Thérèse
@tiggertherese.bsky.social
European, veg grower, archaic surfer, economist & extremely appalled ex-central banker. RT ≠ endorsement. I may not entirely agree with all my own views either. https://mastodon.social/@tiggertherese https://pixelfed.social/i/web/profile/784397322696509320
Today was the 60th warm day at or above 25C at LHR. 2nd place in series from 1949 so 2026 is now only 2 days from record year 2018. Max temperatures largely look above this threshold for the next fortnight, 2026 clearly will end up well beyond historical precedent.
Interrupting the holiday briefly to note another ex UK politician trying to rewire the EU to overcome Brexit, another for the round filing cabinet as we used to say. demos.co.uk/research/bey...
Beyond Brexit: A new deal for Britain, Ukraine and Europe
Demos is Britain’s leading cross-party think-tank. We produce original research, publish innovative thinkers and host thought-provoking events.
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I'm still waiting for the jetpack I was promised decades ago. 🙄
This is pure extraction of wealth from one group of people to another We urgently need: Windfall tax on oil giants Windfall tax on banks Both are creaming money off us during a cost of living crisis Even Thatcher had the balls to tax the banks Will you @andyburnham?
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 · yesterdayBP 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...
I only just got around to watching this. What a tremendous love letter to London. Not many people make great programmes in their 100th year. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Wild London
Sir David Attenborough explores the wildlife of his London hometown, from urban deer to rooftop peregrines and many others, revealing how nature thrives in the world’s greenest major city.
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Thank you to our Vice-President @carolinelucas.bsky.social for helping us spread this important message for peace and disarmament ahead of Hiroshima Day and Nagasaki Day. #NeverAgain Wear the message and support our vital work for a nuclear weapons-free world: cndukstore.com/product/hiro...
ftrange news from ye northe! Unprefedented rains of, well, rain, actually.
At his peak of Callan fame TV's song'n'dance'n'burning alive man gets himself The Edward Woodward Hour today in 1971, including a crossover sketch between Callan and Father Dear Father that Woodward would call the most embarrassing moment of his career.
The Edward Woodward Hour (August 4, 1971)
The Edward Woodward Hour August 4, 1971 Ripped from the Callan: This Man Alone DVD. A series of songs and performances by Edward Woodward, including a Callan/Father Dear Father comedy skit that had…
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I recall we had a period of time where the response of Starmer and Cooper to concerns about these groups was ‘I like flags’
Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · yesterdayLeaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.
I wonder whether threats were made in Cromer, Norfolk. (Photos taken about 10 days ago.)
Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · yesterdayLeaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.
This would be rare here - a sign of the depth of the drought. Rabbits normally have no need to drink water - they are surrounded by pastures & hedgerows filled with green grass & juicy vegetation. Now the fields are scorched brown and dry - birds & animals & insects face dehydration. #Droughts
To secure his seat on a burial club board in exactly 1 CE, Nepos paid for the ossuary's new mosaic floor out of his own pocket. It is a masterful display of status: funding local infrastructure so your peers literally walk all over your name in perpetuity. #EpigraphyTuesday #AncientBluesky 🏺
I reckon this is fine. It's just summer, right? Look it up!
James Ball@jamesrball.com · 2d ago"Kew Gardens has had a weather station since 1871. This July was, based on third party analysis of Met Office data collected at the site, the first calendar month on record where no rainfall was measured at Kew."
Microsoft are terrible but they've never offered this.
Heather Burns@heatherburnstech.bsky.social · yesterdayThe most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.
Today is Venn Day, in celebration of the mathematician John Venn, born on this day in 1834. To commemorate the occasion, here’s a poem in the form of a Venn Diagram.
I would have thought there are rather a lot of Jewish organisations who would provide better anti-Semitism training to police officers than ex-nazi Joshua Bonehead-Pain.
Tom Roberts@tpgroberts.bsky.social · yesterdayAbsolutely crackers, extremely self serving as a defence as there is absolutely no chance she'd extend this same benefit of the doubt elsewhere, which becomes obvious in the, factually incorrect, statement on early release she can't resist tagging on at the end.
Disgraceful. Labour are absolutely in the pockets of big business and developers. "Approval of east London datacentre labelled ‘slap in the face’ for local democracy" www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Approval of east London datacentre labelled ‘slap in the face’ for local democracy
Campaigners decry Angela Rayner’s backing for Brick Lane project that has only 11 affordable homes
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It's estimated that if all the world's ice caps melt sea levels will increase by around 60m. en-gb.topographic-map.com/map-gphz4/Cl...
Clacton-on-Sea topographic map, elevation, terrain
Average elevation: 7 m • Clacton-on-Sea, Tendring, Essex, England, CO15 1QP, United Kingdom • Visualization and sharing of free topographic maps.
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Election Maps UK@electionmaps.uk · 2d agoClacton By-Election Voting Intention: ➡️ RFM: 73% (+27) 🗑️ CBF: 20% (New) 🟥 REC: 2% (New) ⚫ Others: 5% (-49) Via @survation.bsky.social, 16-24 Jul. Changes w/ GE2024.
Certain posters are not beating the allegations that a certain type of British journalist is incapable of extending empathy to anyone other than the 50 or so colleagues they run into at dinner parties, a grace they extend to those 50 people but think minorities & the disadvantaged are unworthy of
On Sunday, South Korea saw 108.5° F (42.5° C), its highest temperature on record. The South Korean weather agency urged people to “immediately stop all outdoor activities,” warning that even “indoor spaces without air conditioning are dangerous.” e360.yale.edu/digest/el-ni...
In an Already Broiling Summer, El Niño Is About to Turn Up the Heat
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I've noticed a lot of insects returning just after I've watered my allotment plants.
The English Oak Project@thekentacorn.bsky.social · 2d agoBees struggle in this weather 🥵 We find a lot of bees running out of fuel when perched on our sunflowers Use a water bottle & fine spray the flowers, fruit, seeds (what ever stage they are at) close to the bee, & they will hoover them up & regain strength
