Today I learned that there are only three English cities with an electrical consumption greater than 200 megawatts: London, Manchester and Birmingham. By comparison, the people who want to build AI data centres here, which nobody asked for, want a supply of up to 1 gigawatt (1,000 megawatts) for each one. That’s how skewed this whole nonsense is.
Rising seas make once-rare coastal floods 12 times more likely
https://phys.org/news/2026-06-seas-rare-coastal.html
Cognitive dissonance
@Christo_459 @agitatra @pietkuip @Voline
if traffic law enforcement is lax (or the Roads Policing Unit is simply overwhelmed which is more likely in Metpol area) there's a two pronged risk - cyclists will ride on the pavement as there's no police officer to warn them against the practice like there used to be even in my own living memory, and they might be themselves paranoid that folk in cars are going to hoon it down the road at speed and crash into them, especially due to being distracted/not sober.
In a city like London, or indeed any urban area, bad cyclists and bad drivers are often in same peer groups, normally young men who want to claim territory and don't care about anyone else..
Why is Reform treated as a political.party when it's a Limited Company owned by Fartage?
Illustration by Francisco "Pancho" Graells
https://www.europesays.com/3110409/ Iranian, Cuban science ministers highlight boosting academic ties #AcademicTies #Conflicts #Cuba #Iran
@heidilifeldman This is a fantastic read that Marc Elias starts with his saying "Hillary Clinton is always right". Shocker since she's been written off effectively. The reason why is not just that she lost . She saw in the 90s the long game of movement conservatives and the right wing conspiracy coming for the Supreme Court, et al. Her votes against confirmation of Alito and Roberts. Their goal of turning back the American Republic not just 50 years but to the 19th Century. Her warnings were prescient and her reputation deserves a complete overhaul. #HillaryClinton
Listen to Britain’s #DawnChorus of 1976: the dramatic loss of #birdsong in 50 years
Guardian recreates audio landscape of past filled by loud morning symphony before 73m wild birds were lost
Sandra Laville and Madeleine Finlay
Fri 3 Jul 2026
"As the symphony of birdsong known as the dawn chorus draws to its annual close at the end of June, the Guardian has recreated an audio landscape from across the past 50 years to try to portray the variety and plentitude of birdsong we have lost since tens of millions more birds were in full voice. The calls and songs of a variety of species have been isolated to build an illustration of the dawn chorus, representing a year in each decade, from now back to the abundance of the 1970s.
"In April 1976, as the dawn chorus was in full swing, Labour’s Harold Wilson resigned as prime minister and James Callaghan took his place. Today, while remarkably similar political manoeuvrings are taking place, the soundscape of the #NaturalWorld is utterly changed to one of absences, omissions and loss."
Read more:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/03/dawn-chorus-uk-birdsong-50-years-audio-landscape
#SolarPunkSunday #DawnSong #Birds #Wildlife #Nature #HabitatLoss #NaturesSoundscapes #Biodiversity #DiversityLoss #WildlifeLoss #SaveNature #RestoreNature
"United States has wedded to idiocy”: Chris Hedges | Talk to Al Jazeera
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1aFA4OBtg4
Retoot for
Aad Schippers 🇪🇺
@aadschippers
“The natural world is fading. The evidence is all around. It has happened during my lifetime. I have seen it with my own eyes. It will lead to our destruction.”
— Sir David Attenborough
We are hoping to go to Sevilla in October 27 for the last time
I will be 78 and Bill will be 82. We would go out on the 1st Oct and return on 1st Nov due to flights. We will check tempetures in October this year and hope we are both in good enough health..Watch this space
One thing I keep thinking about is how maybe the last ~80 years were the anomaly. That we’re not living in unprecedented times, but rather are finally reverting back into precedented times after decades of weirdness.
I don’t think about that to sit and doom. I think about it to ask myself the question about what now. What do I do if this is the beginning of the next 150-300 years of increasing chaos? It’s easy to roll over and wait if you think it’ll be over next week. It’s also easy to roll over and wait if you think it’ll never end.
But 150-300 years is just long enough to think about in human terms without entirely despairing about it. So the question remains: what does that mean for me, for us, and what can I do about it?
Reason 495 why I love #Italy: the fearless little girl in glasses (5? 6?) who wants to meet you on your way into the local country pizzeria. She lives in the house across the street and is with her parents who are pruning their abundant roses in the cool of the evening. When you come back out after dinner and call her by name to say goodnight, she enlists her mom to walk her across the street to deliver one perfect rose.
BREAKING: Mallory McMorrow suspends her campaign for US Senate in Michigan. It is now a two person race between Dr. Abdul El-Sayed and Haley Stevens.
The choice could not be more clear. Do we want a Senator funded by the people, supported by Working Families, and trusted by labor unions in Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, or a corporate funded pro genocide pro AIPAC, pro Chuck Schumer corporate puppet in Haley Stevens?
Vote Abdul. Let’s go! ❤️✊🏽