No more worrying about RAM & Mac prices, this is going to save me a FORTUNE

You know what causes poor race relations? Racists. Racists are what cause poor race relations.

Ice cream is one of mankind’s greatest inventions.

Despicable.

Listen to John talk about this book on the Write Now with Scrivener podcast. (Because he wrote the book with Scrivener.) podcast.scrivenerapp.com/60

Wow, these are massive. And I bet iPhones go up just as much. We wouldn't want Apple's profit margin - currently around 48% - to take a hit.

I have to say, it's making me feel a little insane hearing commentators say Ed Miliband shouldn't be chancellor because of his "ideological zeal" for Net Zero, in a week where temperatures are so extreme that my kids are being sent home early every day and it's regularly 30 degrees inside my house

Trump has decimated the government’s ability to detect and counter foreign influence actions aimed at the US from Russia and elsewhere. But he has provided around-the-clock security for the Reflecting Pool to protect it from nonexistent vandals. That’s a good summary of his presidency.

Nature is not happy.

"The Leonard Cohen Estate has learned that the song ‘Hallelujah’ is to be performed at a Donald Trump rally on June 24. This use is not authorized, and the Estate does not support or approve of this or any similar usage. Thank you for your attention to this matter." www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

War has changed. apple.news/ASatF28DER6a...

One advantages of the cats waking me up early is that I can sit outside for a while when it’s only 20°. It’s going to be fucking hot today; it should hit 34° where I am.

Rick Rubin doing ads for polymarket is really very validating for my long-held belief that that dude is a legendary fraud, huckster, and quack. Fuck that guy.

holy shit this game is going to be dope

there’s a contingent of people from historically cooler climates who really do seem to think that they’re inherently better people for not using AC unlike those decadent tropical dwellers Anyway I wrote about this a while back and need to do a update foreignpolicy.com/2022/01/16/c...

yes it can

So cute... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Has anyone thought of turning the weather off and turning it back on again?

Provisionally, today is now the warmest June day on record in the UK, with 35.8 °C recorded at Wiggonholt, West Sussex

People, I am begging you, if you have air con in your flat please PUT IT ON YOUR DATING PROFILE.

Philip Kennicott is good. Gift link.

This looks interesting.

Lonely Russian gives away his unit's position which then gets hit in a drone attack... This is fantastic. 😁 Link to article:

2/2: : Read the full story here: buff.ly/gyaKYAs

There are a number of online video courses with famous writers available online. In our latest blog article, we look at some of these video courses and how they might help you write better. 1/1

holy shit bsky has a water sealant expert that predicted the reflecting pool failure mode perfectly

Learn Creative Writing from Online Video Courses by Famous Writers There are a number of online video courses with famous writers available online. Could these help you improve your writing?

This is BBC weather for my area:

I don't know what they're smoking at the Met Office. Their forecasts are always 3-4 degrees above others, and above what the actual high turns out to be.

I'm considering becoming a climate refugee. What's it like up in Scotland, @davegoodman.bsky.social @rainewilson.bsky.social ? Are there nice small towns worth looking at? Or are there too many midges everywhere?

“UK society and the infrastructure on which it depends is built for a climate that no longer exists.”

We regret that our event on Extreme Heat: Improving governance and strengthening action around the world has been cancelled due to the red extreme heat warning issued by the UK Met Office. Our apologies to everyone who was planning to attend the event.

Scientific American is 180 years old. The most eminent science magazine for the general public. And today, sold off as scrap to stop the staff from unionizing. Many top editors I've worked with for a decade on several articles have been fired. What a disgrace @sciam.bsky.social

Okay. Ai can go bankrupt then. This is not our problem, this sounds like a rich tech billionaire problem.

Every single time: "$ wiped out from the stock market." Most of that money doesn't exist, and doesn't represent money that anyone invested. Most of it is shares owned by companies that only has paper value. It's a mirage.

Reform UK councillors have introduced a motion to rescind King's Lynn and West Norfolk's climate emergency declaration and deprioritise decarbonisation efforts The council were going to vote on it on Thursday But the meeting has been postponed due to extreme heat

the dumbest story in history has somehow gotten dumber

All of France is scorching hot today. Except for one village in the northwest...

This is weird. But even more, it's disgusting and odious.

'Raise Doubts'??? C'mon, @nytimes.com How about: - 'Show Otherwise' - 'Counter His Claim' - 'Tell Different Story' - 'Prove Claim False' - 'Don't Match Claims' - 'Show Another Lie' [ok, too far.] Etc. Headline gives him 100% underserved benefit of the doubt.

30 years for moving some zines www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The ideology in question is opposing fascism. This horrific action is a shot across the bow at all of us—everyone who cares about their neighbors, who dares to dream of a better world, who opposes ICE terror and authoritarian repression. We cannot allow the state to disappear them.

Trump will release the video evidence of vandals cutting a 350 ft gash in the Reflecting Pool lining when he releases the Epstein files, and proof that the 2020 election was stolen, and evidence that the ICE agents who killed Americans acted in self defense, and

Much of Europe is sweating in an exceptional heat wave. Heat in Europe has increased 4 times more than in other mid-latitude areas, which has been linked to the Atlantic #coldblob in several studies. #AMOC Slide from a talk I'm about the present at London Climate Action Week #LCAW2026. 1/

Today is Amazon Prime Day, also known here as "buy lots of cat food at discounted prices day." Because, frankly, there's nothing else I need. The only exception in recent years has been to upgrade Kindles.

The latest from the spiraling debacle that is the Reflecting Pool:

Hacker hijacks Brazil's national alert system, sending "misanthropy" to millions of phones. Emergency alert systems work because people believe them. Every time there is a false alert - whether through negligence or a deliberate attack - trust erodes. www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/h...

I saw this referred to as the Strait of Warm Ooze. Very good.