It's been a long week. Please enjoy this synthwave remix of the Airwolf theme.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNna...
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It's been a long week. Please enjoy this synthwave remix of the Airwolf theme.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNna...
NEW ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 2.4% in 2025 as coal fell to a 400-year low. Incredibly, we used less coal last year than than in 1600, when Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne and Shakespeare was writing Hamlet.
All the details in our article: www.carbonbrief.org/...
Eldest is zeroing in on chemical engineering for uni.
Top ten apparently:
1) Cambridge
2) Oxford
3) Imperial
4) Bath
5) UCL
6) Birmingham
7) Leeds
8) Edinburgh
9) Nottingham
10) Strathclyde
Manchester only 13th surprisingly?
www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/league-table...
I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to
Thanks to whichever of my cats for the mouse which appeared just as we were leaving the house.
And then played no part in trying to catch it...
Well this is a lovely start to the day. Hopefully Labour will learn the right lesson from this
Remembering how a by-election used to be mildly interesting rather than a barometer of how screwed the country is
This is a mental war that we have to win. It's not about being a luddite, it's about destroying or retaining the ability to think. It's about how insidious this becomes in a situation where generative AI is adopted and then subverted intentionally.
www.thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/a-new-whar...
It was ok, I would have preferred more wasabi!
Green cheese!
Crying
Two Firesprays with the ridiculous Hondo as pilot, two mining guild TIE fighters.
Back again for the fun day two doubles x-wing tournament and won 2 of the three rounds flying with my 17yo as teammate!!!
“The guy did a great job for a competitive rate. I’m really pleased with it”
Back at my x-wing miniature shenanigans: Sith Taker Open tournament in Stockport.
My target was two wins out of five.
I won two!
So it turns out Matt Goodwin's Reform campaign manager was a holocaust-denying Nazi who said he would "never touch a Jewish woman.”
When do we start seeing all the coverage of the antisemitism crisis in Reform UK?
www.jewishnews.co.uk/reform-uk-su...
A very panicked looking Andrew.
Would that every powerful man who breaks the law have this exact moment (and hopefully face further consequences)
Arresting him during his birthday party? Big schadenfreude feelings today
Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.
The Russo-Japanese War was the first major conflict in history that saw more deaths in combat than deaths by disease.
Realistically, if you were sent to war any time before WW1, you were more likely to shit yourself to death than die at the hands of the enemy.
My students starting singing “We’re all in this together” when they realized Ramadan and Lent are at the same time this year.
🤣😩
Jinx and Vi depicted facing one another in an Art Nouveau style.
Art Nouveau study
Value added sixth form scores have just been released for results in August 2025. First time they've been really useful for a few years because of the impact of COVID on exams.
My school came second in the city. So. Damn. Proud.
Rather annoyingly, I've actually finished the Latin courses on Duolingo. I just assumed it would keep going.
All I'm doing now is reviewing my weak words. Which is helpful but doesn't feel like progress.
Thinking about an alternative to learn Latin, suggestions welcome!
This is doing really weird things to my brain. Prodding the nerdy 80’s kid bits, but then throwing in some ‘can’t quite focus’ audio shenanigans.
youtube.com/watch?v=ryY_...
We just paved over it, but the potholes are starting to reveal things
A graphic from erdavis.com with the title, "Names most at risk of going extinct in the United States"
By the always excellent Erin Davis, a chart of the first names that have seen the greatest (estimated) drop in living Americans with that name. Much more here, including an interactive to look the trends for any first name: erdavis.com/2026/02/16/i...
A digitally-drawn map of the Holy Roman Empire in 1618. Various important states and noble houses are shown in different colors, and there is a key on the left. There are two smaller maps on the right, one showing each state's religion, and one showing which side each state took in the 30 Years' War.
The Holy Roman Empire in the year 1618, on the eve of the 30 Years' War.
I've been working on this map for a week or two, and I finally had the time to finish it. I'm very proud of how it turned out!
Before starting A levels he would have said engineering, but he's been really enjoying chemistry. That might be the one! (Or chemical engineering?)
17yo has expressed an interest in applying to Cambridge. Day trip tomorrow!
Ice skating fan
