No take, only throw

What are they hiding? Feels like insanity that this is not dominating the news. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

UK has ‘no future’ if it fails to act on ecosystem collapse threatening national security

MPs demand publication of full report that outlines catastrophic consequences amid concerns for food security

theguardian.com

Ah so I didn’t hallucinate this from my Northern childhood in the 90s? Explaining to my Cornish friend that Emmerdale (The Woodpeckers) had a song in the charts that reached no 5. SNLUK should take notes m.youtube.com/watch?v=vVAz...

The Woolpackers - Hillbilly Rock, Hillbilly Roll

YouTube video by woolpackersVEVO

m.youtube.com

Dearie me

Bruno Mars has left Vegas & is at Wembley with an outstanding performance

Cleo roaming Berrow Beach at high tide, Somerset.

Yesterday, WIRED learned that Madison Square Garden was suing us for our accurate reporting. We stand by our work. That’s why we’re removing the paywall from two of the MSG stories they don’t want you to read, making them free for everyone.

I love how this newly emerging orchid (paph. Philippenese x gigantifolium is rubbing its petals together as it opens. Exactly like I am with my hands as it emerges (yes I anthropomorphise my plants).

Bananas! Giant orchids blooming for first time ever… Would rather some rain & cloud now, please. Somerset wildlife, and fruits like apples (for eating & cider) really suffered last year

Reading this currently & cannot recommend enough. Timely, essential. Themes which ought be taught across the curriculum (the audiobook is narrated by Rory Kinnear too, which is *chef’s kiss).

Daniel Trilling@trillingual.bsky.social · 3mo ago

IF WE TOLERATE THIS is out today! These are worrying times politically but if there's one thing I want to get across, it's that the slide into far-right nationalism is not inevitable. Please help me spread the word. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/if-w...

Just getting round to this wonderful book, after adoring (& being alarmed by) ‘Privacy is power’. The audiobook version has Robertson Dean narrating, which is delicious. Highly recommend.

Carissa Véliz@carissaveliz.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A culture of divination has grown all around us - from machine learning, to prediction markets, and forecasting of all kinds, not to mention psychics and astrology. But have you ever wondered what, exactly, is in a prediction? TED talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS4w... #PROPHECY #authors

Eldest has gone back to London but got him out for a final sunset walk with Cleo. Sedgemoor an overlooked, often left behind area of Somerset - but always our favourite. Especially Cleo’s!

Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.

Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · last mo.

NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...

'Gloria' by Laura Brannigan just came on. Gave me flashbacks of Don. Jr and his girlf celebrating (with an angry looking Trump) during the capital riot. Immediately after, Abba's 'Winner Takes it All' started, reminiscent of Carrie and co singing after Boris Johnson defenestrated Dom Cummings....

Didn’t have ’Metallica’ covering ‘Delilah’ by Tom Jones On my bingo card!

"There are lot of signs indicating there is a shortage of the use of independent thinking and judgement. Contemporary working life is very much about regulations and policies... And that means that people tend not to do so much thinking of themselves..." https://ow.ly/xsIc50ZhuCT

PODCAST: Why work needs less management and more judgement - Transforming Society

In this Transforming Business episode, Martin Parker speaks with Mats Alvesson and Dennis Nørmark about how we can give workers more space to use their judgement. 

ow.ly

Missing tonight’s Metallica gig in Cardiff, but made a friend happy with my ticket. One small consolation -great selection of reading materials to distract myself. Cleo more than happy I’m not going anywhere! No need to poke that tongue out at me tho!

Cleo howling at the sun to just fucking do one, please.

You know the heatwave is serious when your mum calls from the Lake District to say she had to take her socks off for the first summer, ever. 2026, the year my mum ditched her socks for a few days.

The children came home from London/uni for the youngest 21st. Thinking they’d miss heatwave, only for it to be hotter here - 36 degrees in Somerset! Doggie stuck indoors as it‘s unbearable for her.

Absolute Units returns next Thurs! We're joined by @uniofreading.bsky.social's Professor Tom Oliver and Marzia Briel, to explore their work rethinking our relationship with nature and how we can better advocate for the natural world. Catch up on past pods: merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...

Absolute Units podcast - The Museum of English Rural Life

Come for the big sheep. Stay for the history of rural England and its people.

merl.reading.ac.uk

Keeping the canines cool on this weather means only emerging at sunset, but worth it for their safety!

Somerset in three pictures yesterday: 31 degrees, storm, and sun again

Why does it bother me when a manager or the CEO of my employer boasts about using Copilot to write their emails? This. This is why

My goodness, Ed Luce is furious giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

'It began with one man’s ecstatic philosophy of human extinction,’ the philosopher Vincent Lê writes in this urgently needed unpacking of accelerationism. Tracing the evolution of Nick Land, who originated the concept, Lê dives deep into how we’ve ended up in this strange moment

What is Nick Land’s philosophy of accelerationism really? | Aeon Essays

Terrorists and tech bros alike identify with it. But what does Nick Land’s philosophy of accelerationism really claim?

buff.ly

Nature helps keep communities healthier, cooler and more resilient. The places with the least nature shouldn’t be first in line to lose more. Tell Government to close loopholes, not create new ones: action.rspb.org.uk/page/192593/...

Summer moult = second Cleo possible

When octopuses are stressed, they retreat into hiding to avoid attention, showcasing their unique coping mechanisms in the ocean's depths.

Well, I guess I must be about to find out what being stopped and searched is like, apparently. How I’ve escaped it all these years, a mystery.