HeartyBeast

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Apple News+ subscription growth blows away major media sites in c/apple_enthusiast
[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Pretty sure AP is funded by newspapers

Trump supporters call for riots and violent retribution after verdict in c/news
[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

If the police lose, you really lose

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is reportedly worried about an OpenAI deal with Apple in c/apple_enthusiast
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

If your organisation is big enough to have a press office of more than 4 or 5 people, you will usually have an on-call rota.

Trump guilty on all 34 counts in hush money trial, in historic first for a former U.S. president in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Sentencing July 11 - delayed because the original date would clash with a court appearance in Florida

Orcas are still smashing up boats – and we've finally worked out why in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Let’s go clubbing

Rapid rollout of clean technologies makes energy cheaper, not more costly in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Certainly, if you on an ‘agile’ tariff in the UK it can be a lot cheaper. There were times a few month ago when it was particularly windy - they were paying me to use electricity/charge my solar batteries from the grid.

Kent hosts hundreds of wild beavers, survey finds in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

For me the headline was drowned out by the sound of Beavis and Butthead laughter

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Plans dropped to replace community school with CofE school (humanists.uk)
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Plans to close the only school of no religious character in its area and replace it with a Church of England school have been scrapped. The move has been welcomed by Humanists UK, who has been working with teachers, parents, and the National Education Union (NEU) to stop the proposal

Farming News - DEFA: Public to be vigilant against oak processionary moth in c/[email protected]
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Revealed: how touts drew up secret plans to sabotage Labour’s ticket reforms (www.theguardian.com)
 

Exclusive: Footage shows private event, attended by representatives of firms including StubHub and Viagogo, where £73,000 was raised for political lobbying

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Revealed: how touts drew up secret plans to sabotage Labour’s ticket reforms (www.theguardian.com)
 

Exclusive: Footage shows private event, attended by representatives of firms including StubHub and Viagogo, where £73,000 was raised for political lobbying

[Kind of weekly thread] Men over 30, how is your week going? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Not bad. Did the Ride London 60 on Sunday, pondering whether I should try the 100 next year. It went ok

Virginia went all in on solar. Then its powerful utility changed the rules. After Dominion Energy required expensive upgrades, many solar projects were put on hold. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

It can work where there is real competition. For natural monopolies, not so much.

Usually it happens because the state wants to sell off family silver to make some short term cash :(

Conservatives plan to bring back mandatory National Service in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So, if I gave you some volunteering contacts as links, would you commit to starting next month for me? Or would it take a threat of fines/court action?

Conservatives plan to bring back mandatory National Service in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Would you be up for being compelled to give up a day a month to do good works? Not volunteering, mind, compelled.

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Extinct ‘mountain jewel’ plant returned to wild - in secret location (www.bbc.co.uk)
 

A plant picked for its beautiful flowers then wiped out in the UK mainland makes a dramatic return.

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Extinct ‘mountain jewel’ plant returned to wild - in secret location (www.bbc.co.uk)
 

A plant picked for its beautiful flowers then wiped out in the UK mainland makes a dramatic return.

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For first time in a billion years, two lifeforms have merged into one (www.independent.co.uk)
 

‘The first time it happened, it gave rise to all complex life,’ scientists say

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Cern: Scientists search for mysterious ghost particles (www.bbc.co.uk)
 

Physicists believe a new experiment could prove their existence and answer fundamental questions about our Universe.

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If kbin is going down for planned maintenance can the generic ‘ Over the next few days, there will be a change in server infrastructure…’ text at least be dated (kbin.social)
 

It’s impossible to tell if there is an actual server upgrade, or they have just gone down, displaying the message from last time.

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Vice Media stops publishing on website and cuts hundreds of jobs (www.bbc.co.uk)
 

Vice Media Group filed for bankruptcy in May and was bought by Fortress Investment Group.

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Inside the Proton, the ‘Most Complicated Thing’ Imaginable (www.quantamagazine.org)
 

The positively charged particle at the heart of the atom is an object of unspeakable complexity, one that changes its appearance depending on how it is probed. We’ve attempted to connect the proton’s many faces to form the most complete picture yet.

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So blimey - what hppened there? (kbin.social)
 

Kbin seemed tio take a nice long sleep there. I almost assumed it had fallen over for good. I Really hate the generic, undated 'over the next few days we are working on servers' mesesage.

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Jury awards climate scientist Michael Mann $1 million in defamation lawsuit (apnews.com)
 

A jury said Mann was defamed 12 years ago when a pair of conservative writers compared his depictions of global warming to a convicted child molester.

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