So this is a cool climate change website that's big on positive developments. Basically a review site for evaluating high/low tech things that might help reduce #ClimateChange. And there are a lot of them that seem pretty good ... plus some shady 🌊 ones I've worked on that get a deserved kicking.

You might think that your daily life is a Sisyphean grind in which nothing noteworthy happens, but spare a thought for #Phosphorus atoms ...

Maybe my understanding of capitalism is wrong, but I thought that if the world's most valuable drug company didn't want to sell to the UK at a price that it didn't like, then it just wouldn't sell. What am I missing? Have we kidnapped the CEO's family for extortion purposes?

Today in #FirstWorldProblems ... is there really no way to set up a daily steps target in the Activities #iPhone app? While it may not be the best fitness stat, it's very familiar and personally useful. But #Apple seem to judge otherwise and block doing this except via 3rd party apps. That right?

As I discount Space Aliens out of hand (cf. the complete lack of extraterrestrial evidence bar wishful thinking), I find myself having to grudgingly cede ground to the very-terrestrial conspiracy theory alternative expounded here (i.e. it's the military-industry complex). That's not good, right?

Only "in doubt"?!? Why the uncertainty @royalsociety.org? Is there something that's offsetting your Fellow's avowed racism, anti-science agenda, and recent call to violence?

"You have spent 2 of the required 3 minutes on this policy" #FairCop

Half-listening to #BBCRadio4 while working, I just caught a charming little drama about (of all people) #JamesMason. After some wiki-wormholing, I was astonished to discover his co-star from the excellent #NorthByNorthwest (1959), #EvaMarieSaint, celebrated her 101st birthday just the other month.

RuBisCO being crap but also the world's #1 enzyme by abundance was something drilled into me by #JohnRaven during my original degree last century. Cool to see research bypassing (to a point) what's been an evolutionarily insurmountable "brake" for 4 billion years.

Today in applications of Betteridge's Law ...

Excuse me, Social Media? While I did have a grim laugh of recognition, this isn't exactly what I want served-up on my first day back cycling after a 7-week break ...

It's almost like ... oh, I don't know ... like our political system is governed by a so-called "free press" owned and controlled by malevolent corporates that use whatever scraps they have to attack those reining-in their power, while soft-pedalling on egregious behaviour by those in their pocket.

A great little primer on #Geoengineering in today's edition of #RareEarth from @helenczerski.bsky.social and @tomheap.bsky.social ... 🌊

As someone who grew up in a "Famous Golf Town" on Scotland's east coast, I was particularly tickled by this graphic from a fantastic "myth-busting" piece on #SolarEnergy by @carbonbrief.org ... interactive.carbonbrief.org/factcheck/so...

On the same day in the Telegraph:

In a bit of a coincidence, it's 8 years to the day since I was using #Lisbon's funicular trams. The same day I also snapped the second image of some graffiti we spotted in the city. Some of the commentary today has put the blame (at least in part) on the burden #MassTourism puts on #MassTransit.

A new #BiologicalPump rears its head (or maybe its tail feathers?) … 🌊

The Tories continue to showcase their intellectual and moral decline, propping up super-rich #BigOil corporates - directly subsidised parasites with indirect subsidies from the #ClimateCrisis externalities they don't pay for. The absolute state of the shitshow that deigns to call itself a party.

How did we get to the point where poisonous, non-sequitor horseshit like this wasn't just laughed out the newsroom door? It's not journalism to not call out patently diversionary culture war gibberish designed to distract from such abject failure. And yet, here we are. The peak of Mt. Bullshit.

Would it f---ing kill @bsky.app to remember a post I'm halfway through when I need to deal with the cat?!? I was practically finished and the whole thing (which was, clearly, a work of genius) has now disappeared into the aether. It's 2025, goddamn it, and this app has persistence problems?!?

This is the focused, clinical, nuclear rage I want from the internet ...

"... because you’re either going to be a pioneer or a joke" I do not think these two things are as equally likely as you think they are ... www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Forget about AI taking your job - have you considered how vulnerable your trade is to ursine usurping? If you go down to the woods today ... you might be replaced by a competent non-human animal.

Autumn has arrived. And it has brought house guests. 😱

Translated: Nations of the world! The UK will be your free 💸 cash 💸 dispenser. Send us your citizens and we will give you money to take them back! Paid holidays for all! 💰🤑💰

Well, this is super-depressing. I'd only just discovered @splinternews.bsky.social (and @davelevitan.bsky.social's climate writing) and now it's shrinking 'cos of #Google's insatiable need to sideline content creators. "Sure, our AI will ingest and serve your stuff, but we ain't paying you for it."

There are some levels of stupid that are beyond help.

Cool, calm and collected. Today's Bank Holiday visitor to our garden. Actually, more just passing through than visiting. 🦊

A fantastic little historical snippet from the #BBC about a less well-known speech prepared ahead of the 1969 #MoonLanding. And, just as it's being gutted by Trump, a timely reminder of #NASA's globally inspirational role on top of the bravery of its astronauts and science excellence.

In other news, I spent a couple of hours this evening as part of a large group standing opposite a smaller group of very stereotypical racist protesters who were mounting a noisy protest outside of a local hotel in #Southampton used for refugees.

While I'm not saying @bsky.app should do anything different, this explanation does seem a little unlikely given their app was the very first one to age-check me in the UK when legislation came into force here. Presumably this new law asks for more, but this still rings a little hollow.

Probably the most infuriating aspect of this is that - by soliciting this garbage climate assessment - these scumbags implicitly recognise the trust that the public places in science. Otherwise, why get a bunch of "usual suspect" clowns to masquerade as scientists in this way? Fuckheads.

A righteously withering primer on a leading scumbag who dedicated decades to making everything worse. And a valuable reminder that Trump didn't get here on his own - there's a small army of godawful trolls like this one paving his way while fanning the flames of hatred. Good riddance indeed.

This is a really useful number to know. And the contextualising comparison (1 AI query = 1 second of microwave use) helps put it into perspective with daily energy use. Unfortunately, it does mean that my breakfast porridge was worth 210 queries

Charismatic (after a fashion) megafaunal graffiti in the home of @noc.ac.uk ... 🦑🌊

Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy.

I just submitted an abstract to a US science meeting being held (unusually) in the UK. I was a little surprised to hear that (in part) this location-flip is due to new disparities in provision of #ReproductiveHealthcare in the US. Reading terrible stories like this, I'm not surprised now ...

And not just #AmericanFootball. As the dementia stats keep rolling in for #Football (or #Soccer to savages), I've thoughts like this whenever a player scores from a header or heroically defends with one. I wouldn't do it myself, but happy to watch someone else ... ⚽ www.splinter.com/how-many-mor...

Every time I look for something like @noaa.gov's #WorldOceanAtlas 🌊 I keep thinking "Is this the last time that I'll see this absolute staple of #Oceanography?". So far, it's still very much there. And - surprisingly - it's not alone ... (thanks @davelevitan.bsky.social)

Only one episode in, but I have thoughts about #AlienEarth. First, though, there are good things here. It totally looks the piece and does some great scene-setting for its future corporate world. All good.

Come on @splinternews.bsky.social, stop mincing your words! www.splinter.com/meta-mankind...

Numbers matter. Qualitative thinking is still thinking, but it only gets you so far. When trying to make a difference with your limited time / resources, focus on the ones that actually make the difference, not the ones that sound "cool". Thanks @andymasley.bsky.social!

A nice reminder from @benjedwards.com on the credibility of these "AI is breaking its chains" stories ... arstechnica.com/information-...

DC is clearly a total dystopian hell-hole!

In addition to land theft, ethnic cleansing, genocide and apartheid, Israel ticks-off "killing journalists" on its rogue state bingo card ... www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1...

Come work with Steph - you won't regret it!

🚨New GMD publication alert!🚨 🌊 Understanding the changing #Antarctic #SeaIce using MetROMS-UHel-v1.0, by Cecilia Äijälä and colleagues gmd.copernicus.org/articles/18/...

Future headlines: "Trump calls for new US weather forecasting that excludes climate warming transient" "Trump calls for new inflation metric that excludes goods with rising prices" "Trump calls for new employment metric that excludes unemployed" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

So, "no" to money for addressing climate change or for researching vaccines to defend public health, but a big "yes" to money for celebrating racist forebears. Sweet. Good to know that culture wars trump (!) actual improvement in peoples lives.

They won't allow action to cool our climate, but they're happy to raise water levels for their own convenience. Asshats. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...