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 · 2d ago

BP 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...

Looked up the path of totality, and man is this a bad case for the Mercator projection.

Listen. I work in comedy. ADHD is absolutely real.

Dr Dean Burnett@drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 3d ago

Only just found out about this For the record, you don't get multiple genetic markers and one of the most effective medications known to science with 'social constructs' Channel 4, this is, in scientific parlance, an absolute fu*king disgrace that will genuinely endanger lives #c4 #ADHD

Lockdowns showed that states can pour massive resources into making the politically impossible happen quickly, the public will accept huge changes if they understand why they're needed, and that we should listen to scientists. Something to remember when it comes to action on climate change.

A post: Weird that the we've got a king on money now An american: ACTUALLY WE DON'T HAVE A KING NO "MAGA" WHAT THAT ORANGE CHEETO TELLS US

Median UK voter in 2026, as predicted by Hugh Laurie some decades ago:

"Being trans is sad Being trans is horrid." Shut up. Being trans is great. Look. I've got inner peace and a fucking scythe.

Jay Hulme@jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 4d ago

Today at the convent: the nuns have been teaching me to scythe.

The COVID brain fog explained. The COVID-19 virus binds to the ACE2 receptor to enter cells. Dopamine producing neurons are rich in the ACE2 receptor. The virus causes disruption in the dopamine network in the brain. 🧪 tech-paper.com/scientists-f...

Scientists finally have a biological explanation for why long COVID patients lose motivation and can't think clearly. They scanned their brains and found the dopamine system was physically damaged - T...

Millions of people with long COVID report the same cluster of symptoms: a crushing lack of motivation, an inability to think clearly, memory that slips, movements that feel slower than they should. Fo...

tech-paper.com

Here are some creepy things about livers. OK if you put a liver from a big dog into a small dog the liver will shrink to fit. After liver transplant sometimes fragments break off and can implant elsewhere in the body & start growing more liver. Liver cells often have two nuclei! (illegal manoeuvre)

This is sort of fascinating but also sort of meaningless. This is actually a map showing which countries consider suburbs to be part of their cities. Hence Britain having “2” and Australia having “5”.

Brilliant Maps@brilliantmaps.bsky.social · 5d ago

How Many Cities Over 1 Million People Does Each Country Have? Sort of crazy that Canada and Australia have more than the UK. Or that Russia has more than the US. Full list: brilliantmaps.com/cities-ov...

Often anger at where money *is* spent, like MPs perks and pay rises, seems symbolic - the sums involved are pocket change in governmental terms. But whole essential parts of research, and all of the arts, are run on pocket change. Or are lost to save it.

James Woodfield@jameswoodfield.bsky.social · 5d ago

According to the parliamentary annual report & accounts for the 2025/26 financial year, the cost of subsidising the bars in the House of Commons alone was around £5.8 million. Meanwhile, to save £3 million less than that, Jodrell Bank is being defunded and shut down. share.google/MRHIvCsCsKoc...

Guy who went on holiday to Toontown and made it his whole personality:

Adding the "Seems like AI slop" reporting option on LinkedIn is not only brilliant, it's probably also an act of desperate self-defence against the volume of slop on this platform. It's legit, this is a screencap I just took. #NoAI

Wonder if R.E.M. still feel fine

TikTok has incredible moderation team. Our InfoWars video about Multiple Horse Theory — the idea that there are many horses in the world and not just one — has been fully deemed misinformation and lost the formal appeals process. Confirmed by Larry Ellison: There is only one horse on Earth.

finally got a link to share with people who try and say "oh you DON'T LIKE AI??? what about ALPHAFOLD!!!!" as if it has anything to do with any of this AI capex

Engadget@engadget.com · last wk.

DeepMind's award-winning AlphaFold team is no more.

Announcing my new, timely, and original D&D setting, Piss Mausoleum. It's D&D as you've never seen it before: grim and gritty and dark. You can say fuck in this one. Morty from Rick and Morty is there

In the future robots will create so much abundance that people won’t have to work jobs anymore. Humanity can spend every moment in the Pain Maze the robots constructed for us

Damn, I can’t believe how coarsened the political discourse has become

A few days ago someone in a chat I’m in shared this screenshot and I genuinely, unironically dismissed it as a poorly made “modern AAA version of” meme because it didn’t even cross my mind this could be real

Joe Wintergreen@joewintergreen.com · last wk.

Maaaan the Halo remake is exhaustingly Modern in its bullshit... Cortana has all kinds of extra tutorial dialogue. The intro of invisible elites, instead of being a scary moment of guys suddenly dropping dead around you, is her going "Invisible elites!! Look for distortions in the air!" Christ alive

I come back to this tumblr post again and again

Hillary Monahan@hillarymonahan.bsky.social · last wk.

Nobody wants predictive data models to stop working for the people in medicine. Or translating ancient Pompeii texts. Or the other ways we were already using it. We want it to stop replacing workers, killing the environment, and stealing from artists. Hope that clarifies.

Quick PSA for all your medieval linen coifs, up until the 15th century, no loose laces in the sources! ☝️

not a serious language

same but for academia

Plug-in solar panels are coming to the UK from August 27th! It's been in the pipeline for a while & it's already common in Germany. But it's BRILLIANT because it opens up these technologies to renters & ppl w/o their own roof. Plugs into a normal socket & supplies ~ 10-20% of household needs. ☀️🎉

UK households free to install plug-in balcony solar panels from end of August

Law change means renters and flat owners may be able to cut bills as energy costs soar amid Iran war

theguardian.com

damn. sounds like you should raise the minimum wage

Leftback@leftback.bsky.social · last wk.

Remember: Reform Councillor

Cities dismantled their tram networks to become “motor cities of the future”. The result? You could travel further within 30 mins via public transport in 1957 than you can in 2026. Cities are seeking billions to rebuild networks. Incredible piece of work this.

The Exchange@theexchangeleeds.bsky.social · 2w ago

If you stood on Briggate at 8am on a weekday in 1957, and stood there again in 2026, in which year could you reach more of the city in half an hour? Samuel Bancroft has crunched the numbers. Since the 1950s, Leeds has got bigger - but the city has effectively shrunk.