noticed on local riverside, comfrey spreading from the meadows along the river bank into a wooded area remnants of old withy beds - i.e. willows, an area infested with Himalayan balsam. However the comfrey is holding its own against the balsam. Any research into comfrey as part of balsam management?

For the past two and a half years, the UK government has armed a genocide as it was livestreamed around the world. Now, some politicians are pretending they have always been against the crimes they enabled. Too little, too late. Your complicity will never, ever be forgotten.

The article fails to mention the potential protests come on the heels of the British Museum removing the word Palestinian from exhibits, labels, info boards and maps, at the behest of pro Israeli groups. Which might add context. www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

Serious Trouble “The management of the conflict is far beyond the capabilities of the buffoons within the Trump administration. .. they will have left mounds of corpses in their wake.” “The tragedy is that the empire is bringing so many innocents down with it.” open.substack.com/pub/thehones...

FUSE Energy CEO points the to need to “Removing planning friction on EV chargers... But the same logic applies to solar, batteries, and every asset that helps deliver lower cost energy to UK households.“ Just having to apply for planning permission will knock back otherwise willing households.

Important. All progress is welcome. Faster grid expansion and stabilisation. Warm Home Agency and delivered policies But Industry points out that political instability negatively impacts investment and progress. That worries me And so do planning limitations (speaking from personal experience)

🪇 Another Passivhaus Certified Scottish School Montgomerie Park is one of a new wave of Scottish Passivhaus schools coming through the pipeline, thanks to Scottish Future's Trust LEIP funding building performance requirements. Case study: https://ow.ly/K7FB50YWsMN

She's speaking to Arts and Communications grads. She spent the earlier part of her speech glazing Bezos. At no point did she mention the Arts or Journalism. She's not an alum. She works in "Wellness" for a Bahamas-based developer.

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

Some brown people were murdered too?

Cool! Nice explainer on ARC’s building performance data analysis platform - how to assess whether that data shows buildings to be too hot or too cold using a humidity-adapted thermal comfort model & thresholds based on the latest human heat survivability science … www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6no...

This is a really important point that is very poorly understood by the public at large: the warming & other climate impacts we experience today are an expression of atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases 15 years ago. There is a lock-in & time-lag that will inevitably lead to profound regret

Police chases endanger everyone on the roads. Tag the car and track it later.

Not gonna take lessons on ideology from Palantir's UK supremo Louis Mosley, grandson of Oswald Mosley who founded the British Union of Fascists known as the Blackshirts after their uniform, who wears black shirts in his TV appearances.

'groundwater in this area contains an untold amount of pollution from previous decades of oil production' They thought regulators would help them - their 2 year ordeal was just begining. Moving away from fossil fuels is critical to protecting drinking water sources. share.google/WPBx9rUJaXvQ...

"A chatbot did not kill those children. People failed to update a database, other people built a system fast enough to make that failure lethal.(...) The real question is a bureaucratic question about what happened to the kill chain, and the answer is Palantir." www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...

White House announces that the government of Iran has gifted a giant wooden sculpture of a horse to the current administration as part of their total surrender to the US.

As a proposed oil & gas project looks set to drill directly through a chalk aquifer beneath the Yorkshire Wolds supplying drinking water to 900,000 people, @sonofedd.bsky.social asks: Who is protecting our water sources? yorkshirebylines.co.uk/region/who-i...

This would be a war crime. Obviously. Collective punishment.

Tammy Bruce: "Beginning August 20, nationals of Malawi and Zambia applying for B1, B2, business ,and tourist visas will be required to post a bond of up to $15,000."

1. This is something I've been saying for 25 years, but it's hard to get many people to listen. What counts is not the new energy sources you add, but the old ones you retire. Unfortunately it's politically easier to build renewables than to shutter fossil fuels.🧵 www.forbes.com/sites/rrapie...

Evidence - rare, like hens teeth, great share:

Got from my sister

See full thread, including: "The take-home message is clear. Overlooking nature’s tree planters risks missing ‘win-win’ pathways for both climate mitigation and biodiversity conservation."

New: After Gaza aid flotilla volunteer & US citizen Christian Smalls was taken into Israeli custody, seven uniformed individuals beat him, choking him & kicking him in the legs, according to the Freedom Flotilla Coalition. Smalls is co-founder of the Amazon Labor Union.

As a general rule, regardless of the topic, the media is at least 50% of any problem. taxjustice.net/press/millio...

⏳Final week to sign up to the Green Party. 🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.

I'm a Scottish Greens member, so separate to the Green Party of England & Wales, but Zack is exactly the type of political leader the UK needs. Not afraid to clearly call out the snake oil of Reform, & offer solutions to properly improve the lives of all communities who have been left behind ✊️💚

The realest of the real ones ❤️

Across the Western world, public opinion is overwhelmingly hostile to Israel’s crimes. That isn’t being acted on because the Western media forms a protective shield around Israel, cementing its impunity.

🙌Go @ealingcouncil.bsky.social "Ealing Council is committed to becoming a zero-carbon borough by 2030 ...To achieve this target .. Passivhaus certification is the baseline standard for all new buildings being designed in Ealing." Read more 👇 www.passivhaustrust.... @beyondcarbon.bsky.social

Fantastic

Of the 20 costliest weather disasters in history, four have occurred in just the last year.

Rhetorical question I assume?!

DON’T LOOK AWAY: Children seen shackled and escorted by federal agents out of a downtown Los Angeles detention center. Multiple minors. In chains. In public. This is not a “border issue”—this is a fucking human rights crisis.

Guys, this is a standard staple of every authoritarian regime ever You call the Secret Police on your neighbour for listening to Radio Free Europe to stop them mowing the lawn on Sunday morning

Helps us understand how Nazification of Germany happened….

🚨BREAKING: Prince Andrew is now free to travel internationally after the FBI quietly shut down its investigation into his ties to Jeffrey Epstein. No charges. No accountability. Just a royal hall pass.

Shitstorm brewing?

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Plastic nurdles may sound harmless - but, when a spill of nurdles occurs, as in the X-Press Pearl disaster, or off the coast of East Yorkshire this year, these tiny pieces of plastic can absorb other pollutants, & are eaten by sea creatures who cannot digest them, as Dr Megson explains here:

Our government is selling arms being used to commit genocide. Israel kills a child every 45 minutes. We are all Palestine Action. 🇵🇸

Palestine Action is part of Britain's proud history of protest. Proscribing it is an assault on democracy | Suresh Grover

'Gaza: Doctors Under Attack' Wednesday 2nd July, 10 pm Channel 4

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j... Channel 4’s head of news and current affairs :“This is a meticulously reported and important film examining evidence which supports allegations of grave breaches of international law by Israeli forces that deserves to be widely seen (...)"