If I worked at @theonion.com and was asked to cast an unlikable guy to parody the new Washington Post podcast I’m not sure I could have done a better job

The things I could do with the money they’ve poured into this lol

Also hilarious they’ve been active on here for months and have managed to accumulate 9 entire followers

And Australia….

See:

Compare and contrast.

A user with the name "Virgil" defending Achilles is a red flag. These people are so uneducated.

see, the little details like this are what make dystopian sf interesting for me what incidental little things break as a result of the scenario

Achilles, Chad of Phthia

sometimes Oxford is normal and sometimes members of @orieloxford.bsky.social chapel gather to serenade a new beehive on college grounds with a 17th century madrigal

Yet another thing I probably would have never learned about if it wasn't for this place. (And he directed it at 20!)

I spoke with rising climate+health expert Taran Deol about the Santa Marta fossil fuel phase-out conference. If you're interested in why we're urging all nations to hold a national dialogue on the health benefits of phase-out, read on... @gchalliance.bsky.social @lancetcountdown.bsky.social

People like using the slop machine because it’s easy and the thing you’d have to do instead is hard. But people also dislike living surrounded by the slop generated by everyone doing this. It’s like littering, but instead of public land the thing it leaves a mess on is the whole human experience.

*The Chinese are winning every war they can manage to avoid, and with increasing rapidity, too

Venice. The City of Casanova no more, it seems.

note to graphic designers: please don't make charts that vary from red or orange to green. One in twelve men are red-green colorblind and won't be able to understand what you're trying to show.

One would imagine THIS is something to be hammered on the stump, no? 🔽🔽 @petesikora.bsky.social

Goes well with🔽

Tangentially; I'm not particularly worried about climate change causing famines anymore - in no small part because post-2085 future would see lower aggregate demand from shrinking population. (The other reason is that the crops already diverted to livestock/biofuels could feed another 7 billion.)

Africa is also just about the same size as the entire surface of the Moon...

A good counterpart to this graphic.

For reference, it's no Gonghe Talatan (that one is more powerful than any nuclear or dam in the world besides the Three Gorges), but is still really promising.

Taking place between 1271 and 1295 - he was about 17 years old when he started it, and 41 when he finished. P.S. "Rustichello" is an unfairly forgotten first name. "He is best known for co-writing Marco Polo's autobiography, The Travels of Marco Polo, while they were in prison together in Genoa."

Remarkable that this is also true of every sub-Saharan country polled. For a long time, they had the most globally favourable views of the US, but that seems to be the past now. www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/... P.S. Do not sleep on the Saudi Arabian public calling Israel "the greatest threat".

Yep, power + shade. India had been doing a similar approach for a while!

Reminds me of when untreated wastewater on the other side of the Mediterranean caused this only a few years earlier.

I wonder what kind of a timeframe that 150 km/h was measured over. If it was a brief gust, then it's not so special. If it was a daily average, then that gets it near all-time global records. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

in 2024 Trump tells the oil industry if they give him one billion dollars, he will do whatever they want. They give him lots of money. In 2026, Trump does more to destroy the future of the oil and gas industry than anyone ever. They should have read about the scorpion and the frog.

Sometimes the fish win: www.inaturalist.org/blog/17145-o...

In general, I made a rule not to repost unless I can quote with something that adds to the conversation...so as you might expect, I often do not repost at all! P.S. Here's a repost of something rarely posted and quite provocative.

Atmospheric CO₂ of 340 ppm

"In January 2025, the government said it aimed to reduce carbon emissions by 51 percent from 2005 levels by 2035 -- barely changed from a 50-percent cut targeted for 2030. ...The government's own analysis was that effectively it was a coin-toss chance that we would meet the targets.""

"It can also lead to gaming of the system, in which developers put in a proposal that is twice as large as they actually intend to construct, then reduce...to show they are reducing their impact. ...Outcomes matter, not just process, and project refusal should be an option where impacts are high."

A good start; but still only the first step.

Compare and contrast with reporting from 2024 if you want to feel even more hate.

OK, I had no idea this existed until today! Massive respect to those artists.

Honestly, an amazing response to this.

And Peter Mandelson, Epstein's good friend, vetting all new Labour MPs in 2024 might sound like a conspiracy theory but no, it's literally what happened: inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Western Australian Budget 2026-27 Summary: Infrastructure Yes, Climate Action No WA Government budget delivers impressive renewable energy hardware but dodges the policy framework needed for real decarbonisation. More www.linkedin.com/posts/raywil...

Surprised to see effectively no discussion of FAO briefs on here - which is a shame, as they are *enormously* important, and help dispel so many false assumptions about #agriculture First up - the Cereal brief. It merely describes the overwhelming majority of our calorie intake. Highlights: (1/10)

Israel’s dehumanization campaign and theft of Lebanese land has been ongoing for decades.

Those who learn from history are doomed to read PowerPoints explaining how the things that were obviously gonna happen are happening.

A little sad 99.999% won't get what this means. So happy to be one of those who does.

Seems relevant.