David Higgins

& reed buntings flickering out over water & back to tapers in rushy shallows, a sky clear & deep - & over the Solway, thin snow on fells

If this is true, and it seems very likely that it is, the US knowingly sunk an unarmed vessel and then left sailors to drown so that Pete Hegseth could boast about how manly & powerful it is to murder people.

The Tommy Lee Jones of Peacock butterflies. Or possibly the Edward James Olmos.

Thanks — that sandwich was helpful!

In the latest in a succession of unsuccessful working days, I got to the office early, started some teaching prep, developed a migraine that could not be banished by painkillers, realised I had no sumatriptan, cancelled my teaching and meetings, went home, and went to bed. Monday I try again…

I am looking forward to reading!

On the one hand, a clearly deranged lunatic in the White House starting a dangerous illegal war on Iran with already-serious repercussions for the region and world...

Or having a pop at Keir Starmer.

You just knew which side the Right would come down on.

Brief clip of a mistle thrush singing on the Leeds uni campus this morning. Always sounds to me somewhere between a blackbird’s sweetness and a song thrush’s stridency.

Remind me: when you bomb an elementary school, lure the survivors into a false sense of safety, and then bomb the survivors, leaving behind dozens and dozens of dead school children... are you the good guys?

So appalling that UK politicians and newspapers are encouraging full-on participation in a war that (among many other issues) was launched without consulting us, has no apparent strategy or endgame, and has already involved US-Israeli forces blowing up a school and killing over a hundred kids.

They killed 180 children and their teachers in a double-tap strike on a school. The girls were 7 to 12 years old.

Sorry to be dejected on main but man it is really a time of disappointment in people hey!

So many people with whom I thought I shared a worldview and felt camaraderie with, and I was totally wrong, they just don't really share that worldview.

I discovered something that just nauseated me to my core today - Polymarket has a huge number of bets running on climate impacts and disasters

An entirely new flavour of disaster capitalism

Nice one!

Thank you! long term issue but just had a steroid injection which should help for a few months (once it has settled down)

absolutely!

Garden view of bare trees and blue sky.

Can’t get out at the moment due an injured foot. And the news is relentlessly grim. Taking comfort in the arrival of spring: a greenfinch whistling in the garden; a skein of pink-footed geese calling high above.

Thread of Spanish PM’s comments on the Iran war, all of which are 🔥🔥🔥 Refreshing to get some moral clarity from a leader.

Global economy must stop pandering to ‘frivolous desires of ultra-rich’, says UN expert Olivier De Schutter says new economic agenda needed to tackle crises of rising inequality and ecological collapse

Global economy must not pander to “frivolous and destructive demands of the ultra-rich”.

They fund political parties, profit from socially and ecologically destructive growth.

UK example - deregulation, regressive taxation, concentration of wealth, inequalities, sewage in rivers.

This is so bleak

Daily Mail headline: IRAN WAR: DAY FOUR U.S. lambasts 'hand-wringing, pearl-clutching' Starmer as Kemi says he's 'scared' of his own voters

The Sun: INACTION THIS DAY PM wont hit Iran back Rift grows with US Prez

Have we woken up in America? The deeply unpatriotic Daily Mail and Sun seem to now be supporting a menace of a foreign leader over our own govt and national security. They are really only loyal to their own vested interests. Which are a direct threat to our own. The routine betrayal is sickening.

& as you arrive a greylag sentry calls intruder - & the pair take wing, leaving a small armada of canadas to close formation (little grebe dives into another dimension) - the big hill surfaces, blowing cloud, light seeps as the sun falls

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"The Arithmetic Of Climate Failure". my response to a series of questions posed by Alma Asfalto & published last week.

A link to the publication (with abridged answers) and including my full answers is at: climateuncensored.com/the-arithmet...

"The trade was not that you were getting exposed to geopolitics when moving to Dubai."

"The power loom, as we know, is inevitable, preordained by God, who works His miracles through the hands of rich and wise inventors. It’s foolish to resist it." 💀 #DHMakes

Ironing funeral clothes. If you're able to support my @mariecurieuk.bsky.social fundraiser, today would be a good day for it. Thanks again to everyone who's given so far. www.justgiving.com/page/richard...

when i say 'any career-stage', i do mean ANY! the blog is a friendly and casual way to share your knowledge and ideas (and add a line to your CV!)... i wrote my first BARS blog post like halfway through my undergrad :)

same goes for the tiktok!! we are alwayyyys looking for tiktok contributors!

"American innovation" now refers to making a kind of atrocity cronut by combining insider trading with war crimes.