update on the academia dot edu licensing situation: i couldn't delete my account without accepting the new terms, so i contacted them to do it for me. they've replied explaining that the terms 'caused confusion' and have been better updated to reflect their intentions...

Endcliffe Woods, Sheffield, Yorkshire, 1904 - WH Smith Postcard https://www.ebid.net/uk/for-sale/endcliffe-woods-sheffield-yorkshire-1904-wh-smith-postcard-223257058.htm #sheffield #endcliffepark

guy came up to talk to me in the gym, even though i had headphones on, and his opening gambit was to mutter at an almost inaudible volume "are you looking for a nicer body?"

I used to work on this newspaper and while I was there the editor decided he didn’t like the “v” and “g” of the word Evening in the logo so had them swapped for ones that don’t match and I’m delighted that they are still there looking too thin and too fat respectively, more than 25 years later.

jeff wayne's war of the worlds, at night. bonus points if he timed it so that he'd pull into the drive and turn off the engine just as the narrator said "I realised with horror that my home was now within range of the Martian's Heat Ray."

Folks, get off of Academia[.]edu. Delete your accounts. Put your work on a faculty webpage, on hcommons, on your own webpage. But not on Academia[.]edu. www.academia.edu/terms

just overheard this in a cafe and nearly fell off my chair: "my parents have never had much money so after they bought the extension for me, which cost about 50 grand..."

I feel relatively unusual in being pretty sympathetic to the critiques of analytic philosophy (it's an autoethnography of the intuitions of people whose only distinguishing mark is their ancestors happened to develop machine guns first) without that making me sympathetic to other traditions at all.

just realised rolos are nestle. fml.

sorry to be a thousand years old, but do people not hold their phones to their ears anymore? they hold them out in front of them and speak directly into the mic?

Please join me, @lucyosler.bsky.social, and @lopezcantero.bsky.social for our Sad Philosophy Workshop next Friday! Sign up info below.

it's glorching actually

What it comes down to is: Should beautiful, interesting, entertaining things exist in the world, and should we spend our time making them?

If you're disabled and enthusiastic about transport in London, then come and work with me!

alt text: photo of bridge over a motorway. there's a sign in the middle saying "Flags is it?", next to a Welsh flag, and on either side there's half a dozen more flags from all different countries

It's well known that Bowheads live to be 200+ years old but here's a bonkers thing that we didn't realize until we had Nick on the pod - that means a whale alive today could potentially have been alive before whaling started AND they lived through the decades of whaling & the century of recovery🤯

This gets progressively funnier with every use of the term "floppy".

feels a little excessive to describe the recent rain as biblical, but i have just seen my third double rainbow of the week

hey, i'm in this!

big rainstorm last night... blustery weather this morning... tomorrow is the first of september and it falls on a monday. ...i can feel my power rising 🌧️ 🍂 🎒

Happy weekend! From c. 3,600 years ago, here’s an ancient Egyptian bead in the form of a curled-up hedgehog! 🦔💙 Blue faience, c. 1985 -1650 BC. National Museum of Scotland www.nms.ac.uk/search-our-c... 📷 by me #Archaeology

do we think clocks are that important?

i just looked up the wug test and why was my first thought: there are two wuug

or this awesome one i got yesterday that i think some of y'all nerds would probably like to play

my holidays are increasingly like my grandparents retirement: sensible shoes, doing a crossword with a cuppa, getting excited about new flavours of jam and old methods of transport.

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

we have always had the desire to make cute little things and I think that's wonderful

a huge vintage army truck just drove up and down the road but it's probably unrelated

the power's just gone out in the little yorkshire village we're staying in. the local shop has closed and everyone is heading to the pub. feels like the bit in a horror film where things start going downhill

once again realising that to write a paper you also need to do lots of other things which are productive and therefore you're not doing "nothing" until the moment you submit the paper. will i learn from this experience? absolutely not.

in today's fast paced world it's easy to overlook a toasted teacake with butter... but it's a classic for a reason!

GET A JOB STAY AWAY FROM HER

just a reminder that everyone who has been hateful to you or the people you love will one day die and there's a non-zero chance they'll go in an embarrassing way, so make sure you stick around for that

i bet they announced during the album rollout so the media was already occupied. that way they didn't need to worry about leaks, or it looking like a response to whatever the latest rumour would've been if they didn't have an album to write about. love that she got to do it on her own terms

that's no paper ring either, is it

the group chat has decided to only talk in haikus again, and we're in prague once per hour, this head rotates... kafka briefly peers into mcdonalds

Fancy pyjamas, cold glass of Gavi, a little hunk of cheddar to tide me over til tea’s ready. Your thirties are way better than your twenties

just a reminder that everyone who has been hateful to you or the people you love will one day die and there's a non-zero chance they'll go in an embarrassing way, so make sure you stick around for that

Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".

A landlord turned off Tenant Client's family's heat upon learning Client was an immigrant. Landlord hired three different law firms to argue this was legal, then fired each one after they couldn't get our case dismissed. This week, landlord settled for enough that Client will buy a house.

metroidvanias rule

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

how are our 2025 predictions going? any modern Nostradami in our midst?

peter kay voice: shiny *bug*?!

I hate that the Joker kinda ruined pointing out that we live in a society for the rest of us, since we do in fact do that and sometimes it is worth drawing attention to some consequences of that fact.

If I haven’t said it lately here it is: trans and nonbinary people are a miraculous facet of Gd’s glittering, eternal Creation just like anyone else and if you feel any differently go ahead and fuck right off, don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out

You'll never guess what this is a response to.

Did you guys know that Hesperus is actually mild-mannered Daily Planet reporter Clark Kent?

It's publication week for the Oxford Handbook of Social Epistemology, edited by Jennifer Lackey and myself, in the UK and in the rest of the world aside from North and South America (where it was available in May)