commuting is exhausting. but on the other hand. #NorthYorkshire #trainbow

thesis: the good people of Leeds dress according to what colour the sky is, and not according to what the actual temperature is

I spend most of my free time at the moment crawling around in a coral reef that died 340 million years ago. oceans come and go. the ruins are beautiful and we have a lot to learn from them. but also incredibly sad.

bleaching occurs when coral gets heat stressed and ejects the tiny marine algae zooxanthellae, that live in its tissue and give most of its colour and energy. without zooxanthellae, coral starves and its bone-white calcium skeleton becomes visible theguardian.com/environment/20…

Global heating has pushed the world’s coral reefs to a fourth planet-wide mass bleaching event that is on track to be the most extensive on record. Some 54% of ocean waters containing coral reefs have experienced heat stress high enough to cause bleaching. theguardian.com/environment/20…

cheeky bit of non-work-related reading. excellent! Irene Solà, When I Sing, Mountains Dance

Survivors of a terrible African war flee their blighted continent, and look for refuge in the countries of the West. But Britain is falling into civil war and anarchy. — blurb for Christopher Priest's disturbingly prescient novel FUGUE FOR A DARKENING ISLAND (1972)

David Brexit Cameron urging anyone at all to be smart and use head as well as heart, is just. I mean. please.

now here’s a job — Lecturer in Fantasy Literature, School of School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow jobs.ac.uk/job/DHA014/jam…

The Writer's Technique in Thirteen Theses, by Walter Benjamin

the first human coronavirus was discovered by Dr June Almeida in 1964 at her laboratory in St Thomas’s Hospital in London. this photo shows her at her electron microscope at the Ontario Cancer Institute in Toronto in 1963 bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotla…

no. more. war.

Google provides cloud computing services to the Israeli Ministry of Defense time.com/6966102/google…

a longue durée analysis of Palestine's subjugation to colonization, extraction, and the fossil fuel empire versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/ne…

The Gathering Cloud collates research into the history and language of meteorology with current thinking about data storage and climate change. uniformbooks.co.uk/thegatheringcl…

the absolute state of the Thames, 1858-2024

striding along in the rain with a fistful of wild garlic in one hand and a fossil in the other. also a strong look.

(massive backlog of book manuscripts building up over here)

who publishes poetry collections with images in them? diagrams, rather than illustrations.

“The artist painted this bison with eight legs, suggesting movement - almost a form of proto-cinema. We are locked in history and they were not.” - Werner Herzog | Chauvet caves of Southern France, Cave of Forgotten Dreams