You Attract What You Put Out*

This is a fantastic article with a lot of simple explanations in it of everyday counterintuitive bullshit, just as you’d expect from Cory Doctorow. Yeah AI is a bubble. But what sort of bubble? Who puffed it up? And what do we do? www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Regret to inform you all that I forgot the golden rule of Bluesky today - never post

Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools

I've never noticed before, but because of the way the bow is tied/depicted, you can tell this is based on a woven fabric. 🧶

New pod! 🎙️ Get your archaeological ponderings from our very own @brennawalks.bsky.social!

MAN > TFS

You have to block them immediately. The full nuclear. They are only here to make folks angry, and that can’t happen if we lock them out.

While I agree the cost of university tuition fees is outrageous, I also think the loan system here isn't nearly as bad as people make it out to be. It is legitimately more like a tax than anything/where else, you pay a % once you earn a certain amount, and only during your working life.

I called the Herr's Product Quality Concerns line and reached a nice lady. She listened to my whole little saga. She waited, then said, "I bet you believe they're made from real potatoes now!" I may never recover.

I’m looking for a revision sheet covering all the different types of integration in #Edexcel A Level #FurtherMaths. Does anyone know if such a thing exists? There must be something somewhere!

Peopling the Past is planning Season 5 of our podcast! We are looking for folks who are interested in appearing as episode guests: the theme of Season 5 will be the relevance of the ancient world to our understanding of important but challenging contemporary issues docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... /🧵

If they sold DVDs of Heated Rivalry with this and BTS for $35, they would absolutely sell like hotcakes.

Use the materials you're hoarding. Use that cute pen, the fancy tape, one of the 40 notebooks. Draw with those alcohol markers before they dry up. Art materials are meant to be used, not gather dusts. "I'm afraid to waste it." Time spent using them = experience. And experience is never wasted.

I too have been a victim of this scam. It can happen to anyone.

Reposting to add this isn't necessarily a UK-only opportunity. Our most recent VRFs were wonderful musicians from Brazil.

News | Melanie Keen steps down as director of Wellcome Collection Sam Owen to act as interim director when Keen leaves this spring

I help scientists communicate their work visually through accurate illustration. Available for figures, papers, posters, presentations & books. If you have a project in mind, feel free to contact me: [email protected]

Check the date. What did we know and when did we know it?

well, this is just lovely

Just published a paper on the complaint tablet to Ea-nāṣir meme, the decade-old tumblr in-joke that continues to impact the public understanding of the ancient world. Paywalled but email me if you want a copy. 🏺

Singing power ballads seems to make you insane/hilarious

shoutout to my therapist's therapist

✨✨✨GLITTER CANNON DEPLOYED✨✨✨ S1 E1 is now live on @theincomparable.com! with special guest @premeemohamed.com 🪲 Listen now! Or bookmark this for later! Whenever you need a hit of joy, we've got you covered! Transcript: sgwong.com/blog/episode... Subscribe/Follow the show! Share the joy ✨

The Norfolk Carnyx: a Playmobil story in 4 parts. 🧵 #DiggingForBritain #DrawingDiggingForBritain #PlaymobilInfestation @profaliceroberts.bsky.social @pcaarchaeology.bsky.social 1: Life

Some asteroids were mined for minerals, methane or water, some served as truck stops for traffic between the outer and inner planets. Some of those became destinations in their own right, like asteroid 52692. Covered in hydroponic tuber farms, it was the home of the famous Scalzi Space Potato.

Brains and hands are so weird! I bought myself some wooden interchangeable needle tips, just in case they get taken off me at security (I never carry-on my good needles). But they're standard length and I just cannot knit normally with them! Off to the shop tomorrow to try to get some short ones. 🧶

Me having leftover takeaway for lunch at work

You’ve Got This*

A mnemonic device for remembering the Great Lakes

Everybody thinks 'https://' stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol secure' but it actually stands for 'head to this place, sucka' followed by a colon and two laser sounds

The Spanish Civil War through contemporary eyes Faced with a fascist coup and polarising conflict, an international aid effort was launched - our digitised collection on the Spanish Civil War, 1936-9, contains 4,000+ archive sources freely available Find out more at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...

Want to feel better about your to-do list? I just took my wedding dress to the drycleaners. This year will be our 15th anniversary.

We're going on holiday soon and I love the new e-visa system where I have to generate a code that's only valid for 90 days and then print it out and also the written link to the website where you input it, because no one at any border ever seems to know what to do with me not having a physical visa.

GET YOUR BESPOKE CROSSWORDS HERE. Do you know someone who'd love a themed crossword puzzle as a birthday or anniversary present? You almost certainly do (in this country you're never more than 10 feet away from a #crossword geek). People seem to like 'em. richarddsmyth.com/custom-cross...

I found out that you can reuse a decades old calendar if its year’s dates line up with the current year’s, so this year I got a lovely 1998 Xena: Warrior Princess calendar. The way they added show events into it is cracking me up.

Breakfast dice doodle: 1. Fill a page with rectangular-ish hollow blocks. Connect each one to it's neighbours with 3 short lines. 2. Roll a D6 & fill each block with the resulting number of internal boxes. 3. For each block: - if the # of boxes is odd, fill each box with stripes. - if even...

If you haven't seen it, Bill Watterson gave a speech in 1990 to his alma mater, Kenyon college Full speech is here and it is absolutely worth your time: www.neil.blog/full-speech-... This is my favourite part

Sci-fi brain has me looking at the back garden after I've just put fresh bird food out and thinking, the equivalent to a bird's experience would be for me, a human, to regularly co-exist and interact with more than a dozen similar species from the same class/order. It's wild when you think about it.

Letterpress for the people! Silly letterpress for the joyful people! 🌈 (Quick test print of daredevil ie not straight typesetting. Can use special furniture, sign foam, magnets; but using traditional spacing & getting all the tiny bits into place so nothing shifts under the press is fun & relaxing)

Vamos a viajar a Tenerife este sábado por dos semanas. Quisiemos hacer una visita guiada de comida locale mientras allí. Pueden alguien recomendar algo?

Fellow horse girls/paleo nerds, rejoice: WILD ONE is now available in the main B+B online shop in both miniprint and sticker form! The first Patreon-exclusive illustration from 2025, this one has a special place in my heart. #paleontology #horse #fossil #natureart www.beastieandbone.com/gift-shop

Don’t talk to me or my son ever again

I've been commissioned to write a piece about games based on real places that changed peoples' perception of that place or had some kind of local impact - are you a dev who made a game like this? Or are you a player who has a story about a game that inspired you to visit somewhere? Let me know!

Hi #PortfolioDay. 🖌️I'm an Architectural Illustrator from Edinburgh. I enjoy visually reconstructing old buildings and monuments using 3D models and digital paintings. My work is guided by archaeology, measured survey data, and collaboration with historians/archaeologists. Website: bobmarshall.co.uk

someone in the replies asked, and now I also want to know—is this Hugo eligible?

A Fool’s Errand — our latest game for @play.date — is out now! Get it now: play.date/games/a-fool... Learn more: www.iorama.studio/afoolserrand

Manchester/Leeds-area folklore fiends, take a peek! 👀 I may go if I'm free then! 🤞🏻

✂️ Yesterday I finally responded to @agakowalska.bsky.social’s challenge to make a collage from a single piece of packaging. I present to you a green (tea) woodpecker, made from a big Yorkshire Tea box. It was fun and I’ll be rooting through our recycling bin for more materials later on ♻️