Popped out to the Transport Museum. Every type of transport is represented.

The top defense priority is apparently America. No, seriously.

Full comic here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/trad #smbc

Delightfully bonkers Xbox multiplayer game kiln. Releases spring this year. You're a pot. Smashing fun. youtu.be/6C11Zmc93-I #kiln

Your regular reminder that when they say “protect women and girls,” they mean, “I’m about to excuse something horrible by claiming it’s to protect women and girls.”

Bird retinas operate without oxygen and are fueled by glucose from the pecten oculi. This challenges long-held beliefs about how highly metabolic tissues function and offers insight into evolutionary adaptations! 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Wow. This is really powerful.

And the boys (who weren't born yet or were about *three*) who missed the *original* He-Man room, run by the fabulous Art Nadel, would have been HORRIFIED by how female-friendly/feminist the original writing team was. (I should know. My office was down the hall. I drew the first map of Eternia.) 😏

nothing

A murmuration of ducks

not surprising and yet still jarring to read ex-FBI agents describing how Kash Patel and Bongino reacted to Charlie Kirk's murder while running the agency. truly the content creator administration/podcast govt www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I can keep on top of maybe one or two Discords at a time, but the insistance that every individual game system/rom hack/content creator needs a specific Discord definitely gets overwhelming very quickly. Come back forums, all is forgiven.

Discord is like if Homer Simpson was designing IRC in the same way he designed that car

Putting together an international postcard for this month's #PostcardsFromAfar exchange An international standard letter is now £3.40, which is conveniently exactly the same as two first class stamps (I hope!) ...turns out one of the stamp books we found lying around is older than the other

Spread this around: *big* study out of Cambridge finds COVID vaccination of children the safest option WRT cardiac risks.

This thread is jaw dropping stuff.

In just under three weeks, a Community Interest Company that I am involved in @criticalchance.bsky.social is hosting The First Ultimate Geek Quiz at Merchant's Guild, Glasgow Monday 9th Feb, 7pm onwards, City Centre You can book tickets at events.humanitix.com/the-ultimate...

I've written an article about #spaceweather and its potential impacts on the grid, but it won't be published til March 😭 An interviewee told me that what we view as a recent spike in the sun's activity is actually it "coming back to normal." The next few years will likely bring more solar storms.

Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools

Love a good niche museum! Anyway, do *not* eat the porridge 💣

Some good news!

@robcrank68.bsky.social set the theme for today's #BirdOfTheDay and the theme is #FeedingTime, any #birds eating. This is a pescatarian Pied Kingfisher enjoying a meal just outside Dakar, Senegal ⬇️ #EastCoastKin #photography #animals #nature #fish #naturephotography #photographer #wildlifephoto

I feel obliged to share this masterpiece from my brother:

Star Trek Phase II Enterprise Drydock and Starbase HQ and Matt Jefferies Space Tug design #lightwave3d #startrek

The bestest that ever was or will be

There's a whole subsection of the economy where two third parties exchange money for the privilege of annoying the hell out of the rest of us. And they're increasingly hard to dodge.

cool name why’s it called that

From November 2020, when murder hornets were killing the bees in the US

Tfl were testing the new Piccadilly line trains over the weekend, and luckily I managed to find some in the wild and get a few shots. Here's the train arriving at Hammersmith London Underground station, I love how the lights look in the darkness.

"Could a 'dwarf planet' do *this*?"

I doubt I will ever see a more inspired bit of upcycling.

Starmer readying a brutal rap dis track. He's been listening to Eminem and he has a plan. He's mother made spaghetti and his father was a toolmaker but left for milk when he was 12 and he grew up on the mean streets of Surrey.

Nicholas Meyer, writing Wrath of Khan:

Oh worth pointing out this is because the SNP led Glasgow city council wants to take ownership of the buses and they hope Labour will stop it

There's nothing quite like Two Stupid Dogs on TV today

A gallery of ladybird beetles:

Two households, both alike in dignity (In fair To-ke-o, where we lay our scene), From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil Mothra bleed

This is such a cool illustration of how the Mercator map distorts the size of Greenland, which looks as big as the whole continent of Africa on that map but is actually the size of Mexico.

Absolutely did. A lot of nations learned from the Falklands that, for better or worse, if you kick off woth one of the major European powers they circle the wagons and start suddenly sharing intel very fast.

Basically the French dod a fuck-tonne more to support Britain in the Falklands War than the US did. And the British government was incredibly grateful for that.

The reason the UK knew the operational parameters of the Argentine aircraft and missile systems was because they were French. And the moment the war kicked off, the French government quietly slipped us the full specifications.

Incisive post by Cory Doctorow on AI. Worth reading and sharing imo www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

quick dragon doodle

In our discussion of Jupiter, Pluto is getting a lot of love. This reminds me that I once calculated the number of pom-poms it would take to equal Pluto's mass. #PlanetSci

Me, pretending Monday isn’t happening... #MondayMotivation 📷 Paul Browning