Freelance journo, book shop worker & contributor for Bow Valley Insider @bv_insider. Find my writing in Oesa Arts Mag & Den of Geek. Previously @MetroUK
There’s a persistent myth that new solar farms don’t really help tackle climate change because panels are “made with coal” and “never pay back” their carbon debt.
This is simply false. UN data show solar 8x cleaner than gas, 19x than coal per kWh. Solar repays CO2 in 4months.
At the turn of the 20th century, many Americans came to believe that Mars was inhabited by an advanced civilization. @Jon_Allsop writes about our obsession with Martians, and what it may reveal about our current mass delusions. https://t.co/Cm2Bp2psSm
In recent years, music writers have grown markedly less likely to issue denunciations of popular music and more likely to say they loved it. Why?
https://t.co/hu1i7GhFie
Thanks to The Fantastic Other for chucking me in its summer edition. I don't always write weird stories about birds but those do seem to be the ones that get published https://t.co/tY9jYcQAwR
Israeli tanks fired into a crowd trying to get aid from trucks in the Gaza Strip, killing at least 59 Palestinians, according to medics, in one of the bloodiest incidents yet involving desperate residents struggling to get food https://t.co/v4Fw9xyq9W
Considering all this *gestures broadly* I imagine every world leader at the G7 summit in Kananaskis will be desperate to escape into the wilderness and hike. Here is how they can https://t.co/t41tYXJyCt
This morning’s raid on Kamal Adwan Hospital has put this last major health facility in North #Gaza out of service. Initial reports indicate that some key departments were severely burnt and destroyed during the raid.
60 health workers and 25 patients in critical condition, including those on ventilators, reportedly remain in the hospital. The patients in moderate to severe condition were forced to evacuate to the destroyed and non-functional Indonesian Hospital. WHO is deeply concerned for their safety.
This raid on Kamal Adwan Hospital comes after escalating restrictions on access for WHO and partners, and repeated attacks on or near the facility since early October. Such hostilities and the raids are undoing all our efforts and support to keep the facility minimal functional.
The systematic dismantling of the health system in Gaza is a death sentence for tens of thousands of Palestinians in need of health care.
This horror must end and health care must be protected. Ceasefire!
James Baldwin, who died in December, 1987, “provides endlessly. You think, poring over his letters, that you are getting to know him better—the uncovered lover, et cetera—when the person you are getting to know better is yourself,” @dstfelix writes. https://t.co/HzJkMjsZEw
Friends! Gather round and let us tell you about Issue 6! It's got dimensions, witchery, spiders, spaceships and resistance. Basically everything you need.
Mummer cover at by Alice M @itsbabypears
Issue 6 is out for subscribers! It's got ancient spaceships, witchery, godly shenanigans, mysterious birds, alien-spiders, and cuddly pets. Literally everything you need/want.
Watch this space as we release free-to-read stories/poems each week
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How do you want to change the world? 'Visiting Birds' by @jentombs asks how far you'll go and how many bird friends you'll make/lose along the way.
Coming to subscribers November 30!