I know everyone hates AI but honestly, Google lens when you see someone on TV in a really nice cardi ✨

She looks so regal

Trainspotting was released 30 years ago today.

@sorchamcg.bsky.social Happy birthday!

Ooooh, Dark Sky was THE BEST weather app (and Apple also clearly agreed 😒)

Oops. Turns out Persona, Discord’s age-verification service, was secretly screening selfies against government watchlists AND accessible by the feds. It's backed by Peter Thiel. “The state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they've learned to work together.”

Discernible among my friends and colleagues who remain heavy X users: affects both their sense of issue salience and the intellectual framework (i.e., usually race and migration) through which to understand them. Many think themselves exempt through critical thinking skills. You are what you eat!

I don't think I've read Wuthering Heights this millennium. I'm always nervous to re-read or re-watch something I enjoyed in my 20s.

someone waited their ENTIRE LIFE to write that headline...

Local chippy closes at 6pm. Am I unusual for eating my dinner after 6pm?

Mood

Hi to whoever has tried to send me a chat message. I have these turned off so I'm not sure what's happened.

I just got the next available nurse appointment at the GP surgery. 1 April 😱 NHS is buggered.

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right. Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement. This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

In 1997, Tory MP Rupert Allason lost his seat to a Lib Dem by 12 votes. A week before the election he and his team failed to tip waitstaff after having dinner at a restaurant leading to all of them collectively agreeing to vote Lib Dem. That was 14 votes. This is very, very common.

Have you ever wished for a freak sink-hole more?

I feel a strange sort of relief. If someone has done something wrong, this is what should happen: investigation, due process, the courts. Not trial by social media and newspapers deciding who gets to live where.

every device i own just pinged with the news that andrew has been arrested. I think probably the oven did.

The time to discover it is snowing quite heavily is NOT as you step outside in your pyjamas.

Do other people here get followed by a lot of begging accounts?

In case your looking for dinner inspo, I've decided I'm having courgette and butter beans. boldbeanco.com/blogs/beansp...

Still nithering out there.

Happy lunar new year. It's my Běn Mìng Nián!

We're launching a sister title in Leeds! We need 500 people pleding to support for us to launch, and we're already 50 of the way there. If you've got a Leeds link please pledge your support and share with friends up the M1 leeds.ghost.io

I get so freaked out about these checks on uni assignments that I've found myself writing in a slightly odd style and leaving in some typos for fear that my own writing gets detected as AI.

Bob just sniffed my slipper and made a retching noise. My puppy has no manners,

This feels a bit short-sighted. I know it's meant to be light-hearted, but crop problems are everyone's problem unless you've evolved to absorb nutrients from the air. Increased flooding makes insurance unaffordable for many and drives up public spending, impacting tax and services.

Hello 👋, I've got a code for fresh dog food (Bob is already a big fan). It's 70% off your 1st box and 35% off your 2nd box of Butternut Box meals. That's freshly prepared food, cooked and delivered to your door. I'll get 70% off my next box too. butternutbox.com/Victoria3767...

Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon. Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.

Men, can you sing? Join a choir. It's good for your mental health and stuff. theconversation.com/choir-singin...

It's been an unproductive day so I decided to make a macrame necklace.

To give you an idea of how deranged the UK has become about gender stuff, here's Enid Blyton - the absolute avatar of classic English conservatism and a huge fan of racist "gollywogs" - casually describing a gender non-conforming kid in the 1940s and having their friends be totally cool with it.

Don't do this. It's not wildlife photography, it's unethical clout-chasing. petapixel.com/2026/02/13/s...

Wish there were a few more news stories like this www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Drop EastEnders! This is the rarest thing - a decent news service.

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

Long Distance Clara was my hero

Currently reading: The Bee Sting by Paul Murray app.thestorygraph.com/books/de9a5d... (Storygraph profile: app.thestorygraph.com/profile/bean...) #booksky #nowreading

The robot apocalypse hasn't happened yet, but still I can't escape the feeling that something has gone horribly wrong... Cartoon for Dutch newspaper @trouw.nl. More of my work for Trouw: www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tje... #ArtificialIntelligence #creativity #work #GenerativeAI

I get the frustration with Starmer, but endless outrage without a viable alternative isn’t a plan. If we want something better long-term, we need to define it and organise towards it.

I might be a bit under the weather; I just put an apostrophe in a plural 😒

Saw the sky today. And further than a couple of metres. Exciting. I think we've already had this year's full quota fog.

i need an emotional support perogi

You don’t have to vote or engage with politics for political parties to hold data on you. If you’re on the electoral register, they do. That data can be profiled and used to infer characteristics. If it isn’t handled lawfully, that’s a risk to us all. To you!

I'm still awake because the interesting but not too interesting podcast was actually too interesting.

Times article has an incredible illustration

Do we have a word for snow that isn't quite sleet but it's still very wet.

My therapist just told me to limit my social media activity. I guess what I'm trying to say is, does anyone know a good therapist?

Big news: I ordered a coverstitch machine today. I now feel obliged to make activewear. I guess then I'd have to wear it and be active.