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Jamie

@ArborealTechie@mas.to

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Programmer, Humanist, Pro EU.
Love science, trees and all nature.🌿🕷️🐛🦎
We are the only “pest species”.
We're all on a small blue dot, floating in infinity. Why divide further?

#nature #wildlife #insects #conservation #green #environment
#sustainability #climate #renewables #nodig #photography #science

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Joined December 16, 2022

Jamie @ArborealTechie@mas.to

· 6mo ago

We fitted solar thermal (hot water) panels when re-roofing in 2006. They've been great and very cost effective. Added solar PV around them in 2011. In 2023, using over 10 years import/export data I calculated the optimum extra PV/batteries needed to satisfy most of our power needs and covered a shed in PV. The shed is south facing with a 20 degree roof. The vertical panels help in winter.

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Jamie @ArborealTechie@mas.to

· 4mo ago

RE: @Rachelburch@mastodon.social

Love Hawthorns. I believe that, after our native oaks, they support more species than any other tree. It's a shame they don't get more appreciation. Getting anyone to leave a mature hawthorn in a laid hedge is a tough ask!

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Jamie @ArborealTechie@mas.to

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@bigzaphod Tell me about it! This large tree reduces my output on every sunny day during the winter, just when I need it most. The tree is mine, but to fell a mature Ash tree in pursuit of a "green" lifestyle would be absurd.

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Jamie @ArborealTechie@mas.to

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@brianbilston Have you noticed how Death always finds a way in, despite locked doors and high security? You know who else can do that? ... and is only supposedly busy on one day of the year? No one has ever seen Death and Santa in the same place at the same time!

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Jamie @ArborealTechie@mas.to

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@WanderingWitch @brianbilston Perhaps they're the same minions? 🤔

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Jamie @ArborealTechie@mas.to

· 4mo ago

It baffles me that Republican votes are still enamoured with Trump, even after all the grift and cruelty and the ridiculous "ballroom" fiasco. We truly are a doomed race, one which willingly votes for its own demise.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdjpng88d2vo

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Jamie @ArborealTechie@mas.to

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@cmconseils@mastodon.social I think I've read that one. I won't spoil it for you.

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Jamie @ArborealTechie@mas.to

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@jmeosbn Yeah, I probably should thank him for that. But now that you have I don't need to. Cheers!👍

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Jamie @ArborealTechie@mas.to

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@tokensane @brianbilston I have read it, but not in well over 20 years. I just read short summary and some bits are familiar. I really must reread it! I can see why you asked but I had totally forgotten the link!

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Jamie @ArborealTechie@mas.to

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@WanderingWitch @brianbilston He couldn't really carry so much weight with all that activity and squeezing through tight spaces. The suit is just padding for publicity photos and to throw people off the scent! Could be Satan too though. I think that's more of a title than a job. He has minions, so not many hours required surely?

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Jamie @ArborealTechie@mas.to

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@SuperTibaldoBike @Herbivore Well I'm going with birdie, as it's definitely not an albatross!

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Jamie @ArborealTechie@mas.to

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@purple @MichaelTBacon @LilahTovMoon Yes, there was a lot of craziness, but "brexit means brexit" was so ridiculous it was gobsmacking! So many unmentioned negatives. The relocation of the European Medicines Agency to Amsterdam was a serious loss to London and UK health care.

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Jamie @ArborealTechie@mas.to

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@suearcher @Sarahw I'd heard of that but didn't know it made it to the toys - brilliant!🤣

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Jamie @ArborealTechie@mas.to

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@purple @MichaelTBacon @LilahTovMoon Fair point about voting again after negotiations. It may have given people time to see that the Leave camp would not be able to deliver some of their most unrealistic promises (we'll get all the advantages of being in the club without paying or conforming!).

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Jamie @ArborealTechie@mas.to

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@X31Andy @bigzaphod Thanks Andy. I went with the second option. I was negotiating with my DNO for 3 years. So had been monitoring the shading where the proposed shed was to be. There are 54 400W panels, split into 6 strings of 9. 4 strings on the roof, 2 on the front. Split to mitigate a crossing shadow. Shed was built for PV, south facing, 20 degree roof for summer, vertical panels for winter. Just added a post about it :- https://mas.to/deck/@ArborealTechie/116351070071408084

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Jamie @ArborealTechie@mas.to

· 7mo ago

Being rich doesn't make you a racist fuckwit.

... but it helps!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckglv1n4dzeo

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Jamie @ArborealTechie@mas.to

· 6mo ago

RE: @wellingboroughecogroup@mas.to

I'm too late boosting this for yesterday's Repair Cafe but there will be another, so if you live near Wellingborough give it a try! It's so much better for the environment and your pocket to get stuff repaired.

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Jamie @ArborealTechie@mas.to

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@MichaelTBacon @purple @LilahTovMoon I'm not certain that in the case of Brexit two consecutive referenda would have changed things. The lies and media hype (especially newspapers) would have persisted. Although it might have made a difference to those making a protest vote, thinking it safe, as it wouldn't actually happen. My financial advisor had a number of clients who voted leave to spite their MD, who advised remaining. He's often reminded them since what it's done to their pensions!

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Jamie @ArborealTechie@mas.to

· 5mo ago

The newsreader on Radio 4 this morning, covering negotiations with Iran, referred to whether Iran would hand over their "nuclear dust, as President Trump calls it". To everyone else it's "Enriched Uranium", but that the USA has a child as President we need translations. What next, "Moo moo cows"?

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Jamie @ArborealTechie@mas.to

· 5mo ago

Britain is (apparently) one of the few countries in the world to treat pet fleas and worms prophylactically. This seems to make much better sense.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyxpnz45yzo

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Jamie @ArborealTechie@mas.to

· 5mo ago

I refuse to engage with this so called "reality", which the universe has been trying to foist on us of late. Perhaps it's a tell that we are actually inside The Matrix? #NotMyReality

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Jamie @ArborealTechie@mas.to

· 5mo ago

From a post by matthighton.bsky.social.

Post says: "Mel Gibson pictured with his doctor in 2004"
... but that's no doctor - too much blood!

It's obviously his surgeon and his just come out of surgery.

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Jamie @ArborealTechie@mas.to

· 4mo ago

"A spokesperson for the Trump Organization said that neither the president, his family or the company played any role in selecting or approving investments. They receive no advance notice of trading activity and provide no input regarding investment decisions or portfolio management, the statement said." - yeah, right.🤔
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cd6pzg7z319o

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Jamie @ArborealTechie@mas.to

· 4mo ago

Not to lessen the dreadful brutality of such hateful unjust attacks, but I would like to point out that it is definitely not OK to kick an animal like this either. Hope I don't sound like a pedant or unsympathetic by saying so, but the phrase should not be in use any more than now taboo racist terms.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1527z272lyo

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Jamie @ArborealTechie@mas.to

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@devxvda@mastodon.ie ... and yet he'll be even more apoplectically angry if he doesn't win the Nobel prize next time and will, once again, blame the Norwegian government for not awarding it to him. He just assumes the whole world works the way he works (or doesn't). In his mind there are no longer any independent agencies or committees in America - they do what he tells them to do, or they are threatened/fired/blackmailed. Ipso facto all heads of state do the same.

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Jamie @ArborealTechie@mas.to

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@keyofG@mstdn.social I can't help thinking that certain people, who claim not to be "tyrants", might possibly take his statement as criticism of their actions nonetheless... 🤔

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