Celebrating this review (so grateful). I would be thrilled if you read Elusive Cures. But mulling over its central message is a good approximation. For a collection of podcasts etc (scroll to the bottom): www.nicolecrust.com/elusive-cures The review: www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...

"The warehouse currently has 4 toilets, 2 water fountains and an 800-gallon-per-day water allocation. "A facility housing 1,500 people would require roughly 200,000 gallons of water per day, according to local utility estimates... www.projectsaltbox.com/p/ice-approv...

A (Republican) elephant refuses to know something it will never forget.

Did BBC radio 4 #Today programme really just do a whole package about drilling in the N Sea without once even mentioning #climate change? And not having anyone challenging the one-sided claims of former BP boss? So irresponsible #bbcr4today

Galen’s letter contains the two ideas which are the seeds of most panpsychism, as far as I can see: that matter must have an intrinsic nature, and that the only intrinsic thing we know for sure is consciousness. Both ideas are deeply dodgy

JD Vance is heading to Hungary to endorse Viktor Orban after Easter. Here is a description of the corrupt regime, and the post-reality campaign, that the US administration now supports: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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This is what sanity sounds like.

Ooh, wish I were free.

This is such a good book - definitely worth owning.

“In the same way that you’re unlikely to eat Twinkies as a regular snack or still believe that Pop-Tarts provide a balanced breakfast, stop consuming ultraprocessed content. Don’t use TikTok. Don’t use Instagram. Don’t use X.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/o...

Misha Glenny’s last podcast here is such a great ode to Vienna. Richard Cockett’s book sounds fascinating and Eva Konzett is an excellent co-host. Counting my lucky stars to live here. podcasts.apple.com/at/podcast/f...

Great 4 A’s. Quick strong messaging.

✨Paul Atkins invites us to think about how you show up in conversations. 🔗Read more: www.prosocial.world/posts/the-fi... #Mentoring #Coaching #Work #PersonalGrowth

What might actually work? Probably combinations: inoculation + debunking together, proactive platform design changes, and possibly stronger regulation that goes well beyond labelling. Warnings alone are unlikely to be sufficient. Regulators need to catch up with the science. 🔬

Oh Springer…:’Please review a book for us. You have seven days to accept & then will have three weeks to complete. We offer you nothing in return.’ Springer made a profit last year of €241m, mostly off the free labour of academics. They can fuck off.

This same old story just sucks! When will our societies’ moral circles grow? These short-term, small-minded decisions are killing us. Grow up already, civilization.

Always a shame to lose a tradie. Good plumbers are hard to find. I imagine there will be plenty of transferable skills from turd herding to politics.

What a breath of fresh air! The journalist was clearly won over by her and I can see why. Imagine a country run by thoughtful, caring, inquisitive people like this. “Looking at the system to see which bits aren’t working? Sounds a lot like a plumber.” www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

How can the BBC justify how much coverage they give other marches which are significantly smaller in size? The bias is so obviously blatant. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...

So what? So this: we get lots of our veg from Holland. Much of that will not be grown, without heated greenhouses. Take this seriously. Do what you can (with your neighbourhood etc) to prepare. And learn the bitter message: a fossil-dependent economy is dangerously OUT OF DATE.

Forest Sovereignty: Wildlife Sustainability and Ethics (Oxford: Peter Lang 2025), Discounted 46% today on Amazon. Plants, animals, and political philosophy. AMAZON: www.amazon.com/Forest-Sover... Also, visit Prof. Tague’s site for more/free info: sites.google.com/site/gftague...

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/w... Sadly, the NYT turned their comments off for this article. I was interested in reading some debate about this.

Wish I had time for this. Maybe you do.

Loved loved loved the discussion about “The Imperfect Environmentalist” in this episode. So many great tips for meaningful action and gentle reframing. E.g. just 8 plant-based meals a week would make a HUGE difference for the climate. Spread that word. We can all do that.

Resorting to faking survey responses? Religion is failing even worse than I thought. Well done @humanists.uk for pushing for the truth about this. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Brilliant as always. Glad to see the NYT let Zack put his message forward so clearly.

These people have a funny way of saying "Environmentalists have been proved right yet again."

Had to read to the end to see the important data of how popular Net Zero is. 40% reliably for vs. 24% implacably against. That’s a big deal. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Back in 2023 I wrote about the opportunity presented by outdoor pools as part of the UK leisure estate. Distinctive places across the country which are much loved. theconversation.com/a-brief-hist...

Really interesting new direction for this Substack by @drpaulatkins.bsky.social. Follow him to use AI better. open.substack.com/pub/prosocia...

Re-upping this, because it’s sooooooo pertinent now as the Iran crisis starts to grip us vice-like… It’s insane that we remain so fossil-dependent. Whereas the more we ramp up renewables, retrofit and energy-dependence reduction and energy-WASTE reduction, the better off we are:

Hard to know which is more shocking - the dire warnings of the potential collapse of our food system in the UK or the fact that governments have tried to cover it up. Their complacency is off the scale. We urgently need to switch to growing more food domestically & to restore nature now

Every minister should read this from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social: “The global food system is systemically fragile in the same way that the global financial system was before the 2008 crash…the same factors that would have brought down the financial system….now threaten to bring down the food system”.

The #1 job of Biden-Harris was to follow up on this and all the other cases against Trump. What a mess the world is in because they thought improving the economy would be a better use of their time. Let’s not forget this lesson.

The kindest are up against it right now but we can prevail.

Petrolheads are seen as just another group of hobbyists. In truth, they're a danger to society. The accidents they cause, the pollution and noise are just part of it. There's also an associated politics: toxic, selfish, macho, climate-denying, often far-right. For their "fun", everyone suffers.

Wrangham’s cover shows how these billionaires need to be treated. (Not literally killed, but society’s portion of their money needs to be reclaimed for society.)

Another screaming example that MAGA = WAAAA. (Weakening America Again and Again)

Is the eliminative stance productive? A number of recent conversations, some I've been in, and others witnessed, left me thinking about eliminative views like the strong illusionism of Keith Frankish and Daniel Dennett. This is the view that access consciousness, the availability of information…

I had the honor of working for Mueller from 2006-2010. He was a heck of a leader in a way that Trump could never fathom. RIP, Bob. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

To tilt Hungarian election, the Russians proposed staging an assassination attempt www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

Hey where have I seen this happen before?

I don’t know what made behavioural scientists so messed up, but they aren’t alright.

That's how it's done done done.

New study shows that many animals like the same sounds as we do - suggesting a shared aesthetic sense (further evidence that animals' perceptual worlds are an important part of their welfare experience) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Human-driven climate change is slowing Earth's rotation at a rate not seen in 3.6 million years www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

Great discussion of the problems in the NHS brought on by austerity and privatisation. Imagine being led by a Green Party who knows this and wants to change it. The Bold Politics podcast is fast becoming my comfort space in these shitty times.

Loved this.