Boy, today is going to be a mess, thankfully I have a few days to get back on track before I return to work. So, this week I'm finally starting to do stuff estate related, this week was cleaning out the book collection. No, seriously, I've basically spent something like five days working from one app to another, three apps total, selling Vik's book collection. Roughly 900 books went, and there's still plenty more if'n anyone wants a book. But, that's been this week's focus, took off work, and did nothing but that including re-arranging yesterday's plans to do one last pass. Wasn't the plan, but it kinda made sense as I went to clean and sort the downstairs bedroom, and decided I wanted the books all on one wall. This would require either moving full bookcases, emptying them, moving them and putting the books back or using some of the already empty cases and shifting books to them. If'n I'm doing that, why wait to sale scan them until after? So, about 30 more books boxed up, gotta ship that out Monday, and we're done.
So today? Time to rearrange and clean the bedroom, and we're also continuing the shed cleaning which we've been doing for a month, not because its a big job, but once a week, I sort and throw out trash until the curbside can is about half full, so maybe an hour a week if'n that. Once I get this part of the bedroom done, we'll decide on its future, I might replace the bed with a TwinXL, and move my desk and computer into there, not sure. Beyond that all the weekend calls for is a little work on household finances and grocery shopping, so not much. Oh, wait, gotta cut the lawn too.
Yeah, nothing really huge this weekend, so mostly just rest, maybe some extra cleaning, not sure.
Australia’s first community-owned solar farm – with battery – was officially opened last Saturday, as Sophie Vorrath reported earlier this week.
It’s not big, just 1.4 megawatts of solar and a 4.4 megawatt hour battery, but it’s the community effort that got it built at all that makes this such an uplifting and significant story, particularly in the world that we live in now.
The story of the Goulburn community owned solar farm actually began at least 12 years ago. The regional city’s then elected representatives – current federal Liberal leader Angus Taylor and state MP Pru Goward – were making a lot of noise opposing nearly every large scale renewable project in the region.
But it was the actions of then prime minister Tony Abbott that really jolted the local community into action.
“We really owe the existence of this solar farm to Tony Abbott,” Mhairi Fraser, a member of the Goulburn solar farm co-operative, says in an interview with Renew Economy’s weekly Energy Insiders podcast.
“He was just attacking climate scientists, attacking science … you know, climate change is crap stuff, dismantling a lot of the kind of government institutions that were supporting climate action and emissions reduction and certainly really trying to get rid of the Renewable Energy Target.
“There were a lot of us in Goulburn that were furious and we were frustrated. A lot of us are grandparents and parents and feeling like what is going to happen to the future generations … if we continue to along a trajectory of reliance on fossil fuels.”
And so a bunch of them travelled to Canberra for the first Australian community energy congress. “That was a turning point,” Fraser said. “We thought, why don’t we build a solar farm? Can’t be that hard.”
Tony Abbott's climate attacks inspired a local community to build a first of its kind solar farm. They literally had to watch the grass grow under their feet, but it is now complete.
Remember when Elon Musk told advertisers to “go fuck” themselves and then sued them for the crime of taking his advice? A federal judge has now dismissed that lawsuit — with prejudice —…
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Remember back when ad's for Nazi stuff started appearing on "X" and advertisers stopped advertising there. And then Elon sued them for "antitrust" or something. Yeah, a Federal Judge dismissed the case with prejudice, meaning it can't be refiled. Yay I guess. TXND - Memorandum Opinion and Order
The products were recalled by Agropur, Canada’s largest dairy co-operative, on Wednesday. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is currently conducting a food safety investigation.
A Durant, OK warehouse has sold… to the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma! ICE previously sought to buy the space to create a mega detention center capable of holding 8,500 people. This is the 13th warehouse they have been denied. kten.com/news/oklahoma-headlin…
DURANT, Okla. (KTEN) — The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma has purchased the former Big Lots warehouse and adjoining land near its headquarters in Durant, tribal officials announced Wednesday.
FCC boss Brendan Carr spends an awful lot of time pretending to be a tough guy, threatening any broadcasters that aren’t suitably deferential to our mad, idiot king. Carr’s had giant te…
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Trump Accidentally Admits to Epic #Iran #Blunder as #War Takes Worse Turn
#Trump’spersonal and ideological shortcomings are working against #America, and what he really revealed with that odd admission of failure. Listen to this episode here. A transcript is here.
Trump’s #war on Iran appears to be a #fiasco, and speaking to reporters, he made a surprising claim:
He insisted no one anticipated that Iran would attack other countries in an effort to widen the war
But this was widely expected, and amusingly, in saying that, Trump revealed that he didn’t anticipate it. That’s a striking admission about his own lack of foresight. Which captures something broader: On many fronts, Trump didn’t prepare for eventualities that most experts fully did anticipate.
As Trump blurts out a striking confession about his Iran fiasco, a foreign policy expert explains why the latest developments in the war are so unnerving—and what to expect next.
Well, they're definitely rare at this point, most stuff is out of my hands, lawyer is working on some stuff, and its really a matter of just waiting at this point.
We were at Sunset Hills flea market selling stuff Sat, mixture of left overs from my storage unit flipping days, Vik's stuff, and some of my stuff I don't want. That didn't go all that well, but that's because I wasn't well prepared, I gathered stuff last minute, and where I thought I had stuff to sell, turns out there really wasn't all that much. Clearly next time I need to be better prepared. I'm also using a we buy books type app to sell off his massive book collection. The good news, they're buying 592 books. The bad news? I have to pack those to ship to them, that's going to be a barrel of laughs. It took about 4 days to scan and key all those in, and I've stopped working to focus on it. Their prices are kinda crap, but they cover shipping, so what do you expect? Also they'll likely reject some of the books, so the promised money will drop, but honestly, shrinking the collection is kinda more important than the money. When I have this batch gone, I use another app, and then when that one is done, I'll use another one, and after that, anything left will be sold at the flea market or dropped into free libraries along my deliver routes. Or maybe sell on WhatNot.
Now with that said, there is a collection I need to figure out what to do with, and that's magazines. Some like Asimov and Analog, relatively easy, if nothing else I'll set up shop on WhatNot and sell them or the flea market, but there's also a lot of pagan magazines like RFD, Green Egg and others, some body art magazines, as well as some gay porn and a few issues of Advocate. Sure, I could just pulp them, but that seems a shame, they do reflect the culture of the time, I kinda feel they should be preserved, but I'm not real interested in doing so.
Using an app to sell a lot of my husband's books, and they don't pay too badly, we're averaging about 30¢ a book plus free shipping (I think). If I were selling them at a garage sale, I'd be asking 50¢ for paperback, $1 for hardback, so the price works and its faster. This is just the downstairs box.
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