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People are crazy & times are strange, I'm locked in tight, I’m out of range, I used to care.. but things have changed. - Bob Dylan 👀 Reshares and likes may not be endorsements. ❗️Sorry… 'gofund / donations.'.. will probably be muted

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alfandalf@alfandalf.bsky.social · 7h ago

❗️💧🔥💧❗️ El Niño Increased rainfall and storms to hit UK due to biggest El Niño for a century - says Met Office ‘Unprecedented’ weather pattern over Pacific Ocean to be felt worldwide with severe droughts expected in southern hemisphere www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Increased rainfall and storms to hit UK due to biggest El Niño for a century, says Met Office

‘Unprecedented’ weather pattern over Pacific Ocean to be felt worldwide with severe droughts expected in southern hemisphere

theguardian.com

alfandalf@alfandalf.bsky.social · 7h ago

❗️🔥💧🔥❗️ El Niño El Niño set to be 'strongest in living memory', & added to the effects of human-induced climate change, It is "very likely" to mean 2027 is hottest year on record globally. - says Met Office www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...

El Niño set to be 'strongest in living memory', says Met Office

Scientists say the growing El Niño weather pattern is an "unprecedented event" and means 2027 is likely to be the world's hottest year on record.

bbc.co.uk

Rev Peter W Nimmo@peternimmo.bsky.social · 2d ago

I wish the media wouldn't cover SpaceX as if it were an exciting frontier-pushing scientific endeavour when it's really the vanity project of a megalomaniac Bond villain type www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

'Incredible': SpaceX rocket spotted off Christmas Island coast

A SpaceX rocket that blasted off from Texas in July and crashed into the Indian Ocean hadn't been seen since - but now Christmas Island residents say they have spotted it being towed just off their co...

bbc.co.uk

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan@london.gov.uk · yesterday

The toxic air our children were breathing was stunting their lungs. For too many young Londoners, that was the reality before the ULEZ. New independent findings show their lung health has improved significantly in Central London. That’s the difference cleaner air can make.

Introducing Ulez was my hardest decision as mayor of London – but now we know its astonishing impact | Sadiq Khan

Critics said I was attacking motorists. It’s more important for me that the city’s children are no longer breathing dangerous levels of pollution, says London mayor Sadiq Khan

theguardian.com

Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · yesterday

This iconic Fabian Todorovic cartoon is still one of the best I’ve seen at illustrating the remarkable amount of space we surrender to cars, leaving little space left for everyone and everything else. The text added later makes the bonus point that many drivers still manage to complain about it.

Cartoon image of a street with much of the space taken up by a car with a single driver, while the rest of the street has people tightly packed in a bus, a bus shelter and riding bikes in a bike lane. Adding insult to injury, the driver says “damn those bike paths and bike lanes taking all the space.”
George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · yesterday

On BBC Radio 4's Moral Maze tonight: “Slavery - Right or Wrong?” Some people say it’s morally wrong. On the other hand, it makes a tonne of money. On the panel: Edward Colston, King Leopold II, Tommy Robinson and Matt Goodwin. Join us as we discuss one of the great moral dilemmas of the day.

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 2d ago

I'm deeply ashamed of my profession. Its treatment of Jason Arday - right across the board - fills me with disgust and horror. The tormenting of a highly vulnerable man was seen as monetisable entertainment. This is a stain that won't wash off. bylinetimes.com/2026/08/19/j...

Jason Arday: We Must Rage – Rage Against the Journalism of Cruelty

The death of the academic shows the casual conversion of humiliation into entertainment by a media running on monetised hate and cruelty

bylinetimes.com