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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 20/09/2026
‘“Decarbonisation” was supposed to drive down prices and encourage consumers to switch from using fossil fuels for driving and heating. This hasn’t happened.’ @arthurdowning.bsky.social on Britain’s energy crisis: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Arthur Downing · Asset Sweating: Britain’s Energy Crisis
Britain has private ownership while making the state responsible for planning via subsidies. The result is a zombie...
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Kettle @kittenstrudel.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Roxa Smith, Tar Beach in Brooklyn, acrylic on canvas over cradled board, 2024
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Kettle @kittenstrudel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ashley Percival, untitled, colored pencil, pen, paint, and digital tools, 2026
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Keith Broomfield @keithbroomfield.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
A company of curlews on the foreshore near Blackness on the Firth of Forth this morning
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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 05/09/2026
This is interesting. You get assigned to being born at a random place and time in history, to see what a typical person's life might have been like then. Unfortunately I was born in 1403 in the valley of Mexico and died at age 4 from dysentery.
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Any Human Ever
One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived.
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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 15/08/2026
Cure Britain's dodgy shop epidemic using this one simple trick, writes London Centric's Jim Waterson. @jim.londoncentric.media as.ft.com/r/9af37b1e-7...
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How Burnham can curb Britain’s tax-dodging shops
The prime minister is missing a simple trick in his campaign to revive high streets: enforcing the basic laws of doing business
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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
A lovely little bit of physics that you might have spotted if you ever play with a slinky. We should all play more, because we should all embrace our curiosity. And finding out how the physical world works is fun!
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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Timothy Adam Matthews (British, born 1981) "Greek Kitties", 2026. Oil on Canvas, 16 × 20 inches. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt #catlover
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Julia Allum @juliaallum.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Bright & bold, contemporary vintage, prints, posters, handmade screen prints & cards 👇 juliaallum.co.uk/shop/ Any reposts to spread the word are much appreciated :)
A grid of 9 framed prints. All are colourful minimalist vector illustrations of a variety of subjects that include birds, flowers and travel posters.
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Adam Nathaniel Furman @anfurman.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
The ceramic Livery St Subway Mural that I designed in Birmingham, commissioned by Birmingham Colmore, Moda Living & Birmingham City Council, project managed by Philip Singleton, video by @gardnergareth.bsky.social
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Ashley Davies @msashleydavies.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
North Berwick feeling particularly bonny today
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Ashley Davies @msashleydavies.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Bass Rock and a heron
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Andrea Luck @andrealuck.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Star forming region Sharpless 305 and protostar RAFGL5232 by JWST Space Telescope NIRCam Full 170MP image: flic.kr/p/2s6Uqff 🧪🔭 Processing: Andrea Luck CC BY Credit: Mark McCaughrean (@markmccaughrean.bsky.social),MPIA/NASA,ESA,CSA/STScI/j.Roger ( @landru79.bsky.social)
This is a JWST Space Telescope near infrared image of a star forming region and a nearby protostar. A vast expanding cloud like formation fills the scene set against the dark of space dotted with countless background stars and galaxies. Parts of the cloud rise in uneven shapes that resemble ridges. The cloud appears soft and mist like with its inner regions glowing in bluish tones while the outer edges fade into warmer orange hues.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Artwork by contemporary printmaker Diana Catchpole #WomensArt
Print featuring a hare running left in front of a golden sun
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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Maybe these need to be put on a few menus/supermarket walls. These are from the UK National Food Strategy, showing the proportion of UK land used for different things (huge for beef/lamb, tiny for crops), & where we get our calories and protein (68% & 52% from plants). The difference is staggering.
Map of the UK, showing the huge proportion of land used for beef, dairy and lamb production and the tiny proportion used for crops, next to a plot showing that 68% of UK calories and 52% of our protein come from the plants.
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Michael Hogan @michaelhogan100.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Police are looking for thieves with either four or two fingers, possibly someone chunky
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Grant Snider @grantdraws.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Celebrating 15 years of Incidental Comics! Here’s a page from 2016 that appears in my book THE SHAPE OF IDEAS.
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EconReporter @econreporter.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
I think there is not enough appreciation to how good this FT visualization is the original is like this 👇
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Keith Broomfield @keithbroomfield.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
A cracking day for a wee hike with some mates in the Ochils
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Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
🤔 In case you didn't know - here's a bit more about me and my work, my values, my hopes and fears as a creative in today's world: www.digest.andymarsh... - please share if you can. Thank you. ☺️
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Adam Nathaniel Furman @anfurman.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
In a River a Thousand Streams, a large mosaic mural I designed at London Bridge Station, photo by @gardnergareth.bsky.social
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
www.resolutionfoundation.org/comment/uk-p... The overlooked story of booming UK productivity?
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UK productivity grew more in the last year than in the previous seven combined • Resolution Foundation
Here’s some good news that might have passed you by. UK productivity – how much the economy produces per hour worked – grew more in the past year than in the previous seven years combined. I know. It ...
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Compound Interest | Chemistry infographics @compoundchem.com · 08/01/2026
Getting snow where you are? Did you know that there are 121 categories of snowflake? ❄️ This graphic is an old favourite which gives an overview of the 39 intermediate categories: www.compoundchem.com/2014/12/10/s... 🧪
Infographic titled “Snowflakes: Classifications & Shapes” showing how snowflakes are categorized by crystal form. Sections illustrate column crystals, plane crystals, combinations of column and plane crystals, rimed snow crystals, aggregation, germs of ice crystals, irregular particles, and other solid precipitation. Each category uses simple blue icons with codes (e.g., C1, P3). A key explains three classification levels: 8 general, 39 intermediate, and 121 elementary categories, highlighting the wide variety of snowflake shapes found in nature.
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Dylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
🧵/ 18 months since GE2024, and four before this May's crucial elections, Labour have lost around 60% of their 2024 coalition. Over 2025, they lost around 1.5m further voters in net, with by far the clearest increase being to the Greens (+0.8m to 1.3m), now Labour's largest source of partisan loss.
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Patrick English @patrick-pme.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Our @yougov.co.uk data journalism extraordinaire Matt Smith has compiled all news tracker results from 2025 into this stunning graphic This tells us so much about what 'cuts through', how news cycles evolve, and what grabs attention re: flash moments vs ongoing stories yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
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Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
✨ A few years back I stood outside Wells Cathedral for a full day and photographed the impact of the light on the front facade. I was amazed at the outcome - at how a single entity could morph and change under the changing light. 🌅 #thread
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Keith Broomfield @keithbroomfield.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
A cracking sunset this evening looking out towards the Wallace Monument
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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 26/10/2025
So my daughter is back from Cambridge just for Sunday lunch. She wants a proper roast dinner with roast spuds and Yorkshires. Takes a bit of work on the timing but no problem, we will have a lovely chill time. I thought. /1
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Neil Kaye @neilrkaye.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
July has been a warm month, sunnier than average and a bit drier than average. Summer is continuing the warm trend from Spring. Here is a climate/weather summary for the past year. #dataviz #climatchange #globalwarming
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Reading Meteorology @unirdg-met.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
As the hosepipe ban kicks in over parts of Reading we look at how this summer so far compares to the UK’s infamous hot, dry summer of 1976 in this week’s @unirdg-met.bsky.social blog: blogs.reading.ac.uk/weather-and-...
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How does the UK summer so far compare to the extreme hot, dry summer of 1976?
By Dr Laura Baker   Senior NCAS Scientist in the Department of Meteorology As we come to the end of the third heatwave of 2025, and a third English water board has announced a hosepipe ban, more an…
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Tom Whipple @whippletom.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
This is the tale of a little frog who could. That frog's name was Rosie the Ribeter. And she could jump over 2 metres. And the problem was, according to science, she shouldn't have. In a minor way, Rosie changed science. In a major way, she showed what science was about. 1/x
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
This is so sensible - and about time too. theconversation.com/automatic-vo...
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Automatic voter registration: a huge step forward for democracy – and a chance to bring missing millions into elections
As part of a raft of new measures, people will no longer need to register themselves to vote.
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John Rentoul @rentouljohn.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
The Scottish study suggesting that reducing the voting age increases turnout into the 20s is here cc @philipjcowley.bsky.social impact.ed.ac.uk/opinion/vote...
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Vote earlier in life, vote more often - Edinburgh Impact
Supporters of reducing voting ages to 16 say it helps embed the habit of visiting the ballot box earlier in life. New evidence from Scotland suggests they may have a case.
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Keith Broomfield @keithbroomfield.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Intricate patterning, contrast and subtle tints on this common frog resting by the edge of an Alpine stream
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Darren Walsh Puns @darrenwalsh.co.uk · 01/07/2025
Jokes on the Street in Shaftesbury - Part 1
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
I think the word "important" is overused when it comes to the publication of words. It should be used sparingly. This new piece of research from @teraallas.bsky.social and co-author Dimitri Zenghellis *is important*. www.productivity.ac.uk/news/mind-th... It explains weak UK productivity. 1/
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Mind the capital gap: British citizens are poorer because UK workers are denied capital - The Productivity Institute
British workers are operating with a third less capital per hour worked than their counterparts abroad, finds new research by Tera Allas and Dimitri Zenghelis.
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Keith Broomfield @keithbroomfield.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Gloaming light over Innerdownie and Tarmangie Hills in the #Ochils
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Keith Broomfield @keithbroomfield.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
These Arisaig sunsets just keep on giving - looking towards An Sgurr on Eigg
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Keith Broomfield @keithbroomfield.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
These Arisaig sunsets are mind blowing – Eigg and Rum, plus crystal clear seas abounding with life. Perfect in every way imaginable
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
A thread of notes I've made in my notebook about my dad: 1. The Swimming Pool.
My dad has come to an arrangement with the public pool in Nottinghamshire where he swims: after everyone else has got out of the pool, he is permitted to do a somersault before he gets changed. “THEY OPEN UP THE STORAGE CUPBOARD AND LET ME GO IN THERE SO I CAN GET A GOOD RUN-UP,” he said. Last week my dad, who will be seventy in August, got his friend Malcolm, who is seventy-three, to film the somersault. “It’s shattered all his illusions,” my mum told me. “Until he saw the film he thought he was creating poetry in motion. But it’s really just an old bloke who can’t run fast doing a sideways flop.”
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
this isn’t a new photo - I took it a few years ago - but wanted to share it regardless
Photo of a heron sitting by a lake with Autumnal trees reflected in the water
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Justin Pot @justinpot.com · 12/05/2025
Dishwashers are good, actually: www.popsci.com/environment/science-…
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The science of why you should use your dishwasher
Skip washing your dishes by hand and toss your gross plates in the dishwasher.
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/
Unsplash image of the Earth, mostly the nightside with a tracery of city lights on every continent.
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Marco Petagna @petagna.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Remarkably hot end to #MayDay in the south, and the contrast in temperature N to S is striking too..note though that 11 or 12C is actually near average for early evening in the N this time of year!
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
People who understand international macro better than I do (ie all of you) explain me where I'm wrong here: - the stupid tariff policy of the USA is inflationary for them. Negative supply shock - if Europe doesn't react, it could be a mildly*deflationary* shock here. Cheaper gas...1/
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Tom Murdock @thmurdock.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
It's a week into the school holidays, and, as I'm already running out of ideas, we we went on an Easter hunt - for a tree.
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Ed Conway @edconway.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
📉We like to think this is the golden age of data visualisation. But check out this chart from the US military during WWII👇 German production of synthetic oil, plant by plant, and how it collapsed when Allies bombed the plants. Much more on this in Ch 14 of Material World...
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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 14/03/2025
NEW 🧵 Is human intelligence starting to decline? Recent results from major international tests show that the average person’s capacity to process information, use reasoning and solve novel problems has been falling since around the mid 2010s What should we make of this? www.ft.com/content/a801...
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