Busted flush: Wet wipes advertised as flushable are still going to clog up our sewage system, says Birkbeck University's Dr Randa Kachef.

"ITS A PANTS CAP" "You should not be on the price cap if you can get off it." With the energy price cap going up in January as well as in April. Martin Lewis tells households "cheaper fixes are currently 10% less than the price cap with cheaper tariffs coming next week."

"If you can produce your own energy, you bring down your bill." Homegrown energy is the best way to insulate ourselves from global fossil fuel shocks, as has happened after the Iran conflict, says Electrify Britain CEO Camilla Born on GB News.

Congestion Charge changes were introduced today. Rising from £15 to £18 for standard vehicles, £13.50 for EV's & £9 for E-Vans from Jan 2. Campaigners say it doesn’t give enough support to small business and charities. Oliver Lord, Head of UK & Strategy at Clean Cities explains on LBC News.

'We've reduced our energy usage by 75%' A heat pump and solar panels boosted author and retrofit guru Judith Leary Joyce's home's value by £92,000 and drastically improved the energy efficiency of her previously draughty terraced house.

The SW of England has seen rain for the same number of days as it poured in Noah's Ark, with 40 days of showers in Devon, Cornwall, and Worcestershire. ☔️

2025 declared year of the octopus. 🐙 While octopus blooms in the UK are a "natural occurrence" that happen every few decades, the explosion in numbers this year has been "exacerbated" by warming seas, says @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social Ruth Williams on the BBC's Today programme.

Hackney Solar Project Shows Warm Homes Plan Ambition “We’re saving residents money and supplying low-carbon electricity, and over 25 years the project basically doesn’t cost anything,” says Reg Platt, CEO, Emergent Energy, atop Hackney social housing with hundreds of solar panels, to Justin Rowlatt

London's penguins will finally see daylight. 🐧 After a two-year campaign by the Daily Express, Born Free and Freedom for Animals, Sea Life London has agreed to move 14 gentoo penguins from a basement to a larger outdoor enclosure. @stephspyro.bsky.social who led the campaign spoke to Matthew Wright

"Recycling cannot keep up with the volume being produced." UK households bin 1.6 billion pieces of plastic packaging every week. Only 16% gets recycled, 59% is burned, the rest landfilled or shipped abroad. Daniel Webb speaks to LBC News on the results of the UK-wide Big Plastic Count.

Mark Cuban Why?#markcuban#fraud#news#fdt#viral

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What did you think of Song Sung Blue? Personally it’s my favorite love story of all time! Why? Because they were equal partners that had something deeply in common that carried their love story BEYOND just getting together! You don’t see that often! #songsungblue #nieldiamond #heartdiseaseawareness

Young Serlock On Amazon Prime Video. So good. #youngsherlock #entertainmentnews

In the dead of the night, Republicans tried to pass a shady FISA bill that lets the government continue to violate your rights without a warrant. Thankfully we defeated Speaker Johnson and the White House’s amateur attempt to jam it through without real debate. This overreach won't fly.

After reading my early '80s Ladybird book version at bedtime last night we've been on a Little Mermaid extravaganza! Watched today: the 2023 live action version, a 1970s Readers Digest cartoon (narrated by no less than Dr Kildare!) and best of the bunch - the trippy 1968 Soviet animation #filmsky

Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Real Attacker Threatening Michael Jackson With A Rifle On Stage -- It Was A Scripted Concert Scene #CheckTok #MichaelJackson #HIStoryWorldTour #EarthSong #FactCheck leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2...

Fluorite Friday with a stunner that will make you wanna get up and dance! Blue Green Fluorite with White Quartz from the Huangganglian Mine, Inner Mongolia, China. The cubes on this one are pretty insane. Somehow still currently available💙💚 #fluorite #fluoritefriday #crystalsky #crystals #dance

Israel and U.S. Strike Iran #news #politics #israel #Iran #trump

My Big Beautiful Flag only TRIGGERS 3 types of people.

Today, in every state in the country, we say loudly and proudly that as Americans, we will never accept authoritarianism. We will never accept government policy that gives massive tax breaks to billionaires and throw 15 million Americans off health care. - @sanders.senate.gov #NoKings

"From Derry’s docks to your wrist 🌊 – celebrate today in Irish style. ☘️ #NauticalBracelet #IrishAmerican #CelebrateTogether"

Black Fact = 1950 (4/25) - Charles Cooper became the first black player to sign with the NBA (Boston Celtics) on this date. He, along with Nat "Sweetwater" Clifton, played his first game on October 22, 1950-one day after Earl Lloyd became the 1st black person to play in a NBA game. #theraydiotwins

#football 🏈 Nobody: Fernando Mendoza:

The much-anticipated meeting between Donald Tusk and Péter Magyar in Warsaw today. There are few friendships in Europe as genuine, enduring, and deeply rooted in history as the one between Hungary and Poland — dating back nearly 1,000 years. Polak, Węgier — dwa bratanki! 🇵🇱 🇭🇺

Brawler (Hardcover) Now at Magsstore 👉 Grab your copy now: www.magsstore.com/books/brawle... #magsstore #Brawler #BookLovers #MustRead #NewRelease #FictionReads #Bookstagram #ReadersOfFacebook #TrendingBooks #HardcoverBooks #LiteratureLovers #StoryCollection #BookAddict #ReadingCommunity

Jai Cady reads a powerful original poem and shares how she turned survival into purpose. See her at Women’s Month Open Mic, Sunday, March 1st at 7PM, at Morrow Warming Center. If you’re struggling, call or text 988. 🖥 YouTube: youtu.be/LF48yijc2t4%... 🎧 Spotify: shorturl.at/t8ZTE%E2%81%A0

New trucking authority owner. Zero revenue history. Can't get equipment financing. I hear this story every week and every week I say the same thing: Card stack first. Here's the play: Get $50K-$100K at 0% interest through card stacking. Put it toward your truck purchase or down payment.

We’re all so unserious. 😆😆😆

Post an actor or actress that starts with the letter S (First or Last) Queen Bea of course!

How's things in "Bako", as Fred Durst called Bakersfield in the song, with Korn, "All in the Family". I'm in Redding this week, where it's not so hot, but warming, about to go another hike by this crystal, blue creek, and drink my fill!

One day, we’ll be able to tell our kids and our grandkids - when the future of our country was on the line, we fought for it. And we won. That means getting involved TODAY. Hear it from @chrismurphyct.bsky.social

Well this was surprising

The Postal Service says postmark dates are no longer reliable.That creates real risk for mail-in ballots in the 2026 elections, where timing is critical. zurl.co/2CQId #Elections #PublicPolicy #GoodRevenue

Rhodes: Who looks like a more stable and predictable actor? The Chinese Communist Party, where maybe you think they’re bullies, but the terms never change? Or the United States, where you have a president who’s been imposing tariffs, launching wars, shaking you down for essentially tribute payments?

The Clark Centre for the Arts and Cedar Ridge Cultural Centre in #Toronto are the places to be if you want to try a new art form or hone your artistic skills. There are 85 different classes to explore and registration for residents opens on June 3. nowtoronto.com/culture/arti...

THANK YOU, Senator Maria Cantwell for skewering RFK Jr.: MEDICARE (TRADITIONAL OR ADVANTAGE OR ANY HEALTH CARE FOR THAT MATTER) should NOT be decided by Artificial Intelligence.

@pearlmania500 You’re the Calvary #hope

Haha we aren’t really trying to take over the kid lit world, but we are trying to share more fabulous stories by indie authors with readers who otherwise would have never heard about them! Check out our current author! www.kidsaskauthorsanswer.com/when-the-moo...

Andrei Kostin, capo di Vtb Bank, paragona l'economia russa a un vecchio di 80 anni. Col seguente aneddoto: "Un paziente va dal dottore e dice: 'Dottore ho un problema: quando faccio sesso sento un fischio nelle orecchie'. E il dottore: 'Ma quanti anni hai?' '80'. E ti i aspetti degli applausii?'”

Após campanha militar de 470 dias e 72 mil mortos, Israel planeja a 'migração voluntária' da população da Faixa de Gaza. O plano, confirmado pelo ministro da Defesa, Israel Katz, é rejeitado por moradores locais ouvidos pelo Correio. 📽️ Rodrigo Craveiro/CB/DA Press #CBReels #CBShorts

It's kind of amazing to be one day shy of 4 years clean time and still be wondering if I deserve to live, ignoring whether I deserve anything good, and wondering if my brother has any regrets. #recovery

Can AI show us how people really experience art? @thebowesmuseum.bsky.social “goggles” project tracks visitors’ gaze with AI-powered glasses, revealing how paintings and labels shape engagement & enjoyment. 🎧 Listen: share.transistor.fm/s/3e201a99 📺 Watch: youtu.be/wYIX3kq3zm8

Brilliant orator Ken Paxton gets one guy to clap. #progressive #talarico #jamestalarico

OK, das ist auch für mich eine Premiere! Das Turmfalkenpärchen frisst auch Vögel! Bisher hatte ich immer reine Mäusefresser beobachtet. #DettingenTeck #Turmfalken #Kestrel #Birds #Animal-Cam www.nabu-teck.de/kamera-im-de...

🚨BREAKING: "This is gonna get bad" NJ state police and anti-ICE protesters are clashing again for the 2nd night in a row outside Delaney Hall ICE prison on day 9 of the ICE prisoner hunger and labor strike. WE'RE LIVE NOW ⬇️

i actually came on here to talk about the phillies releasing casty but that news got me sidetracked lol anyway, RIP to his time here. we’ll always have this.

There's more behind the Kid Rock flyby

A protagonista e família afetados por mais uma enchente em São Paulo #QuemAmaCuida

My first mistake was choosing to play rainmaker

🤣 #lgbtqia #mtf #foryoupage #transgender #ftm Happy Easter Everyone 🫂

also: here's video of Gianni Infantino attempting to decrease the tension between the delegates from the Israel and Palestine FAs

me singing Right There this morning 🤭

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Hit the ground running. @Jadarian15

#poetry #poems #quotes #love #life #death #matrix #insanity #sanity

This is Indica. She is enjoying a movie and some pupcorn. Would like to enjoy it without commentary, if you don't mind. 12/10 (TT: julia.perez3272)

Republican governors are declaring 'Nuclear Family Month' instead of Pride Month in some states, sending a pretty clear message about their values. Credit: @aaronparnas.bsky.social | Source #LGBTQ #AntiPride #Bigotry #Homophobia #Repugnant

“His dementia keeps getting louder every day.” ~Gavin Newsom