London's trees have skipped forward to Autumn, clearly to fool the weather gods into sending rain!
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Yeah, one that the right leaning media has forced on us with their over zealous scrutiny 🙄
The Times and Sunday Times@thetimes.com · 7h agoWe are ending up with the BBC we deserve
$ME - KATIE PLANS CAREER IN DRESSAGE, POWERED BY TAMAGOTCHIS
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 7h ago$SPCX - SPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS
The state of the pavements in London - a build-up of take-out grease and piss that no rain has washed away for months! 🤮
If I see a woman interrogating anyone who is trying to use the loo about the contents of their underpants, I’ll be kicking off at *her*
flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 13h agoThis is what they expected and wanted to happen: that members of the public, shown the cops would take their side if they kicked off and went mental at anyone they suspected of being a transgender, would then start going apeshit en masse and enforce their wacko ideas for them.
JUST IN: Trump signals plan to reframe his suit against BBC. Likely to narrow Trump's claim to take out ref to damage to his businesses/brand. Needs judge's OK, but may limit BBC access to his financial data Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2026/07...
Motion to Seal (Public) – #106 in Trump v. British Broadcasting Corporation (S.D. Fla., 1:25-cv-25894) – CourtListener.com
Motion to Seal (Public)
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Watch out. Wenger only illuminates his antenna like that when he’s really angry
Says the guy who wanted to launch a bomb to stop a hurricane; who also wanted to build a huge faucet to regulate the amount of water used in the South West; who drew a new course of hurricane on a map with a Sharpie; who suggested we injest bleach and shine light into our bodies to stop the virus
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump: "I know Europe better than anybody. Better than the people that run it."
JUST IN: Staff reportedly increasingly concerned that companies are hiring them for the value of their output, as opposed to their wellbeing and development.
Max P III@blackballer.bsky.social · 2d agoIts embarrassing how many grown ass adults live in these fantasies where people work for some nonsense like the artificial cultures oligarchs manufacture over survival.
The real reason child vaccination rates are falling
The real reason child vaccination rates are falling
As child immunisation rates fall across the UK, one clinic in west Yorkshire is taking aggressive steps to boost immunisations
bbc.co.uk
Finding beauty in everyday life: Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (1699-1779), French painter of tranquil, luminous still-life & genre scenes, admired by Manet, Cézanne, Matisse and Proust. La Fille de Cuisine 1738, NGADC | Panier de Pêches, avec noix, couteau, verre de vin 1768, Musée du Louvre
Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
today in "headlines you'd see on a background TV in a disaster movie" www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Rhine Falls to Lowest Since 1880, Disrupting European Trade
The Rhine River’s water levels dropped to the lowest in nearly 150 years as hot, dry weather grips Europe, threatening to disrupt a crucial route for transporting coal, fuel and industrial commodities...
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BREAKING: The newly elected Prime Minister of Hungary announced that Netanyahu will be arrested if he enters Hungary.
We are in the third drought in five years. We have the National Trust and NFU - those radical types - sounding the alarm on unprecedented temperatures. But so little from any single figure in politics talking about the climate crisis.
BREAKING: Sunday Times and Sun columnist Rod Liddle has died aged 66 after a short illness
Nigel Farage just took a question from a 'journalist' at his press conference, who turned out to be his former chief adviser Raheem Kassam, who asks him why the media are being so unfair to him
Farage misses a hustings event in Clacton to hold his press conference on his unfunded Channel 'plan'.
If this was a week ago Count Binface will surely have added to this by now.
Laura Phillips@lauraphillips.bsky.social · 2d agoUK, Clacton national parliament by-election, Survation poll: Farage (REFORM~NI): 73% (+27) Count Binface (CBP-*): 20% (new) Fox (RECLAIM-*): 2% (new) +/- vs. 2024 election Fieldwork: 16-24 July 2026 Sample size: 502
Massachusetts farm installs 832 solar panels above berry fields, and the berries grown underneath turned out sweeter and juicier and could change the future of American farming - The Economic Times share.google/GDGqQBgisqhG...
Massachusetts farm installs 832 solar panels above berry fields, and the berries grown underneath turned out sweeter and juicier and could change the future of American farming
A Massachusetts farm is integrating solar panels above berry fields. This agrivoltaics project generates electricity while shading the crops. The elevated panels create a cooler microclimate, retain...
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Tice being investigated by parliamentary standards watchdog www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Richard Tice investigated by parliamentary standards watchdog
Reform's deputy leader is being investigated about an allegation he failed to declare an interest.
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“The first calendar month on record where no rainfall was measured at Kew.” www.londoncentric.media/p/londons-fi...
London's first month without rain
Plus: There's nowhere to bury the dead • London wants to keep its money • When will it stop being so damn hot • Who is to blame for turning off the air conditioning in the tower block?
londoncentric.media
The Great Climate Insurance Collapse is beginning before our eyes. How does it happen? Gradually, and then all at once. Buckle up. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...
E&E News: Climate change is turning parts of Europe into an insurance nightmare
The European Central Bank and EU insurance regulators have called on Brussels to set up an EU-level reinsurance scheme and a public natural disaster fund.
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