Human penises are shrinking because of pollution, warns scientist Dr Shanna Swan has found that chemicals called phthalates are causing human babies to be born with malformed genitals.

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I predict hundreds of billions of dollars will suddenly become available for climate research and action…

A catastrophic climate event is upon us. Here is why you’ve heard so little about it | George Monbiot Scientists say a crucial Atlantic system is set to collapse. But the billionaire death cult that steers humanity’s destiny just doesn’t do existential crises, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

While we are transfixed by the antics of our supposed "leaders", a catastrophe of astonishing proportions has been creeping up on us. Climate scientists now believe it is more likely than not to happen, and soon.
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There's only one perfect photo for this year's Earth Day, and it's this one that the Artemis II crew took. Happy Earth Day.

Hey, you take that win with pride!

DAMN, SON!
Reinventing how a thousand year old instrument is played!

Decades of increased emissions from forest-fuelled BECCS - Nature Sustainability Governments are considering subsidies for bioenergy with carbon capture and storage fuelled by wood from existing forests. However, a transparent model estimates that this will probably increase emiss...

Biomass Energy Carbon Capture and Storage is a match made in heaven for greenwashing energy companies. We know CCS is lucrative fantasy, but this paper shows sticking a hat on a biomass plant won’t make BECCS carbon negative for hundreds of years even if you squint. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Artist: Dennis Goris

How tragic that you could publish, then re-publish, then re-publish, then re-publish, then re-publish a cartoon like this over and over again...

“…enhancing the experience for the users without drawing attention to the chair’s true purpose.”

If I walked into a room and saw this item of furniture I would immediately - with absolutely no other information being provided - conclude it was in some way for sex.

We all have days like this

Donald Trump and VD Vance are fighting the Pope.

Trump posts himself as Jesus.

Pete Hegseth is quoting Pulp Fiction, thinking it included the real text of a Bible verse.

And conservative MAGA "Christians" keep making excuses for it.

Beyond satire at this point.

So here’s a thing: the good people at @protect.earth really need your help after the government cocked up funding. So if you can, head to www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/warleigh-n... and donate. Even if it’s only a fiver.

Correction: Ruin to all of us who don’t have a trust fund or mates with stupid nicknames in the banking sector.

Incredibly they’re so incompetent they can’t even manage that part of their agenda properly either.

Cat gets his groove on....😂😂😂

Well, that seems a resoundingly solid result in Hungary.

But they’re not being honest, they’re busy pretending that if we fix people’s concerns about immigration and somehow align with the EU without conceding that Brexit was a stupid idea then it’ll all be better. And they’re pretending we can do it all without taxing people, and without investing.

It’s gonna be messy as hell either way though.

I’m not sure. We’ve had nearly two decades of “austerity and cuts will fix it”, and they haven’t. Reform have had their “efficiency savings will fix it” crack in local government, and they haven’t. Maybe the time has come for “it won’t be fast or easy, but let’s fix the foundations”.

We need both and more. Taxes need to rise, we need to reduce inequality, we need to get those huge amounts of stagnant wealth moving, we need to fix stuff like the £100k tax trap, we need to fix loopholes in corporation tax…

I agree there’s no magic fix, but realistically Labour are done. And not because they’ve done a particularly bad job with the cards they had, but because they’ve failed to tell a good story and instead chose to just ape Reform’s talking points.

Now of course, wild spending without a control lever will cause that, but we’ve also got huge inflation *without* spending, partly because governments have been wary of pulling too many of those levers.

This is where they also need to remind people that the finances of a sovereign state don’t work like household finances. People are worried about “maxing out the credit card”, when in reality there’s no such thing. The important metric is keeping inflation under control.

That’s true. But *implementation* is decided by leadership.

The Greens have a clear policy goal of a world where borders aren’t needed, but they’re not shutting down Border Control the day they’re elected.

The reason a lot of this sounds revolutionary is we’ve had decades of governments looking for short-term numbers-go-up policies to win elections, instead of long-term investment and fixes. And I think that long-term thinking will sell well compared to short-term magic promises.

There’s also the fact that a lot of what they’re saying should happen isn’t actually huge spending (historically speaking); it’s just undoing austerity, which plainly doesn’t work, by properly funding things. And we know a lot of those things generate greater returns (again, longer term) than costs.

Sure, but the Greens aren’t promising things for the next term. They’re setting aspirational goals for the long-term future. Nobody is suggesting that we can fund UBI simply by taxing the rich, but they are saying that UBI is a goal we should be aiming for.

I suspect “we want to put up taxes, particularly by taxing the ultra-rich, so we can invest them in public services” will go down better than “we want to put up taxes for most people whilst simultaneously cutting public services”

Let’s take “the boats” for example. There’s a story to tell about how migration numbers have gone down, how claims needing processing have gone down, how crossing numbers have gone down… but they aren’t telling it. They’re still going with “we know immigration is your top concern” (which it isn’t)

Sure he has. Labour had an enormous majority, a huge mandate and political capital to spare… and spent it all aping Reform to try win voters who would never vote for them anyway.

And in the process they have utterly failed to tell people what they *have* achieved.

The number of times I’d boot into Windows and there’d be some random advert in Start or some new stupid widget in the taskbar…