NASA is keeping Voyager 2 going by tapping into backup power
https://www.npr.org/2023/04/30/1172921603/nasa-voyager-2-2026-backup-power-space #space
For this rainy Bank Holiday, I have made a website that makes all the hearing transcripts of the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry searchable:
https://postofficeinquiry.dracos.co.uk/
Hope people find it useful.
AI Generated books becoming NY Times bestsellers? Undergraduates winning a Fields Medal? Electric scooter racing!? All are possible futures predicted by https://longbets.org/predictions/
🌍 I'm starting a series called “Unfucking the Climate”, and we're going to go through everything you need to know, where to put your energy, and what bullshit we can safely ignore.
First post is up. There’s a lot to cover and I’m going to get to _all of it_.
https://philsturgeon.com/getting-started-with-climate-action/
I’ve recently learned of a different way of limiting corporate travel, and I think it’s brilliant.
Every company travel policy I’d heard of until yesterday has been a variation on the same theme:
There’s an annual a travel budget. Management may or may not have priority and there may be limitations on who can travel together, but in the end the true limit is the amount of money in the budget.
The policy I learned of yesterday is almost, but not quite, unlike the others. The budget isn’t about money. It’s about CO2 emissions. Each department gets a specific amount of CO2 emissions for travel for the year.
The implications are interesting:
Travel within Europe has become train first as a natural consequence. Intercontinental travel has been reduced by a significant amount.
It’s an absolutely amazing policy and it should be the standard corporate travel policy everywhere.
Playing a the bells in a bell tower https://youtu.be/yPC5aB_zHs0 #music #bells
Don’t forget to vote today UK folks. https://stopthetories.vote
democracy! at the verified dog friendly New Venture Theatre polling station 💜
#dogfriendly #brighton #vote #dogsatpollingstations
🏛️ 230 councils.
🪑 8,000 council seats.
👤 25,750 candidates.
✍️ 28 million voters.
🗳️ 18,400 polling places.
Polls are open 7am-10pm in today's English local elections!
Find your polling station at http://WhereDoIVote.co.uk!
Voter ID - Diamond Geezer
https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2023/05/voter-id.html
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You'll have to work out how to tactically vote in your area, obviously. https://stopthetories.vote can help with that.
Voting with pencils and the "nothing to stop your vote being altered using an eraser" conspiracy theory.
Why pencils?
1. You can leave them in a box for a year and it won't dry out.
2. When you fold the ballot, wet ink can transfer and make a second "x" (invalidating your vote).
To change your vote, someone would need to open the ballot box, which is why candidates are allowed to add seals to the box and inspect them before counting.
#LocalElections2023 is on Thursday! Find your local candidates: https://whocanivotefor.co.uk/ #ukpol
This bank holiday, make a plan to #vote 🗳️
Local elections are happening in 230 English councils on 4 May (this Thursday!).
Don't know where to go? Find your polling station: http://wheredoivote.co.uk/
Want to know your options? View your ballot paper: https://whocanivotefor.co.uk/
A bank holiday reminder that you can watch old episodes of Time Team entirely legitimately on YouTube #history #histodons https://www.youtube.com/TimeTeamClassics
May 2023 calendar http://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2023/04/may-2023.html
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