Out on a Sunday night, seeing @mogwai.scot A couple in the lift at the carpark asked if I was seeing them, then asked if I had earplugs. Fortunately, yes.

Persona = Peter Thiel = Palantir. ⚠️☢️🚨 Worth a read. thelocalstack.eu/posts/linked...

Saw this and thought for a moment that Benedict Cumberbatch had been cast as Asterix The Gaul

Herbert Ponting, Bamboo in the Botanical Gardens, Peradeniya, 1907.

unbelievable things are happening in glasgow cuisine

I absolutely love his works and want you to see them too. Ukrainian art deserves to be heard louder. 🇺🇦 Dmytro Nahurnyi (1946–2019)

Oh, the grand old duke of york He ██████████████████ He ██████████████████ And he ██████████████████

Is it like Line of Duty? Does Andrew have the right to be questioned by a royal one rank higher than him?

shove yer ai up yer hole, this is where it's at.

If I were the custody sergeant, I might be tempted to turn the heating up to sweating level. Just to see what happens next 😏

"What is the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent Pizza Express meal?"

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

What Zaphod Beeblebrox looks like today WILL SHOCK YOU!

Roses are red Dogs have bad breath

Pancake expert here. The annual rush to harvest pancakes on a single day has extremely deleterious effects on the local pancake ecosystem. By all means pick a few pancakes for your own use, but please leave some on the bush so that it can recover in its own time.

Day 17: Some of the best comic timing I’ve ever seen. youtube.com/shorts/DOZ7m... #februaryisfunny

I made this postcard move - Bembridge Windmill, Isle of Wight

Lots of worry and misery in the world but Australia lost in the cricket again so there's that.

HOT FUZZ was released 19 years ago today. The second entry in Edgar Wright’s Cornetto Trilogy and one of the most beloved British comedies this century, the tale of how it was made is like firing two guns whilst jumping through the air… 1/46

Barbara was pleased Bernard had hit the button #curling #curlingolympics #curlingGB #winterolympics #naughtyknitting #nudinits #saucy #britishhumour #knittedpuppet #knittedanimation #knit

Really photo editing here by Hector Vivas of Getty Images. Composite of the women's snowboard halfpipe final, depicting all the female Olympians who competed.

The sass of the person writing the minute by minute on England v Scotland is to be admired

Artist: The Twisted Omentum https://b3ta.com/board/11425394 From the 'Comedy Shows in History' challenge https://b3ta.com/challenge/comedyshowsinhistory/popular/ #ComedyShowsInHistory

The creative wonders of pastry artist Magri Alberto. 🧑‍🍳 #pattisier #creative #pastry

Watching the curling, it intrigues / amuses me that it's a tactical sport but the communication is carried out through the medium of shouting.

If you're fed up with your work, it could always be worse. Spare a thought for this intrepid window cleaner, 6 floors up on the Central Hotel in Hope St, with only the steadying hand of his female colleague between him and oblivion. 📷 Daily Record #Glasgow

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

A informative look at Northampton's stunning Guildhall with stone expert 'Stonetapper'. Source: https://www.instagram.com/stonetapper/reel/DUf0mg4DNkH/

People who went to Dulwich College no longer enjoy playing this game

What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it

“I’ve reviewed over 50 sticky toffee puddings” is an incredibly powerful way to begin a video

Haven't posted any photos of geological wonders for a while, so here's an #AwesomeFoursome from the Snæfellsnes Peninsula in #Iceland taken last February.

Happy 13th anniversary to this pair of matching news headlines.

Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs xkcd.com/3204/

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

Talking of West Wing: half- suspect Lord John Marbury was part of the reason Mandelson was appointed as Ambassador.

After the excitement of last week's #archery competition, it was back to the club. And a 497/600 PB - up from 494 a few weeks ago. Featuring a 56 and a run of 4 scores of 50+ to finish (56, 53, 51, 50). And a new app, which records where each arrow is - I've wanted this feature for a while!

I don't like that the recent news story (about ski jumpers arranging their underhangings during costume fitting to get more lift à la flying squirrel) is now making me wonder about the smalls requirement in the men's luge. They want FLAT and AERODYNAMIC. Do they wear special undercrackers?

France has ended up in a strange position after using some €250bn of tax-payer money to build a fleet of nuclear power stations. Wind and solar power is merrily entering the French power market at prices nuclear production can't match, resulting in huge surpluses of power. 1/

I don't care that this advert in @vizcomic.bsky.social is almost certainly a gag. I'm posting them cash immediately anyway - JUST IN CASE IT'S REAL. I mean, I'm not a gambling sort of a chap, but I absolutely cannot risk missing out on this potentially world-changing offer, right?

are…uhh…are we the penis?

The aurora last night in Beaver, Alaska was just incredible. This is a real-time video (not sped up) of the crazy motion I saw. Also, look how BRIGHT it is, wow!

A Turkish barbershop in Glasgow has clapped back at Farage in a genius way.

Swimming pool designed by Danish architect and designer Verner Panton, 1969 interiordesign.net/designwire/p...

everything is terrible so here’s the swedish chef doing rapper’s delight

FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKIN ‘ELL

🎵Golden brown, texture like sun Lays me down, with my manchego🎶

from a recent Private Eye