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41% of British electricity in the past week was generated by wind power, mostly offshore (as opposed to 25.8% by gas). On Monday and Tuesday high levels of wind generation halved the price of producing electricity.

I thought this had to be satire. That Enron has returned to business in time for the second Trump/Musk administration deregulationpalooza feels just a bit too on the nose.

So I’m back on the other place Adriano.bsky.social

less than 24 hours after announcing he was aiming to be the Prime Minister of the UK to get “justice” for Pakistani grooming gang victims, Andrew Tate is threatening to sue a victim of the Pakistani grooming gangs because she was mean to him. amazing.

Everyone was complaining that the Thucydides Trap between the US and China wasn't real but the Trump 2.0 policy will be to demand endless tribute from *allies* and destroy his own position of power, which was also the exact same playbook of the Athenians

That is an extraordinary fact.

South Africa’s sports minister joins growing calls for boycott of Afghanistan Feels significant - ‘no normal sport with an abnormal society’. theguardian.com/sport/2025/jan…

Happy birthday to Barbara Lynn, born on this day in 1942 in Beaumont, Texas. Here she is performing “What’d I Say” in 1966.

Severance spending at top UK universities surges The usual genius of UK HE reporting to use a picture from one of the few universities that isn’t doing this. The way Oxford/Cambridge are visual shorthand for the sector is terrible. ft.com/content/77f7f2…

So Japan, an ally, owning US Steel plants in America is a national security threat, but China, a rival, owning an app in the phones of nearly 200 million Americans, is not? Am I getting that right?

I think we can already award the prize for stupidest Labour MP’s policy proposal. “That thing that destroyed three Tory governments, the thing that if we did it would wreck our economy, let’s do that, in a doomed effort to pose as a knock-off Nigel Farage.”

I had such a wonderful evening being a guest lecturer at Pembroke College University of Oxford, and speaking to so many brilliant students afterwards! Thanks Adrian Gregory

You gotta wonder how many CIA people are looking at "federal waste" meme grants, tearing out their hair, thinking "That 'research fellowship for the study of Afro-Cuban foodways' was our 3 best fuckin' people in Havana"

AI plumbing new depths of stupidity. This may just be the worst technology ever invented. search.app/YnyQbt8V79focP…

Incredible how the people who were confidently wrong about Covid in February and March 2020 are now determining future epidemic policy in the USA.

Looking forward to being back in Oxford to share some of my initial findings from the Forces Record Project!

Interesting reviewing George Foreman’s life. In many respects just as remarkable as Ali and as emblematic of African American greatness but in a very different way - Pentecostal minister and inventor/entrepeneur and an even more remarkable boxing comeback.

Yes I know it is “traitors surrender day” but consider that we are probably only a couple of news cycles from POTUS declaring Confederate dollars legal tender.