Restarted watching Orphan Black on a whim. I know it turns to shit after a few seasons, but even so, it's such a tour de force. Just watched five episodes on the trot.

My annual reminder that our Christmas dinner is both incredibly delicious and incredibly easy, and I recommend it to everyone. Salmon with chestnut stuffing Braised red cabbage with walnuts Roast root veg Sprouts Boom.

Happy Christmas everyone!

This reminds me of the time I overheard a bunch of teenagers on a train struggling with a classic maths puzzle and I was literally *quivering* with the need to tell them the answer. My kids had to physically restrain me.

call us old fashioned but, if you've built a machine that makes child porn, we really don't care if can do anything else. unplug the machine.

congrats everyone who took the time to nitpick the grading while a trans woman had her career ruined, your continued existence is useful

@gailsimone.bsky.social Not in Canada, just in SPACE

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

Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower

Evidence of the impact of NumberClub games is starting to roll in! If you want to see this kind of improvement for your class, join us 😀 vist.ly/4ijbv

Playback is here! From today, you can watch every mathematical move your students make in our games. Every. Single. Level. It's a treasure trove of rich progress and assessment data. And accessing their playing records couldn't be easier👇 #fluency #NumberClub

Congratulations to everyone who wrote an op-ed about how he just wants americans to eat better

I also want to say thank you to the person who introduced me to the French word 'beaucoup' this year. It means a lot.

You lot need Dick Van Dyke singing Let's Go Fly a Kite on his 100th birthday more than you know.

New article from me in response to Eduardo Porter's article in The Guardian where he built a straw man of universal basic income to light on fire again, just as he did back in 2016, showing he's learned nothing new about UBI in a decade but is still happy to opine about it.

Donald Trump is not well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQHLciC67V8

Not naming any names, but just think what a wonderful Christmas present it would be for the anti-Santa to shit himself to death on live TV.

anyway I’m gonna go cry for a bit

Btw everyone who shares Trump's Truth Social post on Reiner or who mocks his death at all this week should be fired from their job. Those are the New Rules.

I had a slightly morbid thought: one knock-on effect of reducing road deaths would be a drop in the number of available organs for transplant. So if you were going to implement this policy you'd want to make sure you also introduce an opt-out policy for organ donation if you don't have one.

BRITISH PERSON: so what's your name? 10th CENTURY BOHEMIAN MONARCH: Václav BP: Wenceslas, got it. 10CBM: no, no, Václav BP: When-cess-larse 10CBM: Václav BP: Off to write a carol about *you* right away my old mucker, and no mistake.

this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous this is worth sharing and educating people about

This has reminded me to attempt once again to unearth a recording of Willie Rushton's song "This Christmas", which was composed by the father of a friend of mine. It absolutely bombed and I've never even found a reference to it! @outonbluesix.bsky.social, this might be in your wheelhouse?

This entire weekend

"Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were killed by their son, Nick, multiple sources confirm to PEOPLE."

Every AI ad is an incredibly lazy and ill-prepared person trying to wing their way through a presentation with plausible-looking slides, or some idiot who seems not to know how museums work.

Really enjoyed this exchange between @harrytlambert.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social. Includes whether Liberalism sits easily with democracy e.g. when the public is tilting towards positions, as now, that Liberals disapprove of. substack.com/@harrytlambe...

Marvellous as always, and spot on about this ludicrous font change. Like painting out a rainbow road crossing, it's taking a minor improvement to inclusivity, whose cost has already been paid, incurring further costs to remove it, and trying to pretend this is about cost-cutting.

THEY DID THE MEME THEY DID THE FUCKIN MEME

What type of biscuit would you be most willing to risk it for?

It's astonishing how quickly the dial has shifted. Five years, even three years ago, the most transphobic bigots wouldn't have openly used phrases like "biological male who identifies as a woman" instead of "trans woman" in public discourse. Now it's the phrase of choice on the BBC

So happens now is this rise measles will also create a rise in all vaccine-preventable illnesses (and other illnesses) b/c everyone who recovers will essentially be reduced to immune system infancy. It will create a cascade of illnesses, especially in people who will refuse new vaccinations.

Shanghai from the 1990 to 2010 is insane

Mostly I just scroll past these with a little smile but "Shattered Ligma Area" made me proper guffaw

As he celebrates his 100th Birthday this very day, can we all take a moment to acknowledge that time when Dick Van Dyke won the internet internet. Forever.

Brutal but effective public health messaging from New York Public Health. The CDC is compromised. They’re no longer a reliable source of information. They push anti-vaxx & anti-science grift. Get your vaccines. Wear a respirator. Clean the air Get public health advice from experts, not RFK Jr

OK, strap in…. Here is part 2 of the “Tesco/(insert other brand) are cancelling Christmas” claims! 🎄🎅🤶🎄 TL:DR? Christmas is alive and well everywhere you look. And so too, sadly, is manufactured Christmas rage baiting. Here is just 7 day’s worth of Daily Mail Christmas Rage bait 🧵 1/31

Currently suffering through a horrible flu with spine-wrenching coughs, but the main thing that worries me is whether the dog thinks I'm barking at her

I can't decide which is worse - that this is a Fight Club situation where they've made an incredibly misleading trailer for a good film, or that this is a faithful trailer for an abomination

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

Trumpers--you elected a mob boss as President. Hope you're proud.

quite fun that everyone was stunned by figures showing a massive decline in trips to america, then everyone realised it was a statistical artefact of a different date for easter, and then… there was a massive decline in trips to america www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

My first computer was a 16k ZX Spectrum which I accidentally set on fire by trying to plug a 48k RAM pack into the joystick interface

If the writer’s eyes light up when asked, “why did the character do that?” then it’s real.

Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :) The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used > neal.fun/size-of-life/

"I didn't expect the leopards to eat MY face" sobs face-eating leopard.

Polygonal sine waves. I love this and am excited to show it to students. It helps students recognize that the trig we cover in school is just the beginning. #iteachmath #edusky #mtbos www.tumblr.com/1ucasvb/4288...

We don’t do court reports, especially when it comes to violent crime, but there’s always an exception.