Pretty much every Stormtrooper.

Some old-school, mallet and chisel #woodworking . This is a chunk from a well-weathered hard maple log that became "spalted" - patterns and colors created by fungus. It's 16-1/2 inches long and will be a flat-bottomed serving boat for chips or jars or such, when I finally get it done.

Brilliant morning in Gorton & Denton campaigning with Hannah Spencer! (26 days!) On my way for huge campaign in Lewisham with Liam Shrivastava (95 days!) Prepping on the train for leaders interview with Laura K (tomorrow!) The Green Party is on the move! join.greenparty.org.uk

When should you give up on a repair? How much work should you put into this thing we do? Final part of a very interesting repair.

i make a lot of shelves & have various piles of shelves in various colours & stages of construction i need some shelves to store my shelves a build thread over the next week or so, possibly of interest to #handmade, #woodworking, #metalwork, #welding folk the plan: 🧵/1

Gall bladder surgery is elective assuming you aren't having an immediate acute issue. Hospitals won't operate on people with high BMI's for elective surgery, telling them to lose weight first. I'd love to know how much that link is investigated. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"The idea that trans inclusion at the ponds is somehow imposed against the wishes of users simply does not survive contact with reality. Londoners have looked at the evidence... and overwhelmingly said: this works, this is fair, and this reflects our values." celord.com/2026/01/29/h...

New planet just dropped and it 1) is almost exactly Earth-sized 2) has a year that's almost exactly 1 Earth year. 3) orbits a star that is not a 💢temperamental little shit M-dwarf 💢but is instead a 🧡 good orange boi 🧡 Me for @science.org based on results presented at #RockyWorlds4: 🔭🧪

Imagine having Bruce Springsteen AND Billy Bragg release songs about how much you fucking suck and how much the people fighting you rule you within the same 48 hours

What’s a quote people often cut short that makes you grind your teeth? For me, one is “The customer is always right IN MATTERS OF TASTE.” It’s about giving the customer Tabasco to put on their Cheerios if they ask for it, not putting up with any sort of demanding abuse. At the library, no less.

Again, Grok (Heinlein would be furious) didn’t do this on its own. MEN DID IT.

My dog loves to follow me around and 'supervise' when I do any work in the garden. Sometimes even if the plants don't need watering, I will wander around with the empty watering can pretending to water them just so he can enjoy feeling helpful.

If you let just one transphobe into your pub before you know it it's a Harry Potter bar

i should call her

UK PEOPLE: this is REALLY IMPORTANT. If the government bans under-16s from using VPNs, then logically they must intend to REQUIRE AGE VERIFICATION FOR ALL VPN USE. Which will affect adults too! *Your* right to anonymous web browsing is at risk! https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/754408

Looking at the responses under Starmer’s Holocaust Memorial Day tweet (advice, just don’t, don’t) and I have to say this is the most amazing AI generated graph

Question for board game enthusiasts: Do you know the name of a 1980s board game of zodiac symbol counters in blue and red that were moved around a dark board. Dark blue or black case. Something like Solaris?

Yelp is dead to me. Not only has it altered its terms of service to require binding arbitration in the event of ANY dispute, it now asserts an irrevocable right to use ALL posted reviews for AI training. I'm halfway through deleting the 100 reviews I have posted, after which I'm nuking my account.

This should be a source of huge national shame

Just a heads up, tomorrow is Large Boulder the size of a Small Boulder, hope you've done your shopping and holiday meal prep.

What I don't understand about this wretched timeline is ANYTHING WHY IS IT SO SHITTY

Playing a game notionally set in 1992 that uses digital cameras and cell phone tower tracking data as an integral part of its plot and mechanics and you know developers, next time maybe ask your parents what technology existed back then

I rate this. We talk a lot more nowadays about the more accepted MH issues - anxiety, depression - but still hold a lot of stigma toward the 'unacceptable' ones - psychosis, mania, hallucinations. I hope he is getting the help he needs and that he finds his way to a place of stability.

The correct answer to this is "Yes, and everyone else too."

Goofy little bits I recently finished. Made from chunks of cherry that had been stacked in the basement for ever waiting for inspiration, which struck while making breakfast a couple of weeks ago. I'm considering "toast slice" trivets to go with them. Details in alt text. #Woodturning #Woodworking

Yesterday this was £40 of chestnut potential, today, it's firewood. #woodturning

Stop sane-washing this shit. Man is murdered by Federal agency ICE. That's your headline BBC News.

Not every man but always a man. They should bring back pillories.

What super power did he get?

I have absolutely no idea who this is - but he's speaking my truth.

💯 Every. Fucking. Word.

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It's not gonna survive jim #woodturning

it's cold, dark and raining. time to go to the shed and turn some wood. #woodturning

This should be a full news piece by the BBC, not just a single story on their verify page. This *is* the story.

Been playing with small wood offcuts and what I can make. Here's another small bud vase (hornbeam). #woodturning #wood #budvase

Today’s kiln pickup. Bit disappointed with the first two, neither of which entirely turned out how I expected (white too glossy, blue too dark) but the second two have worked well and I’m pleased with them. #ceramics #pottery

The New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...

🚨The Petition calling for by-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party now has 43,000 signatures! Let’s get the 100,000 needed! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

(sigh) Not really. Turns out when you shoot atoms at once another you can sometimes randomly force them to trade protons. They "made" a few trillonths of a gram. This is like saying you turned a wall into a door because you shot a machine gun at it for an hour. I hate shitty science headlines.

"some 29 trillionths of a gram" Let's not get too excited.

I hope we all survive long enough to read the post-Trump Whitehouse staff memoirs.

Are you familiar with mynoise.net, by any chance?

just spent £120 on rail tickets for a journey that would have cost me about £40-£50 in petrol (don't @ me about cost of car/insurance/tax etc i know its not like for like yeah). Booking 4 weeks in advance. imagine if they'd spent last summer protesting this shit instead of asylum seekers

"Don't chastise us Americans for having Nazis controlling everything, our electoral system is very complex" dude no one cares, deal with your Hitler. The world has your senile pedophile king pointing nukes at us, we can vent.

One point I’ve been banging on about in interviews the last few weeks is that the mere threat of the use of force by the U.S. President is illegal both under Article 2(4) of the UN Charter but also the U.S. Constitution by virtue of the Take Care Clause.

Controversial opinions, school edition: 1. Passing basic cooking should be required to graduate. 2. Passing basic finance should be required to graduate. 3. Passing basic first aid should be required to graduate. 4. Lunch should be free for all kids.

I’m a Gen Z chief exec. You should fall asleep in bed with your windows open and your head lolled over to the side so your jugular is perfectly exposed. Don’t even get me started on garlic……garlic is so over

Yep. Yep. Yep. At some point, the chickens were going to come home to roost.

What's the name of the Law (e.g. Moore's) that says 'Only when a post starts to gain traction will you notice the blatant grammatical error rendering one sentence meaningless'?