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My body is a machine for turning good advice into mutual resentment

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That's three times this small child has fallen on his arse while telling his fellow bus passengers to "hold on tight evruhbodee"

08.03.2026 17:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Two messages. The first: It's 8pm and I'm sat in a freezing church listening to a band that just does folk songs about the moomins being queer

The second: The bass from the gay moomin folk band has just made a small child cry

Two messages. The first: It's 8pm and I'm sat in a freezing church listening to a band that just does folk songs about the moomins being queer The second: The bass from the gay moomin folk band has just made a small child cry

Texts I send from my normal job:

08.03.2026 10:03 πŸ‘ 277 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 2

If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

06.03.2026 04:31 πŸ‘ 6361 πŸ” 1729 πŸ’¬ 67 πŸ“Œ 65

Pining for the good old days when you could get decent snake oil.

05.03.2026 07:27 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Thursday morning and the sky is the colour of a gunslinger's eye

05.03.2026 07:31 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

What's white and square and dangerous?

A fridge up a tree

04.03.2026 07:47 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Wednesday morning and the sky is the colour of acid-washed denim

04.03.2026 07:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Kingfisher sitting on a branch which has one small bud growing on it.

Kingfisher sitting on a branch which has one small bud growing on it.

I take lots of photos of this bird but I hardly ever get him sitting in any light. Here he is posing in full-on sunlight for a change, over the flint mill lade by the River Kelvin in Glasgow. #birds

03.03.2026 21:06 πŸ‘ 46 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
Bright sunlight highlights vibrant green moss, a small light brown mushroom, and the main subject, a large Amanita muscaria. Amanita muscaria is a tall mushroom with a long and thick roughly-textured white stipe and a bright red, dome-shaped cap. The cap is covered in raised white patches which just barely allow the bright red to show through between them.

Bright sunlight highlights vibrant green moss, a small light brown mushroom, and the main subject, a large Amanita muscaria. Amanita muscaria is a tall mushroom with a long and thick roughly-textured white stipe and a bright red, dome-shaped cap. The cap is covered in raised white patches which just barely allow the bright red to show through between them.

An Amanita muscaria living in a fairytale scene along the stream behind our house

πŸ“· Canon R5
Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM
M, f/4, 1/8, ISO 400
Stack of 9 images
11/7/24
Northern Oregon Coast

#mushroom #fungifriends #mushrooms

πŸ„πŸ“· πŸ“ΈπŸŽž 🌿🌱 🟒 πŸ„ πŸ„β€πŸŸ«

03.03.2026 15:29 πŸ‘ 129 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Calling AI "slop" has been one of the most effective instances of the public rebranding a product and it pisses them off.

02.03.2026 20:44 πŸ‘ 16517 πŸ” 5123 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 63

Tuesday morning and the sky is the colour of an advert for fabric conditioner

03.03.2026 07:51 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Cherry Wainer & Don Storer - Peter Gun (1966)
Cherry Wainer & Don Storer - Peter Gun (1966) YouTube video by Beat-Club

Hammond legend Cherry Wainer, #BOTD 1935

youtu.be/xLwNnz8JE6M?...

02.03.2026 08:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Monday morning and the sky is the colour of a pigeon psychopomp

02.03.2026 08:10 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Big band nite pΓ₯ stedet

Vokalisten kom rundt med bΓΈtta under Take the A Train, der tok jeg meg til baklomma

Ser nΓ₯ ut som om jeg har sponset kvelden med papiret fra en Melkesjokolade

01.03.2026 21:55 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Sunday morning and the sky is the colour of abandoned papier mΓ’chΓ©

01.03.2026 08:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Be the marzipan Godzilla that you want to see in the world

28.02.2026 19:39 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

No new pictures. Where are you at mentally?

28.02.2026 19:35 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Most pleasing sentence I have seen all day

28.02.2026 19:22 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
SVG drawing of a slice of scramble-mixed light brown and yellow cake with yellow-green icing, on a muted purple background.

SVG drawing of a slice of scramble-mixed light brown and yellow cake with yellow-green icing, on a muted purple background.

We have survived to see Saturday! Let's celebrate with dulce de leche and dandelion cake with uranium icing.

28.02.2026 11:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The promise of OpenAI and Grok being used in war is that no human can be held accountable for the war crimes it commits, all the way up to where it sits on the chain of command.

The total abdication of any kind of accountability, any kind of "am I following an unjust order" moral hesitation, etc.

28.02.2026 13:30 πŸ‘ 1198 πŸ” 465 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 17

Saturday morning and the sky is the colour of a decommissioned submarine

28.02.2026 07:56 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The alchemist next door keeps transmogrifying my acorn caps into slightly smaller acorn caps, which is annoying because now they won't fit the toads' heads anymore.

27.02.2026 08:11 πŸ‘ 47 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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So the Telegraph is taking this well

27.02.2026 07:06 πŸ‘ 5953 πŸ” 1111 πŸ’¬ 412 πŸ“Œ 289

Hannah Spencer walking into Westminster, sucking her teeth, tutting, and muttering "tell you what, you've had some cowboys in here."

27.02.2026 06:22 πŸ‘ 2738 πŸ” 705 πŸ’¬ 30 πŸ“Œ 24

Friday morning and the sky is the colour of vengeful forget-me-nots

27.02.2026 07:32 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A pinch warning sticker on a piece of heavy equipment. It's a silhouette of a person with a warning sign and two arrows pointing at the person's crotch

A pinch warning sticker on a piece of heavy equipment. It's a silhouette of a person with a warning sign and two arrows pointing at the person's crotch

I've been carrying this picture around for eight years and I still don't understand what it's trying to warn me about

24.02.2026 18:43 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 7
Dr Naomi Wolf @naomirwolf
Terrifying. Also confirms/explains the conversation I overheard in a restaurant in Manhattan 2 yrs ago in which an Apple employee was boasting about attending a top secret demo: they had a new tech to deliver vaccines w nanopatticles that let you travel back in time. Not kidding

Dr Naomi Wolf @naomirwolf Terrifying. Also confirms/explains the conversation I overheard in a restaurant in Manhattan 2 yrs ago in which an Apple employee was boasting about attending a top secret demo: they had a new tech to deliver vaccines w nanopatticles that let you travel back in time. Not kidding

Happy 5th birthday to Naomi’s Time Travel Nanopatticles

26.02.2026 08:30 πŸ‘ 191 πŸ” 50 πŸ’¬ 19 πŸ“Œ 6

Thursday morning and the sky is the colour of a tin-miner's bathtaps

26.02.2026 07:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I've written a new Adrian Chills story (short horror stories directly inspired by the Guardian columns of Adrian Chiles.)

This is #52 and it's called 'Knob'.

25.02.2026 18:37 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Forrige uke hørte jeg for første gang en syngende fossekall. Skjønte ikke med en gang hva det kunne være. Overraskende stort repertoar.

25.02.2026 23:13 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0