David Higgins

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.

shadowy creeks of saltmarsh from where a little egret startles takes wing until starsmall curlew paces & stares * down to estuary forgotten post swings shadow to turn of tide & fading human footprints overlaid by avian waxing moon firms faint imprint on afternoon

Good point!

Ageing is a strange and disturbing process e.g. why am I craving Bendicks mint chocolates?

My hot academic take today is that it’s deeply wrong (but deeply typical) to expect a colleague to staff an open day when they are near the end of a fixed term contract and unlikely to be in post the following year. (The example I’m thinking of is not from my own institution.)

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Hi folks. I am going freelance again.
I don’t share my work on here, apart from books (which are not my proper job) so here’s more info about what I do:
www.alexmorss.co.uk/about.html

Looking across a grey road to a rockery and long green hedge. Various trees behind — a fir most prominent. Cloudy sky.

Goldcrest singing from neighbour’s garden today. Always happy to hear them (and relieved that I still can). 😃

I have a ‘no Gen AI used’ statement for talks and lectures but hadn’t thought of it for email. Nice idea — I may follow suit.