well it is a Friday...

Just received a call claiming to be from Amazon saying my account has been hacked to buy an iPhone. I said I will check my account online at which point the caller started shouting “you are a f***ing c***, you are a f***ing c***” until I hung up. Something tells me this may not have been legit 🤔

Pour ceux et celles qui sont à Avignon, je vous recommande vivement « Tadam », l’un des 3-4 meilleurs spectacles que j’ai vu dans les 30 ans que j’ai fait le festival. 9h45. Méfiez-vous de son résumé - c’est pas un truc pour enfants.

Very cool graph show what people really mean when they use vague terminology describing the probability of an event. Source: buff.ly/2kJ61T7

⚽️ Mondial-2026: le Premier ministre espagnol Pedro Sanchez, critique de Donald Trump, assistera à la finale Espagne-Argentine dimanche. Le président argentin Javier Milei a annoncé qu'il ne serait pas présent mais qu'il suivrait le match à la télévision, et ce par superstition.

Impressed that Sam Jackson refrained from saying motherfucker while advertising the Proms on the Today programme

i first met sam neill in the late 80's on the set of jeremy brett's sherlock holmes. i think it was manchester studios. he and jeremy were pals. i was moving a light wi'out gloves cause i'm a tosser. i burned my hand. yelled "FUCK!" jeremy came right over, sam (who was visiting) in tow. (1/4)

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Furious that Chris Nolan would disregard historical accuracy in adapting The Odyssey by making a "movie" with "cameras" instead of memorizing the entire story and then going on a nationwide tour to sing it to us while tripping on ergotized barley

The most enduring journalist cliché is the framing of interviews in formulaic headlines. Which by convention have to be: "Celebrity X on one thing, another thing—and a quirky third thing".

Wow -- wonder what will happen when they learn about carbon dioxide? globalnews.ca/news/1196860...

Hey D&D folks - I need recs for an adventure that’s quick to prep and run, more social interaction and combat than puzzles. I’m on holiday abd I’ve been asked to DM something on Saturday. Levels/classes not à worry, I can spin up some characters to order & assign them, my players will cope :)

Economist piece: www.economist.com/science-and-...

Big story in this week’s @economist.com about a major risk we are also increasingly focused on: Earth is reflecting less sunlight back into space, rapidly increasing Earth’s Energy Imbalance and making the world hotter.

A cow caught on a security cam opening the electric fence. The farmer installed it after he assumed someone was doing it. Original post

This isn’t vandalism, it’s art – and reminds me I must watch They Live again

Piet Mondrian's work on the London Underground is exceptional.

If you want to know more about Crutzen and geoengineering and have an hour to spare this morning/lunchtime (US) or afternoon (UK) you might like to come along to this : us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

"Be quiet or we'll keep killing you" is one hell of a message for the midterms.

If you want to know more about Crutzen and geoengineering and have an hour to spare this morning/lunchtime (US) or afternoon (UK) you might like to come along to this : us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

To go with the Earth's Energy Imbalance package, this week's @economist.com has a leader on the planet's excessive heating. It includes some love for methane emission reduction and the Kigali amendment; it also revisits Paul Crutzen's thoughts about geoengineering www.economist.com/leaders/2026...

Any suggestions of journals for literature/culture/environment articles with a reasonably quick turnaround time at the moment?

As millions of Americans prepare for another brutal heatwave, it’s now harder to find information about ways to stay cool while saving energy and keeping utility costs down. At least 1,662 Department of Energy webpages with guidance on protecting the electrical grid during heatwaves have gone dark.

fwiw, I read Dr Hansen's writings a lot and also listen to Leon, and I find this article fairly represents the situation. Also, this is an incredibly useful piece, thank you Oliver! I hope that ESA's Forum satellite will shed some new insight .. in 2028. www.esa.int/Applications...

You look like you need a Puffin. Have a Puffin. 📷️ Sue Wood

The monks have decided to limit production for monastic reasons (e.g. here: robbreport.com/food-drink/s... ) which, I suppose, is fair enough, but it's a shame when the bottle runs out.

Why is Green Chartreuse so damnably expensive?

Morse Abode

How does one best give away books in London

Tim Harford writes about me in the Financial Times. He claims I think it’s hopeless for scientists to try to explain their work to the public. That’s false. I suspect link rot and Harford’s faulty memory are to blame. I’ll explain my actual view below. 🧪 1/10 giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Feeling sad today for the beautiful Boundary Waters Canoe Area www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

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Messi, boy, I don’t know…

Gender affirming care for me but not for thee

@davidehrlich.bsky.social "most biggest"? is it cromulent too...?

I think I shall read David Ehrlich's Odyssey review first—what about you?

The reason Ewoks never appear in any Star Wars media post Return of the Jedi is because the rebels had them all killed and skinned on the orders of Princess Leia. This is canon, and was revealed to me by George Lucas in the car park of the Airport Marina Hotel, Los Angeles, January 1991.

This is brilliant if somewhat weird www.instagram.com/reels/DYF7LU...

Pete Hegseth just blocked the promotions of seven senior Navy officers — five of whom are women or people of color — to two-star admiral rank. For the first time in more than a decade, no female active-duty naval officers are likely to be promoted to admiral this year.

Thierry Henry with the shout out to Cabo Verde, the only team that didn’t lose to Spain

cc @johnaharrison.bsky.social

I respect France's commitment to not working on a holiday.

An appalling misuse of government power: I checked EPA's database to see how extreme the coming wildfire smoke event would have to be to set records in places like NYC and Detroit, but access to EPA's pollution database was removed in April 2025 and not restored. truthout.org/articles/epa...

An amazing quote from Lindsey Graham in this Atlantic story. It really captures an essential truth about politics that too few people ever really come to terms with. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

At the Moulin Rouge, The Dance, by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1890

Does anyone know where to find out if Google stole/misappropriated your work in a way which allows you to sign on to the new class action? @ednewtonrex.bsky.social

For context, ABC, NBC, and CBS refused to air an Obama address in 2014 that expanded DACA and shifted border enforcement away from folks who clearly posed no threat. apnews.com/20ccd7a90e43... What did they air instead?

One of the quiet bright moments of lockdown was Sam Neill serenading us on the ukulele. This type of tenderness feels rare nowadays, how lucky we were. Thank you for everything. ❤️❤️❤️