Anyway, if you want to read too many words on why Sparta was terrible and people who like Sparta are terrible for liking Sparta, check it out: acoup.blog/2019/08/16/collections-this-isnt-sparta-part-i-spartan-school/

The White House did a dishonest y-axis so I fixed their y-axis for them, you’re welcome White House www.howtoreadthisch.art/lets-conside...

Breaking news: man who could end world hunger and make serious roads into contesting climate change but instead chooses to make porn-AI accessible and cheerlead for fascists can’t work out why he’s not happy. 🧐

A cautionary tale from history: substack.com/home/post/p-...

Opened the TripAdvisor app on my phone to see it was logged in with someone else's profile!

Sing like no one is listening. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching. Email like you are going to be included in the Epstein files.

Say what you will about Hitler, at least he knew which countries he was invading.

My PADI Open Water certfication card looks rather faded. PADI want $56 for an electronic version to add to my phone! I don't think so.

"And we now have María on the line who would like to swap a Nobel Peace Prize for the presidency of Venezuela..."

So to be clear we have actually reached the point where NATO states are deploying tripwire forces to deter *another NATO state* from invading *another NATO state.* I struggle to communicate the strategic and just regular insanity of this moment.

Last year, London recorded just 97 homicides, a record-low rate of 1.1 per 100,000 people. Lower than Paris, New York and Berlin. Don't believe all the BS about 'no go zones'.

It was rather careless of the USA to put so much of their oil reserves under Venezuelea.

Maybe the Nazis were just playing the long game?

My garden Robin, waiting to be fed.

Bandit at 12 o'clock.

Pigeons are not my favourite animal, but they are beautiful in their own way.

Urban deer.

A (rather unwell looking) fox in our garden, this morning.

I have said this before, I will say this again: arming the Ukrainians to defend themselves is the best bang-for-buck in defense spending in decades. Give Ukraine munitions and they will reliably put those explosives on America's enemies. Just not on Trump's enemies and thus the problem.

Looking at my water bills since 2007, the cost of a m^3 of water has gone from £0.99 to £2.47 (249%) and waste water has gone from £0.48 to £1.54 (320%). Inflation went up 70% in the same period. Thames Water is taking the piss in more ways than one & the government is letting them get away with it.

Is the evil ash queen in 'Avatar: Fire and Ash' quite hot? Asking for a friend.

Hopefully we have seen the last of Jake Paul's boxing career. But I doubt it. I suspect a broken jaw isn't enough to stop his desparate need for attention.

My Easy Data Transform and Hyper Plan software is available with 25% off, along with lots of other great indie software for Mac and Windows at: www.artisanalsoftwarefestival.com

More shots with new lens.

Our local Red Kite, Keith. Taken with my new 180-600 lens.

Sad that the BBC spends so much effort pandering to the people who are determined to destroy it. Infinite Monkey Cage won't be the same without @robinince.bsky.social .

Stunning drone photography: droneawards.photo/gallery

Is there a cooler Latin species name than 'Vampyroteuthis infernalis '? www.sciencealert.com/vampire-squi...

Apparently 'The Liz Truss' show was every bit as bad as you would expect: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford

Scientists have analysed DNA from Hitler's sofa. Can they do JD Vance's sofa next? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The demographics of China are pretty wild: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demogra...

if you’re wondering what TV & radio would look like without the bbc if the right had its way, picture the state of our privatised rivers & seas, but instead it’s raw sewage pumped into your telly & speakers

'Bugonia' is definately not your average hollywood fare. Worth seeing if you like your dark comedy more dark than comedy.

Yes, car colours really are getting more boring.

Farage: epic grifter

I wrote up a few thoughts on HelpSpot turning 20 today ianlandsman.com/helpspot-tur...

One of the better photographs depicting modernity, I'd say:

Easy Data Transform v2.10.0 is now available, with a new binning transform, improved notes, a 'liquid glass' icon on Mac + more. www.easydatatransform.com/newsletters/... Got a data wrangling problem and not sure if Easy Data Transform can help? Message me.

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison. Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

It breaks my mind that two British political parties have seen scenes like this and decided to try and replicate it in Britain. Thuggary, lawlessness, state brutality. Farage and Badenoch decided they liked the look of it.

It's a fool's errand to try to figure out why each individual shooter did what they did; it centers one erratic, unwell individual (which is impossible to solve) rather than the structural problems (which are possible to solve). And the structural problem is this: guns. I explain more here:

In the early 1960s a senior Conservative minister, John Profumo, resigned and inflicted perhaps decisive damage to the electoral prospects of his party for a decade ….. for far less than this

How is this not front page news? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Updating application icons for macOS 26 Tahoe and Liquid Glass: successfulsoftware.net/2025/09/26/u...

Just a reminder: there is no evidence to support the claim that taking paracetamol during pregnancy causes autism. www.gov.uk/government/n...

@adamrutherford.bsky.social I did a little side project that might be of interest for science communicators: howmanyelephants.co.uk

A little side project: howmanyelephants.co.uk

My son John (right) is in the Black Rocket desert at BALLS33. He is planning to launch his monster rocket today. He is hoping to get his level 3 high power rocketry certificate and smash the UK amateur altitude record. Fingers crossed!