Thomas Hurst

Software "Engineer". Autistic weirdo. He/they.

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This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here.

What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger.

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@NavyLookout @HMSDauntless @PortsmouthProud Can't go wrong menacing with spikes.

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@ChrisMcDonaldMP I'm sure it'll be, uh, lovely, but... the "biggest urban regeneration project in the UK" is a lawn, a bunch of paving, a few trees, public toilets, a playground, and a set of chunky steps by a river?

Not sure that's a great framing, if I'm honest.

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@RepLuna @Keir_Starmer England and Wales homicide rate, 2024: 9.3 per million
Northern Ireland homicide rate, 2024: 8.3 per million
Scotland homicide rate, 2024: 10.3 per million
Florida homicide rate, 2024: 97 per million

You dare lecture us from your shithole country of death?

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@robinmonotti @owenjonesjourno Then how is it good that we're observing a disruption to a vast inflow of heat energy into the North Atlantic?

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@Clarsonimus So they observed this "pause" in the first decade of the 21st century, made up an explanation, and then wrote about it in, uh, the last decade of the 20th century?

https://t.co/iwkGgGDcFd

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@walkerovboro @ChrisMcDonaldMP No, that would be our ongoing reliance on gas during yet another major supply crisis.

We're paying the bill for the dash for gas back in the 1990s, getting rid of Starmer and Milliband won't fix that unless you replace them with Doctor Who.

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@1947awreet9 @speirs_willie @PeterDClack Not sure that's much of a metric, but 2025 also saw a 90 TWh drop in the amount of electricity generated by coal, equivalent to decommissioning about 10 GW.

It did commission 78 GW *more* coal capacity, but its utilisation is falling.

https://t.co/tSZRpaLa66

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@1947awreet9 @speirs_willie @PeterDClack As of 2025, the US had 322 GW of solar and 162 GW of wind power, in total.

That same year China installed 378 GW of new solar and 120 GW of new wind capacity. They literally install more renewable capacity in a single year than the US has installed *ever*.

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@1947awreet9 @PeterDClack Sure, buddy. 58% of all new solar and 73% of all new wind capacity last year were installed in China.

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@kersey2076 @DailyMail Indeed, contrails are actually one of the most significant contributors to climate change from aviation, and efforts need to be made to limit their creation.

A bit of flight rerouting could have surprisingly significant effects.

https://t.co/JOJLs1huYd

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@KarrieboKarrie @nussyandrews I scrolled down your profile and stopped after hitting midnight last night. Posts and repost after reposts, seemingly all trans-people-are-men this and oh-noes-illegals that.

There was 18.9 metres of it. About the height of a 6-storey building.

Are you actually a human being?

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@BBCr4today Why do technology companies not simply overnight solutions to all our problems? It's obviously so simple for them to do so, because Jess Phillips can imagine it.

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@Vitamvivere @Nigel_Farage "Get Kier Starmer fucking out.", "Nigel Farage, come on, Nigel", "We've got English flags on, are we going to get arrested?".

Yes, incredibly pointed lecture on fuel duty in there.

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@JennyENicholson Nice sweep-seconds movement, though I hear they're a pain to regulate.

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@owenjonesjourno Your body mass carries an embodied energy equivalent to around 110,000 Hiroshima bombs.

As an anti-fascist, if you were to ever come into physical contact with one, the resulting fascist/anti-fascist annihilation would destroy Greater London and cause major disruption on the M25

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@exQUIZitely @Dales_Starman 200 billion stars, each with up to 20 planets (and moons), with proper orbits. A 1:1 scale Milky Way, all fitting comfortably on a single double-density floppy disk with room to spare (took a bit over 400k as I recall).

Certainly not needed, but it created a crazy sense of scale

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@JRodge888 @AndyBurnhamGM It won't lock them out—it'll guarantee them a fair share of power. Something they've been long denied, and now the shoe is on the other foot, something they seek to deny to everyone else.

Why should we allow that? The system is clearly broken. Fix it while we still can.

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@lancelachlan "Why do Green supporters not simply give up their democratic right to vote for their preferred candidates, so my preferred candidates can win?"

You understand how abhorrent this sounds, right?

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@SirMuttley Went live last month:

https://t.co/JE3ypyeHv8

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@SirMuttley Well that brought back memories. Went there back in 2010—lot more fun than the Royal Court of Justice!