CENTRAL ASIA RECORD HEAT Another insane hot night with tropical nights at 2000m asl ! in Tajik and Kazakh highlands with several monthly records smashed An absolute madness MAX:39C in Kazakhstan again,33C in Siberia In few days it will get MUCH hotter: 45C in the former USSR!

Very much enjoyed @edconway.bsky.social book Material World. A fascinating look at the raw materials essential to our lifestyle. Prescient about the importance of our interconnected world. An insightful discussion on net zero. Will now lend to a friend.

Attended Woking Quaker Meeting this meeting in solidarity with Westminster Friends whose meeting house was violated this week with forced police. entry. Strong armed policing happens too often with meetings of women. Gaza and climate change are of concern to many of us. #quakers

Fun to see the image of the partial eclipse through my binoculars and to see the dip in power from my solar panels.

🚨 Outrage as 20 police officers break into Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrest six. 🚨 This shocking violation of a place of worship is a direct result of crackdowns on protest and dissent - freedom of speech, assembly and democracy are at risk.🕊️ 👉 www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

“Wait guys, P. Hegseth is typing…”

BREAKING: People are being suspended on X in Turkey for posting videos of these protests against Erdoğan’s corrupt and repressive regime. Keep sharing everywhere.

Never has Yeats' work been more prophetic: "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity."

From Lee Phillips' excellent biography of Emmy Noether. In 1933 Noether left Germany for the US. "She assumed that the famous German reverence for scholarship would reassert itself and wash away the tide of thuggery that had temporarily taken power." Resonances today but in the opposite direction.

Pessimists sound clever. Optimists change the world. I love this depiction of the energy transition by RMI.

In troubled times it's good to follow Voltaire's advice. Il faut cultivar notre jardins.

There’s no such thing as “too many books”—only not enough shelves, not enough time, and not enough space for the dream library with a sliding ladder. But let’s be honest… we’ll keep buying books anyway.

When your wife studied English...

🚗What's happening to Europe's car industry is one of the biggest stories in the world right now, & prob the biggest story of next year too. A slow motion implosion driven by multiple factors (esp Chinese competition). Watch my primer on what's going on👇 youtu.be/oW_SXIVQT5I?...

Here’s a short story about who wins and loses from the status quo of our inheritance tax rules - and about, what you might politely call ‘sub-optimal’ journalism🧵

I very much enjoyed the @julietriddell.bsky.social FT piece last weekend about her experience with a heat pump. Encouraging as we're just starting on the same journey.