This is an outrageous slur by Adam Boulton on Sally Rooney and Irish people. Our support for Palestine is rooted in solidarity, anti-colonialism, anti-racism, and of course simply being against apartheid Israel's genocide. Let's hope Sally Rooney has called her lawyers.

Palestine book by Alana Hadid and Jenan Matari pulled from Random House before release

RECORD AGAIN IN ECUADOR Exceptional MINIMUM of 26.7C at Guayaquil which re-re-re....-breaks the record of October hottest night and even approaches the all time,with months of further warming ahead. Sea water temperatures are approaching 30C. Absolutely crazy and unprecedented

Water ladybird, Anisosticta Novemdecimpunctata.

The NHS is already one of the biggest perpetrators of anti-trans violence in the UK. This new guidance, which refers to trans people using slurs, demands that we be segregated and abused. I’ve said it before: senior NHS managers must be sacked and punished for what they’ve done to us.

How is this different to what Labour did?

Are cis people paying attention to what Andy Burnham is doing to trans people or are you still too excited over his message of 'hope'? Like, today. Do you see what has happened *today*?

The Venn diagram of people who think ‘small boats’ is an important issue for the UK and people who are racists is a circle.

It turns out that the best way to avoid being killed by drivers is to be protected by infrastructure.

The NHS in England today instructed all its staff to do harm to trans people as policy.

"They don't want to go fishing anymore. I don't blame them actually" -- Trump "jokes" that people don't want to go fishing because they might get murdered by the US military

"Cut off King Charles head, the Muslim traitor!" - Reform UK This is what passes for patriotism these days. Well done ITV. Well done.

Very useful summary

Your regular reminder that my daughter Alice’s death wasn’t counted in Appleby’s report, despite her meeting all the criteria. And when I emailed the Tavistock adult GIC to inform them they could take Alice off the waitlist, because she’d died by suicide, they never replied. It’s a disgrace.

The kind of energy and tenacity we need for the coming week / weeks 💚✊️

Now is the perfect time to check for endemic whitebeams in northern bavaria (which we have a bunch of) as they still have leaves but also bright red/orange berries 🍂🌳 pics; Karpatiosorbus franconica, endemic to frankenjura region, Hedlundia pulchra; endemic to rocky outcrops close to Gößweinstein