Three weeks ago our garden in southeastern England was alive with sparrows. Now nothing! Could they have succumbed to the 30-36C heatwaves? @rspbengland.bsky.social

Ridiculous person

Rob Jacques@knutcrosswords.bsky.social · 2d ago

This is profoundly upsetting

This little boy just watched his father being taken away. We've reached a place where people celebrate moments like this. They quote scripture, talk about God's will, and then cheer while a child cries. That's not what loving your neighbor looks like.

In this period of pointless American war adventurism, I thought this Banksy piece (photographed at the Banksy Museum in Paris) is appropriate.

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Another reason why Donald #Trump has blundered over #Iran and the #Gulf in general. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Why limited war with the US may suit Iran better than peace

Iran may believe it can control its conflict carefully enough to keep pressure on the US while avoiding an all-out war.

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Time for Welsh people to whip off their kagoules. Drought declared across whole of Wales as conditions 'deteriorate' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Drought declared for whole of Wales amid sustained high temperatures

Wales is on course for its driest July on record in almost 190 years.

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Drivers complaining about their taxes subsidising public and active transport is like ordering all the most expensive items on the menu, refusing to share them, splitting the bill, and then complaining about having to pay for everyone else's meal of one serving of breadsticks.

Whilst the cost of living crisis continues to spiral, with food and fuel prices soaring, so do global oil and gas companies profits. Shell has today announced it's profits have more than doubled. This is obscene. www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Shell profit more than doubles to $9.8 billion, second-highest on record, as Iran war lifts prices

Shell's ​net profit more than doubled from last year to $9.84 billion in the second quarter, beating expectations, helped by ‌higher energy prices and increased market volatility during the Middle Eas...

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Horses sweet, women perspire and men glow. Discuss.

forward.

Watching Dr. Fauci today, having to plead the Fifth, will remain one of the most heartbreaking things I have ever witnessed. And then hearing Sen. Moreno ask him, “Who the fuck do you think you are?” To me, it reflects a profound loss of respect, for both public service and the office he holds.

I'm not qualified to judge whether such people are psychopaths. All I can say is that they behave as if they are. From today's Telegraph.

After discovering @bicycledutch.bsky.social, a Tsinghua University professor advocated for the fietsstraat: where cyclists are the main users and cars are guests. Today, that idea has spread across Beijing: Hundreds of kilometres of bike-priority streets now form the backbone of the city’s network.

When urbanists take pictures of a Paris street (like Rue de Rivoli) showing all the people on bikes now taking advantage of protected infrastructure, it’s not just because we “like bikes.” It’s because we’re picturing the gridlock if they were driving cars. And the public cost, pollution, noise…

Netanyahu on Fox News lies that Mamdani "celebrated the October 7 massacre" to zero pushback from Maria Bartiromo

One of my coworkers was saying she hates bike lanes cause cars keep getting damaged by hitting the curbs separating them. It’s almost like that’s the point, to protect cyclists from drivers who can’t stay in their lane. 🙄

Important announcement.

Take a look at Trump‘s face when Spanish goalkeeper Unai Simon snubbed Trump, and hugged Mark Carney. That hug cost Canadians an increase in tariffs.

Didn’t Trump put that medal on his neck? So it went from Trump to the very definition of what a political refugee is, what a real immigrant is, someone who enriches the country that takes them in. Priceless.

Spain’s Nico Williams gave his mother, Maria, his World Cup winner’s medal after Sunday’s final ❤️💛 Nico's parents trekked some 2,000 miles across the Sahara from Ghana to Spain as refugees. Now, their son is a world champion 🥹

Will @chrisboardman.bsky.social have a role in the new government, I wonder. #uk #labour #politics #activetravel

Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life - Terry Pratchett, Jingo

Saka blue … 4-0!

MEANWHILE… CHINA IS TAKING THE LEAD IN EVERY TECHNOLOGY THAT COUNTS

Hard to think of a more deeply damaging start to Burnham’s premiership than giving green light to new oil & gas in N. Sea, if true. It won’t lower bills or lead to greater energy security but will drive an even hotter planet. What a terrible signal to give to rest of the world #ClimateVandalism

BBC Breakfast (@BBCBreakfast) on X

Andy Burnham will announce plans for new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea when he becomes prime minister on Monday, the BBC has been told. The announcement will form part of a flurry of policy m...

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Where is Tommy Smith when you need him? YNWA #England

Seems a good read.

Starmer, Reeves and Miliband needed to be yelling more about this. UK top large country, beating even NL.