Mike Owen

About *a third* of global fossil fuel CO2 emissions emitted during the Industrial age have occurred in roughly the last 17 years. The previous third was emitted over a period of roughly 26 years. The first third was emitted over a period of about 131 years.

A Fine City

Clegg, positioned himself as a man of principle when he was a British MP and led the Liberal-Democrats. Look at him now, I guess this is who he always was.

Then the ai industry doesn’t deserve to survive.

A paean to privatised public transport.

Today I had to go from Stockport to Salisbury. So I bought a ticket

Stockport > Bristol > Salisbury

The drive to Stockport should have taken 35 minutes. Satnav said it would take 2 hours, and I'd miss my train.

So I went to Macclesfield, where I found...

Underrated 'tweet'

What is this 37-40kph you speak of?

Buster Keaton riding a dandy horse in the 1923 silent film Our Hospitality

Happy #BicycleBirthday, Buster!
October 4 (1895-1966)

Thanks.

Article reads: Woman named as Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

A mammoth figurine carved from ivory, its surface weathered with age. The shape captures the essence of the animal, with a prominent trunk and sloping back. The figure is displayed on a metal stand against a dark background.

I just have to post this #iceage masterpiece from time to time: A tiny (3.7 cm) but amazing figurine of a woolly mammoth carved in mammoth ivory some 40,000 years ago.

Found in the Vogelherd cave on the Swabian Jura, south-west Germany.

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Tim Walz: "My god, we've got the White House threatening investigations and jail time because an escalator stopped? Walk up the damn stairs!"

#OtD 3 Oct 1937 almost a year after their defeat at Cable St, Mosley's Blackshirts attempted to march through Bermondsey, South London. Met with strong local opposition and barricades in the streets, the march never arrived at its intended destination workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e35-...

‘Planetary health diet’ could save 40,000 deaths a day, landmark report finds Diet allows modest meat consumption and would also slash food-related climate emissions by half, says report by 70 leading experts from 35 countries

A landmark report by 70 leading experts from 35 countries finds that a 'planetary health diet’ - which includes modest meat consumption - could save 40,000 deaths every day, whilst also slashing food-related climate emissions by half.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A screenshot of an X post by Q. Anthony Ali (@NobleQAli , 12h ago) featuring a black-and-white historical image of a person lying on the ground while others, including a woman kneeling and several standing figures, are around them in what appears to be a park or open area. Below this, a reply by Antonio Benetto (@Tony_Benetto , 1d ago) to @drmistercody states: "I don't believe US troops will fire on American citizens."

History has many painful lessons.

Jamal Khashoggi...

JOEPRESSO V2 | JOEPRESSO JOE V2 comes with the adaptor, a pressurzied basket, and a stainless steel screen with attached gasket. The screen gasket combo seals tightly on both AeroPress and AeroPress GO. It acts as a dispers...

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But I Am A Free Man On Sunday, painting by Clare Allan. Footpath leading to Kinder Scout, inspired by the 1932 Mass Trespass. #WomensArt #NorthernArt

Photo of a woman wearing jeans riding a bicycle.

“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
— Jane Goodall

#RIPJaneGoodall

They’re good, there’s also an attachment to replace the filter on an aeropress called the Joe Presso. Well worth getting, use mine every morning.

And for some reason you seem to be able to vote more than once, must be a glitch in their software.

A black and white photograph of Leith Walk from Calton Hill.

@davehenniker.bsky.social took this photograph. I like it.

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Missed it, again. Next time...

Aviation expansion is a disaster for the climate crisis.

Anyone who's been paying any attention to this shambles of a Labour Govenrment knows they don't care about people in poverty, don't care about nature nor for the planet.

Just big business & their own interests.

#Gatwick

Photo of a playground swing framing a person riding a bicycle on a beach.

📷Moises Levy

Here is the Sun's pitifully small apology for its lie about benefits tourism - a lie that was accepted as truth by millions and helped deliver Brexit.

These lies are perverting our democracy. At a minimum, apologies should be published in the same location and size as the lie.

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We should all be backing them,

Ned Ludd is stirring ""Enoch made them, and Enoch shall break them."

Fuck that.