My answer is LOL ROFL (dickbrain) The terminally AI-pilled can't even *imagine* some people have *never* asked stochastic parrots to cheat at their job for them.
Joanne Hall
@hierath77.bsky.social
Fantasy writer and editor, hound mum, permaculturist, woke hobbit. Writes, reads, games, gardens. Trying to leave it better than I found it. Ideologically opposed to bigots of all stripes. She/her. Cymru.
Oh wow! The Dragon Has Some Complaints made Goodreads's list of Don't Miss summer books!
Summer Encore: Don’t Miss These Very Recent Hit Books
Summer is a season to be savored. It feels so good, and it goes so fast. But take heart, bookworms! Summer’s not over yet! As a kind of in-the-mome...
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The government’s transphobic code of practice is now up and running. But we’re not going to take it, we’re helping to fight back. Join us goodlawproject.org/s/485c4d
Fight back against the code of practice
The government’s transphobic code of practice is now up and running. But we’re not going to take it, we’re helping to fight back. Join us
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Murderous heat, an endangered food supply and no net zero: this is the life the radical right wants you to have. by George Monbiot
Murderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George Monbiot
As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Don't look now, but the world has now installed 3TW of solar. Took 10 years to get from 100GW to 1TW. Less than 3 years to get to 2TW. Less than 2 years to get to 3TW. Analysts expect *9TW* by 2036.
The World Crossed a Major Solar Milestone. No One Noticed
The next phase of the boom may reveal a shift in who is gaining access to the technology.
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people *really* don't understand the change part of #climatechange or that we're constantly surprised by *what the changes are* despite having studied this my entire adult life the earth is a massively complex system that we depend upon for life and we are FUCKING WITH IT seems bad
Bentley ****TALK CLIMATE****@bigclimate.bsky.social · 2d agoThey can say summers have always been hot and we’ve always had wildfires and they can tell themselves all day that everything is the same as it always was but you know better They can gaslight themselves but not you. #ExtremeHeat #Wildfires #Smoke #ClimateChange #abpoli #cdnpoli
No, I am gonna quote dunk. This lady is an anti-semite, a Hitler supporter, and a transphobe. Please add to block lists accordingly. She is also whackdoodle.
@treewomanjones.bsky.social · 2d agoWould you say that to innuit hunting for seals, migrating birds, whales etc to eat - the only food they can get ? This smells of a globalists' plot to take away from indigenous people their ability to sustain themselves off their environmens.
I'm not going to quote dunk but I'm talking to a lady on here who is firmly under the delusion that people who live in the Outer islands of Scotland are some kind of primitive hunter gatherers rather than people with jobs and mortgages and takeout menus. She then goes on to compare them to wild lynx
A ‘pay as you feel’ foodbank is to be established at a primary school as part of a project to tackle food poverty and reduce food waste
'Pay as you feel' foodbank to be established in primary school
Twm Owen, Local Democracy Reporter A ‘pay as you feel’ foodbank is to be established at a primary school as part of a project to tackle food poverty and reduce food waste. Plans have been lodged with ...
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Anna Smith Spark's magnificent Bronze Age fantasy, A Woman of the Sword, is part of this year's Best of British Storybundle. Being a legendary warrior is hard. Being a legendary warrior with kids in tow... storybundle.com/bestof
If I ran an online ladder-selling company, I would absolutely call it "Up Yours".
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
Climate x energy polycrisis, in a nutshell: “Romania blasts rock to divert water from drought-hit Danube to nuclear reactor” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Romania blasts rock to divert water from drought-hit Danube to nuclear reactor
Hungary and Romania face energy crisis as record-low river levels force atomic power plants to reduce output
theguardian.com
I don't usually like horror but this sounds amazing
Ginger Nuts of Horror@gnofhorror.com · 2d agoMason Coile wrote about a man sealed in a box, carried towards an ending he did not pick. Andrew Pyper died twenty months before the book came out. Driven is the last Coile novel, and the most schadenfreude thing horror has published this year. https://gnofhorror.com/driven-by-mason-coile-review/
@aptshadow.bsky.social My mum is reading Shroud and wanted me to tell you how much she's enjoying it ♡
South Korea records its highest ever temperature Authorities issue alert saying indoor spaces without air conditioning are dangerous as temperatures pass 40C for fifth straight day www.theguardian.com/world/2026/...
‘Stop all outdoor activities’: South Korea records its highest ever temperature
Authorities issue alert saying indoor spaces without airconditioning are ‘dangerous’ as temperatures pass 40C for fifth straight day
theguardian.com
NEW: Big new feature from me about offshore wind farms as anchors for wildlife! For example: seals swimming *into* turbine towers to, apparently, hunt fish - and scour protection at the base of turbines used by sea creatures as a dwelling place. atmos.earth/science-and-...
The Sea Life Making a Home in Offshore Wind Farms | Atmos
Offshore wind farms can pose risks to birds and marine life. But their foundations also serve as artificial reefs, offering essential habit.
atmos.earth
THREAD/ORIGINAL ART GIVEAWAY This hare linoprint is by my mum, Jo. I'll be sending an original of this to one randomly chosen person who reposts this link to my recently updated website & pops a reply below. www.tom-cox.com The offer is open worldwide. I also have some more art to give away...
It's Suede, Dog Man Star, Coming Up. I don't make the rules.
Mia Murphy 🏳️⚧️@miamurphy.com · 4d agoWhat's the best three album run from a band? (the correct answer is Moving Pictures, Signals, and Grace Under Pressure by Rush, but I'm excited to learn second place)
I am piloting the farm solo today (well, apart from Charley and Ollie and a subset of camping Poles) so consider this an all-day AMA!
*looks outside* *looks at the words "autumn and winter flood season"* *sighs* *walks off into the wasteland like a shorter, plumper Captain Oates....*
NationCymru@nation.cymru · 3d agoEssential repairs to a flood defence wall in mid Wales have been completed ahead of the autumn and winter flood season
I've just seen the cover to the Complete Trumptonshire blu-ray, and now I need you all to see it too, so there can be an outbreak of delighted cooing and "aw" noises all across Bluesky. It's done my heart the power of good, it really has.
Please sign and share this petition to stop supermarkets throwing away perfectly good food and make them donate it instead (which is what they used to do!) petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...
Petition: Ban all supermarkets from throwing away edible food & require their donation
Everyday, UK supermarkets throw away tonnes of edible food while millions of people rely on food banks to survive. We believe this is wrong, and that food that is safe to eat should not end up in bins...
petition.parliament.uk
What better book to have in a Best of British Storybundle than a Best of British SF anthology. This one is edited by our good friend Donna Scott and includes stories by Gareth L Powell, Lavie Tidhar, Stark Holborn, Fiona Moore, EM Faulds and many others: storybundle.com/bestof
Reform-led Suffolk County Council's scrapping of the climate change emergency doesn't appear to have worked. The @nationaltrust.org.uk launches an appeal for the restoration of Dunwich Heath, totally destroyed by wildfire.
Devastating fire sweeps Dunwich Heath
Support the Dunwich Heath Fire Appeal. Your donation will help restore damaged habitats, protect vulnerable wildlife, and aid long-term recovery efforts.
nationaltrust.org.uk