nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqwaxkzn4ulrap2d5qtluxhkl8wcl5lye7y9sg79958s43j9hnsspsuvhvqe does it work with USB 4g dongles in a raspberry pi, do you think? This could be a really useful product for me.

All those county and western songs where the cheating bloke gets murdered? I like to think that, in each case, his last words were, “calm down, dear”.

nostr:npub1asxvrsl2lleped5awnswnax6mj6y0u4r7mfn2xmr6kz4gqpsa2dq8r0zge ADX Florence already exists

Discussing the British Press, and I'm reminded of the time when I had a moderate amount of celebrity in the UK LGBT community, and the press tried to do a hit piece on me.

Now here's the thing. There's a cheat code, and I'm going to explain what it is:

They will contact you for comment.

If you say nothing, they will publish the piece and say you were offered the chance to comment.

If you tell them to fuck off, they will publish the price and say your response was foul and unprintable.

I did neither of these things. I told them that this piece wasn't journalism. It was ridiculous tittle tattle and represented everything that was wrong with a failing and dying industry more obsessed with clickbait than proper reporting. I asked them if they didn't have proper news to report, and said that they should be ashamed of themselves.

They're basically screwed at that point. "We contacted Ms Brown for comment and she said that this was ridiculous tittle tattle and that the reporter should be ashamed of herself."

They're not gonna say that.

I'm struck by something one of my history teachers once said about medieval castles. They weren't meant to be impregnable. They were meant to be annoying enough that an invading army would decide to investigate other priorities instead.

The piece never ran.

If you're a trans person in the crosshairs of the British press, make yourself an annoying target. They're on a deadline, and if you make them conclude that life is too short, they will leave you the fuck alone.

Very little help

nostr:npub1a9prjnlj8ssse37pq4vrwg443rugfck8erpdfp4er90khkgh2h5scj5t5x This is why immortality would suck

nostr:npub1yacj26q9parem5fqf2s3ym9xkxghkk0w2jc63aglsnl2fmyhshnszgla7e nostr:npub163w0x42e9v5halescch6sqe3k4lzmjlghsqpejapgfnmeucjnekshmlq6z nostr:npub1lllv638gr9ax6uaf3n3hy4aqp5e7pvrmz6g68x6rckuh7urx75dq5k5409 There are two main downsides to them:

1 - as of now, they're quite expensive.

2 - because they're a single unit, the fan that drives the air over the heat exchanger is part of the unit. Therefore, it makes a noise.

It's noisier than a gas boiler, but not massively so. If you have it in an airing cupboard then you can ignore it. If it's out in the open, it may be annoying.

nostr:npub1yacj26q9parem5fqf2s3ym9xkxghkk0w2jc63aglsnl2fmyhshnszgla7e nostr:npub163w0x42e9v5halescch6sqe3k4lzmjlghsqpejapgfnmeucjnekshmlq6z nostr:npub1lllv638gr9ax6uaf3n3hy4aqp5e7pvrmz6g68x6rckuh7urx75dq5k5409 No, it doesn't. The one I linked (which is the one I own) is a single unit. It replaces your hot water cylinder. That is literally all there is.

It has a pipe coming in for ambient air and a pipe going out for cold air from the heat exchanger. They just need to vent to the outside. Can do that via an existing chimney or flue.

There is no external fitting of any kind. It's a single unit.

nostr:npub1yacj26q9parem5fqf2s3ym9xkxghkk0w2jc63aglsnl2fmyhshnszgla7e nostr:npub163w0x42e9v5halescch6sqe3k4lzmjlghsqpejapgfnmeucjnekshmlq6z nostr:npub1lllv638gr9ax6uaf3n3hy4aqp5e7pvrmz6g68x6rckuh7urx75dq5k5409 Not true. You can now get integrated heat pump hot water cylinders. I have one. All they need is two holes to the outside. See: www.dimplex.co.uk/product/200l…

nostr:npub1yacj26q9parem5fqf2s3ym9xkxghkk0w2jc63aglsnl2fmyhshnszgla7e nostr:npub1mczychxqy005cu0uur4jp4jjzrjldnx5q22se0z09jmn7s8kh0pqjjdr5f The nice thing about container ships is that once you've finished loading them, you have a massive flat area onto which you could unroll solar panels.

You can also have container batteries.

How much battery storage you'd need on board and whether covering the top of the cargo with rolled out solar PV would provide enough to keep it going is not something I've done the maths on, but add wind propulsion and solar power with much of the existing fuel and ballast replaced with batteries together, and it's possibly feasible.

nostr:npub1yacj26q9parem5fqf2s3ym9xkxghkk0w2jc63aglsnl2fmyhshnszgla7e nostr:npub1rgnydw2dqz9zzexlq0f5u9g7erx039ausc2wwu2mswszmvkt9xnswsf2pp in my experience of facing Labour in elections, they will prefer to deliberately help get Tories elected if that prevents a third party getting the seat. It’s incredibly frustrating.

They like their cosy little duopoly and will defend it at pretty much any cost.

Ken did a transphobia apologism on Bsky. Ken doubled down. Ken then complained about it on fedi and presumably thought his day wasn’t going to get any worse.

Then fedora-in-human-form, Jeff, defended him in public.

The Twitter TERFs are having a meltdown. I have no inside info, but if it’s what I think it is, something excellent is about to happen. Get the popcorn ready.

The world is going to burn from climate change while Nazis run amok trashing what's left of our dying civilisation not because there's nothing we can do to stop it, but because the people who are in a position to be able to stop either are all too fucking thick to do so.

I need a fucking drink.

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