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)

Another world-class take

How Iranian apartments respond to the hot climate…. No all glass facades, but instead mid-sized windows with shading (and some street trees below) By Zandigan Architects

Cracking the window just the right amount, settling in between freshly cleaned sheets, turning out the light and laying back on my favorite pillow: now I’m ready to imagine the exact layout of The Maze

Reading between the lines this is the outcome of the complete gutting of planning capacity and architectural knowledge in local government Keeping buildings cool isn’t witch craft or hot new tech (see how the Barbican balconies are designed), nor were future heat trajectories unknown 20 years ago

an area unqualified people on the right really like to get stuck in to :(

When I type Ikea, it’s because I want to look at Ikea’s website. Amazon SHOULD NOT be the top result you absolute weapons!

My strongest memory of Starmer will be his 2024 conference speech, where he said "every child deserves respect", a young activist said "does that include the children of Gaza?", and he laughed and said "he's obviously got a pass to the 2019 conference".

Great Trump pond thread

Aren't foxgloves brilliant?

Good piece on the extremely poor building design of the last two decades. As noted recent changes to building regs have changed this

Thoroughly enjoyed that. Ghana were great

the evil is defeated

Hannah Perry Saucier. Sant Pol de Mar, 2017

Fuck yeah

UK govt: don't exercise between 11am and 3pm Also UK govt: get up that scaffold you lazy shit.

Ugh www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Andy burnham supports the ehrc guidance this is from the guardian bsky.app/profile/ashl...

Not to be too buzzwordy but the whole establishments “it is bizarre and unknowable why Starmer is hated” is weaponised incompetence on an industrial propaganda scale

Brexit probably turning a corner today. The damage is glaringly obvious and a majority want to go back. Our democracy is dominated by far-right media though and we will be stuck in tar as usual

Yes it IS embarrassing actually to be hard-wired to sexually desire your oppressor class! The solution isn’t to defend female heterosexuality, it’s to dismantle the patriarchy! Jesus christ!

If your 'What went wrong with Starmer?' piece doesn't mention Gaza or Palestine once: Then you are not writing an honest or insightful piece.

They really are stuck on the hilarity of trying to improve bus services aren't they #carcunts

something which highlights just how pointless and dishonest the media is in this country is the fact they spent about half a decade telling everyone how competent and decent Starmer was only for him to be the most inept, malleable, and cowardly PM of our lifetimes

I was wondering how our pre-eminent left-punchers were going to deal with the fall of Keir Starmer and it turns out they've decided the reason he failed is mysterious and unknowable.

Father's Day seemed particularly big this year, the year that I forgot 😥

3000 excess deaths in one heatwave

Met a bloke at a party yesterday who worked on graphene at UMIST. His colleague got a Nobel peace prize

Stemonitis fusca for #SlimeMouldSunday

Hi NRG nation in the 80s

A year ago I went drinking in Antwerp with the lads for my brother-in-law's fiftieth. Our mate Mark made a laminated map of the itinerary and we've been begging him for copies ever since. A year later and he's digitised it. Feels too precious to post!

Bought a wooden synthesiser lol

Had another go at mastering weeey sounds like total dogshit

Andy Burnham and Steve Coogan have the same vibes

Green fight for Manchester mayor now 👊

Take of the day.

Really, really glad Reform are on the back foot

🧵Standing on Flamborough Head, the Old Lighthouse, better known as the Chalk Tower, is one of England's oldest surviving complete lighthouses. Built in 1674 by Sir John Clayton and George Blake, the 79-foot octagonal tower was intended to warn ships navigating the dangerous Yorkshire coast. However,

Do you have to pay to watch ITV delux or whatever it is to watch this or did I just get scammed

Corbyn lol

This totally unnecessary Makerfield by-election follows the twisted logic of post-referendum politics in UK - once again, all of our futures are being staked on a throw of the dice.

Maybe they sent out two boomers on a yacht to test Russian firepower

A.I. Carns

Fucking YIKES

Hated by his peers but now the only aristocrat anyone remembers

Dreamt last night I had to look after Donald Trump in a damp, crumbling house in a faded seaside town, with trips to the pier and a greasy spoon

Canalou, Missouri Pop: 301 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canalou,_Missouri Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=28364520 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=25641800 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=25641765

At this point, I genuinely believe the entire public is being actively gaslit by both the media, and Esther Ghey herself, into forgetting that Brianna Ghey was murdered, by people she knew from school, in real life, who were partly influenced by transphobia, fuelled by the media and politicians.

Facing up to bring the cringest of my niece's guardians

Advertisement for dried fish, Estonian SSR, 1970.