Steve D Lympany, UK

@rahmstorf.bsky.social on rainfall as a factor under climate change:

skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...

“So ensuring [privacy] in a world where the authority to know us has been ceded to private actors who may or may not cooperate with one or another regime, who may choose to use that data to manipulate or to harm us or to exclude us from access to resources, is existentially important.”

4. Liquefied fossil gas has higher emissions than coal.
It's a purely cynical scheme, approved by the Tories, but adopted in its entirety by Labour, which meets two political needs at once: appeasing the fossil fuel industry and justifying the Tees Freeport development: another outrageous rip-off.

Sam Bright | Substack Investigative journalist and writer.

I'm now supporting Sam Bright on Substack.

Sam is an investigative journalist focusing on Reform UK's lies and manipulations.

His latest digging into Reform's lies about Kent County Council convinced me to support his work to help protect the integrity of our democracy.

substack.com/@writesbright

I really don't want to go through the whole rigmarole of seeing Farage win power and then fuck everything up and have loads of sympathetic voxpops with dismayed Reform voters expressing their regrets when it was extremely fucking obvious what would happen because his platform is incoherent garbage

Thank you

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Yes, I do commissions

#ART #oilpainting
granddaughter. Oil on canvas

#art #blueskyart #charcoal
John Malkovich

Kudos to Stephen Colbert for speaking out against Paramount’s capitulation to Donald Trump.

I’ve always enjoyed his work — especially The Colbert Report.

Here’s a clip from when I was a guest back in 2010.

Granddaughter. Oil on canvas. #oilpainting #art #ART

Halve Energy Bills The Lib Dem plan would break the link between gas prices and energy costs, so people can enjoy the benefits of cheap, clean power.

www.libdems.org.uk/energy

Oil on paper. Quick sketch. #ART #art #oilpainting

English Setter, the owner tells me.

His owner says Rollo's an English Pointer.

It's his happy look!

I think so!

Charlie! Oil on canvas. #ART #oilpainting

Ella. Oil on canvas. #ART #oilpainting

👍 A lot of it is anti intellectuallism, I think. A bit of paranoia, thinking scientists, engineers etc (the "elite") are getting screwing them over.

That *is* his happy look! 😁

#ART #oilpainting
granddaughter. Oil on canvas

Rollo. Oil on ACM. #ART #oilpainting

I wouldn't have attempted it. Given my age!

It worked well for me. Not having done any coding for 12 years, I thought I'd give it a try. I knew Dart. Chatgpt and copilot together helped me learn Flutter, with explanations. I've finished a complex Web app with drag, drop, rotate etc in 3 months that would've taken me at least 2 years.

Not disagreeing. In some jobs (eg software development), AI doesn't "do" the job, but helps devs to do 10 times quicker. AI needs someone knowledgeable to guide it.

Still a job killer though.

It's time to work with our biggest and closest neighbour with a bespoke UK-EU customs union, to turbocharge our economy, bring in billions to rebuild our public services and protect household budgets.

Nine years ago the godfather of Brexit, Lord Daniel Hannan, predicted life in Brexit Britain in June 2025. Roll the tape…
(VO by @gavinesler.bsky.social. Part 2 below👇)

Rule of Idiots - Read by Eunice Wong In the last days of all empires the idiots take over. They mirror the collective stupidity of a civilization that has detached itself from reality.

open.substack.com/pub/chrished...