Telling people that swans can break your arm.

If anyone needs a little mood boost: Baby giggles! www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...

"Pregnant women, the elderly, and children younger than 10 should avoid prolonged exposure to Coalie. Do not taunt Coalie." That's why it's best to leave Coalies where you find them: in the ground via @markgongloff.bsky.social @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Coalie, the Trump administration's effort to make coal adorable, will probably be a failure. We should kill it (though not with fire!) anyway. Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Don't burn Coalie! Coalie deserves LIFE, protect Coalie from being burnt at all costs! grist.org/culture/trum...

“Paris is only a disappointment if you had inappropriately high expectations in the first place.” @cameronhepburn.bsky.social  @bloomberglp.bsky.social 

Ok I hate to be that asshole but even though Janna Levin and I clearly have some enormous political disagreements, she’s not a crank and what she’s doing here is writing in very floral language about black body radiation and the future of the sun.

NEW: Nobody in Britain is going to see the new Melania movie – I've crunched the data to prove it (FREE TO READ) takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/i-really-d...

Reminder that Matt Goodwin still has 273 more pages to eat

Today is "Large boulder the size of a small boulder" day!

Trump: "I haven't been able to find any windfarms in China." Reality: China has far more windfarms than any other country on Earth

Iceland at Davos

The government of Iceland listening to this speech

It's happening Jim.

BBC viewers can access Mark Rutte's inner monologue by pressing the red button.

a cold and poorly located piece of ice -- me when I drop an ice cube on the floor

Without America, "right now, you'd all be speaking German" Trump tells an audience in Switzerland.

It’s pretty clear by now that animal intelligence far surpasses that of humans.

seems aggressively fine

I love Veronika 🐄https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jan/19/back-scratching-cow-veronika-bovine-intelligence

I’ve got a very rare Charizard Pokemon card if anyone wants to trade for a Nobel Peace Prize.

typical ai use case

Sebastian Raichon reaches the wall, becoming the 2026 winter Montane Spine Race winner! 🏆 268 miles & 39,000 feet of climb in awful conditions. An incredible achievement & an example of grit & determination. He confirmed it was indeed,brutal! Huge congratulations Sebastian! 🙌🏻 #SpineRace

Please watch and share. The President's remarks yesterday - the lies that he told - were among the most disgraceful moments in his rancid time in the Oval Office.

Berlin's days-long power outage is a great advert for why we should be prepped with battery-powered radios, food and water www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

willing to bet that literally the last thing AI does is 'liberate women from unwanted chores'

What Craig’s long life reveals about elephant conservation That Craig died of natural causes is not a small detail. It is, by modern standards, an achievement. Elephants with tusks like his have been selected against by poachers for half a century. news.mongabay.com/2026/01/what...

Just because you *can* install a solar panel under a goat doesn't mean you *should* install a solar panel under a goat.

There's nothing more comforting to me than a Jane Austen tale. The drama is contained, the humour is gentle and the endings are happy. But her real life was impacted by climate turmoil 🌋 Free link via @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Jane Austen's final novel Persuasion was written in the shadow of a great volcanic eruption that cooled the earth and caused economic mayhem, including for her brother, a banker, writes @lararhiannon.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

One surprising piece of research I found when writing the book was that while the number of kids biking & walking to school has dropped by a lot since 1969, the number of kids living within a mile of their school has only gone down by about 15%.

TIL a new term for those in a similar situation to me*: "refugee scientist". Guess I can add that to "US government scientific whistleblower". "'the media in the USA has taken no interest" rings true h/t @wpmueller.bsky.social for the story *But obviously flying much higher than me 🐳🌍🦑🧪

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

Shamelessly sucking up to the world's leading anti-climate activist only makes FIFA more evil and destructive than it already was, notes @lararhiannon.bsky.social (I may have changed some adjectives there to reflect my own disgust, but you get the gist) Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

"I'm not in denial, I'm in open rebellion" damn that quote goes hard

Grandparents rattle around their capacious homes, while young families have squeezed budgets, due to high housing costs and career breaks Jonathan Guthrie makes a similar point to my column last week -- resources ought to be distributed better giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

This is exactly what I have been saying for years - facts BEFORE ideology. Just because I am now a Green Party member, it doesn't mean I am going to accept absolutely everything Zack or the Green Party says and believes. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

⚽I’m not much of a football fan — I prefer rugby — but how can this sycophancy to a world leader who’s pulled his nation out of the Paris Agreement and calls climate change a “con job” serve either athletes or soccer fans? 🎁free link via @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

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This year, almost 50 interactions between orcas and ships have been recorded in Portuguese waters – more than ever before. A data story by Sebastian Gräff.

On methane reduction, we know how to do that, and we don't need any fancy new tech to get there. "... the world needs to begin by rethinking livestock production ... shifting towards plant-rich diets ..." www.unep.org/news-and-sto...

the frustration over cop30's lacklustre agreement simply strengthens calls to worry less about negotiation and more about delivering what’s already been agreed free link via @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

AAAAAARGH www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Extremely uncomfortable reading www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

A startup has a bold, new plan to dim the sun. But is it a good idea? @lararhiannon.bsky.social explains the state of solar geoengineering — and it’s risks 🎥

The Torment-Nexus-Industrial Complex just keeps attracting more money, warns @lararhiannon.bsky.social Maybe we should think twice before letting tech bros blot out the sun? Just spitballing here Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...