A modern-day saviour

Rome, Italy
Tourists cool off beside an outdoor misting fan near the Colosseum.

Photograph: Xinhua/Shutterstock

#photography
#Italy
#Rome
#heatwave
#GlobalWarming
#fans
#AltText

France: A nuclear power reactor had to shut down because the river that cools it is too hot (28C!), the Louvre shuts early because its climate control can't handle the afternoon heat from its patrons, and people are drowning in rivers trying desperately to cool off.

I wish I was reading these things in a Michael Crichton novel, not the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/23/heatwave-france-spain-italy-europe

#ClimateDiary “Above is a fictional weather forecast for August 18, 2050, broadcast by French television in 2014, intended to warn against the disastrous consequences of global warming.

Below is the weather forecast for June 22, 2026.”

(By @jakubwiech on unmentionable)

This brings out super starkly how #ClimateChange has accelerated so much more quickly than we thought even just 12 years ago.

fucking spectacaular

https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/06/22/microsoft-accidentally-kills-epic-outlook-email-threads/5259388

microsoft broke replying to email in outlook

Jennie Stephens: "As an environmental scientist and climate policy researcher who is acutely aware of how big tech companies and their data centres are devastating ecological health, accelerating climate chaos, and eroding democracy, I am a conscientious objector of AI."

"I am part of multiple rapidly expanding global networks of people and communities who are resisting AI and objecting to the power of the big tech companies. Within these ... women are leading the way."

https://archive.ph/0StGs