Sword and Blossom Poems from the Japanese, published around 1908 by T. Hasegawa in Tokyo. archive.org/details/swor...

An £81 million plan is now being formed to build an early warning system that could alert humanity if AMOC is nearing a dangerous tipping point. Data being collected by the Attenborough research ship is core to that plan. www.newscientist.com/article/2588...

The collapse of the AMOC would be catastrophic. How will we know when it's coming? | New Scientist

Europe faces incredibly harsh winters and unrelenting droughts if the vital AMOC ocean current fails – but when disaster will strike and how bad it will be remains uncertain. Now there is an ambitious...

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This question was posed as part of New Scientist’s Last Word series, in which readers give scientific answers to each other’s questions. Here’s what our readers had to say

Last Word: Why can’t we cool water as quickly as we can heat it? part 2 | New Scientist

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Michael Baym@baym.lol · 2w ago

Ten years ago Tami, Roy, and I released a movie we made of antibiotic resistance evolving in real time. I thought maybe a couple thousand people tops would see it. I couldn't have imagined it would be seen millions of times, and be taught from middle school through the graduate level worldwide

Re English ethnicity: There's no ethnicity or DNA marker that maps well onto England. Same true 150 years ago. At high level, our ethnicity blends with other NW Europeans. At next level, it goes sub-national: Geordies are v Scottish; NW, SW and welsh borders different. English is a national culture

Manchmal braucht man ein wenig Halt im Leben. #savetheMoment

Coal companies are fighting miners’ federal black lung benefits claims, while the black lung rate surges to a 50-year high. Remember: Trump indefinitely stalled a rule that would limit miners’ exposure to dangerous silica dust, which causes black lung. The “pro-worker” president.

‘Do you have to be dead?’: US coalminers plead for benefits as black-lung disease cases surge

Trump says he digs coal – but pneumoconiosis cases are at a 50-year high, and sick miners are mired in benefit delays

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ya I'm a swiftie. 🪶

Jay and BT having a bit of a standoff 🪶 California Scrub jay and Greater roadrunner

LibDems say we need to rejoin the Single Market. 👏👏👏

Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social · 2d ago

Ed Davey, "Terrible Conservative Brexit deal backed by Nigel Farage.. Fixing our relationship with the EU to get our economy back on track.. Not just a CU but the Single Market.. Better defence against Putin.. Growth will allow tax free personal allowance to rise to £15,000"

you had best not be too fastidious in your curiosity touching this Leviathan

Liberal Democrats@libdems.org.uk · 2d ago

No one should be secretly filmed and sexualised without their consent. But smart glasses are making it easier to do just that. Lib Dems are calling for regulation that keeps up with technology and protects people’s rights @maxwilkinson.bsky.social

Katharine Whitehorn on the plight of female journalists working for David Astor during his 1948-75 tenure as editor of The Observer.

What they don’t teach you at Harvard Business School: if all you care about is business then you’ll destroy the world.

hear me out here - you know how with cookies it's so very very satisfying to be able to hit "REJECT ALL"? just put that choice on every site but for AI. maybe the EU can get the ball rolling

If so some eason you do choose to work for free (for example, for a charity, or to support a small local enterprise), consider sending them an invoice for your usual fee, and mark it void. That way, they'll know the value of what you're giving them.

Joanne Harris@joannechocolat.bsky.social · 4d ago

Turned down last week: 2 festivals with no budget for speakers 1 writing course with no budget for teachers 1 film project with no budget to option the book - plus they wanted me to write the screenplay. For free. Don't do it, kids. Don't work for free. Because to them, what's free is worthless.

Happy Monday! What I am reading this week

Aôthen Magazine@aothenmagazine.bsky.social · 4d ago

Happy Monday! What are you reading this week? 🤎

🐫 Annales de la Société royale d'agriculture et de botanique de Gand: . Gand [etc.]: Société royale d'agriculture et de botanique, 1845-1849.. [Source]

Picking our apples today and drying them and making Apfelmus #sunday #apples

& the coluring up to break down, a stunned aspect to everything at a time of waiting (bramble season over &, week of the equinox, 32 minutes' less light in 7 days) - a diving little grebe is all on the lochan, sun in the hedgerows at 17.30

The tunnel opening at Wiseman’s Bridge, Saundersfoot Bay, Pembrokeshire, Wales. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 The tunnel was used by trains to transport coal until it was closed in 1939. It is now part of the Pembrokeshire Coastal Path. 🌊

Ok one more post before I have to do some work: I’m reading Maggie O’Farrell’s LAND and I think you would like it if you liked: The Overstory To The Lighthouse North Woods Whale Fall Hamnet (style) If you liked LAND you would also like the above books.

the stranger in question waved his hand

Every moment is a new and shocking Valuation of all we have been - #TSEliot, ‘Four Quartets’

we now know the answer to “and if all your little friends jumped off a bridge, would you?”

NY Times@nytimes-news.bsky.social · 6d ago

Gemini AI Hacked Three Companies in a Testing Breakout, Google Says

After a sold-out debut in New York, the Kyiv Independent is bringing its live event series to the UK — and we couldn't be more excited to meet our London community in person. Date: Oct. 2, 2026 Time: 6:00 PM - 9:30 PM Location: Kings Place, Hall One, 90 York Way, London N1 9AG

President Zelenskyy announced a new initiative: Carpathian Eight, C8, a summit that will bring together all states that have Carpathian mountains. The C8 will consist of Romania, Serbia, Poland, Slovakia, Czechia, Austria, Hungary, Ukraine, and the EU in general.

Amazing that we’re still discovering such comparatively large land mammals. I don’t want to imagine all the species we’ve killed off unknowingly. Kitties!

Ulrike@ulidig.bsky.social · last wk.

New cat species just dropped! www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

Post an impactful original #poem of 18 words max tomorrow and tag in #fragmentsfriday - we’ll choose our favourite top 3!!!

Well, i decided to make a list with my fountain pen; but I had to pick the right one. And did it have the perfect ink? And it should be on the right paper—md! Then I realised, here it is!

Le Cagle@lecagle.bsky.social · last wk.

in honor of my birthday on the last day of Virgo season next week, tell me your favorite Virgo-ass nonsense did you color code your spice drawer? does your friend group make the Virgo hold everyone's passports? do you have *perfect* handwriting?