Just enjoyed the new katsu chicken bake from Greggs, but I’m sure no one in the UK seems to realise that “katsu” is not the name for Japanese curry sauce, but for the breaded pork/chicken cutlet that often accompanies it. I live in a country of Philistines.

Oil is extracted, burned, and its energy is over. Lithium is mined, becomes a battery, and its energy storage capability can be reused for years. Burning fossil fuels doesn't make any sense anymore.

Direct, full-time jobs opening Rosebank oilfield would create: 450 D, f-t jobs opening Jackdaw gasfield would create: 27 D, f-t jobs in UK's net-zero economy: 300,000 + 400,000 more on the way D, f-t jobs in the rest of the green economy: 600,000 Is that really the hill Burnham wants to die on?

« Meta has also agreed to train its AI on content from Fox News [...] It has made similar deals with other right-wing outlets with poor reputations for factual accuracy, including The Daily Caller, The Washington Examiner, and News Corp, the parent company of the New York Post. »

Olivier Niquet@olivierniquet.com · 2d ago

Meta will train its AI on far-right media outlet: Newsmax est pire que Fox News. On sait que l'IA n'est pas neutre, mais est-ce que l'avenir nous réserve des IA d'extrême-droite?

Shooting interests & the rightwing press want to exploit the wildfires to reinstate moorland burning. But you don't fight fire with fire. You fight it with water. This wildfire in Wales' Elan Valley in May stopped abruptly when it reached re-wetted peat bogs: www.walesfarmer.co.uk/news/2614875...

Great piece on Alfred DH, a pioneer in discovering new species of dung fungus in the British isles, proof it's possible to make an impact in mycology in the fields that few people dare to tread. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘I have an understanding housemate’: the student who makes videos of fungus on faeces

Alfred Drummond-Herdman’s extraordinary timelapses have been viewed by millions – and led him to identify new species

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Seems like 2026 is the year the "Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it" post lands for everyone.

NEW Stewart Lee column ‘Jokes’ like the one Zack Polanski shared on social media only help Farage deflect scrutiny www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

Most lowland woods in England are criss-crossed with drainage ditches, dug to help intensive forestry exploitation. Most woods no longer managed, but drainage still maintained for convenience of dogwalkers etc., losing ponds, bogs. Re-wetting woodland to buffer against droughts should be a priority.

Guy Shrubsole@guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 4d ago

Australia has a completely different set of ecosystems to the UK. In Britain, you don’t fight fire with fire: you fight it with water. We have allowed landowners to comprehensively drain our peat bogs, remove farmland ponds, riddle landscapes with field drains. Make Britain Wet Again!

Wouldn't surprise me. Last time our garden got a drop of rain was 13th June.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 4d ago

July set to be driest on record for England and Wales after relentless heatwaves

The ocean isn’t just overheating, it’s LOSING ITS BREATH. Scientists say global waters have already lost around 2% of their oxygen, pushing marine life towards an “unsafe space” with potentially irreversible impacts. Protect the oceans, stop new oil and gas.

"This is Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s THRONE OF BLOOD, one of the other Kurosawa’s unequivocal masterpieces, and it earns that comparison in every way." @briantallerico.bsky.social reviewed THE SAMURAI AND THE PRISONER, in select theaters tomorrow:

The Samurai and the Prisoner review: Riveting 16th century epic plays like Samurai Columbo

Kurosawa has made one of his best films, a work that feels a bit like Agatha Christie, a bit like Shakespeare, and even a bit like Samurai Columbo.

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Ed Miliband already showing that he is prioritising the climate crisis in his role as Foreign Secretary And if climate breakdown is a national security emergency then you can’t drill for more oil in the North Sea… & you have to make our landscapes wilder & more resilient bsky.app/profile/leoh...

Leo Hickman@leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 7d ago

++BREAKING++ The UK and Spanish governments have issued a joint statement overnight: "[We] agreed that this summer’s wildfires demonstrated that climate change was now a national security emergency facing Europe and threatening our way of life." www.gov.uk/government/n...

Much as my nearest and dearest pour scorn and ridicule on my mycological obsessions, even they would concede that not only did this Chicken of the Woods (Laetiporus sulphureus) make for a fantastic photo. It also made for a fantastic korma.

Cities dismantled their tram networks to become “motor cities of the future”. The result? You could travel further within 30 mins via public transport in 1957 than you can in 2026. Cities are seeking billions to rebuild networks. Incredible piece of work this.

The Exchange@theexchangeleeds.bsky.social · 2w ago

If you stood on Briggate at 8am on a weekday in 1957, and stood there again in 2026, in which year could you reach more of the city in half an hour? Samuel Bancroft has crunched the numbers. Since the 1950s, Leeds has got bigger - but the city has effectively shrunk.

Sounds like something I should see.

Otaku News@otakunews.com · 2w ago

We’ve just been to The Photographer’s Gallery in London to see their fantastic Japanese Women Photographers: From 1950s to Now exhibition. #ThePhotographersGallery

Lovely interview with the greatest living englishman Mackenzie Crook www.cpre.org.uk/discover/mac...

Mackenzie Crook on his love of the landscape

Detectorists creator Mackenzie Crook on why children need help to connect with the countryside and how he might have been a hedgelayer in another life

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Facebook has just notified me that I earned the “breakout post achievement!” In the Crust Fungi and Polypores group. Onwards and upwards!

This is terrifying. Huge wildfires devastating parts of France and Spain, and still much of the UK press and political establishment is arguing that we need to ditch Net Zero. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

France evacuates Cap Ferret peninsula as Spain battles to prevent wildfires merging near Madrid – Europe live

Evacuees have been told to leave using hundreds of mobilised boats or the only road linking the area with the mainland

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"A new political model" latest.

Now reading John Wright’s Grasslands and struck by how many grassland ecosystems there are in the UK, and how much they’ve declined over the past century due to chemical fertilisers, the plough, draining and construction.

That’s sovereignty for you.

Richard Corbett CBE@richardcorbett.bsky.social · 2w ago

Remember that, when it was still in the EU, Britain supported & voted for the introduction of this EU Entry/Exit System (EES). The then (Tory) govt wanted more checks on non-EU visitors entering the EU www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Few things throw up the limitations of AI than nature identification apps. The fungi ones are essentially worthless.

Bastiaan Brak@bastiaanbrak.bsky.social · 3w ago

The ‘ID apps make bad naturalists’ isn’t new “For some, images produced the wrong type of pleasure, distracting from real learning. Naturalists like Peter Rylands believed that written descriptions would prevent unserious people from taking up the science, and would make better practitioners.”

Feast your eyes on this trailer for FULL MOON RISING, a new documentary on legendary filmmaker Charles Band premiering at Fright Fest next month.

FANGORIA@fangoria.bsky.social · 3w ago

Fango is proud to present the trailer for FULL MOON RISING: THE CHARLES BAND STORY ahead of the documentary’s premiere at London FrightFest next month.

Great stuff coming from the remarkable @sarahappleton.bsky.social - a new documentary on Charles Band.

Sarah Appleton@sarahappleton.bsky.social · 3w ago

Full Moon Rising: The Charles Band Story is having its World Premiere at London FrightFest on August 31st. Charlie himself will be in attendance, along with his actress wife Robin Sydney! There will be a book signing right after the screening for his new book, Horror Puppet.

God gave man dominion….

Guy Shrubsole@guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 3w ago

Appalling: Church of England votes against plan to rewild 30% of its land by 2030 @wildcard.land have run a noble campaign trying to get the CofE to see sense But this demonstrates exactly why Ministers can't rely on landowners to voluntarily support 30by30: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Now there’s a cover image!

British Mycological Society@britmycolsoc.org.uk · 3w ago

Out now: Field Mycology July 2026.

The polar opposite reactions here to the deaths of Sam Neill and Lindsey Graham are such a reminder that we all have a choice whether to live our lives in a way that brings joy or misery to those around us. I think if you’re remembered fondly as Sam Neill is today, you’ve pretty much won at life.

I got commentaries on both the Nikkatsu Kumashiro films. Let’s hope for more of this!

Imprint Films@imprintfilms.bsky.social · 3w ago

Sultry tales and fatal seduction await this August, as two sensual hardboxes join Imprint Asia! ❤️‍🔥 • The Erotic Films of Li Han-hsiang: Volume One (1973 - 1976) - Blu-ray Limited Edition Hardbox • Nikkatsu Erotica - Volume One: Wet Desire (1972) / Lovers Are Wet (1973) 1500 copies each. 📀

A poor dead fly grotesquely entombed in a killer fungus. I'm no expert in entomopathogenic fungi, but I'm guessing the perpetrator might be Pandora dipterigena. #fungifriends #mycology #thelastofus #killerfungi #fungiphotography