Ralph Darvill

It's been a thing for a while, but some of the shit names businesses come up with just beggar belief.

There needs to be a major public outreach/education campaign that shows that the rush for profligate genAI usage is incompatible with myriad sustainable development goals.

Victory for Lula, who has already reduced Amazon deforestation by 70% since 2022, means there is now a chance of ending deforestation of the rainforest entirely I’m weeping with joy for Brazil, for the Indigenous peoples of the Amazon, and for life on Earth 🇧🇷🌳🌎 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

Reform and Tories have pledged to reverse ULEZ repeatedly.

Late decision to attend this show in celebration of Karl Wallinger, but boy am I glad I did. A room full of great musicians, and a crowd showing their deep affection for one of this country's greatest songwriters, taken from the World far too young.

Wolves Descend on Finnish Villages After Google Hacked Down 1,300 Acres of Habitat to Make Room for AI Data Centers futurism.com/future-socie...

How long can Putin last with this constant casualty rate? I know he's killing Koreans and other mercenaries now, but his citizens must be livid...

All the best people, eh America?

More Reform connections exposed - from dodgy crypto billionaires, to drug criminals, from #EpsteinFiles to Patriot fascists, from violent rapists to Russia, Israel, Iran "Revealed: billionaire Reform donor was in business with foundation linked to Iranian regime" www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

AOC: "As AI begins to encroach in our society, their goal is to take your cognition away from you. AI's goal is to take your thoughts away from you, your ability to think away from you, so that you become dependent on a machine ... reading books is active resistance"

Reform activist caught on camera saying asylum seekers should be put in 'concentration camps' He also said that being Muslim and British is ‘like oil and water’ www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

A new venue to my list last night while seeing Mercury Rev at Hackney's Old Church. The Rev were in very good form, celebrating the 25 years of their "All Is Dream" album. As always Jonathan Donahue disported himself around the stage conducting matters, while the band made a marvellous noise!

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"Two out of three Reform councillors in Castle Bromwich have now left the party in the space of a week. First Alan Feeney. Now Chris Whelan, who says he has mutually agreed to leave Reform on personal and health grounds. Yet both are remaining as independent ..." www.facebook.com/permalink.ph...

Well would you Adam and Eve it? Turns out that Reform Party members are racist, misogynistic and violent! Who knew?

All the more evidence that... #trumpisacunt

Meet me at the corner of Mein & Kampf

Farmland bird populations in England have now declined by a staggering 66% since 1970, according to the latest official figures. What's going to turn this around? Not piecemeal grants or trusting in the 'custodians of the countryside', but Landscape Recovery & regulation www.gov.uk/government/s...

🚨WATCH: NASA REVEALS THE NIGHT SKY FROM MARS — A VIEW UNLIKE EARTH’S NASA has shared a rare glimpse of the Martian night sky. Unlike Earth, Mars has a much thinner atmosphere, meaning less atmospheric scattering of light and a different view of the cosmos.

Christ, this U2 song on 6 Music's Slow Sunday is very dull.

The supposed party of fiscal responsibility are now just the party of fossil fuel dependency. You can’t trust the Tories with your money - nor, more importantly, with defending us from the climate crisis: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Is your ivy flowering? Please don't cut it back if you can avoid it! At this time of year in the UK, ivy flowers are a brilliant late season pit-stop for hard-pressed pollinators like bees, butterflies, hoverflies and moths 🐝 #gardening #wildlife #nature

Public executions. Cover up of a trafficked sex ring including childen. A rapist and felon as leader. Gestapo like force killing civilians and dragging people off the streets. etc etc GB News/Reform/Restore would be all over it, if it was a Muslim country. As it's not they want to copy much of it.

America is fucked. Example #327

“in 2023, $7.3 trillion flowed into nature-negative activities, of which $4.9 trillion came from the private sector. In the same year, only $220 billion supported nature-based solutions” Living Planet Report 2026 livingplanet.panda.org/en-GB/thank_...

A whopping 79 per cent of people support the private jet tax.

"Google and Apple have rules against it - but Reform UK just released a game in the Google and Apple app stores targeting people on small boats." Please add you name at help.care4calais.org/page/201794/...

How I arrived on Blue Sky.

Finland orders halt to work on Google data centers over environmental concerns

Nonce Bonnets ordering a Chinese takeaway.

Nine great albums. In ten minutes time I'll probably post another nine which mean just as much to me.

Poor Tory legacy www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

A sunset woodland walk in Tring Park last night, gave me a spectacular lens flare.

Revealed: Government quietly dropped plan to prepare England for wildfires I discovered via an FOI request that DEFRA’s commitment in the National Adaptation Programme to run a “wildfire risk programme” since 2023 “was not brought into effect”. #ClimateCrisis www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

Blimey! XTC's "Green Man" on @bbcradio6musicbot.bsky.social No one plays late era XTC. Well done Bobby Friction. A swooning reel of celebration for our historic folklore.

@stuartmaconie.bsky.social That @ track was superb...I kept thinking it was some previously unheard Elliot Smith song. Apart from the fact that it sounded far too "produced" to be Elliot. Great show today.

In Tring we're quite a long way out of "Town" and our station is a long way out of our town...but Brill (in Bucks, beyond Aylesbury) was once part of the Metropolitan Line, so here's a theoretical sign... Love this roundel generator by @pixelframe.bsky.social

"Honestly my head hurts when I see sh¡t like this! How much ideological contradiction is happening here? Make Fascist Scared Again. Make Ignorance Shunned Again." via Lower The Flags

In 2003, the U.S. military bombed Iraq’s national seed bank in Abu Ghraib, effectively eliminating hundreds of varieties of indigenous seeds adapted to growing in the drought-prone desert climate. A year later, U.S. law prohibited Iraqi farmers from seed saving. (First published in 2025 by Prism)

Fountains of Wayne released their eponymous debut album ‘Fountains of Wayne’ 30 years ago on October 1, 1996 | Listen to the album + watch the official videos here: album.ink/fow96

Lovely bit of "I haven't got a fucking clue" captioning from @netflix.com last night. I have visited the town of Cheshire many times. It's where all the footballers live isn't it?

Reform wankers simply don't understand that the Civil Service has already been slashed tompieces by the Tories (and Gove famously said "we've had enough of experts"). Well fuck me Mr. Gove, experts know the stuff that helps things to get done...

Evening, #Ofcom. A British politician is advertising, in advance, that his "full verdict" on the Prime Minister's speech today will be given in his own programme, which carries his name, on GB News tonight. Aren't News channels supposed to show due impartiality? 🤮 x.com/Nigel_Farage...

The Zoological Society of London not giving a shit about unnecessary light pollution with their new thing of lighting up the chalk lion at Whipsnade. It's part of their 200th anniversary celebration. The illumination will last for an hour every day after dusk, until the end of the year.