This is wonderful - if you need cheering up then this is a real tonic. ordinaryabundance.com
Ordinary Abundance
A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.
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Ben Myring
@benmyring.bsky.social
Cultivator of geekery and other eccentricities.
The results of the video I posted earlier was this iconic shot 👏 Danny León and his crew smashed it.
Fantastic essay on the link between myth and our lost cousins. unherd.com/2026/07/why-...
Why we can’t outrun the Neanderthals
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This week's column explains how successive Environment Secretaries in the UK have been actively facilitating ecocide on behalf of industrial lobbyists. Charged with protecting the living world, one after another has been working for the enemy. This has to change.🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Besieged by lobbyists, will UK ministers protect our ecosystems? No, they’ll chicken out | George Monbiot
Industrial poultry farming is killing our rivers. But rather than stop it, the government has been facilitating it. Will Andy Burnham end this ecocide, asks Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*
People who keep pointing out that golf courses use as much water as data centres as some sort of defence of data centres drastically underestimate the amount we also hate golf.
"what radicalized you?" "when i was 7 i watched a chicken sing a sad protest song in jail, a mother rabbit sacrifice her own food to feed her children, and a badger cleric get arrested for standing up to injustice."
also this is the finest song and scene Disney ever animated. crazy to look at the live action and infinte-sequel slop they churn out today, and then back on what they used to do. youtu.be/wTqQrRZi66Q?...
"Robin Hood" 1973 // Not in Nottingham Scene HD
YouTube video by Movie Scene
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Hard to think of a more deeply damaging start to Burnham’s premiership than giving green light to new oil & gas in N. Sea, if true. It won’t lower bills or lead to greater energy security but will drive an even hotter planet. What a terrible signal to give to rest of the world #ClimateVandalism
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Andy Burnham will announce plans for new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea when he becomes prime minister on Monday, the BBC has been told. The announcement will form part of a flurry of policy m...
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This is a national scandal. It is so obvious that the only aim is to save build costs for developers. And deprive us of the benefits of shade and cheaper power generation. It’s not even a lack of vision it’s inimical dislike of progress and reduction in quick profits.
East Anglia Bylines@eastangliabylines.co.uk · 2mo agoEver climbed into a car that's been baking in the sun and wondered why our biggest car parks don't have roofs? The Government was considering exactly that. It has now quietly parked the idea. Here's why it matters.
This is a very sensible plan for funding London's bridges. More importantly it is a very beautiful plan, or could be. www.greaterlondon.co/p/how-to-bui...
How to build a street bridge
Could London's bridges pay for themselves?
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But only one Labour PM was successful enough to fire him twice.
Damian Haywood@damohaywood.bsky.social · 4mo agoMad fact... 42% of Labour Prime Ministers have had to fire Peter Mandelson.
Ed Miliband today: "The era of fossil fuel security is over and the era of clean energy security must come of age....To ignore two crises in less than five years would be completely irresponsible… our action must now be faster deeper and more wide ranging.”
Miliband doubles down on net zero - Energy Live News
Labour to announce breaking the link between gas and electricity prices and more renewables push
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«What a wonderful victory! … Thank you to the people of Paris. … I would like to thank the voters who turned out in such large numbers to make their choice about the future of Paris. And that choice is clear and indisputable. … » @annehidalgo.bsky.social
Oxford Street is going traffic-free. I’ve given the green light to transform it into a world-class, fully accessible pedestrian avenue. The heart of London, reclaimed for people.
The busiest road in London is officially going car-free – as plans to pedestrianise Oxford Street have just been given the green light
Sadiq Khan has confirmed that the plans to pedestrianise the busiest street in London could come into effect as early as summer 2026.
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Great video. The homes are thoughtful, attractive and well designed. Khan is eloquent and considerate. Much more like this please.
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan@london.gov.uk · 7mo agoA real pleasure to meet George Clarke and hear about his experiences growing up on a council estate. We both know the positive impact social housing can have on families’ lives. That’s why I’m determined to continue delivering more council homes as we build a fairer London for everyone.
Thank you to @adamvaughan.bsky.social of the Times for covering the work of the Knepp beavers. They're busy rewilding the land, holding back flood water, cleaning streams. We urgently need more beavers in the UK. We urge the government to speed up wild releases. www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...
More beavers released but critics say it’s too dam slow to rewild England
Environmentalists criticise Labour’s slow and expensive rewilding project as a ‘bumbling bugger-up’
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Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem. Thank you. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I'm not surprised | George Monbiot
It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’ like us, it is the ultimate vindication, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Mark Carney has delivered one of the most important speeches of our era. There is a better future waiting for Britain if we dare to follow his example. inews.co.uk/opinion/trum...
Happy birthday to J.R.R. Tolkien, who faced the worst of humanity and dreamed anyway.
![from a letter by JRR Tolkien to his son Michael:
[here is] the tragedy and despair of all machinery laid bare. Unlike art which is content to create a new secondary world in the mind, it attempts to actualize desire, and so to create power in this World; and that cannot really be done with any real satisfaction. Labour-saving machinery only creates endless and worse labour. And in addition to this fundamental disability of a creature, is added the Fall, which makes our devices not only fail of their desire but turn to new and horrible evil. So we come inevitably from Daedalus and Icarus to the Giant Bomber. It is not an advance in wisdom! This terrible truth, glimpsed long ago by Sam Butler, sticks out so plainly and is so horrifyingly exhibited in our time, with its even worse menace for the future, that it seems almost a world wide mental disease that only a tiny minority perceive it. Even if people have ever heard the legends (which is getting rarer) they have no inkling of their portent. How could a maker of motorbikes name his product Ixion cycles! Ixion, who was bound for ever in hell on a perpetually revolving wheel! Well, I have got over 2 thousand words onto this little flimsy airletter; and I will forgive the Mordor-gadgets some of their sins, if they will bring it quickly to you](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eawrzkefxggvqbrmagkhsmcc/bafkreiehclqi7gi5ioox33zjtsvsk3aid326opn3ix6a2cadj3morubefq)
CAMBRIDGE: New data. Clear preferences. The public want buildings that fit in, not stick out. A new poll by DeltapollUK Create Streets finds 71% of Britons prefer a traditional alternative to the current design for the Christ’s College library.
A pedestrianised Soho would be such a victory for civilisation. www.standard.co.uk/homesandprop...
First look: new proposals to pedestrianise Soho unveiled
Architects John Lacey and Russell Potter have put forward proposals to close key Soho streets off to cars in a move to prioritise people
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