I wonder, if you polled people, how much extra they would pay each year to have their city *not* be covered in thick, choking wildfire smoke for days at a time. I wonder if that might give you more insight into "willingness to pay" vis a vis climate change than asking in the abstract.

Thursday’s @thetimes.com cartoon

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Before everyone just signs up to it like it is a common good, can we just briefly think about who benefits. It's not girls; they think that boys use football to take over spaces and would rather that the signs stayed. link to full thread of research below, but there is plenty more

OK, any UK-based tree and plant enthusiasts in my followers? I'm looking for a Pacific Yew tree (taxus brevifolia), sometimes known as a California Yew. It's not the same as our indigenous yew trees. I'm seeking an example I can photograph in the UK, accessible via public transport

Going to see the Disney remake “Aphantasia”, which is the same as the 1940 “Fantasia”, but without any pictures.

Yes I think everyone (within reason) feels it's okay if *they* make an AI-generated poster, they just don't want to see anyone else's AI-generated poster

Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface

Don’t flirt with the far right, part 94

Lot of people needed help with their "your boys took a hell of a beating" post last night

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The fact that Farage didn't see it coming that him running against an actual bin would be something that pretty much everyone in the UK thinks is brilliant really undermines his whole 'Man of the people' schtick. As it should.

'Britain does not need more people who give speeches on subjects they barely understand for a few likes on social media' is, in fairness, quite a brave thing for Kemi Badenoch to say

Really pleased to say that LCEF is launching a new blog series over the summer on transport. If you have a pitch on anything to do with how the UK & this Labour Government can make a success of transport decarbonisation, we'd love to hear from you! 📩 Email your pitches to: [email protected]

#73: Sisyphean

Count Binface and Lord Buckethead - the backstory.

Lads, he’s got a Stanley Chow portrait now. This could be serious.

One thing though… STAND. He’s going to STAND in the byelection.

Take me down to the Parameter City, where the grass is {colour} and the girls are {looks}

CHESS IS A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT

In a more logical world, the government would be piling money into the grassroots of a £150 billion industry with massive global reach which is growing at over twice the rate of the rest the economy as a whole.

considering myself subbleeted here

India just generated 50% of its electricity from clean sources. For 15 minutes. Sounds trivial? That's how every record starts: first minutes, then a day, then a month, then a whole year. Some states are already there: Karnataka crossed 60% clean power last year.

Quite, I didn’t mean it flippantly either - I tried to disguise my emotional reaction by presenting a calm reminder. Creatives bring joy, jobs, growth, inspiration, ways of telling our stories, moments of national unity, oh and have I mentioned joy and that it was a manifesto commitment.

As well as everything else, this is an attack on working class expression and opportunity. The public school crowd will still get training and careers in the arts. This is a Labour government telling working class creatives to know their place and not get any funny ideas.

Not all Swiss, iambic.bot, #notallswiss

"Mr Farage should be returned to parliament in order to face the ongoing enquiries, and then removed from parliament in the normal way" would be a pretty good line.

Bogus AI ‘growth zones’ built by US companies ✅ World class public universities ❌ www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Paul McCartney is apparently going to attend the england norway game. When asked if he felt it was a typically english thing to blag a free ticket to a big event he defended himself, saying that he was pretty sure a norwegian wood.

The hate is deliberate and well funded. We need to wise up and act on this social scourge

What's interesting is that it's the other way round. Norway has a sovereign wealth fund because of the very smart Iraqi geologist Farouk al Kasim, who moved to Norway because that was the best place to get his son treatment for cerebral palsy. In a way, Norwegian healthcare caused the oil fund!

I think a lot of “it’s a broader structural problem” handwringing goes away once you get on the “David Cameron was the most effective and consequential political operator since Thatcher, it’s just he’s a bad person and the things he wants are bad” train

This is so good. It's the norm for every other human-influenced catastrophe and should be the norm for climate! - Centres human choice to burn fossil fuels - Uses images that depict the reality of heat disasters rather than imagined fun - Doesn't bury either down in the 15th paragraph

Actually annoyed by the poor quality of spam sometimes. I mean come on guys, make a fucking effort.

Then again, if any of you owns a bookshop in Manchester and wants me to come and give a talk there, I would be delighted.

He’s not missed anything with Snow Crash. It’s bilge

This essay is right up my street "What makes the Hormuz connection so charged is that petroleum — the substance flowing through the strait — is, in esoteric terms, a deeply Ahrimanic force. It is the concentrated residue of ancient life, hardened into matter, burned to drive mechanical civilization"

Manchester thinks it’s the centre of the universe, complain Londoners buff.ly/WN3MOwx

So, @andyburnham.bsky.social what do you think of this? Does taxing asylum seekers put “hope in every heart”? Is this what Labour is now? Until you answer that question, the jury remains out. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

It almost goes without saying that a government that is serious about improving integration outcomes is not a government that puts refugees into 1000s of pounds of debt, gives them shorter periods of leave that has to be renewed and makes them wait 2 decades before they can settle.

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Child 2 joke: What does a sceptical sausage say? … ’Nduja?

very good

Cannot argue.

#72: Summer

I especially love this diagram.

Cabinet to be seated at the Round Table.