Funny things still happen over at the bad place This guy put a prompt in his LinkedIn and now AI recruiters are writing him in Old English and calling him "my lord"

I’ve read 39 of these - more than I expected. Austen seriously over-represented. www.theguardian.com/p/x4f9v5

This summary of different early medieval literature is still one of my favourite things on the internet. #medievalsky

At last, a very wide array of cheaper 2nd hand electric cars are on the market. The legendary Jack Scarlett has a look around the lot. 'Ullo Jack, gotta new motor!' (maybe need to be a certain age to appreciate that)

A tale of two Scarboroughs! from 1897. The Herring Fleet operated out of Scarborough for about 2 weeks each year with the boats following the fish south. The bathing machines meanwhile for the use of the affluent summer visitors. Herbert Rawling operated about 50 of the them. #socialhistory

North America's only marsupials, opossums have a 13 day gestation. After birth, the bee-sized babies spend 6-9 weeks in the pouch attached to a nipple, then another 4-5 months riding on mom's back. During the 'baby-bus' phase, she continues to forage. This momma has a mustache made of baby tails.

This 1952 memo from the Pentagon UFO files is superb There is no point preparing for aliens ‘because no one of consequence is going to take this rubbish seriously unless it happens. At that point, our policy will be determined in the traditional manner of grand panic.’ 🤣 www.war.gov/medialink/uf...

Did you know that off the coast of Australia's Northern Territory between September and March, at 3pm every day, a thunderstorm forms? That's *every single day*. It’s so eerily predictable that it’s been given a name: HECTOR THE CONVECTOR. I'm not making this up, and I just had to tell someone.

As Sir David Attenborough turns 100 years old, Darwin’s Master Dr Mike Rands reflects on his extraordinary impact, and engagement with conservation at Cambridge, and wishes him a happy birthday on behalf of Darwinians everywhere. www.darwin.cam.ac.uk/news/happy-1...

In 1867, most MPs treated women's suffrage as a joke - or as one MP put it, "a pleasant interlude" in the "sombre discussions" of the age. Mill was beaten by 196 votes to 73. Nearly 400 didn't even bother to vote. The first enemy of all great causes is derision. It takes courage to challenge that.

This ancient ‘network’ mosaic glass bowl looks modern, yet it’s about 2,250 years old! Made by spiralling thin threads of twisted glass over a convex mould, it’s a wonderful example of the innovative skills of Hellenistic glassmakers! Landesmuseum Württemberg, Stuttgart 📷 by me #Archaeology

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Post your warning sign (Whitby Abbey Cemetery)

We have an *extremely* important announcement to make. From Wednesday, we will be launching our puffin live cam, coming to you from the Farne Islands. So you can watch puffins all day long. In celebration, please enjoy this clip of puffins being really busy for 39 seconds straight.

For #AncientSiteSaturday the aqueduct of Segovia/Spain. It was built in the late 1st/early 2nd c. AD and supplied water to the city until the 20th century. It's one of the best-preserved #Roman aqueducts and an impressive work of engineering. 📷 🏺 #archaeology

"The octopus on your plate can feel pain, delay gratification, and probably outthink a toddler. Just something to consider before you order."

The hill has Paleolithic rock shelters occupied by Neanderthals approximately 50 thousand years ago, long before the Iron Age hillfort was built. One of the last known Neanderthal sites in Britain

The green dragon wishes you all an excellent #weekend BL Add 16577; Festival prayer book, Italian rite; 3rd quarter of the 15th century; Italy; f.44v @blmedieval.bsky.social

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BREAKTHROUGH: SaltX Technology and Holcim have produced Portland-quality clinker - the core ingredient in cement - using a fully electrified process. No fossil fuels. The goal is now a pilot plant targeting Europe's first fully electric cement facility by 2028. www.globalcement.com/news/20714-s...

Some useful public speaking tips from Freud here.

I feel this should read "Indexing, Career In"

The lawnmower is out of office. The grass can grow!🌱 Add your name to the No Mow Movement and pledge to give the mower a holiday - https://loom.ly/XjkGVRE Who’s put the mower away already?✋ #NoMowMay #NoMowMovement #NoMowMay2026

A personal favourite for my first #MosaicMonday on Bluesky: late Roman mosaic with pastoral Anubis guarding the Egyptian wildlife (a possible Sphinx included). City Museum, Rimini. 📸 my own.

"Day 068, Orbit 1054 — Opening the shutters in the morning: what a beautiful way to start the day! 🌍" – @esa.int astronaut Sophie Adenot #εpsilon 🎥 NASA/ESA

These camera trap pictures from the Masaai Mara are absolutely, jaw-droppingly beautiful. Great story as well. blog.burrard-lucas.com/2026/04/secr...

Today has been an adventure to see thousands of very rare Pasque flowers! Now found on only a handful of chalk & limestone grasslands in England, legend had it that Pasque flowers sprang from the blood of slain Vikings. In fact they grow on old tumuli because they’ve not been disturbed by ploughing

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Happy International Bat Appreciation Day.

A significant tipping point for the UK's car market: "New electric cars now cheaper than petrol on average for the first time says Autotrader." plc.autotrader.co.uk/news-views/p...

Be afraid. Be very afraid. Srsly. Not much we can do, except cross our fingers.

This is really grim

An 18th century moon mission ~ this photograph-like image of a gibbous Moon, with the dark patches of the Sea of Serenity and the Sea of Tranquillity, is actually a remarkable pastel created by English painter John Russell, way back in 1795

Did anyone else see this message in the clouds this morning? #LookUpAtTheSkyDay

AI footage in the quote post. However it's a real fact, with real footage available (See my link below). Now people who believed it have a false image of how octopus act, and people who recognise it as AI question a real observed scientific fact. Utter bullshit. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN9B...

AND THIS IS NOT AI. The natural world is genuinely intelligent!

Whoa 🤯 The Moon, in full eclipse, with the #Artemis II Orion spacecraft. Part of the Moon and spacecraft are lit by Earthshine, and both Saturn and Mars are visible to the lower right. Incredible. Details: images.nasa.gov/details/art0...

Timeline cleanse, featuring the majestic sea flap-flaps (aka mobula rays). They're a migratory animal, moving from one part of the ocean to another in large groups called "fevers". They migrate to follow upwellings that enrich for zooplankton food items & to visit their breeding grounds. (📷:OCR)

Moon getting atmospheremogged

Marg Leehane, part owner of Great Bear Lodge in Port Hardy, British Columbia, decided it was worth waking up the guests at 6 a.m. to show them two humpback whales in the bay. TT: bookofcabins

www.programmablemutter.com/p/ai-has-lim... On @beenwrekt.bsky.social wonderful new book, "The Irrational Decision."

The rabbit-duck illusion explained at last.

Keir Starmer urged to ban ‘cruel’ greyhound racing in England

This quote from Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell has been in my head the last few days

Today’s amazing and completely not tenuous Easter fact: The Hall is 4 years older than hot cross buns. Brother Thomas Rocliffe of St Albans Abbey began making them in 1361 and would distribute them to the poor on Good Friday.

I didn’t know Paul Simon did dance moves (wait for it): youtu.be/ikzZ58_oBCo?...

I went to see Project Hail Mary. I think the main effect was to make me want to re-read Hal Clement’s Cycle of Fire.

Maybe these need to be put on a few menus/supermarket walls. These are from the UK National Food Strategy, showing the proportion of UK land used for different things (huge for beef/lamb, tiny for crops), & where we get our calories and protein (68% & 52% from plants). The difference is staggering.