OK, *this* is now the slowest I've ever heard the Italian National Anthem sung. Much prefer the Six Nations versions where they don't bother waiting for the band.

A Valentine’s Day cartoon for @newscientist.com

I changed the audio

"They might be Cambridge students, but if you ask for their name on this form they *will* get it wrong. We already know who they are from their login".

11 ENL and 6 RES joined us for FS Bury St. Edmunds on the 7th February 2026. Great company, portal hunt, mission banner fun and #beergress at the restock portal. We look forward to seeing you at the next event. #NIA #Niantic #IngressFS #FEVGames

I think that's the slowest I've ever heard the Italian national anthem sung. #Olympics

Once a year I have a reunion with a bunch of University friends...

So young, so dark haired...

Well, the Greenland issue has been resolved. Everybody get back to your regular work.

If you can substitute "hungry ghost trapped in a jar" for "AI" in a sentence it's probably a valid use case for LLMs. Take "I have a bunch of hungry ghosts in jars, they mainly write SQL queries for me". Sure. Reasonable use case. "My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged.

Two feet of snow in Canada this week.

Note to self: Next time, don't put all the tea-towels in the washing machine...

Turns out this is not, actually, a load of distress sales of Cornish houses whose ceilings are now in Devon post-Storm Goretti.

Humph. Forgot to check "Wen Binz?" and it turns out it was ten minutes ago...

The Ely Christmas Star 2025, a video of how it went. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ4D... This is an an annual effort between the end of Second Sunday and Boxing Day. #Ingress

Need at least one of these at every Anomaly and Mission Day location! #Ingress

#Ingress #Enlightened

Right, Die Hard time...

Wondering if anyone's made Die A Wonderful Hard Life, in which suicidal John McClane, cop of smalltown Nakatomi Falls, guided by angel Sergeant Al Powell, has a vision or what life would be like if he fails to foil a bank robbery by Hans Potter and his gang of Euro henchmen. Ho ho ho. 🎄🎬

Cartoon: "This one goes to Heaven." With thanks to @thegreatlukeski.bsky.social for the tribute idea :)

Since the invention of the movie, there have been five movies rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind.

Christmas night: "But Santa, you've hardly touched your Zardoz cookies."

"Unfolding in 1870s Oxford" Umm, have they actually *read* any of the Holmes stories? He was at Cambridge, probably Sidney Sussex College.

I worry about me sometimes...

Guess I’m never going to hear about Trump and his “Big Beautiful Bill” the same way ever again.

If they make me the next BBC DG I will... Cancel all programmes with a "...with <presenter name>" titles. Build a new state of the art production centre on the site of ETD Wood Norton (or under if stories about Bredon Wing were true). Bring all production back in house using permanent staff. 1/2

Calling all small charities! The Boring Fund is now open for applications. It offers small (£200) grants to UK non-profits, charities and voluntary groups to cover boring running costs like web hosting, admin, insurance etc Apply by 30 Nov #Funding

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And people say that Germans have no sense of humour.

When Sam Altman talks about a 1GW AI data centre: 1GW over a month, released instantly, would be an 850 kiloton explosion. A 1GW AI data centre uses as much energy as detonating ten 1-megaton H-bombs a year. /1

Had to be done... www.thingiverse.com/thing:7172264 #Ingress #Spidervan

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

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Ah, happy 88th anniversary of the day Oswald Mosley tried to sell fascism to Liverpudlians – and someone concussed him with a brick

We are as far away from the start of 'Allo 'Allo! as 'Allo 'Allo! was from the start of World War II.

My new book of science cartoons, PHYSICS FOR CATS is out in a week! Order a copy today from you local bookshop or at one of the links here: www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy. www.chosun.com/english/nati...

It's incredible how close the Red Arrows fly together, must take nerves of steel

Pleased to see Britain can still get some things right...

“I’m not sure I want to give way to the right” From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

They say 'the machines of the future' will be as smart as people... OK, but WHICH people? Because it kinda matters quite a bit.

An echinoid, a fossilised sea urchin, found on the Thames foreshore. It could be about 80 million years old. Wikipedia says they are lucky and have magical powers. #mudlarking

The Janey Godley Memorial Project rolls on.

Glad to see age verification is working swimmingly...

Official Ivor the Engine model railways! If only I had the money and the space... rapidotrains.co.uk/ivor-the-eng...

40 years ago.. 40 years previously was just after VE Day.. mind blowing #liveaid

Happy Murderbot renewal day!!! www.theverge.com/news/704047/...

Cartoon: Joe Who.