Antarctic sea ice reaches new record low. *knee slide*
A disabled woman wrote to Sunak to tell him that disabled people were struggling in the UK right now. Number 10 asked her to formally present her letter as part of a disability rights campaign. When she got there Number 10 put out the wrong ramp so she couldn’t reach the door and wouldn’t get the correct one. This is disability rights in the UK in an absolute nutshell.
I finished reading Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy. Honestly, you should read this book. It’s heartbreaking and beautiful, depressing and uplifting, optimistic and horrifying. Her writing, technically I mean, her abilities with words, is beautiful and poetic and every line is perfectly formed. It’s stunning just to take in the quality of the work, like standing in front of a giant painting like Wreck of the Medusa or something and there are millions of brush strokes and they all pull together into this amazing multi-facted work of hundreds of tiny pictures making one big one. And the story, well, what’s depressing is that it was first published two years before I was born but could have been written yesterday. The only historical incongruence is the climate fears (in the seventies the first scientific understanding of climate change made them think we might be on the verge of an ice age and this error is often used by boomers of the right to poo-poo the whole idea of climate change). It’s a tragedy that 50 years ago people could see how society was developing and provide warnings but for nothing.
The centre of the Earth is a 450 mile wide iron-nickel ball. Pretty cool, huh?
Woman sues BA for offering her vouchers instead of a refund. Wins. Remember this next time a company offer you vouchers when it should be money.
Skull comb.
So the Americans were going to nuke the moon in order to improve public morale.
Celtic statue with giant flapping willy.
One of the guys who started the Green Party thinks its too late to save the world. Is he right, or is he just a person who thinks that if I couldn’t do it, it can’t be done?
You don’t get to be the richest man in the world by having any respect for the disabled.
Imagine, if you will, that you were an environmentalist and campaigner for sustainable travel, and you were connected or convincing enough to be appointed Minister for Transport. You’d use your position to advocate consistently for public transport and you’d stop roadbuilding programmes and it would be pretty cool. Now, would you be such a hypocritical tool as to go an undermine it all by doing all your ministerial travel by fucking car and expecting the taxpayer to pay for it