Cackling at this thread.

And they really struggled with this athlete's name:

Grown up

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It is Shrove Tuesday! Again! And, as is tradition here at Surprised Eel History & Maps, here's your map of established pancake timezones in the US, and your reminder that the UK is in an exclusionary zone meaning that griddle cakes of all sorts are acceptable at all hours today.

Happy Year of the Horse

Blimey! it's all been happening round here.

No.

Loving this comic on Covid safety by Gilly, a writer & illustrator from the PNW 😷 YES to N95 masks, no to potatoes in your socks Link to full zine: static1.squarespace.com/static/5888e...

My favourite is still "great to see the chairman here in hezbollah" instead of "in his villa scarf"

My favourite, told to me by grizzled old subtitling hands, was the breakfast news anchor apparently saying, "[name of contributor], twenty vaginas" - then a pause as the horrified subtitler gazed at what they had wrought, followed by the correction: "[name of contributor], THANK YOU FOR JOINING US"

My dear old dad went along to be in the crowd for this, a few years before he died. He just casually mentioned he'd been away all day filming "with that Robert Duvall". As you do. ❤️

The view between villages. #Photography #LandscapePhotography #BlackAndWhite #Monochrome #Landscape #Scotland #Mountains #UK

Happy pancake day! Nigel Farage is a tosser.

I thought the pandemic might have taught more people that there are events where everyone gets the shitty stick at the same time and there's simply no one to complain to. See also war, financial crashes, extreme weather events. Some of us are still waiting for the pandemic to end. Who do we sue?

during the Jan 6th putsch hearings Trump’s lawyer Pat Cipollone was consistently rendered Patsy Baloney

and of course

Is anyone else just totally despairing about the amount of AI slop everywhere you look? From fake social media accounts to fake videos, badly written press releases and companies racing to remove human creativity and passion from all aspects of their work. It all feels very bleak.

*chuckles in former BBC subtitler* My favourite was the story that Michael Heseltine used to always complain to the Beeb every time the live respeaking software rendered his name as Michael Hezbollah.

If you use generative AI, we simply cannot be friends. I’m sorry, but it is a horrid, thieving thing that floods the channels and pushes real effort to sideline, steals from artists and authors to make crap, and eats through resources at the same time: burning a rainforest to make a cheap match.

what this story demonstrates is that even someone "just" using LLMs like ChatGPT for writing/research etc is still vulnerable to being sucked into a whirlpool of dangerous lies and delusions. So, once again, WHY are schools and universities telling students, staff and faculty to use this?

Previously unknown species of giant corduroy monkey identified in Glasgow.

"That was The Piss Crystals, with Taking Out A Starlink Satellite"

Further tales from the Scamocene.

Seriously, whilst the U.K. government remains on X it’s impossible to take them seriously over online safety.

While sudden cliff falls at Birling Gap (near my home town of Eastbourne) are no joke, I really love how much it looks like we’ve roused a grumpy, sleepy sea-wizard.

What is this strange ethereal light breenging through my window? Stripped of its comforting grey hues, it transmits a kind of, how shall I put it, warmth? Is that a thing? It's so unnaturally bright I've had to turn off all the lights. That can't be good.

Thank you for the exotic powder - really nice.

May I get to the end of my days without ever finding out who the fuck 'Will Stancil' is.

Slug and Lettuce.

Slug and Lettuce.

There are times when you want to just kick the whole world in the nuts.

A romance cartoon for the @theguardian.com

Absolutely losing it at ‘avec Shaggy’.

The camellias are coming Morning #Glasgow

A miscellany from a wet Sunday walk.

#ArtDD2026 Cheeky chicken From my archive. Think we all need cheering up! @saocousins.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social @indikon.bsky.social @mayfieldbirder.bsky.social

Every time I think of king cake, I hear Doris Day in my head singing 🎶 Please, please, don't eat the baby, don't eat the baby, please, please ...🎶 @roperlou.bsky.social

this rules www.nga.gov/artle

My parents went to see Psycho.

I feel this way about pretty much all vaccine-preventable infectious diseases. You shouldn't be allowed to dump cyanide into municipal drinking water and you shouldn't be allowed to recreationally spread viruses around shared public spaces.

If you were asked to choose one single Bluesky account that you would recommend and think more people would appreciate following, who would it be and why?

Finding it hard to decide which scrivener to hire in London in 1630. I've narrowed it down to two: Peaceable Sherwood or John Bastard.

It's cool, the Dow is over 50,000

We plan to launch the Torment Nexus feature during a volatile period of exceptionally high social torment [see internal Torment Index prediction market]. During limited testing, we expect to discover whether we will require support from Feeds and Algorithms to increase background torment for launch.

Feb. 13, 1926: A telescope at 14,440 feet elevation on the Jungfrau in the Swiss Alps, operated by government astronomers.

All these point in one direction: the climate is changing, and the rapid changes started after the steam engine was invented and society started using fossil fuels to generate heat and power on an industrial scale. Perhaps we ought to think about curtailing our use of fossil fuels? Just an idea.

And, if you prefer more details, then a graphic with a more complete range of indicators is also available, including Arctic sea ice, ocean heat content, tropospheric temperatures, cherry blossom dates and humidity over land. ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...