Dave Powell

There’s a new thing imminent @benschott.bsky.social

Me too!

Why was the Berlin marathon so hot this year? One clear answer: fossil fuels

Sunday's average temperature was 11°F higher than average. This was twice as likely by climate change, according to @climatecentral.org's Climate Shift Index

Thanks Harriet!

New polling reveals a clear warning to ministers: backtrack on the Warm Homes Plan, and you risk losing the trust of your voters.

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You’d cause real damage to the punditry industry if you made them write columns about how they don’t really know

Top half of image: July 2016 Guardian article by Simon Jenkins titled: “ignore the prophets of doom: Brexit will be good for Britain”. Bottom half of image: May 2026 Guardian article by Simon Jenkins titled “From the day Britain left the EU, this reset was inevitable. What a pointless waste of time, money and effort”

The top image:
The Guardian, July 2016
The article:

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The bottom image:
The Guardian, May 2025
The article:

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George Wendt, best known for playing Norm on Cheers, dies aged 76 Emmy-nominated comedian and actor, best known for role in long-running sitcom, was also in Family Guy and Frasier

Mourn!

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to (probably mis)quote Rebecca Solnit, just because we can't save everything, doesn't mean we shouldn't try to save something

WHAT ABOUT CHIN-

New episode of Your Brain on Climate now birthed. This one with @mikebernerslee.bsky.social all about the wonderful, but ruinous, modern art of bullshit.

www.buzzsprout.com/1817605/epis...

A pleasure to talk to Mike. In which we say the word ‘bullshit’ a great deal and it doesn’t get any less pleasing.

‘Bullshit’ means any narrative that is designed to persuade without regard to which bits of it, if any, are true. In politics, another term for it is populism. It is poisonous. The consequences for all those who suck it up are devastating. If we allow it to remain so normal, we will suffer for it.

A comprehensive comms success.

What I think ‘Ocean’ gets right (and people often get wrong) Three biases that get in the way of seeing good comms for what they are

I really liked OCEAN and I hope you will too. Here's why I think it works.

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which is the one in which the entire train carriage smells like the khazi, because they rigged up the out pipe of the toilet aircon next to the inpipe of the carriage aircon? If I've got a hangover I could do with that info.

Starmer: this is "incalculable damage"

Why is the Daddy Party allowed to rant & rave & do impulsive, stupid shit & never, ever be held to account, while the Mommy Party is endlessly scolded & lectured & second-guessed by everyone, even when it is earnestly trying to do the right thing?

Gosh. What a puzzler.

New episode of Your Brain on Climate now birthed. This one with @mikebernerslee.bsky.social all about the wonderful, but ruinous, modern art of bullshit.

www.buzzsprout.com/1817605/epis...

Wait I thought *we* were the ones against globalisation and the dead hand of government

Pope Francis receiving a warming stripes stole. Photo: Vatican Media

“Never have we so hurt and mistreated our common home as we have in the last two hundred years. Reducing greenhouse gases requires honesty, courage and responsibility. Those who will have to suffer the consequences will not forget this failure of conscience and responsibility.” — Pope Francis

Cheers ears

What’s a free app people use for photoshop type stuff, like snipping a bit from one image and crudely putting it into another?

Tbf he probably is

Now you come to mention it

No it was getting a haircut then a kebab

I was sure I saw a BADGER in Crystal Palace the other day and was persuaded it was not. Now my local friend reports she saw a badger. So we have BADGERS in Crystal Palace now and frankly what else do you need to know about round here.

Yes it feels like when a country “does well” out of Covid

Wake me up when you’ve all stopped being zany