The Earth will cross the 1.5 degrees warming limit that everyone agreed to in the Paris Accord. Thank all those politicians that delayed and weakened the vital climate policies, and still do. It’s not them who’ll pay the price, but you and your children. apnews.com/article/clim...

Global warming will exceed limit, UN says in a report that maps path to get back below danger zone

In a strategic retreat, the United Nations concedes that Earth has lost its chance to prevent some of the worst impacts of global warming.

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Forty-six seconds of Zen.

I hope that the Scottish Government can urgently attend to this, despite yesterday's resignation of the minister, Ben Macpherson. Universities and their staff are struggling – this story explains why.

Fraser MacDonald@frasermacdonald.bsky.social · last wk.

I have a limited appetite for fiscal wonkism, but this seems like a major story about systemic underfunding of universities in Scotland, Wales and NI. Scotland is being penalised for not charging tuition fees.

This is quite the quote.

Hiro Ohta@xlix.me · 6d ago

Men made war. Men lost the war. They brought it on themselves. It was women who paid the price. Women could no longer go along with men's wars. The war did not make women strong. Through the war, women found men out. - Hideko Takamine (Japanese actress, 1924-2010)

Paging @thegrognardfiles.bsky.social

Talking Pictures TV@talkingpicturestv.bsky.social · 7d ago

The NEW SERIES of THE CELLAR CLUB is COMING SOON! #CarolineMunro returns on Friday 4th September with a host of new classic chillers, special guests, a new set and lots of surprises! Mark the date on your calendar and don't be late! #TPTVsubtitles

Strong Krusty the Klown vibes here.

Graeme Swanson@swansonian.bsky.social · last wk.

Tim Curry should also be remembered for featuring in the best between takes photo of an actor in recorded history.

Republicans have spent the last year trying to defund Dolly Parton

Underappreciated: US farmland *already substantially produces energy, not food*, and does so very inefficiently. Corn ethanol (~40% of all US corn) requires about 100 times more land per vehicle-mile driven than solar photovoltaics -> electric vehicles. Shifting corn to solar *would free up land*.

Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅@cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · last wk.

anytime people raise concerns about land use for solar projects or anything like that i just want to point out that half the corn we grow in this country gets used to make gasoline slightly worse

[1981] Ulysses 31 - Intro to the French–Japanese–Luxembourgian animated series based on the Greek mythology of Odysseus, set in the 31st century.

This explainer out of Australia is genuinely useful background and analysis of what happened with the Canada-US trade deal last night. Note that it is extremely and delightfully sweary. Also there’s an appended glossary of Australian slang. ifloz.substack.com/p/king-carne...

KING CARNEY ACTIVATES KONG MODE WITH ZERO FUCKS

Carney Reads the Clock Like a Pro Wrestler

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One of the first "outrageous" claims I saw as Jason Arday's media hounding unfolded was that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days! Wow! What a thing to claim! And the newspapers all suggested there was no evidence he actually did it. Well, they clearly didn't look very hard 🙄 🧵 1/26

A) this story is insane. B) wait for the twist buried in the final paragraph www.stornowaygazette.co.uk/business/ber...

​Bernera groups face financial ruin from legal costs

​A second Bernera community organisation is facing financial ruin due to the activities of Claire Kellerman, an American woman who has been involved in multiple altercations with businesses on Lewis, ...

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“I’ve been full time at The Guardian for over a decade now. I’m the first columnist in the country to use a wheelchair. I’m still one of the only visibly disabled journalists in the press. That is objectively batshit.” I wrote about the British media’s diversity problem. shorturl.at/ZHX5W

Introducing: Press Access

The things nobody tells disabled journalists about getting into an industry that wasn’t built for us.

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Been thinking about this for the last few days (well, for about 33 years, since I read Mill on the tyranny of society), and I think it is under-appreciated* just how much conformity benefits the already-powerful in the world. It’s not just preference or ideology. It’s also self-interest. 1/

Marie Le Conte@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 2w ago

really does feel, as an ideology, like to them there is A Norm, and you can either obey The Norm and be exactly like everyone else, or you can be A Freak and not be meaningfully welcome in society, and everyone should be trying their hardest to fit The Norm a sad view of the world!

2001: A Space Odyssey (1976): Comic book by Jack Kirby

'Examinations of London schoolchildren before and after the introduction of the city’s ultra-low emission zone (Ulez) found a restoration of lung capacity that had been stunted by exposure to pollution.' Brave politics, wise policy, good news.

Ulez led to better lung size and function among London children, study finds

Researchers find capacity stunted by pollution restored after introduction of ultra-low emission zone

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This must be the third video of wonderful voices singing global scales I have seen, and each is mesmerising and has taught me things I didn't know. Such as: That these scales exist and how they, the bare backbone of tunes, reflect and unlock whole world regions' music. This is amazing.

Somebody over-fertilised the broccoli.

Ian McQue@ianmcque.bsky.social · 3w ago

Vertical forest continued #🥦

In 1924, the son of the president of the United States, with access to the best medical treatment, got a blister on his foot playing tennis, it got infected, there were no antibiotics, and he died of sepsis.

Patrick Chovanec@prchovanec.bsky.social · 3w ago

Yeah, see, the thing is, a lot of them didn’t. Survive, that is.

One of my favorite rhetorical and analytical moves is joining things (showing that different, seemingly unrelated ideas are part of the same phenomenon) and taking them apart (resolving paradoxes by demonstrating that what appears like a contradictory thing is different things, lumped together). 1/

Had just enough time to plant these drought-resistant beauties before staring at the eclipse and tonight's meteor shower. See you all in the morning.

Die Sonnenfinsternis aus meinem Fenster

@guitarmoog.bsky.social Weren't you posting about something similar to this last week?

Conor Browne@brownecfm.bsky.social · 4w ago

There is a reason why many people you know seem different now. Not quite who they were before. www.psypost.org/brain-scans-...

August 9, 1955 – Canadian physicist Gilbert Plass submits his paper allouryesterdays.info/2024/08/08/a...

Absolutely amazing this. There's no-one who's at this skill level these days.

Michael Warburton@michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 4w ago

SAMMY DAVIS JR. tearing it up on the Drums and Vibraphone in 1963. He was quite simply, a phenomenon.

@symatt.bsky.social Would've spotted it in an instant.

🎃 Agent Pumpkin 🎃@agentpumpkin.bsky.social · 4w ago

I do now. Wow. I'll get my Zimmer frame. 😆

NPR: "Scientists say they have found a new clue to how COVID-19 may cause long COVID" 'In the journal Nature..led by researchers at the University of Texas..found that..COVID can apparently reactivate other viruses that had been dormant in their bodies.' www.npr.org/2026/08/05/g...

Scientists say they have found a new clue to how COVID-19 may cause long COVID

In the journal Nature, the team, led by researchers at the University of Texas at Austin, found that infection with the coronavirus that causes COVID can apparently reactivate other viruses that had b...

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The doctor who tried to save lives during Covid is being treated like a villain. The traitors who beat up cops at the Capitol on Jan. 6 are being treated like victims or heroes. It's American madness.

Live updates: Senate committee to vote on whether to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress | CNN Politics

Sen. Rand Paul, a longtime Fauci foe, announced the vote after the retired scientist invoked the Fifth Amendment over 100 times during a committee hearing last week.

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English stained glass artist Tamsin Abbott, who is inspired by #folklore and nature #WomensArt