Me too. I gather a horrible thing has happened to an awful person, and we don't want to see it.
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Me too. I gather a horrible thing has happened to an awful person, and we don't want to see it.
'The Crew's Due' - top middle.
Behold the burrowing toad! It seldom emerges from its underground home, surfacing only a few times a year during heavy rains to breed. This rotund amphibian uses its snout to access the underground tunnels and nests of its prey, including termites & ants. Photo: arbore, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, iNaturalist
Amazing.
If you're reading this and thinking "nuh-uh, I'm totally a real trans ally", that's great! What was the last bit of active allyship you did? If it's been a while, I made this little doc of options for easy allyship to help you get started: docs.google.com/document/u/0...
I had a look and this grave underwent a very sensitive restoration in 2014, so this is either creeping patriotism or one of those TikTok grave restorers who has seriously lost it.
Olha o carro da mucura passando na sua rua
Here is a device that I encountered in a medical museum that illustrates the point: bsky.app/profile/dr-s...
They put pool noodles on the goats that live near me. Such a vibe.
Oooh, congratulations! Almost there!
He seems to have been a pretty amazing and practical chap, learning language and survival skills from the Inuit (extremely sensible), spending decades exploring, and getting a crater on the moon named after him. What a guy. (If you know a good book, please recommend!)
Earlier this week I learned about Matthew Henson, the black explorer who may have been the first to reach the North Pole on a documented expedition. Wikipedia seems to have the most reliable online bio (I found a lot of copy-paste AI looking sites) - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew...
(I suspect my car journey would take a lot longer if I was in Oxford, and last time I visited I used the Park & Ride, which was excellent.)
I drive because: 1) My commute is 7 minutes by car and 58+ minutes by bus. 2) Driving distance is cheaper than buying a train ticket. (This is the exact opposite of intending to spend.) I'd LOVE to use public transport and when it's possible, I do!
"It's going to be faithful to the original, but we're going to change the setting, the way it's filmed, and how the characters are forced to respond to situations..." New characters will include a talking can of Pepsi and a Nintendo Switch with legs.
Green and white are the colours of Limerick. Has this happened since all the flag w**kery started?
PSEUDOCOPULATION! Archaster angulatus a commonly encountered sand star in Australia- undergoes this "stacking" behavior to presumably enhance reproductive success-if memory serves its alternating genders. this is QUITE a stack! www.inaturalist.org/observations...
Excellent slapstick by some of those ladies! They probably performed more falls than the men!
What're your plans for later? Oh, I was just going to pose absolutely deliciously with nothing but a bolt of fabric, you? 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums An 18th C cameo, carved by Giuseppe Girometti in Rome, now at the @britishmuseum.bsky.social 😁
I just tried to look this up, and hedgehog physiology appears to be a prime target for AI sloppification. Results unusable. (Mind you, I mostly look up niche things about steam powered machinery and read pages that are still written in Times New Roman...)
Shoulders far happier today. Tits not as glamorous, but at least I wasn't feeling like I might fold up into myself. (Hedgehogs have a special muscle that helps them roll into a ball, and now I'm wondering if they're constantly fighting that to stay flat, or whether they simply have incredible abs.)
If he has a fan boat business, it must be alligators.
My amazon shopping list right now for a thing…
Oh, this was lovely!
*Leggal
Tell No Tales Life on a dead reef is hard, but Nimona and Spot promise it will be harder for you. #Sculpture #BSNM #Art #AugustAdiPOSE
I saw some Giant Hogweed on the side of the motorway a few weeks ago, all carefully cordoned off with warnings all over it just in case some poor soul had the terrible luck to break down near it.
Good forbid a man have a hobby!
Just some lads who need their morning brown. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1gw...
Or maybe also Steve Cross here? scienceshowoff.org
Maybe contact these folks? They did it in the UK and it's growing elsewhere! pintofscience.co.uk/contact/
The Royal Ballet will be holding its first costume sale in over 40 years next month, with hundreds of items on offer from both past and recent productions. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/tic...
Oh no, not again...
Imagine thinking you're safe because you have the money for a bunker or a spaceship. Who's going to run and maintain that for you when money means nothing? 'But I'll still have status!' Yeah, as the least useful and most unpleasant person in the place...
Keir Starmer will be along shortly to say he sits in front of a big white chalk horse every day because he understands legitimate concerns
Amazing band logo!
I reckon someone will have bought that, instantly regretted it, and it will turn up from time to time BNWT.
Wes Streeting: Protecting Women
The national interest of who exactly? Because it's not pensioners, sick or disabled people, children, the unemployed, etc, etc...
Things endorsed by Wes Streeting
Dammit Jason.
lub Tropicana. All that’s missing is the “C”.
Financial Advisers can be humans too!
Looks like there are just loads of people living and working in that field.
VICTORY!
Oh. My. Goodness. Look at this moth! LOOK AT THOSE WINGS!! Honestly didn't know that moth wings could be that frilly and lacy - like bird feathers - but apparently there is a whole family of "many plumed moths". This one is from the genus Alucita and found in China, and is just spectacular. (1/3)
Me, wearing a new bra: "Why have my shoulders been so tense all day today?" 🥲
Medical diagnosis
You have lasted an entire year without throttling them with a scratchy towel. I'd say that's good going?
Nobody likes him hon. 11% approval rating. We are approaching the Truss Zone.
And they need this to keep track of a max 30 people? Most of whom are the same 30 people as last time, just with different hats on? I don't know how they could possibly do without it.
Horrible stuff! String wires between them and make a trellis for a nice creeper or climber?
Oh, and now my online meetup has had to be postponed too! Rubbish!
We love cephalopods, warts and all! 🐙 This is a Graneledone sp., a genus of warty octopuses in the family Octopodidae found throughout the global Ocean — filmed by ROV SuBastian pilots at 1603 m during #UruguaySUB200. Read more: www.instagram.com/reel/DOMLFB2...
Yeah, they sound like a weirdo.
It's mostly either fish or mystery soup. Hardly any beige!
Attention @cheeseandjam.bsky.social!
Ah booo. Dinner plans fell through and now it's freezer roulette.
Film-makers! How would you like to see your short films on an IMAX screen? If you've made an action, fantasy, horror or sci-fi short film in the past two years, we want to hear from you. Submissions open on 24 October. Find out more: filmfreeway.com/fwfilmfestival
Just been told about a pet blessing service taking place later today. It's a cute idea – all the animals are brought to church to be blessed, which I imagine means a lot to the owners – only it's scheduled for 3pm...
Historic Bridge Park in Michigan? Those folks do some amazing stuff...
That one who's on the way to audition for a Divine Comedy tribute band - but won't get it because of his smoker's lung.
@schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 841 is on the seafloor ezploring this morning. #uruguaysub200 #MarineLife www.youtube.com/live/vL73dP0...
Married life. My wife: When you said a 'magical evening in bed' this isn't exactly what I was exp- Me: *holds up 6 of clubs* Is this your card? My wife: *softly* holy shit...
I am opposed to AI products and services because of the extra power they require... IN A CLIMATE CRISIS. I am opposed to AI results - texts and illustrations - because they've been created unethically, via theft and non-consensual use of the work of others. Share if you agree.
Adding that the results are often unreliable, misleading, or just plain wrong in ways that could endanger people.
Hennimore!!!
The set up and staging of Cabaret is incredible. Amazing costume design too. I would highly advise it.
You know that game you bought? Let's make it attractively unplayable!
Oh my god, I hate this film so much! They could have called the character anything they wanted but they used the name of a horrendous and abusive man and gave him a huge Hollywood do-over.
Woken up by the torrential rain, and now huge rolls of thunder are passing across the sky. All the weather has arrived at once. 😍
we are the daughters of the monsters you could not mash
I was sure you had! Haha!
I'd volunteer, but I will only talk about how utterly sexy and brilliant these five seconds of 'A Knight's Tale' are.
I'm imagining her in big old army boots (for stomping), but a lovely Sunday hat, because it's only proper to wear one in those sorts of places.
This feels very Pratchetty: "Flinging open the door, Mumsy launched herself into the dusty old temple at great velocity; the theory being that this would provide the best chance of catching any unsuspecting God resting within and grabbing them by the scruff of the neck so she could question them."
It's OK. He's still all Tom Hanksy. Just got put on the naughty list for being too lovely.
Just completed a task I should have started in November 2024, but has been staring ominously at me from my desk since June 2025. It has taken two days but now it is done! (This is the second victory of the day. Or third if you count a delivery driver finding my house on the first attempt.)
Tlingit artist Nicholas Galanin, “Architecture of return, escape (The British Museum)”, a deerskin map a floor plan of the British Museum and possible escape routes for various Indigenous cultural belongings held there.
Ahhhhh, that's going to be such a cool addition!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pGc...
I'm not joining in - just reposting this because it turns out that I'd forgotten that I like a Dracula in little tiny shorts (and sharing is nice).
What if the scar is on the sole of the foot? An old Lego injury?
John, having seen the horrors of dating apps, I don't think anyone should try them!
National Trust logo traffic light stickers on entry?
none of my business
I'm sure that the way they sort of almost work in cities laid out on a grid system will mean they can operate perfectly in our narrow winding medieval streets and around our many, many, roundabouts. 😬
Love it there! Had to go after meeting the contractors who restored the grotto at a conference and hearing all about the Pains-taking (ho ho) work they had done there.
Timeless humour! A 2,000 year-old Roman souvenir pen with a joke inscription roughly equivalent to: “I went to Rome and all I got you was this cheap pen!" 😂 Dated circa 70 AD, this iron stylus pen was recovered in London during excavations by MOLA. 📷 Juan Jose Fuldain/MOLA #Archaeology
![The photo shows four images of the same Roman iron stylus pen, one below the other. The knib to the left. It has an inscription which runs along its length on four sides. The four images show the four lines of inscribed text which read: ‘ab urbe v[e]n[i] munus tibi gratum adf(e)ro acul[eat]um ut habe[a]s memor[ia]m nostra(m) rogo si fortuna dar[e]t quo possem largius ut longa via ceu sacculus est (v)acuus’ ‘I have come from the City. I bring you a welcome gift with a sharp point that you may remember me. I ask, if fortune allowed, that I might be able (to give) as generously as the way is long (and) as my purse is empty.’ The pen was used to write on wax-filled wooden writing tablets. Found in London (Roman ‘Londinium’) by MOLA. Photo by Juan Jose Fuldain/MOLA](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j56ydp325adovobhwpkzc6sp/bafkreifzhfymde7cyrv2i7fu7e2v33veporn5rsywwi2rqdgswkxpj6xre@jpeg "Click to view full size")
You can't satirise anything these days...
My mom started hanging old CDs in the garden so that if a bird comes over to peck at a tomato it will quickly become distracted by its desire to learn QuickBooks
My immediate thoughts were Police Squad and Black Sails, but after watching that I'm adding True Blood for sheer earwormyness.
Glasses for colourblind people already exist. They don't work like this, but I'm not sure how they do what they do!
This woman will be protected by generations of crows h/t: Autumn Buck / firstdatejunkie
And if they hit that, they make $15 pp/pa from most of them, which sounds absolutely rubbish.
It was awful then too, but we were deep in the clutches of lad culture and it was all just bants. Hahaaaa, fuck those times.
Autumn in the Dolotites. [*with apologies to Harry Hill, c.1994]
Poot! Add more!
Drop an older person you're going to turn into in the future.
A Plains Spadefoot Toad avoids awkward eye contact with me the best way it knows how - digging itself backwards into the sand. Ok, bye.