🇺🇬 🏏 Uganda's 'cricket grannies' bat away loneliness through sport Laughter, songs and the sound of swinging bats fill a sports pitch in eastern Uganda, where a group of senior women gather every week to play cricket.

Every month, a truth bomb hits the doormat with a thud. In today's world of rampant, mass misinformation, papers like @bylinetimes.bsky.social are essential outliers and what a damn shame that is. Check out some of the headlines, from the new issue. Refreshing, isn't it? The truth is out there. 🔎

“Typically punchy address”? Is really the best way for the BBC to refer to Guterres’s speech on runaway climate warming? It suggests that he is exaggerating. Come on BBC; it’s time you reported on climate change with the correct degree of urgency. We’re still waiting.

Now THAT’S an ad for great city-building! Congratulations to new Paris Mayor @egregoire.bsky.social! We have such high hopes for the inspiration Paris will continue to give to cities around the world! And thank you again to his now legendary predecessor Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social! #UrbanTruth

Getting ready to issue my first beaver credits

China donates 5,000 solar energy systems to Cuba, government prioritizing hospitals! Beyond the hospital network, which includes more than 280 hospitals and 430 clinics, the project will also reach some 2,000 homes in isolated rural areas.

Who else feels that their whole life’s work of blood, sweat & tears is being undermined in a matter of days? We cannot remain hostages in this abysmal drama. What are the options of an entire species on a precious planet to stop these men? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m... @theguardian.com

Be it £5, £10 or £20, putting animals on bank notes signals the increase in their value to society.

It's #worldpoetryday so here are a few pieces from the Poetry Heritage and Community project I've been part of for the last year. First up, an overview of the project (a partnership between English Heritage and @torchoxford.bsky.social www.torch.ox.ac.uk/article/intr... (1/6)

Over 5,500 told to evacuate flooding in Hawaii Muddy floodwaters from severe rains have inundated communities and prompted evacuation orders for more than 5,500 people in towns north of Honolulu. (AP video shot by Jennifer Kelleher and Menghsin Lin) Subscribe: smarturl.it/AssociatedPress Read mor

Billionaires are incompatible with life. They create huge imbalances in our system.

Getting ready for the fuel shortage in Australia.

This is absolutely brilliant. Instigated by Gordon Brown, delivered today. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Since our government looks bent on starting the apocalypse early, I’m putting out the next big version of my illustrated survival guide. It’s almost 200 pages now. I’m also putting it under a creative commons license. www.the-sentinel-intelligence.net/an-illustrat...

The 9th Circuit has given this to mining companies.

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

Interesting supplement to this reporting, from a local critic of the solar project. Not the sole reason for local opposition but the part about the connection to Meta is telling. alabamareflector.com/2026/02/27/p...

And then there are the people who recognise the imminent threat of climate breakdown, whilst others who should know better just seem to live with their head in the sand.

To restore democracy and create a fairer, safer, greener world, we need massive taxes on the ultra-rich. As in the 1940s. People get confused about this. The main purpose of such taxes is *not* to raise revenue. The point is to stop the few dominating the many. It's an essential democratic measure.

It is THE fundamental problem. To survive and prosper we must make billionaires history. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If you have any thoughts about the failures or successes of the Online Safety Act, Grok undressing kids, Meta intentionally connecting groomers to kids, or the mental health crisis created by these addictive, polarizing, disinformation machines, better to speak up here than a social media post.

They have turned this beautiful city into a wasteland. Those who do don’t die from bombs will succumb to unspeakable illness. Most of my close family is in Tehran

Lovely story on the BBC about iceberg a23a, which has given us decades of fun but is now nearing its end… Really enjoyed talking with Mark Poynting about this one-time behemoth. www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

ageoftransformation.org/the-last-emp... Brilliant article by @nafeez.bsky.social on the collapse of our civilisation and the birth of a new system. “If you listen you can hear her breathing”

I've been fortunate enough to meet many formidably smart, fully committed, & thoroughly decent people who, for years, have strived to try to avert dangerous climate change. They failed. Saying that does not lessen my gratitude to them, 1/11 www.technosphere.earth/yes-we-can-n...

EveryDoctor is starting a new project looking at whether private equity is now moving into NHS in-sourcing (a system where private companies are paid to do NHS work). 🚨🚨🚨 I’ll tell you more later but please watch this space- this matters! 💙💙💙

Lobbyists send legal threats to councils over anti-wood burner campaigns | Air pollution ->The Guardian | More on "Lobbyists threaten councils over pollution" at BigEarthData.ai | #air pollution

Coming to this late, but do have a watery listen to @jenratcliffe.bsky.social and @amyjanebeer.bsky.social...

Over 40% of global shipping by volume exists to move fossil fuels from one place to another. A huge share of the world's maritime infrastructure has been built around a system that is going to change dramatically as renewable energy and electrification displace fossil fuels.

The Welsh Government has launched the first section of a new 80km forest trail, marking a major step forward in the development of the National Forest for Wales

When my daughter was about 7, she remarked that infinity could be a circle but not a line. We need to progress from lines on graphs to circles. And we can’t do it soon enough.

Clear and cogent, this article is definitely one to bookmark for future reference. (Bluesky - perhaps we can build a reference library of such posts). #referencelibrary

"A growing number of Indonesian K-pop fans are directing their frustration at Hana Bank, accusing the South Korean lender of backing projects tied to coal-fired power despite its public commitment to phase out coal financing." K pop fans 🥰

🎙️ Listen to Zero Hour’s Grassroots Manager Jamie Russell on BCfm Radio discussing the importance of the Climate & Nature Bill, how to set up your local @nebriefing.bsky.social screening, and collective climate and nature action at a local level. 👉 Take action: action.zerohour.uk/nebriefing #CANBill

Deeply saddened to see the UK slash climate aid for developing countries. Climate finance isn’t charity; it’s a responsibility. We must stand by our commitments and the countries that did the least to cause this crisis. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

It's all so irritatingly simple. If we'd have listened to the Greens back in the 70's and 80's we wouldn't be in this mess and we would have avoided so many oil-based conflicts.

It’s all about choices.

@bbclaurak.bsky.social why on earth did your show attach dramatic music to the footage of the bombing in the Middle East? Unbelievable. #Iran

Look for the word community. Wherever you see it, you will see life.

The Daily Mail is a massively destabilising force. The drip feed of continuous anti migrant poison is incalculable.

They were going to pass rules to phase out gas stoves, until they received 20,000 public comments against the regulations. Except, oops, it turns out the comments were generated by AI.

The truth is that if democracy is to survive this era, we can no longer treat independent media as optional. It is essential, and we must do everything we can to help it thrive and grow — quickly. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/demo...

Absolutely insane. Light pollution isn't just an impediment to star-gazing, it actually kills, and not just small squirmy species. We are only beginning to understand the full range of night physiology and why we NEED darkness at night. #LAN #darksky @danidarkskies.bsky.social wapo.st/4cdyP0s

"In 1987, the team found, each route had 2,034 birds on average. By 2017, that average had decreased by 304 birds per route, or 15 percent." 🌎🧪

Remember when CBS News laid off its whole climate reporting team last fall? Good news: I've scooped up their former senior climate producer, and now she's making a podcast with me. Sucks to suck, David Ellison! Listen/watch/subscribe here:

Ichthyologist Eugenie Clark, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘬 𝘓𝘢𝘥𝘺, died #OTD in 2015. A pioneer in scuba diving for research purposes, she proved sharks are capable of learning and was a world authority on Tetraodontiformes. She founded Mote Marine Lab and used her fame to drive global marine conservation. #WomenInSTEM

Last month, a Pennsylvania farmer rejected $15M from data center developers to sell his farmland. Another in Wisconsin turned down $80M. America's farmers and others across the country are pushing back on Big Tech. This is what integrity looks like.

In the absence of federal leadership on climate emissions from food, U.S. cities are stepping up.