It would be easy to call this the “new normal“ but that’s incorrect. In actual fact, “normal” is going to keep getting worse and worse and worse. Just how bad it will get depends entirely on how fast & far we go on real, legitimate (not performative) #ClimateAction. We know how. It’s about will.

Nahel Belgherze@wxnb.bsky.social · 6d ago

Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.

We talk a lot about climate impacts in aggregate, but today I wrote about climate impacts in my daily life and what it means to my family, the places we go, and what we do. Read the full piece here: danarfisher.com/2026/08/01/e...

I had a joke like this I was going to put in my Mini Daily Mail

Robert Saunders@robertsaunders.bsky.social · last wk.

The front page of the Daily Telegraph, standing up for the real victims in modern Britain.

If you're a trans person in England (or the parent or guardian of a young trans person in England) I strongly recommend doing this immediately. The new data principles for the shared NHS record in England - based on the transphobic and psuedoscientific Sullivan Review - are designed to out us.

notorious transfem supremacist@takeyourpillsalice.bsky.social · last wk.

You can opt-out of having a shared NHS record. I opted out over a decade ago now and it has never affected any of the medical care I receive except having to give new doctors a list of my medicine because they can't pull it off my GPs system. www.nhs.uk/using-the-nh...

say what you will about AI, always-on voice recording and auto dictation has been a game changer for my workflows. Save post and close app. Yeah Footlong meatball sub on white. No veggies. Don't toast it. Ranch and barbecue sauce. Yeah, ranch and bargecue sauce. More. More. Little more please

One thing I'd add is that when someone says "I've gone beyond left and right", in most cases it means they've drifted to the far right. Russell Brand is one of many examples.

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · last wk.

Wise words from @doctorow.pluralistic.net "'Post-political' movements are made up of people who don't know what politics are. A 'centrist' is ultimately a rightist, because the foundation of rightism is the supremacy of property." pluralistic.net/2026/07/08/w...

Someone on here described him as Minister for Palantir relations and it was perfect.

James Walker@jameslwalker.bsky.social · 2w ago

🚨EXCLUSIVE: Newly appointed Defence Secretary Wes Streeting has taken tens of thousands of pounds from donors with links to arms firms and controversial US tech firm Palantir, The National can reveal👇 www.thenational.scot/news/2640176...

If anyone would like to see a short video of a baby Armadillo having a drink of milk, this is your lucky day.

Two members of Starmer’s cabinet were notable for their extreme cruelty and bigotry towards minorities: Mahmood and Phillipson. Both have kept their jobs under Burnham. So much for a new broom.

It is mad that we have, somehow, allowed net zero - a policy common to all major parties under 5 years ago and supported by a majority of the public - to become a synoym for mad radicalism. It is doubly mad that we've allowed this to happen during the hottest summer on record.

Jo Michell@jomichell.bsky.social · 3w ago

I’m sorry, but what is ‘radical’ about the policies pursued by Miliband?

Posting this on behalf of a fellow researcher: Hello please reply to Transhate@proton.me with the most grim and egregious stuff Rowling has done targeting people.

'Reports', or 'reporters'? 'Reports', or 'editors'? Reports don't write or publish themselves. People do. There are humans in this loop.

Most UK media reports on June heatwave failed to mention climate crisis

Exclusive: Analysis of nearly 2,500 articles finds almost three-quarters made no reference to global heating

theguardian.com

Sad that these people died in their beach chairs.

More than 2,700 deaths linked to May and June heatwaves, study suggests

The analysis found that 42% died as a result of the extra heat caused by human activity - mostly burning fossil fuels.

news.sky.com

This article is everything that’s wrong with the way we talk about health in the UK. Healthy life expectancy is framed almost entirely as a problem of healthcare rather than the conditions we live in. Despite valiant interventions from @sebrees1.bsky.social and @martinmckee.bsky.social

Shai@shaiuk.bsky.social · 4w ago

Why the NHS is under huge strain is more complex than a public-private system argument. Between 200-2012, the NHS was one of the best healthcare systems in the world. The interplay between austerity, consumer behaviour & culture change in medicine is core. Privatisation won’t address this.

BOOKMARK THIS THREAD this is the advice people like Cats Protection will give you if your cat goes missing. it's why i didn't allow comments yesterday. we knew the best advice already. it gives you the best chance of success. Here it worked. Now, after scritches, we can go take posters down 🐈‍⬛ /END

the bread is $13.50 and all the circuses are subscription based

Can't get over how tragic it is that King Henry VIII missed out on potatoes by just a few brief years. He would have bloody loved chips. 😞

I think this might be one of the most incredible, unsettling and symbolic photos of today’s America I’ve ever seen. I can’t stop looking at it. From Reuters, published on the Guardian website.

Labour's Stella Creasy has launched an amendment to introduce a £100,000 cap on political donations. Now the Q is whether Andy Burnham will back it Olly Buston of Clean Up Westminster: “If your MP doesn’t back Stella’s amendment then they are basically saying they think politics should be for sale"

"I see where you're coming from: heart attacks really ARE an emergency. And you know what? That's on me. Let me know if you'd like me to give you the emergency services number, just whenever you're ready, and we'll take it from there."

1000 evaluators given identical resumes & told candidate used AI. Only difference on resumes was candidate’s name: Emily vs James. Study found women using AI are evaluated as less competent than men who use AI...To evaluators, women’s AI use signaled inability, while men’s AI use signaled initiative

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · last mo.

Women’s use of AI is perceived as a sign of incompetence, while men’s use of AI is seen as an indication of initiative. 🤦🏻‍♂️

I am very glad to see how widely covered the insanity at Exeter is, but please I beg everyone, understand this is happening EVERYWHERE in UK universities. If people care about anything valuable that this sector does or contributes too, they need to get loud, now.

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · last mo.

Something deeply troubling & shocking is happening at Exeter University*, where a mass cull of staff is planned, even though it's in surplus. No good justifications given. @jamesgdyke.info provides the details: www.technosphere.earth/the-bonfire-... *Disclosure: I have a Visiting Fellowship here. +🧵

Um, folks ... are y'all seeing it?

Dennis Mersereau 🛰️@wxdam.com · last mo.

This building heat wave is no joke. Extreme heat is responsible for nearly half of all weather-related fatalities in the United States. damweather.com/2026/06/dang...

Regulating monsters. My cartoon in today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social and @sydmorningherald.bsky.social

🚨Have your say on ageing with #HIV Are you aged >50, living with HIV in #Brighton, #Bristol & #Sheffield? We want to hear your experiences of healthcare, incl GPs. Your views will help inform recommendations on how services can better support people ageing with HIV. DM for details #HIVSky

Liberal minded people, members of a minority or not, urgently need to get our heads round the fact that there is ALWAYS a reaction against gains in equality and not get allowed to ourselves to be seduced by the idea that it wouldn’t have happened if the less privileged group had been more discreet.

Slate@slate.com · last mo.

Was the LGBTQ+ movement’s pursuit of “visibility” a mistake? slate.trib.al/VSFkbOe

Britain is more than halfway towards reaching Net Zero. Most people don't realise this, not least as the fossil-fuel fanatics want us to think achieving it is impossible. Via YouGov

++BREAKING++ Leading climate scientists in the UK have written to senior editors in broadcast media - and OFCOM and IPSO: "To express our concern about recent media coverage of extreme weather, climate change and net-zero and to urge you…to inform public audiences of the scientific links"

Letter in today's Times by climate scientist Sir Brian Hoskins: "The discourse around net-zero is increasingly decoupled from…science and our changing weather. "Net-zero is not an arbitrary slogan, rather it is dictated by the laws of physics."

OK I'm done