The last of the days sun on a #brighton high-rise

On the money again from @rafaelbehr.bsky.social with a suitably feisty flourish at the end too!

There are a lot of people in the U.K. currently wondering exactly when Kier Starmer / Labour are going to say and do what the moment requires?

Hummingbird Hawkmoth doing its thing on the Verbenas this afternoon

Cartoon of two people talking whilst walking down a street, both with blank far away looks. One says to the other “my desire to be well informed is currently at odds with my desire to stay sane”

Meme Monday

Aint it just

Monty Twisty

Very bad news, the kind of thing which ought to be considered news

“instead of sinking into the depths, surface water is being replaced by deep water masses rising to the surface, bringing with them heat and carbon dioxide (CO₂) that had been trapped for centuries.”

www.icm.csic.es/en/news/majo...

a man with a beard wearing a camouflage hat is looking at the camera . ALT: a man with a beard wearing a camouflage hat is looking at the camera .

I don’t have any famous uncles, but I do have one called Bob

And a legend he was!

Newly released chart from NYT report showing global temperatures between 1880 and 2020. The trend line clearly shows temperature increase is accelerating. This indicates global temps are on course to exceed the worst case scenario projections within IPCC assessments.

Global temps, exceeding worst case scenarios (which as a reminder, are really really bad) and still accelerating.

Several scientists have been screaming that it’s accelerating for some time now, all have been ignored and rounded upon.

And STILL, this isn’t considered newsworthy.

Congratulations ✨

It’s good. A little sturdier. Just don’t rely on the flappy bit on the back

Think we’ll have to make do with turning our dining tables into Morrison shelters. Not sure a kallax will cut it.

Water sausage 🤣

“Cindy, none of these planes are staying in America, they’re all going overseas,” 😳

Attenborough’s Ocean is the film I’ve been waiting my whole career for – now the world must act on its message | George Monbiot The documentary shows the damage that fishing does to our planet. So why does the industry still hold governments to ransom? asks Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The plunder of our seas by industrial fishing is a monstrosity in which almost everyone unwittingly collaborates. For decades this truth has been deliberately hidden from us. Now at last the consensus is cracking.
This week's column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Horrible scenes that Air India crash. One survivor is crazy.

I’ve seen the videos, hardly a single identifiable aircraft object survived apart from tail and wheels.

But this one chap seems to have just walked away🤯

Luck? destiny? superpowers?

A horizontal bar chart titled "Percentage of Global fossil fuel emissions (since 1751) occurring in my lifetime." The chart shows how much of the total historical global fossil fuel emissions have occurred within the lifetime of individuals of different ages, from 5 to 100 years old. The vertical axis on the left lists ages in increments of 5 years, from age 5 at the top to age 100 at the bottom. The horizontal axis represents the percentage of fossil fuel emissions, marked in 10% increments from 10% to 90%. The black bars represent the proportion of fossil fuel emissions that have occurred during each age group's lifetime. The bars increase in length as the age increases, meaning older individuals have lived through a larger percentage of the cumulative emissions since 1751. Three specific age groups are highlighted with red bars and white text annotations: Age 30: "if you are 30 it is more than 50%" Age 50: "if you are 50 it is about 75%" Age 85: "if you are 85 it is about 90%" The source of the data is cited at the bottom: "CDIAC and globalcarbonproject.org." The graphic is credited to "@neilrkaye."

If you think climate change has gotten worse during your lifetime, you're right and there's a good reason.

If you're Gen X like me, more than 3/4 of fossil fuel CO₂ emissions have occurred in your lifetime. Even if you're a Millennial, it's at least half.

📊: @neilrkaye.bsky.social

Local news article from Littlehampton, Sussex, England. Sussex Live Sussex Live • • Follow 20h • O ••• If approved, of the 12,680sqm of floorspace, 12,410sqm is set to be demolished, with 10,333sqm of floorspace and 2,220sqm of mezzanine area to go up in its place, according to the plans. The nine retail spaces will see seven retained warehouse units (A1, A2, and A5-A9 in the plans), whilst two will be new-build infill units (A3 and A4). There would also be changes to pedestrian-route and road layouts, planting areas including a pond, more parking spaces including EV bays, and 'sustainable' drainage infrastructure. The plans say the HQ's removal will also reduce the 'apparent bulk' of the site from Norway Lane and the A259. A bug hotel is also to be constructed in a bid to increase biodiversity net gain on the site, creating 'microhabitats' for insects and pollinators there. No objections have been registered by nearbv residents or official bodies

I just don’t understand how uk insect populations have dropped >60% in the last 20 years and how biodiversity is collapsing globally when developers are doing very thoughtful things like putting a bug hotel alongside 12,680sqm of concrete and steel.

BBC Bosses Draw Up Plans to Win Over Reform Voters by Changing News and Drama Output The Director General Tim Davie and other executives discussed altering BBC “story selection” in order to secure the "trust" of supporters of Nigel Farage’s party

When did you ever hear the BBC stating that it must alter “story selection” and “other types of output, such as drama”, to win the trust of Green voters, or of unrepresented people on the left?
All the shifts are in just one direction.
bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...

Quote; "The conditions that have led to what's happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world. They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built. We built 20th-century democracies on the assumption that truth could be verified, public discourse could be deliberated, and those in power could be held accountable. But the system those assumptions relied on, gatekeepers, shared facts, institutional trust, are in decline, and deservedly so. In its place: an algorithmic chaos where every citizen is a broadcaster, every feed a battleground, and every truth contestable. We didn't design for this. We didn't adapt in time. And now the cracks are widening. If we continue down this path, ignoring the collapse of shared reality, failing to rebuild the systems that stabilise truth, we will see democratic norms erode from the inside out. Not in a single catastrophic moment, but in a thousand small compromises. What follows won't look like an obvious dystopia. It will look like normality hollowed out: Parliaments still sit. Elections still happen. But truth becomes optional, reason performative, and power untouchable. People won't trust courts or parties. They won't believe evidence. They'll be certain their side is right, no matter what reality says. That's not disagreement. That's epistemic fracture. And once it sets in, it's nearly impossible to reverse. This is not just an American story. It's a preview. And the question for every other democracy is simple: Do you adapt now, or do nothing and slide into authoritarianism?"

Bellingcat CEO Eliot Higgins:

OP

Carbon Capture ‘Not Going to Happen,’ Top Fossil Fuel Advocate Predicts In audio obtained by DeSmog, Bjorn Lomborg told a Fraser Institute event in Vancouver that the technology is way too expensive to be viable.

Extremely fun little secret recording in @desmog.com by @geoffdembicki.bsky.social here - Lomborg just openly saying to the Fraser Institute that CCS wont' work but that it can be used to soak up subsidies

www.desmog.com/2025/06/05/c...

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Melania and Grimes tonight.

😲 this is escalating quickly!

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Appreciate the extra layer to that one 👍🏼

Kakistocracy in full flow i see.

Hard to be believe either the photo or the headline are real but apparently so

It really is sad and scary. It’s becoming noticeable surely for even those who typically don’t notice, but what is it going to take for enough people to see this as the threat to all our futures that it is? We are part of the web of life, and as dependent upon it as all life. 💔

“A few percentage points a year may not have the ring of disaster. “But if you run that forward just four decades,” Wagner says, “we’re talking about nearly half the tree of life disappearing in one human lifetime. That is absolutely catastrophic.”

It’s grim. I watched a video the other day from some AI chap using a new AI agent and he was like “wow, cool, from one prompt this thing has done the annual work of about 10 highly paid executives in the time I went out for dinner!”

Telling the kids to be plumbers.