Today's the birthday of Steve Lombard, Clark Kent and Lois Lane's boorish coworker.

(Comic art by Patrick Zircher, Curt Swan, and Frank Quitely.)

#1976DCCalendar #DCComics #comics #Superman #DailyPlanet  

It’s July in #Scotland, and the UK media keep telling us we’re experiencing a heatwave. My heating came on this morning. Still, at least all the renewable energy Scotland produces means our energy bills are kept low.
No, hang on. We pay among the highest prices in Europe.
#Energy

New Rivers of London from Ben Aaronovitch!

Except this time Detective Grant is far away from London, visiting Scotland's Granite City of #Aberdeen.

Signed copies from Orion Books / Gollancz available now!

#books #livres #fantasy #RiversOfLondon #StoneAndSky #BenAaronovitch #bookstodon #SignedBooks #bookshops #librairies #FantasyBooks

Another short blog post on blocking #AI #LLM #Bots that slow down a website. Using #NGINX, but easily adaptable to #ApacheWebServer #Caddy etc

https://www.infosecworrier.dk/blog/2025/07/botblocker/

Our Edinburgh protest against the genocide in Gaza and the West Bank today. It took place outside the University of Edinburgh during a graduation ceremony. We were joined by several students who had just graduated who protested in their robes against the university's investments that facilitate the genocide. They took time out of their big day to show solidarity with Palestinians.

Glaswegians told to check their change as city named 'rare coin capital'
https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow-news/glaswegians-told-check-change-city-32000726

Took the tram to my cousin's today for dogsitting and those two things feel like a highly specific therapy combo.

Just had a look at the latest climate report from the CCC.

Short version is, we were doing a decent job. Actually met our targets for cutting emissions.

But now the government's lost its nerve. They're backtracking on key stuff like phasing out gas boilers and generally dragging their feet. The easy wins from closing coal power stations are done. Now for the hard graft.

We need to get a move on with offshore wind, solar, heat pumps, and electric cars. The targets are still doable, but not all the while the politricksters in charge keep faffing about. It's just common sense, really. Think of the children 😱

https://www.theccc.org.uk/publication/progress-in-reducing-emissions-2025-report-to-parliament/

#UKPolitics #ClimateChange #NetZero

Rod Liddle, who is calling for the murder of me and my family at Glastonbury festival, is a notorious and unrepentant domestic abuser.... and a Zionist

https://safelives.org.uk/news-views/an-open-letter-to-the-spectator/

#TheSpectator #Abusers #Fascism #GlastonburyFestival RodLiddle

A great review on how #Brexit is going by German TV channel DW (in English). It covers most of the main topics (immigration, trade, and fishing), and interviews many of the important players (include those behind the scenes).

The video’s comments section is also a good read, and worth the extra time.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=dMgr7nZ-eMA

5 July 1948. Britain’s National Health Service came into operation. It was led by Aneurin Bevan, Labour’s Health Minister. It offered treatment free at the point of delivery to all citizens irrespective of income. It’s one of the most important social reforms in British history.

All of this is hand drawn on paper and there is the option to have the ORIGINAL shipped to you. YES.

The Scottish city that was named best in the world for raising a family

It topped cities such as Amsterdam and Copenhagen.This article contains affiliate links, we will receive a commission on…
#Edinburgh #UnitedKingdom #UK #GB #Scotland #Headlines #News #Europe #EU #Britain #Children #Food #GreatBritain #Schools #ThingstodoScotland
https://www.europesays.com/uk/239836/

"People have been told that Gaza protests are hate marches; they can see it’s not true....They have been told that Palestine Action is a terrorist organisation because it spray painted military aircraft; they can see it’s not true. They have been repeatedly told, by Benjamin Netanyahu, that opposition to Israel’s war is antisemitic; they can see it’s not true"
Good from Archie Bland. The tide is turning..

#Israel #Gaza #Genocide

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/05/gaza-israel-bob-vylan-glastonbury

BOOM!

Oil and acrylic on canvas

Sooooo... as a professor:

Under the new budget law's severe loan caps, I'm seriously concerned that a lot of universities are either going to have to radically cut like... everything, or they're just going to close.

A lot of people didn't notice, but going forward, undergraduate students are only going to be able to borrow a maximum of $20,000 a year, up to a lifetime cap of $65,000. I know that sounds like a lot, but the flagship public university near me runs a tuition of $31,700 *per year* before non-loan student aid, but also before housing, food, and so forth. Even mine, a midsized non-prestige university, runs $14k.

There's going to be a lot of Very Average students who don't qualify for Pell Grants (which were also cut) and who come from families that don't have a significant ability to support them financially. For them? The dream of college at a great school probably just died, especially at the best universities.

And before you mention athletics or academic scholarships: think about that flagship public university I mentioned. The only way that can realistically even survive in this system is to slash tuition. Where do you think that money is going to come from? Athletics. Academic scholarships. Dramatic cuts to staff and administrators.

I'm not an economist. I could very well be wrong.

But like

I cannot see how they make the math math.

Outside the UK either VPN or by subscription from Zeteo.

https://zeteo.com/p/watch-now-gaza-doctors-under-attack

#Gaza #Israel #war #BBC