President Macron: “We were very naive to leave our public space to social media networks controlled by US or Chinese companies that don’t share our interests and not interested in survival of our democracies.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=MggN...

Blustery day, isn't it? Here's the National Grid: Live generation data. Wind and solar are generating 74.2% of our electricity. Gas is generating 13.1%. And yet our household electricity prices are pegged to... the volatile price of gas. Which is the basis on which the right attacks... renewables.

Sobering images of rapid deglaciation in the Alps. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#Archaeology is about people. People like the #Gravettian hunter who, 30,000 years ago in southern Moravia, lost or dropped his pouch containing a well-used tool kit of stone blades and points, (including partially broken pieces he could've let go a lot earlier): 🏺 archaeology.org/news/2025/09...

The calling of Keir Starmer ‘Pledges’, ‘milestones’, ‘first steps’, ‘missions’, ‘foundations’ and ‘phases’ are no substitute for singular purpose. Starmer’s conference speech was a reminder of the power of narrative Latest long-read for @politics.co.uk 👇 www.politics.co.uk/week-in-revi...

Did u know? In a wildlife garden, prepping for winter isn't just about the plants, it's also about taking steps to ensure that small souls have the best chance too. This week,I've packed my ceramic skep with organic wool from www.woolcool.com as last year,Queen bumblebees took shelter in it. 🌿🌱🇬🇧🌱🌍🪲🐝

Things will get very ugly when Iran's aquifiers run dry.

A thread on the 3M plant at Antwerp, profits, toxic PFAS contamination of the environment and consequences.

Cranks, conspiracies & collateral. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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"The UK is "shockingly underprepared" for changing weather patterns caused by climate change, nature trusts have said." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Trumpnomics: Get tariff money from US consumers on Chinese goods. Our farmers can’t sell their products because the Chinese refuse to pay our tariffs. China buys from farmers in Argentina instead. We send Argentina $20 billion. Then we pay our farmers to throw their crops away.

Psychologists in Cults and Business Historians need to explain how this happened. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"If we lose hope, we're doomed." We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.

OpenAIs capacity to burn money is very impressive.

Scientists Finally Reveal Biological Basis of Long COVID Brain Fog. Patients with brain fog may have disrupted AMPA receptor (AMPAR) expression—key molecules for memory and learning. Imaging of Long COVID patients showed elevated AMPAR density tied to more severe cognitive impairment.

Quelle surprise, more vulnerable people scammed in cryptocurrency fraud. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Convincing the public that "We have to keep bailing out farms, or else hedge funds will gobble them all up" is the best joint PR operation the farm lobby and private ever pulled.

An autumn of corporate debt crises, contagion, liquidity and margin calls, might be a thing for Wall Street and other global finance centres.

Wall Street regulator vows light touch and end to quarterly reporting on.ft.com/4gI64ZW

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1 million hectares of agricultural land badly impacted by adverse weather.

The word 'Ptomekin' and The Emperor's New Clothes folktale, comes to mind listening to this investment word salad.

The Hove Amber Cup. A beautiful and rare Bronze Age amber cup which glows when it catches the light! 🤩 Carved from a single block of Baltic amber some 3,500 years ago! Found in 1856, inside Hove Barrow, a large burial mound in Sussex. Brighton Museum 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology

Truly impressive number of birds migrating tonight. More than 800 MILLION birds up in the air right now❗ #BirdMigration

This only happens to you once

Now this is Content

Felon47s Golden Era update:

Crony capitalism writ large.

Information clearly presented that starkly illustrates geographic and demographic variations.

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Warren Buffett Indicator hits 220% for the first time in history 🚨🚨 The Stock Market topped at 190% during the Dot Com Bubble 🤯👀

Cardinal Timothy Dolan failed to report direct admissions of rape by multiple priests, lobbied against extending the statute of limitations for sex abuse, and moved money off the church books to hide it from victims of sex abuse. In case you were wondering.

I gave my heart and soul to that place. Built entire sections for journalists pushed out of their home countries. When the writer I hired, Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi Arabia, they paraded me around as a symbol for press freedom. I put MY LIFE on the line to defend journalism and WaPo.

Belief & hopium "Meanwhile the sole source of value of a crypto asset such as Bitcoin is derived from the fact that investors believe it has value. There is no underlying productive investment, guaranteed return, industrial use, or approval by central banks." www.chathamhouse.org/2025/09/uk-m...

Felon47s administration policies bring new risks to U.S. financial stability, in addition to existing risks. UK exposure to contagion from probable/inevitable U.S. finacial instability needs to be mitigated.

Meredith Kopit Levien said the newspaper would 'not be cowed' by the US president’s $15bn lawsuit, which she described not only as legally baseless, but as part of a campaign to intimidate independent journalism on.ft.com/41VRaJE

This is how Britain is welcoming Trump for his state visit at Windsor Castle where he will meet King Charles tomorrow morning. Quality work, @ledbydonkeys.org.

If history is a guide, then this isn't going to end well.

Increasingly impoverished Trump voters seriously need to ponder the term 'useful idiots'.

The UK Government exodus from Musk's toxic site can't begin soon enough.

How much are phones and social media to blame for mental health struggles in adolescence? go.nature.com/4gmdbXL

Something beautiful for the weekend! An extraordinary Acheulean handaxe knapped around a fossil shell c. 500,000-300,000 years ago! The shell’s central display has been described as an example of aesthetic intention by the toolmaker. West Tofts, Norfolk. 📷 MAA Cambridge University #Archaeology

The U.S. has sunk to the point where a media show host is publicly endorsing Nazi eugenic democide.

Elon Musk openly called for violence on our streets yesterday. I hope politicians from all parties come together to condemn his deeply dangerous and irresponsible rhetoric. Britain must stand united against this clear attempt to undermine our democracy.

The end of a thread that highlights improbable numbers, the desperate efforts to keep the band playing on and investing behaviour that ignores a bleak reality.

Yesterday, the UK’s leading insect conservation charities launched the Declaration on the UK Insect Declines Crisis at the @WildSummitUK🚨 This united front calls for change across governments, land managers, businesses, and the public. @savebutterflies.bsky.social 1/5

The UN transitioning from a talking the talk to walking the walk, will be determined by good faith actors prevailing over bad faith actors.

The BBC fail to point out that brexit is delivering the impoverishment predicted by experts. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The absolute frustration of spivs, charlatans, grifters and other bad faith actors, unable to profit from retail investors' savings.