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Thursday's Senedd election is a tale of two futures for Wales.

"Frankly they make me sick!" @iaindale.bsky.social is on the warpath with non-voters...

Palestinian photographer Saher Alghorra was awarded the 2026 Pulitzer Prize in breaking news photography for documenting Israel’s genocide in Gaza. His photos are worth seeing, so here’s a gift link:

We have an *extremely* important announcement to make. From Wednesday, we will be launching our puffin live cam, coming to you from the Farne Islands. So you can watch puffins all day long. In celebration, please enjoy this clip of puffins being really busy for 39 seconds straight.

Australia is aiming to be the first country to eliminate cervical cancer.

Checking in on global sea ice conditions... extent is currently the 5th lowest on record for today's date. This is consistent with the overall long-term declining trend due to human-caused climate change. Graphic originally from zacklabe.com/global-sea-i...

Mandelson rightly resigned in 1998 over a £370k - bit under a million in today's money - undeclared loan from a UK based business person. It should have ended his career. Farage has accepted a £5 million gift in crypto from a Thai-based billionaire..it should end his career.

It's a shame that "defend your culture" always means "hate strangers different from you" and never "enact anti-pollution laws so that you can go fishing with your grandkids the way your grandpa taught you."

Now former Labour leader Neil Kinnock says it when not if Britain will rejoin 👏 observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

Ok guys should we use the world's remaining carbon budget to A) power the transition to 100% renewables B) power the plagiarism machines that only a tiny managerial minority wants and aren't profitable even though everyone is being forced to use them?

In my many random conversations, I find that many are receptive to hearing about independent media, as they realise to varying degrees that mainstream media sucks. So I tell them about truenorthnews.substack.com/about

Between Ave T & U on the promenade in Seaside Oregon there is an ongoing community knit project full of knit & crotchet versions of the creatures that live in our tide pools. #InverteFest

some of the best stuff i've read on AI's incompatibility with democracy www.techpolicy.press/how-ai-rever...

Former Treasury boss Ken Henry says the under-taxed resources sector has hollowed out Australia's economy, and raising more revenue from the sale of LNG resources was in the national interest.

We remember them and keep demanding policies that ensure this never happens again. 13 years after Rana Plaza, EU demand for cheap fashion fuels poverty wages, unsafe work & environmental harm. Time for fair rules👉 fairtrade-advocacy.org/posts/236-th... #FashionRevolutionWeek

"In retrospect, basing the entire global food system on fossil fuels may have been a poor idea." -- @benehrenreich.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/3634...

Someone asked if I could tell them where to buy a pair of good chinos. In this thread, I will tell you, but my answer is not simple. On the upside, I think this is a better approach when shopping for clothes and you can apply it to any kind of item. 🧵

NASA women save stars. 🫶🏻💫

I had to look this up. It's TRUE. 😮 Before 1974, banks typically required a father's or husband's signature in order for a woman to open a credit card account. HOLEEEE SHIT. In my lifetime?!! The patriarchy really sucks. #ArtemisII

The amazing, letter-perfect performance of NASA this week is a ferocious rebuke to the right-wing fools who constantly tell us that for-profit businesses always do a job better than the government.

I hadn't seen this before. This is pretty remarkable. Earth and Moon in one NASA photo. ht @astrokatie.com

Wow! 🔥🔥🔥 Here's Macron criticising Trump and talking about a new world order without the USA.

I'm not an economist. But I know that trying to subsidise demand in a supply crisis is one of the stupidest things you can do, and every major party in opposition is wanting to do it

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

April 4, 1957 – New Scientist runs story on carbon dioxide build-up allouryesterdays.info/2023/04/03/a...

William Shatner put some context on it..

It's only worth going back to the Moon if it makes us look properly again at Earth, and appreciate how beautiful, precious and fragile what we have here is. The most famous images from Apollo aren't about the Moon - they're pictures of Earth. We need to stop taking our home for granted.

"Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?" -- Jane Goodall, born #OTD 1934

NEW ANALYSIS: Record wind and solar generation saved UK from gas imports worth £1bn in March 2026 📈Wind+solar were up 22% year-on-year in March to a record high for the month ⛴️This avoided the need for gas imports worth £1bn at current high prices www.carbonbrief.org/...

Ever wondered why North is at the top of our maps? If you're assuming there are logical, scientific, Nature-driven reasons for it - yeah, me too. In fact, they're often whimsical, arbitrary or just plain ridiculous! Hold onto your hat. This may turn your world upside-down. 1/

Avi Lewis: "When Israel commits a genocide in Gaza, we call them out. When the US and Israel start an illegal and reprehensible war against Iran that sets the world on fire, we say Canada should have absolutely no role in it whatsoever."

#NoHate #NoRacism #NoKings

Oil supply is restricted. Oil is expensive and dirty. Wars are fought to control oil. Sunlight is limitless. Sunlight is free and clean. No wars are fought over sunlight. Let’s go solar! #EnergyRevolution

This is a far bigger fuel, fertilizer, food crisis for Asia and Europe than it is for the US. US dependence on Persian Gulf oil has almost never been lower A thread by @sstapczynski.bsky.social on how Asia is alreaddy within days facing a destabilizing. x.com/SStapczynski...

Mum hospitalised in 1st wave, Dad died; she never came home, got decanted to care home, put in solitary confinement. Unspeakable misery. Boris and crew made terrible decisions, fuelled by hubris and a desire to party. I'm incandescent with rage. (Thank you Christina for making sure we don't forget).

We are starkly underestimating the impact of the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. This is a much graver situation than people realise iandunt.substack.com/p/the-mad-em...

It's tempting to think that simpler letterforms = more legibility. But in my experience, that's not true. Typefaces are design systems too, and they need a certain level of complexity to work well. Here's why: (thread) 🧵

One bit of good news from the Glasgow fire disaster- engineers took advantage of Glasgow Central Station being closed to do maintenance and renewal work in a few days which would normally have taken ten months www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/news/major-e...

Absolute bombshell. Former UK Minister Alan Duncan confirms there was a clear peace agreement mediated by Oman for ZERO nuclear proliferation in Iran. But it was sabotaged and betrayed by Israel because they always wanted to attack Iran. Israel started this war! 🎯💯🎯💯🎯💯🎯💯

NEW: This new report, from BBC, is the best takedown of the insanity of Trump you will see anywhere. Calm, coherent and repeating only Trump’s own words. Devastating. Brilliant work once again from Roz Atkins. (🎥 BBC News)

🤬 Apart from.... Germany Switzerland United Kingdom Canada Poland South Korea Iceland Liechtenstein Luxembourg New Zealand Australia India France Italy Mexico Spain and the Netherlands FFS!😡

Nature = Future 🌍️ Our future depends on nature, it's time to stand up for it. That's why we're supporting @nationaltrust Nature = Future campaign.

@zackpolanski.bsky.social has just brilliantly answered his critics www.thecanary.co/opinion/2026...

We saw the prototype of the Nero Doctrine with Twitter. The goal wasn't to make it profitable or "free." The goal was to break the one place where news broke faster than the state could spin it. They bought the town square not to speak in it, but to burn it down so we’d have nowhere else to gather.

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.