Well yelled, all those who yelled - message seems to have got through:

Did you know you can just pick up a tired bee and drip sugar water on your hand and then a bee is eating from your hand like you’re a Disney Princess

whenever i think "i own enough t shirts already" i see something like this

Upright Women Wanted (by @sarahgailey.bsky.social) is a brilliant version of this - "The future American Southwest is full of bandits, fascists, and queer librarian spies on horseback trying to do the right thing".

The opening page of the Florida AG's lawsuit against OpenAI is quite the statement.

Just a reminder that @ucl.ac.uk is celebrating 200 years of Mathematics at UCL with a public day on 11 June! There will be loads of interesting free talks, including by Prof Hannah Fry and me! Book your ticket now for free! :-) www.ucl.ac.uk/mathematical...

Just watched a station cleaner retrieve a small child's stuffed unicorn from under a seat and restore it to them, before they got on the train. Good deed for the day. 🦄

Edinburgh show. New material. My title takes up most of the available word allowance for show description. www.thestand.co.uk/fringe/2973/...

I have a perfectly good, nice, unexceptionable dinner waiting at home, but have had the sort of Monday that makes me want to eat Terrible Things.

Joint statement from international LGBTQ+ rights NGOs, including @ilgaeurope.bsky.social and @tgeuorg.bsky.social “How can any trans and intersex person travelling to the UK feel secure that they will be treated with respect and dignity while using services?” tgeu.org/joint-statem...

The kids are alright. 🏳️‍🌈

Still a few tickets left for Wednesday's Gresham lecture in London: Pluto Isn't a Planet (!). Come join us or watch online via www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pluto-isnt... 🔭

Labour seems to have internalised the Supreme Court judgment as though it was a damning referendum loss that saw the public reject its position, rather than a plainly incorrect reading of a single point of law

I’m going to start posting artwork by my partner, Clare. I love her work, she’s the ‘good cop’ to my ‘bad cop’, such bright and cheerful work. ‘Whitby Rooftops’ £85 plus P&P www.etsy.com/uk/listing/6...

Ancient Greek perfume vase in the shape of an owl, 650-640 BC🦉❤️ The Louvre, Paris 📷 by me #OwlishMonday #Archaeology

It's always good people doing great work who use legal threats to ensure other people can't speak - right? I bet Sarah Wynn-Williams' face spoke VOLUMES during this panel.

My train this morning has been allocated the Douglas Richardson of drivers: "A very good morning to you, ladies and gentlemen...".

Started the day with a battalion of ants marching across my kitchen floor. Routed them with lemon juice and boiling water, but hoping not to get home and discover reinforcements...

Have put in a cheeky bid on eBay for a much-recommended America backpack. Auction closes about 3am, so I'll either have won it or not when I wake up...

insects should come out in winter when the windows are closed

Just got off the phone with my mum, who has a week of parties coming up - one friend's 90th, another's diamond wedding anniversary, another birthday. It's all go!

Anyway, enough of that. More of this! Antonio Forcione - "One of the great acoustic guitarists" (The Guardian) & Me - "First on." (Time Out 1998) Performing together in Sep/Oct?Nov at a venue near you. Grab your tickets now to avoid having to grab them nearer the time. 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇 wotitalian.com

Taking a bit of a tumble~ 📸🪶 New video from yesterday! Some of the Trumpeter Swan babies are...less coordinated than the others 😅

I put the oven on to make dinner and I've eaten dinner and I'm now just incredibly hot. Mistakes have been made (by me).

Columbo Goes To College is on and I'm a very happy viewer.

🔗 This is part of the "Your Tax Dollars At Work" series on federally funded research that sounded ridiculous but generated enormous returns. Full series archive: bioniclab.substack.com/notes #YourTaxDollarsAtWork

i am become hangover, destroyer of weekends

Friend messaged our group chat: "I am hangover". That's exactly how it feels - I have become hangover, the entirety of my being is hangover, today is hangover. Especially these days, when a coffee and a greasy breakfast will not fix me, and I can feel that I've poisoned myself.

Excellent list of 100 greatest bird names here, with loads of “why, you…” potential @mattleys.bsky.social

Voting for this particular government in a landslide in a...curious way for the country to express that. And pretty much all the criticism I've seen of the way they're governing is that it's too right wing and oppressive of minorities. Who on earth's out there saying Starmer's too socialist?

Thames Water asks millions to stop using hosepipes to save water. Get a few days sunshine and infrastructure can't cope. TW built no new reservoir since 1989, loses 570m - 592m litres of water daily to leaky pipes Sewage dumped in rivers. Customers fleeced. TW still trades.

🚨 Opposing the EHRC guidance – we need your voice MPs will decide on the guidance in the next 30 days — and we need to show them the reality We need you to tell us why it is unworkable and the real life impact it will have on you in your workplace 📩 Email us: [email protected]

Morning Fox is closer than you think.

GREG DAVIES: seems like a kind of a shit task. Everyone just seems like they're going home normally. ALEX HORNE: well before you say that let's have a look at how Odysseus did. cut to panel of AJAX, MENELAUS, AGAMEMNON, and DIOMEDES who are all staring at ODYSSEUS with his head in his hands

Oh hell yeah @amnesty.org comes out swinging: "Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems... are fundamentally incompatible with IHRL. As such, Amnesty International is calling for a prohibition of such systems." www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

A small serious human (3?) wearing a fluffy long purple coat and sparkly shoes, hair in a bun, small sparkly handbag hanging from the crook of her arm is strutting along. She's got import places to go and things to see and she's going to do it FASHIONABLY. (5)

Back watching historical fiction and of course you need to compress and adapt a little bit to make coherent drama, but I really don't think Margaret Beaufort smothered Jasper Tudor with a cushion. Interesting how vulnerable Henry VII looks in this, yet his rule and his dynasty survived.

Your advice, please: what's a good gift for a 10/11 year-old doing their first communion? (I'm an atheist, brought up Methodist, so don't know what's appropriate/traditional/reasonable for this.)

Me, age 12: I can be anything I want Me, age 18: I can be successful if I work hard Me, now: I can be back from the shops by 1 if I go now

Anyone need a road movie prompt?

hi hi - I hosted a very fun talk/Q&A session with James Graham a few weeks ago and they've now put the whole thing online, should you wish to watch it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHfu...

Bryan has just finished the artwork for his 6th graphic novel collaboration with @eyedotter.bsky.social - "Lo! An Amazon!" In the Age of Revolutions demanding greater liberties for mankind, Mary Wollstonecraft spoke out for the other "'one-half of the human race": that of womankind. #BryanTalbot

A double fox-spot from yesterday evening; Local Foxes Friday Night Dinner.

ITV2 is showing Agatha Christie's Marple: Ordeal by Innocence. I don't like any of these Marples (the Julia McKenzie ones are slightly more bearable), but the main issue here is that Miss Marple ISN'T IN Ordeal by Innocence. 🤦‍♀️

I’m too tired to stay up and wait for the midnight sun, but here is the 11 pm sun in Reykjavík

I have the last glass of a bottle of cheap cava and some salty snacks and am sad about neither of these things.

I can't not watch Erin Brockovitch if it's on. "I want you to think real hard about what your spine is worth...then you take that number and you multiply it by a hundred, because anything less is a waste of our time! By the way, we had that water brought in special for you folks-it's from the plume"

Possibly the most frightening talent of the brown bear is an uncanny ability to blend seamlessly into the environment in an almost chameleon-like manner, allowing them to easily surprise their unsuspecting prey.

FAO #totp watchers! Please check out my month-by-month guide to 80s pop history.

Don't go to Pennsylvania thinking it's full of pencils, because it isn't. The travel agent won't refund you. Trust me.