Oliver Morton, Eater of Sun

Betting markets should be banned

Make gambling a thoroughly regulated state monopoly

cc @shashj.bsky.social

This is correct. See eg Clifford Simak, "The Trouble with Tycho"

valentine's day isn't just for couples, it's also a day to celebrate love. for instance, i would love it if housing prices came down.

This seems, I don't know, incriminating?

Dhaka matters: an election for Bangladesh | The Intelligence from The Economist

Me talking about astrobiology with my excellent friend and colleague Jason
shows.acast.com/theintellige...

Here's a Fox News segment where contributor Marc Thiessen explains that we don't need to regulate greenhouse gases because "AI will help us find lots of ways to adapt to a warming climate so we can live with it."

this sounds like a pitch for a movie

Hard to prove a negative, as you know. Might be worth looking at tesla production 2015, or a claim about falcon resuablility early on. @sciguyspace.bsky.social might have light to shed

A photo of a Metra train pulled up to a train station, looking down the train. A person walks into frame way down at the front of the train. Beautiful colors as the sun sets.

Hmmm.. Looking back through some of my old work and I think this might be one of my top 5 favorite photos I've taken. Love the composition SO much.

The person walked into frame at the perfect time way down at the end. And the colors are just so great. Plus the bottle up on the ledge? *mwah*

It wouldn't even occur to me to boo my team under any circumstances. I support the team #COYS

"Moderna's CEO announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: 'You cannot make a return on investment if you don't have access to the U.S. market. Vaccines for Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, and shingles have been shelved.” 9:12 AM Feb 12, 2026 604.8K Views

In terms of what cures are being lost:

- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

There's a great line in 'It's No Game' on this (wonderful) album

'To be insulted by these fascists, it's so degrading...'

I think of it often when I see Farage, Trump...

FACTCHECK: Centrica's Chris O'Shea got blanket coverage for claiming electricity will cost more in 2030 than in energy crisis (Chris Stark: "he's wrong on this")

I asked Centrica for evidence – they didn’t reply

(Bills in crisis were >2x today, before huge govt subsidies)
1/4

The climate nihilism of the Republican party....
That was going to be the subject of a sentence, but i can't find it in me to finish it.

A medieval illustration of a hedgehog with grapes skewered on its spines

It was believed in medieval times that hedgehogs had spikes so they could roll over fruit to carry home to their children, which is not true but is a really cute idea

Graphic showing changes in CO₂, global temperatures and global sea levels over the last 2025 years. Steep increases are visible after the industrial revolution.

Updated climate indicators graphics, now including 2025

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Footnote 2 from the Fallows article. It reads: For decades, NOTAM had been understood as shorthand for Notice to Airmen. In the Biden years, this was changed to Notice to Air Missions. One of the first anti-woke moves Team MAGA made at the FAA was changing it back to “Airmen.”

Really small-in-the-scheme of things extraordinarily irritating detail:

Asked and answered
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Yes was going to call you and didn't

which *was* rude

Here’s a key task for the new boss at the BBC: solve the mystery of all the disappearing women | Anne McElvoy A report detailing how the careers of female presenters are curtailed should be a clarion call. The problem has endured for too long, says journalist and broadcaster Anne McElvoy

Would be good

Photo of the fruiting bodies of a pure white fungus. The numerous fruiting bodies look like nearly round fans. They are growing on rotting wood, brown in colour.

Pleurocybella porrigens aka Angel Wings Fungus. Newfoundland, Canada. Photo from a couple of years ago, in autumn.
#fungi #fungifriends

365 Challenge No. 1 - 2026 publish daily old unpublished pics
Day 44 - Sunset over the Sound of Jura from Carsaig Bay, Tayvallich, Argyll, Scotland 2013
#fotosbyfaj #faj365challenge2026 #photography #blueskykin #sunset #orange #reflections #argyllandbute
More at fotosbyfaj.com

26 days in a row with rain in Reading. Longest such sequence on record in observations at the University going back to 1908.

Drinking-age laws protect the drinks?

US repeals key ‘endangerment finding’ that climate change is a public threat Overturning the 2009 decision means billions of extra tonnes of greenhouse-gas emissions over the next three decades.

Today’s action “is a rejection of the most basic laws of physics”, says #climate scientist Friederike Otto.

I report on the EPA revoking its own ruling on the danger of greenhouse gases:

www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

US Attorney General Pam Bondi with Louisiana Congressman Mike Johnson and Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt sitting on a stage talking. Eric Schmitt is wearing a navy suit with a white or light blue dress shirt, solid red tie, and black cowboy boots. His pants are very slim causing them to ride up high when he sits down and revealing a bit of leg betwen his pant hem and the tops of his cowboy boots.

come on

Low-angle view beneath a long concrete pier at dusk, its columns receding into the distance over rolling ocean waves. The sky shifts from warm orange at the horizon to deep blue above. Wet sand in the foreground reflects the dark silhouette of the pier and the fading light, with thin ripples and a small patch of seaweed near the waterline.

Tonight’s clear skies after a rainy day. Ocean Beach, San Diego, California

#SanDiego #sunset #OceanBeach

WATCH: Trump, EPA's Zeldin announce end of scientific basis for U.S. action on climate change The Trump administration on Thursday revoked a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, the most aggressiv...

Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.

This is a terrific article -