“We need to act quickly on our rapidly dwindling opportunities to prevent dangerous and unmanageable climate outcomes” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"We are making 21st-century security decisions with 20th-century climate assumptions. Nuclear deterrence is inherently fragile and climate change is an additional destabilising factor" www.ft.com/content/b44f...

“there are many, many different kinds of processes that are all involved in different things that we think of as life. I think that’s likely to be what will happen with [our understanding of] consciousness” conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/ali...

A great day for cheap power enthusiasts as 5GW of solar comes in at £65/MWh and 1.3GW of onshore wind comes in at £72.24/MWh. Both prices are in £2024 and are below the wholesale price, meaning that these projects will cut costs. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/698a0d...

A triumph for evil www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/c...

"Putin's armed forces are delivering the progress he demands at a slower pace and higher cost than at any point in the war... at a rate of just 15 to 70 metres per day [which is] slower than in almost any war in the last 100 years" www.ft.com/content/ce74...

“I cried when I saw them released. Luckily it was raining so much you couldn’t tell the difference between my tears and the rain" www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Any good dealer knows not to get high on their own supply "In 2025, Norway produced around 106 million cubic metres of oil – around 1.827 million barrels per day – the highest level of production since 2009" www.energyvoice.com/oilandgas/58...

Grazalema, Spain, received over 2,000 mm (78 inches) of rain in just the last 20 days. Over a year’s worth of rain — and it’s only early February. This is hydrologically absurd.

In 'Between Two Rivers' Moudhy Al-Rashid cites review of 2018 Ashurbanipal show where Jones writes "he was the CEO of a ruthless global enterprise. Perhaps it is weirdly fitting that the exhibition is sponsored with much fanfare by BP..." www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

"by the late 21st century, most regions in Africa will stop having occasional heatwaves and will suffer from extreme heat lasting ... 250-300 days per year" theconversation.com/heat-with-no...

“First a fearsome predator, then a mascot for marine parks and hippies alike, the killer whale may be making the transition to nemesis of greedy and extractive capitalism. Yet one cannot help but conclude that it is we ourselves, not orcas, who have changed” aeon.co/essays/orcas...

When someone next asks how my book is going I will refer them to the Palermo pig. (Saw this a little while ago, but it had slipped out of my mind, which suggests my mind is marginally more slippery than the pig) www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

“Democratic citizens can’t abide for long a public discourse empty of larger moral meaning. Sooner or later that void would be filled by narrow, intolerant, dangerous moralisms: religious fundamentalism or hypernationalism. And that’s exactly what we’ve seen” giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Solmōnaþ: something I can really get stuck into www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"Withholding $10 billion for global relief amounts to a rounding error in federal budget terms (not to mention a pittance relative to the estimated $300 billion increase in Mr. Musk’s net worth last year). But those funds are critical to sustaining people’s lives in crisis zones"

“The central question of our time is how we make meaning in the face of tragedy”

If you take a breath today remember to be grateful to the bottom of your lungs to these guys that made it all possible. Ice-polished ~1.5 billion yo Proterozoic fossil cyanobacterial stromatolite pavement, at Grinnell Glacier, Glacier NP, MT. Oldest fossils I have ever seen!

“The interesting thing…is that consciousness doesn’t go away when the ego goes away” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/m...

Borough Market earlier this evening

Young men are the second most liberal group in the country after young women.

Please join me in supporting Pruning for Survival: Supporting Palestinian Olive Farmers chuffed.org/project/prun...

Beautiful short film about some of the world's oldest and most beautiful art youtu.be/H5h0q1PE2Qk

"Violence against bodies had been made possible on an epic epidemic scale by violence against voices." www.meditationsinanemergency.com/breaking-the...

Go Benin! The nation has one competitor at the winter Olympics, who used to ski for Togo

From @acyn.bsky.social (posted on X) "Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal? Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail… Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you. Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."

“The intent is not necessarily to undermine the West’s ability to aid Ukraine but, rather, to sway public opinion about the cost of the wider war effort” To Build a Fire www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

“there is no statute of limitations on feeling desperate” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...

Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.” Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.

this is vicious and correct www.economist.com/britain/2026...

“current economic models can’t capture what matters most – the cascading failures and compounding shocks that define climate risk in a warmer world – and could undermine the very foundations of economic growth” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“[because] we are not allowed to vote on how we should vote, the decision is left in the hands of the corrupt old system’s beneficiaries” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This piece is a gold mine. Epstein was in direct contact with Putin, boasting of personal invites to St Petersburg. He co-owned Thiel’s Valar Ventures w/ Ehud Barak, backing Israeli surveillance firm Carbyne. bylinetimes.com/2026/02/03/i...

“If Labour is serious about stopping the authoritarian right from filling the vacuum, it must rebuild trust by breaking with the very culture that is feeding public cynicism.”

all miserable events do naturally beget their like

“nature [has] preserved, if not prioritized, laughter and humor in the service of development” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...

“the heart is wise” open.substack.com/pub/goodapoc...

Artists have always loved to sketch! Sketch of a sparrow from Egypt dated c. 1479–1458 BC. Some 3,500 years ago in Egypt, artists used flakes of limestone as sketchpads! MMA excavations 1922-23, Deir el-Bahri. 📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... #Archaeology

“…for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency. And the rule of law be damned.”

1. In 2009 I wrote this. I argued that Peter Mandelson's department “functions as a fifth column within government, working for corporations to undermine democracy and the public interest.” This thread explains what I saw, and reaches a startling conclusion.🧵 www.monbiot.com/2009/05/04/m...

“we are now at the threshold of a new arms race” www.ft.com/content/fd1d...

‘Many of these new groups want their communities to own, manage and profit from enterprises far larger than the pubs and post offices once associated with community control. They want to take on the town.’ www.ft.com/content/a604...

“Ultranationalists have fetishised forests as symbols of lost empire. But privatisation exposed them to rampant illegal logging. Climate change compounded the damage: wildfires that ravaged Russia in 2021 were larger than those in all the rest of the world combined” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/b...

“if Badenoch wasn’t Conservative leader she would have defected to Reform. Her platform is inseparable. They both want to turbocharge fossil fuels, deploy deportation squads, decimate public spending, and bulldoze the regulations that make sure corporations and financiers don’t abuse the public”

#Neoroyalism www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...

'"For the astrocyte field, at least conceptually, we are not very far ahead of where people were for neurons" at the onset of modern neuroscience in the 1950s' www.quantamagazine.org/once-thought...

X is hiring a creative writing specialist at $40 an hour to make Grok better at writing and a true LOL at the qualifications

warontherocks.com/2026/01/gaza... Excellent article on how Israeli targeting practices differed from those of the US and guaranteed overwhelming civilian losses.

“It is so important to reenchant these places that we live in, to actually give back the energies that have been bled out of them. An empowered landscape creates empowered people, and the reverse is also true.” harpers.org/archive/2026...