Andy Chapman
@andychapman.bsky.social
International gadabout based in the UK.
Using technology and sarcasm to make life better, easier and more fun.
Born at 322ppm.
Using technology and sarcasm to make life better, easier and more fun.
Born at 322ppm.
I wonder how many other topics this misperception applies to
www.businessgreen.com/news/4523240...
www.businessgreen.com/news/4523240...
Poll: Majority of Brits support renewables, but think their neighbours disagree with them
Major poll reveals 70 per cent of Brits would back a new solar farm in their local area, but only 27 per cent think that other people would support such a development
www.businessgreen.com
December 29, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I wonder how many other topics this misperception applies to
www.businessgreen.com/news/4523240...
www.businessgreen.com/news/4523240...
Colbert's Canceled Christmas: The Last Noel
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
www.youtube.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:18 AM
I did a long drive last night. The rain and spray was so bad that the fast lane on the M4 was driving at 50mph. When the people who usually tailgate and flash their lights at 80mph slow down, you know it is bad.
December 19, 2025 at 10:12 AM
I did a long drive last night. The rain and spray was so bad that the fast lane on the M4 was driving at 50mph. When the people who usually tailgate and flash their lights at 80mph slow down, you know it is bad.
As people are being arrested in the UK (and possibly martyred soon) for saying “Globalise the intifada” because some people claim to feel nervous, I would like to put it out there that I find the phrase “Vote Reform” makes me feel deeply unsafe and threatened… and I am not even brown or female.
December 19, 2025 at 10:09 AM
As people are being arrested in the UK (and possibly martyred soon) for saying “Globalise the intifada” because some people claim to feel nervous, I would like to put it out there that I find the phrase “Vote Reform” makes me feel deeply unsafe and threatened… and I am not even brown or female.
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My son Rory died suddenly in August. He was a wonderful boy: outward looking, funny & kind. He used to help homeless people so a local charity have set up “Rory’s gift” in his name. He would have been 19 today, if you’d like to make an internet stranger happy please consider donating, however small.
Rory's Gift
Rory was an incredibly kind and thoughtful young man. He would very often stop to give food to local people who were experiencing homelessness.
In memory of his life, we have set up 'Rory's Gift', an...
www.justgiving.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:55 AM
My son Rory died suddenly in August. He was a wonderful boy: outward looking, funny & kind. He used to help homeless people so a local charity have set up “Rory’s gift” in his name. He would have been 19 today, if you’d like to make an internet stranger happy please consider donating, however small.
A rare bit of good news.
Not unalloyed positive, as it doesn’t measure total coal production/usage (only the stuff being shipped around the world), but an indicator of movement in the right direction.
www.reuters.com/markets/comm...
Not unalloyed positive, as it doesn’t measure total coal production/usage (only the stuff being shipped around the world), but an indicator of movement in the right direction.
www.reuters.com/markets/comm...
Global coal exports post rare decline in 2025 on China cuts
Global shipments of thermal coal - burned in power stations - have posted their first annual decline since 2020 on the back of lower coal-fired power generation in key Asian markets.
www.reuters.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:33 PM
A rare bit of good news.
Not unalloyed positive, as it doesn’t measure total coal production/usage (only the stuff being shipped around the world), but an indicator of movement in the right direction.
www.reuters.com/markets/comm...
Not unalloyed positive, as it doesn’t measure total coal production/usage (only the stuff being shipped around the world), but an indicator of movement in the right direction.
www.reuters.com/markets/comm...
I was just thinking that owning six guns seems like a huge red flag (re: Bondi Beach) but then I realised I have two air guns somewhere in my house. A little .177 target pistol I bought in my teens and an ancient air rifle I inherited from a distant relative. It is very easy to make assumptions.
December 15, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I was just thinking that owning six guns seems like a huge red flag (re: Bondi Beach) but then I realised I have two air guns somewhere in my house. A little .177 target pistol I bought in my teens and an ancient air rifle I inherited from a distant relative. It is very easy to make assumptions.
I think that the constant framing of protest against Israeli apartheid as antisemitism has really cemented into people’s minds that Jews are responsible for the genocide in Gaza. Breaking that link seems a far better thing than banning all pro-Palestinian protest.
December 15, 2025 at 8:56 AM
I think that the constant framing of protest against Israeli apartheid as antisemitism has really cemented into people’s minds that Jews are responsible for the genocide in Gaza. Breaking that link seems a far better thing than banning all pro-Palestinian protest.
I was so relieved to hear recently of another person in the world who just doesn’t get hangovers (Naomi Smith of @quietriotpod.bsky.social). i drank so much during my second year at university trying to figure out what people were on about.
December 13, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I was so relieved to hear recently of another person in the world who just doesn’t get hangovers (Naomi Smith of @quietriotpod.bsky.social). i drank so much during my second year at university trying to figure out what people were on about.
Absolutely horrendous behaviour by the BBC. Auntie finishing its metamorphosis into Anti
Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
December 13, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Absolutely horrendous behaviour by the BBC. Auntie finishing its metamorphosis into Anti
I am finding the airbus ”recall” inter in all sorts of ways. The terrible explanation of the problem, and solution. The manufactured drama. The lack of risk analysis. Lots of press release based reporting rather than actual explanation or understanding.
November 29, 2025 at 11:28 AM
I am finding the airbus ”recall” inter in all sorts of ways. The terrible explanation of the problem, and solution. The manufactured drama. The lack of risk analysis. Lots of press release based reporting rather than actual explanation or understanding.
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🚨WOW! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 47,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 50,000 tonight. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 25, 2025 at 7:51 PM
🚨WOW! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 47,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 50,000 tonight. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
I am enjoying The Folded Sky (White Space #3) by @matociquala.bsky.social at the moment. An interesting accepted future technology (keeps being mentioned but doesn’t really change the plot) is “tuning” which is AI hormone manipulation to control aberrant behaviours in humans.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 AM
I am enjoying The Folded Sky (White Space #3) by @matociquala.bsky.social at the moment. An interesting accepted future technology (keeps being mentioned but doesn’t really change the plot) is “tuning” which is AI hormone manipulation to control aberrant behaviours in humans.
Just watching #bbclaurak. I am stuck between wondering whether successive governments make non-white people home secretary just to avoid the most obvious attack line when they give succour to racists, and whether Chris Philp could be more. disingenuous if he tried.
November 16, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Just watching #bbclaurak. I am stuck between wondering whether successive governments make non-white people home secretary just to avoid the most obvious attack line when they give succour to racists, and whether Chris Philp could be more. disingenuous if he tried.
Misusing “Flatlining” is my current pet hate. It implies dead (the ECG is a flat line). If GOP hasn’t grown it isn’t dead. Yes, the line is flat but that isn’t what the word implies.
“Flirting with death” implies taking mad risks. It doesn’t actually mean looking winsomely at a skeleton in a cape.
“Flirting with death” implies taking mad risks. It doesn’t actually mean looking winsomely at a skeleton in a cape.
November 13, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Misusing “Flatlining” is my current pet hate. It implies dead (the ECG is a flat line). If GOP hasn’t grown it isn’t dead. Yes, the line is flat but that isn’t what the word implies.
“Flirting with death” implies taking mad risks. It doesn’t actually mean looking winsomely at a skeleton in a cape.
“Flirting with death” implies taking mad risks. It doesn’t actually mean looking winsomely at a skeleton in a cape.
This seems applicable to the US and UK this week.
November 11, 2025 at 9:18 PM
This seems applicable to the US and UK this week.
Hi @philsturgeon.com what are your thoughts on bracken clearance? I cleared a few metres of my Devon hedgerow while planting tree saplings in it and got a rather lovely display of wildflowers coming through at head height (snowdrops and later bluebells). I was thinking about trying to clear the rest
November 9, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Hi @philsturgeon.com what are your thoughts on bracken clearance? I cleared a few metres of my Devon hedgerow while planting tree saplings in it and got a rather lovely display of wildflowers coming through at head height (snowdrops and later bluebells). I was thinking about trying to clear the rest
A good, fact dense consideration of why carbon capture is basically a way of giving subsidies and tax deductions to the fossil fuel industry while doing sweet Fanny Adams to reduce climate change.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcNh...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcNh...
The INSANE Carbon Capture SCAM continues.
YouTube video by Just Have a Think
www.youtube.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:42 AM
A good, fact dense consideration of why carbon capture is basically a way of giving subsidies and tax deductions to the fossil fuel industry while doing sweet Fanny Adams to reduce climate change.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcNh...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcNh...
The only positives I can draw from the Huntingdon train attack is that we have police who didn’t just storm in and kill two more people. As a result we might actually get to find out what the reason for the attack was rather than wildly speculating.
November 2, 2025 at 3:46 PM
The only positives I can draw from the Huntingdon train attack is that we have police who didn’t just storm in and kill two more people. As a result we might actually get to find out what the reason for the attack was rather than wildly speculating.
Always worth nudging an Express poll towards reality
October 21, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Always worth nudging an Express poll towards reality
They lost Wonder Woman.
Captain America is clearly anti-Trump
I think they just have Red Skull left.
www.gazetadopovo.com.br/caderno-g/ve...
Captain America is clearly anti-Trump
I think they just have Red Skull left.
www.gazetadopovo.com.br/caderno-g/ve...
October 19, 2025 at 9:25 PM
They lost Wonder Woman.
Captain America is clearly anti-Trump
I think they just have Red Skull left.
www.gazetadopovo.com.br/caderno-g/ve...
Captain America is clearly anti-Trump
I think they just have Red Skull left.
www.gazetadopovo.com.br/caderno-g/ve...
Well this is the dream outcome for the Greens. The people who don’t watch because of Laura Kuensberg and the people who might vote Green have a massive overlap. Victoria Derbyshire presenting might get them past 150,000 members.
Am standing in for Laura K tomorrow… I’ll be talking to
Energy & Net Zero Sec Ed Miliband
Green leader of Eng & Wales Zack Polanski
Shadow Energy Sec Clare Coutinho
Toby Jones
David Harewood
Former head of NATO Jens Stoltenberg
Emily Maitlis
Adil Ray
See you at 9am, BBC 1
Energy & Net Zero Sec Ed Miliband
Green leader of Eng & Wales Zack Polanski
Shadow Energy Sec Clare Coutinho
Toby Jones
David Harewood
Former head of NATO Jens Stoltenberg
Emily Maitlis
Adil Ray
See you at 9am, BBC 1
October 18, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Well this is the dream outcome for the Greens. The people who don’t watch because of Laura Kuensberg and the people who might vote Green have a massive overlap. Victoria Derbyshire presenting might get them past 150,000 members.
Weird opinion : milkmen are the symptom and cause of a nice area.
If you can trust your neighbours not to nick the milk from your doorstep it’s a good area.
My parents milkman caught more burglars than the local police because he was around at 4am.
If you can trust your neighbours not to nick the milk from your doorstep it’s a good area.
My parents milkman caught more burglars than the local police because he was around at 4am.
October 18, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Weird opinion : milkmen are the symptom and cause of a nice area.
If you can trust your neighbours not to nick the milk from your doorstep it’s a good area.
My parents milkman caught more burglars than the local police because he was around at 4am.
If you can trust your neighbours not to nick the milk from your doorstep it’s a good area.
My parents milkman caught more burglars than the local police because he was around at 4am.
Would love an original source but kudos to this.
whoever did this little bit of magnificence, take a bow
October 15, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Would love an original source but kudos to this.
This won’t cause any problems at all with bias against uneducated UK applicants (!?). I presume equality legislation means that the same standard has to apply to native speakers.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Migrants will need A-level standard English to work in UK
The tougher rules will come in force in January as part of wider plans to cut immigration.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 15, 2025 at 11:35 AM
This won’t cause any problems at all with bias against uneducated UK applicants (!?). I presume equality legislation means that the same standard has to apply to native speakers.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...