Cloud being Cloud, ie a magnificent creature who does not deign to be stroked by me.

Also, the notion Davey isn’t serious winds me up. He has said *repeatedly* he is serious about politics, but doesn’t take himself seriously (and thinks politicians generally shouldn’t) *and* that the stunts are the only way the media pays attention. So, natch, media now punishing him for a stunt.

Really wish we had some sort of scheme like this in the UK. Most of the Arts Council funding I've looked at specifically does not fund actually making the art. And they certainly won't fund an author 'just' to write a book. Arts funding here is so impoverished and narrowminded, tbh. When I look...

Vertical rows are the agrivoltaic winner! “The vertical panels produce slightly less electricity—but with higher value, as generation peaks coincide with morning and late afternoon demand…The crops don't seem to mind the presence of solar panels and they like the wind protection they provide.”

Looking for tips on public speaking? Here's a couple of classics from Michael Faraday, on his birthday as it happens, as part of our celebration of 200 years of Discourses @rigb.org lims.ac.uk/perspectives... #scicomm

I wish Bluesky critics would acknowledge this simple, somewhat horrifying fact

"The use of simple - but not too simple - language is excellent for [Welsh] learners, and the extra word list provided by each bird comes in handy to expand your vocabulary. Would thoroughly recommend!" Adar yr Ardd, my illustrated ebook, is just £1.99 from seidrpress.com #DysguCymraeg

Really feeling the Mondayness of it all 🐾

Seriously.

Pause your doomscrolling and listen to this story.

Seriously.

Just saw a black triplane fly over, which is not something you see every day! No sign of it on Flight Radar so can't confirm what it was, but it looked a lot like a Fokker DR1, if the internet is anything to go by.

“OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws” https://www.computerworld.com/article/4059383/openai-admits-ai-hallucinations-are-mathematically-inevitable-not-just-engineering-flaws.html

Doomers are effectively enablers. Shut up and get out of the way

Celebrate #ALD25, 14 Oct, this year by organising your own event to support women in STEM. You can do anything – a talk, a networking event, a panel discussion, yarn bombing, cream teas, Wikipedia edit-a-thon. The options are endless! Let us know what you do: findingada.com/world..#ALD25

Are there no pathologists on Bluesky?? Ours is SWAMPED.

No www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

1994 when AOL brought its masses to the Internet.

Most Gen X complaint: they forgot about us again!

I'm fucking tired, man. Found a promising TV show released this year and it's already cancelled because not enough people watched it. So many streaming services, how the hell are you meant to watch everything fast enough to see when something has the juice??? This just doesn't work

This might be impressive gene-editing but it’s nonsense as “de-extinction”. They’re not the same and they can’t be. At the end of this piece, the company basically admits that it’s just a flashy claim to drive money into their company. This is not conservation, & it diverts money from work that is.

Somewhere I saw initiatives like this called soft secession (I'm so grateful to live in Massachusetts, where government is generally sane.) www.nyc.gov/site/doh/abo...

Start with Robbie Gibb, the man who has done more than anyone, including Kuenssberg and Mason, to drag BBC News down to gutter level.

“This may be the cutest way to improve your Welsh. The book covers a dozen garden birds which each have a lovely picture to introduce them [...], followed by a short description of appearance and behaviour." Adar yr Ardd, my illustrated ebook, is just £1.99 from seidrpress.com #DysguCy...

It's so hot, I've had to put shorts on.

Celebrate Ada Lovelace Day, 14 Oct, this year by organising your own ALD event to support women in STEM. You can do anything – a talk, a networking event, a panel discussion, yarn bombing, cream teas, silent disco, Wikipedia edit-a-thon. The options are endless!

Dear Algorithm, PLEASE CONNECT ME WITH: Screenwriters Scriptwriters Storytellers Artists Creatives Filmmakers Actors & Actresses Dreamers Comedians & Comics Writers & Authors Film fanatics, Movie buffs, Cineastes & Cinephiles Deep-thinkers Future friends ... and Kind People

Help me hire! Know a brilliant Tech Lead looking for work? I need someone great to work with @dhanendran.co.uk and others, to super-charge our efforts to completely transform our content & product data publishing stack. All to help fight for UK consumers at Which? www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...

Sad that the @atticalocke.bsky.social shout-out got cut from this! But here it is anyway… www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

Don't often post work-related stuff here, but if you're grappling with running a change project at work and you need a bit of help with your comms, I'm running a free webinar that will help at 12:30pm on Tues 7 Oct. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/communicat...

Can I just say... Last Dance is a really great fantasy podcast, and Max who showruns it is a lovely chap, and if you like that sort of thing, why not chuck a fiver his way for Season 2? www.kickstarter.com/projects/las...

The reason they come for comedians early is that a comic license is surprisingly easy to revoke. You just have to stop laughing. Comedy is about safety, spreading that feeling of safety, intimacy, shared values, group strength. They don’t want you to feel safe. They want you to feel scared.

Dear everyone in tech support, If anyone tells you to use the phrase "I completely understand how confusing this feels" please just kick them in the nuts and ignore them. My tech woes are not "confusing" and my feelings are irrelevant. My problem is that your tech does not work the way it used to.

Alexander von Humboldt taught us to try to understand the world both by looking at the data, and by going out, looking carefully and trusting our own senses. With this in mind, I wonder what he'd have made of our debate about immigration? on.ft.com/4pkDIJ8

I'm not a fan of LinkedIn at the best of times, but it's become important for work, but now they're also going to use our data to train their shitty AI. FFS. Right, I'm off to opt out.

Whoever came up with the idea of the 'hero image' needs to be taken out back and beaten to within an inch of their life.

This is an interesting insight into why political grift is so attractive to the likes of Farage. (Not saying Corbyn and Sultana are grifters, yet). That's £1.1m in income in one morning. For doing... so far, nothing other than putting a website up and being a bit shambolic.

Absolutely amazing Grim Reaper vibes from Melania Trump in these pictures.

I've started using Thunderbird for a new email account recently and omg, it's such an awful experience. It's ugly, confusing, and doesn't have an 'undo send' button, which saves my arse on a regular basis in Gmail because brains are stupid. Anyone got a better email client to recommend?

I believe this is Abir Al-Sahlani, a Swedish MEP, speaking truth to power. Properly.

Now THIS is the kind of fossil fuel protest I can get behind! Shove your paint and your soup up your arse and get in front of people who actually have power. The next 'protester' to deface art or historic monuments or to glue themselves to the M25 should be locked in a room with this on repeat.

I am delighted and honoured to say that on Thur 16 October, Ada Lovelace Day and Government support for women in STEM will be debated in Westminster Hall at 3pm. Enormous thanks to @lizzicollinge.bsky.social for organising, and all other MPs who have supported ALD over the years!

Dalmatian www.worldofmoose.com/products/dal...

And once more with feeling! #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #writers #editing

Look at the difference between the cabinet and the shadow cabinet...

Behold Elliot Ness. They cut off his ear to show that nobody loved him. But that’s not true anymore. <3

Right, well, it's been really lovely knowing you all.