In the days before correcting fluid...

Anyone planning to catch the Mars-Uranus conjunction? North/South America about the right longitude. 🔭

Today is International Asteroid Day! ☄️ Why does the UN recognise this day on June 30? Anniversary of the 1908 Tunguska Event: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tungusk... Russia is no stranger to airburst events - in 2013, there was also the well-documented Chelyabinsk event en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelyab...

🦀 see a crab, post a crab 🦀 Well, Lord Rosse saw it as a crab in the 19th C.

My latest novel is published in paperback on July 2nd. If you pre-order from Blackwell's they'll send it with FREE international delivery & that will help the book get into shops. I'll also be signing EVERY ONE of these: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

We used to give mossies to our zebra fish. Quite amusing, watching them rapidly fold the legs and body into their mouths.

It's a fallacy that Galileo said "Eppur si muove", and little reason to give credence to the notion that he said "Ragazze dal sedere grosso, siete voi che fate girare il mondo del rock".

Your reminder that fairy tales are full of stepmothers because women once routinely died in childbirth, from postpartum sepsis, or from other infectious diseases and left behind housefuls of motherless children. Stable nuclear families are made possible by vaccines, antibiotics, and safe abortions.

"ENTER PASSWORD" *types 'snowflake'* "RE-ENTER PASSWORD" *types 'snowflake'* "ERROR. PASSWORDS MUST BE IDENTICAL".

There's a certain feeling of kinship when reading a second-hand book, and you find yourself folding a page corner as a bookmark and notice someone else marked the same page - especially if it's not at the start of a new chapter.

Some style-guide dictats give me the shits, like Nasa for NASA. Here's another from the NYT (though maybe I'll style it nyT).

In the sunroom.

may moon #fullmoon #joncarling #drawing

Your little ones like to draw and love space? ✨🖍️ ESA Education invites them to send their art to space 🚀 Help them join Plato’s Find-a-New-Earth Art Challenge and their drawing might decorate the rocket that will send our Plato mission to space 👉 www.esa.int/kids/en/thin... #EduSky 🔭

'Flourish' by LaToya Hobbs, contemporary US printmaker and co-founder of Black Women of Print #WomensArt

Whose idea was it to start everything in the morning?

"If you submit one more ChatGPT rehash instead of a straight copy of the original, you're out!"

Today, in the #BloodySilly department. First, open it up and take it in the shower?

Must be decades since I've had a bridie, and never home-made. She's a treasure, I tell you. Just need the oven to do its work.

Oh, it's the third Thursday of May, which means it is: Global Accessibility Awareness Day! You can really make the internet more inclusive by doing simple things like adding alt-text to images, using high-contrast text, adding captions to your vids and more. #Accessibility 👇👇👇

My actual parents

Hell's teeth! Would any form of anaesthesia have been used, such as a stiff drink or three? www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

This is a long shot because this isn't the old twitter, but I'm looking for history articles/books that look at cases of British/Irish settlers/squatters being prosecuted for crimes against Indigenous/colonized people. It can be anywhere in the world, but ideally the late C18/early C19.

Draft concept for a daylight-savings alternative. AM has 13 hours; PM has 11.

@drspacejunk.bsky.social Just watching Time Team, and wondering if any form of spectroscopy is ever used, or could be used, in assessing ambiguous materials in an exploratory trench? In this case, the archaeologist said it was a glacial feature, and the geophys bod opined it was a round house base.

When renovators think "the Cybertruck" is quite nice...

‘Take On Me’ Played on Medieval Instruments laughingsquid.com/take-on-me-b...

Just toying with some leaf scans. The vein structure is almost like a suburban street plan.

#ThickTrunkTuesday Edinburgh, Scotland C330S + 80/2.8 FP4 #Photography

A boy's question after a show yesterday: "what's your favourite thing about space?" I had to think for a moment, because there's so much, but I said dusty nebulae, because of what it took to make them, and what they can become next. They also look pretty good too. So, what's your #FavSpaceThing? 🔭

A boy's question after a show yesterday: "what's your favourite thing about space?" I had to think for a moment, because there's so much, but I said dusty nebulae, because of what it took to make them, and what they can become next. They also look pretty good too. So, what's your #FavSpaceThing? 🔭

It's #WallsOnWednesday, apparently. Well, here y'go.

It is, today, the 55th anniversary of that gift to satire James Arkell, whose solicitors wrote to Private Eye on this day in 1971, prompting everyone’s favourite reply. You may know the story, but I put it to you that you cannot hear it enough. We begin with that initial letter... 🧵

A commendable effort, but @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social is the acknowledged master of alt text. Cf bsky.app/profile/dj-a...

I just signed the open letter to the PM calling for a suspension of diplomatic relations with Israel - Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...

a bright idea #drawing #oroburos #art

A bit taken with the yarn my wife has just rewound, ready for knitting.

A business that supplies goats to improve your scenic outlook. I'd call it Scape.

The most recent meme in your camera roll (or Downloads folder) describes your current* mental state. * perpetual, actually

Periodic reminder that I have a shop at lycomorpha.etsy.com where I sell paints, paintmaking supplies, and zines. (The world is on fire and run by wankspangled fascist dicklimpets, but an enby's still gotta make a living. Thank you for your support! 💖)

If I had 28k to burn, I'd seriously consider buying this for Herself.

Finally took the Fujica Half for a run, and I think that might be my last outing with film. My thermometer and hanging clips had become separated from the rest of my dev kit, and I can't be bothered any more. Anyway, here's the first frame, and the only one with any merit. Caffenol #FP4Party 1/2

Trying a different whisky tonight, this time an Irish whiskey. The label says it's "Best enjoyed neat, on the rocks, or in your favourite cocktail." As opposed to what? Misting the toilet odours away? Poured over your vintage insoles? Dripped into your fish tank? Leave your suggestions below.

That's easy for him to say youtube.com/shorts/iDOF4...

Your whiskey, Sir.

Linxicon from Tuesday. I think my work is done.

In a small gesture of resistance against the Easter-stuff-on-sale-on-Boxing-Day movement, I've just had a small mince pie.

We need to have more effort on the #Skying hashtag, folks (talking to myself here too). Ping @drlucyrogers.com @tomduffinphotos.bsky.social @redskies.bsky.social @catherineryanhyde.bsky.social @astroroyalscot.bsky.social @mikechristie.bsky.social @lorigrace.bsky.social #BelieveInFilm Go on...

I have a cat joke but don't want to risk telling it in case it pushes you over the edge.

Cats are such graceful, majestic creatures