It was incredible - not just a rare event on Earth but a rare event in the universe!! And look at that prominence!!
Dr Tony Kainth
@tonykainth.bsky.social
It’s time. 🇬🇧💙🇪🇺 💼 Psychologist 📍London, UK
The solar eclipse at its peak in London a short while ago, with 91% of the Sun covered by the Moon. (Photographed with my phone and some eclipse glasses.)
Tonight: Mercury, Mars, Jupiter & Saturn visible to the naked eye. Uranus & Neptune with a telescope. A New Moon, partial solar eclipse AND the Perseids hitting their climax. So basically the entire sky has called a staff meeting.
Downing Street's press release for Burnham's "emergency" Cobra meeting on the drought didn't even mention climate, with the Prime Minister blaming the growing numbers of wildfires on disposable barbecues. He's since appeared on GB News this afternoon to talk about migrant camps
How urgent is climate change? Let’s go live to andy burnham now for his thoughts…
This Is Fine Dog Meme in Burning House
Alt: This Is Fine Dog Meme in Burning House
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Andy Burnham brands Thames Water finance boss £1m 'golden hello' signing-on bonus as 'unacceptable'. Please act. Enforce alllaws. Bankrupt TW. Nationalise water companies. Let customers vote on exec pay. Also ban golden hellos everywhere, as in Switzerland.
Andy Burnham brands Thames Water finance boss's signing-on bonus 'unacceptable'
Thames Water has handed its finance boss a £1million signing-on bonus, despite the water industry giant battling to stay afloat
mirror.co.uk
To view the partial eclipse here in the UK, all you need to do is look to the west on 12 August at 18:09 as the sun is starting to set. Depending on where in the UK you're observing from, this will differ by a few minutes. Never look directly at the sun. www.spacecentre.co.uk/news/space-n...
The Great British Partial Solar Eclipse 2026
Learn more about the Great British Partial Solar Eclipse of 2026 and where to see it!
spacecentre.co.uk
Actors who want to make Harry Potter money but don't want to admit they're allied with JKR are just: Soulless pieces of shit.
“I put diesel in my petrol car - this is the terrifying effect it had on my vehicle” - A. Twat
Matt@itsmattagain.bsky.social · 22h agoMan without ADHD tries uppers for the first time: I mean honestly we're scraping the barrel on this now surely. I'm not diabetic. If I took insulin the affects would be far worse.
Left: Sky News report that PM Andy Burnham has called a COBRA meeting today, August 12th, during what is the 5th heatwave of the year so far Right: Your reminder that @zackpolanski.bsky.social called on PM Burnham to hold a COBRA meeting on July 30th, during the 4th heatwave, almost two weeks ago
How urgent is climate change? Let’s go live to andy burnham now for his thoughts…
This Is Fine Dog Meme in Burning House
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UK heatwaves may have cost economy £4.4bn in lost output so far this year, analysis finds www.theguardian.com/business/202...
UK heatwaves may have cost economy £4.4bn in lost output so far this year, analysis finds
Verdant thinktank says cost could top £25bn a year by 2030 and calls for maximum temperature for working and urban redesign to cool down cities
theguardian.com
Burnham needs to imagine what in one, five, ten, twenty year's time we will wish he would have set in motion today. www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...
UK weather: Burnham to chair Cobra meeting on extreme heat as temperatures surge again
The Government will meet to discuss this summer's record-breaking heat as the tally for days above 30C in the UK is broken.
bbc.co.uk
"Hoult, who has been an advocate for LGBTQ+ issues in the past, will put that work aside to play the Gilderoy Lockhart in the show’s preordained second season, where he can help keep Rowling’s legacy awash in butterbeer." www.avclub.com/nicholas-hou...
Nicholas Hoult casts unforced error spell on career, joins Harry Potter show
Nicholas Hoult casts unforced error spell on career, joins Harry Potter show
avclub.com
Eclipse day! ☀️ Today's total solar eclipse is visible from Greenland, Iceland, northeastern Portugal and Spain. Most of the rest of Europe, northern North America and western Africa will witness a partial solar eclipse. More info: www.esa.int/Science_Expl... #EuropeanSolarEclipse
UK students to pay up to 7.1% interest on loans. UK student debt £325bn, England £295bn; expected to hit £500bn by 2040s. Who can afford to afford to buy home, start family/business? England must copy Scotland, abolish university tuition fees. Write-off tuition debt.
Student Loans Interest Rates and Repayment Threshold Announcement
The Department for Education today 10 August 2026 confirmed annual updates to interest rates for undergraduate and postgraduate Income Contingent Student Loans, repayment thresholds for Plan 1 Income ...
gov.uk
Climate breakdown isn't a political negotiation. It's a scientic reality borne out in lives lost and wildfires. Tax fossil fuel giants to pay for firefight helicopters, a cool space in every community and a maximum working temperature.
“As the prime minister tours every region of the UK, it will be hard to miss the impacts of this extraordinary summer: wildfires, drought, parched farmland & people struggling to work in extreme heat" - Emma Howard Boyd Now Burnham must act on the climate crisis www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
‘Real struggle’ to tame New Forest blaze as UK set for hottest summer on record
Key tourist route closed and residents rallying round as battle against wildfire expected to go on for several days
theguardian.com
It’s a mystery, Zack. What could possibly be making the Labour Party drag their feet on this? Guess we’ll never know… www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Labour ministers met fossil fuel lobbyists 500 times in first year of power, analysis shows
Lobbyists attended 48% more meetings than Tories, as Labour accused of giving them ‘backstage pass’
theguardian.com
Zack Polanski@zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d agoSadiq is saying the right things - but supporting a government that aren't taking necessary action. Labour haven't even called an emergency meeting about wildfires - let alone taken action. And why are they not nationalising the water companies? Join.greenparty.org.uk
NEW: The NIH is quietly restricting funding for research that evaluates how public policy impacts human health. According to internal documents I obtained, the agency no longer considers policymakers "mission relevant" — a massive shift for the biomedical funder. My latest for @nature.com:
NIH limits funding for research on the health effects of public policy
US biomedical agency no longer considers policymakers as ‘mission relevant’, leaving dozens of grants in limbo.
nature.com
Where did the far-right get the idea Britain was existentially imperilled and so should fortify itself as a white Christian ethnostate? Who embedded such notions in their head? Who emboldened them so? Truly, it is a mystery.
HK@hkesvani.bsky.social · 2d agoBritish columnists love getting everything they wanted and still moaning about it
I do have real contempt for fellow Jews like Phillips and Wallis Simons who are quite happy to endorse the worst people in society until it's explicitly targeted at us. Both because it's hypocritical but also because it's so fucking stupid. You don't need to read many history books...
I'm gonna build a vape shop and a bookies on Dobby's grave x
This is cool. #SolarEclipse @metoffice.gov.uk: "On Wednesday the UK will experience its greatest eclipse since 1999 and there won't be one as good as this viewable in the UK until 2081. Coverage and time of peak obscuration varies depending where you are in the country."
They didn’t fail to fix the pipes because it was hard. They didn’t fix them because leaking is cheaper than investing and the money got pissed away to the assorted circus of vulture capital. We don’t need better regulation of them. We need to own it. Public ownership and prosecution. Nothing less.
Put 20 million people on a pill for life - TICK Let a few trans kids have puberty-blockers for a little while to help them sort themselves out - BIG BLACK CROSS
Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 2d ago"Yesterday, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) approved the drug for use in the UK for patients who are obese, or those who are overweight with a related health condition. About 20 million people in England could be eligible."
Reform UK tells its activists "don't drink and Tweet" because "the biggest threat to Reform is the people in it". “If this was sat on the desk of an anti-Reform journalist, what are they going to do with it?” the internal training course, leaked to Byline Times, warns
Reform UK Tells Its Activists ‘Don’t Drink and Tweet’' Because 'The Biggest Threat to Reform Is the People in It'
EXCLUSIVE: "If this was sat on the desk of an anti-Reform journalist, what are they going to do with it?” the leaked internal training course warn its members
bylinetimes.com
It’s a mystery, Zack. What could possibly be making the Labour Party drag their feet on this? Guess we’ll never know… www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Labour ministers met fossil fuel lobbyists 500 times in first year of power, analysis shows
Lobbyists attended 48% more meetings than Tories, as Labour accused of giving them ‘backstage pass’
theguardian.com
Zack Polanski@zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d agoSadiq is saying the right things - but supporting a government that aren't taking necessary action. Labour haven't even called an emergency meeting about wildfires - let alone taken action. And why are they not nationalising the water companies? Join.greenparty.org.uk