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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 02/09/2026

From the European Premiere of PRESSURE🎬 We caught up with Andrew Scott, Brendan Fraser, Damian Lewis and director Anthony Maras to discuss the film, which tells the story behind what is arguably the most important weather forecast in history In cinemas Sept 9 #PressureMovie @studiocanal.com

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Olaf Falafel @ofalafel.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The Puffin social media team wanted me to make a video to promote The Far-Out Five book two but I've just got three new kittens. Please share this video so I can spend more time playing with Ponyo (and the other two) and less time plugging an incredibly funny graphic novel series for 7-11 year olds.

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Tom @tomtomuk.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I suppose many countries might have the local language Vs English versions of their name, but that's 2 options, and I'd imagine it should be pretty obvious which you'd look for by the language used on the rest of the site

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Tom @tomtomuk.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Does any other country face a similar scale 1st world problem of not knowing what country to look for in a web "choose your country" drop down? E.g from England, do I look for: United Kingdom, UK, Britain, Great Britain, GB, or England? That's 4 possible options, or 6 if I include the abbreviations!

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The momentum of this issue is in the wrong direction. The line should be: We're roasting, we're exposed to wildfires, we're experiencing drought, and these nutters aren't prepared to keep British people safe.

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

‘Chancellor Tice, the wheat harvest has collapsed again and food price inflation will be at 50 per cent by autumn.’ ‘Let them drink Nyetimber.’

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Tom @tomtomuk.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Amazing how negroni technology has developed. My current negroni (right), and an original 80s negroni, the size of a brick!

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

11/ Adaptation has limits. Her environmental offer is flood defences and resilience. The IPCC finds hard limits already reached in some ecosystems, and limits that can be surpassed, producing losses and damages. Defences buy time, so fund them properly. They don't substitute for cutting emissions.

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Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Time and again climate change is treated as though it were binary: we cannot prevent it, so ok, it’s there let’s embrace it. That’s entirely wrong: it is a sliding scale. We cannot prevent 1.5 degrees. But maybe 3? Or 5?

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Adam Bell @adambell.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

If I can, let me explain today's Times story. This is less to do with renewables and much more to do with where generation is located and how it shows up at a system level. /1

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Tom @tomtomuk.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Everyone fixates on maximum daytime temperatures, but it's warm nights that tend to cause the most health issues to humans and also to plants

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Tom @tomtomuk.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Or ever communicated over email with an internal colleague and then wanted to arrange a meeting with them. The amount of clicks required to view someone's calendar is ridiculous. Just give me a "View this person's calendar" option when right clicking their email address / profile.

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Alex Nurse @alexnurse.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Once again, for those in the back.

Smeed's law - highlighting a prediction made in 1949 that the average speed of traffic in a London would be 9mph. It was 8.98 after the congestion charge came in.

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Tom @tomtomuk.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Ominously I today received an email from Eurostar offering a free date change if I don't want to travel due to the heat, and heavily suggesting I should bring lots of drinking water if I do decide to board...

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Tom @tomtomuk.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Ah yeah, I realised after I posted. Still a very striking increase in the hot extremes in the last few decades

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Nick Silkstone @nick-silkstone.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

The whole daily mean UK CET record. 1st and 99th %iles computed, then plotting how many days per year (within each decade) do days <1st %ile and >99th %ile occur. This allows analysis of the occurrence of the extremes), styled like the population pyramids I remember from GSCE Geography. #RStats

Met Office Hadley Centre Daily Mean Central England Temperature dataset, 1st and 99th percentiles computed, and then their occurrence per year within each decade plotted in the style of a population pyramid.

Through time, this shows a marked decrease in the occurrences in extreme cold, and in the most recent few decades a marked increase of the extreme hot days.

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Tom @tomtomuk.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Pretty incredible considering the most recent (enormous) bar represents 40% less time than all the other bars

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

In the face of frenzied right-wing attacks, this government has successfully executed one of the most ambitious climate change projects in the world. Time to give credit where it's due iandunt.substack.com/p/guest-post...

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Tom @tomtomuk.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Arguing against emissions reductions because "the climate has always changed" is like arguing against medicine because "people have always died"... Although perhaps it's no coincidence the loudest climate change deniers are often anti-vax

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Someone really should commission this. The government’s official estimates are absolutely clear that new renewables are cheaper to build and operate than new gas power plants.

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Will vote for any Prime Minister who can make train wifi a functioning reality rather than an enraging exercise in false advertising.

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Same. HUGE gap between experts & everyone else. This was already expert consensus 2 years ago. Now? Trump's horrible & evil war have wrecked the perception of oil & gas as stable and cheap in the decade when solar, wind, batteries, EVs are SURGING worldwide www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/daw...

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Ok there's a lot of incorrect information going around on this, so I want to be clear that the problem with the Big 3 and EV's isn't that the Big 3 didn't want to make EV's. The problem, as with so many things, is Trump. I'm gonna do a little thread on this because people don't seem to be aware. 1/x

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Adam Tranter @adamtranter.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

If you are a Councillor, please watch this. It happened nearly 50 years ago in the Netherlands. The arguments against restricting traffic were the same as those made today and were proven to be wrong. Many cities would greatly benefit from a circulation plan. youtu.be/bgKokpZMFnU?...

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The "Ridiculous" Traffic Plan That Actually Worked

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Holiday advice: It's pleasant to get a train to Europe. You just have to turn travelling into a core part of the holiday - lunch in Paris, dinner in Bordeaux, trip to Spain, week on beach etc. It's limiting, but very enjoyable & decent alternative to a flight you won't be able to afford by summer.

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Exeter Cycling Campaign @exetercycling.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

We're fighting to stop a filter being removed from one of Exeter's key strategic cycle routes, the E9 at Dryden Road. Removing the filter would allow nearly 4,000 cars a day back onto the route, with just paint for protection. Our Chair James explains the issues in these short videos👇🎥.

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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

You should read this. It’s excellent communication & story-telling. “I’m driving less. I don’t want to see the world through a driver’s eyes any more. Before I began driving less, I had long had a melancholic sense that the city lifestyle I lived was cut off...” #UrbanTruth From @irishtimes.com

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I’m driving less. I don’t want to see the world through a driver’s eyes any more

Before I began driving less, I had long had a melancholic sense that the city lifestyle I lived was cut off from the seasons and nature

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Tom @tomtomuk.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

The natural environment, including the climate, has an enormous impact on what a military can, and cannot, do. As well as the importance of weather in the short term, climate change is also reshaping the operational environments of the future

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Tom @tomtomuk.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

A reminder of why the weather (and climate) can be much more important and impactful than the decision to have a barbeque or not. As well as providing the famous D-Day forecast over 80 years ago, more recently the Met Office provided advice to the producers of this film youtu.be/zdM4tdLQBg0?...

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PRESSURE - Official Trailer [HD] - Only In Theaters May 29

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Olaf Falafel @ofalafel.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Trump’s Greenland speech at the WEF except it’s the voice of Pingu

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Tom @tomtomuk.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

No idea if that account uses the same approach, but there is a sure pet care integration for home assistant that knows about individual cats. Means I can get my smart speakers to greet our cats by name when they come in. Source code is on GitHub www.home-assistant.io/integrations...

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Instructions on how to integrate the Sure Petcare cat and pet flaps into Home Assistant.

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Tom @tomtomuk.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

As someone who has hit middle age and mid career, meaning I'm not coding day to day, I feel the same about vibe coding. But it only works because of my 20 years of experience hacking together mediocre scripts. I'm not sure what it means for the skills development for junior staff with no experience

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Tom @tomtomuk.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Really great thread thanks.

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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 24/02/2026

As a rare climate scientist working in Silicon Valley, I've been drinking from the AI firehose a lot more than my peers. I thought it would be helpful to lay out my experiences of both the promise and pitfalls of using AI to accelerate scientific research:

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The AI-Augmented Scientist

The promise and pitfalls of using AI tools to boost my capabilities as a scientist

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Tom @tomtomuk.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

More stats please. Ratio of approved Vs rejected Fastest, slowest, and average decision time etc. You can totally start giving yourself some sort of score per session which you then attempt to beat

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Iain Roberts @slowbikeiain.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

Headline: "Scientists discover emperor penguin colony in Antarctica using satellite images"

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 12/01/2026

Such a great idea for a project walzr.com/postal-arbit...

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Postal Arbitrage

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Tom @tomtomuk.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

And, as we were all told, many, many times during our childhood, "two wrongs don't make a right"

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 03/01/2026

Wrote this in 2023 (reposted in 2024), and still think it one of the most prescient things I've ever written. takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/todays-emp...

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 24/12/2025

Unbelievably, #DuvetKnowItsChristmas generates such good will on social media that over the years we've raised somewhere approaching a quarter of a million quid for homeless charities. If you can spare a bob or two, sling some to Centrepoint, and here's the link: www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...

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Donate to Duvet Know It's Christmas, 2025, organized by Rhodri Marsden

Unbelievably, it's the 15th year of this thing. What is it? Improbably, the nig… Rhodri Marsden needs your support for Duvet Know It's Christmas, 2025

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Tom @tomtomuk.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Interesting, I think Exeter is probably stuck somewhere between steps 3 and 4 on this list...

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Tom @tomtomuk.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Just ordered one. Will make a good activity for the limbo days between Xmas and new year

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Tom @tomtomuk.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

In the civil service there is a cliff edge at £56k for pension contributions. They are not tapered (i.e. the rate applies to your whole income, not just the bit over the threshold) share.google/IFvCXNxzIhRn... Going from £56000 to £56001 costs a worker 2% of their pay, or £1120

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Contribution rates - Civil Service Pension Scheme

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Terrific piece this: very through going over the issues.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 30/10/2025

It takes a lot to impress me, but this is fucking impressive.

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Jeremy DeHart @jeremydehartwx.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

From a crewmember on yesterday's Teal 74 mission into now-Category 5 Hurricane #Melissa. As clear of an eye as you will see in the Atlantic basin.

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Tom @tomtomuk.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Was in the West end last weekend and attempting to walk around was just horrific / impossible with the volumes of pedestrians squeezed onto tiny pavements while cars and pedicycles happily trundled around on the road. Can't come soon enough.

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