What's preferable; travelling during v hot part of the day with no commuter rush, or travelling at the tail end of rush hour when it's going to be slightly cooler? I can't decide...

I'm away for the next week so you won't get any fox content, but I will be messaging Mr Bee to remind him to keep the water bowl topped up. If you have space, please put some water out for your local critters.

If I believed that someone was trying to assemble a collection of obscure books, that would be different, too. Like, go ahead. Make a seed bank but books. I'm on board. Instead, the obscure books are just... gone. And I'm not alone in suspecting that. www.democrata.es/en/digital-a...

hey, fellow brits and europeans in this heat wave! If you're on any of these you're more sensitive to the heat. Make sure you drink water, stay in the shade, and avoid over-exertion.

Evergreen

Always good to have your response to a consultation immediately ready to go. Suggests you've definitely engaged with the results of the consultation and that the entire thing wasn't a waste of time.

This via r/LondonFood is very cool ❄️ Someone has scraped the UK government's register of air conditioning inspection reports for commercial premises and created a database of London's cafes, pubs and restaurants with AC:

Heatwave in the UK. OK, I grew up in Italy, and when it is very hot and you have no air-conditioning, you do this - 1) Unless there's a good breeze, CLOSE all the windows and draw all the blinds and curtains until sunset. The outside air is hot, you do not want it inside with you. 2) DRINK WATER

Every tiny mitigation helps.

Author of this thinks nobody reads Pratchett any more because most of his readers have blocked her.

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In celebration of both World Dracula Day and Peter Cushing's birthday. 🧛

No no no no

Jubilee

This is how local actors fight back - using any tools at their disposal. Even as the US imposes its will over deep-sea mining this bill deters the use of the island as a staging area for mining operations. "Guam bans seabed mining as federal offshore leases loom" www.postguam.com/news/local/g...

get in loser we're going dying

dreamt I was tasked with coming up with a new tagline for “the hurt locker” despite it being more than a decade old

It's tempting to unlapse myself, if it allows me to say "very much the fuck not" to AI at work

Oh yeah mate you've come to exactly the right person

I will never understand how this is considered a weed. We are a funny country.

this is why I find climate dooming so frustrating there is no point - none - at which throwing up your hands and going “well we’re fucked” is the correct response every tenth of a degree matters and can make a big difference and is worth fighting for

Again, please share. In every aspect of American history you will run smack dab into the critical contributions of Black people. It’s not Black history. It’s American history. Trying to erase it is a fool’s errand. We live it every day. time.com/5836444/blac...

Really starting to understand why a bunch of Southern Med countries are asleep between 1-3pm and everyone goes out to dinner at 10pm

GOOD NEWS! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a UNIVERSAL vaccine known as GLA-3M-052-LS+OVA, that protects against a wide range of respiratory viruses, bacteria AND even allergens. The vaccine is delivered intranasally AND provides broad protection in the lungs for several MONTHS.

where is the lie?

Heyyyy in a surprise to absolutely nobody who's paying attention, today is the hottest May day in the UK since records began

Tybalt is embracing a 'maximum surface area' approach

Oh yes

51. "Among these [new] ideologies [against human dignity], I consider particularly insidious the one that suggests that every person must earn or justify his or her own worth, to the point of attributing greater value to those who are more efficient or effective."

Got the fan down Immediately helped Stan 🙄

Oh no Solitaire that is not an ENT speculum

Oh no The Melt™

World Bee Day innit. And I do cards wiv bees on em… (and I doodle bees on all my envelopes Dippyfishcards.etsy.com #bsnm #savethebees #bees #mhhsbd #ukgiftam #artforsale #greetingscards

On this day in 2020, Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin forcefully pinned George Floyd to the ground and held his knee on Mr. Floyd’s neck for over nine minutes until he died.

Don't tell me I don't enjoy taking risks. I've come out without my phone bank, and I'm at 47%. Licking the fucking LID OF LIFE, me. *quietly panics*

A light in the darkness - EHRC draft Code says WI amd Girl Guides CAN lawfully choose to admit trans women / girls. Since the FWS Supreme Court judgment, we have seen multiple attempts to ban trans women and girls from womens clubs and association. The most prominent have been the WI and the GG.

As someone who's vaccinated many hundreds of people, this is too high. And it hurt.

humanity's enduring desire to make Little Guys is truly wonderful This is a clay pig. It has an angry little face with furrowed brows, pointing down and a huge curved back that leads seamlessly into the top of the head (no neck) like it's rearing up to charge. A very round piggy.

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#AfricaDay calls for celebrating heroes. Here is to Jean-Jacques Muyembe, Congolese doctor who discovered the ebola virus, and later pioneered its first therapy, which was ignored for many years. He's still battling on during the current outbreak. #AfricaSky #heroes www.huffpost.com/entry/ebola-...

And we don't even get any bangers like "15 miles on the data center canal"

I might just stay on the overground forever #aircon

Cooling mat win

Activate full authoritarian mode: in addition to forcing the WH app on every government-issued phone, it'll now bombard the user with regular messages of Trump adoration. archive.ph/Gbaaw

Love a post-run shower on a really hot day, where you wash all the sweat off just to be replaced with more sweat.

The word 'native' here is waving a big red flag. What makes a food natively British? If a dish was conceived and executed here, that's all that counts, no?

My Palpable Desire To Be Ensconced (2002)

So, @andyburnham.bsky.social was associating with Peter Mandelson in 2021, long after it was public knowledge that his friend Epstein was a nonce. Cue confected anger about Mandelson not telling him. Bully Boy Burnham is as bad a slimy Starmer.