This is a very thought-provoking piece by my colleague Jeff Brown, following a lot of detective work. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Camborne in Cornwall has reached 28.8°C. Its June record is 27.7°C. Its previous May record has been beaten by more than 4°C. This is an extreme heatwave, made hotter by burning fossil fuels.

I feel like the photographer could have gotten a little closer tbh

An explicit forecast of a new monthly record by ~2°C. The climate we knew is gone for good.

The UK is likely going to see its hottest spring day on record by some margin in the next few days. The climate we built for no longer exists. The climate we’re in isn’t even well-defined, as things continue to change faster than we observe the extremes. We are underprepared.

The Italian foreign ministry has just urgently summoned the German ambassador. At the weekend. For a meeting that will definitely not involve coffee and biscuits.

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I would make the same choice

Almost unbelievable forecast from tonight’s European model it has trended hotter. We see 32C/90F daily between this Sunday and next Tuesday in London area. Hard to believe we just experienced coolest mid May period in 16 years and now we look to see a historic heatwave. The change is violent.

“Built for a climate that no longer exists” is a good phrase www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Jesus Christ, from the size of that cat I’m guessing it’s lard

I know I’ve already said “ITV National Weather sponsored by Powergen”, but even more so. #eurovision

I'm somewhat of a coder myself

Incredible stage 😍 #GirodItalia Congrats Igor Arrieta 🙌 and Afonso Eulálio 🩷

Crazy stage. Crazy finish. Crazy race. Crazy sport. 19 minutes of "what the hell" from Jacopo and me. youtu.be/n24AK_4rkUE?...

Keir Starmer on his way to cabinet this morning

Said it in 2023, saying it again now

Innocent. The defence rests

Welcome to #Eurovision week at last! 🎶🇪🇺❤️ The bookies have a clear favourite but it feels wide open to me this year - a real variety of styles and performances on offer... My favourites... 👇 (1/12)

Not what it looks like

Was a Geocities homepage even finished without a MIDI track?

A guess a lot people will be spending a lot of today checking some slowly changing numbers on a BBC webpage. If you enjoy that sort of thing and want it to be a more than annual occurrence - can I recommend getting into county cricket?

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It's the UK local elections this Thursday, 7 May. Please vote if you can.

I'm really liking the look and functionality of hamdash.com It works really well on a mobile device. #hamdash #hamradio #amateurradio

That's the west coast mainline for you

@martycricket.bsky.social "fin end of the wedge" surely?

Me (being caught in bed with an optical illusion): it’s not what it looks like.

Kinda funny how some cultures base their entire identity on eating dinner late, when in reality their country is simply in the wrong time zone

London Marathon

Always a pleasure to watch Jimmy Anderson bowling. Except when Durham are batting.

Latest satellite weather report... pleasant! 🌞 Received in the back garden from Meteor M2-4, AVHRR 221 false colour image, 137.9MHz, handheld V dipole #amateurradio

@martycricket.bsky.social Was it the local traffic warden in the fawn car?

Behold the snake.

Lots of "commentators" are rewarded for spreading lies and convincing you that everything is getting worse and you should be afraid. The good news is it's not: homicides at their lowest level in 50 years and killings involving a knife are at their lowest recorded level www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Absolutely nonsense. All you have to do is look at real data from real installs… Oh wait, we already did that in realtime for our thousands and thousands of real heat pumps in real homes, and made it public: octopus.energy/cosy-heat-pu...

The numeracy crisis is real

Happy Earth Day

Too far

VERY COOL PERSON: It's four-twenty, you know what that means? ME: Hell yeah! [starts shoving blackbirds into a pie]

Unimprovable headline From the latest Private Eye, out now.

No shit www.theguardian.com/environment/...

assuming everyone has already read this but if not: please be advised that the first time I read it I was at my desk at work and I had to go for a little walk halfway through because I thought I was about to die from quietly laughing

Sanomaru, the mascot of Sano City, is a samurai puppy with a ramen bowl on his head and potato skewer swords.

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And the woman did speak unto the hound, saying, What do you mean, normal men, and the hound answered the woman, saying, We are just innocent men. And great was her emotion

Absolutely

It begins. The wave of AR3/AR4 mega projects at bargain basement prices (e.g. Sofia is ~£55/MWh in 2026 money) is starting to wake up. Dogger Bank A and B emerging, too. Hornsea 3 just around the corner. All of which will be highly competitive with prevailing wholesale prices.

@realfollowers.bsky.social Interested to see the results...

Well that's ruined my day