During winter we get days in the low teens and sometimes down to low single digits at night, but not as cold as what you'd get over there.
We're increasingly seeing weeks at a time of high 30s/low 40s during summer though, when usually it'd just be a few days here and there. Also much less rain.
I think the weather has been shit in general. My tomatoes have mostly struggled this year and the plants are already dying off, even though this time last year they were still producing new fruit.
There's still fruit on the plants that will keep ripening, but once that's gone, that's it.
Nathan Fillion has been doing little videos over the last month or so with other Firefly stars to tease some upcoming announcement. I don't think it's 100% confirmed but it's looking increasingly likely.
Man, 20 years ago or maybe even 10 years ago I would have been so excited at the prospect of Firefly getting another series.
But now? Meh.
A man in a shirt and shorts sitting in the back of his station wagon out the front of McDonalds with a German Shepherd. He is holding up a McDonalds ice cream cone while the German Shepherd slurps at it eagerly.
Rosco had to go to the vet today. He was a very good boy and didn’t try to eat anybody, so he got an ice cream from McDonalds as a treat.
Aphids are bastards. I get them occasionally on my chillies as well.
A rose with pale cream petals with darker pink striations. The petals have drops of water on them.
A rose bloom with pale cream and almost white petals with a gold centre. The outer edges of the petals have dark red striations.
A bloom on my Camille Pissarro Del Bard rose, in the morning and in the evening. I love the gradual change of colours in the petals throughout the day.
A regal German shepherd with a grey muzzle sitting in grass.
Happy 8th birthday to our big frosty-face mouse ❤️
In the foreground, a brown dog lying normally. Beyond him, a bunch of blond paws sticking up vertically from an armchair.
There are two kinds of sleeping dog...
The moon going from full moon to a red moon and starting to go back to a normal full moon, then my camera battery door fell off.
Here's my first edit on the March 3rd Lunar Eclipse. 15 moon shots, 1 foreground. Taken over a 3 hourish period.
I don't know what applications we'll use with Windows 12 but I know Windows 13 will be used with sticks and stones
i would sooner staple my dick to a moving car than use this trash
tech4gamers.com/windows-12-r...
"Everyone hates AI and all the companies who force it into their products face massive backlash."
"Yes, but... it might work for *us*."
Every now and then in various situations I worry I might be overreacting or being a bit ridiculous but now I can look at this and go "You know what, I'm being quite normal, actually"
I really like the look of Pokopia but I just don't think I can justify buying a brand new console for it when my launch day Switch still works and I have so many games on there I haven't finished yet :\
Watching some show on TV about American doomsday preppers and honestly, I would rather just be killed outright by whatever the apocalyptic event was than have have to live in a bunker and scratch around in the dust for a tin of beans while avoiding zombies for the next 5 years.
It's so much fun when the higher-ups at the university you teach at insist on GenAI being pushed into everything regardless of the environmental or ethical concerns or the detrimental effect on student learning lol
New post on my writing blog: So close and yet so far...
rebeccajfleming.wordpress.com/2026/03/02/s...
I'm a game design genius
I can't remember if we're friends in-game or not? (in-game name is Becinator)
Screenshots of Pokemon GO storage including lots of shinies, such as Carbink, Unown K, Charmander, Noibat, costumed Pikachu, Tyrunt, Amaura and Skiddo.
Pokemon Go Tour 2026 is over. Definitely one of my best events in terms of shinies caught; though I did get a few duplicates, I also got several new ones, some of which I've been chasing for years.
A view from outside a front loungeroom window, where a German Shepherd is sleeping with his chin on his paws on a bit of rolled up carpet.
A close-up view from outside a front loungeroom window, where a German Shepherd is sleeping with his chin on his paws on a bit of rolled up carpet, completely dead to the world.
Came home from catching Pokemon and our 'guard dog' didn't even stir.
Hey Albo, you’re supposed to just lick the boot, not deep throat it.
It would have been so much more interesting if that last Pokemon started as the gym type and then Terastallised into something different, so you would have to actually go in there with a strategy and contingencies for dealing with a different type
I found very little reason to use Terastallising in gyms because the gym leader's last Pokemon would start as a different type to all the rest... and then it would Terastallise into the same type, so you could just keep steamrolling it with the same super effective mon you'd used for the others...
That being said, I'm well aware this might be a case of "I don't know what I want" and I know they have to change *something* or people will complain they're just re-releasing the same game over and over, but yeah... *shrug*
I think one of the biggest issues I have with the franchise is the introduction of a new gimmicky evolution type in each generation (Mega, Dynamax, Terastallising etc). It just makes it hard for me to invest in or care about them. Terastallising especially was disappointing in its gym implementation
No rain yet but the humidity is killing me so I'm heading home early 😭
Still, even in the four hours I played, I got 15 shinies, including 5 I didn't have, so it was definitely worth braving the unpleasant weather for as long as I did.
Going out for the #PokemonGo Tour event today. Hopefully the rain holds off until I get all the shinies I want 😆
In a statement to The Crimson, Summers wrote that the decision to leave was “difficult” and that he remained “grateful to the thousands of students and colleagues I have been privileged to teach and work with since coming to Harvard as a graduate student 50 years ago.” “Free of formal responsibility, as President Emeritus and a retired professor, I look forward in time to engaging in research, analysis, and commentary on a range of global economic issues,” he added.
When academia's stars mistreat people, they're "punished" with relief from teaching, mentoring, and service responsibilities. This frees them to spend more time on the more valued work of research. And dumps less valued responsibilities onto colleagues, making it harder for them to become stars.
