@patrickhadfield Oh wow that sounds great!
We saw Marsalis and the Lincoln Centre Jazz Orchestra (then including the late great Joe Temperley) in the Usher Hall back in - heavens above - 2004! Still one of my favourite ever summer shows, here.
They then went and did a very similar set for the Proms, down in London, and I still listen to it often. https://youtu.be/QiRvGMkN4Gk
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@patrickhadfield @RussCheshire Thank you. There's also a livestream from Greenwich observatory https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/space-astronomy/how-see-12-august-2026-partial-solar-eclipse
@patrickhadfield @TimWardCam @BrianJopek that's good. I've found too many where you go to take a book down and find you can't because they're all there purely for decor
The Herald on the EIF opening concert, Wynton Marsalis' "All Rise". Not quite as gushing as my review, but still *very* positive!
(Behind a paywall; free-to-view link below it.)
#Edinburgh #EIF #Festival #WyntonMarsalis #AllRise
https://www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/26448637.review-opening-concert-rise-usher-hall-edinburgh/
🔥The world’s on fire... and so is this petition! Over 50K people now calling on the government to deliver a televised emergency briefing on the climate and nature crisis. At 100k it will be considered for a Parliamentary debate.
#UKPolitics #climateandnatureEmergency
Please add your name and share, share, share!
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/767687
#Climatechange is here, the story was being told and it went from a "what if" thriller in the 90s to a horror story now 30 years later. It is so much worse than the timelines predicted.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:k5iljqtzjxcinvcpivv7id5z/post/3mslio6pwbk2o
Who would ever guess that the same man who faked a disability to avoid military service would years later use his own staff (and the White House press corps) as unwitting decoys to protect himself.
Holy blackened skies, Batman! #Amazon, in true supervillain form, just got a state permit allowing their proposed #datacenter (known as #GWRanch) to emit 33 million #tons of carbon dioxide, which would make it the biggest #pollution site in the U.S., emitting more than the country’s biggest coal power plant. So people can create #ai #slop.
This area of the country is virtually untouched. People think it’s the badlands, but it’s beautiful. You can literally ride for hours without seeing another soul. Just you, your horse, big sky, and the rough, dangerous embrace of Mother Earth. The monarch #butterflies migrate here, filling the sky with the rustling colors of the season. It is one of the poorest parts of the country. It’s also one of the Brownest. The residents have no power to fight this. We must somehow do it as a force for good.
This is the #Pecos I know, and Amazon wants to kill it.
https://www.distilled.earth/p/scoop-amazon-is-behind-one-of-the
134 years ago today. Christopher Murray Grieve, better known as Hugh MacDiarmid, was born on 11 August 1892. Widely regarded as the most important Scottish poet of the 20th Century, this is his memorial near Langholm by the sculptor, Jake Harvey. More: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usbiography/mac/hughmacdiarmid.html
#Scotland
Morning, all,
there be Black Gold in them thar Greenland hills, savvy.
President Donald Jesus Trump's regime appears to have green-lit modern piracy on the High Seas.
Be they Donald Tantrump's privateers or pure pirates, Denmark shouldn't pussyfoot around. #NATO's patience is exhausted.
If Don Trumpeone and his extended #TrumpCrimeFamily want to begin Trump's invasion of an ally, Greenland, using the playbook of the East India Company, the Danish Navy should arrest the pirates and sink their ships or barges by naval fires.
#USpol
#PiratesOfTheCaribou
#Trump #GOP #MAGA
#TyrantTrump #IranWar
#CommanderInThief #GrifterInChief
#ClimateChangePromoter
#AnotherDayAnotherWar
https://youtu.be/FGpC91qs8yA?si=HWkhJbDiq7l8yyZ7
Direct, full-time jobs opening Rosebank oilfield would create: 450
D, f-t jobs opening Jackdaw gasfield would create: 27
D, f-t jobs in UK's net-zero economy: 300,000 + 400,000 more on the way
D, f-t jobs in the rest of the green economy: 600,000
Is that really the hill Burnham wants to die on?
Just Bristol police arresting a 16 year old boy under S12 for holding a sign reading PLASTICINE ACTION GROUP.
Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope…
Six Moons of Saturn
Image Credit & Copyright: Alexandre Trentini
Explanation: How many moons does Saturn have? While the total will likely continue to grow, as of June 2026 the ringed gas giant had 293 confirmed moons. That's easily more than any other planet of the Solar System, including ruling gas giant Jupiter with a mere 115 confirmed moons. Most of Saturn's known moons are small, irregular satellites. Many are only few kilometers to a fraction of a kilometer across and grouped in tilted outer orbits. Six of its largest satellites can be seen here, though, in this sharp telescopic Saturnian family portrait taken on August 5. Larger than Earth's Moon and even slightly larger than inner planet Mercury, Titan, with a diameter of 5,150 kilometers, is at lower right. You can also spot icy major moons Mimas, Tethys, Enceladus, Dione, and Rhea in the frame. Saturn's first known natural satellite, Titan was discovered in 1655 by Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens. During the space age Voyager and Cassini discoveries have added to the swelling ranks of Saturnian moons.
Digging through old photos for art reference and couldn't resist pulling a handful out to share, including these pics of pretty skies. It was only later I realized I was standing in the same spot on my porch when I took them. Mammatus clouds were right after a huge storm.
New research has found that oil giant Shell paid £0 in tax on their UK oil and gas production.
Instead they were net beneficiaries, pocketing £100m in handouts from the UK government.
The likes of Norway and the US gained £17bn in tax from the firm over the same period.
In fact, since 2014, the UK has 'lost' a total of £1 Trillion in tax from oil and gas revenie.
RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/117075702619428816
Or take a holiday in the UK and enjoy the Brexshit benefits of taking home something more than sand...
Boris Johnson in a fridge, Trump in a catering cart. Which politician would you hide, and where?