"Extreme Heat: Improving governance and strengthening action around the world - cancelled - Grantham Research Institute on climate change and the environment"

"We regret that this event has been cancelled due to the red extreme heat warning issued by the UK Met Office."
https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/events/extreme-heat-improving-governance-and-strengthening-action-around-the-world/
#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateDiary #irony

"‘You don’t brag about wiping out 60‑70,000 people’: the men who dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki"
[from "Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima" by
Stephen Walker]
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/22/atomic-bomb-hiroshima-nagasaki-author-stephen-walker
#Hiroshima #Nagasaki #AtomicBomb

"He returned to find unimaginable horrors. Having thought they could never be put into words, he eventually decided that a memoir 'would help ensure that no one experienced it ever again', his daughter Koko Tanimoto Kondo said.

In the memoir’s foreword, Kondo writes of the need for future generations to remember it as 'memory is our hope for survival as human beings'.

The memoir was found... among the papers of John Hersey..."
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jun/23/lost-memoir-of-hiroshima-survivor-found-after-decades-in-us-archive
#Hiroshima #AtomicBomb
@bojacobs

The ‘silent killer’: what you need to know now about heatwaves
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/27/the-silent-killer-what-you-need-to-know-about-heatwaves
#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming #heatwaves #PublicHealth #safety

Cool!
"Biodiversity project inspired by Pope Francis soars —
... parishes would return 30% of church grounds to nature by 2030."
https://www.rte.ie/news/regional/2026/0620/1579444-graveyards-biodiversity/
#rewilding #nature #biodiversity #Ireland

Little agreement why, but men have been dropping out of the US labor force. It has many effects on society, politics and the economy. v Fortune
https://fortune.com/2026/06/21/male-labor-force-participation-rate-decline-childhood-experience-wages-unemployment/

NEW NBER working paper: "'Nobody Wants to Work Anymore': Lifetime Labor Market Experiences and the Decline of Male LFP in the United States"
Remy Levin & Daniela Vidart, University of Connecticut
https://www.nber.org/papers/w35327
#economics #LaborEconomics

Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s are deadly to pedestrians and cyclists.
(My PS = PSA: We don't need giant trucks or giant SUVs — and we don't need AI integrated into everything we do. Sometimes the past can be a better future.)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/06/21/us/trucks-suv-pedestrian-crashes.html?unlocked_article_code=1.sFA.I27_.RXJpxEQcJXSI&smid=nytcore-ios-share
h/t @davidho @eseubert
https://mastodon.world/@davidho/116792317254713144
#BikeTooter #PublicHealth

Important OpEd on African health sovereignty:
"Africa can end Aids on its own terms. Will the world back us to finish the job?" v Jean Kaseya and Amma Adomaa Twum-Amoah
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jun/22/africa-can-end-aids-hiv-own-terms-world-global-support
#Africa #PublicHealth

Book review of the new book by @pluralistic — good review of what sounds like a good book:
"The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI: How to Think About Artificial Intelligence Before It’s Too Late"
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jun/22/the-reverse-centaurs-guide-to-life-after-ai-by-cory-doctorow-review-the-real-price-of-artificial-intelligence
#AI

Almost #SilentSunday — will make exceptions as necessary.

#photography #photo #foto #fotografie #fotografia #running #TrailRunning #nature #trees #morning #sunshine #trees #waterfall #rainbow #video #MomentOfZen #BirdSongs #BirdSong #nature

OpEd (a good one): "A nonprofit organization only in name, FIFA squeezes fans, host cities and partners for every last dollar. Quelle surprise."
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/06/19/world/fifa-ticket-pricing/
#FIFA #OpEd

Hope you booked your solstice reservation for Stonehenge early!
https://www.dw.com/en/stonehenge-summer-solstice-celebration-photos/a-77643500
#Stonehenge #solstice #SummerSolistice

"The outbreak comes just weeks after the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, ended mandatory flu vaccination for the military, citing the need for bodily autonomy for servicemembers."

🤔 "bodily autonomy" 🤔 — Isn't that what women want — sensibly — and what this regime and SCOTUS supermajority want to deny them? But go ahead, ditch vaccine mandates for soldiers in close quarters. 🙄
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/18/lackland-air-force-base-flu-outbreak
#VaccinesWork #vaccinate #vaccines #PublicHealth #ScienceMatters #science #hegseth #stupidity

"Her dad began the Juneteenth celebrations in... [Kansas City, Missouri]. She's carrying on his legacy."
Listen: https://storycorps.org/stories/father-daughter-juneteenth-mission/
Transcript: https://www.npr.org/2026/06/19/nx-s1-5861558/her-dad-began-the-juneteenth-celebrations-in-their-town-shes-carrying-on-his-legacy
Part of the StoryCorps" Brightness in Black "initiative https://storycorps.org/discover/brightness-in-black/
#Juneteenth #StoryCorps

"The first [Juneteenth] celebration took place on June 19, 1866, in Houston, Texas. Jack Yates, who was born enslaved, was one of the founders of Emancipation Park where some of the earliest gatherings were held.

His great-granddaughter, 88-year-old Jaqueline Bostic sat down with her granddaughter Shelby Stewart to talk about their family history."
https://storycorps.org/stories/before-juneteenth-jack-yates/
Part of the StoryCorps" Brightness in Black "initiative https://storycorps.org/discover/brightness-in-black/
#Juneteenth #StoryCorps

Pretty extensive list of the regime's many efforts to attack US voting rights and deny the legitimacy of elections — past, present and future — where they disagree with results. If it sounds alarmist that is because it is — there is no other way to describe widespread efforts at government interference in free and fair elections.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/16/trump-voting-rights-elections
#USelections #elections #ElectionDenial #electionInterference #VoterRights

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/opinion/vancouver-housing-crisis-development.html?unlocked_article_code=1.qVA.h0iA.q-xV9XYnoChV&smid=bs-share
#Senakw #Squamish #FirstNations #Indigenous #housing #Vancouver #Canada #HousingCrisis #HousingAffordability #HousingAvailability

Sounds like fun!! Tonight: "Rise Up Sing Out" — A Concert for the First Amendment, livestreamed nationally, with Jane Fonda, Patti Smith, Julia Roberts, Lily Gladstone, Bette Midler, Rufus Wainwright, and many more.
https://riseupsingout.com/
h/t @indivisibleteam @cpr320
https://mastodon.social/@indivisibleteam/116749312795807368
#FreeSpeech #Democracy #music

"His [far right British activist Tommy Robinson, along with Elon Musk’s father, Errol] latest appearance in Russia also comes as Andrew Tate, the self-styled misogynistic influencer, is also in Russia with his brother, Tristan."
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/06/15/andrew-tates-empire-of-abuse
#fascism #racism #misogyny #geopolitics
@dmandl

SpaceX will become the largest IPO in world history in about two days. It has become a critical link in the U.S. space program. Other of Elon Musk’s businesses are strategic US military suppliers. Meanwhile his father was in Moscow to meet a man pushing far right violence across the UK. Oh, and by the way, Elon is a strong supporter of that man, Tommy Robinson. Sound normal or okay?
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jun/09/tommy-robinson-meets-elon-musk-father-moscow
h/t @dmandl
https://mastodon.social/@dmandl/116725400375548275
#fascism #racism #geopolitics #musk