I am right this very minute sitting in the cool breeze under the grapevine (that Juliet also planted) eating one of these figs and it is just an all-round incredible experience, like maybe the whole point of life was to eat this fig, mmmmmm

Look! It’s the Goodyear Blimp!

Look at what the cis do with their “fairness in sports” bro lmao 😭

Honey bring it close to my lips yeah

Brutal technical death psy/Goa leftism is the true path!

Are you at #emfcamp this year? Do you want to change your name? Call us on NAME (6263) from a DECT or site phone and we’ll meet you with the paperwork and witnesses to make it official!

Interview with the guy who put on the Merzbow gig I went to a few weeks back and it’s the most positive thing I’ve read about music in London for ages

Kids on Nearby pub Playdate while 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 playing 🤝 Is that good screaming or bad screaming?

*sigh* ok what’s the alternative of choice now, ivpn?

I think The Frogans Technology is using a slightly out of date market data feed

Increasingly I find that I judge recipes and cookbooks on how honest they are about this

Back with another one of those bog-blocking shits (derner nerner nerner nerner nernerner)

This website keeps giving me vivid and unsettling flashbacks to the period many many years ago when I was a grad student while a big chunk of the the UK research community was obsessed with “e-science” www.frogans.org/en/resources...

I spotted these two bees “kissing”, unusually outside the hive. The technical term is trophallaxis - the forager is passing nectar on to another bee, and they are also rubbing antennae to exchange pheromone information about how healthy the queen is, how hungry the brood is, etc.

I have only recently found out about The Frogans Technology and now I am somewhat in awe

PSA: the blood donation centre in Brixton is calm and quiet and has really good air conditioning.

I don’t normally post this stuff because it’s very tedious to scroll past, but I’ve had this backup plan for years and now it has paid off and it will never work quite as well again and I need to think up another one. Wordle 1,832 2/6* ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

fixed your headline

I used to work for an Italian guy who insisted that the Correct way to drink coffee was espresso with a glass of sparkling water on the side. It works for a bunch of reasons but on a hot day it’s especially great.

There’s a place in Borough Market sells durians for an extortionate price but in this weather they smelled AMAZING and I would totally have got one were it not for the fact I would no longer be welcome within a five mile radius of home for the next week, possibly forever

⚡️⚡️ZAP⚡️⚡️

The trainer said I would feel kinda weird a day or two after using the hip adductor machine and right enough I am now sore in places of whose existence I was hitherto unaware.

Turns out it’s much easier to assemble a big box of wax strips when the wax isn’t melting, who knew? Glad we chose to do it today though - the hive was teeming and clearly needed the space; also i got to start off the week with BEES which is an excellent thing to do

On a hot day bees will, like anyone else, find it too warm inside and go hang out by the front of the hive.

Once when i was doing the Walk of Shame back from some club, a random teenager followed me and yelled OI, ARE YOU GAY? I turned and said "no, I'm bi", and he said "what's that?" I said "I'm into both men and women" and he stopped, thought for a moment, then said "Oh.. cool! Nice one!" & ran off.

As usual there is literally nothing in the EMF lineup that I think I wouldn't enjoy attending

ban it for at least nine years

You can tell the drones because they’re larger and have enormous eyes, but this one also has a Varroa mite on its thorax. This particular colony is easily strong enough to deal with problem, to the extent we had to add another box today to give them more space.

I try not to damage any of the comb during an inspection but sometimes it’s unavoidable, at which point the cleanup crew arrive, stick their tongues into the spilt nectar, and sit there going shlurp shlurp shlurp until they can take it somewhere else

Possibly my favouritest thing ever about Oxford is that you can be walking down some random little street and suddenly be accosted with incredibly intense Book Smell as you walk past the vent from a subterranean library stack, hinting at the vast pleasures below your feet

I hadn’t been to Heligan for some years, so it was a delight not only to visit the Lost Gardens in full bloom but also to spot a couple of hummingbird hawk-moths busily working their way through the catmint

Every so often I’ll pay a visit and someone will say “ach sure would you not think about coming back to live here?” and seem genuinely surprised by the bitter laughter

This is of course a straightforward consequence of the Barnet Jaws Of Doom, which is a much larger problem along with the fact it only seems to be known or discussed amongst massive nerds

Ooh shall I bring out The Graph again?

I *think* I have managed to convince The Teenager that camomile tea was originally a patent medicine advocated by the C17th herbalist Giancarlo Camomiletti, which came to be known as “infusion of Camomiletti” and then corrupted by the English to “Camomily tea” and then “camomile tea”.

The beach's flag is deepest red, It warns of risk 't could leave you dead, And lest your limbs grow stiff and cold, Best stay on shore and not be bold.

The people’s flag is deepest garnet; Let me in the water, darn it

If we do pride month we should also do wrath month, and Haring’s unfinished painting should be its flag

forgot the worst thing about 2000s era clothes: cropped everything. bitch I am 5'10 the regular is already cropped on me go away I am not going to find time to get the singer from Wet Leg's abs

I am at a Merzbow gig in an old car park and i feel like I’ve fallen asleep in a rock tumbler

ngl I preferred the heatwave

The crows, geese, and coots in our local park all recognise us and the latter two bring their little chicks along to get fed; there are currently warnings not to feed them due to bird flu and I really miss the adorable baby birbs

Modern hive design is based on the concept of “bee space”: any gap much smaller than ~9mm gets filled in with resin; bigger and it gets filled with comb, but a 9mm gap is just enough to let two bees pass and gets left alone. I like it because i get to see their little faces peeping out. Hello bees!

ok, I'm entering Education Crank Mode again: this is a stupid thing to have in a GCSE physics syllabus. The choice of "seven" colours in the rainbow has no scientific basis - Newton chose seven to match a musical scale, because he was a mystical weirdo.

When your smart meter is very reassuring

When I was a grad student my supervisor tried to buy an 800-way Cray T3E that the Uni of Manchester were getting rid of, until he discovered that it drew about half a megawatt all-in.

This is a great essay although while I’m a big fan of picking up the phone in the first instance, I have, in the past, definitely designed systems around the constraint of specific people being a nightmare to work with. infrastory.substack.com/p/engineerin...

…BANACH TARSKI!