With all due respect to Mr Nolan, the perfect adaptation of the Odyssey has already been made.

Kid1, who is both an conductor and engineer for CN and has driven trains through SK wildfires himself, just sent me this video from Ontario. When I tell you they arent paid enough!!! vt.tiktok.com/ZSXkuEadE/

Stamp duty and council tax are terrible taxes. Land value tax could replace both - and Andy Burnham has backed it for 16 years. Who wins? Who loses? What happens to house prices? LVT could drive growth. But it isn’t easy. Our model shows its promise - and its problems.

Who doesn't love a bit of gossip?

Picard management tip: Withhold advice on matters you do not understand.

It has been criminally underreported but Kelsey Pfendler has just rowed solo across the Pacific Ocean from the US coast to Hawaii in record time. A 2,400-mile unsupported journey in 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes. Notably beating the Men’s record by 9 whole days.

“The postwar order rested on three pillars: American hegemony, the fossil-fuel energy system, and an open, multilateral trading order. America has now attacked each pillar at the foundation of its hydrocarbon global order" @katemac.bsky.social & I last year. With Iran War? bsky.app/profile/pari...

@rachelsylvester.bsky.social talking a whole lot of sense about how (and how not) to handle Farage and Reform in her excellent @theobserveruk.bsky.social newsletter.

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Mobile internet coverage in UK worse than any EU or G7 country. Inflation-busting price increases. UK ranks 57th for network performance. 70th for download speeds. 55th for the m quality needed for activities such as video calls, streaming and gaming.

1000 evaluators given identical resumes & told candidate used AI. Only difference on resumes was candidate’s name: Emily vs James. Study found women using AI are evaluated as less competent than men who use AI...To evaluators, women’s AI use signaled inability, while men’s AI use signaled initiative

A single black woman surrounded by hooded white supremacists is certainly a chilling image.

🚨 Well that's that. The Barents Sea had its earliest melt-out of #Arctic sea ice on record this summer! ICYMI: I wrote up a blog on this extreme event: zacklabe.com/climate-viz-.... This is already one of the fastest changing climates in the world.

Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.

Yesterday, for the first time in 50 years, we reached the point where deaths in this country overtook births. As of last year, we also reduced net migration to its lowest level since the last decade, and it looks to be even lower. We are very rapidly heading to a massive demographic crisis.

Imagine being mad that we live in a country in which a former refugee can rise to become Lord Mayor of their city. That makes me proud to be British, if anything.

Imagine travelling thousands of miles just to spend your evenings doing zoomies over the same few houses... It's hard not to be impressed 👇 #SwiftAwarenessWeek

Next up a nearly local beer for local people “Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'Il have another beer." - WC Fields. #BskyBeer

This story 🥹 This is what it’s all about ❤️💙🇨🇻

Pass this on. You never know who might need it and it could make a huge difference if someone is struggling for whatever reason

Re-upping this bc there's more Musky Mars dipshittery floating around today. Also, has Musk "reached Mars by 2016" yet tho? Has he deployed "fleets of robotaxis" by 2020 yet? Has he given the UN $7B to solve world hunger he promised? How's hyperloop doing? Free starlink yet? Self-driving works?

The must see visual from Propublica's brutal takedown of carbon capture magical thinking: projects.propublica.org/why-carbon-c... @amywestervelt.bsky.social @propublica.org @drilledmedia.bsky.social

comparisons with 1976 are redundant.

The story of social media’s problem with news, in two posts (these are from X)

It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23

It's probably time European journalists wrapped their heads around Heat Index (temp + relative humidity). In high humidity, sweating is less efficient, making heat worse, e.g.: Experiencing 35°C in London UK (70% RH) is more dangerous than 50°C in Phoenix Arizona (15% RH)

one of the best discussions of AI I've heard, very good stuff

This chart is more important than any other you will see. It shows the temperature stratification in the upper 2000m of the world's oceans at record highs. The oceans control the air temperature. If this gets too hot life on earth dies. That's it.

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

This is the main thing I wish people understood. I don’t care if your dog normally exercises itself into a panting slobbering frothing mess running until it barely has legs left. Usually, that works to cool them. In heatwaves it doesn’t.

"Something just brushed past my leg!" — Luke Skywalker, #StarWars Image credit: tempestkc on Threads #LincolnMemorialReflectingPool #USA

Brilliant crafters

That’s the problem with recognising climate change is a scientific reality and then trying to ensure the only biosphere in the known universe remains habitable, it’s just such a downer.

The attacks in Edinburgh, in which an armed bare-chested white man terrorised Muslims, leaving five people injured, don't feature on a single newspaper front page this morning. Two tier journalism

France will be at the epicenter of the most significant heat anomaly on the planet over the next few days. The sheer extent of the country that could experience temperatures above 40°C is nothing short of astonishing.

🚨 New research by us! 📣 Most British drivers don't know how dangerous SUVs are to other road users, but adding information to SUV marketing materials seems to do almost nothing to change people's plans to buy SUVs Here's a 🧵 on why harder action is going to be needed 1/10

Protecting women #cartoon

This morning scrolling Bluesky, there is nothing at all in my feed about Putin’s barbaric attack on the Ukraine’s holiest site, the UNESCO protected Lavra so I’m posting this here.

My goodness, Ed Luce is furious giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

guy has a trillion dollars, 0 friends, and has never landed a joke. I know a pact with the devil when I see one.

If Muslims or members of the Asian and Black community had set fire to white people’s homes with children running for their lives, do you think we would be discussing legitimate concerns or focussing on who radicalised them and ideological and contributing cultural factors?

This is not “very strange” but a very shouty WTF! 🧵 Temps should below freezing -mean air temp Esperanza for June about -11°C, not +15°C 😱 Conditions should be frigid!!!! 🥶 It’s approaching midwinter ffs! Days are very short this far north in the Antarctic Peninsula ( ~5 hrs) 1/

"Something remarkable happened in April. For the first time in history, wind and solar generated more electricity than gas across the entire planet. Not in a country. Not in a region. Globally." Tons of great news here from Danny Kennedy (via @billmckibben.bsky.social's newsletter, which rules).

You'll all be shocked to learn that reorienting the whole economy around cramming AI into everything has not produced any economic benefit outside of the AI companies. www.apollo.com/wealth/the-d...

"The world is in turmoil, but not our passengers," Deniz Weissenborn, ⁠owner of Platoon Aviation, told Reuters, explaining that its clients are wealthy enough to absorb higher prices. "If you fly in a private jet, I ​don't think you're bothered by an increase of 1,000 or 2,000 euros."

💥 In Donetsk region, birds are building nests from drone fiber optics.

Honestly incredible stuff but this made me gasp: "For $100 million a year we can get clean oceans,” he said. This is less than the annual marketing budget of most major consumer goods companies that produce the plastic The Ocean Cleanup is pulling from the sea. techfixated.com/young-invent...