No matter how many times I repeat the mantra "The heating is on, you are either IN or you are OUT" Daisy still insists on going in and out all day. Its like the hokey cokey with doors.

Perhaps it a Halloween ghost plot and it will turn out that there is no Meadow Farm, Mulligan died in the 1850s and the Brookfield Archers have all had ergotamine poisoning

#theArchers surprise backstories: Neil is a foundling. Everyone knew. No one mentioned it. Esme lived next door to Archers. Appears to be ages with Brookfield kids despite 'old' dad. No one knew her.

Esme. So she grew up on the farm, helped on the farm, presumably went to school in Ambridge, was probably a young farmer, shopped in the shop etc. How does nobody remember her?🤔 #theArchers

Most potential pet owners consider things like breeding, size, coat, intelligence, trainability, and temperament. Often overlooked is the crucially important element of aerodynamics, which can greatly affect your gas mileage, raising the overall cost of ownership significantly.

Wracked up her 7th vet visit of the last few weeks. Has had an anti-emetic. Is now sleeping off a 30 hour bout of refusing food or liquid, and vomiting. Hopefully that is it for a few weeks.

Solidarity to my colleagues and good friends at Dundee. It's a sair fecht but the Workers & students cannot pay for the revolving door of management ineptitude. The toxic arrogant top down management culture in parts of HE needs rooting out and replacing with democratic accountability

#theArchers listening again to Pip being vile to Esme while Esme essentially does all the work of moving the heifer. PIP is such a nippy sweetie.

Daisy is feeling very sorry for herself. She has had 6 vet trips. She has had a scan and I think because of sedation she feels very nauseous. Good news the bladder stone has gone. Send your healing vibes that she gets her appetite back soon 🐾

Solidarity with striking @ucu members at UHI #UCU www.inverness-courier.co.uk/news/video-p...

Still thinking about this message from Ahmed from a few days ago ❤️😭 I hope you read it in its entirety. I wish he could speak to us on here himself. gofund.me/124a7c49

youtube has changed the style of the thing you click in order to go full-screen. why. why do web developers hate us so. why do they change things for the sake of changing things. "I oversaw a change management process" is NEVER something you want to boast about on your CV.

#dogsPostingBallots #ucu

"Almost half of minority ethnic Brits say they have had negative experiences in nature because of their identity." 👇🏿Insightful piece by @theleaduk.bsky.social. We're determined to break down barriers to Scotland's outdoors, so walking is the inclusive activity that it should be. #BlackHistoryMonth

Louvre Thieves Given Immunity After Confirming Jewels Stolen For Purpose Of Training AI Software https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2025/10/20/louvre-thieves-given-immunity-after-confirming-jewels-stolen-for-purpose-of-training-ai-software/

You don't need to see her identification This is not the dog you are looking for... What? No, I'm sorry this is precisely the dog I am looking for😍 #starwars

More than *anything* the people who actually know how technology works, who actually build things, wish that people would treat LLMs like every other technology, and be normal about them. Don't build a religion about them, don't force them on people, don't ignore the problems. Just be normal.

First of the quince harvest

Our reaction to a further delay by the Scottish Government on the implementation of muirburn licencing.

You're going the WRONG way! The man shouts At the arrow of geese Pointing towards Winter.

A months-long investigation by The Ferret and a group of international journalists found there have been 40 propaganda animations produced by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in the past two years – including several using the Scottish Maritime Museum’s 3D scans theferret.scot/idf-s...

Still a bit disappointed they didn't use this cover

Well said by someone I was never expecting to agree with. That's his chance of presenting MoTD gone now.

Well yeah, but also the shovel guys will go bankrupt immediately if the demand for shovels drops, so they're lending people money to buy shovels against a share of the gold they find but so far there's almost no gold and they just keep making more and bigger shovels, and at some point... 😬

Beautiful. But not at all what those who want to divide us want to hear. Fiction before facts.

Engineering groups need to think about the development lifecycle in the era of vibe coding,” www.wired.com/story/vibe-c...

Finished piece. Highland Cow Pattern by Knitables. Yarn: Go handmade couture. #highlandcow #coo #knitting

Work in progress #knitting #coo #highlandCow

It's nice to see a pot in use, instead of gathering dust on top of a cupboard- using this one to contain the bay leaves. White clay pot with brick red slip sgraffito. #pottery

And last but definitely not least... Me (to a little boy beside me in a cafe who is wearing a yellow coat): Nice coat. Little boy: Thank you. It means when night comes I can hide as a star. Art by Penny Neville Lee. Words by me.

The Starry Night ✨ THREE Lucinda DK weight skeins available. 🧶 — #crocheter #knitter #handdyedyarn #yarnbaby

Oh Bartelby🥺 Oh Adam 🙄 #theArchers

Muhammad would be 37 now. We should remember him every time the IDF say: we would not, we did not, we were not there. They would, they did, they still do. And their response is as dishonest now as it was then. Let the children of Palestine live 🕊

So, I have kitchener memorized because I've done it hundreds of times, but I'm wondering if anyone knows a cute rhyme or anything to go with it that can help beginners? 🧦 #KnittingHelp #SockKnitting

Finished work I started this overly ambitious snow leopard a long long time ago. The colour work is uneven, and the child who requested it is now at uni. But it is now a cushion. A funny, weird, not at all majestic snow leopard. #knit #crochet 🧶

Say your friend's 4 yr old could give a slightly dodgy rendition of Rabbie Burns with no understanding of meaning do you think that's so impressive let them eat all the food in the house in the hope they learn to mimic the dog barking? Because AI is gorging resource to do things ppl can already do.

Shhh let them cook

Guth nan eun gar dùsgadh bho chadal, àillidh, ciùin Moch is deiseil 'son an t-slighe The voice of the birds Awakening us from the sleep of peace Early and prepared for the journey

Why are you threatening #UCU staff with pay deductions for ASOS? UCU policy is to oppose punitive deduction for ASOS And why are you asking staff to fill out a form when UCU members at QMUL were advised not to do this?

Watching what our own @ucu.org.uk union is doing to @uniteucu.bsky.social workers is making me relive a lot of hurt from when QMUL did this to us (I wasn't quite aware of how much this was still live trauma but whew...) Absolutely unconscionable that *our own union* is causing this long-term harm.

QMUL deducted a lot of people it shouldn't have deducted, such as people on bereavement leave or sick leave who didn't check their email. It's a toxic tactic and note one any decent employer should engage in.

Superb on the mechanics of how knitted fabrics behave & how this influences design. Observe the behaviour of the knit > iterate the design. E.g. workwear such as fisherman's sweater (gansey) where at cuffs, therefore knitting sleeves shoulder to cuff faciltates repair of the part that wears first

You know those parents who have the really gifted (normal) child for whom they do not set boundaries (annoying)? And they would really like you to spend time with him because it's good for his development to be around other adults? (They are exhausted) That's Microsoft in your workplace with CoPilot

Use AI to increase work but with added insincerity.

Potential app: Tinderware. Like Tinder but for single & separated tupperware to find their matching lid / base. And or compatible stacking set for the polyamarous.

How much money do I need when I retire? I found this table in this article moneyweek.com/personal-fin... Based on a gap between state pension (12,014) and minimum retirement (13,400) of £1,386 that looks doable. 2x state pension already covers the minimum for a couple/ 2 person household. 1/6

www.theactuary.com/2024/11/08/l... Excellent article on the pension gap(s) that was linked to from @henrytapper.bsky.social 's blog.

If you are able to give and prefer to give to a group than an individual. Verified by Molly Shah. 🕊