nothing new to report here yet (unsurprisingly) but trying to take pictures of it is funny

1 MARINA ticket for Monday in the best section of O2 Academy Glasgow secure.ticketmaster.co.uk/rs/3E0063589...

we cancelled spotify this year and have been using qobuz. it's been very good, but there are some drawbacks. one is that any artist with a simple/generic name will typically be lumped in with tons of other completely different artists of the same name. for example Ralph's page is a dumpster fire

Reminder to my US ppl that UK 🇬🇧 fellowships often have much earlier deadlines, and universities have quotas, which means even earlier internal deadlines! For Edinburgh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿: 22 June deadline for ERF, RSURF, DHF 1 August deadline: Curie EoI

your symbiont is making feelings emerge because of your past host's relationship? trill issue

Not many people know Bob Dylan's birth name is actually Lucky Wilbury

Watching an old episode of @nightflightplus.bsky.social, I learned for the first time the insane fact that the Traveling Wilburys were supposed to be biological(?) brothers separated at birth. For example, Nelson Wilbury only took on the stage name "George Harrison" once he joined the Beatles.

Watched Signs (2002) last night for the first time. Realized it's the first Mel Gibson movie I've seen, and boy can that POS act!? (No not really it turns out, but the movie was still good)

i can't believe 2005 was three years ago!!

The lost episode 🤣 (Self made, not generated)

I have an irrational dislike of the use of “compute” as a noun that’s cropped up in recent years

Someday I'd like to be able to hear the word 'tiramisu' without my brain going "like the deserts miss the rain"

..that has been promulgated by Trek bros forever

Just checked in on the petition: over 1150 signatures, including 2 Nobels! Jim Dunlop nicely sums it up: "I fully support our colleagues in Nottingham who, like many across the sector, are the victim of utterly incompetent University management"

Very reassuring warning sign at the bus stop. Not even "events _may_ take place" - no, no, we know these clowns - "events **will** take place" (if a football match goes too well)

More on the destruction of US science: Federal science agencies lost more jobs in 2025 (12%) than over the previous TWO decades (8%), including 30% of personnel at NSF, 20% at USGS, NOAA, and NIH. NASA lost 12% (now up to 24% by Jan 2026). (Data from www.aip.org/fyi/federal-...)

He only looks forlorn because nobody got him a hot dog hat

It's pretty crazy that Popeye's™ doesn't have **any** spinach-based sides

They may use the metric system, but for some reason a million is written as 'm' not 'M' in the UK, as in £1.4m, and it drives me crazy

logging into a new science team Slack and the first dozen posts are just about how to workaround time limits and access restrictions for people who do or don't have Slack Pro. i genuinely don't get the appeal...

one of the best things about quitting Spotify and migrating to Qobuz? no more annoying "visualizations" on freaking repeat while I'm trying to listen to a song.

the thing everyone must understand with trans issues is - when right wing insanity and bloodthirstyness against a group is bigger than your support of that group, the right wingers win. you have to match them in forcefulness. any sort of passivity will make you lose to them.

Tonight, at my pub quiz in the UK, I (very understandably!) got this guy confused with Richard Simmons.

We get the best look at Li Nalas' Bajoran Navarch rank pin in this shot in #StarTrekDS9's "The Siege. You can clearly see that it is identical to Kira's Major rank pin, only the left half of the inner oval is painted black in Li Nalas' pin.

Finally! Low self esteem has a tangible benefit.

I've never heard earned wealth phrased this way, but she's right about it.

Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you a workload allocation model. Mark 11:28

was trying to think the other day which American institutions haven't been thoroughly enshittified... only came up with NASA and RuPaul's Drag Race?

Nothing says Christmas quite like the maw of a giant Arrakis sandworm

#StarTrek #TheLateShowWithShran Tonight! Shran welcomes "Project Whale Mary" star Dr. Gillian Taylor! And "When Harry Met Seven" star Seven Of Nine! Then, Shran and Tarah taste test Kruge's line of Klingon Bloodwine coolers! And musical guest Duras Duras! Your local news is next.

The UK party landscape may be fractured, but you can divide into nasty and not-nasty. Thursday’s results show not-nasty 53% in England, 58% in Wales, and 78% in Scotland. We are lovely of course in Scotland, but it’s mostly about the voting system

Here’s mine.

Zathras, Za'thras, Zathr'as, and Zath'ras

If you see this, post a concert photo you took

anyway

what planet do goths come from

kinda weird that sapphire and sapphic aren't related etymologically

Calling back "spam risk" numbers and I've found a chat bot that is happily reciting the first 723 digits of pi back to me

physicist slayyyter be like PLANCK IT!!!

WHAT in the (habitable) world(s)? 🔭

studying for my 'Life in the UK' test, and the book says "...Britain is one of the world’s most diverse societies..." bro this is the whitest place I've lived in my life!

The last images of Hubble that were this clear were from the last servicing mission in 2009. You can see Hubble in several of the photos in this NASA gallery: www.nasa.gov/gallery/sts-...

Just had this interaction with one of the Dutch students in my group. This may well be the pinnacle of my professional career.