Saddened at the passing of Shyam Saran Negi, the first registered voter of Independent India. He was the first one to cast a vote in 1952 general elections & now at 106 he casted his vote for upcoming elections in Himachal via postal ballot, just before he passed away. Om Shanti!

Ruth Ginsberg said it all in one powerful sentence.

Good memories of a great ‘prize season’ 2019–both prizes bearing women’s names, Olive Schreiner and Elizabeth Jolley! Joburg and Melbourne in one week. (Before this phone fades utterly!)

Suella Braverman MP Your anti-asylum seeker rhetoric and policies are part of the problem. You and others like Elphicke and Farage have used culture wars to whip up hate.

You’re despicable.

Less than 20 years ago, the world was headed for a >4C warmer world by 2100. The amount of change that would occur under that much warming, that fast, was almost unimaginable and certainly unsurvivable for human civilization + a large percentage of the world's species. (thread)

Your annual reminder that not going through with this cursed clocks charade could save households an estimated £400 a year on their energy bills, save the UK a projected 450,000 tonnes of CO2, and save parents of young children weeks of sleep deprived agony.

Le prix Nobel de littérature 2022 a été décerné à Annie Ernaux !
Retrouvez notre grande série qui lui était consacrée.
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Le prix Nobel de littérature 2022 attribué à la romancière française Annie Ernaux lemonde.fr/international/…

BREAKING NEWS:
The 2022 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the French author Annie Ernaux “for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory.”

Sorry to hear about the passing of Wong Phui Nam, poet and pioneer of Malaysian writing in English

Friends! My article 'Seeing like the Sea' is out for real & I'll have to beg James Scott's pardon sometime

Thrilled to announce that Graywolf will be publishing not one, but TWO Isabel Waidner books in the next couple of years! COREY FAH DOES SOCIAL MOBILITY will be out in winter of 2024! And look out for the U.S. release of STERLING KARAT GOLD on 2/7/23. Welcome to the pack, Isabel!

Greg Jackson Love this analogy Greg Jackson , Did you know in Gibraltar they have a separate sewage flushing system that uses Saltwater to preserve fresh water which is gathered in huge reservoirs under the rock of Gibraltar?

'The monarchy is really one aspect of plutocracy, rule by the wealthy,' says @priyamvadagopal.

We've long been calling for change, and the govt have now announced a review to stop gas setting the price for cheap green energy.

Energy reform + urgently building more UK renewables will make everyone's bills cheaper, and help ensure we never face a crisis like this again.

Incredible.. 400mm of rainfall in three hours is an extraordinary amount of rain! Imagine that Berlin gets around 280mm per year on average! And of course at the same time we have the Pakistan floods that have drowned 1/3 of the country.. #ClimateCrisis independent.co.uk/tv/climate/wea…

Very happy that our paper, “Accelerated western European heatwave trends linked to more-persistent double jets over Eurasia”, is now published Nature Communications. A shout out to my co-authors
Kai Kornhuber, Goratz Beobide Arsuaga, Fei Luo, Dim Coumou and Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK nature.com/articles/s4146…

Whether you agree with her or not, this woman has a right to protest. Nor is this an isolated example. Police need to be careful not to over-step the mark.

Plugging in case anyone is wondering what's happening out there these days beyond the hereditary transfer of wealth