Notices by Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖ (christineburns@mastodon.green)

Britain is getting SO close to generating electricity without fossil fuels today -- in fact gas went down to just 1.6 GW this morning whilst I was enjoying an 80 mile round trip to Chester on electricity costing MINUS 50 pence. I suspect wind is getting constrained (paid to turn down its output) as the system managers aren't yet ready to let the system run on just wind, solar, hydro and a bit of nuclear. https://grid.iamkate.com

Y'know I'm no investment wizard but I can't help suspecting someone is making a helluva lot of profit this week if they bailed on Tesla stock before the big fall and bought back in at the low point, which was reached mere days ago. As data continues to show plummeting sales of the cars themselves, the big investors in the overvalued company seem to be defying gravity to drive the price back up. A reminder that stock markets are gambling dens based on 'feels' and chicanery, not real value.

@KimSJ I'm not sure. Normal speculation would occur when people judge the stock has gone as low as it ought and that would push the price up. But, at some time, reality has got to bite. I see the other tech stocks have been rebounding too -- Apple, Amazon, etc..

@KimSJ It had not escaped my notice that a number of vapourware stories had 'leaked' out about the taxi, new battery tech, etc.. But I'm not sure people are falling for that schtick in the same numbers they used to.

If you're involved in activism it's probably a good idea to read up on how to organise a phone tree and build one as a contingency measure.

The expression "Have you no decency?" Has important history in American politics. It was that exact question which began the end of McCarthyism. And its long overdue that a congressman stood up for Sarah McBride. Great to see this panel of women calling it right.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=-_o9YhgG548&si=yq6AgsjYTxwlZlwc

Trump is doubling down on stupid. He's increasing tariffs on Canada again because they increased the price of electricity. So the strategy for the whole world is now clear: everyone should increase the price of everything to the US. Trump will then increase those prices even further with tariffs. How to bring the US to its knees.

It's worth saying that, even with the ongoing precipitous fall in its stock value, Tesla is so far no lower than its median value over the last five years. However, if the share price loses another 100 points or so then that would wipe out every gain made since the company was a precarious junk stock.

@GreenSkyOverMe There was certainly a lot of hope around after 1990.

A lot of news outlets exhibit this pathology. For most of the last 9-10 years they have used trans people as culture war clickbait, constantly problematising our existence. Then, when it suits, they pivot to arguing that we are too small in number to matter policy wise. None of it is genuine. It's all exploitation of people deemed inhuman so that it doesn't matter.

It strikes me as an academic question whether Trump is or isn't formally a Russian asset. The important thing is that he ACTS as though he is. And, as Trump's actions increasingly benefit America's long term foe, you've got to ask when the country will wake up and defend what's left from the recently installed enemy within. Right now Putin is winning the eighty year conflict.

Any fool can achieve 'peace' by surrendering.

88% of the electricity in the South West of England is currently coming from solar! Source : NESO app.

Annelise Dodds has quit her job as International Development Minister over the foreign aid cuts.

@scaramanga @dominic Musk ought to be worried about some of the people who've invested in his schemes. I mean, you've got the type who cut people into pieces for far less. Not to mention the kind who obligingly open windows.

@StillIRise1963 Is that the Peter Navarro heavily implicated in the Jan 6th plot? The one who incriminated himself live on TV? The one who did time for contempt of congress? That one?

The "slowly at first" slide was the last 35-40 years in the US -- possibly even longer. But, as the fascists now feel empowered to run around in public and drag away dissenters at their rallies, the "all at once" stage is definitely now in full swing. Don't make the mistake of relying on the old order -- liberal laws and politicians and the fourth estate -- to put the genie back in the bottle. There will be no term limits. There will be no free elections. No 'checks and balances'.

Honestly EU, it's long overdue for states to block and thus shut down X. The US is actively interfering in elections in plain sight. Shut the offending platform(s) down whilst you still can.

Well this is bizarre. 134 pages of unauthorised biography for thirty dollars and a blurb that smells like it comes from a large language model that ingested a wikipedia page and got carried away. I can only suggest treading with caution.

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