'Axis Of London' A long exposure on the Millenium Bridge reduces the city of London to line and form. Passing figure on their way to work dissolve into the frame as if they were never there, Leaving St Paul’s anchored in stillness. #London

Each time all typos are successfully edited from a book, the entire universe is immediately replaced with a new universe containing a version of the book that has at least one typo.

Me: “Parker, don’t you want to go outside and play in the snow?” Parker: “You should have killed me when you had the chance.”

To delete your TikTok account without agreeing to the new TOS: 1) put your phone in airplane mode 2) open TikTok and go to your profile 3) go to settings and scroll down to delete account 4) turn airplane mode off 5) delete your account Credit to @ kimsaira on instagram for this

i risked my brain so you don't have to pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/22/s...

From our Winter issue CRYPTIDS, @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social's takedown of Bigfoot and love letter to bears, birds, and other (real) wonders of the natural world. orionmagazine.org/article/bigf...

Gas Town is the Bored Apes stage of AI

Ninguid [NING-gwid] (adj.) Snowy; covered in a great quantity of snow. Used in a sentence: “The world looked magical under a ninguid blanket, each tree and shrub adorned in sparkling white, as if nature herself had dressed for a lavish winter ball.”

Me right now. The 10-Kilo Lint-Covered Breast Implant, though, just woke me up with the first of many, many demands to go outside and let him express his manul heritage.

Baking My Way Through the Apocalypse 2026: one of the advantages to the current sleetstorm is extremely low indoor humidity, which is perfect for candy curing. A few more hours under a fan, and these candied Buddha’s Hand citron slices should be dry and ready for the next stage.

Premium: The AI Bubble is a time bomb, burdening hyperscalers with billions of new depreciation a quarter that will soon eat away profits, VCs with dead equity in fallen AI startups, and Oracle with hundreds of billions of unpayable leases. www.wheresyoured.at/premium-timebomb/

Look at him. So small. So adorable. So blissfully oblivious to the horrors happening on dry land. 🦑📷Poseidon’s Adventure (inaturalist.ca/observations...)

"...but most remarkably, it exactly matches a casting mold found 43 years ago."

Fancy a dip into the science of time machines? My Ten Short Lessons in Time Travel is currently on special offer (signed copies) of £3+p&p - 2/3 off - I need the shelf space! www.brianclegg.net/timetravel.h...

economic indicator

Baking My Way Through the Apocalypse 2026: pies are chilled in the refrigerator, and candied Buddha’s Hand citron slices are drying. Let me get some more sleep, and it’ll be time to whip the cream and decorate. And the house smells INCREDIBLE.

A brilliant morning talk with Marine Galine organised by @romgothsam.bsky.social about the Irish bog from an Ecogothic perspective, followed by abject feminity and the role of motherhood in Irish folk horror cinema. This free talk will be repeated at 7pm (Eventbrite). #folkhorror

If you put a toy plesiosaur on the side of the plate and toast Mary Anning as you bite in, it's a Key Lyme Regis pie.

With curse words or pejoratives, words that have hard sounds usually work better, which is why swears with d, g, and k sounds work so well. I actually had to research this for a book I wrote about fake swearing years ago.

Aside: Never gonna convince my grandkids this wasn't AI.

FRIDAY NIGHT WINTER STORM HEB UPDATE ❄️💦🧊😱 The following items are STILL available in Austin... *Vegan Ox *Yak Milk *Ham Girth *TP From Employee Bathroom (one roll max) *Mink Jelly (Westlake) *Diet Ice *Febreze Intimate Oils (Steiner Ranch) *Assorted Loins *Ferret Glaze

HEADS UP: DO NOT TRUST BLINKMOON. IT'S A SCAM. blinkmoon.com

14 hours of rain in Dallas, and it should be turning to ice by morning. This means it’s Year 4 of “Baking My Way Through The Apocalypse.” Tonight’s experiments, already in progress:

"Somebody was giving booze to the damn things!" www.youtube.com/watch?v=eekl...

Someone somewhere getting incredibly excited that they finally found it, they found a case of pabst blue ribbon and a pack of hot dogs. Finally they get to see what all those barbeques on tv really taste like

"Holy shit I found it, I found a store selling a case of that powdered Parmesan cheese that is half wood shavings. I can't fucking wait to make American pasta tonight!"

It's funny seeing people outside the US knowing of like, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches only through tv, forming their own Turkish delight fantasies for years before actually trying it. "Oh my God I finally found it I found fluffernutter and a can of cheez whiz I will taste god tonight"

Very seriously, were the finances to allow it, this is exactly the bar I’d open, complete with movie nights.

Can you tell the difference between a hydrometer & a hygrometer? A Leyden jar & a Crookes tube? An armillary sphere & an equatorial ring? Then you should follow @sis-instrument-soc.bsky.social for updates concerning the history of scientific instruments! #histSTM #histsci #histtech #FollowFriday 🗃️

pivot to ai is too long winded, time to get back to basics vibegraveyard.ai

Well, looks like Paramount will be back on the market before you know it…

it's really good that Oracle bought TikTok, a business that only loses money, at a time when it took on $56bn+ in debt and $240bn in lease obligations for GPUs to rent to OpenAI, a company that will run out of money. This could all have the funniest ending ever

Knock me over with a feather.

Folks, I'm getting married! Next weekend! I'd love to spead the good news around. Here's a list of science, conservation, and education charities I love, and instructions on how to donate in our honor if you're so moved. Please share!

It's never good when the forecast looks like it belongs at a Grateful Dead show

Happy #FossilFriday. Did you know Diplodocus skin glows orange under UV light? 🦕🟠

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In 2014 I conducted a fascinating interview with Hugo-winning fan writer Earl Kemp on the intersection of the SF/F and porn genres in the 1960s & '70s. Unfortunately, the threat of a lawsuit from Harlan Ellison derailed the project. Now you can read the interview! 1/ www.patreon.com/posts/148934...

Don’t tell the developers.

We Who Hunt Alexanders is on the longlist of nominees for the BSFA Awards in the Best Shorter Fiction category! Many thanks to everyone who loved the novella and all the members of the British Science Fiction Association who nominated it! @apexmag.bsky.social www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-...

Oh, WOE.

This one hits particularly hard in Dallas, where the newsfeeds all play “The Doomsday Machine” the moment there’s a possibility of snow. (The jokes about how we Dallasites can‘t drive in snow? Completely valid, and most of us can’t drive in rain, heat, and perfect dryness, either.)

The new Border Patrol theme song: youtu.be/NGsI5k-sLGU?...

Walker's Welsh Rarebit (2010-2010): Part of the "Flavour Cup" promotion in the UK, coinciding with the World Cup and featuring country-specific flavors, these potato crisps/chips were made to taste like the iconic toasted cheese dish, beloved in Wales

From the people who, in high school, would have cried “This is going on your permanent record!” as they were swirled into unconsciousness by the anime club.

#FossilFriday — 500 Ma bromance? The solute echinoderm Coleicarpus sprinklei (left) attached to Chancelloria eros (right). Wheeler Fm., House Range, Utah.

TikTok Is a Propaganda Tool. Anyway, Let’s Build Monsters and More with Monster City Aliens, giant balls, blocks of foam that can become anything. These Monster City builds are super fun and the share how it's made... 👾 blog.adafruit.com/2026/01/23/t... #tiktok #monsters

Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step. 1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish. 2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.