Notices by Flick 🇬🇧 (flick@spinster.xyz), page 20

I know they’re valuable early pollinators and everything, but I won’t be sad when the St Mark’s Flies bugger off again until next year.

@Funsizescot1975 Just keep repeating “very important early pollinators” until they go away!

@thatguyoverthere Weird. If you’re tipping it out anyway, I’d check for parasites too. Do you have vine weevils over there?

@thatguyoverthere Might be worth carefully tipping out the sad ones and checking the drainage holes: it likely won’t make things worse, if there’s a decent football to hold it together.

@thatguyoverthere That’s weird. Are the pots the same? Wondering if one of them is draining better than the other.

@FeartnTired Each! Usually £2.50 (£2.49 in Morrisons), reduced to £1.88.

My mother, when I mention that I’m going to Sainsbury’s this week because I have a voucher for 60p off my cheese: Good idea! Stock up!

My mother, when I send her a post-shopping picture of my fridge: You piggie!

My fridge:

@FeartnTired And 40p off the cream cheese, so quite a good haul.

I like cheese.

@thatguyoverthere I can’t honestly see the storage options being viable for more than, say, a village or maybe town level (see: Eigg), and where does that leave heavy industry? You can’t only make steel when it’s sunny.

@thatguyoverthere Thanks, that backs up my vague plans!

@thatguyoverthere Yeah, he discusses them earlier in the article but, as you say, they don’t scale and/or are prohibitively expensive in money and resources.

@thatguyoverthere I meant the grow kit, sorry. I’d forgotten about your mystery shroom!

That’s a shame about the oyster kit. How many portions do you think you got from it? Was it cost-effective compared to just buying them?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/05/10/wind-solar-renewables-pointless-waste/

Wind and solar need to be backed up, close to 100 per cent, by some other means of power generation. If that backup is provided by open-cycle gas or worse, coal, net zero will never be achieved: nor anything very close to it.

There is one technology that can provide a cheap and reliable supply of low-emissions electricity: nuclear power. Interest in nuclear power is increasing as more and more people realise that it is safe and reliable. If regulators and the public could be persuaded that modern stations are inherently safe and that low levels of nuclear radiation are not dangerous, nuclear power could provide all the low cost, low emissions electricity the world needs for hundreds or thousands of years.

But if we had 100 per cent nuclear backup for solar and wind, we wouldn’t need the wind and solar plants at all.

https://archive.is/hPjcr

@thatguyoverthere are your mushrooms indoors or out? Shade or sun?

@polarisera What have they done?

@polarisera @LadyMont @thatguyoverthere might have a view on this.

@HebrideanHecate I know, terrifying.

@HebrideanHecate Husband kept talking about it but never did anything more. Not enough space here, although I suppose I could ask next door if I could stick some in the corner of their field….

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/05/09/killer-bees-nicaragua-deaths-bus-crash-hives/

Six people including a mother and her eight-year-old daughter have died after being attacked by killer bees following a traffic accident in Nicaragua.

The victims were among around 60 passengers on board a coach that came off the road and ended up crashing in an area where African honeybees were being kept in hives.

The angry insects are said to have reacted by stinging 45 passengers on the bus as they escaped from the vehicle.

@thatguyoverthere Ah, ok: did think it was weird that so couldn’t even see who you were replying to, but I get so many broken threads on my feed that you never know.