What the ACTUAL FUCK, Kīlauea?! Go check it out yourself in the livestream right now. 👇 ⚒️🧪 #volcano www.youtube.com/live/tk0tfYD...

Y'all the latest episode of the #Kilauea #eruption just went CRAZY. It looks like pressure built up enough to explode out the ground around the two existing vents (first few seconds), leading to a massive surge in lava fountaining.🌋🤯 USGS Live stream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiyt...

NVDA CEO Jensen Huang was in the White House today just prior to this foul diatribe. It’s about time to explicitly ask him and the cohort of CEO’s who are busy sucking up to Trump if they endorse these sentiments. And many others. Enough.

Opportunities to transform nature don’t get much bigger than this! We have the opportunity to conserve 340 acres (138 hectares) of biodiverse countryside surrounding the Cerne Abbas Giant, Dorset.

'Britain becomes world’s largest economy to end new oil and gas exploration' Feels like this should have been bigger news... www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/britain...

well he ain't woke

ok I'll stop but JFC

NEW: Older people who experience cognitive decline have around £30,000 lower financial wealth than those who do not around eight to ten years after first recording low cognitive function. Read @heidikarj.bsky.social's new report, funded by the IFS Retirement Saving Consortium ⬇️

A reckoning for the Far Right.

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

🦇 Our #podcast #BatChat is back!! Listen to the first episode in your usual platform! We're starting this exciting new collection of interviews with our President, Chris Packham ! Steve Roe and Chris talk bats, Bills and the battle for Britain’s wildlife.

The UK military also recently showed us excactly how to tackle these boats without killing any one, getting the people, boats and the evidence - with just a single sniper from a helicopter! If the UK can do that, so can the US...especially if they want to continue the intelligence sharing. 2/2

It’s bigger than you think.

Meloni being threatened for not being sufficiently on message for Trump? Meloni's task is the same as Orban's, to destabilise the EU. Unlike Orban, Meloni knows this would be political suicide. What a tangled web you're weaving Meloni.

Time to reshare this piece on the pitfalls of following the road Denmark has taken on immigration: ukandeu.ac.uk/denmarks-mig...

live shot of me shorting the shit

Let me guess, stress testing to determine capital adequacy is now 'woke'. Interesting to see if Trump understands that international banks have to abide by capital adequacy requirements in other jurisdictions if they want to establish. I'm guessing not.

🚨 New paper in @thejop.bsky.social Why do politicians often misperceive what citizens' policy positions are? @simonotjes.bsky.social and I study ~10,000 estimates of public opinion by politicians in Denmark & the Netherlands to uncover the sources of these (mis)perceptions Thread 🧵1/10

Always interesting reading the anonymous comments to the survey of US oil and gas executives. This quarter the theme is unpredictability in a chaotic environment. "The noise and chaos is deafening!" said one.

Flights have been halted to Copenhagen Airport after multiple drones were spotted over the Øresund Strait, Reuters reports.

Reading various commentators on BlueSky, I was braced for weeks of acrimonious infighting and blah. But no. It's sorted. If this is what political commentators think drama is, then they should stay clear of Downton Abbey.

Farage's performance review with his handlers: H: Komrade! Where's the riots we paid for? F: 52 mini roundabouts have been painted H: Ok, so more to come? F: it's raining

When it happens, it's going to be like this on the socials

'Let us live for each other and for happiness; let us seek peace in our dear home, near the inland murmur of streams, and the gracious waving of trees, the beauteous vesture of earth, and sublime pageantry of the skies. Let us leave 'life,' that we may live.' -Mary Shelley 🎨Thomas Cole

Crowds in DC waiting for orange smoke from the White House chimney.

The BBC messed up their last article on vaccinations - using the lazy journalism trope of 'huge needle and crying toddler image' to illustrate the story and veering towards 'both siding' vaccine hesitancy. This is much better. Welcome back Aunty.

Critical vote in October on IMO Net Zero framework. At the last vote only 16 members voted against the proposals. The US is not only voting against the framework but threatening reprisals against those who support it. What form would such reprisals take? None of the major CSCs are American.

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Paths of poison across our oceans: of 90411 oil spills from ships, only 474 were reported in a 5 year period - satellite analysis exposes high density "slick belts" coinciding with shipping lanes. Our latest article with @pulitzercenter.bsky.social journalist Saroj Pathirana out now:

Making kids laugh can sometimes be difficult but when you get it just right it’s a brilliant thing!

This is a lovely article. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Today, the International Court of Justice delivered its Advisory Opinion that could transform climate governance. 1/5

Buried in the small print of your household policy is Flood Re. It's laughable that a) it will no longer be needed beyond 2039 b) it can continue to capitalise the increasing risk at an acceptable price The EU Commission are evaluating a Cat Pool solution. The UK should be part of it.

OK, I'm known to be a crypto bear (& yes, having fun staying poor etc). But if it's just a load of people YOLO-ing money - even if they are doing so in a personally unwise way - it's not a systemic issue really (tho encourages criminality etc). Banks lending against crypto collateral is different...

Seagrass prevents coastal erosion, stores carbon, and contributes to food security. However, these vital ecosystems are in decline. Join #GenerationRestoration and take action for our precious ecosystems: bit.ly/44JY0Cs

🗳️Demain, les Japonais élisent pour un mandat de 6 ans la moitié des 248 membres de la Chambre des conseillers, la chambre haute de la Diète, le Parlement japonais. C'est un scrutin qui est plus important que ce qu'on pourrait croire 👇

‘There is no frigate like a book To take us lands away, Nor any coursers like a page Of prancing poetry. This traverse may the poorest take Without oppress of toll; How frugal is the chariot That bears a human soul!’ ~ Emily Dickinson And @racheldeering.bsky.social afloat, adrift for #BookWormSat 🚢

Went to get a bag of peas out of the garage freezer. I live in a flat so my garage is in a compound. An incredibly fancy sports car is parked up against the door of my garage. The incredibly fancy driver was on the phone. .

Not many politicians in the UK tell the truth about farming or are brave enough to criticise the cakeism of the main farming unions. But Lee Waters MS does in this refreshingly honest speech. Almost every word of it applies to England as much as Wales. amanwy.blogspot.com/2025/07/we-n...

This is such a good article on British Universities www.economist.com/britain/2025... From The Economist, and has contradicted my lazy assumptions in so many ways. With contributions from @nickhillman.bsky.social Tom Richmond and others 1. They're expensive and well funded 1/

NESO announced that Great Britain achieved a new maximum solar record on 8 July between 12:00 – 12.30pm, with solar generating nearly 40% of the electricity mix. eciu.net/media/press...

🌳 A new mission to bring nature home

Trump's threat to invest Murdoch's 401k into Crypto was the last straw.

So, traditional reinsurers with decades of data and expertise in modelling catastrophe risks are saying 'hey climate change is making Cat risks increasingly expensive to reinsure' and Cat Bond investors are like 'nah, we feel lucky'. Love the optimism. Paywall article.

This is a tragedy, and the spike in admissions to Alder Hey is deeply concerning. But the BBC, knowing that vaccine hesitancy is on the rise, decided in its wisdom to address fears by using a picture of a f***g great needle in the article. Where's Aunty's proud public education mission gone?

Trump just said the dollar will remain the standard. He followed up with the dollar will be weak if you have stupid President and strong if you have a smart President. $DXY during Biden's term +21.2% $DXY since Trump's election -10.75%

Nice piece from the IFS yesterday calling for reform of levies on energy bills, including this excellent chart showing how we tax electricity so much more than we tax gas. (NB - the taxes include both levies and VAT subsidies, hence the -ve figure for household gas) ifs.org.uk/articles/tax...

Big step to #BeatPollution! Countries have just agreed to establish a new global science-policy panel to support the management of chemicals and waste and to prevent pollution. The panel will equip countries with the science needed #ForPeopleForPlanet: bit.ly/45z01DE