Andrew Yool

Anyway, that's my pitch @itvx.com - happy to work up those scripts and work out what the fuck the #Thunderbirds are supposed to do about those societal, #TragedyOfTheCommons type problems!
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Possibly it's just the scale that matters - invading a small ostensibly problematic nation homing #TheHood probably seems easier (in a very narrow sense) than rebooting our energy systems. But is it really?
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It's often struck me that we (and the original #Thunderbirds) focus on problems with a discernible, malevolent human behind them totally at the expense of genuinely more serious problems where we've all ultimately got a hand in them.
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So, the obvious episodes are #Wildfire in high-tech California, #SeaLevelRise flooding in London, #ClimateChange driven avalanche at an Alpine resort, #ExtremeHeat in the Midwest, #IceShelfCollapse at an Antarctic base, heat-buckled rails and a high-speed train, ...
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Having just heard its theme on today's #DesertIslandDiscs, here's my capsule pitch for a remake of #Thunderbirds: exactly the same except all the problems are wholly side effects of civilisation, like #ClimateChange
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And there's also an associated scientific software engineer position on the same project!

Come join us! #UKESM has a great team of (geographically-distributed) experts across all areas of the #EarthSystem, 🌍🌊🌳🏔️⛅. The role will involve examining #TippingPoints as part of the #ARIA project, #PROMOTE.

- "The Other 70%"
- "Not Yours, Apes!"
- "Take Only Measurements, Leave Only Ripples"
- "The Ancestral Home"
- "Why You're Made Of Water"
- "We're Coming For Your Coastal Towns!"
- "Mostly Deep, Dark And Cold"
- "One Day You'll Regret Warming Me"

I'm possibly channeling the wrong emotion here ... 🌊

Never forget Epstein’s little helpers – the powerful men who knew about his crimes, and helped him out anyway | Marina Hyde I’m sorry, but this is not just a political scandal. Time to refocus on the horrific mistreatment of women and girls, and the role of these ghouls, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

While it's unlikely to ever get the same traction as the ongoing political Punch and Judy show, I'm very glad that someone's actually thinking about (a) the actual victims and (b) what this whole sorry affair tells us about the elites who shape our lives. Thank you #MarinaHyde!

Meanwhile, quite possibly the very same people are pretending that all of those thousands of protestors in Minnesota (risking life and limb, let's not forget) are somehow paid for by communists (or some other convenient bogeyman).

I see that you're keeping quiet about the thick carpet of cloud / all-encompassing haze of precipitation that will be separating those 10 hours of sunlight from attendees at ground level ... 😉

These are all words I expect to continue making solid use of for the next 3 years.

It'd be a minor footnote for this whole debacle, but I'm sure that there's a PhD thesis waiting to be written contrasting how the politically powerful bitch about the education system and standards of writing in public and how they write and conduct themselves in private. Wankers.

She'll mess with Texas: Nurse keeps mailing abortion pills, despite Paxton lawsuit Texas sues Delaware nurse practitioner shipping out hundreds of abortion pills each month.

Summary: authoritarian man tells knowledgeable woman what to do. The US's war on safe healthcare in microcosm.

This reminds me how bullshit our calendar is.

We totally could've shaved a day each from January and March to give Feb its 30-day dues.

*Or* ... we could have gone for 13 months of 28 days to better line-up with the Moon's sidereal orbit, and then kept the extra day (or 2 if leap) as holidays.

Good luck! We erred on the side of risk-aversion with access to the outdoors for Phoebe.

💯! I know exactly which tyrant I'd prefer to see extinct. 😂

The conjunction of the colour orange with the phrase "king tyrant" seems vaguely reminiscent of something ...

Such a Tetris amateur - your letters will be at the top of the window before you know it!

However, murals are much harder to put a traffic cone on top of.

But they can be *painted on*.

In years to come, future historians will be astonished at the litany of (essentially) "fuck you" posts from the #OrangeTyrant, and then aghast at just how long the leaders of western nations took these from him.

No self-respecting person would take this crap from anyone in their lives, and yet ...

Has anyone extrapolated this to work out when the content of the UK's right-wing "newspapers" is basically 100% Ed Miliband hit pieces?

Popular Mechanics headline: "Scientists may have found the blueprint of the human body at the bottom of the ocean"

Alternatively: Self-absorbed narcissist scientists reframe all biological discoveries as being all about their own species.

Really #PopularMechanics, that's what you're going with?

Don't know, but I'm all for trying that.

By contrast, rather than hide it from the fascists, Machado has actually given her prize to them, transmogrifying it instead into shit. I don't think there's a reverse reaction that can be used to restore it, however.

Great minds clearly think alike. This is from @newsthump.com.

‘Unacceptable’ for Greenland not to be in US hands, says Trump US president’s comments come hours before high-stakes talks between Denmark, Greenland and US

To be fair, I thought that it was "unacceptable" for asshats to be in the White House, but here we are.

Apps like Grok are explicitly banned under Google’s rules—why is it still in the Play Store? Google describes apps exactly like Grok and says they are banned from Google Play.

Reminding the app stores that gatekeep the likes of #Grok to apply their own rules re: non-consensual / illegal imagery might have been an easier move for the UK government than slippery legislation / mudslinging with fascists ...

What is it with the so-called "new right" and their love of Nazi-adjacent symbols? Do they want brand recognition or not?

Leaving aside the whole "climate change is making the Arctic more accessible and strategically important" vs. "let's stop researching the climate change warming the Arctic" cognitive dissonance