Definitively one of the most momentous events in legal history. It should be a public holiday.

Macbeth: SHIT

First cup of tea: the day’s parachute opens and I float gently into the morning.

Ah, Paris. When we lived in England, one of my wife's friends from high school came over during the holidays, while our daughter was home, and we went to Paris for a weekend. My wife's grandmother was French, and she has family in that area. (I'll tell you about grandma at the end.)

Here's a video from my wife's family's farm. The cows are Salers cattle - primarily for beef. The farmers in the area still bell the cows once they're let out to graze in the spring, so you really want sound for this.

Got given one of these to try. Excellent size but you open it onto the toffee pops. Should be the other way round.

Tuesday

A Japanese temple builder founded in 578 is still operating today. So is a 1,300-year-old hot spring inn, along with Japan’s largest school of ikebana. How have these institutions survived wars, disasters and social change for over a millennium? My story: www.japantimes.co.jp/business/202...

Attention Ōtautahi Christchurch. FOOD RECALL by New World Haswell branch bakery - recall of carrot cake and red velvet cake products. Photos on the page. Possible risk: Contains Metal. www.mpi.govt.nz/food-safety-...

Tuesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

BREAKING NEWS: We’re absolutely thrilled to announce that the Southbank Centre - the Hayward Gallery, Purcell Room, Queen Elizabeth Hall and skaters undercroft - has finally been Grade II listed by DCMS after a 35 year long campaign. ➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/southba...

I chatted with @artastrapodcast.bsky.social about international science communication, from supporting JAXA's Hayabusa2 and MMX missions 🛰️, to the choice for style and content in "The Planet Factory" and a splash of #VR with @futuremeetings.bsky.social! 🔭🧪 Listen here with your ears 🎧 :

My reputation as a black listed trouble maker, you mean? The Terry Speed (the statistician who got OJ Simpson of his murder charge) sexual harassment story was breaking at same time &WEHI / UC Berkeley covered that up too. My then employer? Became enraged that I was embroiled in all this brouhaha.

SCREENWRITER: Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo. #scriptsky #filmsky

NOVELIST: Bullying causes bullying. For example, humpbacked shaggy wild oxen from a city in New York, after being bullied by other humpbacked shaggy wild oxen from from the same city, will tend to become bullies themselves to yet more humpbacked shaggy wild oxen from their city.

Sake breweries across Japan are struggling to secure funds to purchase the rice used for sake production, as its price has risen sharply.

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STAUNCH BIRD Piwakawakas are so cute We have a pair at our back fence near the compost bin

📢 The affected products include red velvet cupcakes and carrot muffins.

Almost time for bed sleepyheads. Hope you are doing well & able to have a restful sleep. My family sends extra love & hugs to you all 💤💙💤

Renting in Aotearoa NZ? Please fill in the survey; if nothing else the results will help me with council decision-making! Own your home? Please share it widely to get max responses.

one plum blossom brings us just one more step to the warmth 梅一輪 一輪ほどの 暖かさ -Hattori Ransetsu (服部嵐雪 1654-1707). Trans. Gabi Greve. #Kyoto #京都 #Japan #plumblossoms #umeblossoms #梅 #和菓子 #生菓子 #spring #haiku

It's lucky that ume don't mind the snow because Kyōto has been enjoying more than a few flurries of late. Kameya Shigehisa's 'ume ichirin' (梅一輪) depicts a delicate ume blossom and vivid fruit. The sweet's name alludes to a famous haiku by Hattori Ransetsu (服部嵐雪)... #京都

❄️FOUR FRIENDS OF THE SNOW💮 Daffodils, camellias, wintersweet and Japanese apricots are known as 'setchū-no-shiyū' (雪中四友), the 'Four Friends of the Snow'. keeping company with the plum tree- the gate's last snow 梅の木の連に残るや門の雪 -Kobayashi Issa, 1822. Trans. David G. Lanoue.

But for the east wind to melt the ice, there first needs to be some brutally chilly weather... ....and sure enough snow arrived on cue🌬️🌨️🥶 The city has very few snowy days, but in recent years snow seems to settle thickest with the first wave of blooming ume trees. #snow #京都

This pic has come up every third post or so in my timeline 3-4 times now and I'm loving it. Can we make it a feature of BlueSky? This is your cleansing shouty pīwakawaka meep break.

Do I know anyone who's done cloth diapers in Japan? Looking for any experience-based recommendations for specific products. Thanks!

Tiny bird supremacy. (Was a good day for birbs yesterday; think the tiny ones deserve some attention). Both of these friends followed me a good way down the track. Very likely because I was stirring up insects, but it at least *feels* adorably friendly.

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Wouldn’t it be lovely if the headline read ‘Drivers run down two students before school’. Although maybe these are super-amazing AI powered self-driving cars with bad attitudes and no actual drivers were involved, who knows #nzpol

#nzpol Simeon and Chris think it’s awesome that people can barrel through school zones without slowing down. bAcK oN tRAcK 🤬🤬

Perfectly well=aware that one is not the centre of the universe. Merely wishing to spend a little less time handing off the edge by one's rapidly fraying press-on nails.

i think they’re being overly optimistic regarding the canine literacy rate

Post a banger not in English youtu.be/BQV0TrlB0gA

Post a banger not in English youtu.be/eGLAz15SfD0?...

Me? Dress up as Jareth The Goblin King and play ukulele? WELL. LAUGH… (Me throwback ago)

Nuclear testing, spheres of influence, dreams of racing to the moon. The 1950s called: It wants its foreign policy back.

Jon Kudelka. 2004. How prescient. It was relevant then and it is relevant now. The world is so much poorer for his loss.

Waiting for his share of our dinner

Shawn is turning SEVEN on Friday, provided I don't do a murder here with all the crime he's committing today, and there'll be a sale on Dweller in ebook and audio over the weekend to celebrate and also pay his constant vet bills.

British Museum to keep pendant linked to Henry VIII after campaign

Zinnia (Z. Elegans) shot on September 30th of last year. #Bloomscrolling #Flowers #Zinnias

After having no further updates since January 23 (over 2 weeks ago!), ManageMyHealth have posted an update The release states that they have "recommenced notifying a further group of patients this week". managemyhealth.co.nz/mmh-cyber-br...

👋🌿WELCOMING SPRING🐦🎶 In the traditional calendar spring has arrived. During 'Risshun' (立春) the 'east wind melts the ice' (東風解凍 Feb 4th-8th), 'bush warblers begin singing in the mountains' (黄鶯睍睆 9-13th), and mysteriously 'fish emerge from the ice' (魚上氷 14-18th). #snow #spring #Kyoto #Tojiin

Good morning Tokyo I just saw this awesome chart about dinosaurs and suddenly felt inspired. Feel free to tell me what I missed. 😇

Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs xkcd.com/3204/

Ignore the smears, I was never a close friend of Mr Blobby.

Amongst other things, this again highlights the core point about due process. It’s bad enough to be in a “show me your papers” situation, but your precious citizen/non-citizen, “legal”/“illegal” distinctions are meaningless when you can’t prove anything to authorities because they don’t give a shit.