Anarchists on here be simultaneously prison abolitionist and against criminal rehabilitation

'Where are the emergency meetings? The disaster plans?'

The Green Party of England & Wales@greenparty.org.uk · 11h ago

This is what climate failure looks like. Nature, homes and livelihoods are being destroyed. The Government must act now.

5657 W. Fullerton, Chicago.

“As Aydin jumps a scooter over ramps set up in the middle of the road, children around him are drawing with chalk, blowing bubbles and kicking a football in a spot where cars are usually driving through.” Good job Leeds. More children should have the chance to play in their neighbourhood like this.

Leeds: The city closing down streets so children can play

In Leeds, streets are being temporarily closed to traffic so kids have more space to safely play - an initiative proving beneficial to both children and adults.

bbc.co.uk

NEW – Factcheck: How nuclear, gas, wind and solar power are affected during heatwaves | @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org w/ comment from @iain-staffell.bsky.social @henrypreston.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/yfvQnUS

Congrats to everyone who got a shoutout in the Telegraph today, although I don't know where they got the idea that Bluesky is a place where people are kind to each other. This is site is not kind. This is a PvP server where you get randomly matched with an American who has misunderstood your joke.

Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 15h ago

I was wondering why I’d got 19 clickthroughs from The Daily Telegraph…

NFU has been calling for tax breaks for farmers to build their own rainwater storage - does anyone know what form this will take? I don't have a very good impression of farmers when it comes to this stuff at all (friend works for DEFRA) and imo should be a national project anyway

George Smeeton @gsmeeton.bsky.social · 14h ago

British farmers are facing a "completely brutal" year, with analysis suggesting the 2026 harvest could be the worst on record due to extreme summer weather: www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

I'm off work this week getting my head straight and it's magic

#np

Pervert glasses should be banned from general use.

Guardian Australia@australia.theguardian.com · 2d ago

Kmart sells out of low-cost rival to Meta camera glasses across Australia amid warnings of ‘privacy nightmare’

Two light renders of my Jodrell Bank / Lovell Radio Telescope mesh. #Lightwave3d

*punches air that I'm a heavy reader and that constant guilt that I'm not reading enough is just bollocks*

Scott Pack@meandmybigmouth.bsky.social · yesterday

Back in my Waterstones head office days, there was some statistic or survey that defined a 'heavy reader' as someone who read six books a year. Which I think acts as a helpful reminder that people who read more than that are in the minority, as are people who frequent bookshops on a regular basis.

Ray Harryhausen's stop-motion skeletons in Jason and the Argonauts are amazing even now. He animated the sequence by himself for more than four months -- without computers or even an easy way to check his work. We're looking into how he did it: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/how-ray-ha...

What is this 2007 😂 alright mate what does Grace Dent think

Ben Goldacre@bengoldacre.bsky.social · 2d ago

Sad to see people posting on social media negatively about Rod Liddle, who died yesterday. If I have disagreed with you very strongly in life - and you die - I hope I'll be either silent, or kind.

Kraftwerk are the greatest band ever although I think this is pretty much canon now

lil miss big boy@lighter.bsky.social · 5d ago

Post your hottest music take. Mine is New Order is better than Joy Division.

Remember to water your wood pile if you've got one. Spiders be thirsty

Yet again, the case for economic growth to mitigate the effects of climate change - official government policy - found lacking because they're doing nothing. The Farmers Union is begging for tax breaks for farmers to build rainwater storage and we should be way ahead of this, it's happening now

Jessica Elgot@jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 2d ago

We are in the third drought in five years. We have the National Trust and NFU - those radical types - sounding the alarm on unprecedented temperatures. But so little from any single figure in politics talking about the climate crisis.

You should see him fine dining in his coat and scarf it's mad

rogueclassicist ~ david meadows@rogueclassicist.bsky.social · 2d ago

Richard E Grant’s Very Modern Odyssey review – far more thrilling than the Christopher Nolan borefest | Television | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Dead at 66 is it

I wonder what the humidity is? Japan is somewhere that regularly exceeds 80% in summer. We're going to need to start reporting this alongside temperature

Extreme Temperatures Around the World@extremetemps.bsky.social · 3d ago

ABSOLUTE INSANITY IN JAPAN 40C again. Dozens of all time records trashed in pieces.👇 Already nearly 1000 heat records have fallen in over 20 days of record breaking heat every single day and thousands more in the rest of East Asia. and guess what ? It will get worse and worse.

My abiding memory of 1976 is climbing into a dodgem in Mold, North Wales and finding that the floor of the car is a roiling, seething carpet of ladybirds.

The most dynamic countries are surging ahead with high-speed rail. Others, like Britain, are stuck in the station | Christian Wolmar

The most dynamic countries are surging ahead with high-speed rail. Others, like Britain, are stuck in the station | Christian Wolmar

Around the world, these trains have boosted economies, development and prestige. The costs of missing out are high, says transport writer and author Christian Wolmar

theguardian.com

Love that Mondrians aren't quite straight. You'd think he'd have made sure of that but not the point apparently

Centre Pompidou@centrepompidou.fr · 2d ago

✉️ Carte postale du Centre Pompidou – 1/5 🗺️ Chaque semaine d’août, nous explorons une ville racontée par une œuvre. Piet Mondrian, depuis l’effervescence de New York, 1942🗽🇺🇸

What do you think's happened? There is no doubt in my mind BBC was promoting Farage. Don't want to be associated because it's going to be so bad?

Ian Dunt@iandunt.bsky.social · 3d ago

Fascinating change in BBC news bulletins about Reform. Farage announcement on small boats only gets the third spot and is balanced by critics saying he's trying to distract from allegations over his finances. Quite the change from the uncritical coverage earlier this year.

we don't champion Ray Mears enough, as a country

Oooooh

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3d ago

The August Coup by Robert Service review – the drink-soaked collapse of the Soviet Union

Remember what fascism brings: death and destruction.

Nicholas Whithorn@nickwhithorn.bsky.social · last yr.

2nd August 1980, the worst terrorist attack in post-war Italian history is carried out by neo-fascist group NAR. A bomb hidden in a suitcase explodes in the waiting room of Bologna Station, causing the partial collapse of the station structure. 85 people die and 200 are injured [Thread] >> 1

75 PANAME C'était Paris en 1950 📷 La zone avant le periph et les HLM, hôpital Bichat à droite

Also has a very straightforwardly useful potential high speed route (Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal-Quebec) that would be much easier to build then in dense European countries. Get on with it!

appaloosa@appaloosy.bsky.social · 4d ago

Completely agree. Canada is so far behind other developed nations in regards to transit, public transportation. I've ridden on the Sapsan, the Thalys, Bordeaux's sleek & silent trams, Japan's Utsunomiya Light Rail... Canada could learn a thing or two from these other nations. flic.kr/p/eecksb

This reminded me of the Milton crow fac dance which I want to see so much youtu.be/ZvVHD0t-iAE?...

Crow Dance, Moulton Crow Fair, Moulton Cheshire

YouTube video by Printgrafix Cheshire

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Gef the Toking Mongoose@geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 4d ago

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