I feel like Kat is underselling her encounter with @tricialockwood.bsky.social here. You might think this was taken at a signing event or similar. Not so! Kat had gone to the bookshop to buy Tricia's book for my birthday, and was having trouble finding it.

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

Urgent: me and him and the cats need somewhere to live within the next two weeks, I've just been (I think very unfairly) fired and need to move somewhere ASAP

The garden care manual for gardens is about reconciling adversarial internal systems. It begins with exercises for identifying sub-personalities, and follows those with integration meditation. It's considered a psychohazard

Can we turn this government off and on again, it seems to have got into an inconsistent state?

This is an attempt to remove trans people from public life and no other spin on it should be accepted.

One of the best presents your past self can give you is for them to have ignored an album by a previously loved artist because someone said it wasn't worth bothering shelling out for. And now thanks to the magic of the internet your current self can finally get around to listening to it...

There is a really ugly bit of this website that rears its head whenever anything might be made easier for people who don’t enjoy reading and writing, let alone actively struggle with it.

Black Shuck waiting patiently at the church he visited

The absolute feebleness of the government's response to what is now undoubtedly an ongoing genocide is infuriating. There are real material actions that can be taken against Israel but all that's being talked about is the purely symbolic act of recognising Palestinian statehood.

We’ve thrown away decades of knowledge about tainting, query parameters and binding, for what. Including screenshots of the entire exploit to try and make it really obvious how rubbish this is

It's a sign! The time is ripe for PUB TAPESTRIES!

Always here for novel ways of reducing the hard surface reverb problem in pubs. I still think we could make pub tapestries a thing if we tried hard enough.

Remembering my friend Liz Daplyn, who has a memorial bench in Queen Square that I pass most days. If you’re nearby today, it’s a good day to drop by and pay your respects.

Here is a conversation I have sometimes had with small children, which I’m always a bit disappointed to have by the time they’re, I dunno, ten or so: - Did this turn out to be a good idea the last time you did it? - Do you think it would be a good idea to do it again now? - Really?

Is it bad that I was 45 pages from the end of my reread of Ulysses when I saw this, and until then hadn't twigged what day it was?

tripitaka: “there’s as much chance of good things as bad things!” sandy: “it’s a cheerful philosophy and I’ve heard it from people before. they’re all dead now though”

"Call me Ishmael. Or don’t. I’ve had like six usernames over the years. Anyway, this whole mess started because I thought shipping meant relationships, not whales. Now I’m on a boat with a captain who’s basically doing a slow-burn enemies-to-lovers thing with revenge. It’s fine. We’re fine."

The new Throwing Muses album sounds great - the cello + harsh clean guitar combo works really well with Kristin's late period voice - but it doesn't much sound like Throwing Muses. Feels odd to have such a great+distinctive rhythm section and then have them either not present or sounding anonymous.

things like "people are confused by the rush of technology and feel powerless, so what we need to do is force rapid take-up of a bleeding edge technology that doesn't work reliably"

I could never manage to build a Memory Palace but I have a comprehensive Palace of Anxieties to do a similar job

It pains me that I cannot find the tweet that has been going round my head since I heard about this reboot, but it went like this: Here come the inspector BERGERAC

glad to see that the massive screen at euston station is once again being used for travel information rather than advertising. this however was only a transitional demand - no peace until all screens, anywhere, currently carrying adverts are instead only displaying facts about trains.

In anniversary news which I can’t quite verify yet, it may be 38 years (possibly more) since the Indian Air Force dressed their helicopters up as elephants for Republic Day

My relationship with Big wasn’t the only thing I blew up that day. At the Trinity test site I detonated the first plutonium bomb, unleashing a 22 kiloton blast. Had I become Death, destroyer of worlds? Meanwhile uptown, Samantha had her hands full with her own “Manhattan project”

I was thinking something similar earlier today, that a lot of my reading/listening etc is searching for that power and the worst thing the IP industry has done is convince so many people that the way to The Juice is in reiterations of things when the truth is it’s *least* likely to be found there

I think it's important to ask yourself two questions when approaching any piece of art 1. Do you *really* like it? 2. Is it is it wicked?

GSV All The Information Is On The Task

Just had a worrying few moments where @katstevens.bsky.social and I feared that the best site on the internet had fallen victim to the Chilly Grasp of Entropy. But lo, it has been Conserved: zapatopi.net/kelvin/

Also, the Daily Mail had an 8-page tactical voting guide to avoid this entirely mythical "supermajority" yesterday, which absolutely reeks of desperation.

Yeah, this has been bugging me for the last week or so. There is a real practical difference between e.g. a majority of 20ish and one of 80, say, but past that point it makes absolutely bugger all difference how big it is.

Last night, while watching Sewing Bee, it struck me that most telescopes aren't telescopic, and the precise way in which this is weird has been niggling at me all day.

incredible murder mystery bug report cohost.org/bravemule/po...

Details of forthcoming THOUGHTS set to MUSIC are now available! We're on first so get down early, support yr local scene etc

Well @terrycavanaghgames.com's new Downpour game is a DELIGHT downpour.games/~terry/a-pro...

do you think smaug has a twin named smagg who hordes silver?

Something deeply vexing about reading a great big, moderately hyped book, and getting just about enough out of it to feel like I should keep going to see if I finally get it, yet not enough to feel like I'm actually enjoying it.

TIL where the adrenal glands are and I'm so angry

Everything's been overlaid with a mild smear of hysteria since today's main news story broke. Just kept boggling at both the thing itself and various recollections of Davey C's previous political career that floated to the top of my mind.

you can tell that this government is screwed; people are retweeting Cameron tweets from when he was prime minister. Normally, when dealing with serious people who need to be respected, referring to their past actions or statements is one of the rudest and most taboo things in British media

wow they finally made a novelty halloween costume i actually want to wear

French Style

As if they weren't weird enough already, it turns out that duck billed platypuses use ELECTROLOCATION to find their prey, a thing I didn't even know existed until today

Browser plugin that replaces "AI" with "a dog that says sausages" in every LinkedIn post.

Deeply affronted that it's getting dark already, as though I lived in some sort of closer to the equator type place