Reddit: Meiji Jingu Stadium, which houses the Tokyo Yakult Swallows, has banned fans from wearing Chicago White Sox merchandise, despite selling Murakami White Sox merchandise in the team shop. @mulboyne.bsky.social old.reddit.com/r/baseball/c...

But but but it's solar and wind that are unreliable surely this can't be right it means solar and wind not nuclear right????

Another parody account mimicking the loony right. They're are so skilled these days.

Even Catholic southern European countries like Spain and Italy get written off by Northern europeans as lazy bc of their heat…the idea you might sleep mid day when it’s 40° means you are LAZY to the cold protestant. Well, the sun rooster has come home to roost now

You do not want to fall into that.

USians think that problems are solved with technology. New problems need new technology. Europeans think that problems are solved by changing behaviour. New problems need improved behaviour.

If I were European I would simply solve the heatwave using good old American moxie. But I will not use said moxie to solve the USA's intractable social problems because America is a real country and I am very busy.

Hirokuma, a bear who turned yellow after eating too many lemons, is the mascot of Hiroshima Pefecture. He actually smells of lemons in person.

This is the frontcover of the very same edition of the Times... A-list "heatwave" fashion trends in larger type than "heatwave threatens to bring record-breaking highs of 40C"

Canicule: France records the hottest day of its recorded history

Too many motorists: "If you criticise car culture you're excluding disabled people!" Also too many motorists:

June 23, 1926: Frances “Peaches” Browning receives a $10,000 check as a 16th birthday gift from her new husband, millionaire Edward Browning, who is 51. He throws a party for her at the Victory Club, together with “scores of girls of Peaches’ age and men the age of Browning and many in between.”

EXCLUSIVE: Eli Lilly gave compassionate use access to retatrutide, their unapproved powerful obesity drug, to a 79-year-old man in April. The application was arranged by a top doctor at NIH, and cleared by the FDA. www.statnews.com/2026/06/23/e...

Hitch a ride on a freight train.

Keir Starmer should do a speech obviously written by ChatGPT 5 minutes beforehand. 'Good catch. I didn't do what I said in my manifesto. And your pushback exposes something quietly powerful about what the people of Britain want. Not racism. Not knee-jerk internet censorship. A future.'

Frankie on TW3 www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPVy...

Just to remind everyone, if you see a mouse dressed as a slice of bread stealing bread, you didn't see anything.

Children’s picture book character Pandorobou (the Bread Thief) is a a mouse who disguises himself as a loaf of bread to sneak into bakeries and steal fresh bread.

Just yesterday I took pictures of a cabinet hinge that had separated from the cabinet. Took it to the local hardware store and had an extended conversation with an older employee about possible solutions.

And to anyone who argues we can’t connect one extreme weather event to climate change or any media outlets that refuses to mention climate change in its reporting, I wrote this during a 2018 heatwave and it stands up. www.businessgreen.com/blog-post/30...

Dry hair is for squids.

Extreme wobblycam. Almost frogs.

Extreme close-up! Tadpoles are turning into frogs. There were 14 tadpoles, I hope more than 2 have survived. Very hot weather now.

Me and @eleanormorton.bsky.social read Winnie the Pooh and, in the words of A. A. Milne, "I pity the fool who gets on a plane." New pod in your podplace: linktr.ee/readthat

He hides them so he can use their absence as an excuse to avoid reading, because he cannot read and he is too narcissistic to admit it. Imagine what a positive example he could have been to so many adults who struggle with reading. Twice President with a reading age of 6.

Not to belabour the point, as others have made it, but a lot of the social scientific takes on the Belfast pogroms emanating from England and placing them in a pattern with recent race riots *in* England, don’t really take specificities like this into account.

'Chris Quinn told the Irish News he was on the ground during the race hate disorder in Glengormley last Wednesday, and said he was made aware of one young person who had been encouraged to riot to clear a debt of £500' [4/n]

'Figures from the PSNI this week show that of the 35 arrests it has made in connection with the race hate disorder, 10 were children aged 16 and under, with the youngest of those aged just 12.' Local UDA were identified only weeks ago forcing young people to issue death threats. [5/n]

“We have been informed by reliable people working with these young people, that some of those were brought there to clear debts. “I heard an account of one young person who was told to go and partake in this, and it would wipe £500 off their debt." [6/n]

14/x Many ships were retrofitted, significantly reducing the casualty rate. Tippers’ work shifted the focus from "bad welding" to material science, leading to better testing methods, including the "Tipper test" for brittleness.

8/x A key breakthrough in the investigation came from metallurgist Constance Tipper (University of Cambridge). Through detailed analysis, she demonstrated that the primary cause was not the welds themselves, but the steel grade used.

Imagine if there was a sudden run on filling stations, panic buying before they ran empty...

I just learned that the term "carbon footprint" was developed by BP to offload responsibility for climate change onto individuals. Something like that's happening in higher ed with AI. Institutions capitulate or dodge; students are submitting; & they believe it's their individual failing. 7/

Jo Cox MP was murdered ten years ago today. I walked among the steadily growing tributes in Parliament Square the next day, shocked & stunned, as was everyone else. Some tourists stopped to ask me what had happened and when I told them they said ‘but this sort of thing doesn’t happen in the U.K.’

Nestlé??? The famously ethical company that makes sure its milk products ensure safety for everyone??? That Nestlé?!?! Unbelievable.

UK poised to fuck it up yet again.

#Poetry #Painting #Summer Bats can hear shapes. Plants can eat light. Bees can dance maps. We can hold all these ideas at once and feel Both heavy and weightless with the absurd beauty of it all. Jared K Anderson 🎨 Ralph Emerson

Risonya the cat is the mascot for Resona Bank. He appears calm and intelligent, but he can be clumsy and surprisingly prone to tears. He tends to get absorbed in his own world and often finds himself alone. Thus, he is single and inexperienced in romance.

The enshitification continues. Somehow, my Chrome browser has decided to split into two parts. One part is the browser that I want. The other part says Create split view, which I don't want. No, it won't go away. So now, everything I am looking at is a bit smaller than I want. These fucking people.

I give this two weeks before they abruptly halt the program.

@otdscalacinema.bsky.social what was the weird Dutch scifi future dystopian film at the Scala, shot in black & orange, set on a river or sewer, everybody was on small boats, with an English actor in his only leading role, usually he played cockney heavies or comedies, he died last year??? I think.

. @rushisaband.bsky.social This Davie504 video is worth a view: www.youtube.com/watch?v=20vt...

This AI stuff is just unintelligible. Utter gibberish.

It happened again. Some spineless, talentless, unethical AI slop "writer" has stolen my work (and the work of others) and run it through ChatGPT to shit out a slop-filled "book" on Amazon, using my stolen artwork for the cover: www.amazon.com/STORY-GASHAD... This really is the darkest timeline.

Politicians who fanned these flames should hang their heads in shame. Time and again we've seen this story play out. Single incidents used to fuel a far right narrative - and communities across the nation paying the price.

The guy who invented being a jester:

I cannot sign in to Amazon without an OTP sent to WhatsApp. But I don't have WhatsApp and I'm not getting WhatsApp. So that's Amazon knocked on the head. Heyho. (They wouldn't send the OTP to my SMS).

Sections of the media are just absolute bullshit. They've always been a problem - but now they're literally lying and making up things that have never been said. The only way to defeat the billionaire media is to organise around them. Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk

The blue, but not the pink domestos, as of course it would be ridiculous to give your dad pink domestos