Paul Sutherland

I've only read Small Things Like These. Thanks for the reminder to read more of her work.

Humpback Whales Blow Bubble ‘Smoke’ Rings to Communicate With Humans | KQED Bay Area researchers from SETI and UC Davis captured a rare sight: humpback whales blowing bubble rings — like smoke rings — while calmly approaching humans. It’s the first time scientists have docume...

Seems like the whales want a chat.

My cartoon in this weeks @newyorker.com

An 80,000-year history of the tomato Creating the perfect vegetable

The good old tomato has quite the history www.worksinprogress.news/p/an-80000-y...

Artist: Oliver Stretton-Pow Title: Hard Graft, Mark Two Date: 2025 An artwork of a lighthouse suspended in the air by tree roots

Tāmaki Makaurau, note the Aotearoa Art Fair is on 1-4 May with artworks popping up already along the Viaduct Harbour sculpture trail:
Artist: Oliver Stretton-Pow
Title: Hard Graft, Mark Two
Date: 2025
Info here:
artfair.co.nz/sculpture-tr...

I feel like that could be me if I moved overseas, except replace mint sauce with their mint jelly

Cartoon showing person standing in front of cybertruck in protest. Image references famous Tank Man photo from Tiananmen Square. Art by Zez Vaz.

Artist: Zez Vaz

what did Google mean by this

Pretty much every serious photographer here tries to capture photos of the volcano and the northern lights together. Sometimes, they succeed quite well ;) Photos from Wioleta Gorecka, taken near Reykjanesvíti.

The Strange Reason Nearly Every Film Ends by Saying It’s Fiction (You Guessed It: Rasputin!) Virtually every film in modern memory ends with some variation of the same disclaimer: “This is a work of fiction. Any similarity to actual persons,...

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Say the quiet part loud, for once Our system creates unemployment on purpose, while demonising the unemployed. You'd think journalists would ask politicians about it.

literally a newsletter begging journalists to make the connection between beneficiary-bashing and the unemployment created *on purpose* by government-incited monetary policy: www.badnewsletter.com/say-it-loud-...

that is a lot of flavours, which I can't quite fathom.

This is a quirky first post.