Look plebs don't water your few meagre flowers the data centres need that water...

PSA.

Well I’ve spent the whole of #NorEng drawing the three English lions on a tote bag, time well spent even if we don’t win

"Not ALL the single ladies" - Nuancé

Combing through humanities students, while combing over STEM students, while closing Humanities programmes and making Humanities academics redundant as surplus to the employability agenda. The market, in 2026.

They tell me I’m uncultured, but I’ll always recognise a bit of Beethoven.

The award for alt text should go to…

Hope you all had a good Pride Month. It’s important as queers and allies to resist the forces that try to immiserate our lives and the lives of those we love. Be gay, be strong, be proud. Be proud, not just for a month, but forever. There will always be a place for us on @bloodwork.show

Evergreen post

This is Gorda. She was reunited with her family after being spotted on a livestream of fans celebrating a Mexico World Cup win. "I wanted to cry, to laugh, to hug her and even to scold her," Garcia said of their reunion. "While we were worried looking for her, she was out partying!" 12/10

That kid, hahahaha!

Americans when they hear Europeans don't have air conditioning

climate scientists talk about this a lot. like any tiny decrease in temperature and emissions even of like 1/8 a degree means radical improvement of possible outcomes and the WORST thing you can do for the environment is just go “well we’re all gonna die so what do data centers in the Amazon matter”

35°C is normal, we used to just call that summer! Here's how many summers topped 32°C 70s 4 80s 2 90s 8 2000s 6 2010s all of them 2020s all of them And here's how many summers topped 35°C 70s 1 80s 0 90s 2 2000s 2 2010s 3 2020s 4 (out of 6 so far)

can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

Exactly what happened to the reflecting pool appears to have been accurately predicted by this thread—before it happened:

While you're cooking in the heat this week, do bear this in mind.

If other news was reported like climate change:

We regret that our event on Extreme Heat: Improving governance and strengthening action around the world has been cancelled due to the red extreme heat warning issued by the UK Met Office. Our apologies to everyone who was planning to attend the event.

“The government must step up. We need urgent, massive capital investment to retrofit our ageing school estates with proper ventilation, shading, and climate-resilient cooling infrastructure." Also maybe stop investing in AI data centres and pushing AI in schools? Just a thought.

Remembering Stuart Sutcliffe who would have been 86 today.

🌞 Hot Weather Reminder 🌞 If you're taking antidepressants or antipsychotics, your body might struggle to regulate heat. Stay cool, drink water, find shade 🌳 #Summer #Weather

ME: okay, kiddo, I hope you have a great week at sumer camp! KID: don't you mean "summer" camp? UR-NAMMU: construction of the great ziggurat begins at first light ME: your counselor seems nice

"Tell Jabba I'll get him his money..."

Rough day, so have a poem about the Jar of Moles in the Grant Zoology Museum in London that everyone has regarded as too thoroughly batshit to publish

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Well, that was a fucking ride.

From the Glasgow antiracist rally.

“Why’s it taking so long to take down the name when they put it up so fast?” yeah, undoing every single thing he’s done is gonna be exactly like that, get used to it

Wow.. nerves of steel

NO 👇 LIES DETECTED.......

Very important content warning on a books website (for parents).

Visitor notice: Wigan museum and local studies will be closing at 1pm on Tuesday 16th June for staff training. We will open as normal on Wednesday 17th June. Thank you for your understanding. #Wigan #Museum #LocalStudies

Common misunderstanding. In the English pantheon of gods Paddington is the ferryman for already deceased souls, not the reaper.

Ok I get that it's technically not a word but just imagine a prohibition-era bar full of mice in fedoras

I can't even talk about how sick this makes me feel. Dr Fitzharris hasn't teamed up with AI or even given permission for her likeness to be used. This shit destroys public trust in THE VICTIMS OF IP THEFT! Just awful. Awful.

If this were a human imitating Dr. Fitzharris, it would be fraud, identity theft, and blackmail. But because an AI company has stolen her likeness and public health work, there is unlikely to be much recourse. This is why they use the language of non-consent. Because this is a violation.

I genuinely feel sick. A company reached out to me on IG, linking me to an AI version of myself. You can even ask "me" questions. They are also advertising it using an AI photo of me. They told me if I like it, they will give me free access... to my own fucking content that they stole. /1

"Forty-nine votes were cast against the new rules, whilst only one vote was cast in their favour", yet still they went ahead with the ban. Clearly, women's opinions do not count!

Could there be a better example of "the trans debate" than 98% of women supporting trans people and then one single lone person voting against them and getting their way regardless. It's all such a fucking sham

‘When the government replaces a New Zealand public servant with AI, what really happens is this: money that used to be paid to someone living in Wellington, Lower Hutt or Palmerston North gets paid instead to a tech giant in California or Seattle’ newsroom.co.nz/2026/05/21/b...

I've been ranting about this for MONTHS Every single penny that's stolen by AI is a penny that ends up in a tech bro's offshore account instead of circulating in the local economy We are simply not ready for what's coming by that money being funnelled upwards instead of staying in our pockets

Some thoughtful person provided a link to a non-paywalled version of this article: gcaptain.com/drowning/

@bphillipsonmp.bsky.social - Minister for Women & Equalities - appointed an obsessive transphobe with a history of lobbying for anti-abortion legislation as the new EHRC Scotland Chair. Slow… f*cking… handclap! 😣😖