The total area of solar panels it would take to power the world, Europe, and Germany. This map is from Nadine May’s thesis [source: ow.ly/ga7Z50xBrRU]

3 wks ago we were told those working in supermarkets, social care & cleaners were “low skilled”- now these are the people crucial to managing #COVID19 outbreak. Everyone plays their part in society - these workers deserve decent wages & sick pay not just now but always.

Can’t face a winter of working from home every day? An open letter from Skiffmates to people working from home in #Brighton: theskiff.org/letter/

This is insane - it seems Marine Protected Areas aren't actually protected from anything at all

Since I don't rely on any Google products any more (apart from Youtube for yoga & synth vids) I'm sitting here smugly working while the rest of the knowledge working world has the afternoon off.

.Mariana Mazzucato proposes a new framework for understanding and assessing the role of market-shaping public institutions like the BBC. bit.ly/2P0Xay1

What’s the UK government’s plastic policy? Dump it on other countries! Less than 10% of our plastic recycling is actually recycled in the UK. The rest is sent overseas where it’s often burned or dumped, fuelling health and wildlife emergencies. RT to expose. #Wasteminster 1/5

Man, the cost of keeping a family in functioning telephones

So great to have a The Skiff kitchen politics session with Thomas Buck last week. We need you back Mike Hadlow (also on bsky @mikehadlow.com) Oliver Winks for some of those 2 hour marathons. A lot of messed up world needs fixing!

Revisiting a few of my fave album purchases from recent months, starting with the very lovely Cumulus Sketches of Wil Bolton #nowplaying wilbolton.bandcamp.com/album/cumulus-…

✅ Replied emails ✅ Scheduled meetings ✅ Lifted bathroom floorboards, retrieved missing kitten #wfh

Next year will be my 10th anniversary as a member The Skiff. Easily my favourite place to work in Brighton, a brilliant balance of friendly community and focused workspace. Looking for something like that? Come and join us!

Born on this day 1948: Johnny Ramone - The Ramones.

Call on the Government now to stop the sell-off of Channel 4, and protect it from any future privatisation and political interference by ensuring the British public – not politicians – decide its future. 👇 party.coop/channel4?utm_s…

This is always popular on Reddit, so... Here are all the laws MPs are voting on this week, explained in plain English: 🧵

Taking a moment to think about how utterly crazy it is that in 2022 a company with a significant dataset of private and public communications, that has municipalities, companies and governments on the platform, can switch ownership with pretty much zero scrutiny

At current prices, the value of gas imports avoided by switching a hectare from wheat to solar is 33 times the cost of the extra wheat that will need to be imported. My note on the economic impact of banning most large solar developments : carboncommentary.com/blog/2022/10/1…

In Brussels to begin the article 49 negotiations 🇪🇺