Chris Fowler

Trump is utterly disgusting. Surely we cannot be far from the time when King Charles refuses to be involved in Trump’s attempts to use a significant 🇺🇸 anniversary for his own ends. Just take today - for a US President to say “I’m glad he’s dead” of a man who has devoted his life to public service is beyond vile. And his endorsement of Orban (farewell any notion of not interfering in other countries’ politics) puts him in the Putin camp once more, furthering the risk to Ukraine. Add in the endless insults of @Keir_Starmer and I really think the time has come for the 👑 to follow the Pope in being otherwise engaged .

@NVIDIARobotics You could have at least referenced farm.bot as a pioneer in this space.

🎉 Congrats to the team behind “Sprout,” an autonomous NVIDIA Jetson–powered microfarm that monitors plant health, waters each plant exactly as needed, and was one of the winning teams in the Stanford TreeHacks Edge AI Challenge. 🌱 Check out their project ➡️ nvda.ws/4rlljMi

U.S. farmers are intentionally flooding their fields to revive ancient "prairie potholes," creating temporary "pop-up" wetlands that deliver a huge boost to migratory birds while improving soil health. In regions like California's Central Valley and the Mississippi Delta, innovative programs—most notably BirdReturns (launched by The Nature Conservancy in 2014)—pay farmers to strategically flood low-lying or post-harvest fields at precise times during bird migrations. These short-term wetlands mimic the natural prairie potholes and seasonal marshes that once dotted the landscape but were largely drained for agriculture. By timing floods to align with peak migration periods (e.g., spring and fall for shorebirds, waterfowl, and sandhill cranes), farmers provide essential stopover habitat: shallow water, mudflats, and abundant food for millions of birds traveling along flyways like the Pacific Flyway. The approach has transformed tens of thousands of acres of working farmland into critical refueling stations, with studies showing dramatic increases in bird use and numbers—sometimes 3.5 times higher in these managed pop-up wetlands compared to standard fields. Farmers also gain practical benefits. Seasonal flooding enhances soil structure, boosts nutrient cycling (as bird activity and water help break down residues), recharges groundwater, reduces erosion, and supports long-term land productivity—often without hurting crop yields in subsequent seasons. This win-win model proves that modern agriculture and wildlife conservation can reinforce each other, turning productive farmland into flexible ecological assets that sustain both birds and resilient farming systems. [The Nature Conservancy. BirdReturns: Creating Dynamic Habitat for Migratory Birds. The Nature Conservancy California]

Today! The Emerald Isle shining in the overdue sunshine. The sun will return on Friday and Saturday. View from space via @NASAEarth.

“We understand very intimately grief and pain. This is not singular to us as Irish people, but I think we understand grief and pain as a thing that can be told through hope and lightness. “I think that a specific thing to here is that when we tell these difficult stories – we tell them with hope and with kindness.” Local stars including Jamie-Lee O’Donnell, Seamus O’Hara, Danielle Galligan and Lisa McGee speak to Sophie Clarke about why they think Irish storytelling resonates around the world. 🎥 Dylan Hegarty

I was interviewed for this film. Most documentaries create strawmen of the people they interview Not this one! I feel like the filmmakers did a pretty good job representing many views: The gravely concerned, the optimistic, the CEOs... Highly recommend watching this!

BREAKING 🚨 | Reform announce plans to legalise discrimination. Plans include scrapping the Equality Act, which would legalise discrimination against a worker if they were a woman, disabled, black, pregnant or gay. From ripping up equality protections, to backing fire-and-rehire, to opposing a ban on zero-hours contracts, Reform UK have made it clear whose side they’re on – and it’s not working people.

"Dirty Business: The Filthy Truth About England’s Water Companies." Channel 4, Feb 23rd at 9pm, be there. thetimes.com/culture/tv-rad…

The Tories stole our @RoyalMail and sold it to their mates. Since then the company: * pays massive salaries to its execs. * pays huge bonuses to its execs for meeting fake performance goals. * has paid out nearly £2bn in dividends to shareholders. * has invested little, either capitally or operationally, in its business. * provides a poorer-quality delivery service compared with when it was owned by us. Every UK privatisation - water, rail, energy, mail has resulted in the same; a private monopoly that raises its prices way beyond inflation and delivers a cheap and as poor quality a service possible in order to maximise profits for execs and shareholders ... rinse and repeat. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

At the Munich Security Conference, Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton did not exaggerate. She did not rant. She simply described, with cold precision, what is unfolding before our eyes: pressure on Ukraine to surrender, a cynical convergence with Putin, and the erosion of the values that have underpinned the West since 1945. This is not theatre. It is the defence of democracy, sovereignty and human dignity. What is at stake today is the credibility of the democratic world itself.

Ireland's basic income pilot for artists worked so well they made it permanent. The economic growth it generated paid back more than its net cost, study shows. How many people are being held back from their potential because they're living bill-to-bill? UBI is true freedom.

What if? 👀 #ElixirLang #Nerves #Raspberry

BBC news tells me that, in the future, the ruling will mean the Home Secretary will find it more difficult to ban terrorist organisations. No. In future, the ruling means it will be more difficult for the Home Secretary to ban organisations that are not terrorist

This!

OMG!! This is amazing. Court rules government's ban on Palestine Action is unlawful. This entire episode has been such a shameful stain on Keir Starmer's government. news.sky.com/story/palestin…

A billionaire worth £17,000,000,000 who moved to Monaco to dodge £4,000,000,000 in tax is now blaming immigrants for Britain’s problems. If parasitic billionaires like Jim Ratcliffe paid what they owe — and politicians weren’t in their pockets — our NHS, schools and public services wouldn’t be on their knees. It is textbook divide and rule. The real enemy of the working class travels by private jet, not migrant dinghy.

The Trump Administration is once again trying to deny science and reality – this time, by throwing out the well-established research connecting the climate crisis to public health. While the Trump Administration can try to ignore the climate crisis, it’s painfully clear that the climate crisis will not ignore us. Last summer, the US experienced a dozen once-in-1,000-year floods in the span of just three days. In Texas, one of those flooding events killed at least 135 people, including 37 children at summer camp. The Trump Administration’s rollback of the endangerment finding is not only a direct assault on science, knowledge, and public health, it is an insult to the people across the country who are already coping with the disastrous consequences of climate-driven extreme weather events. The decision to revoke the endangerment finding is one of the more egregious examples of the Trump Administration prioritizing fossil fuel profits over American lives.

Royal Mail relocates. Tomb Street opens up. Right beside the rail line. If Belfast misses the chance to deliver a Cathedral Quarter / Gamble Street station here, we’ll regret it for decades. @newsmulg @niplanner @NewtonEmerson @ShaunaReports

Since #bbclaurak is trending, let’s remind ourselves that ONE MONTH ago, the BBC invited Mandelson on for a soft-ball interview on her show. While his client, Palantir’s Louis Moseley appeared as a pundit Both, as I wrote at time, were ‘abject failures of journalism’ 1/

@josevalim Totally... And then mark it as unread again.

Does anyone else mark a message or email as unread, as a reminder to check it out later, and then your brain is like: "oh, an unread message/email", and then you immediately open it again, just to end-up very disappointed with yourself?