If there's famine, no aid is entering, & most people don't have survival funds, then? Help Palestinians WORK TO LIVE and yes they can do that if there's internet! That's what Spark Space provides, plus classes and more.
It will close if we don't help. 117/770 by Sunday: chuffed.org/project/spar...
Looking like 2024’s record sea surface temperatures may soon be broken - and that’s *before* the El Niño predicted for later this year kicks in, further supercharging climate impacts.
It’s time for emergency action at a wartime scale both to prepare and to cut emissions.
Can we finally agree that burning wood for energy is a terrible idea and won't be carbon neutral, let alone carbon negative, in our lifetimes? BECCS using wood certainly shouldn't qualify as CO₂ removal (CDR).
I think one of the reasons generative AI is so deeply grating is that storytelling was an adaptive trait that made (and makes) us human. I'm writing my communication book chapter now and this struck me- not in a present sense but in a deep time sense.
Billions in foreign real estate deals while serving as head of state.
Billions in crypto deals while gutting regulation of the industry.
Suing his own government and negotiating a settlement funded by the taxpayers.
We're so numb to Trump grifting off the presidency that hardly anyone notices.
Three scientists in a peat bog, surrounded by brown and green hummocks of heather and cotton grass. Between them, a slender pipe (a corer) reaches upwards into the bright blue sky.
Collecting peat cores at Cors Caron in western Wales last May. We hit the clay basement at 8.5m! We are just getting the data in now - past vegetation transitions had a big impact on the peat composition and that still shapes the microbiology today!
Peatland legacies persist for millenia.
Two hooded figures with lamps approach a moonlit, isolated cottage. A woman answers the door. We have come for the child, says the hooded figure So soon? she asks It is time, says the hooded figure. The woman is distraught. We should never have got him a library card! What is done cannot be undone, says the hooded figure We couldn’t see the harm! We just wanted him to enjoy reading! For most, it ends there, says the hooded figure, turning away and walking into the wilderness Oh lord, What have I done! says the woman, the child walks past her and out into the darkness with them. Do not cry mother. I am a writer now.
my latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com
This should go well.
Reform to tell Welsh museums how to present history, manifesto says - BBC News share.google/PL9IoaS4FnTV...
Three scientists in a peat bog, surrounded by brown and green hummocks of heather and cotton grass. Between them, a slender pipe (a corer) reaches upwards into the bright blue sky.
Collecting peat cores at Cors Caron in western Wales last May. We hit the clay basement at 8.5m! We are just getting the data in now - past vegetation transitions had a big impact on the peat composition and that still shapes the microbiology today!
Peatland legacies persist for millenia.
€1.3 billion for peatland rewetting: A major step towards climate action in Europe.
But how do these costs compare to the benefits?
A recent study by SGGW shows that the value of ecosystem benefits is 10 to 50 times higher than restoration costs. Do not belive it read the study
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Palantir finally announces "yea we're Weyland Yutani and we're proud of it, fuck you".
Greenpeace install wind turbines at Trump's Scottish golf course
"every time he starts an illegal war, bills go through the roof, his fossil fuel backers make billions.... renewables Trump hates are the best insurance policy against the chaos he’s unleashed"
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2603466...
This is just unconscionable.
No one is illegal, & the bar to obtaining asylum is high. Reversing an asylum decision would be hideously cruel & threatening to do so would leave ppl in a horrendous situation of insecurity.
"In retrospect, basing the entire global food system on fossil fuels may have been a poor idea." -- @benehrenreich.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/3634...
📢 We've reached *3000* documented authoritarian-like actions of Trump's second term since Jan 2025...
the two most recent are classic suppression of the press & using the justice system to attack political enemies
www.trumpactiontracker.info
I think you have to be drunk to use logic this poorly
Our current research explores how these differences in vegetation affect organic matter composition, preservation and microbes. Peat is a fascinating environment, where there is plenty of organic matter to "eat" but its structure, as well as peatland pH and anoxia means bacteria are energy starved.
Telling that the people demanding office working because human contact is vital now want to replace their employees with AI.
New euphemism for "pure, unadulterated horseshit" just dropped
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Photograph of a bog with red moss and water in the foreground and green conifer trees in the background.
Bog witches of the world. It’s time. ♥️
Sphagnum capillifolium with a view #moss #bryophyte
It's harder to measure but I feel like RFK Jnr shutting down funding for MRNA research is actually up there with DOGE cuts and this latest Iranian war as a contender for Most Evil Things Trump II has done. Accounted properly, this regime is really wracking up 20th-century-dictator kill counts imo.
Also we should just note how insane it is that a highly militaristic tech company is openly advocating for changing entire countries to better fit their militaristic model
And Labour decided to give these fuckers our data
Well - and it’s my daily minuta of small pet peeves - this is the 3rd time I’ve seen a claim that dashes are a sure-fire giveaway that text is Chat GPT written. For the record: I’ve written like this for 33 years, having observed that the brain absorbs info better that way. And no, I never use AI 🤷🏼♀️
Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement
If women were 9 out of 10 stalkers, it's all we would talk about.
If women committed 97% of sexual assaults, it's all we would talk about.
Men wanna squabble over "62 million views doesn't mean 62 million men" & we're giving them the space & grace we would never afford women in ANY circumstance.
Me after hearing about the 62 million men who visited an online rape academy in February
Cleddon bog in the Wye Valey. On the right are grassy mounds, between which pool black waters. On the left is a gorse shrub, its spiky leaves offset by bright yellow flowers. In the distance is a bright green line of birch trees, their leaves in spring flush. And beyond those are rows if dark pine, the pine plantations on Ninewells Wood.
A mosaic of natural, manmade and human-influenced ecosystems at Cleddon Bog. Tussocks of moor grass and softvrush intermingle with black water pools of Sphagnum. But gorse, heather, birch and hazel are encroaching due to nutrient runoff, and drying the bog. Looming over all is a pine plantation.
