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This is interesting and beautifully clear.

For those of you under 50, please google Shari Lewis. For us oldies 🤣

Great piece by Tom Harris on cloud feedback The world's cloud cover is reducing, which makes the planet hotter This may be why Miocene Climatic Optimum temperatures were 7 - 8C up on pre-industrial for CO2 levels of just 400 - 600ppm Very, very, scary substack.com/home/post/p-...

We have installed new carpet in our woodland I think you will agree it is most fetching

Unthinkable that Labour has doubled down on fossil fuels by approving Jackdaw – a total betrayal of future generations & contradiction of govts own climate goals. The science is clear: the only way to secure a prosperous future in the face of climate breakdown is to keep fossil fuels in the ground.

Let's talk a little more about Margaret Hamilton because she deserves it In 1961, Margaret Hamilton was tackling massive systems, having previously wrangled room-sized computers that blared like a foghorn whenever they crashed.

Mr Healey - you are an ignorant, short-sighted, fool Have you taken any time to look around you - to see and understand what is happening to our world? There is NO growth on a dying planet www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Must-read thread

🦇 Would your place of worship benefit from a small grant to help manage bat roost-related issues? Living Alongside Bats in Churches Grant applications are open and will close at 10am, 26 October. More information: www.bats.org.uk/our-work/bui...

I need your help to help trans people. Please share this around and add your voice 🏳️‍⚧️

A beautiful, informative and clear video.

#FOTW Daily Post 9 We're in uncharted territory The air you are breathing today is different in composition to any breathed by humans before. This is because CO2 levels are higher than at any time in the last 14 Million years, and still climbing Please share + tag 2 #FateOfTheWorld

Good morning and welcome to Fish For Tea Friday Don’t let yesterday’s worries steal today’s possibilities. A new day brings new chances, little moments of happiness & perhaps something wonderful you weren’t expecting. Keep your whiskers up & your heart open

After years of work, St Lawrence's, Gumfreston has reopened and we have been delighted by the wonderful comments left by visitors. 1/6

I won't pretend this isn't a very difficult moment, but so proud of Greens who continue to stand up for trans rights in councils across the UK. This time it was our turn in Oxford! Amazing work by @maxmorris.bsky.social who drafted and proposed the motion www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/news/2661155...

Wins Bluesky today

There aren't many days when you can kayak off Start Point, renowned for one of Britain's most dangerous tidal races. But yesterday the stars aligned, so I bunked off work. Delighted to see Rupert Kirkwood (the Lone Kayaker) out there. He took this picture of me +1. Before you ask: yes, it's real. 🧵

Brilliant episode, so clearly explained.

The nuance in these 3 numbers is important

We are a very old building. We have lots of keys. We have lots of keys that don’t open anything. Join us for a one off installment of, “Keys of the Merchant Adventurers’ Hall that are pretty but completely useless”. 🔑 🧵

This year has been brutal, and like most people you probably want to do more about climate change. But what, and how? Great news – I’ve written just the book for you! It’s called What One Person Can Do and it’s a clear and simple how-to guide, a roadmap to help you make influential changes...

The Oxford Maternity Library is looking for volunteers in order to continue operating. It is a volunteer-run, not-for-profit service, loaning good quality pregnancy and breastfeeding-friendly clothing for low cost, running for over ten years at Florence Park Community Centre.

Give Like Dolly: Oxford charity Peeple is inviting families to dress as Dolly Parton next Friday to celebrate the late country singer's Imagination Library. Peeple delivers free books to children under five in Littlemore, Rose Hill, Blackbird Leys, and Berinsfield. peeple.org.uk/support-us/s...

You can read my latest piece in @theguardian.com here 2027 is going to be grim www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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It's very easy to wear a suit and tie in any major city, even if the aesthetic has mostly disappeared from daily life, because there are people outside wearing pink tutus with Army boots. As usual, your liberation is connected to other people's liberation.

a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes

Fascinating and enraging. I listened to the podcast version here: pca.st/episode/be01...

Making important points at the Dispatch Cushion

Bill Bryson’s words seem appropriate to post right now

The fact something as fundamental and superb as the RNLI is a charity is one of the most magical and strange things about Britain. You can support them here. rnli.org/support-us/g...

casually proposing "raccoon protocol" as shorthand for "obvious and infuriating AI horseshit"

"Water use was commercially confidential." No, that is not acceptable. If you are using a scarce, essential, valuable _public_ resource, you have to be transparent about it, and prepared to justify it www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Absolutely. Rotating food stocks and especially water is an onerous task (lived experience here). Getting the right mix of food you’d be able to stomach in a crisis, and food you’d could face when you’re rotating is hard too. Can’t govt experts help us?

An alien's take on the Bayeux Tapestry.

Rough Draft vs Final Draft

FUN FACT If we switched to all renewable energy, the number of ships crossing the ocean would fall almost in half, slashing global CO2 emissions. Because those ships are JUST carrying coal, oil and gas. ~ Bill McKibben SUPPORT ALTERNATIVE ENERGY SOURCES!

One of the biggest lies politicians sell us is that work is the way out of poverty. Most people receiving benefits are IN WORK. We will never end this “cost of living crisis” until employers are made to pay people liveable wages rather than wages that are subsidised by taxpayers.

No matter who or what you are, @bucksarchives.bsky.social has your back

Super cool

The Treasury is asking for ideas for the Autumn Budget. Here are our asks 👇🏼 Please join us in responding to the survey and tell the Government that future transport investment must prioritise sustainable solutions over poor value road expansions. transportactionnetwork.org.uk/autumn-budge...

Dear government, don’t send startling, high-pitched alerts about wildfires to ordinary people's phones. Send them to the CEOs of fossil fuel companies and make them impossible to switch off until they stop the destructive plunder that's contributing to climate change.

If you read one thing today, make it this.

Accurately predicting an individual's health arc is a dream that has not been previously possible. Now we're headed there, thanks to a new @nature.com paper by Sarah Urbut and team. Our conversation and annotations in the new Ground Truths erictopol.substack.com/p/predicting...

The next time a climate change denier comes at you with that excuse:

Now do the cost of continued reliance on gas... www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...