I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

The OG Simon's Cat film!

Candles of the day

Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.

"....I have seen people sum me up and dismiss me right while I was talking to them, as if what I am came through more clearly than any words I might choose to say. I see their eyes lose focus and settle elsewhere. Do they think that I don't realize?..." Anne Tyler - Celestial Navigation

Book Cover of the Day:

Chang'e Flying to the Moon, Ren Shuai Ying, 1955.

The first dawn in October this year

Copper Beeches, 2013, painting by Yorkshire-based artist Kate Lycett. #WomensArt

Dance of Autumn Leaves, Suzuki Harunobu.

Map produced from the perspective of Galicia but applicable to the world before the revolutionary changes brought by arrival of the railway. By sea: A Coruña to London: 5 days. By land: Coruña to Madrid; 20 days.

#Fox by Helen Ahpornsiri, who creates intricate collage artworks created with real pressed flowers and leaves. #WomensArt #Autumn #Fall

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

This feels like a spot of good news www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Ok, for each retweet I’ll provide one insight, fact, or opinion on unconventional naval warfare, like submarines, explosive boats, special forces or crazy ideas 0/n 🧵

Federal agencies hiding out in a bunker

I appreciate what @atrupar.com does too. Not always pleasant, but always informative.

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What's funny is you can tell exactly why it output this string. When it stole literally all of Stack Overflow, it stole tons and tons of people's explanations of how to make a program that produces random character strings. One of the easiest ways to do so, contains *this* ASCII string.

Awesome

I tried to make a double ristretto, but ended up having to start again after a single shot. I ended up having a triple ristretto and then added milk foam. I’m calling this a tragic.

A meltdown isn’t over nothing. It’s never over nothing. It’s what happens when your needs have been ignored for too long. When you’ve been overstimulated, dismissed, touched without consent, spoken over, denied food, denied rest, denied space, denied truth.

Indian film company to rerelease romantic drama with AI ‘happy ending’ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Book Cover of the Day:

journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1... Loving this! Yes indeed, autistic/ADHD people do indeed have more autistic/ADHD etc neurodivergent friendships. The research article talks about the joys and perils.

Feeling overwhelmed today.

Lovely flower illustrations 😍

annsautism.blogspot.com/2025/07/auti... New blog from me, about autistic meltdowns, shutdowns, and the misunderstandings that people may have about these. I hope it's helpful.

I love how surreal and painterly this photo of a hosta in our garden came out! I would probably think it’s a digital painting if not for the fact that I took this photo myself. Lens used: TTArtisan 100mm ƒ/2.8

In the this is not good category… OpenAI’s o1 model attempted to copy itself to external servers after being threatened with shutdown, then denied the action when discovered. -Fortune

This doesn’t seem terrifying at all

Pelicans asleep on the beach. Largs Bay, South Australia.

The first American 'scientific refugees' arrive in #France Aix-Marseille University is wooing researchers who feel targeted by the #Trump administration. www.politico.eu/article/meet...

I feel this a lot these days when I see people angry that other folks are not focused on the same atrocity they are, with the same intensity they are. I regret to say there's more than one genuine atrocity in the world at the moment; it doesn't minimize the others if one chooses another to focus on.

🧵 I often talk about VDA, Verification, Deliberation, Accountability, as the core functions that make democracy possible. But to understand what’s gone wrong, we need to look at how those functions have changed.

Odilon Redon : Trees on a Yellow Background, 1901

David Pope in Canberra Times

Bunny disapproves of this. All of it.

Can you see the black swan? Dwarfed by a ship being loaded at Outer Harbor in the background. Taken from St Kilda last night.

This is an awesome summary to help autistic people recognise the characteristics of good, not so good and bad relationships.

Excellent article on church and disability. Worth following the link to read.

**Operation Spiders Web** I resisted a hot take. So, on sober reflection… Op Spiderweb was one of the most impressive, and strategic attacks ever. Short thread 🧵 #russia #Ukraine

Advance info about our restaurant/cafe available online. Pictures and videos are great, along with an idea of where to park, or how far the bus stop is, etc. A clear menu, with ingredients listed, for those whose sensory systems really can't tolerate particular flavours, textures or smells/

ndconnection.co.uk/resources/p/... New resources discussing the difficulties with Positive Behaviour Support and Applied Behaviour Analysis, from the team at Neurodiverse Connection.

Most of our members give $5 a month — and thanks to their contributions, we are able to fund our operations and reach millions of readers around the world every week. Membership shows just how powerful collective action can be.

From March last year: www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2024...

I am tired of all social interactions that place performance ahead of communication.