we did it guys 🤝

The predators win either way. It’s just that if you stay, they get to turn you into food first.

Discord is doing a public consultation about whether or not to include genAI. Go tell them we don’t want it!!! discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #BookSky #SkyWriters #WritingCommunity

Ok, we've got snow. I now need there to be enough snow for school to be closed OR melt enough to have an easy journey to work...

Just days into 2026, the killing of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has sparked protests around the US. If you’re planning to protest, here’s how to safeguard your digital security.

Here we go

This is magnificent. Particularly because I accidentally had a lovely neoclassical piano composition as a soundtrack in the background.

Not feeling too bad about the return to work tomorrow, but could have done with a few more days of quiet pottering.

Back at parkrun, this time 14yo is working on the volunteering DofE. Park looks great, and a lovely view of the moon.

We had a good run

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

Every time I think I've got a handle on how dangerous he is, he does something much more dangerous.

Off to parkrun because a) 17yo wants to beat his PB b) 14yo is doing it for Bronze of DofE It's very cold....

No cheating, repost the most recent picture of your pet

Well, the Stranger Things finale was fucking great. I will not be taking questions

Electric vehicle driving range drops by 25–40% at temperatures below 5 °C as chemical reactions in the battery become sluggish. Researchers are trying various methods to improve battery performance at extreme temperatures: cen.acs.org/energy/energ... #chemsky 🧪

If you would like to pre-order The Cost of Trust (out on Feb 12th) that would make me happy, but also crucially tells retailers there is demand, so they’re more likely to make an in-store display etc. www.waterstones.com/book/the-cos...

meanwhile.... medicine has taken INSANE leaps and bounds in the last 2 years. we're out here curing HIV and leukemia and creating 100% efficacy vaccines against all sorts of cancers, and now this?? between this and renewable energy outstripping fossil fuels in efficiency, the future is bright

Love this build!

CRABS FRIENDS BOOBS 2026 shaping up to be a hell of a year

Please stop putting Jared Leto in films I would have gone to see.

Keep thinking about doing a "my 2025" thing but everything I can think of just seems so trite compared to losing my dad. Even though in every normal year they'd be a big deal for me.

I love the fact that the more you study this, the more absurd details you find. Beautiful.

Y’all might not appreciate it, but it took him 87 moves and 14 hours to get here

Gingerbread 2025 Dumpster 🔥

Staying with family with limited cable bandwidth. So far, I've got the season finale of Plurimus, next episode of Fallout, and three episodes of Stranger Things to avoid spoilers for!

Started reading Stewart Hotson's Project Hanuman and it's so bloody good

*makes a note*

“ The daughter of a well known conservative operative , whose paper did not answer the topic at hand and had a carefully planned media campaign , had a trans instructor fired for grading a paper according to the agreed upon rubric”

Went for a very cold, windy, beautiful Christmas day walk on the Cornish coastline. Saw a stonechat and skylarks!

if you're wondering why your trans friends everywhere are a little on edge right now, it's because a story about a radical conservative christian student abusing rules and processes to deliberately target a trans instructor consistently gets reframed to omit the entirety of the anti-trans bigotry

I found Mark Gatiss' ghost story The Room in the Tower very unsettling. Ending didn't work for me but plenty of shivery goosebumps before then. Good stuff!

"how can you suddenly dislike your delicious steak dinner when you find out the chef dropped it on the ground and never washed his hands?"

We're opening presents on Christmas Eve (Danish tradition) and this was the picture my mom made of one of my cats (and the original photo)

Finished the Christmas cake! Not the neatest but I'm hoping it'll taste good!

Wondered why Disney's The Black Hole sound like a Bond movie until I saw John Barry was the composer

I SCREAMED www.instagram.com/reel/DSaex-X...

omg

UCKG pastor’s exorcism in London resulted in child’s death and jailing of 4 guardians. They backed Bolsonaro in Brazil. They are anti LGBT+ Don’t give them money!

It's not just David Walliams who should suffer professional ruin, it's all the senior staff at his publisher involved in implementing a policy whose only possible interpretation is that they believed that he represented a danger to their employees but continued to work with him anyway.

Reached the Christmas break with more energy than I've done in years. Interesting how going from 5 days a week as head of department to 4 days with one day teacher training has changed my energy levels. Eating well and escaping the various bugs has helped!

Finished Empire of the Dawn. Had a pretty good idea where it was going but thoroughly enjoyed the ride! One of the few times this year I've struggled to put a book down

it’s for exactly this reason that my library network’s catalog system does not retain patron borrowing data, or even permit the creation of linked “family” library accounts. the “free” in “free public library” means, among other things, “free from government interference.”

If they're going to award Nebulas for partial LLM-created works then I want a piece of those Nebulas since my work was stolen to create them.

It would be nice if Walliam’s long-overdue cancellation created space in publishing for children’s authors who are, y’know, *actual* children’s authors. Maybe providing opportunities to those who care about their craft as opposed to ****’s trading on their celebrity status might be a good thing. 🤷‍♂️

Big fan of The Expanse and the new game looks great. I'd love to explore that universe but without the shooty fighty bit

25m Carol is who we are, Manousos is who we wish we could be