Thanks "Sunny Jim" from Private Eve, I'm going to remember this analogy for geoengineering next time I hear someone bring it up.

Today is the only day you can experience Ray Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains” on the day it is set. Audio: archive.org/details/brad... PDF: thephilosopher.net/bredberi/wp-...

At Berlin Pride they were celebrating love, freedom, and the right to be themselves. That is why they were attacked and it is why attackers like this will fail in their ultimate aim. Hatred of human freedom has never yet extinguished it completely and it never will. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3...

Berlin Pride attack suspect shot and killed during police operation - live updates

Police say suspect Abdul Ballout was shot and killed after he rushed at officers with a knife, in a western borough of Berlin.

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When the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this. Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it.

So, a joke MP with 5 houses bought for cash, links to criminality and a £5Mill ‘gift’ in his bank… is so enraged at being held to account… that he resigns from the MP role he never did anyway…and demands a “people v the establishment” by-election to vote him back in. What an insufferable wanker.

Game on, Nige.

UK Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy is quitting X -- significantly her department is too, she says.

I honestly can't see what Kiet Starmer did that was so unforgivably wrong that his own party has pushed him out. Yes, he was a weak communicator. Was that it? Really?

Absolutely disgusting. So many, many people have just lost all sense of decency.

Robert Saunders@robertsaunders.bsky.social · 2mo ago

For Fathers' Day, Keir Starmer posts a photo of his own father, who died in 2018, and a non-political message. The replies are a torrent of vitriol & cruelty, all with hundreds of Likes. We complain a lot about the quality of leadership, but there's a huge problem with the way we treat politicians

We all need to resist attempts like this to politicise Henry Nowak’s death and divide our country - whether they come from MAGA politicians like Vance or their cronies here in the UK.

This is another great article in a long line from Michael Liebreich. Packed with facts and statistics, it repays careful reading.

Michael Liebreich@mliebreich.bsky.social · 2mo ago

My latest for Bloomberg: "We are about to see the Great Clean Energy Acceleration 2.0 – a discontinuity in energy markets as profound as the oil shocks of the 1970s, and one that could bring forward the peak in fossil fuel use and emissions to this side of 2030." about.bnef.com/insights/cle...

A third of the children in the UK are non-white. Shakespeare and Homer are not going to remain cultural pillars if you tell a third of the class they can never play Hamlet, or Odysseus, or Helen, or Juliet. open.substack.com/pub/edrith/p...

Let's talk about colour-blind casting

Ethnic gatekeeping of the canon would condemn it to obscurity

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NEW ANALYSIS: Do renewables make electricity cheaper or more expensive? I pulled together wholesale and retail data across Europe and the US. Wholesale prices track gas exposure, not renewables share. Retail prices barely track either. Read full piece👇 janrosenow.substack.com/p/do-renewab...

Do renewables make electricity cheaper or more expensive?

The honest answer is: it depends on what you measure, and where you look.

janrosenow.substack.com

Hilarious. Some guy claiming because his family history extends back to the Crusades, he should be involved in governing the rest of us. And claims that we’ll forget history if we oust him. ALL our family histories go back that far… www.channel4.com/news/the-end...

The end of history? Hereditary peers set to be removed from House of Lords

From the Duke of Wellington to the Earl of Caithness, they’ve been sitting on the famous red benches of the House of Lords for centuries.

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I see the Greens are opposing (checks notes) solar power now.

'Industrial scale' solar farms attacked by Norfolk's Green

The county council's Green leader says solar panels should be locally owned and put on roofs.

bbc.co.uk

All the land for miles around, bathed in nuclear radiation! The fear!

David Higham@oldtrotter.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Like Chernobyl 🤦

The government should approve more drilling, but on the condition that if it fails to lead to a fall in energy costs everyone who implied that it would should be made to go and get the oil and gas they insist is out there using a black and decker and a lifeboat.

"Tiger, tiger, driving shite On the freeways of the night"

Quantum Tunnelling

Adam Bell@adambell.bsky.social · 5mo ago

One word: dirigibles.

Can we at least all agree that Trump’s strategy of insulting as many allies as possible before starting his war against Iran is not going well at all?

move slow and repair things

Spot on correct. And if sharing this bars me from entry to the USA, so be it.

Lewis Goodall@lewisgoodall.com · 5mo ago

No legal basis. No clear objective. No exit. And much of Britain’s political class spent the week calling Starmer a coward for noticing. Latest substack from me. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

One of so many reasons I could not cut it in politics: I would not be able to bring myself to go “sorry, you needed…how many years notice to know when you needed to retire?”

Twlldun@twlldun.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Gonna be honest, if the government did give in to this letter (I very much hope they won’t), I will become a Maoist

This looks like the cover of John Christopher's World In Winter.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I don't understand what the argument is meant to be here

This will get massively overshadowed today and as ever the devil is in the detail, but is should be one of the best things Labour has done. It has the potential to improve the lives and finances of millions of people. www.businessgreen.com/news/4524489...

'A national project to turn the tide': Government unveils £15bn Warm Homes Plan

Long-awaited plan aims to help millions of families to cut energy bills by installing solar panels, batteries, heat pumps, and insulation

businessgreen.com

This made my day

Here is the full text of the charter of the Trump “Board of Peace” It is a Trump grift for World Domination. For him, and his heir’s. Extortion. Greed. Not a single person should have anything to do with it. @mrjamesob.bsky.social

Drop Site@dropsitenews.com · 7mo ago

📌 Below is the full text of the charter of Trump’s proposed Board of Peace, reported and verified by the Times of Israel and other outlets. Drop Site News has also obtained a copy, which matches the document they published. CHARTER OF THE BOARD OF PEACE PREAMBLE Declaring that durable peace...

There are going to be limits to what you can make other countries do by threatening to tax your own citizen's purchases of their products. I believe handing over entire territories falls well beyond those limits. 🤷‍♂️

What the fuck is going on