Im addicted to cold turkey but I don’t know how to quit it.

Day 26 of my 2025 Favorites: Parenthood be like– When I first catch a glimpse of a giant Hogna wolf mom absolutely covered in babies, my brain refuses to process what I'm seeing, it's just bizarre. And then realization dawns and it's sweet. That's just the invertebrate experience. 🖤 #InverteFest

Some lass came into the shop with a poster for her gig, asked if we could put it up, then off-handedly suggested I should come to it - to which I said ‘Nah, I’m really old’. “Don’t worry, there’ll be other BBC6 Dads there.” Absolutely murdered.

This is why, although at heart I am a republican, I don’t currently support the abolishment of the monarchy. If we just agreed to scrap the monarchy, in a vacuum of what we would replace it with, the right would create an over powered president. Don’t believe me - brexit?

For day 2 of #12DaysOfXmas with #YorkshireCelebrities as #peatland wildlife, we have Dame Judi Dench (Heworth) as round-leaved sundew (Drosera rotundifolia), which supplements the meagre nutrients in peat with insects it catches in its sticky fronds. #GreatNorthBog

i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry merry christmas xx

When the Manchester Guardian calls, the people of the North heed the call. And if those people are me, we inject Manchester Liberalism, even from across the Pennines, right back in to the paper of Northern record. Get your fill. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Finally, research that respects the holiday cheese board 🙂 Brie, cheddar, and other high-fat cheeses linked to lower dementia risk #Alzheimers #Cheddar #Cheese #Cheeses #Cook #Cooking #Dementia #Dinner #Food #Foodsky #Health #Holiday #Holidays #Homemade #Medical #Research #Snack #Snacks #Sunday

All started with the queen. There are a couple of articles from not long after she died. Also it's an opportunity to use the great word "psychopomp". artreview.com/the-queen-pa... medium.com/@vanix/how-a...

this seems like a very reasonable concern to have about using LLMs

please let “bugs bunnying” become the slang for manipulating an LLM into ignoring its guardrails, i have never seen a more succinct and evocative term for it

why not put count von count into various vampire scenes: thread

To me, artist Allen Seaby is best known as the illustrator of the first Ladybird bird books. But I also love his Japanese influenced woodcuts. ‘Snow and Hare’ (c.1923)

I know how much better runners like Mo Farah are than any regular at my parkrun. It is there in the times. Why can’t so many people see that any professional sportsman or sportswoman is that much better than you, be it taking a point off Serena Williams or being punched by Anthony Joshua.

Karel Fonteyne

Mathematicians get their kicks on 8.1240384

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

We had a postal delivery on Friday 12th December and then not another one until Thursday 18th. Not just us, apparently no one in a block of 20 houses had any post for 6 days in the run up to Christmas. We then received 18 cards in one delivery. Who has approved weekly deliveries. #RoyalMailFail

Always tricky working out where to put the fig leaf with this kind of thing

I also want to say thank you to the person who introduced me to the French word 'beaucoup' this year. It means a lot.

I am urgently looking for a first-time buyer to chat to me about the state of the mortgage market. What fun! Come on, get in touch - [email protected] Shares gratefully received

I’m increasingly uneasy about the flood of AI images on social media. They are mostly absurd and frustrating. They may sometimes be creative experiments, but the fact that so many users take them at face value says a lot about our collective loss of visual literacy. www.facebook.com/groups/ancie...

COFFIN COLLARS like this one were used to thwart bodysnatchers in the early 19th century. The collar was fixed around the neck of a corpse and bolted to the bottom of a coffin, making it nearly impossible to remove the body from its grave. Bodysnatchers sold corpses to medical schools. #skystorians

Joseph Mallord William Turner, R.A. (1775-1851) - Sun rising through Vapour: Fishermen cleaning and selling Fish, before 1807 (+ detail). Oil on canvas.

Stop equating muslims with terrorism. Stop equating Jews with the crimes of Israel. Stop equating trans people or black people or travellers or gay people with goodness knows what fucking else. Just fucking stop. Just fucking stop.

Oh, you're tired after taking care of your one kid for the entire day?

This ludicrous Telegraph piece calls the bonus Labour’s bit.ly/4j2gEwg it was introduced in 1972 by Edward Heath (Conservative) and was worth far more than a week’s pension which was £6.75. It has never been cancelled by any govt (Conservative or Labour) or uprated.

Learned today that “Galápagos” comes from a Spanish word for tortoise, meaning that “Galápagos Tortoise” is, in fact, a tortology

OK, strap in…. Here is part 2 of the “Tesco/(insert other brand) are cancelling Christmas” claims! 🎄🎅🤶🎄 TL:DR? Christmas is alive and well everywhere you look. And so too, sadly, is manufactured Christmas rage baiting. Here is just 7 day’s worth of Daily Mail Christmas Rage bait 🧵 1/31

For the record, Robin Ince is a superb comedian, an absolute mensch, a remarkable thinker and the kindest human you’ll ever meet. And the BBC is a genuinely great and globally unique institution that needs to stop being afraid. I think that’s where most of its faults and issues stem from.

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

This has been driving me nuts for months. I don’t use autocorrect, and I sometimes type one-handed with my right thumb so thought maybe I was just getting thumbsy, but I still often get the wrong letter even when I can clearly see I tapped the right one.

Margret Atwood is on Desert Island Discs right now. Exquisite

Just saw a dog piss on one of these Uber Eats drones in Hyde Park

Macrophotographers! I know I have some following me :) @biologicalrecording.co.uk @lnhs.bsky.social @vannabartlett.bsky.social @graemelyons.bsky.social @chalkspring.bsky.social #Invertebrates #MacroPhotography

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

I’ve posted this before but the light was perfect today- a little Victorian cat paw in a brick at the front of the old Norfolk & Norwich Hospital. As this is on the front-facing corner of the main gates, the bricklayer quite clearly put it there on purpose, at a height where children would spot it.

D.E.I. shot the serif, but I will not shoot no Calibri

Panda Fight www.worldofmoose.com/collections/...

"there's a new serif in town"

I agree, but look: let’s compare the avalanche of scalding hatred that was tipped over Gary Lineker for saying the IDF should stop mass-murdering civilians against the treatment of Nigel Farage for *actually being a Nazi*. It will always be like this, for as long as this behaviour is tolerated.

Mort de Martin Parr : God save the kitsch. C'est la une de Libération lundi. Connu dans le monde entier pour son regard ironique et coloré sur la société anglaise, le photographe est mort à 73 ans.

Is Dubai Chocolate the new Salted Caramel? A novel confection that a reasonable number of people thought was quite nice, so the powers that be decided it was now the omnisweet, the only flavour that anyone has ever liked, and if you preferred non-Dubai chocolate you must be some sort of heathen

Landmark British photographer Martin Parr dies aged 73

RIP Martin Parr who inspired us to see the world in colour.

The Nobel committee have just launched a football prize and made Diana Ross their first recipient.

Pleased to discover that slightly misnaming the national chess championship you won as a school child is a much more serious offence than repeatedly racially abusing your fellow pupils and telling them they should go to the gas chamber

Just thought I’d share this lovely blog about my late dad’s painting. fishinkblog.com/2012/06/09/i...

Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.