See also: branston pickle goes in your fish finger sandwiches people.

Ruh-hoo-barb

Looks like 'this book is rather up to your pour'

Michel Foucault looks pensive

Had an uncle like this at my wedding

Happy Saint David’s Day 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿❤️ This year, why not take part in some of the traditional festivities of Wales? Wear a daffodil, make Welsh cakes and dance like you’ve never actually seen anyone dance before but are contractually obliged to 😎

Suprematism, by Nikolai Suetin, 1920-21, 📸 by @tiltoncreative

Black and white photograph of a bearded David Berman wearing sunglasses and a trucker cap and smoking a cigarette.

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Finally, a flag worth fighting for.

One of the best to ever do it

I think this is a reasonable principle, but is there sufficient evidence that heat pump costs are reducing in line with this aspiration? Agree there would need to be an alternative plan (and accept the warm homes plan has been developed over many months, so this is clearly panic)

Yeah, I suppose what I mean is if a product is available which utilises the gas boiler capacity intelligently for peaking, can be serviced at a reasonable cost by a single operative, and as a result, delivers significant cost savings to the end customer, then it could be useful (lots of ifs tho)

Quite sceptical about the payback when you consider you need to have essentially two heat sources (both of which need maintenance, repair and replacement) and you still have a gas service charge, then you also need a system with a control strategy to optimise the usage of each.

That's a convoluted way of saying she is being dishonest but for reasons you are sympathetic to? i.e. she doesn't feel she knows enough to get into an argument about why she instinctively doesn't support him rather than she would never comment on NYC mayor as she doesn't follow regional US Politics

Is your view genuinely that had she been asked about a successful 'centrist' Democrat candidate for New York mayor that she would have given basically the same answer?

‘People seemed deeply insulted’: how cult 90s band Rachel’s took chamber music out of the classical world The graceful ensemble prefigured the neo-classical phenomenon and found surprising success in the post-Nirvana alt-rock boom. After the deaths of two members, reissuing their debut has proven bittersw...

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

This is lovely - big fan of snock's but hadn't heard this album.

Some of my favorites from this year’s school-aged artists in the Education Building. #mnstatefair

Starmer's Twitter account is wall-to-wall immigrant bashing, and has been for weeks.

You need to know these things if you're living in the Bluesky bubble and think everything's normal with Labour.

The Actual Conspiracy Theory Surrounding Trump and Epstein It’s not what you think it is.

Where are the voices of the girls Epstein and Trump abused? Kate Manne transcribed Katie Johnson’s (a pseudonym) account of how Trump allegedly raped her at Epstein’s home in 1994. She was 13 and wore a blonde wig that Trump allegedly said made her look like Ivana, who was 13yo at the time.

The Best Story Collection About California Wildfires Isn’t a Book—It’s a Brand-New Record On a summer afternoon early in the pandemic, the songwriter Will Stratton was riding his bike near where he lives in the Hudson Valley when he had an experience that felt strange at the time but ha…

For @literaryhub.bsky.social, I wrote about "Points of Origin," songwriter @willstratton.bsky.social's beautiful new short story collection about California wildfires — which happens to be a record lithub.com/the-best-sto...

Destroying our natural wealth makes us poorer in every sense of the word Partha Dasgupta’s landmark study provided way to put a value on nature – but many fear report has been sidelined

This is good: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This.

Built on Sand 07 Renewal 33.1_Tomlinson07 Renewal 33.1_Tomlinson.pdf111 KBdownload-circle A new paper by a group of influential rightwing thinktankers on Britain’s economic stagnation has garnered attention from...

This is an excellent critique of recent conservative thinking on the economy:

renewal.org.uk/articles/bui...

My illustration of a coal tit

Small collection of blue & purple summer flowers on a sketch book - cornflowers, Nigella & sweet peas laid out with my illustrations of them on the opposite page & a small pale blue fountain pen I used to make the drawings nearby

A collection of spring nature finds such as forget me nots, wood avens, borage etc. with my illustrations of some of them nearby, along with a watercolour palette, paintbrush

Five of my pen and ink illustrations of British birds: blackcap, redwing, coal tit, long tailed tit & wren, some with scientific names & the dates I made the drawings

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Chartbook 267 JET-P: The "Paper Tigers" of Western climate geopolitics (also Carbon Notes #12) "If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck”, then we all know what follows.

.@adamtooze.bsky.social on the vacuity of international climate policy, which seeks to legitimate a private finance-led transition whilst failing to follow through on what might be required to realise it. I see many of the same dynamics in domestic policy... adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...