Peter Dyke
@peterdyke49.bsky.social
ADoM at Hereford Cathedral; organist, pianist, accompanist; interested in travel, walking, education, art, politics, justice, lots more. Any views expressed are my own
Zack Polanski, "If we decarbonise by 2050, that would cost less than a single (fossil-fuel) energy shock" "We've now had two energy shocks in just a few years" "We cannot keep waiting, we cannot keep hoping for magic technologies - it already exists, what is lacking is the political will"
This is what happens when anti-racism norms erode, and elites bear a lot of the responsibility for norm erosion, as they have disproportionate power to set and enforce norms
Charles EP Murphy@cepmurphy.bsky.social · 2d agonews.sky.com/story/nhs-st... stereotypically this has been seen as Old People, but not only would the old people of now have often been born post-Windrush, lot of this will be younger people who've always lived in a diverse Britain. The guy with a pregnant wife likely millennial at oldest
Rob hints at this but it’s worth reiterating that a major failure of the Starmer government was their inability to convey a consistent antiracist message or uphold norms. They confused anger about ‘the boats’ with generalised racism and since they couldn’t denounce the former they avoided the latter
Rob Ford@robfordmancs.bsky.social · yesterdayThis is what happens when anti-racism norms erode, and elites bear a lot of the responsibility for norm erosion, as they have disproportionate power to set and enforce norms
🧵On @thenewsagents.co.uk yesterday, school closures and the lab leak theory were offered as two examples of legitimate questions that were hard to ask. Both have in fact been asked constantly since 2020. But here's a thread on why I think they were wrong and dangerous on school closures 1/12
March 2020: no testing, no treatment, no vaccine, admissions doubling every 3 to 4 days. Countries ahead of us closed schools alongside everything else, so nobody had evidence separating the two. We didn't know much about Covid in children and nothing about long term impact 3/12
He’s been ranting about immigration since Brexit and he’s not going to stop now. If a giant asteroid crashed into the planet and wiped out all life, Farage would emerge from the debris ranting about immigration.
Just loving how John Cleese, now reduced to one of his own caricatures, rages about immigrants coming to the UK and failing to accept "our" culture, from his home in ... (checks notes) ... Nevis in the Caribbean.
You see this frontpage and do genuinely wonder what on earth the conversation must have been between the senior editors when they were laying it out...
Given this newspaper's long, long history of promoting and enabling climate denial, this article in the Mail on Sunday is fascinating on several levels...
Welcome to the frontpage of the Daily Telegraph* website... * The newspaper that has relentlessly spent the past three decades seeking to belittle climate science and undermine climate action at every turn
Absolutely devastated to hear that the SFTC cuts mean that funding for astronomical research at Jodrell Bank has been stopped. The changes to UKRI funding and especially SFTC are really harming UK science
Jodrell Bank Observatory facing closure after major funder cuts support
Scientists say decision is blow to UK astronomy as deep space observatory is home to world-leading facilities
theguardian.com
The Times corrects its splash story headlined "Migrant care workers bring dozens of family members." The Times got this totally wrong. It then used its own error as the basis for an editorial calling explicitly for forced expulsions of people living here legally. www.thetimes.com/comment/regi...
Russia’s aggression gets worse every day. Today the Kyiv region was hit by 10 ballistic missiles, and in Sloviansk the Latvian honorary consulate was hit. We strongly condemn these brutal attacks and stand in full solidarity with the Ukrainian people and our EU-partner Latvia.
‘If voters think I’m a crook, they can get rid of me’ say Farage after stopping a process that would have better informed the voters.
Literally watching the world burn and saying... "This is probably better than our profits decreasing"
Amazing thing about Britain is how you can just stumble across a beautiful city with a stunning ancient cathedral, and you have never even heard of it before. Can you work it out?
Fabulous and so very much worth the read. "AI is the asbestos we're shoveling into the walls of our civilization and our descendants will be digging it out for generations."
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 2w agoIf you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: pluralistic.net/2026/07/24/s... 2/
France and Spain burn as hundreds of thousands are evacuated. #Climatechange is here and killing our planet and only fools still deny that truth. For our environment and wildlife we have to act now.
More than 220,000 evacuated in France and Spain due to wildfires
French firefighters battle a blaze heading towards Bordeaux while officials in Madrid say they face the "worst fire in the history of the region".
bbc.co.uk
Women are being advised to play Disney songs when they notice a man is recording them with Meta glasses without consent. Because in 2026, music is more protected than women.
"The mountains in Taiwan are vertical. Going down into a valley is a death trap." I would read a whole book on this. Fascinating, and scary.
Experience: I hunt for missing hikers in remote mountains
Since I started doing search and rescue five years ago, I have found seven survivors. Sadly, the number I find dead is higher
theguardian.com
Parking lots. In America, we have LOTS of those. Putting solar over those would probably generate enough electricity, we could quit oil in one huge category and go to electric vehicles. Just thinking outloud. 🤔
When two artists paint the same view: Rue de la Chausée à Argenteuil, painted on the same day in 1872 by Claude Monet & Alfred Sisley, friends and founding figures of French Impressionism, who set up their easels side by side en plein air. Private Collection | Musée d’Orsay
1/5 During night: Voronezh is under a massive drone attack. There have been a series of explosions in the city, and Russian monitoring channels are reporting that one of the likely targets of the attack may have been the Wildberries logistics hub.
