RIP Bob Weir. This was the last song he ever performed, Touch of Grey at the Grateful Dead’s 60th anniversary in San Francisco.
No one knew he had just been diagnosed with cancer.
Jerry Garcia was the sorcerer, & Robert Hunter was the mad poet, but Bob was the heart & soul of the Dead.

Yesterday I was reading about how a type of PFAS (TFA) has been found in cereals in the EU, which is considering designating it toxic to reproduction.
Meanwhile in the US:

Hard to think of a better image of how humanity is heading into climate breakdown

40+ glaciologists just published a paper calling geoengineering to save the Arctic & Antarctic a dangerous distraction.
But other scientists argue that with ice melting we at least need to research them.
My report about a sea ice thickening experiment in Nunavut, on CBC www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Trump’s EPA canceled a $20m grant to fortify the Alaska Native village of Kipnuk against flooding.
Now 121 houses in Kipnuk have been destroyed by flooding, & a total 1,800 people have been evacuated in one of the biggest airlifts in Alaska history. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

72% of Americans: “Global warming is happening”
Trump: Global warming is “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world … & I’m really good at predicting things”

“A shutdown is an attentional event. It’s an effort to turn the diffuse crisis of Trump’s corrupting of the government into an acute crisis that the media, that the public, will actually pay attention to.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...

Olivia Campbell-Cavendish announced at @transpridebrighton.bsky.social that the Trans Legal Clinic has raided £70,000 to match JK Rowling’s donation to lawsuit against trans recognition