This is perfect. Absolutely on point. No notes.

Guy Mowbray: "Nobody should ever have that much drama at 4 o'clock in the morning." Kelly Cates: "I think you'll find, Guy Mowbray, that that's when all the best drama happens."

"Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro as a commuter looks on, during the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 4, 2026. REUTERS/Cheney Orr"

Birdsong & the richness we’ve laid (are laying) waste to. An astonishing, heartbreaking demonstration of shifting baseline syndrome, & what I remember. Wrote about this @environment.theguardian.com + a real recording made in my village by a fierce & wonderful woman conservationist in 1975. 1/3

Certainly describes my situation: facing redundancy from a humanities job in weeks, no chance of another academic role, and at a university that went from teaching 15-20 languages to none.

Snow and ice on Swiss glaciers melting at alarming rate amid heatwave, expert says: Accumulation on Switzerland’s glaciers from last winter expected to all be gone by Monday amid ‘enormous’ melt rates across Alps Swiss glaciers are set to lose an enormous amount of ice due to the heatwave...

Everyone can't and shouldn't work in tech or finance. Everyone can't and won't be a multi-millionaire. A society needs civil servants, social workers and creatives. We need NHS doctors and dentists. We need teachers, people who work in publishing and the law. Where is the encouragement for this?

And no, it isn't "nannying neurotics" infecting our once great "resilient country" to share public health messaging highlighting the different signs to look out for for both heat exhaustion and heatstroke! "common sense" is NOT a substitute for public health messaging🙄 22/

Yes, 1976 was an exceptional year - which is why everyone remembers it. Britain had a uniquely hot summer. Against a backdrop of reasonable global temperatures. That's not where we're at now! They've since had to extend the scale from 4.1°C anomaly to 8.8°C!👇 7/

As we have experienced this week, extreme temperatures are no longer a future threat. They are a present danger. Today, I’m launching London’s first ever heat plan: a city-wide plan to adapt our capital, protect communities, and build a climate-resilient city.

It sets out actions to make our city more resilient, including: 🔴 Retrofitting homes at the highest risk of overheating 🔴 More tree cover and green spaces 🔴 More safe access to blue spaces such as swimming 🔴 Support for our health system 🔴 Strengthening critical infrastructure

Don't think this is getting enough traction.

Beacon of light and hope (and a fair bit of warmth 😂) Photo from this morning on Glastonbury Tor at sunrise.

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

holy shit bsky has a water sealant expert that predicted the reflecting pool failure mode perfectly

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."

The weather isn't the only thing making Farage sweat today 🥵

Very much enjoyed the facilitator pausing his presentation about why AI is brilliant to take a call announcing the heatwave has closed his son’s school. He didn’t at any point mention data centres’ power consumption. I did though.

David Hockney ( 1937 -2026 ) 'My Parents ' 1977 ♥️

Picture the scene, the sun is setting over the sea & waves are rolling in gently. Music drifts across the beach from the party & this nautical inspired guest arrives in her striped James Galanos gown. Both beach chic and evening glam all at the same time. Mid 1950s @metmuseum.org #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

This is the "pure cold rage" they were calling for

Oxford people: this is for you. (I have some free guest tix for mutuals; hmu.)

London people: this is for you.

Rainbow circle. Photo taken on Glastonbury Tor a few days ago. Blowing a gale and torrential rain this morning.

I really think that "are you saying Shirley Bassey isn't Welsh?" exposes the ridiculousness of this even more because it underlines how fake and backwards-constructed this "English is an ethnicity" argument is.

Buried deep in this article: “Low-emissions technologies are the cornerstone of Kenya’s electricity mix, with geothermal, hydro, wind and solar sources accounting for nearly 90% of power generation” 😭😭😭 90% of electricity generated in Kenya is renewable! 60 million people live there!

A reminder of what Nigel Farage said following the murder of Sarah Everard by a serving police officer.

I think "Henry Nowak protestors" (Telegraph) seems a very inappropriate label for these violent scenes, dishonouring the murder victim + ignoring the calls of his family not to do this. "Protestors throw bricks and bottles at police in violent rage after Southampton murder" would be much better.

This is a long shot, but does anyone know of any youth centres/charities in the Salford and Greater Manchester area who would like a free pool table? My dad has one he'd like to give away and he's having a hard time finding anyone who wants one.

Feck’s sake.

It’s a stupidly high bar but I believe this to be Craig Brown’s finest work

I’m still wrestling with really not good mental health atm due to PMDD + autism &ADHD but I’m trying to be kinder to myself. I made a new 📷 for the 1st time in ages today-seasonal garden flowers…& as requested,the tiny silver owl is hiding in it. Your brain will release dopamine when you spot him…🪶🌿

1860s cotton promenade dresses. Images via The Met & The John Bright Collection.

A quick reminder that no dog died from missing a walk, but many dogs have died as a result of being exercised in hot weather! I've treated many dogs with heat stroke and it is often fatal. There's loads more useful info on preventing and treating heatstroke at Veterinary Voices UK!

they’re shooting crowd control munitions at crowds that include multiple members of congress, the governor, and a sitting united states senator. they fired pepper balls at the senator. they cannot and will not be reigned in by democracy, whatever’s left of it.

In 1884, when he was working at Fontainebleau, John Lavery painted an unknown woman resting in a hammock slung between trees close to a river. That sense of dolce far niente, of beautiful youth and summer's luxuriance remained with him for the rest of his life. This is from 1904

Some thoughtful person provided a link to a non-paywalled version of this article: gcaptain.com/drowning/

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Lovely, fascinating thread — the crucial takeaway is how incredibly chaotic the act of artistic creation is A film requires hundreds of people, each making hundreds of daily choices, and the iconic final product is often born from collaboration/compromise/improvisations AI does none of this

This story, insofar as it deals with the National Railway Museum, is utterly absurd. If you rock up to a museum event expecting to dump a load of stuff on the staff, and are then surprised to be politely refused, then you clearly have no idea what museums are for. www.cityam.com/a-state-of-t...

This headline is fuel for the right-wing anti-migrant reaction machine, but the article reveals the employer knowingly brought her to the UK under a visitor visa to employ her, then denied her a work permit—and most importantly!—refused to pay her any wages. This looks approximate to modern slavery

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🪄Historical Sea Routing is now much quicker to load, reload, and compute seasonally-plausible sailing routes, thanks to some behind-the-scenes browser magic. Find a 6500-mile return trip in under 1 second! 🛟 Do you have historical voyage data which might help with calibration? [1/3]

This is a shocking example of one of the big reasons why, right now, there is no way I’d use AI for any of my historical work. If you don’t look at the documents yourself, and if you don’t know how the AI you’re using was coded, you have no idea what it may be leaving out – or adding in.

I’m sorry but if you aren’t sure of a citation, whether what it means or that it exists… why are you citing it. why are you referring to something you haven’t read or don’t understand? that defeats the entire bloody point

Alien: And how did you run out of water? Earthling: Machines drank it. Alien: Machines. Earthling: We had to feed machines the water. Aliens: So the machines were holding your planet hostage for water. Earthling: No, we made the thirsty machines. They worked for us. Alien: End communication.

Librarians literally saved my life

A magical mellow sunrise this morning in Glastonbury. Have a really lovely Sunday everyone.