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[april ⚢ @thebpril]

i kind of like the idea of being touched inappropriately by a woman who genuinely loves me

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Phoenix, Arizona regularly climbs past 43°C, that's 110°F, and daily life barely changes. Parts of Britain are about to hit 38°C and the Met Office has issued an extreme heat warning. The same heat that is an ordinary summer afternoon in Arizona turns into a public health emergency in Britain, and the reason comes down to how the country is built.

If it reaches 38°C this week, it will be the hottest June day Britain has ever recorded. The old June record is 35.6°C, set back in 1976. The hottest British day on record was 40.3°C in July 2022, and that day melted the runway tarmac at Luton airport and buckled train tracks.

The first reason is air conditioning. Fewer than 1 in 20 British homes has it. In the United States it sits in roughly 9 out of 10. Phoenix, Dubai and Delhi are built around cooling, so 45°C outside still means a cool room inside. In Britain, when it is 38°C outside, it is close to 38°C in your bedroom too.

The bigger reason is the houses themselves. British homes were built for long, damp, cold winters. Thick brick walls, loft insulation, small windows, all made to hold warmth inside. The same things that keep a house warm through five months of winter also trap heat in summer. Once a British house gets hot, it stays hot for days. And the newest, best-insulated homes, the ones mostly in London and the southeast, are the ones that overheat the worst.

The nights are what actually harm people. The Met Office is warning of tropical nights, where the air never drops below 20°C, even at 3am. Your body recovers from a hot day overnight, once things cool down. If the house never cools, that recovery never comes, and that is when heat starts to kill. In the four days around that 40.3°C peak in 2022, about 1,000 more people over 65 died than usual. This week is also forecast to be muggier than the dry heat last month, and damp air makes it harder for sweat to cool you, which pushes the danger up.

Hot countries are built to throw heat off. Shutters on the windows, pale stone that stays cool, whole afternoons planned around the worst of it, air conditioning everywhere. Britain spent centuries doing the opposite, building a country to catch every bit of warmth it could get.

The picture pairs the British flag with the sun. But the sun is the same sun everywhere. What decides whether a hot week is a pleasant afternoon or a hospital ward is mostly the building you happen to be standing inside.

[ؘ @WRLDOFSLUMP]

Unlike him I say this with pride

[RohanKar @RohanKarMooN]

It sucks that Halo: Campaign Evolved are opting for Pre-rendered cutscenes instead of real-time cause we won't ever get to replicate these kind of gems there.

[م @mysttme]

Mum used to tell me if I didn’t do good in school I’d end up working at Tesco. Job market so cooked i graduated with a first class degree and I got rejected from Tesco?

[Zak 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇲🇽🇧🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇨🇴 @ZG1999_]

Booing the hydration break, sinking 5,000 pints as a collective and getting kicked out of the bars, knocking over plant pots, offensive chants about other countries

Finally, a real country has arrived at the World Cup.

[sky_comet @skycomet1]

i dont do CASUAL, i dont do HOOKUPS. i love with my whole heart and become crazily obsessed, and if it doesnt work i KILL MYSELF

[🐱 @LegHvmper]

"This is just her default skin!" WRONG!!!! HER ARMPIT IS OUT!!!! ‼️‼️‼️😻😻

[Apple @kekled_]

This is lowks better than the bunny skin and I will fight to my dying breath on this matter

[Overwatch Cavalry @OWCavalry]

New #Overwatch Starter Pack Skin for Domina 👓

[Destiny 2 @DestinyTheGame]

"Thank you for walking with me all these years."

[Apple @kekled_]

@horsetwting Cockchafer

[PmAmTraveller @pmamtraveller]

"Spotted by the Tyrannosaur" by artist Silas (robotinpyjamas IG)

[Apple @kekled_]

@r_brauns Somehow I doubt it

[Apple @kekled_]

@r_brauns And you do?????

[Birko Baggins ✝️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🌲 @BibleBaggins46]

Literally was like this in Liverpool the other night and I just went “mad that” and went to kip

[lauren 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @xugaaze]

terrible tudors gorgeous georgians slimy stuarts vile victorians woeful wars ferocious fights dingy castles daring knights

[maeve ~ @miaaowing]

⚠️ IF YOU 🫵 SEE SOMETHING 👁️👁️ THAT DOESNT 🙅‍♀️ LOOK RIGHT ⛔️ SPEAK 🗣️ TO A MEMBER 🪪 OF STAFF 👮‍♂️👮OR TEXT 📲 THE BRITISH 🇬🇧 TRANSPORT 🚝 POLICE 🚨 ON 👇 6️⃣1️⃣0️⃣1️⃣6️⃣

👉 WE'LL 💺 SORT ✅ IT 👍

👀 SEE IT 👀
🗣️ SAY IT 🗣️
💂 SORTED 💂

[Seur @Seur101]

Fourth game in a series that was not original at all and was just another action story game (albeit a good one) vs a genuinely revolutionary game in terms of the hero shooter genre, defined the entire genre honestly, and ten years later is still the biggest game in said genre hmmmmmmm hard choice really