support this worthy initiative!

TBF, millions of people did learn that very lesson.

Then commercial landlords started screaming in agony...

America’s hiking culture is built on ego From peak-bagging to thru-hiking, Americans have turned traversing land into personal milestones. This wilderness ranger and Indigenous writer has witnessed it firsthand

this is so, so true. I travelled in Lenapehoking (with full awareness of its history) in 2023, but both there and in other places I walk/hike, this is evident. It's not the American hiking culture only (or per se), of course - it's white people's hiking culture. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

this is...just brilliant

Flower/kingfisher

UK opening new oil and gas fields would imperil global climate goals, experts say Climate diplomacy figures warn North Sea drilling would encourage fossil fuel exploitation by developing countries

The UK is a country-shaped embarrassment in motion. A country that has one of the cleanest electricity supplies ever *yet* chooses to drill the North Sea for gas. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

President Nyarlathotep Is Simply Engaging in Classic “Mad Outer God” Negotiating Tactics “This is classic Negotiating 101 courtesy of the Faceless God himself. Sure, he may have kicked it up a notch from ‘sheer madness’ to ‘abject depravity,’ but...

"This is classic Negotiating 101 courtesy of the Faceless God himself. Sure, he may have kicked it up a notch from 'sheer madness' to 'abject depravity,' but that's for the pundits to debate."

Almost Half of US Data Centers That Were Supposed to Open This Year Slated to Be Canceled or Delayed The vast majority of data centers scheduled for completion over the next few years have yet to even break ground.

It's indeed possible to beat bad things backed by big money

Transgender rights = human rights.

In many countries around the world, the rights of trans people are under attack.

This International Transgender Day of Visibility, we continue to work for a world where all people can enjoy their rights fully.

[Press release] Médecins Sans Frontières: Gilead refuses to sell groundbreaking HIV prevention drug to MSF In an open letter, MSF called on Gilead to immediately sell the organization lenacapavir for use in its medical programs worldwide.

In case you need a more explicit reminder of the truth of the saying "Capitalism thrives on death --> death to capitalism" www.eatg.org/hiv-news/pre...

Scientists film whale giving birth while other whales work together to help her Female named Rounder surrounded by family members when about to give birth to her second calf

#mutualaid #Kropotkinwasright www.theguardian.com/environment/...

very much this!

How's my homie Starmer doing

this...this late-night bromance is so cringe

supervisor (co-supervisor, to be specific), but thanks!

I strongly dislike institutionalised learning and I hate hierarchy (and academic authority tends to come with both), but the joy of seeing one of your students write a theoretically nuanced and well-referenced argument is unmatchable

I would say self-organising alternatives seem necessary even if uncommon in this island ;)

I can't even find the words - the absolute self-own of these institutions.

UK higher education, a masterclass in self-extinction

On the plus side, I've just written the conclusion to my book

On the minus side, I still have about four (out of eight) preceding chapters to write 😌😔

(and no, needless to say, I do not eat meat either).

‘It smells like a rancid fish and chip shop’: at sea with the Antarctic’s krill supertrawlers The fishery is regulated but experts say it is wrecking the food chain. Gordon Peake joined a Sea Shepherd mission to observe the giant ships compete for catch

I've been predominantly vegetarian/pescatarian most of my (adult) life. I have stopped eating fish once I actually took the time to learn how the majority are caught and what that does to sea life.

"Time" is about 20 minutes of your day, btw. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

UK-Linked Components Traced to Tomahawk Missile That Struck Iranian School Debris analysis and US procurement records reveal British links to the weapon that killed over a hundred school children in Iran, reports Isa Osman and Iain Overton

***UK-Linked Components Traced to Tomahawk Missile That Struck Iranian School***

Debris analysis and US procurement records reveal British links to the weapon that killed over a hundred school children in Iran, reports Isa Osman and Iain Overton

bylinetimes.com/2026/03/20/u...

There's no such thing as just 'following the science' – advice is political | Jana Bacevic As we’re seeing in this pandemic, politicians tend to favour the evidence that supports their argument , says the sociologist Jana Bacevic

I see the UK again in denial about airborne transmission so let's repeat what I wrote about Covid in 2020:

- When scientists say "we do not know", they mean "we cannot establish with experimental certainty a causal effect", NOT "unlikely" or "no evidence exists"

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

There's no such thing as just 'following the science' – advice is political | Jana Bacevic As we’re seeing in this pandemic, politicians tend to favour the evidence that supports their argument , says the sociologist Jana Bacevic

I see the UK again in denial about airborne transmission so let's repeat what I wrote about Covid in 2020:

- When scientists say "we do not know", they mean "we cannot establish with experimental certainty a causal effect", NOT "unlikely" or "no evidence exists"

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

ICYMI - the in-house climate denier at Bari Weiss' The Free Press took part in an effort to claim the final report into Spain's blackout was released on March 15th, and claimed renewables were the cause...

..........but the report was released on March 20, and does not say that 🍾

absolutely! I was thinking exactly about this kind of strategic performative impotence in a talk on AI in HE the other day.

No such thing as society? Liberal paternalism, politics of expertise, and the Corona crisis Jana Bacevic In an interview in 1987, Margaret Thatcher famously responded: “There is no such thing as society…there are individual men and women, and there are families”. For years, this quo…

pretty much, though we did have a longer exchange on that (archive.discoversociety.org/2020/03/20/n... and archive.discoversociety.org/2020/03/22/n...)