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Interception! Ta Vikings!

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Word of the Day is ‘theic’ (19th century), defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as ‘one given to immoderate tea-drinking; a tea drunkard’.


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Worrying GFS chart for Monday. Looks like large swathes of Wales and England will get a good six inches. Maybe even more.

theiaincameron's tweet image. Worrying GFS chart for Monday. Looks like large swathes of Wales and England will get a good six inches. Maybe even more.

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World's first autonomous delivery of a car! This Tesla drove itself from Gigafactory Texas to its new owner's home ~30min away — crossing parking lots, highways & the city to reach its new owner


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Apparently you can run Doom.... in a PDF file


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The atheist angle was a scam to avoid extradition

Read this thread. The Magdeburg attacker was a fugitive from Saudi Arabia who was wanted for rape, who reinvented himself as an atheist activist in order to secure full asylum from Germany.



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NEW RECORD: 2024 is the first year in history when wind, solar and hydropower generated more electricity than fossil fuels in the UK.

janrosenow's tweet image. NEW RECORD: 2024 is the first year in history when wind, solar and hydropower generated more electricity than fossil fuels in the UK.

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I mean, how bad could it be?

AlexSelbyB's tweet image. I mean, how bad could it be?

Why have I not heard of this before. It sounds like a great project.

We could raise Dogger Bank. Land is valuable and we could make more of it.

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Land is valuable and we could make more of it.


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Wow. This is apparently what was supposed to be a STATIC FIRE TEST today of a Tianlong-3 first stage by China's Space Pioneer. That's catastrophic, not static. Firm was targeting an orbital launch in the coming months. m.weibo.cn/detail/5050998…



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NEW ANALYSIS: Cutting the 'green crap' has added £22bn to UK energy bills since 2015 🏘️Insulation rates down 98% 🏚️>1.6m new homes built to low stds 🌄Onshore wind/solar growth crashed A decade of rollbacks has left the UK more reliant on gas imports – and exposed to high gas…

DrSimEvans's tweet image. NEW ANALYSIS: Cutting the 'green crap' has added £22bn to UK energy bills since 2015

🏘️Insulation rates down 98%
🏚️>1.6m new homes built to low stds
🌄Onshore wind/solar growth crashed

A decade of rollbacks has left the UK more reliant on gas imports – and exposed to high gas…

As he says, inevitable

This is an inevitability when you enforce supply requirements (22% of EV sales in 2022) and remove consumer pull (delay 2030 to 2035 deadline). Watch out in addition for restricting of OEM line-ups, price rises, enrichment of sales and withdrawal of some brands, as OEMs seek to…



What the hell?

People are making $70-80K per year selling restaurant reservations in NYC on the secondary market 😯

tanayj's tweet image. People are making $70-80K per year selling restaurant reservations in NYC on the secondary market 😯


Amazing!

My 'Oddjobbers' poster for @DiceCrooked God bless spooky street!

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God bless spooky street!


This is depressingly predictable

🚨The strange tale of British luxury cars & Russian sanctions🚨 🧵A thread on some v striking charts which raise some disturbing questions abt the car industry. Let's start at the start. Wealthy Russians love high-end British cars. Don't just take it from me. Take it from her 👇



This is just great. The one with the English dub restored is probably the best.

The other video of the original Star Wars trilogy in Chile has been popular. They wanted to avoid commercials, so they included them in the movie. I went searching for more videos where they stitched the beer commercials into the movie. Here is one from Return of the Jedi. 🔊



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Horse joined the 1997 Critérium International race in the South of France.


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All the biomass of Earth, in one graphic [✏️ Mark Belan]

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[✏️ Mark Belan]

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