Wonder how long it will take for the new single sex spaces guidance to descend into misogynist vigilante violence against gender nonconforming people. All very depressingly predictable.

Technological Advancements Allow Data Centers To Run On Even More Electricity https://theonion.com/technological-advancements-allow-data-centers-to-run-on-even-more-electricity/

What the US is doing to Cuba is basically terrorism.

Reuters@reuters.com · 3d ago

Cuba's national electric grid collapses, plunging island into darkness reut.rs/4fKWwgK

BP's quarterly profits more than doubled to £4.2 billion in the three months to the end of June. These are the profits of war and climate chaos. It's time to make the biggest polluters pay.

What if Leviticus consented to it?

The Halfway Post@halfwaypost.bsky.social · 2d ago

BREAKING: A brand new “Christian men’s gym” in Georgia that bans women so pious men can have “lust-free workouts” lasted just 6 days before three men were caught “violating Leviticus in the locker room.”

29C highs were forecast in London today we’re already 31.2C at Heathrow not long after noon. Becoming 27th day at or above 30C in capital by the end of next week, I suspect we’ll be on 30+ days. A months worth! Previous record year 1976 with 20 days, 2026 sees a significant leap.

Dan McQuillan: "the push for AI sovereignty doesn’t do anything to address the underlying issues. A European or national AI is no more able to deliver on its claims than the existing models, while indicating the same commitment to growth at the expense of communities and the environment."

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · yesterday

Obviously, the non-American world has a digital sovereignty problem - Trump has means, motive and opportunity to order his tech companies to shut down any public official, large corporation, or individual who displeases him: pluralistic.net/2026/06/18/t... 1/

I remember this, it’s John Kay, who drowned his wife then drove head-on into a bridge to plead ‘diminished capacity’. The Sun kept a position open for him while he was committed, then in their obit called him ‘the greatest journalist of his generation’ and ‘everybody's mate’

Tom Usher@tomusher.bsky.social · yesterday

I remember one time when some journo cunt died (who had literally killed his fucking wife) and all the other journo cunts on twitter started eulogising him like he was a great and lovely man, even when it was pointed out he had killed his wife. Now to check the reaction to Rod Liddle dying

Crop yields down, our countryside scorched and over 2800 people are dead due to this summer's heatwaves. Meanwhile fossil fuel giants are raking in record profits. We must end this rampant profiteering, and cut fossil fuels from our energy mix as soon as possible.

Damian Carrington@dpcarrington.bsky.social · yesterday

BP profits more than double to $5.7bn in three months as Iran war sends oil prices soaring - "While BP banks enormous profits, millions of households are paying the price" #energycrisis #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/business/202...

A study of the 2023 Canadian wildfires 🔥 has concluded that drifting smoke caused a 3 per cent drop in solar power generation in Europe and North America, costing nearly $2 billion and increasing CO2 emissions 🧪 It's happening again this year, of course www.newscientist.com/article/2582...

Canadian wildfires are reducing solar power generation in Europe | New Scientist

Lost solar power due to smoke blocking the sun cost Europe and North America nearly $2 billion in 2023 alone

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In this video a Times editor says ‘I would handle Rod’s column and it was always a blessing’.

Behind the bewildering transformation of British universities, are management consultants being paid millions Really proud to have this vital piece on our unis are being gutted from the inside by @jheathershaw.bsky.social on Democracy for Sale. Do read democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-bri...

Inside Britain's university crisis

As teaching staff face job loss, their bosses have netted pay rises and bought advice from a “vampiric” management consultancy, writes Prof. John Heathershaw of the University of Exeter

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I always put Rod Liddle in a group of right wing commentators whose names sound like dick jokes, so I reckon that Richard Littlejohn and James Delingpole are probably hoping they’re not next on the reaper’s list.

WATER SHOULD NOT BE A COMMODITY NEITHER SHOULD FOOD AND HOUSING.

NPR@npr.org · 3d ago

Water is often a scarce commodity in Nairobi's largest slum. The only source may be a local cartel — and with that comes the risk of sexual threats and attacks.

The same people that moan about school closures during Covid were also the ones moaning about how an increased number of young people are on sickness and incapacity benefits. And they won’t see any connection in those two things, because journalists apparently don’t do that sort of thing now.

This is good. I’ll always remember my A level Economics teacher, who taught me that some things cannot and should not be run for profit because they are not amenable to marketisation. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Turn failing water firms into not-for-profit cooperatives, MPs and mayors tell PM

Labour politicians say mutualised model puts public in control without adding debt to government’s balance sheet

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When I think about Obama groovin on down to Let’s Get It On by Marvin Gaye I almost forget about all the civilian casualties his drone assassination programme was responsible for.

Barack Obama@barackobama.bsky.social · 6d ago

Here are some of the songs I've been listening to this summer. It starts with a song Michelle and I love by Glen Hansard, a great musician who passed tragically this week. Our hearts go out to his family.

It would be legitimate to take direct action against any of these data centres to protect the environment and I have no doubt people will probably try it.

Caroline Lucas@carolinelucas.bsky.social · 5d ago

Govt planning c. 100 new data centres by early 2030s, mostly in already water stressed areas. They have no legal obligation to disclose how much water they use. Meanwhile Govt launches £75m publicity campaign to urge us to reduce water use & privatised water companies waste 19% thro leaks. Madness

This is quite an interesting borderline conspiracy theory about the US and Israel being responsible for the waves of migrants trying to get into the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla. I’d be interested to know what others make of the idea. www.instagram.com/reel/DbcYJFB...

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The thing I love most about videos where robots break or stop working is when humans have to come along with a stretcher to take it away or when they cover it’s lifeless body with a sheet like it’s been murdered.

As Europe burns, Shell has banked £7.4 billion in just three months. It's time to make the biggest polluters pay.

Dan McQuillan: 'The paper concludes that AI is the contradiction that reveals many others, not least the gap between claims to legitimacy and the actuality of destructive violence'. zenodo.org/records/1945...

NEW: Sir Jonathon Porritt, arrested under Terrorism law outside Westminster Magistrates Court. As police escorted him away he said "I am a supporter of Palestine Action, trying to save lives is not terrorism, exposing this Governments complicity in genocide is not terrorism." www.wedonotcomply.org

Rentoul is very much like listening to someone on LBC get irate about whether there should be a women's only room at Lord's cricket club. Nobody normal cares, but you've got a column to file or an hour to fill and so you just end up getting Big Mad about stuff like this.

John Rentoul@rentouljohn.bsky.social · 6d ago

Zack Polanski’s “guillotine” retweet has tested the Green Party leader to self-destruction www.independent.co.uk/voices/zack-...

What if clippy but it also destroyed the planet?

Michael Derby@michaelsderby.bsky.social · 6d ago

Consider yourself warned: Microsoft is about to supercharge Copilot: “Copilot is evolving rapidly from chat to Cowork to autopilots...one super app spanning both consumer and commercial experience." Via Gizmodo

Historical exposition in The Odyssey:

Today experienced the 24th day of year hitting 30C in London. For perspective in whole of 1980s we had 21 days.

The Office: Woman Holding 'HOT' Sign

ALT: The Office: Woman Holding 'HOT' Sign

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Incredible levels of corruption from Gianni Infantino, who wants to privatise FIFA with help from Jared Kushner’s brother. European nations should start exploring alternatives to FIFA. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

World Cup: Uefa furious at Fifa plan for private investment in tournament

Uefa and Prime Minister Andy Burnham criticise proposals from Fifa to seek private investment in its competitions, including the World Cup.

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Anthropic cut up and destroyed millions of print books in order to build its AI model. arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/a...

Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models

Company hired Google's book-scanning chief to cut up and digitize "all the books in the world."

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Some more local Lambeth news from my Substack. Is Lambeth finally going to do something about a derelict listed building which has been slowly collapsing while the council twiddles its thumbs? investigatinglambeth.substack.com/p/will-lambe...

Will Lambeth finally do something about a Grade II listed school that’s been derelict for 13 years?

The opaque cogs of Lambeth Council's internal bureaucracy grind slowly on, as campaigners say the building needs a champion within the council

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