This should be the biggest weather and climate news on your radar today. You can send an email today to say why dismantling NCAR is a bad idea for everyone: [email protected]

Reform UK reality check. Councillors & MPs.

"Over the last 4 or 5 years, fossil fuel subsidies have been growing faster than the NDIS." "Over the last year, they gave $16.3 billion!" @mattgrudnoff.bsky.social @elinorjohnstonleek.bsky.social #auspol

looks like we traded generations of healthcare for 4 days worth of missiles

By keeping the Milky Way Galaxy fixed, this incredible time-lapse lets you see Earth rotating through space.👏💙😎 Credit: Aryeh Nirenberg

Sage words “Are we willing to tolerate ignorance and complacency in matters that affect the entire human family? Or will we have the courage to face the facts, however unpleasant they may be, and to act upon them?” — Carl Sagan

“We are starting to discover that verification does not scale the way generation does.”

"Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach the earth. None of them through the Strait of Hormuz." —Bill McKibben

The Norwegian Consumer Council with an amazing video on enshittification and how to resist it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...

I would advise ANYONE who is in an abusive relationship to leave it. I guess you would too. So dear Mr Starmer - leave Trump to huff and puff on his own. You don't need him and nor do we. Not really, despite what genocidal maniacs say.

Thought this was worth posting again

" I believe there are many who forget all the tragedy women face in Afghanistan, that is why I use my paintings as a mean to remind the people" - Shamsia Hassani Afghan Artist #InternationalWomensDay

In more Atlantic-leaning European capitals, the prospect of standing alone without America has prompted distress. In Paris, which maintains a fully independent nuclear deterrent and builds its own fighter jets, it feels like vindication

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work. This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public. Please spread the word. 🧵 1/4

Truth 😏👇

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

a thing historians will marvel about when they study this era is the extent to which the "war is a thing that happens to poorer, browner people" class went about systematically dismantling every aspect of the global political order that confined the costs of war to poorer and browner people

we reached the “no WMDs” phase in two days.

Eisenhower

So, any other news yesterday? Anything important?

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus | Happy St David’s Day Here’s to Cymru! The nation’s language, traditions, culture, and the heritage that connects us. From dragons to daffodils, Wales’ story is told through the places we look after. Photos: Powis Castle, Bodnant Gardens, Dyffryn Gardens, Chirk Castle.

I'm starting to dislike the word 'progressive'. I'm not progressive. My political positions are not only sane, but a reflection of where we actually are already. We should label people who are subservient to abusers and billionaires, who hate migration and diversity as 'regressive'

Rock climbers Lucy Smith and Pauline Rankin of the Ladies’ Scottish Climbing Club, 1908, Salisbury Crags, Scotland #WomensArt Welcome to #WomensHistoryMonth

22 years old

🔴 Paul Conroy’s Last Photo Essay: Cuba’s Moment of Reckoning, Veteran war photographer and correspondent Paul Conroy died of natural causes a day after returning from Cuba with this report of another city under siege. He never stopped bearing witness open.substack.com/pub/bylineti...

32 cases observed. But performative posturing and poor reporting means this is not mentioned, allowing Farage to set narrative. Call him out. They lost by thousands of votes www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

They lie not to be believed, they lie to be repeated. The media never seems to get this.

I suppose that people who are capable of being happy and fulfilled generally don’t devote their lives to accumulating more money than could be spent in 100 lifetimes

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

Australia, you are being scammed! #IEEFA shows Japanese export 40% of Aussie gas exports. Yep, they on-sell our gas for a profit while the corporations cry poor about tax and royalties and gas shortages @kimwingerei.bsky.social #auspol #whatsthescam michaelwest.com.au/australian-g...

Thank you Gordon Brown. May you continue to make the weather on bringing down those involved in Epstein’s disgusting world. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

But of course it is! The fact that this is up for debate is the real head-scratcher here. www.europesays.com/ch/17407/

Large electric powered container ships are already a reality. When posting about this 2 years ago the so-called “experts” said it is impossible. Can people stop listening to oil and gas “experts” soon?

Social Security was created to be a whole life protection plan for when we retire, become disabled, or lose a family breadwinner. 90 years later, Social Security still works!

Country Singer, songwriter Charley Crockett well said......

The Downing Street chief of staff's job just can't be 'winning the election'. That's someone else's job! It would be like if someone went 'he was ruthlessly focussed on cost control in Whitehall's canteens'....okay, but that's *someone else's job*!

Bannon said to ‘flood the zone with ‘Farage’’. Maybe Starmer should ‘flood the zone’ with progressive measures to the extent that the Daily Mail won’t know which one to be outraged about most.

"What Epstein shows us is that we live in a paedophiliac culture. " "It’s not just Epstein. That’s what these files reveal. Epstein is communicating with hundreds of men in these millions of pages." Nail on the head broligarchy.substack.com/p/we-all-liv...

Part 2 - the Speech “Imagine that you see the wretched strangers… their babies at their backs… plodding to the ports and coasts for transportation.” Then the turn of the blade: If you were forced from your home, would you be pleased to find “a nation of such barbarians?”

As much as we want to rip them a new one for getting us into this mess, when people on the right come forward and apologize and admit they were wrong, we should probably welcome them to the light.

CAPITALISM IS THE PROBLEM #auspol #USPOL #USA #uspoli #poli #politics #cdnpoli #canada #MeidasMighty #america #communityovercapitalizm #Ethics #ClimateJustice #bcpoli #abpoli #topoli #Klimapolitik #ClimateActionNow #ClimateChange #Climate #environment #Nature #BCClimateAction #FalseConsciousness

Solar farms with big batteries that feed in to the grid in the evening peak are coming online. This is really, really bad news for fossil fuel generators reneweconomy.com.au/first-solar-...

We found a 4th egg in #kakapo Waikawa's nest yesterday and found it was fertile. Waikawa has maintained her incredible 100% fertility record: 5 clutches of 4 fertile eggs in 4 breeding seasons. That's unmatched by any other kākāpō. #kakapo2026 #conservation #birds

Very powerful. The full interview is here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2l2R...

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.