All good points but I think we should also be talking about the big venues and Edinburgh uni making fat stacks whilst underpaying their staff not to mention Fringe society exec dir getting £100k per year whilst we lowly comics must pay £300-400 just to be in the brochure

wait there's a new colour as of last year? and only five people have seen it??? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olo_(co...

Let’s be very clear that the media narrative “Labour's ‘woke’ rewilding” in the wake of the fire(s) in our Peak District valley is thick with disinformation. 🌍🔥Thread 1/15

Now live, a page for a list of creators who refuse to use AI in their work.

lovely AI interpretation of flagstones on freegle this morning

This is what drives me nuts about this slop, no designer would get away with such mistakes, the client would’ve said “WTF is this crap, go away & fix it”, but because they can do it cheaply themselves it’s somehow OK, it just needs the right feel on a macro level

Gambling - an industry out of control doing enormous damage to individuals and communities. Will Andy Burnham reverse Labour's decades-long policy of letting it rampage unchecked? www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...

At the turning of the millennium there were 769 satellites in space, 2026 there are 14,500 satellites. I spent 7mins photographing the Milky Way rising above Poatiri Mt Charles Hoopers Inlet, on Muaupoko (Otago Peninsula) this evening. Ōtepoti Dunedin, NZ #Photography

Food is going to get even more expensive so that the already insanely wealthy tech elite can get even richer.

Scotland subreddit remains unmatched

Apocalyptic scenes looking north from my house in the Peak District: the original Crowden fire resurgent in the heatwave and another seemingly started by youths with fireworks at Dovestone www.facebook.com/share/v/1D9M... 🌍

Alfred Nobel established the Nobel Prize after wake up call: newspapers mistakenly published his obituary when his brother died & what he read as his legacy horrified him speaking ill (factually) of the dead is literally the most effective way to curb living racist & Nazi public figures/politicians

Even now, as heatwaves grip the planet & damage our bird life, every post & photo about the high-carbon travel & trade birdfair is either people using to it promote their profile or sell you something. Birds, conservation & the planet come a very distant second. Crazy. Don’t look up. 🙄

BBC News - Major incident declared for Conwy Mountain wildfire (Mynydd y Dref) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Headed off to NE lakeland to climb a mountain this morning, gorgeous weather. Such a contrast to Northumberland, you never have to worry about losing the path and there's always someone to chat to.. #Cumbria #Hiking

In our Viewpoint (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...) we synthesize the gametic definition (outlined by Janicke et al below) and other definitions of sex (e.g., multivariate definition). We contend that is NO consensus on “biological sex” (maybe a consensus isn’t actually necessary…)

On Hampstead Heath today at 4 PM, practically no one was on the scorched yellow grass in direct sunlight, but there were dozens of people under these majestic trees. A reminder that it’s between 7 and 15 degrees cooler under their leafy branches. It’s obvious we need more everywhere …

It's rare that news media adequately reports the scientific consensus around climate change. Here the Guardian gets it right. Balanced reporting does not mean suggesting that the odd outlying opinion, usually with an industry bias, gives cause for real doubt. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Precarious birds nest is precarious 😶 Water of Leith, Edinburgh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #BirdsSeenIn2026 #Scotland  #Birds #Moorhen

Every so often the Earth produces a signal that is impossible to ignore. It shows sea-surface temperatures in the Niño 3.4 region of the equatorial Pacific, one of the most important parts of the Earth's climate system. #climatecrisis #auspol www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/the-gra...

Look at this striking image from space 🛰️ Cloud has lingered across Scotland and North Sea coasts throughout Saturday, keeping it notably fresher here A disappointingly grey day for some, or perhaps a respite from the heat for others

From 2019, when the news was telling us that staring seagulls out had been proven to stop them eating your chips

This government would ban George from the Famous Five.

Two Shelduck creches on the Coquet estuary, one with 15 good-sized ducklings, and the other with 11! Great to see

Ouch! 80% of Dublin’s electricity going to data centres? Tom Parlon, chair of the Irish Data Centres Supplier Alliance needs reminding that his members cannot ignore environmental and consumer concerns. europeancorrespondent.com/en/r/chat-ar...

With the roll-out of Making Tax Digital going ahead, HMRC must provide an in-house, government-developed, fully-functional software that allows easy and confident compliance with MTD. Self-employed people should not be obliged to hand data to private companies. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

DID YOU KNOW IF YOU FIND A HORSESHOE CRAB THATS BEEN TAGGED BY THE FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE AND SUBMIT THE LOCATION YOU SAW IT USING THE FORM ON FWS DOT GOV SLASH CRABTAG THEY SEND YOU A BEAUTIFUL CRAB PIN

For our generation, Democracy is once again in danger. It falls to all of us to defend it or see our descendents ruled by oligarchs outright. This is a great article covering just some of the billionaire characters involved. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Two smart adult Roseate Terns with 100+ Sandwich Terns at Aberlady late morning. @birdinglothian.bsky.social

Iberian Lynx continue comeback from brink of extinction, their population increased by almost 11% from 2024 to 2025 with 2663 individuals in wild. #Goodnews #Conservation Predator conservation & reintroduction can work! @irishrainforest.bsky.social @deepfrieddna.bsky.social @markavery.bsky.social

I’ve just seen a woman sat outside Greggs fanning herself with a pasty. I love this country.

Heat waves. Thanks to @climateadam.bsky.social's most recent video, which helped inform this comic and gave me the kick I needed to make it.

I tried to get a number of different friendly journalists interested in this but no takers for a story about the UK government ordering the civil service not to attend Pride.

Amazing

Completely indicative of many people's contempt for the natural world, and their willingness to destroy it These people should be locked up and the key thrown away www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I've been told on good authority that the Northern Ireland civil service will be withdrawing from NI Pride. This seems to be the result of lawfare targeting a number of institutions in England although I've been told they are claiming it is to do with the Executive parties being banned from Pride.

Imagine things being so bad that your best solution is to cut yourself off from Google Search traffic. I don't think that people realise just how much of a bad actor Google has been, for year. No other company has damaged the web nearly as much. 🧵 www.adweek.com/media/publis...

Worrying results from the 2025 national Dotterel survey, with a decline of 73% since the last survey in 2011, and 89% since the late 80s www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen... #ornithology #birds

A Norway fan has gone viral for not taking part in their Row celebration after matches and won't do it if they win the World Cup "It’s factually wrong; they didn’t row, they sailed over the Atlantic”

The Great Tapestry of Scotland in Galashiels is a brilliant 21st century creative collaborative and brilliant achievement and you can go on the Borders Railway. I hope it's boosted by the Bayeaux effect

Cartoon from 2005: Ann Widdecombe and her High Church Mice

Two year anniversary of when I first posted this comic

Last night we got an amazing bit of footage from one of our Osprey monitoring cams at RSPB Arne with a Nightjar landing on a perch, before taking off & landing again before a shooting star then passes straight over!! @peter-purbeck.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social

Took the car to the garage up the coast yesterday and walked 16km back to the house. it was FAR TOO HOT and also there's nudists in the dunes on Druridge Bay, who knew (probably everyone except me) got the bus back to pick up the car

jesus christ, this thread

You are probably today going to see a lot of people giving hagiographies to Ann Widdecombe, who was a lifelong opponent of civil rights for LGBT people and women, but who was charming on talk shows and thus was allowed to become a National Treasure.

Highly pathogenic avian influenza H5 detected in a greater crested tern at Robe, Limestone Coast, South Australia. All previous detections in Australia were in migratory birds that had likely brought the disease from the subantarctic, but the greater crested tern is a resident seabird in Australia.