Herr Trumpf? telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/…

@FUDdaily Somewhere in the garage, under a thick layer of oil and dust there lies a casket containing several hundred dried out Humbrol tinlets of various greens, greys and browns, flesh tones, duck egg blues and such, along with much abused sable brushes etc It deserves a proper funeral.

These filth pedlars are the reason I can't afford to drink. A £16 starter set led to aircraft models the size of small farm livestock, and spending £9 on small after market metal parts because they're marginally more accurate than the parts they supply. Mexican cartels have nothing on these guys.

@MartinKnight_ Still called Peking Duck here. Could it be because it's a filthy capitalist lickspittle dish? (And Bombay Duck is still called Bombay Duck, despite not being duck...)

Why is Peking Duck not now called Beijing Duck?

@luthersvolvo (Also - that was my least favourite 1970's yomp. By a very long way.) [insert your favourite anti-NCO abuse here.]

A rare glimpse of an abandoned haggis farm on Rannoch Moor, the now flooded holding pens visible from above The farm closed in the late 1800’s due to criticism around intensive breeding methods, and the owners instead switched to mining tartan, although that venture didnt last.

It's very easy. Just take more (preferably fizzy) water with it. Your several pints will soon be down to two, then one ... and you'll cope.

@luthersvolvo There was a brief revival of tartan paint in the 1970s though, and there were several attempts to re-open those mines ...

@ChrisMartzWX The essential problem is which gets us first - climate change or societal collapse (ala LTG). My money's on societal collapse, as we appear to be incapable of adapting to our new reality, let alone recognising it.

@xAviation Ilyushin Il-62MGr

The lowest and latest Takeoff you’ll ever see! 📹: msaviator22

@zatsugakuinu I scanned this with the QR thing on the phone. It says "Big Mac & Fries $5.99" ...

・ライフゲームに神は存在するか？ ライフゲームの考案者コンウェイは、次の事を考えました。「ライフゲームに神はいるのだろうか。即ち始まりの瞬間からそこに存在し、何からも生まれず、自分自身だけを祖先に持つ存在。」 これが50年間未解決だった、「唯一の父問題」です。（続く）

@MagnaAulae @PaulSuttonKing It was that Irene who wrote it wasn't it ...

@PaulSuttonKing These people seem to be something to do with the Voynich Manuscript which puts them firmly in international conspiracy theory territory. secretsofthecipher.com/gidea-hall-con… (scroll down)

It’s a bank holiday mystery #postcard Monday so how about some photos for a change. Rescued from an unwanted box at Woking. Mary Harriet Hollebone and relatives, who were they and where were they from? Are they a bit of fun, there’s some smirking and no cropping of the images.

@GeorgeCochrane1 🎶That's amorayyy ...🎶 said Zebedee ...

🎶 When you have nausea, heartburn, indigestion, upset stomach... diarrhea! 🎶

@SandyofCthulhu The Maya also weren't necessarily adverse to eating each other ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannibali…

Herbivores, on the other hand, have powerful GI tracts. They can eat meat trivially. The reason they don’t isn’t because meat isn’t nutritious. It’s because they’re not physically suited for it. I’ve seen a cow eat a chicken, a deer eat a frog, and a rabbit eat a nest of eggs. But the cow had to corner the chicken against the fence to catch it. Hippos have been seen eating hippo carcasses! Most humans throughout history mostly ate plants. But they ate all the meat they could- it was just in short supply. The ancient Mayans probably ate 90% plants (corn, beans, squash) but they also ate dogs, turkeys, fish, and muscovy ducks. 2/2

Would a hippo eat a man? The first time I posted the image below, I got told I was a liar because "herbivores don't eat meat." Not everyone knows that I did, in fact, train as a zoologist - 6 years in college & grad school. So let me explain. Plants are WAY harder to digest than meat. Herbivores have one of three choices. They can have huge complex guts (hippos, elephants). They can eat a LOT of food, gleaning a bit of nutrition with their inefficient digestion (horses, pandas). Or they can double-process by either recycling their own poop (rabbits, koalas, termites) or chewing a cud (cows, deer). Carnivores have it way easier. So do omnivores like humans. Yes we eat plants, but only the easiest, most digestible plants. You'd never catch us eating pine needles or grass. Just the less fibrous roots, fruit, nuts, and such. Our digestive tract is a lot more like a carnivore's. Look at a cat's skinny build compared to a guinea pig's fat middle - the herbivore needs far more digestive tract. There’s a reason so many herbivores are shaped like potatoes. 1/2

@ChrisMartzWX Sadly, this afflicts even those of us who drive on the correct side of the road (which is of course THE LEFT) ...

Nothing grinds my gears more than slow drivers camping in the right lane (as they should) who then decide to accelerate as I’m passing them on the left (as one is supposed to do). This happened twice today. I don’t know if people do this intentionally because they suck and want to irritate me, or if they suffer from some form of serious mental retardation that prevents them from learning how to use cruise control.

@GeorgeCochrane1 All orderly and calm thanks to the presence of the Herald ...

Minx, Hillman Minx (any)... Reserved.

@activia513 @PeterDClack Doesn't matter. What matters is the relative COST to the energy obtained. euanmearns.com/eroei-for-begi…

@ClappDescendant @PeterDClack You have no idea how much there is...none of us do. We keep finding more

The IPCC has now explicitly acknowledged that their own forecast of a 5°C future driven by human emissions is no longer credible. It is the baseline trajectory of our world 'no longer'. This dire forecast was quietly dropped because human energy systems changed faster than the old models thought possible. Over the last two decades, trillions of dollars in capital allocation, global treaties, national regulatory frameworks, and corporate ESG metrics have been anchored to a one-dimensional climate model. That model says bluntly: we are headed down a species-ending climate black hole. But as technical experts increasingly point out, the extreme catastrophe scenarios used to justify these sweeping economic changes are actually highly implausible. They create a massive belief gap and an erosion of authority. Why should anyone believe the sweeping mandates just because 'they say so?' The picture remains muddy because the IPCC writes by massive consensus, which blurs their language. It is indecipherable to almost everyone. They won't use a blunt word like 'implausible' in their public summaries because they want to guard against unexpected Earth-system feedbacks—meaning us. To maintain political and financial momentum, it is much easier for the IPCC to quietly reclassify its worst-case scenario as a low-likelihood 'stress test' in the fine print. Yet it's keeping the public-facing rhetoric largely unchanged. They stopped short of calling these futures completely impossible. Instead, they changed how those scenarios are meant to be used, moving them from 'business-as-usual' to extreme high-risk outliers. The scientific community is moving to confirm this lack of clarity. Climate scientists designing the next generation of models for the upcoming IPCC Seventh Assessment Report have openly discussed dropping the old extreme scenarios because real-world trends have made them indefensible. Instead, the technical focus is shifting to a new baseline that peaks much lower, around 3°C to 3.5°C, even under a hypothetical rollback of clean energy policies. The public narrative still lags behind this technical realisation—the institutional river keeps coasting on the momentum of the older, hotter models. In other words, they refuse to openly admit it. When a policy goal transforms from a flexible, data-driven scientific inquiry into a rigid moral directive, it stops reacting to new evidence. If the 1.5°C or 2°C targets are treated as absolute baselines, then admitting they were calculated using flawed or overly pessimistic assumptions threatens the entire administrative structure built to police them. It creates a strange paradox: the data says the extreme 5°C future is off the table because global energy dynamics changed. Yet the bureaucracy insists the crisis is more urgent than ever, and the mechanisms must remain in place. Nothing is clearly stated anymore. When the language of science is adopted by a centralised bureaucracy, clarity is the first casualty. It was replaced by consensus-driven wording designed to protect the institution's mandate rather than reflect shifting real-world data. The original assumptions diverged significantly from reality. Specifically, those old 5°C models wrongly assumed there would be a five-fold expansion of coal use through 2100, effectively replacing other forms of energy with coal. Real-world exponential growth in solar, wind and electric vehicle adoption, alongside tightening global policies, made that massive pivot back to coal an impossibility. The bureaucracy simply exploits fear of natural feedbacks to justify keeping a human-emission model they already know is broken.

On this day in 1977, the documentary "Star Wars" was released in the US ...

@HappyMotorhead Torx is your friend.

Did you know the Phillips head screwdriver was literally designed to fail? 🛠️🪛 ​In the 1930s, "camming out" (that annoying slip that strips your screw) was a feature to prevent over-tightening on factory lines. Now it just prevents us from staying sane during IKEA builds. 🫠 ​#ToolboxHistory #DIYFail #DidYouKnow #PhillipsVsRobertson #ScrewDriverWars

@Buteo6Buteo @GeorgeCochrane1 Yes. Then they were forced to make it with rubber bumpers by the Americans, which made it even uglier ...

@GeorgeCochrane1 Is that an MGB? Asking for a friend in Abingdon.

"1939 Atco Trainer. the holy grail of classic car." Verdict - The f**k!? ebay.co.uk/itm/3664314163…

@GeorgeCochrane1 98cc - 1 HP ... hutchinsonscott.co.uk/auction/lot/65…