After every meal today I have wanted something sweet. I have been hungry all day and eaten too much. But there has not been enough ice cream and cake today.

I have bad news for you about the misuse of cars.

bears could shit in woods, survey finds

while we're in the mood for some out-of-the-box thinking on energy markets, fyi this line from Goldman this week: www.ft.com/content/016f...

I hope you can enjoy the very first of Mendelssohn's Songs Without Words 19,1 Emajor videos.sproutvideo.com/embed/a49adb...

I must say I’m not super impressed with responses that mock my piece for exploring the tech elite’s radicalizing trajectory because “Duh, they’re all fascist nerds, ‘nuff said!” That sort of reflexive anti-intellectualism is quite toxic to the political discourse (it’s also just really mean?).

Yeah, its saying I'm a reform voter I mean, if I say on here I'm voting reform you can assume that is my "Get help, I've been kidnapped" message

Projection, it is always projection. See Trump renaming everything after himself. See incarceration of US citizens who dare to protect immigrants. See the election promise of cheap everything but now increasing inflation because of scarcity. Trump is the guide for a reform win, not a Green Party win

NEW: 40 years ago today, disaster struck at Chernobyl. For decades, scientists have tried to understand how nearby wildlife has responded to nuclear catastrophe. Is it adapting to cope with radiation, for example? Many such questions still litter the landscape. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

The things that people like this never consider when actively trying to have us all surveilled is that the problem they hope will be solved by giving up our rights will not actually be solved. They will give away our freedoms and people will still die in car crashes in droves. Great job.

There appears to be quite the minor quake swarm around the eastern end of Crete.

NEWS! ‘Trampling to death pricks with rifles helps to keep their numbers under control’ insists African Elephant community

My favorite art history genre is "Judith beheading Holofernes"

Friday is toasty kitty day

Down at the lakes today. It was so lovely.

Boosting this critically-important article on #MECFS and its cardinal feature, #PEM, post-exertional malaise. In Pursuit of Understanding the Crash by Todd Davenport. open.substack.com/pub/likeanno...

feels weird that we're kind of hovering around a February 2020 moment right now and the only people I see talking about it are large investment banks and terminally online commodity traders

Very inefficient. Funnily enough, the Swiss created a steam loco of a different kind. Water was heated by electricity en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electri...

The sticky toffee pudding guy is so funny

I hope you can enjoy the very first of Mendelssohn's Songs Without Words 19,1 Emajor videos.sproutvideo.com/embed/a49adb...

Turning off the transponders of the Iranian supertankers is like a Klingon using its cloaking device. Suddenly the ship becomes invisible to the US Navy blockading Hormuz.

A small point from the Mandelson/Robbins saga. Refom and many Tories argue for a civil service than can be more easily bent to the will and whims of their elected political masters. This is precisely what happened here.

There it is

Smoke on the water #EastCoastKin #Photography

Last week, a gentleman returned this rather dilapidated copy of this famous book to us after 50 years. He had found it in his attic! Presumably this means there is a pristine copy somewhere in our libraries....

Also I feel strongly that NEITHER preparing children for exams NOR preparing children for the workplace are / should be the main purpose of education actually!

Drivers love to say that they're just telling pedestrians and cyclists what to do because they're so so terrified of hurting us but then when you suggest they drive like they're actually terrified of hurting us they're like no fuck you

Worm tongue more like.

Maggie being an absolute goddess today

Important post from Dr Todd Davenport about PEM. likeannopeningbandforthesun.substack.com/p/in-pursuit...

Good pull quote: #MECFS #PEM

NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating The Low-energy Charged Particles experiment has been operating almost without interruption since Voyager 1 launched in 1977 - almost 49 years. 🧪🔭 #Voyager science.nasa.gov/blogs/voyage...

Israel doesn’t believe ceasefires apply to them btw

For this #Caturday have some cat bums and Darth Grunzl being emo in a box

Schrödinger's Strait

Has Israel stopped bombing Lebanon? Do ships now pass the Strait of Hormuz?

I have finished the last of the wine in the house while cooking dinner. G&T it is then.

well I suppose once you've done all the standard war crimes you have to start innovating

That Robbins would only say Mandelson had been vetted but not the result is, reminds us of the old joke of the driver who would check their real-view mirror before pulling out. It didn’t matter if anything was actually coming, as long as they had checked the real-view mirror, they would pull out.

I'm going to open an aviary specialising in one type of bird only - just for larks!

Probably just forgot to put everything back on the shelves after waiting 2 hours to be served. Boots has designed their service procedures on shops in Moscow during the Soviet Union.

Worrying signs that the lambs in the fields around here are developing a gamboling addiction

I just don't think any instrument notation should use MULTIPLE clefs at once and this is why I could never get on with learning the piano.

Wondering where the barcode is to scan the cat when checking out? Do Bodegas have a policy for evaluating whether customers will be competent for serving the cat?

This, and you never stop mourning the future you now don't have & the memories you've been unable to make.

If normal gravity is 1G. Why is the telephone internet 5G. How much fucking mass is in there. What is it bending around.