Dua Lipa opens library for banned and censored books in Portugal

https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/1212634

Last week's heat dome pushed power grids to the brink.

Instead of adding to the strain, 230 electric school buses in fully deployed vehicle-to-grid projects fed 8 MWh back to utilities at peak demand.

That is enough to power roughly 1,600 US homes for four hours.

Critics who warned EVs would overwhelm the grid got the opposite result.

Full story https://electrek.co/the-grid-was-melting-down-in-last-weeks-heat-until-evs-came-to-the-rescue/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

It’s just a pride flag on a lamppost isn’t it? Well, not quite….

A week or two I posted that Calderdale Council had recently been won by Reform (hard right) and one of the first things they did was to declare that only the Union Jack and St George’s Cross flags could be hung from council property. That declaration prompted some degree of guerilla Pride flagging with them mysteriously appearing on lampposts around both the Town Hall and Shibden Hall (home of that rather famous Lesbian - Ann Lister).

Anyway, those got removed but not long afterwards 30 of these appeared in various locations around Calderdale. The local council were very quick to acknowledge receipt of complaints, declare that they would immediately be removed as they were illegally erected and steps would be taken to identify the folks putting them up and prosecute them for repayment of the costs for removing the flags. Unfortunately….

what they failed to check before getting all high and mighty was that all the flags have been erected on council approved advertising sites (in this case - designated lampposts) and by the council appointed firm for managing them. In turns out a local councillor set up a fundraiser and got enough money to get the flags made and hire the sites and relevant contractors.

As it stands at the moment, the council have no legal basis for their removal and because they were so high and mighty and publicly outraged when they thought it was guerilla flagging they’ve been exposed as having double standards for failing to have any other illegally erected flags immediately removed from their property.

I’m sure this is just the opening salvo in this particular battle but at the moment it’s LGBTQIA+ 1, hard right council that doesn’t know their own rules 0.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg542763pko

I wonder what the uptake is on BBC Sports 'pay your license fee' QR code is.

It's still such a bargain for all the channels, radio, drama, web and of course @BBCRD

Congratulations to all my US friends on making it to the end of your epic 250 year experiment with democracy! May the subsequent imperial phase be mercifully brief and the aftermath painless.

Of all the shows we might have watched as kids, surprisingly Scooby Doo is the one that I feel prepared us best for real life:
A stoner with constant munchies talking to his dog, a pair of lesbians, and a wannabe jock discover over and over again that bad things are caused by greedy, old, white men.

RENEWABLES: They're still wildly popular with the British public, not that you'd realise from news coverage

* Only 4% are opposed

Even for wind/solar farms in your local area, opposition is very low

* 74/68% would either be happy to have a local solar/wind farm, or don't care

respect to a beer place I order from occasionally, they've just sent an emailed titled "Stock up for School Holidays"

NEWS! Nursery teacher says woke brigade 'has gone too far' after toddler identifies as a little teapot https://newsthump.com/2026/06/29/nursery-teacher-says-woke-brigade-has-gone-too-far-after-toddler-identifies-as-a-little-teapot/

This is a good thing...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd6e3ylwpjzo

Throwing some shade in a tunnel of green.
#FootpathFriday #Photography

Glass gets hot, let's "switch off" all glass. I suspect these solar panel, fitted to low pitch school roofs are full of debris in the void.

It's now a Reform led council, so they were probably too busy worrying about flags to think any harder.

https://www.ipswich.co.uk/council-switches-off-solar-panels-at-80-schools-after-ipswich-fire/

It’s too hot to even post the picture of Martin Sheen in that Saigon hotel room that perfectly represents how I feel in my own Coventry hotel room. You’ll just have to imagine it.

#hot #coventry #saigon #ApocalypseYow

For the first time on record, solar generated more electricity than coal across the entire U.S. - despite active federal policy pushing the other direction.

☀️ Good news: The UK shut off its last coal plant in 2024. China now installs more wind and solar annually than the rest of the world combined. And last month, the U.S. crossed a milestone that seemed impossible five years ago: solar beat out coal on the national grid, for the first time in history.

🌡️ Not-so-good news: A super El Niño is set to supercharge heatwaves, droughts, and floods in the coming year. These in turn impact everything from coral bleaching risks to food price spikes worldwide.

🌈 What you can do: Find the warming stripes for your city at Show Your Stripes, share them, and use them to start one conversation. Those conversations matter more than you think!

https://www.talkingclimate.ca/p/the-great-solar-coal-flip

Today's ephemeris;-
Sunrise - Sunset: 04:16 - 22:30
Day length 18 hrs 13 mins
0 mins 25 secs less than yesterday

Pic taken now, from the kitchen window. At this time of the years, it's hard to believe that in six months time, it will have been dark for 6 hours already.

All the Reform nutters opposed expanding the ULEZ because they don’t like change. It’s helped cut deaths from air pollution by 40%.

Deaths linked to London air po...

Is it hot in the UK? You barely mentioned it.

Seems British PM tenures could be effectively stated using a unit derived from lowest common denominator, so recent tenures are :

Keir Starmer: 15 Trusses
Rishi Sunak: 13 Trusses
Liz Truss: 1 Truss
Boris Johnson: 23 Tr
Theresa May: 23 Tr
David Cameron: 46 Tr
Gordon Brown: 21 Tr
Tony Blair: 76 Tr
John Major: 48 Tr

(Using @urlyman's lettuce-head data )

#UKPM #UKPol

RE: https://greennuclear.online/@collectifission/116794110229498561

Let's all go to Brittany!