"Having a Sister #2" by artist Sergiu Ciochină

Extraordinary Maco photography a close up of a beautiful Dragonfly

🚗🚙 Dozens of Russian trucks with cargo are standing in a queue for gas, with no end in sight. Russians says the queue is already over 35 kilometers long.

The Trump administration just killed a federal program that hundreds of small farmers relied on to survive, and the damage is already landing. The program paid farmers full market price for their crops, then routed that fresh food to food banks and the families who needed it.

I'll need to add this one to my ongoing megathread:

It's almost as if... scientists were right about C͟l͟i͟m͟a͟t͟e͟ C͟h͟a͟n͟g͟e͟...

Kentucky flooding and heavy rain leave at least 4 dead as conditions start to improve | CNN share.google/hLwpbd3rLgkA...

Politics. 🔹️Make everything a crisis 🔹️Denude resources 🔹️ Launch a study / inquiry 🔹️Promise action 🔹️Never again / promise progress 🔹️ Find a bit of money 🔹️Wait for the next crisis 🔹️ Do nothing.

BBC News - Trump's face is added to select US passports for America's 250th birthday www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Listen to this!

👇👇👇👇All of this👇👇👇👇

Steve isn’t quite ready for Tuesday. Actually… he’s not really ready for anything.

Nigel Farage calling a destructive heatwave "lovely weather" tells you everything you need to know. Climate denial won't keep people safe.

No trap. Politicians in Westminster expect to profit personally from their time in office. It's now seen as a right of passage rather than something to avoid being tainted with.

Andy Burnham's incoming chief of staff, James Purnell, ran a lobbying firm that organised a meeting between a Labour minister and its own corporate clients – without declaring any lobbying. Yet another story about Labour and the lobbying industry... 🧵 democracyforsale.substack.com/p/burnhams-c...

Furthermore, trees stabilize the soil with their roots and reduce the risk of urban flooding caused by torrential rains that cannot be absorbed by impermeable asphalt surfaces.

Copy Cat 😺

So ordinary. Fine dinners demand new & exciting flavours. I studied at the Heston culinary school of gastroenteritis.

Pet Skunk 🦨 Celery Snack

Netanyahu has said he will go to New York even though Zohran Mamdani said he would arrest him if he does. Like if you want to see Netanyahu arrested. RT if you'd personally turn up to make sure it happened.

There are places in the world today that are experiencing 40°C for the first time in recorded history. Of course there's no way to know whether chucking billionaires into volcanos will appease the sun god but i feel we're doing the scientific method a disservice if we don't at least try.

Common loon coming in for a landing: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatis...

Pooped.

“She argues that the world needs to rediscover the idea of the common good, our shared fate that depends on equitably nurturing the bounty of our only planet.” Count me in, Prof Mariana Mazzucato! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Off out for my morning constitutional along the seafront. Wishing you all a day filled with sunshine, soft breezes and small pleasures. ☀️🌊

-From Quarks to Quasars 1/ Fired government scientists just launched a new site to keep climate data public.The site is called Climate.us & it was created by former staffers behind Climate.gov, the NOAA-run website long used by many for trusted climate information."

I think we just passed oops.

“If we lose, people might investigate us" is a helluva campaign pitch for "innocent" politicians.

They won’t stop at Roe Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social

With rising sea levels this is really encouraging news. #Greensky www.bbc.com/news/article...

To me, it's a strange look. But such is fashion, I guess. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Well, Trump deals again. BBC News - US strikes Iran after attack on cargo ship www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

May the fossil fuel lobbyists forever fuck themselves.

Weird 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Trump posts new passport rendering — featuring a memorable photo of himself | CNN Politics share.google/xUMBVxPkgOa4...

More on the Secret War between Russia and the UK/EU that I’ve written about: Russian hackers were behind a cyberattack last year that crippled Jaguar Land Rover that cost billions in damages and harmed the British economy, investigators have concluded.

Kaoru Yamada

If we were to go to green power 100%, Zia, we'd be leading the world in expertise and that would boost the economy no end. You twat #nbcqt

Maybe, as they like to tell it, it's time for Europe to save the USA.

A new newly hatched Cuttlefish will grow rapidly to reach maturity at 8 months when it can reproduce, as it has a very short life span 1-2 years. Live - Europe, Asia, Australia and Africa. Diet is a variety of crustaceans.

Britain is more than halfway towards reaching Net Zero. Most people don't realise this, not least as the fossil-fuel fanatics want us to think achieving it is impossible. Via YouGov