Nice cartoon from 1929. marchudson.net/2026/07/07/h...

Any takers on the year (it's earlier than you think).

The global surface temperature record is one of the most iconic figures in climate science. We now have 12 different groups of researchers from the US, UK, EU, Japan, and China (among others) that have calculated it and found nearly identical results:

A country with even a slight attachment to liberalism does not tolerate the government decreeing dissidents are supporters of terrorism, leading to a one thousand percent increase in arrests for terrorist offences in one year. It especially does not nod it through, agreeing They have it coming.

Me, I'm on Team Snake. marchudson.net/2026/07/06/o...

1909 Cartoon "Suffragettes at Home" by Arthur Wallis Mills. He: I say, that lady over there looks rather out of it. She: Yes, you see, most of us here have been in prison two or three times, and she, poor dear, has only been bound over!"

Timeline cleanse. A robin having an exuberant bath in the dog’s water bowl.

Founding Fathers Smile Down On America From Outer Space https://theonion.com/founding-fathers-smile-down-on-america-from-outer-space/

🚨 WE NEED YOU 🚨 As a new Prime Minister comes into power, we want to show that an overwhelming number of people support trans people, and want the government to take serious action to protect their rights. Will you say you stand with trans people? And share with everyone you know?

hello @sturdyalex.bsky.social you may be amused by this bsky.app/profile/did:...

Operational security the Mercurial way - checking out whether the witness is gonna rat you out... marchudson.net/2026/07/03/o...

July 3, 1986 – House of Lords debate abt the atmosphere & fuel use… “To ask Her Majesty’s Government what weight they attach to theories that... the atmosphere could be so changed as to produce a greenhouse effect with serious results for most forms of life.” allouryesterdays.info/2023/07/02/2...

AI is being programmed to espouse the same ableist nonsense we’ve been dealing with since the dawn of time. It’ll be used to help eliminate us … because that’s what those in power want. Don’t use genAI. Listen to disabled voices instead.

The British Museum removed the terms “Palestine”, “Palestinian” and “Israelite occupation” from its displays in direct response to months of lobbying in 2024, a Middle East Eye investigation has found. Internal emails reveal changes resulted directly from complaints

RENEWABLES: They're still wildly popular with the British public, not that you'd realise from news coverage * Only 4% are opposed Even for wind/solar farms in your local area, opposition is very low * 74/68% would either be happy to have a local solar/wind farm, or don't care

Yes we definitely need to increase defence spending. That will fix it.

Asking for a friend - if you are described in an NHS consultant's letter to another NHS consultant as a "pleasant gentleman" does this mean you are actually a raging asshole to be bumped down the waiting list until you get the message and self-discharge? As I said, asking for a friend....

A job in British academia! jobs.staffs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Homo insapiens...

Am racking my brain to think of ways we can all keep the pressure and heat on this story. Meta & Mark Zuckerberg - one of the richest men in the world - are putting unfathomable legal and financial pressure on whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams. Pretty sure most people are on her side - not their's

July 1st is "one of those days" in climate (and environment) history. A lot going on. Pls comment on and share this thread! July 1, 1950 – “Is the World Getting Warmer?” asks Saturday Evening Post allouryesterdays.info/2022/07/01/j... 1/n

July 1, 1950 – “Is the World Getting Warmer?” asks Saturday Evening Post allouryesterdays.info/2022/07/01/j...

July 1, 1957- A key “year” in climate science begins… allouryesterdays.info/2022/07/01/j...

July 1, 1959 – Gilbert Plass article on climate change published in Scientific American allouryesterdays.info/2025/06/30/j...

July 1, 1984 – CSIRO film “What to do about C02?” allouryesterdays.info/2024/06/30/j...

“Humanity is frying itself alive but refuses to turn the stove off, because the fumes smell quite tasty. This is how I would summarize our collective cognitive blackout. Stupidity has won” My new article

Ovid's Metamorphoses is a tough read for the sexual violence against women. I mean, just, yikes. But then, it's what civilisation seems to be drenched in? marchudson.net/2026/06/30/o...

Ginny Woolf, writing about Joe Conrad after he snuffed it, in 1924.

Today I read the first part of Book Two of Ovid's Metamorphoses, Phaethon's Ride - omfg. OMFG. Every environmentally-minded person should read it!

How in the name of Gaia did I get to [age redacted] without having read Ovid's version of Phaethon (young and dumb and full of cum) versus his dad's nags and the consequences for everyone? I mean, omfGaia... marchudson.net/2026/06/29/b...

Seen lots of “don’t swim without lifeguards” messages - this is *exactly* why Lidos were built in ‘30s - til then kids & w/class folk swam in canals. The decline of Lidos is a public health scandal & we need public support to restore @simonforstroud.bsky.social savestroudlido.org/when-we-get-...

Utah is burning. The fires are nowhere near contained, hundreds of thousands of acres have burned and three firefighters have already died. But the same MAGAts who have spent the last 18 months blaming Newsom and Bass for the L.A. fires are calling Cox a p*ssy for listening to wildfire experts. 🤦‍♀️🤡

‘Which Way Is Iran?’ Asks Pantsless, Sword-Wielding Trump Wandering On Side Of Freeway https://theonion.com/which-way-is-iran-asks-pantsless-sword-wielding-trump-wandering-on-side-of-freeway/

Absolutely this. Some people admire someone who is mostly id, who gets away with being wilfully ignorant, hateful, corrupt. They experience vicarious joy, a kind of catharsis

Ovid's Metamorphoses 9/111 - The Pipes of Pan marchudson.net/2026/06/27/o...

The policy gymnastics involved in both sides of this deal are off the fucking charts www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Hello @avastmachine.bsky.social are you familiar with my climate histories site. I'm posting the astonishing CO2 Newsletters there this year. allouryesterdays.info/co2-newslett... @allouryesterdays.bsky.social

Nous sommes completely fucked

Les presque 30 °C (29.5 °C) de T° minimale à la station Meteo-France de #Paris Lariboisiere la nuit dernière sont possiblement un record mondial à une latitude aussi nord (48°51') , venant souligner le caractère absolument hors norme et dangereux de la chaleur nocturne dans les rues de Paris...

Ovid’s Metamorphoses #008/111: “Io and Jove” (don’t have a cow, man) marchudson.net/2026/06/26/o...

Forty years ago today - June 26, 1986 – “our children will grow old in a world that fragmenting and disintegrating.” Report in the Melbourne Age. And here we are. allouryesterdays.info/2023/06/25/j...

Turns out bringing your best performer back from a period of absence to lead the team is not the great solution everyone thought it would be. But enough about Saint Andy Burnham, what about the cricket...?!

This good from Jennifer Williams of the FT, about Andy Burnham as Mayor of Greater Manchester. Fascinating that it is absolutely silent on climate, and area where Burnham a) promised BIG and delivered basically nothing b) will have his feet held to the fire. www.ft.com/content/9949...

good morning

Apollo was a typical a-hole. Go figure. marchudson.net/2026/06/25/o...

Terrible meetings for terrible times? #DoBetter allouryesterdays.info/2026/06/25/t...

Europe is warming at a rate that’s more than double the pace of warming worldwide since the mid-1990s, due to melting Arctic sea ice, reduced pollution-related aerosols, and less snow cover. These changes are also altering weather patterns, leading to more frequent and intense heat waves.

“Within the weed-grown swamps left by the flood The animal kingdoms of the earth appeared. The seeds of earth swelled in the heat of noon As in a mother’s womb - as when the seven-lipped Nile shrinks to its source, so the sun’s heat wakens The moss-green river side…" (Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book 1)

“Within the weed-grown swamps left by the flood The animal kingdoms of the earth appeared. The seeds of earth swelled in the heat of noon As in a mother’s womb - as when the seven-lipped Nile shrinks to its source, so the sun’s heat wakens The moss-green river side…" (Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book 1)

The weather map is not the climate territory allouryesterdays.info/2026/06/24/t...