The International Criminal Court is ditching Microsoft Office, saying it’s too dependent on US tech, in favor of Open Desk, a German open source alternative. The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.

Having opened the box, Pandora tweets angrily at all the miseries and evils she enabled to fly out to afflict mankind

John Oliver mentioned this animal on his recent show, so i thought I'd tell you a little about the critically endangered #MountainChicken #SciComm🧪 by @grrlscientist.bsky.social #frogs🐸 #amphibians #caribbean #EndangeredSpecies #conservation🌎 grrlscientist.substack.com/p/giant-cari...

The 2025 state of the climate report: a planet on the brink We are hurtling toward climate chaos. academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

New post: How the reaction to a football ban showed how our politicians and media have become trapped in right wing Islamophobic narratives and detached from the majority of voters mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/10/how-...

In 1850 the weight of all the world's wild mammals equalled the weight of humans and our livestock Today they are outweighed 1 to 20 Reconfiguring life on this planet to produce cheap meat and dairy www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This is very useful, timely analysis built on Global Energy Monitor data, confirming that fossil fuel companies are not meaningfully investing in the energy transition. These companies are responsible for a tiny 0.1% of global renewable energy production. grist.org/accountabili...

Three new Climate Data Records (CDRs) of atmospheric motion vectors are now available on the EUMETSAT Data Store bit.ly/4ozRrL8 #remotesensing #earthobservation

We've arrived at Essen 🤗 I found some appelschorle already 🥰 and had some delicious food and bread with friends. 🤗 See you soon at the Novelty Show or Hall 6, 300!! #boardgames #Essen #spiel #spiel25

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

More than 60% of world’s bird species in decline, as leaders meet on extinction crisis - Biodiversity losses are growing, the IUCN reports as summit opens, but green turtle’s recovery ‘reminds us conservation works’ Story by @pgreenfielduk.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

In July 2025 I recorded 71 fatal landslides worldwide, with the loss of 214 lives. The number of fatal landslides was above the long term mean of 58.1 landslides. eos.org/thelandslide...

Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.

Basic principles for the future of the car in cities: ✅ Fewer ✅ Smaller ✅ Slower ✅ Cleaner This can be achieved with: ✅ Parking controls ✅ LTNs ✅ Road User Pricing ✅ Pedestrianisation ✅ Default 20mph roads ✅ Improved public transport ✅ Segregated cycling

On Friday, October 17, Sviatlana Tsihanouskaya, leader of the democratic Belarusian opposition against dictator Aliaksandr Lukashenka, will deliver the ninth October Lecture in de @rodehoed.bsky.social in Amsterdam. Get your tickets via: rodehoed.nl/programma/ok...

My friend Ayham who lives at Khan Yunis just wrote me this when I asked him what’s happening in Gaza "Nothing, Only massacres" 😢

It’s hard to look around—at Blair pitching a luxury resort to be built on the Gaza killing fields or Keir Starmer responding to anti-Asian hate by affirming his affinity for the perpetrators—and not conclude that the elite’s real problem with Corbyn was that he wasn’t sufficiently Islamophobic.

I'm not dead yet. Just wallowing in a big bed with shiny yellow bedding, plastered in my own urine and excrement, steadily descending into a miasma of delirium, pain and misery. In my lucid moments, I rage at the inescapability of death and the weakness of the fools who will betray my legacy.

The Trump Effect Wind power investment in US during first half of 2025 hits lowest point since before 2015 So where does that money go? Wind power investment in Europe in same period reaches record high, by some way www.ft.com/content/2e3e...

These are the cycle hangars that BUT MY CAR said were taking up vital parking spaces and nobody’s going to use them anyway. They should put in more.

Check this shit! Earlier today, ICE tried to break into private property in Lynwood, California — no judicial warrant, no authority. Acting like thugs, not federal agents. Spoiler alert: Lynwood does not play. This trio of goons got sent packing.

🧵I keep reading that refugees are being kept in the lap of luxury in 4-star hotels. So here's a story about a place in my hometown called Harriet's! It's a foul looking restaurant I've driven past my entire life but never been in to. It just looks so grim and it's attached to a gross-looking hotel.

“Copenhagen reported that 62% of its residents are now commuting to work or school by bike — an increase from 52% in 2015 & 36% in 2012, when the City Council launched a 14-year-plan to improve the quality, safety & comfort of cycling.” #Copenhagen chose. They keep choosing even better every year.

There is widespread public support for taking action on climate change, but policymakers underestimate it, say researchers at the university of Oxford. The study built on prior findings that 69% of the public support climate action, whereas policymakers estimated this figure at just 37%.

While the fossil fuel-funded Reform party campaigns against renewables, the BBC sees fit to run a headline on 260 people objecting to a small solar farm in Stroud. This directly bolsters the Reform narrative that renewables are unpopular, despite opinion polls showing the exact opposite.

🐟 Ancient warning from the sea A new study shows that low-oxygen oceans wiped out deep-dwelling fish 7,000–10,000 years ago. As oceans lose oxygen again today, scientists fear history may repeat itself. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s43... #ClimateCrisis #SciComm 🧪

Well this is big. Chinese imports of crude oil, liquefied natural gas, and coal have fallen to near zero. (h/t @billmckibben.bsky.social) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Former head teacher arrested under terror laws - for holding up Private Eye article. UK's police-state descent continues as even the separate words 'Palestine' and 'Action' now banned in the same sentence...

Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies. For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!

This is visual poetry.

This article on ‘Steps of Life’ inspired the cartoon below: publicdomainreview.org/collection/t...

Calling interpreters! There's still time to register for this free webinar with lawyer-linguist Sue Leschen on Thursday this week at 11am (UK time): register.gotowebinar.com/register/499... #Interpreting #Prison #CIOL #Webinar #CPD

📢NEW: "It’s bad leadership." Steel giant ArcelorMittal has a carbon footprint the size of Belgium, yet has decided to slow down on decarbonization. I talked to @steelwatch.bsky.social CEO Caroline Ashley about the firm's behaviour.

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Attention Street Design Nerds! One of the most intriguing cities in recent years at reconsidering streets for people instead of just for cars, Oslo Norway, translated their great Street Design Manual into English and put it on-line. It’s worth digging into. #Oslo www.oslo.kommune.no/getfile.php/...

One week on from Spain's blackout - and media outlets can talk about is solar power. So I decided to look into Spain's nuclear fleet, and discovered that in April, it was operating at its lowest levels in ten years Why? Here's a hefty piece digging into that, for you: ketanjoshi.co/2025/05/05/w...

the year is 2049 and me and my wife are investigating a tip that an old man living in a small town may in fact be a ex-ice higher-up who was never caught in the reckonings of the early ‘30s. he is wanted dead or alive and the stack of new yen we will receive upon capture will feed us for many moons

Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

More alt text: 1) A map of central USA with a marker indicating a point somewhere in rural Kansas; 2) A photo of a completely ruined brick house, apparently in a wooded area.

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One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind. An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one." The other said, "Take him anyway." So they did.

1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but 2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but 3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So 4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

There's been plenty of hyperventilating in some UK media outlets about solar farm taking over 'productive farm land' and endangering food security But in fact the ambitious 2030 targets will cover only 0.4% of land, compared with golf courses covering 0.5% www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

In the most exciting creative news of my life, I can finally share what @rikworth.bsky.social and I have been hard at work at for the past year. PETS TELL TALES: ANCIENT EGYPT from @hachettechildrens.bsky.social will be on bookshelves in July & is available to preorder NOW! 👉 geni.us/PetsTellTales

Hell is waiting, just die already!

my friends see me as a cautionary tale. i am the goofus to their gallant. my poor decisions precede and therefore prevent theirs. i am what-not-to-do incarnate. look upon my works, ye mighty, and disparage.