“Blair, who has links to petrostates and whose institute takes money from technology companies that want a large build-out of AI data centres, has made these arguments for fossil fuels and against net zero many times in the past two years” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Starring Jackson Lamb as Krapp

"Auctions are rituals in which money performs desire for itself. Art enlarges consciousness, deepens experience, destabilizes certainty. Auctions reduce all that to blood sport for the ultrarich — a streamed séance where capital applauds itself" www.vulture.com/article/jerr...

🔥 New research on Scotland's 2025 Dava Moor Fire - described as the UK's first "megafire" - shows how unusually dry conditions helped drive an intense, fast-spreading wildfire following human ignition - raising concerns about shifting wildfire regimes ⬇️

We've been saying the UK has a big dirty money problem. Now we know how BIG! New research from our friends @thefinancelab.bsky.social has exposed that around £325 billion from financial crime, money laundering, corruption, illegal trade & tax dodging flows through the UK every year. 1/x

‘The most significant of the two remaining glaciers, which are known locally as “eternal snow”…has lost 95% of its area since 2002’ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“what we are seeing around us is just the beginning. As AI becomes more and more sophisticated, it will learn to hack us on a deeper and deeper level. And if we don't fight back to defend ourselves, the consequences will be much, much worse.” podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

“As case studies of how to throw away strong hands, Putin and Trump are without peer… Neither man can escape their self-created traps” www.ft.com/content/c42e...

NOT NOW, DEADLY FUNGAL STORM www.sciencefocus.com/news/dust-st...

“we watch three species of marsh tern hanging like precision-engineered angels to tweezer insects from the water’s surface…”

In one of the most devastating attacks on Kyiv since the start of the full-scale war, Russia’s missiles and drones targeted some of the city’s most treasured cultural landmarks.

'Eli Groner, a former director-general of Netanyahu’s office, argues that the knowledge that Iran can now close the Strait of Hormuz at any point “is a victory far deeper and more strategic than any point-scoring military achievement”. His one-word summary was “Disaster”' www.ft.com/content/24cd...

Elite and mob www.ft.com/content/ebb7...

“Last year, the institute published a study that found that chatbots can swing people’s political opinions.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/24/t...

International Goat Day again

“there is a growing realisation that utterly senseless, self-destructive decisions keep being made. People who once defended Putin no longer do. Any sense of a future has disappeared.” www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Early morning walk in the woods. Blackcap, Chiffchaff, Goldcrest, and Song Thrush in full flow

Neolithic amber bear, dated between 1700 B.C.E. and 650 B.C.E. Found in 1887 in a peat bog near Slupsk, Poland And I already know it looks like a gummy bear

He didn’t have a phone

A mandalorian is an equitable remedy which can only be discharged by the mandaloree applying for a writ of grogu against the mandalor.

Really looking forward to Togetherness by @rowhoop.bsky.social

My book writing situation

‘the owner of the firm, Ali Ashraf, had told officers that the mice "were seasonal" and "that they came every year".’ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

432.19 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in air 21-May-2026 keelingcurve.ucsd.edu

I passed virtually through the original Jericho this morning while running through Jericho in Oxford medicalaidforpalestinians.enthuse.com/pf/caspar-he...

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“Georges Bataille was right: excess is the accursed share of abundance, and no one can afford to bear it.” harpers.org/archive/2026...

‘our contemporary tech titans are in many ways “the children of Russian cosmism”… the forthcoming market launch of SpaceX at anything like the touted valuation would appear to defy financial gravity in much the same way that Khrushchev’s plans once flouted economic logic’ www.ft.com/content/5490...

‘Musk’s ambition to extend “the light of consciousness to the stars” and harness the sun “to power a truth-seeking artificial intelligence” will be tested next month in the largest flotation of all time’ www.ft.com/content/a59b...

“if the hyperscalers continue on the current trajectory, the AI boom will become a story of one of the largest destructions of shareholder value in history” www.ft.com/content/32bf...

👇 🧵 with (good) sting 🐝 in tail...

“Figuring out what you really think is one way of remembering that you’re human… Failure is a reliable and infinitely renewable resource.” www.newyorker.com/books/under-...

“Discounting the interests of future people [is] ethically indefensible and arises merely from the weakness of the imagination.” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

“To open the channel of the didactic is, in part, to expect more of ourselves and of others—to hope that we might grow together.” www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“The wallpaper is flaking, carpets are frayed and doors are broken. The children's home is unregistered and therefore illegal but the provider is charging a council elsewhere in the country £13,000 a week to care for a vulnerable teenage girl”

"we cannot work towards women’s liberation without also healing our relationship with the environment. Women can only flourish on a flourishing planet" writersrebel.org/feminism-for...

“Heat resilience cannot continue to be treated as an afterthought. It belongs alongside flood preparedness and water security at the very top of the national resilience agenda and the wider prosperity of the UK” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Oology eulogy from Robert Macfarlane. Goodnight

Elevation to divine status www.ft.com/content/5733...

"Trump's approach is the reductio ad absurdum of one lost US war after another preceded by strings of victories on the battlefield." giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Still thinking about this (from @ferrisjabr.bsky.social 's Becoming Earth): "a single gallon of gasoline represents 100 tonnes of ancient life, roughly equivalent to 20 adult elephants". I knew it was big, but never worked it out. A tank of petrol is a LOT of ancient life. +1 reason to electrify!

Purple-flaming screaming jelly babies!

man, though idiotic, and knowing not what he does, yet full of the sweet things of love and gratitude

daaaamn london

Saw my first wild rose of the year this morning on my run

“12-year-old me & 25-year-old King experienced his story from 2 different points on the human timeline: vulnerable kid and scared parent. The boogeyman might melt like cotton candy, but he always comes back…shape-shifting to fit our changing fears of losing what we love” www.ft.com/content/5014...

Immigration make Britain brilliant

From 15 May to 24 June I am running (and partly walking!) 186km for @medicalaidpal.bsky.social. Please support them here medicalaidforpalestinians.enthuse.com/pf/caspar-he...

‘The thesis that you’ll always need more reliable “baseload” sources such as gas or nuclear plants as the core of your electricity system…has now been disproved by a “dramatic decrease” in the costs of large-scale battery storage’

Grid-scale batteries are going in an absolutely wild pace. Every whingey objection to renewables you've ever heard is basically solved by batteries. This is happening whether any of the hopeless dipshits running the US want it or not.