Closing soon! You’ve got until 8 July to share your views on our proposals to revitalise the main streets in #Craigmillar and #Niddrie. Please register your views by taking part in the survey at consultationhub.edinburgh.gov.uk/sfc/craigmil....

Can we scrap the "temporary" fuel duty cut now please and introduce the fuel duty escalator. It's vitally important that we reduce our fuel burning as much as we can. Ppl are sitting there with engine on and A/C running so it's obviously too cheap. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

My husband painting this for our son room

The heat wave in France is also affecting the electricity market: The energy provider EDF had to reduce the output of its nuclear power plants by 4.1 GW because the rivers became too warm. Nuclear power is NOT a solution for the future. The goal must be 100 percent renewables.

I have to say, it's making me feel a little insane hearing commentators say Ed Miliband shouldn't be chancellor because of his "ideological zeal" for Net Zero, in a week where temperatures are so extreme that my kids are being sent home early every day and it's regularly 30 degrees inside my house

Movie poster Metropolis by Fritz Lang, 1926 by Boris Konstantinovich Bilinsky Image from Pinterest. Discover more design history by subscribing to my newsletter designreviewed.com/newsletter/

The opening over of the 2nd England-New Zealand Test at Lord's, June 25th 1949. Len Hutton opened with Jack Robertson, My parents got married a week earlier and this match was part of their honeymoon!

Lets make something as dangerous as driving along the footway normal and give it a cutesy name - Pavement surfing. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It’s – well, of course – the 79th anniversary of the first article about ‘flying saucers’ appearing in the US media, sparking a summer of sightings of EXACTLY THE SAME THING, which is uncanny, isn’t it?

Love listening to the birds as I hang the washing out 😊 #TenMinuteMerlin #BirdSky

Work begins on UK's new £750m supercomputer www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Wait til they read Wuthering Heights.

Audrey Hepburn by Cecil Beaton (1948)

Shocking that this is the same Tesco store a pedestrian was killed by a driver a couple of months ago…

This reminds me of a Ukrainian woman I used to work with in the lab who was very slapdash with radioactivity. When confronted, she’d say “This is nothing! In Ukraine we have Chernobyl!” ☢️

I feel as if we've never really got past the 2008 financial crisis, let alone Brexit in 2016 and Covid in 2020.

35°C is normal, we used to just call that summer! Here's how many summers topped 32°C 70s 4 80s 2 90s 8 2000s 6 2010s all of them 2020s all of them And here's how many summers topped 35°C 70s 1 80s 0 90s 2 2000s 2 2010s 3 2020s 4 (out of 6 so far)

It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23

So many public services for the poorest in society DOGE'd - yet there's always taxpayers' money available to make sure the richest companies in the world never have to fund cleaning up their own filth. Why is that?

Strange that the BBC don’t say WHY the electricity is failing. I heard it was because the water in rivers is too warm to cool nuclear reactors efficiently. Power outages hit France as record heatwave set to peak www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Active travel in Edinburgh is facing significant setbacks. City Scope has been updated with the latest timeline changes from Edinburgh Council, with delays across the board since February.

I thought kick off was later and I’m sad I somehow missed it but that’s a great result for Scotland.

It's 37c out there, feels like 38, and streets given over entirely to cars, without trees, are unbearably hot. We need a rethink

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

24 June 2016. The day after when EU citizens across the UK were told to ‘go home’; when the then PM said he would not protect our rights. Stories largely forgotten. BLEA - Brexit Lived Experience Archive - which I am launching today, is here to preserve this history. #Brexit brexit.migravox.org

++BREAKING++ Leading climate scientists in the UK have written to senior editors in broadcast media - and OFCOM and IPSO: "To express our concern about recent media coverage of extreme weather, climate change and net-zero and to urge you…to inform public audiences of the scientific links"

Am in love with this book cover from the @colezoology.bsky.social collections. New tattoo idea?

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

Parliament will vote shortly on the UK's seventh carbon budget. It will deliver £865bn in economic benefits. And allow us as a nation to lead world efforts to avoid planetary murder-suicide. The Tories and Reform will vote in favour of planetary murder-suicide.

obviously, the actual nature of the jobs will be different, but according to the ONS in the UK in 2023 there were less than 200,000 people employed in the oil and gas sector, compared to over 700,000 in the green energy sector

It tells you everything you need to know about Kemi Badneoch and Nigel Farage that as London schools, hospitals and transport networks all buckle under extreme record-breaking temperatures, they gather with fossil fuel lobbyists, climate deniers and the far-right to demand an end to Net Zero

Yes climate change & further south red weather warnings but also this on today's run up Blackford Hill

Award-winning sensory garden designed by Leith resident opens in Victoria Park www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/award-w...

Translation: the 9 out 10 people ‘buying’ their cars on finance can’t actually afford those cars Car dependency == a lifetime of debt

🌧️ Rain drops today! From James Hutton's Theory of Rain to Mackintosh coats, Tam O'Shanter to Daemonologie – explore Scotland's obsession with wet weather in our new exhibition, 'Rain'. 📅 Until 30 April 2027 📌 George IV Bridge, Edinburgh 🎟️ Free entry

Letter in today's Times by climate scientist Sir Brian Hoskins: "The discourse around net-zero is increasingly decoupled from…science and our changing weather. "Net-zero is not an arbitrary slogan, rather it is dictated by the laws of physics."

. A Single Black Wind Turbine Blade Is Having A Breakthrough Effect On Bird Collisions There is #hope, because we have the solutions 🛠️⚖️🔍 to take #ClimateAction. Read on: www.bgr.com/2195402/single-... .

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Another small step on the lengthy journey to removing vehicles from pavements www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2621959...

Deaths linked to London air pollution have fallen 40%, study estimates

Today is the 61st anniversary of the arrival of Britain’s first Black pub landlord

We've been made aware of malicious QR codes being put on some of our parking ticket machines around the city. We do not use QR codes on any of our machines. Please do not scan these. If you see any please report them to us.

I didn’t closely the back door until quite late last night so he must have come in and hidden under the dining table. MrsH, who is unflappable in these situations, gently picked him up and took him out into the garden and placed him down under a bush with a bit of wet cat food and left him to it.

NEW: Cars are growing 1.2 cm longer every year, a new study from T&E and @cleancitiescampaign.org shows. European cities are set to lose between 8.5% and 14% of their on-street parking by 2040 if this trend continues unchecked. 🧵⤵️

What a surprise… 😮 In Britain's Brexit capital, people remain 'grumpy' 10 years on www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Heat pump growth stalls as government support cut, warns climate watchdog www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“Dead or alive you’re being ignored.’