Adam

Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking across a microscope slide. 🫧🐻🧪

Oh. For fucks fucking sake.

What's My JND? Find your Just Noticeable Difference in colour perception. How small a colour difference can you actually see?

I swear some of those colours were the same.
www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...

This is gonna go under the radar with free agency going on, but it’s nasty work by the NFL

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

British public: we don't think Trump's scattergun, petulant, aimless bombing of Iran is a good idea & we shouldn't join in
Politicians: wrong
Public: It would be nice to see a chaffinch on a tenner
Politicians: WRONG!

The Tories oversaw the degradation of UK gas storage capacity - 2010 to 2017.

Thatcher privatised the gas and oil industry - 1982 to 1986.

Thatcher closed the collieries - 1986 to 1991.

This woman is an idiot - 1960 to 2026

I listened to the Jennifer Hale episode yesterday, so this will make a great companion listen!

BTO, Woodland Trust both seem to suggest mid-March.
This chap was keen as mustard at the top of his Ash this morning!

First Chiff Chaff of the season heard this morning on the school walk/run/drive!
Is that early? It feels early. I’ll go check…

Help a toad across the road – and five more ways to save these endangered amphibians Britain’s toads have begun their spring migration, putting them at even greater risk than usual. Here’s how – and why – we should look after them

Support your local toads! A good piece in the @theguardian.com about these beautiful creatures in the U.K. and how @froglife.bsky.social patrols protect them during their migration season. 🐸

Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available

NHS official pushed to add patient data to Palantir platform whilst also advising company

A lobbyist who worked directly for Peter Mandelson, on the Palantir board, and on the board of *four* NHS trusts.

Lobbying the NHS to hand over even more patient data to Palantir.

This absolutely stinks. Get Palantir out of the NHS. Sign my petition:

you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

tl;dr Labour is fascism-lite now and it turns out that people hate that (and fascists will always seek out the real thing anyway). It's one of the reasons I'm always urging Dems to resist the constant calls by pundits to move right, especially on social issues.

Fuckin’… Kirsten Dunst, too. Of course!

Little known fact, but George actual Clooney is in E.R. Like, a lot.

Rewatching E.R. after, gods, so many years.
It’s fun to watch technology creep into shows with a long run, like West Wing.

Also actor spotting - Julie Bowen, Michael Ironside, Ashley Johnson…

i don't know what more we can do beyond cutting the books up in little pieces and making airplane noises while floating a page over to their eyeballs

Has anyone confirmed if men are actually able to read?

A man asked me last night what publishing needs to do for literary fiction to begin appealing to men again. I said, as nicely as I could, that, with over 2,000 books published every Tuesday, of which many would appeal to men, it’s not a publishing problem, it’s a men problem.

a close up of a stuffed animal with its mouth open and stitches on it . ALT: a close up of a stuffed animal with its mouth open and stitches on it .

Are there 17 half finished jumpers wandering around your house like little Sock Boy homunculi?

A photo of a stragnely 3/4 cut, hollowed out honeydew melon, on a stone step near a beach in Dorset circa 2018

"Pac-Man? I haven't heard that name in a long time..."

I loved this as a kid. Before I understood about commissioning and all that I just thought it was a very tightly written show.
By the gods, it was low budget joy!

🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.

This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.

Please spread the word.

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I’m going to invoice the government for how long it took me to fill in that AI consultancy form. I’m freelance. That was my time, trying to teach you dumb, venal, chip-struck cunts what property is.

a picture of a spider with a marble butt and text that says did you know? all the marbles are hatching this week

psa

Minnesota would like a word.

A masterclass from Zack Polanski on #BBCLauraK:

“There is no example in history where we’ve bombed people into democracy.”

No shouting. Just facts doing the heavy lifting.

@zackpolanski.bsky.social

💚💚💚

I think you mean “panicking immigrants” Ms Oakshott?