Chris Wright insists that collapsing snow pack in Colorado is the result of "the path of the jet stream last year," not climate change

Bird by Bird A newer edition of this title can be found here. "Thir…

I cannot recall ever having heard of Bird by Bird before this week. It has been recommended to me twice in the past two days. WUWT?
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Chart shows annual heating bills for medium-sized home with an oil boiler (£1,476), an LPG boiler (£1,473) and a heat pump (£784), all at current energy prices. The heat pump is considerably cheaper to run, saving over £650

The UK government has announced £9,000 subsidies for households with oil and LPG boilers to get a heat pump.

This is seriously good deal for rural homes - not only does it lower the upfront cost, a mid-sized home could save over £650 a year by switching from oil to a heat pump at current prices...

Nothing has killed more soldiers in the history of humanity than disease. While worst is a more complicated question Hegseth is absolutely the dumbest secretary of defense the United States has ever had. bsky.app/profile/ones...

A family of Ravens is putting the goth back in gothic at NYC's largest cathedral--St John the Divine. There are five mouths to feed, so the parents are staying busy! ⛪️⛪️⛪️ #Ravens #Cathedral #birding

I really wish we started treating Twitter in the same way we did 4chan. The legacy of what Twitter was and the problematic relationship people have with it prevent them from seeing that it’s 4chan. Yeah it can be funny, interesting, and wild…but you’re still on /b/ and /pol/… it’s bad for you.

Worth pointing out that Wehrmacht stubbornly held to the Nikopol bridgehead over the Dneper in 1943/44 to protect their manganese mining operation, so it’s not exactly unprecedented-and it’s almost the same area.

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"My son always texts to say he's on his way home. So I open the door, letting his 17 year old cat, and 16 year old doggo know that he's on his way. This is them waiting for him. Though it was adorable, and wanted to share." ❤️

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It seems to me that BBC Bews would provide a better service if it told us which MP is speaking at any given time

Somewhere in his writings Samuel R. Delany talks about living in London in the early 1970s and going upstairs to see who was playing amazing piano and getting to know that person and becoming friends with them and of course it was Tim Curry

Diane Abbott gets to a key point: After "I/No. 10 was not informed" the question has to be who asked whom to inform them, how often and how hard?

"sort of" (WTAF Ols)

Off topic, but does Hulk have bad eyesight? Banner does, but I sought of imagined that Hulk didn't. However this raises questions

No 10 sources should give it a fucking rest

HULK BEEN PERFECTLY CLEAR!

As a Catholic, this of course upsets me.

But far and away more upsetting is all the kids the IDF has killed.

YOUNG WRITERS' PRIZE — BSME The British Society of Magazine Editors has teamed up with award-winning journalist and BSME Columnist of the year, Caitlin Moran, to launch a bold new initiative: an annual prize to discover and support brilliant young writing talent.

If you are young and have writing ambitions do check out this ace competition, arranged by @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social. Deadline not far off. Please share widely.

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Faculty Defect From Texas Publics, Citing Censorship Fed up with the state’s censoring of Plato, Joan of Arc and Romeo and Juliet, humanities professors are leaving Texas public institutions in pursuit of academic freedom.

'Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson is leaving the university after administrators told him in January that he couldn’t teach Plato’s Symposium in his philosophy class; they said the ancient Greek philosopher’s work violated the system’s restrictions on gender and sexuality content.' 1/3

Has anyone ever seen Alex Karp and Taika Waititi in the same room?

Has anyone done a proper deep study of what reading a book actually involves, psychologically, neurologically and so on? Because it occurs to me that quite a lot of AI/creative initiatives are premised on a rather limited understanding of what that interaction actually looks like.

This generation of snowflakes is going to have to retreat to their safe spaces when they hear about the Banach-Tarski paradox.

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Trump Library Saga Takes Dark Turn: Where Did Millions in Funding Go? Four huge media conglomerates forked over $63 million in “settlements” earmarked for Trump’s presidential library. Democrats are trying to track that money—and the latest developments don’t inspire co...

SCOOP --> Paramount, Meta, and X are refusing to say what happened to their huge contributions to Trump's presidential library after Sen Elizabeth Warren raised questions about its fund getting dissolved. Ds say tens of millions remain unaccounted for.

Details here:
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Sir Anthony Habgood Professor of Climate and the Environment (ATR1739) in University of East Anglia | UEA View details and apply for this Sir Anthony Habgood Professor of Climate and the Environment (ATR1739) vacancy in University of East Anglia. Faculty of Science School of Environmental Sciences ...

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A fantastic research‑focused position within our friendly, vibrant & interdisciplinary climate research community at UEA

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Can a new biopic change your mind about Michael Jackson?

No.

@robcrank68.bsky.social Marsh harrier lunt meadows #BirdsInFlight #FlyDay

Dawn-departures: In the foreground and e300 forming the 07:04 London St Pancras to Brussels. Behind it, and e320 ready for the 07:31 to Paris. You can see from the image that an e320 is slightly longer than our original trains.
#TrainsNotPlanes.

NASA astronaut Christina Koch sits in an U.S. Navy MH-60S Seahawk attached to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 23 on the flight deck of the San Antonio Class amphibious transport dock USS John P. Murtha (LPD 26) after returning from space on Apr. 10, 2026.

This picture of Astronaut Christina Koch after the Artemis landing is frankly incredible and beautiful.

Don't bring a knife to a gunfight. Bring a knife to a vault containing many wheels of cheese in a brutalized postapocalyptic society where knives are only a legend. You are now Knifebringer, Divider of the Cheese. Raise your knife and rule the clans.