More than 1 in 8 women aged 25-44 is using weight loss jabs! That’s incredible!

I, a human, wrote and drew this cartoon with my human body and sent it to human art printers who printed it with their human hands and you a human (?) can now buy a ltd edition print of it in my shop! Link in bio

Doesn’t help that the IEA has consistently failed to appreciate viability of grid scale renewables, lending legitimacy to slowness

Ahead of England v Norway in the World Cup, enjoy this classic from my old pal Patrick Kidd in The Times

Picked ripe blackberries earlier this week

What is referred to as a burn, I believe

Nice to see the data confirming my pre-existing scepticism here. Wrote a while back about how neurodivergence carries status in certain progressive communities, which leads to strange incentives. takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/melding-id...

Hahaha… Oh yes, since and also during your tenure, Humphrys

A little bit of good news:

Bloody hell Germany. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Might go back to bed

This is horribly shameful

Windows is extra

Tabloids could do a lot of good, if they choose to: Loire Valley without Loire

While the tories compete with reform over regressive stupidity and irrelevance, let’s have government pushing harder on progressive policy towards globally agreed goals and a liveable future

A sad and not a little shameful day for a once serious party. www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

Two headlines from today's papers

Why have they remade moana? Old moana is so great! Zero imagination from movie makers. So boring

Nothing to add on Clacton except that bins are useful in collecting rather than dispersing garbage

We have the ability to eradicate terrible diseases everywhere, if we have the will

“Worth” in what sense? The guy is so weird but luckily he often doesn’t accomplish his goals

UTTERLY MIND-BOGGLING. Right-wing Patriots for Europe EUparl group demanded END climate mitigation efforts + shift to adaptation. "PfE lawmakers called for a 'climate plan' built around a roll-out of air conditioners." Adaptation politics are going to make mitigation politics feel like a spa day.

I have designed (in my head) a new hat made of freezable gel. I will have one in the freezer and the other on my head and rotate

An important paper about protecting science from political interference. Europe needs to defend its science against the kind of attacks unfurling in the US. By Martin McKee, Christina Pagel & Tiago Correia in the European Journal of Public Health: academic.oup.com/eurpub/artic...

The binfire of the vanities.

Heat plus humidity gets lethal quickly because the body can’t use sweating to maintain its temperature #NomadCentury

30 nationally significant clean energy projects have been approved by the government since July 2024 – enough clean energy to power the equivalent of more than 19 million homes. There are 28 million homes in the UK. This is something the Govt should be very proud of.  www.gov.uk/government/n....

Great article and great discussion thread here. The loss of comprehension and analytical skills, of being able to follow and formulate a logical argument, are deeply worrying and (as below explained) lead to socially destructive populism. @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social has also written on these themes

A six-month investigation by Byline Times reveals that with the support of Palantir's Peter Thiel, Reform's policy chief James Orr has used the University of Cambridge as a student recruitment ground for a hard-right, theocratic political project aimed at bolstering talent in Farage’s party

‘Over the past 20 years governments have cut back on funding for high-profile assets such as the BBC World Service and the British Council… Critics of those moves say both institutions offer relatively cheap and good-value tools for boosting UK influence abroad’

Big read from @lucyfisher.ft.com & Charles Clover on the weakening of UK’s hard and soft power. Soundings from diplomats show ‘not only has much of the country’s military firepower withered but its image across the world is also much diminished’ www.ft.com/content/17eb...

Sony is ending the sale of physical discs for new Playstation games. This switch to only digital sales is a move that takes away even more rights from consumers.

Despite all the noise today I'd really like you to read this, as I think it's crucial. The government's in the process of p*ssing up to £264 billion into the ground, at the behest of the fossil fuel industry. Yes, £264 *billion*. It's utterly mad, and has to stop. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

On July 8, at about 11:10 GMT, about 99 percent of the world experiences sunlight at the same time.

Read the story here:

*Clacton*

Oh dear what a terribly sad loss for the people of Clapton

I wonder if the BBC will reduce his appearances. 🤔

Big day today when Le Pen’s future is decided after she used EU funds to pay for her domestic campaigns. Funny how Farage did exactly this but no UK authorities have done anything about it.

Trump is the antiMidas, everything he touches turns to shit. Quite remarkable

Click bait racist bullshit from the Times/Chris Philp. 12 Cameroonians did not sponsor 15 dependants each. 12 new work visas were issued to Cameroonians. 180 visas were issued to dependants of the (many thousands of) Cameroonians *already here*. Etc. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Places are becoming unliveable. What is your government doing to secure your future? #NomadCentury

This useful explainer from the Guardian leaves a key implication unsaid: the longer fossil fuel-powered NIMBY campaigns can stall renewable build-out, the more they can claim "renewables don't lower bills."

““Starlink is too congested to handle meaningful load at scale so they’re quietly hitting people with $750-$1500 ‘demand surcharges,'” Bode wrote in a recent post on Bluesky.“ apple.news/AE1hHcCEbTkq...

The hate is deliberate and well funded. We need to wise up and act on this social scourge

Ukraine are kindly destroying the Russian army for European allies. The least we can do is give them these missiles to defend themselves with.

UK sales of EVs are surging bsky.app/profile/eciu... while the rollout of chargers is slowing...🤷

How many of the Big Tech promises n renewables and clean energy are going to remain undelivered? Reality is that in grid-constrained parts places there will need to be a choice between datacentres and e.g. housing, because of power availability & grid connection www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

RESPECT Every politician should be doing this. Mayor Coffman has spent every Friday night since February sleeping at Aurora, Colorado’s homeless center, serving breakfast in the morning, and learning firsthand what works and what doesn’t.