I think surfing gives me more vivid Tetris dreams than actual Tetris does. It’s ~5h since I was in the water but if I close my eyes I can still see the waves rolling up towards me, I can see them curling at the top (gogogogo paddle!) and I can feel myself bob up and down as each one goes past.

raving surfing 🤝 caught some banging sets and now i need to go sleep for like a million years

Few things feel like an instant vindication of ones life choices as much as going out in the morning and catching a really big fucking wave and riding it all the way home

Back of the envelope says that if a year’s electricity consumption is 3.8MWh you’d need a battery system the size of a shipping container to store it.. or about £500 worth of petrol in a half-cubic-metre tank. Fossil fuels are stupidly energy-dense!

If anyone was wondering what was going on with the sea level in the St Ives bay, most of the water was in my sinuses until very suddenly about 10 mins ago.

Just been past somewhere called Trethingey, so am now on the lookout for Penwossname

No surfing today because red flag, but we do get some entertainingly dramatic sea instead

In fairness I used to play Iszoloscope to lull him to sleep

I have just played Merzbow’s “Woodpecker No. 1“ to The Teenager and he said he “kinda liked it, in a way”; I’ve never felt so proud

Wow, a Hoxton fin, not seen one of those in years

“Maybe if i spend 9 months going down the gym regularly and get a little bit of upper body strength, i might suck at this very slightly less” lol lmao nope. Although to be fair everyone else was struggling to get out to the break as well; I guess the fact there were hardly any locals out was A Sign.

An enthusiastic wet dog who’s vastly stronger than you and who knocks you over without a thought and chucks you two hundred yards down the beach, then sits there wagging expectantly as you struggle to get to your feet

I’m not generally a fan of household appliances having touchscreen/app interfaces, but I’ll take them over whatever the hell this is

TFW you get to Cornwall and the sea bounds up to greet you like an enthusiastic wet dog who’s not seen you for a whole year

Mad props to @dracos.co.uk for making the one website on the planet that actually deals gracefully with the network dropping as you go underground

I haven’t listened to Campag Velocet in multiple decades, but I still think of them every time someone goes past with one of those stupidly noisy freehubs

Nothing invokes my childhood quite like the words “CRACKED BY 42-CREW” followed by a menu of games and a scrolling message full of inscrutable beefs

Today’s wikipedia rabbit hole: the reason the left side of the cerebrum represents the right side of the body & vice versa is (probably) that what later becomes the front half of your head does a 180 during embryonic development en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axial_t...

It’s extremely funny that bleeding-edge security today means bodging around the shortcomings of the C memory model with a trick from 1970s lisp machines security.apple.com/blog/memory-...

TIL that one of the samurai serving under Tokugawa Ieyasu was born in Gillingham

I joined a hundred-odd people on a local hill to see the eclipse, only to discover that someone had inconsiderately put Canary Wharf in the way. (Also a cloud)

FYI it's a blood moon in the UK tonight, so beware that if eg you killed an annoying lizalfos near your house a few weeks ago, it'll be there again after 7.30pm this evening and you'll have to deal with it all over again

Probs last Gaussfest pic: back before we had semiconductors, if you wanted to rectify AC into DC you’d use one of these insane contraptions that works by ripping more electrons from mercury vapor than it does from a carbon anode. Bad pic but hard to capture just how crazy this thing is

Did I mention that the tesla coil playing the Dr Who theme was set up so the sparks came out of a dinosaur and a dalek? Well, it was.

In a tube station when the alert went out, and there was easily a tens-of-seconds variation in when people got it. Googling brings up lots of “your phone will beep” level stuff, plus a rail forum thread which calculates the latency to be.. ballpark 11 seconds! www.railforums.co.uk/threads/uk-e...

Hello i am in a building full of steam engines and tesla coil, one of which is playing the theme from Dr Who

Hello, in AD 2101, war was beginning. With me in the studio to discuss what happen are:

The archetypical IoT intro is “Hello, in <year>, <event happened>” so I can’t not hear the following in Melvyn’s voice: “Hello, in 1972 a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men escaped to the LA underground. With me to discuss this are…”

Me whenever someone says “what do you mean, oh look another one of the RCP crew?”

at last a big budget film about Hong Xiuquan

While making some plans I randomly discovered that goabase is still alive and kicking, complete with unreadable flyers and lurid purple web design like the 90s never ended. Even harderfaster hasn't updated in a few years now.

We took the varroa strips out again this week and to everyone’s relief the queens are still alive and laying well.

What have Apple done to Spotlight that means it's now much more quick and reliable for me to go to a shell and use mdfind and grep?

I’m reminded of all those times prior to 2009 when rumours swept the Glastonbury bubble that Michael Jackson had died

The Vikings turned out to be quite friendly - they’re moored at St Katharine Docks for another couple of hours today

Hello, I have made a bot to post when Tower Bridge is opening - @tb-lifts.bsky.social ! If you remember @infovore.bsky.social 's bot from back in the twitter glory days, it's basically a recreation of that.

Holy shit I had not clocked that the person with the paintbrush in this photo is *Johnny Adair* www.irishnews.com/news/norther...

don't think anything I want to say about this which should be posted publicly

The viking longship Saga Farmann is due to sail into London today - there are some wildly conflicting reports of when it’s due in, but Tower Bridge has a lift for it booked for 10pm so I’ll assume that’s correct. You can track the ship here: www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/detai...

There are (at least) 11 artists on Spotify called "Panik" and none of them made 90s banger "Put your fucking hands in the air"

What happens if you ask men to shave their body hair as part of a university course in sexuality studies? www.breannefahs.com/uploads/1/0/... A long read, but a fascinating one.

I have discovered the best bsky account. This is what the internet was made for. bsky.app/profile/iss-...

Since we’ve done the honey extraction for the year, we put some strips of formic acid gel into the hive to kill off varroa mites before the winter.

Spotted a little cluster of bees hanging out near the hive entrance- on a closer look I think it’s a forager giving nectar to other workers for storage, since you can see their tongues sticking out. The forager clearly had some good shit because the others were going mad to get a bit of it.

Turns out the place the annoyingly jaunty smoothie packaging invites you to drop round to does actually exist! (I did not in fact drop round; I was on my way to a pressing engagement)

Flegs and painted kerbstones: how 1970s Northern Ireland set the tone for England in 2025. In this essay I will

On the one hand this is very true; on the other hand the only landlines I know off the top of my head are: (a) my parents, and (b) 0181 811 8181 for BBC Saturday morning TV 30 years ago even though I never actually rang it

MOVE ASIDE AND LET THE MANGO THROUGH

Contrary to famous gotcha question in elementary thermodynamics, I have left the freezer open and it is in fact cooling the room down.

Did a quick hive inspection to check all was well in the hot weather; for some reason they were super keen on doing their little trapeze act when I lifted a frame out. In the wild they do this to work out the correct shape for the comb.