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

Hot podium guy is, tbf to him, ageing well. Here he is in 2019 (first major appearance), July 2022, October 2022 and today.

My nine year old asked for a Rosetta Stone cake for his birthday

This might be one of the funniest chart about energy scenarios I’ve seen. You can hardly see “actual” for gas

My evening self needs to stop making commitments for my morning self. They don't even like each other.

my god, it's real

At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/

The Gestapo marched hundreds of thousands of innocent people to their deaths. I've ended private schools' tax breaks to invest in state schools. No responsible leader makes vile comparisons like this. Kemi Badenoch is not fit to be Prime Minister.

How did complex cells emerge? In this groundbreaking paper, @tonigabaldon.bsky.social & co show that eukaryotes arose through multiple waves of ancient genetic exchange involving diverse bacteria (& giant viruses!) revealing a far more complex origin than we imagined. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The perfect obit headline for this particular climate denier, who knew better but preferred to live a lie heatmap.news/daily/lee-raymond

This seems like another example of the reluctance to have serious conversations with the public. There are good reasons why the Treasury is wary of pouring more money into a department that spends it so badly: but in that case, it needs to be willing to say so, and to have a clear plan for change.

It's out. My latest feature for @science.org, from aboard the RRS Discovery: a deep look at the past, present, and future of AMOC, told through the RAPID program. AMOC is weakening -- maybe, probably. But it also may be more resilient than some have made it seem.

𝕰𝖝𝖕𝖗𝖊𝖘𝖘 𝖞𝖔𝖚𝖗𝖘𝖊𝖑𝖋 𝕮𝖗𝖊𝖆𝖙𝖊 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖘𝖕𝖆𝖈𝖊 𝖄𝖔𝖚 𝖐𝖓𝖔𝖜 𝖞𝖔𝖚 𝖈𝖆𝖓 𝖜𝖎𝖓 𝕯𝖔𝖓'𝖙 𝖌𝖎𝖛𝖊 𝖚𝖕 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖈𝖍𝖆𝖘𝖊 𝕭𝖊𝖆𝖙 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖒𝖆𝖓 𝕿𝖆𝖐𝖊 𝖍𝖎𝖒 𝖔𝖓 𝖄𝖔𝖚 𝖓𝖊𝖛𝖊𝖗 𝖌𝖎𝖛𝖊 𝖚𝖕 𝕴𝖙'𝖘 𝖔𝖓𝖊 𝖔𝖓 𝖔𝖓𝖊 𝕰𝖝𝖕𝖗𝖊𝖘𝖘 𝖞𝖔𝖚𝖗𝖘𝖊𝖑𝖋 𝕴𝖙'𝖘 𝖔𝖓𝖊 𝖔𝖓 𝖔𝖓𝖊 𝕰𝖝𝖕𝖗𝖊𝖘𝖘 𝖞𝖔𝖚𝖗𝖘𝖊𝖑𝖋 𝕴𝖙'𝖘 𝖔𝖓𝖊 𝖔𝖓 𝖔𝖓𝖊 𝕰𝖝𝖕𝖗𝖊𝖘𝖘 𝖞𝖔𝖚𝖗𝖘𝖊𝖑𝖋 𝖄𝖔𝖚 𝖈𝖆𝖓'𝖙 𝖇𝖊 𝖜𝖗𝖔𝖓𝖌 𝖂𝖍𝖊𝖓 𝖘𝖔𝖒𝖊𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖌'𝖘 𝖌𝖔𝖔𝖉 𝕴𝖙'𝖘 𝖓𝖊𝖛𝖊𝖗 𝖌𝖔𝖓𝖊

the cars don't drive themselves and we're still nowhere near Mars, but you can't question Elon Musk's ability to deliver screwworms and racial violence

I don't know how Keir Starmer can wake up in the morning, see that pogroms have been taking place under his watch, that they are being fuelled by literal illegal activity on social media, and not make it his entire purpose to stop it. We know you're no politician, but are you not a lawyer?

May 2026 had the second-worst May drought conditions in contiguous U.S. history, with a Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI) of -6.93. The only worse May: the Dust Bowl year of 1934 (a PDSI of -7.03). Three of the top-10 months for worst U.S. drought since 1895 have been in 2026:

I have no comment on this except that the past tense of Scooby Doo is actually Scoobie Did and the title should reflect that.

The coal "jump" that wasn't. Complete data for May: -total global coal imports +0.3% yoy -thermal coal imports -7%! March-May: -total coal imports -2% -thermal coal imports -6% Met coal imports rose 7% in March-May, but that was just a partial reversal of an 8% drop in 2025.

Never rule out electric planes for in the future! Wh/Kg energy density: - LFP: 150-200 - NMC: 200-300 - Solid state: 400-700 - Lithium-air lab: 1200 - Lithium-air theoretical limit: 12000 - Jet fuel: 12000 carnewschina.com/2026/06/03/c...

What is the value of human beings studying the cosmos? For @michaelgreshko.bsky.social at Science, I dug into how practitioners of humanity's oldest exact science are metabolizing the latest developments in AI...and how it seems to be forcing them to wrestle with philosophical questions.

Me: I'm feeling really Sapphic You: Tell me more 😏 Me: ............... and if ......... [thy]me...... .......................... hands.......... [swan, or possibly an extinct species of gourd] .........................s

We only went and won it!! 🎉🎉🎉 A newsletter has just won the biggest prize in British journalism Absolutely delighted. Huge thanks to Khadija and to all Democracy for Sale’s supporters 😊

Just turned in final revisions on "AND LOKI IN HIS PRISON" It's going to exist at last, everyone!!! Big, deeply-built, intricate Norse myth fantasy. Book 1 of "HANGED GOD'S GAME" Coming from Tor Books Summer 2027

I always thought Spielberg and Lucas forgetting about Marion explained a lot about why they were both divorced shortly after.

Moonlight sonata. I took one of my favorite photos last night. While looking for a scissortail, this eastern meadowlark perched itself atop a nearby tree and sang a beautiful song just long enough for me to position it directly in front of the nearly-full Moon. #Photography #BirdOfTheDay #Birds

Here’s an ancient amber bear to wish you a happy weekend! Carved some 10,000 years ago, it washed up on a beach at Fanø in Denmark from a submerged Mesolithic settlement under the North Sea. National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen 📷 by me

No surprise here. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

An 11th century “ornamental shield” that was carved from an elk’s antler. 'It was allegedly displayed in the funerary chapel of the Carolingian emperor Louis "the Pious" (d. 840) in the now lost church of Saint-Arnoul (a Merovingian bishop) in Metz.' artofthemiddleages.com/s/main/item/...

The Dabous Giraffes are neolithic petroglyphs by unknown artists on the western side of the Aïr Mountains in north-central Niger The carvings are believed to have been done between 6,000 and 8,000 years ago, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dabous_...

Love this bit on Ai from the Royal Society. A classic case of the probability engine getting itself in a mess and revealing its complete lack of understanding

see then i thought THIS must be a photoshopped joke. but i asked google the question 3 times in a row and behold: the saturfish cometh

"If it feels like everything is fine, that’s how you know you’re dying." #ThereIsNoAntimemeticsDivision

Lots of confusion about how China is able to cut seaborne oil imports so drastically. I think a significant blind spot in most analysis is China's stockpiles of refined products. These are reported in China's official energy data. 🧵

Calling @doctorow.pluralistic.net

🔴 Keir Starmer promised to crackdown on "Slapps" - abusive libel cases to silence journalists and critics Then Labour quietly dropped it We can reveal why: a three-year lobbying blitz by libel lawyers who've acted for Russian oligarchs, Epstein + more democracyforsale.substack.com/p/how-lawyer...

Spent 20 minutes this morning sitting with my 12yo and asking the new Google search questions about Pokémon. After laughing at all the bullshit and wrong answers, we had a serious discussion about the power of his human brain and the necessity of using trusted sources like Bulbapedia.

Say what you will (you already have...) about Blair's intervention but if did at least force me to finish my long promised piece on Pardogatto Progressivism, and the risks for progressives of becoming the parties of stasis not change. benansell.substack.com/p/pardogatto...

Blair putting on full display what is in many ways his special ability - to lay out a political argument grounded in his own view of global trends (globalisation in the 2000s, tech in the 2020s). But… institute.global/insights/pol...

Say what you like about Ferrari and Jony Ive, but they have brought people together

NOT NOW, DEADLY FUNGAL STORMS !

Emoji art history by ND Stevenson 🎨 🤓 www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/05/emoj...

The prophet Elijah was starting to regret choosing Ry*nair. (Corpus Christi College, MS 164, f. 88r.)

My new surprise looking at Africa's GDP figures: the biggest 10 countries account for 2/3 of GDP while the bottom half account for just 10% (the smallest 15 countries only 1.8%) Romania is bigger than any economy in Africa The continent as a whole is a little smaller than France (which is 7th)

They may not be serious people, but they have a point. www.ft.com/content/9cc7...

Yeah if you're only counting scandals where there's personal enrichment (Ecclestone and Cash for Peerages for instance both involved payments to the parties and were significantly bigger in size)

Tony Blair sits looking at his phone. Surely not, he thinks. But then again…he’s available. He’s a proven winner. But no, it’s a fantasy. It will never happen. His time has gone. And yet. The phone rings. He scrambles to answer. “Hello?” “Mr Blair?” “Yes!?” “How do you feel about your broadband?”

“The question is not simply what the optimal fiscal framework looks like, but how reform can be sequenced in a context of elevated borrowing costs and heightened market sensitivity”. V interesting, lots to agree with. renewal.org.uk/articles/a-n...

Why does the UK keep inventing these impenetrable and arcane processes for selecting a leader when "Bake Off" already exists.

Been a while so thought I'd check out the Persimmon costs and operating profit per housing plot data. Big rise in build costs and operating costs since 2022. Current operating profit is effectively just the house price inflation since 2021. Land costs flat for a decade.