The last of the days sun on a #brighton high-rise

On the money again from @rafaelbehr.bsky.social with a suitably feisty flourish at the end too! There are a lot of people in the U.K. currently wondering exactly when Kier Starmer / Labour are going to say and do what the moment requires?

Hummingbird Hawkmoth doing its thing on the Verbenas this afternoon

Meme Monday Aint it just

Monty Twisty

Very bad news, the kind of thing which ought to be considered news “instead of sinking into the depths, surface water is being replaced by deep water masses rising to the surface, bringing with them heat and carbon dioxide (CO₂) that had been trapped for centuries.” www.icm.csic.es/en/news/majo...

Global temps, exceeding worst case scenarios (which as a reminder, are really really bad) and still accelerating. Several scientists have been screaming that it’s accelerating for some time now, all have been ignored and rounded upon. And STILL, this isn’t considered newsworthy.

Water sausage 🤣

“Cindy, none of these planes are staying in America, they’re all going overseas,” 😳

The plunder of our seas by industrial fishing is a monstrosity in which almost everyone unwittingly collaborates. For decades this truth has been deliberately hidden from us. Now at last the consensus is cracking. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Horrible scenes that Air India crash. One survivor is crazy. I’ve seen the videos, hardly a single identifiable aircraft object survived apart from tail and wheels. But this one chap seems to have just walked away🤯 Luck? destiny? superpowers?

If you think climate change has gotten worse during your lifetime, you're right and there's a good reason. If you're Gen X like me, more than 3/4 of fossil fuel CO₂ emissions have occurred in your lifetime. Even if you're a Millennial, it's at least half. 📊: @neilrkaye.bsky.social

I just don’t understand how uk insect populations have dropped >60% in the last 20 years and how biodiversity is collapsing globally when developers are doing very thoughtful things like putting a bug hotel alongside 12,680sqm of concrete and steel.

When did you ever hear the BBC stating that it must alter “story selection” and “other types of output, such as drama”, to win the trust of Green voters, or of unrepresented people on the left? All the shifts are in just one direction. bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...

Bellingcat CEO Eliot Higgins:

Extremely fun little secret recording in @desmog.com by @geoffdembicki.bsky.social here - Lomborg just openly saying to the Fraser Institute that CCS wont' work but that it can be used to soak up subsidies www.desmog.com/2025/06/05/c...

Melania and Grimes tonight.

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Kakistocracy in full flow i see. Hard to be believe either the photo or the headline are real but apparently so

“A few percentage points a year may not have the ring of disaster. “But if you run that forward just four decades,” Wagner says, “we’re talking about nearly half the tree of life disappearing in one human lifetime. That is absolutely catastrophic.”

Please, can we collectively make it stop

Much much more of this please. #ecocide www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

We treat resources like they’re infinite—until they’re gone. Passenger pigeons, old-growth forests, copper—we burn through abundance. A finite planet can’t feed infinite hunger. www.earth.com/news/amount-...

guys there’s a pigeon in big tescos and I’m all for it

This really ought to be more talked about. What is this doing to the skills and attitudes of both education professionals and young people? Nothing good that’s what.

AI has created a culture of distrust in the classroom. There are few solutions and it truly sucks. Last year I tested out an AI-detection software with an abstract I had written for a conference paper. It said there was a 70% chance my own writing was AI generated. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/s...

An equitable system would push the cost of large-scale industrial electricity use onto the firms using it, rather than having consumers subsidize industry. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/b...

No hopes of home ownership, no wage growth, rampant inequality, debt saddled education, career paths and job opportunities decimated by AI, oh and a collapsing biosphere leading to food insecurity and conflict, but what kids these days need is “grit” www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

“the days of profiting from failure are over” Oh how we could do with governments making statements like that about environmental destruction. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

I’ve just seen someone’s email signature says “To reduce carbon emissions I may limit responses to emails - but please know that they are read and gratefully received” and I adore it as both an environmental measure and a great excuse 👍🏼

You think what's being done to land-based ecosystems is bad? Take a look at what's happening under the sea. It's as if all birds and other wild animals were being hoovered out of forests for our mass consumption, shredding the trees and everything else in the process. Out of sight, out of mind.

"This story is on borrowed time. And it’s just a part of a story, a piece of human and living patchwork. Maybe you can borrow it, and make it part of your story too?"

A wonderful read this from @jksteinberger.bsky.social jksteinberger.medium.com/humanity-in-...

Hilarious self own going on on X rn. Musk has re-programmed grok to talk about SA genocide in every reply!

Seems important. Will defo be top news 🙃 “We’re witnessing ice dynamics that simply shouldn’t happen on these timescales. The acceleration pattern suggests we’ve potentially crossed a critical threshold that our models didn’t anticipate until the 2040s.” www.journee-mondiale.com/en/antarctic...

I remember there was a period under the Tories where it seemed everything they did or said was either repulsive, wrong-headed, or completely at odds with what the moment needed. I never in a million years expected Labour to pick up the shitty baton.

Starmer's anti-immigrant speech today wasn't just a moral and political embarrassment. It was also an intellectual embarrassment. inews.co.uk/opinion/star...

Humans strip ecosystems of elders—then wonder why they collapse. Older animals carry memory: where to spawn, migrate, survive. Even plants pass resilience through ancient roots and fungal networks. When we erase the old, we don’t just take life—we erase wisdom. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever." - Carl Sagan, Cosmos

New research shows industrial farming isn’t just killing insects—it’s wiping out entire branches of insect life that took millions of years to evolve. We’re not just losing species. We’re shredding pages from the book of life. phys.org/news/2025-05...

"Refusal is active. Angry. It demands struggle. An attachment to the righteousness of fossil fuel lifestyles, and to all the hierarchies that depend upon fossil fuels, produces a desire to not just deny, but to refuse climate change, and a willingness to engage in authoritarianism to do so"

As a German I will forever be grateful to all who fought for the liberation of Europe. But as a historian I am looking at front pages today and must wonder: What is the point of remembering #VEDay 80 years on, what is the point of our thanks, when we are failing to protect the sacrifices made? 🧵

You’re telling me that right wing voters that Labour was trying to appeal to voted for a right wing party anyway and left wing voters decided not to vote for Labour because they’re too right wing now? Who could have possibly predicted this.

UK banks put $100bn into firms building climate-wrecking ‘carbon bombs’, study finds - UK is key financial hub for destructive fossil fuel mega-projects, according to research Analysis by LINGO, story by Matt Taylor #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“How much more obvious could this be? Defend powerful interests: welcome, brother. Confront the status quo, challenge the lies, call for higher journalistic standards at the BBC: avaunt ye, demon. To be principled is to be excluded. The airwaves buzz with unprincipled chancers.” 👇🏼

Great report on the big issue of textile waste, and a fun idea to stick it to the man www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Just because 99/100 scientists agree that it's bad to open a portal to the hell dimension doesn't mean we should immediately discount the opposing views of the scientist employed by Open A Portal To The Hell Dimension Inc.