La Roche Longue in Quintin (Côtes-d’Armor) is a 7m tall needle-like granite menhir. It was said that fairies and nains used to dance around it and that the menhir itself sometimes danced when midnight sounded. #StandingStoneSunday.

That old stick about the Roman Empire, and how the actual sign of the collapse was a bridge falling down and nobody coming to fix it.

This. This was the formative event of my generation & our entire politics in 🇺🇸. The structural break after which we were no longer a full democracy, when 5 Wizards In Robes decided they were a super-legislature & counting all the actual votes didn’t matter. The rest has been 25 years of commentary.

I have designed a slide that is so hideous that co-pilot has given up on making suggestions to improve it

Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry

Like some kind of grim Omen of things to come, #Hawaii ’s #Kilauea volcano just unleashed a MASSIVE WING SHAPED eruption with lava fountains soaring 1,500+ feet high

Only 2 years since the ban on neonics, France's population of insect-eating birds has risen 2-3% - from banning a single type of insecticide. Demonstrating just how much harm we cause birds when pesticides kill off the insects they need for food. @paneurope.bsky.social

Just a cold, right?

A reminder.

QUEEN WORLD CUP #QueenWorldCup Right, it's Saturday night, you're on BlueSky. You literally have nothing better to do than listen to Brighton Rock and Flash To The Rescue (not Flash, the title track) by Queen. Then tell me which is better by voting #Rock or #Flash in reply. We go to 11pm BST.

It is a tale Told by an idiot

We’re in a moment now where it would be worth people taking three hours to watch Gandhi, particularly the scene of the salt march. There is value to making the brutality of your opponent so plain as day that no one can argue with it. The clarity of that brought down an empire

We even had 3 hours on Saturday when Belgian consumption was entirely covered by renewables. Great thread by @jolaveyne.bsky.social

#BBCNews - Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity www.bbc.com/news/article... Developing countries, especially China, led the clean energy charge while US and EU relied more than before on planet-warming fossil fuels for electricity generation #Climate #ClimateChange

One of the lessons I discuss in "On Tyranny": Listen for dangerous words.

My favourite ridiculous example of this is the Manchester United credit card in Malaysia and Singapore (yes really) which used to give extra rewards only when they won now also gives rewards when they draw as people were churning due to lack of victories milelion.com/2025/07/17/h...

This is essential podcast listening

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

seems to me the main reason bluesky has a lot of desperately unhappy people freaking out about politics and world affairs on it instead of being like twitter was in the middle of the last decade is that you are using and discussing it in 2025 instead of in the middle of the last decade

THIS!!!!!! THIS is what I’ve been saying!!!!! How do they not see it????

For this reason, no matter how angry I am with Labour in general, I consider Ed Miliband a national treasure. The vital work he's doing on climate policy might only be fully appreciated if the right gets back in and tries to rip it all up

“I too came from a poorish family,” says the 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, eldest son of Major-General Gilbert Monckton, 2nd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley and Marianna Letitia, Viscountess Monckton of Brenchley.

@markyk.bsky.social can't read your direct messages because they are behind age verification that I refuse to do

Read my lips We don't need vanity projects like this There is thousands of times the energy we need from surface solar, wind, tidal, wave and the rest www.theguardian.com/environment/...

holy shit this is a helluva ad from the Democrat running against Joni Ernst in Iowa. worth every second

Good. Because, what is the end point here? Remember Crimea was ilegally annexed in 2014. Zelenskyy rejects giving up land to end war www.politico.eu/article/zele...

Before you see a hundred or so posts saying that Texas has issued arrest warrants for the absent Dem legislators, you should be aware that they are civil warrants issued by the House that are not effective outside the state www.texastribune.org/2025/08/04/t...

I'm sad to say that since leaving Twitter/X my sales for live shows have dropped quite a lot - it turns out that even though it's a dreadful place it was still useful for getting the word out about events. So any shares / RTs of my posts about live shows are hugely appreciated!

In 2022 I received the wholesome DM in the image on the left on the Other Site, tonight I received the one on the right 🥹🥹🥹🥹

WHEN IS IT NOT SMALL BOATS WEEK THO?? 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 When is it wealth inequality week, eh?? WHEN DOES THAT COME AROUND?

Found it.

Ian Wright of England & Arsenal celebrating in the stands as Arsenal & England's Michelle Agyeman equalised tonight

I just signed a petition urging studios and streaming services to pick up #TheWheelOfTime for additional seasons. Join me to #SaveWOT! savewot.com/take-action/... !

I just signed a petition urging studios and streaming services to pick up #TheWheelOfTime for additional seasons. Join me to #SaveWOT! savewot.com/take-action/... !

Just recorded a pod on solar+storage and holy shit y'all, if you are not tracking this market on a daily basis, you have no idea how wild it is. The global average price of a battery pack fell 40% *from 2023 to 2024*. That dropped the LCOE of a solar+storage plant by 22%. In a year!

I'm old enough to remember when Trump accused Zylensky of risking WW3

Colin from Portsmouth is going to be furious isn't he

Cried at full time. First time ever at a football match. Never thought this day would come. Unreal. #cpfc ❤️💙

Crystal Palace 🏆

~45% of US corn production is now used to make ethanol, mostly for mixing into gasoline. That's ~13% of all US crop land already used for energy production. Using some of the same land for solar panels would capture 50-100 times more energy per acre.

Good to see Stereolab back - been a while. worldofechomusic.com/collections/...

87 years ago. In April 1938, Guy Callendar published the first evidence from thermometer observations that the world’s land areas were warming. He also linked the observed warming to the increase in atmospheric CO₂ from burning coal. 87 years ago. rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

This year we're growing spuds, courgettes, tomatoes and kittens.

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Yo Spectator podcast, if there are people worrying about increases to capital gains tax then I very much doubt the cost of living crisis is touching the sides for them

FULL TIME

Andy Burnham off message again, and all the better for it (from the MEN website)

Researchers have set a new efficiency world record for converting sunlight into electricity using transparent solar cells. The breakthrough is a huge boost for renewable energy, allowing entire skyscrapers to serve as power stations by transforming their windows into solar panels.