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Emma Tompkins @eltompkins.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Thats becoming a standard day for me!

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TechnicallyRon @technicallyron.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Every headline about AI this weekend is just this post from 5 years ago

A screenshot of a tweet that says:

Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus

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TechnicallyRon @technicallyron.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Human beings were designed to experience and travel and love and create art and the reason everyone is depressed is that we have to sit in front of machines filled with every nightmare imaginable and say ‘nothing from me’ in teams calls every day just so we can afford crisps

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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm sorry but our Bayeux Travesty was better so there and we had Healey's Comet and everything #SketchyPoliticsRuleth @financialtimes.com

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Emma Tompkins @eltompkins.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I miss our the climate we used to have in the UK when that poem reflected our Octobers. Today I went for a walk wearing T-shirt, shorts and a light long sleeved top. I got too hot.

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Our system relies on children to look both ways because adults driving don't. Great strategy.

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Tim Roberts @zaphodiom.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

There needs to be a button on Bluesky that means “thanks for informing me of this dreadful news for humanity” that isn’t shaped like a ♥️ Maybe this ☠️

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Melissa Combs @melissacombs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Being in your 50s is confusing. On paper, I’m 55. At a concert, I’m 24. After 8/9 PM, I’m 88. Getting up off the floor makes me 115. But when the'80s music starts playing, I’m 17 all over again.

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Emma Tompkins @eltompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

my son and I will go through all 272 #London Underground stations in 1 day on 30/10/2026 in memory of my god-daughter who’d be 25 this year. Ruby was 17 when diagnosed with blood cancer. She died after 10 months in 2020. Rubys fund is specially named fund in #CCLG www.justgiving.com/page/ed-em-4...

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Ed & Emma’s fundraiser for CCLG: The Children & Young People’s Cancer Association

Help EL Tompkins raise money to support CCLG: The Children & Young People’s Cancer Association

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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 17/09/2026

Haiti and the Dominican Republic share the last Caribbean island with endemic malaria. Malaria was once endemic across much of the Caribbean. This map shows how much progress has been made: the islands in green are all malaria-free.

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Emma Tompkins @eltompkins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Is it okay to love the Norwegian Consumer Council?

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Emma Tompkins @eltompkins.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

She’s about 3kg - hence the surprise

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Emma Tompkins @eltompkins.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

BLIMEY. Imagine the mouth gaping open emoji …. He also looks gorgeous!

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Emma Tompkins @eltompkins.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Apologies for asking - but how big is your cat? From the picture he looks like a record-breaking sized cat. His head looks a similar width to yours. Was the picture taken at a funny angle or is he that size?

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Emma Tompkins @eltompkins.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We’re visiting 272 as part of the Tube Challenge on 30 Oct. 26. Might we get a little sponsor instead of a pizza please? We’re raising money to research safer and kinder cancer treatments for children (remembering my 18 yo god daughter Ruby who died of leukaemia) www.justgiving.com/page/ed-em-4...

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Ed & Emma’s fundraiser for CCLG: The Children & Young People’s Cancer Association

Help EL Tompkins raise money to support CCLG: The Children & Young People’s Cancer Association

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Emma Tompkins @eltompkins.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Mis/disinformation appears very targeted. You just need to know the things GB News and Daily Mail fear (equality and educating the masses) and you can guess the targets: a brown mayor (who’s going a fantastic job); climate scientists; teachers; doctors and nurses in the NHS; young people….

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 08/09/2026

The biggest change on the school run isn't what's there - it's what's not. On average, there are now 73,915 fewer car journeys on school days in the capital. That means healthier, greener choices, and cleaner air for our kids.

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Emma Tompkins @eltompkins.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It’s always interesting to see what colleagues get up to in their spare time. I Didn’t expect to see @npjbrooks.bsky.social smashing heavy metal swords into fellow Medieval-ist at the fabulous and breathtaking @nationaltrust.org.uk #CorfeCastle

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Aheneah is Ana Martins (b. 1996), a Portuguese artist and designer who created a cross stitch mural as street art #WomensArt

Four images featuring a mural of a blue fish created with yarn fastened around screws on the wall of a white building

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Yayoi Kusama (1929-2026) RIP

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Emma Tompkins @eltompkins.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Dolly Parton chose not to be a billionaire…

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Emma Tompkins @eltompkins.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Thank you for raising my awareness on this. I hadn’t noticed before, but now I see that when a pedestrian is killed by e-bike or bicycle , both the rider and the vehicle are blamed. But when a pedestrian is killed by a car they are never killed by the car driver - they are killed in a car crash.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I'm deeply ashamed of my profession. Its treatment of Jason Arday - right across the board - fills me with disgust and horror. The tormenting of a highly vulnerable man was seen as monetisable entertainment. This is a stain that won't wash off. bylinetimes.com/2026/08/19/j...

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Jason Arday: We Must Rage – Rage Against the Journalism of Cruelty

The death of the academic shows the casual conversion of humiliation into entertainment by a media running on monetised hate and cruelty

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Emma Tompkins @eltompkins.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

If you believe this please stop posting on X and push for the government to stop posting on X. We should not be supporting platforms that promote gender violence and offer tools to allow users to undress children and women

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 19/08/2026

Some outcomes are bigger than politics.

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Emma Tompkins @eltompkins.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Wouldn’t it be amazing to go back to the time when science and scientists were recognised for their expertise, and high quality science informed public debate about policy choices.

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Emma Tompkins @eltompkins.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Has anyone done an estimate of how many ml of #rain England needs everyday from now on til the end of the year to refill #groundwater, #reservoirs ?

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Emma Tompkins @eltompkins.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I have never been so happy to see drizzle. 10mm of rain overnight (in my garden bucket) and still going. Woo hoo

Paved uncovered passageway with a puddle with raindrops landing.

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Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 15/08/2026

"While most of us care, we may also think: why should I make sacrifices if no one else will?" …except, of course, that framing is increasingly, empirically wrong: insulation, electrification, the works, isn't about a sacrifice, it's doing math correctly. Goes for individuals as much as for states.

Camilla Cavendish: "Heat waves expose the great human gift for ignoring catastrophe"

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

A couple of shells for you to look at (one has an unexpected Magnum PI moustache). Our brains seem to love gentle colour gradations & relax when we look at the fractals in shells (bc they used to contain essential foraging snacks). Maybe zoom in if you’re strung out:

A collection of shells laid out on buff coloured linen so the colours shift gently

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Cody Dahler takes on the UK govt's silence on climate collapse and the 5th heatwave of the year, with a shout-out to @guyshrubsole.bsky.social !

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Emma Tompkins @eltompkins.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Best eclipse picture by a mile

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

It's Clacton by-election day. Or, if you prefer, Farage-Commons-standards-inquiry-reopening-eve.

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Emma Tompkins @eltompkins.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Lovely explainer of how climate change brings more heat (and drought) and heavy rain (and floods) to the same place.

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National Centre for Atmospheric Science @ncas-uk.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Even though hot weather and drought can make it seem as though an area is becoming drier, climate change can also increase the likelihood of heavy rainfall and flooding. ncas.ac.uk/why-is-clima... _ #earth-science #SciComm 🧪

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Why is climate change causing drought and heavy rainfall? - NCAS

Climate change is increasing weather extremes, so a location can experience both severe drought and severe flooding within the same month, season, or year.

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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 11/08/2026

just read the first-order draft of the IPCC's seventh assessment report. I can't quote it, so I'll just say this: the ending blew me away! I did not see it coming!

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Emma Tompkins @eltompkins.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

www.theguardian.com/environment/... Is this a global problem or a UK one? Does every country on the planet have toxic and polluted rivers or are we in the UK unique? I genuinely have no idea?

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All bodies of water in England polluted with toxic chemicals, official data shows

Environment Agency assessments find just 14.3% of country’s surface waters in good ecological status

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Emma Tompkins @eltompkins.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I’m on the Bedlam Bride (6th?/7th), it’s still a very addictive read!

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Emma Tompkins @eltompkins.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

A beautiful moment in my day - thank you for posting

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Emma Tompkins @eltompkins.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I shouldn’t laugh at your comment - but I did…. Perhaps @news.sky.com gets more clicks if, when depicting extreme heat, they put a nice beach holiday picture instead of the reality - older people with co-morbidities dying of heatstroke or an NHS worker with heat exhaustion.

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Emma Tompkins @eltompkins.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I wish I was in Swindon - sounds fabulous

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Emma Tompkins @eltompkins.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Having just done a 6 hour train journey (multiple trains) from the south to the north of England - with limited functioning a/c and no windows that opened, including a mid afternoon stint crossing London on the Underground (with temps feeling like 50C) - I want one of those fans

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UK Health Security Agency @ukhsa.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

🟠⚠️ An Amber Heat-Health Alert has been issued across the Midlands and southern England, with a Yellow Heat-Health Alert in place across Yorkshire and northern England. These alerts will be in place until Sunday 12 July.

Amber heat health alerts issued for the East Midlands, West Midlands, East of England, London, South East and South West, and Yellow heat health alerts issued for the North East, Yorkshire and the Humber and the North West

For advice from Scotland please visit publichealthscotland.scot
For advice from Northern Ireland please visit publichealth.hscni.net
For advice from Wales please visit phw.nhs.wales

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Emma Tompkins @eltompkins.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Every Local Authority in the UK could start developing these resources for their citizens NOW. These are life saving initiatives in #extremeheat

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