Dear GOD if you want to save money in the asylum system 1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK 2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc 3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today

These courses have not been ‘suspended’ at all; such language only minimises what is actually happening at Nottingham: a systemic gutting out of the arts and humanities with no clear business case. These cuts affect us all; please, join UCU in fighting for our future www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A fantastic piece of reporting, brilliantly illustrated data, thorough, neutral analysis, transparent data collection… and frightening conclusions. Well done @skynewsrss.bsky.social for putting in long miles on this one

‘A devastating global audit’ shows how climate change is undermining the health of millions. Extreme heat now kills one person every minute, according to a sweeping new report by the British medical journal The Lancet. grist.org/health/lance... #Climate #Heat #Health

At risk of repetition... AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!

Genuinely brilliant from Private Eye.

Well done everyone who has pressed the Tories constantly on this - proof that if people just point out that an unpopular and insane policy is unpopular and insane repeatedly and consistently then you can get it changed. A relief to many in sure - now same pressure needed with Reform

It is way past time for the UK government & the BBC to get off X & for Musk to be treated as a threat to national security. The world's richest man is using his site to promote civil war, ethnic violence & the overthrow of an elected government. You won't win him over with another conference on AI

I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time

there has never been a presidency that has spent more time on LGBTQ issues as this Trump administration. they are wholly obsessed with queer people. the time/effort on LGBTQ issues is coming 97% from the right. i'm so fucking tired of the gaslighting on this. why does everyone have this backwards?

When bad news is good news...

“There’s always a next right thing to do.”

the presumption that someone whose views or actions generate abhorrence has a right not only to run for office but to win, and not in spite of those views or actions but precisely because of the authenticity they demonstrate to audiences who supposedly abhor them, springs up as if by clockwork

"The Conservatives propose to deport about 5 per cent of the UK’s legal population" "the Conservative party increasingly holds positions that are further from mainstream British public opinion than Reform"

⭐ After quite some time in the making, I’m excited to share our new paper!🌿⭐ We examined people's climate-relevant behaviors (driving, air travel, public transport use, and meat consumption) and their perceptions of how feasible it would be to change them (+ expected wellbeing impacts). 🧵(1/4)

Tory policy would deport about 5% of the UK population. "This scale of population movement is comparable to that which happened with the partition of India and Pakistan and the foundation of the state of Israel."

My partner is part of this cohort - and I went through the equivalent process when I lived in Hong Kong. After 7 years on a work visa, I was given Permanent Residency, as a right under HK law, not a discretionary privilege. Changing the rules under people trying to build a life would be appalling.

This essentially means you cannot marry or form a long term relationship with a foreigner - if they fall sick, have a baby, lose their job, or just decide to take a break and write a book about cheeses of the West Country, they can be deported.

Katie Lam has made a video - focusing on not giving new ILR grants to people who don't have it But quietly including the Conservative proposal to be the first government since Idi Amin in 1972 to revoke the permanent leave to remain, then expel: she underplays to what extent x.com/Katie_Lam_MP...

Also this is just the sheerest nonsense from Katie Lam, bc you won’t have accessed social security unless the conditions of your stay permitted it, & if you have indefinite leave to remain, you don’t have any conditions (as to time, work, benefits) - that’s literally part of the definition of ILR 1/

Peston tells Lam that she said something that he "genuinely didn't understand". "But who are these people who came legally who should leave?" This does not look like faux naivety. He should know the answer! She misleads in her answer to him. So he gives a misleading summary of her policy on air.

"psychological safety was the number one factor differentiating their best teams" "When people are afraid to speak up, errors fester"

“You could avoid more than half of today’s energy inputs just by swapping inefficient combustion for efficient electric tech.” That’s what I told @Foresight_CE @SamJamesMorgan Too few people know this and get tripped up by the “Primary Energy Fallacy”. foresightmedia.com/story/sIGNpl...

“Instead of trusting the people who know about the thing, you should instead listen to people who don’t know about the thing.” Ignorance is strength etc.

“What we have been through is only a small, small part of what Palestinians have experienced. On the walls of our prison cells, we saw bullet holes with bloodstains and messages carved into the walls by Palestinian prisoners who had been there before us.” Do pls take a minute to read this account

The striking bit about "car guys": Yeah, there's the occasional meet up, where standing in line is the point. But in general, the fewer cars, the more enjoyable the experience. For bicycles, it's the opposite: the more of them on any given street, the more enjoyable the experience.

That's Nigel "Twelve Jobs, Four Homes and a Chauffeur driven BMW" Farage to you !

That England has had its three worst harvests on record inside the past five years really should be being treated as a much bigger cause for concern than is currently the case. www.businessgreen.com/news/4520171...

GB News pay party political leader Nigel Farage over half a million pounds. The TV channel pays him five times his MP salary - and as much as his other 11 further external jobs put together www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

“When streets became calmer & safer, more people felt comfortable trying a bike commute for the first time. Families began pedaling to the park…Local businesses saw new life…And cycling stopped feeling like a niche activity—it became part of everyday Parisian life.” Via @momentummag.bsky.social

“I’m from the government and I’m here to help”

The thing about comparisons with Japan’s orderliness - somewhere I lived for 10 years - is most people have no idea the level of conformity and rule-following it takes to make Japan the way it is. I have a feeling these right wing blowhards would tap out after about 5 minutes.

The Usual Bollocks

i think this is a practice just like anything else we are doing. the social media brain chemistry rewards looking at and magnifying and churning out a witty comment about the bad things. And i think the reaction to good stuff is asymmetric as heck.

We are living under an aspiring fascist regime that has not yet fully consolidated. This is not difficult to understand unless you get paid to muddy the waters.

And she's right when she writes: "I wish there were a secret playbook with all the answers – but there never has been. The only thing that has ever worked – time and time again – is solidarity: binding together, finding bravery in numbers too big to ignore, and standing up for one another.”

The same in #Edinburgh. It invested in its public realm to increase walking and cycling and Mastercard reported a 20% increase in local spend. Many other benefits were also evidenced in the multi year study - despite predictions of disaster, the scheme was anything but.

“For all the effort Republicans invest in making the president out to be some powerful colossus, what we’re left with is a flailing man whose operation feels compelled to whine about actors, cartoons and late-night monologues.”

NEW ANALYSIS | Spain is successfully decoupling electricity prices from gas power costs 🇪🇸⚡️ Spain reduced the number of hours where electricity prices exceed gas costs by 75% since 2019. As a result, Spain's electricity prices were 32% lower than the EU average in H1-2025.

“A broad shift to electric vehicles -- which are quieter than traditional vehicles -- could yield noise reduction benefits of $77.3 billion, concentrated among low-income families in dense urban areas.” www.nber.org/papers/w34298

War is peace

Sums up this most dismal moment.

NEW: Something remarkable happened recently and hardly anyone noticed – GB electricity demand was 100% covered by clean power We took a look at the data and this has happened for a record 87 hours in 2025 to date, twice as often as ever before 🧵 www.carbonbrief.org/... 1/7

“Let’s call it for what it is: bullshit. The truth is, politicians have talked about little else but immigration for decades and in the most dehumanising ways. Polanski added: “Stop the boats’ is all we hear. Well, today I'm saying ‘stop the bullshit’.” www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Dr. Hayhoe's framing has changed my life. I talk to people often who are cynical and despondent. I'm an anxious overthinker myself, but acting like I have hope, doing the practice of hope, has given me actual hope too. Why not act like you can make a difference? Why not try?

'Yeah, let's make the whole of England look like Belfast's Shankill Road at the height of sectarian violence in the 1980s', said no one more than five minutes ago.

@alexsteffen.bsky.social is one of the smartest people around on what kind of future the climate crisis holds for society. If you want insights on how to personally plan, this is an excellent resource.

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This is *really* important. Our elections regulator isn’t independent. Reform’s Arron Banks has said the Electoral Commission should be abolished The architecture of British democracy is really weak and easily ripped out. It needs to be protected now