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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

How sheepish is Europe? This map shows the distribution of sheep across Europe. Source: buff.ly/dSfHDOe

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IFLScience @iflscience.com · 04/09/2026

“As of 2026, humanity is likely below replacement fertility. That has never happened before, not in wars or pandemics.” www.iflscience.com/has-the-worl...

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Because there’s never a bad time to share Chuck Jones’s rules for the Road Runner, here are Chuck Jones’s rules for the Road Runner

RULE 1.
THE ROAD RUNNER CANNOT HARM THE COYOTE EXCEPT BY GOING "ВЕЕР-BEEP!"
RULE 2.
NO OUTSIDE FORCE CAN HARM THE COYOTE - ONLY HIS OWN INEPTITUDE OR THE FAILURE OF THE ACME PRODUCTS.
RILEろ。
THE COYOTE COULD STOP ANYTIME - IF HE WERE NOT A FANATIC.
(REPEAT: "A FANATIC IS ONE WHO REDOUBLES HIS EFFORT WHEN HE HAS FORGOTTEN HIS AIM.' -GEORGE SANTAYANA)
RULE I.
NO DIALOGUE EVER, EXCEPT "ВЕЕР-BEEP!" RULES.
THE ROAD RUNNER MUST STAY ON THE ROAD - OTHERWISE, LOGICALLY, HE WOULD NOT BE CALLED ROAD RUNNER.
ALL ACTION MUST BE CONFINED TO THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT
OF THE TWO CHARACTERS - THE SOUTHWEST AMERICAN DESERT.
RULE 7.
ALL MATERIALS, TOOLS, WEAPONS, OR MECHANICAL CONVENIENCES MUST BE OBTAINED FROM THE ACME CORPORATION.
RULE 8.
WHENEVER POSSIBLE, MAKE GRAVITY THE COYOTE'S GREATEST ENEMY RULE 9.
THE COYOTE IS ALWAYS MORE HUMILIATED THAN HARMED BY HIS FAILURES.

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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

www.economist.com/britain/2025... quite the chart from @archiehall.bsky.social

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Raysident Evil @sireviscerate.myatproto.social · 28/11/2024

If Millie Bobby Brown grows to 1000 times her size, she becomes Bobby Brown

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 30/09/2024

UK Coal xkcd.com/2992

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 28/09/2024

It was obvious for some time that Rosie Duffield hated Keir Starmer and was likely to quit Labour. Quitting the party two months after being re-elected just looks cynical.

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 28/09/2024

Labour never should have let Duffield run as an MP at the election. This fallout is predictable and she is reprehensible in so many ways.

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 27/09/2024

I mean we are, at this moment, shutting our last coal-fired power station - that's after 14 years of collapsing coal usage during a *Tory* government. It's not about awareness of "climate change" - everyone knows that. It's the distribution of the costs of mitigating and limiting it

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 27/09/2024

it's about how to pay for transition, who bears the cost, how to enable economic growth in poor countries and recently industrialising countries without further damaging the environment, whether existing measures (carbon trading, for example) actually work, etc etc.

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 27/09/2024

it's not about "getting everyone's attention". people know about climate change. people are more concerned about climate change than ever before. we have a government committed to spending more on climate change than any of its other new spending commitments. that is not what it's about.

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 27/09/2024

The pro and anti yelling over Just Stop Oil - and, ofc, Just Stop Oil's antics themselves - is just completely irrelevant to anything that actually matters in terms of climate change. It's all just noise.

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Anthony Zurcher @zurch.bsky.social · 16/09/2024

I’m getting a lot of new followers on this lovely site, so now seems like a good time to suggest you sign up for my weekly US politics newsletter! www.bbc.com/newsletters/...

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Nick Hedley @nickhedley.bsky.social · 12/09/2024

The European Union's electricity mix in August: Wind + solar 31% Nuclear 25% Hydro 12% Bioenergy 4% Gas and related 19% Coal 9% -> 72% renewables + nuclear -> 28% fossil fuels - Ember data

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 12/09/2024

There is no historical precedent for that. In 2015 they got 24% with that group. In 1979 they got 42% with that group and were the favourite party. The brand is destroyed.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 12/09/2024

Here's a stat to indicate exactly how much trouble the Tory party are in long-term: For women under 25, according to YouGov's large sample post-election poll, they didn't just come behind Labour, Lib Dems, Greens and Reform, they were also beaten by "Others". They got 6%.

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Richard Foster @richardjfoster.bsky.social · 11/09/2024

I think the fact that it is still impossible for any US presidental candidate to acknowledge that we have to move away from fossil fuels and particularly oil is a damning for any realistic chances of avoiding significant climate change.

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Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 04/09/2024

In a shameless attempt to grow my following on here, I'm going to be giving away a GE2024 poster to one lucky winner who retweets this post (and is following) in 24 hours time. Best of luck!

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Richard Foster @richardjfoster.bsky.social · 04/09/2024

At some point can we have a sensible discussion about: (a) council tax being totally broken (b) the triple lock on pensions being unsustainable (and I suspect without doing the numbers probably bigger than the pay awards we've had for 15years) (c) the EU and benefits of a close relationship

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Richard Foster @richardjfoster.bsky.social · 29/08/2024

BBC News - Home Office criticised for billions of asylum overspending - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Can't quite believe this story. £320m budgeted. £7.9*bn* spent. Just the minor £7.6bn overspend (a 2375% overspend). Surely this should have raised some kind of flag in govt somewhere?

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Home Office criticised for billions of asylum overspending

The Home Office is criticised for submitting spending estimates on asylum it

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