Evening walk. Variable light, most of the sky was cloudy but with occasional low sun. Great Tit. #birds #photography

Just finished listening to a really excellent performance of this as an audiobook. Recommended.

EFDSS Out and About this Summer! Where to catch our latest folk projects, musical groups and youth ensembles this festival season. Find out more: bit.ly/483ElQi

For the second time, the man who was shot in the leg has confirmed his leg hurts.

An excellent TV show and an insightful review championing it. Watch then read or vice versa, there's no huge spoilers in there.

Lunchtime walk. Yellow Dung Flies. Blade of grass in first image for scale. #nature #photography #insects #macro

No matter how benign your intention, Bluesky can't avoid or be free from the broader impacts and mistrust of the ai industry. For a large chunk of the users here, we have ai fatigue. We're tired. We don't want a "good use", we want human connection, human curation, human creation.

Use an environmentally friendly glue for your plaque and look what happens...

ANTHROPIC IS USING AI TO FUCK UP OUR CLAIMS ABOUT THE USE OF AI???? okay I feel like we should sue again for this

the first report on Australia's teen social media ban is a red flashing light: - 7/10~ parents with kids on social media pre-ban say they're still on it - cyberbullying/image-based abuse reports are unchanged - using facial scans on youngest users deemed a "poor practice" www.crikey.com.au/20...

Those countries toying with an Australian-style social media ban, take note. Your motives might be good, but learn from Australia's mistakes.

i am now IP banned from the pokemon center website :D

If towpaths were good cycling infrastructure I wouldn’t have to keep pulling unconscious cyclists out of the canal and giving them first aid. Having people void their bowels in your sleeping bag really messes with your day. philsturgeon.com/the-drowning...

Would a shipwrecked pirate eating his crew mates be having a hearty meal?

Books on baking banana bread available now 🍌 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

There are so many no-good, terribly bad, wrong, AI-generated anatomical diagrams out there. Here's one I found on the website of an actual clinic in Minnesota. Yikes. Be careful out there.

Democracy manifest.

Quick! Reply with a link to the Orkney banana glut, before someone else does.

Evening walk, Bramber Church.

If they put cream on next they're real scone kids.

When I walk in the club and I got a pebble in my boot

Just found out Pecorama is shut. Gutted. Been going there for over 25 years - first with our own children when they were young and more recently our grandson. www.pecorama.co.uk/pages/closed...

Showing a bit of solidarity with the Merchants Arms in #hotwells who yet again have had a car drive through their front window, this time during opening hours.

Evening walk. Male Kestrel. #birds #photography

This Day in Labor History: March 30, 1930. The Hawk’s Nest tunnel project near Gauley Bridge, West Virginia began, tunneling through the New River. Upwards of 1,000 black workers would die of silicosis, possibly the worst workplace health disaster in American history! Let's talk about this horror!

Lunchtime walk. Drone fly. Limited depth of field means it's abdomen is sharper than it's head. #insects #photography #nature

No biggie, the most influential newspaper in Finland just casually reported that the defence forces had shot down Russian drones in Finnish airspace. Based on an LLM misrepresentation of a press release. That no one checked before publishing. Oops.

The player with the most money is exempt from paying any taxes, the £200 for passing Go etc.

"Bit of a cock up on the boat front."

There's going to be a lot of people who won't access this because of religious doctrine (on top of those who can't for economic reasons).

Also, when you stumble across their Low Ground Pressure excavators, looming in the fog, literally in the middle of nowhere, it always triggers a vaguely sci-fi moment.

This is one of a series I took last week of a crow turning over stones at the water's edge to find crustaceans. I picked this one because of the reflection in it's eye. #birds #photography

Brianna Ghey wasn't killed by someone she met online. The people she met online loved and treasured her. She was killed by her actual, real-life, classmates, who hated her for being trans.

Aw, no. Loved his work.

Ultimately, who cares? They were happy – and a remarkable number of their contemporaries were happy for them. Wordsworth wrote a sonnet about them during his visit, which closes with the words “Sisters in love, a love allowed to climb Ev’n on this earth, above the reach of time.”

I was never allowed to do childish stuff when I was younger. The other day, at 38 years old, I wrote letter, with brightly coloured ink, to a musician I adore. And I sent the thing to their last known address for fan mail. Which they published in 2012. Not weird at all, surely.

Jesus CHRIST www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Three Laws of Robotics don't count if you're dancing.

Everyone needs to stop what they’re doing and watch this video. “It seems like there’s a lack of diversity here today, and it’s mostly people who look like you and me, and I just…?” This lady’s response is🔥

Diesel just got humiliated on its own turf by a Chinese #EV Truck 🚚. Sydney → Canberra freight run Electric truck: 25 minutes faster + ~85% cheaper energy Not greener. Not nicer. Just better. Freight was supposed to be the last stand… #Bettrification

My book 'Drystone - A Life Rebuilt' will be out in the US and Canada now. If you've been waiting to buy it, you can. If you've been waiting to order it into your library, you can. If you've been waiting to tell your friends who are reviewers at the NYT, you can ;) #Books #Reading #US #Canada

Matt is much better at his job than any ai and requires substantially less cooling.

This is one of a series I took last week of a crow turning over stones at the water's edge to find crustaceans. I picked this one because of the reflection in it's eye. #birds #photography

this is the most infuriating part of the harry potter discourse - if you're going to watch it, then watch it, god knows millions of people played the stupid game but if you know enough to be aware of the issues, you don't get to ask trans people to absolve you

whoa, this seems pretty sus "An official United States government app is injecting CSS and JavaScript into third-party websites to strip away their cookie consent dialogs, GDPR banners, login gates, and paywalls." it also tracks your GPS every 4.5 minutes blog.thereallo.dev/blog/decompi...

There's a lot of sunk cost in data centre expansion. As I understand it, today's hardware is already expected to be obsolete in 3 yrs, and I don't see any good strategies for decommissioning or pivoting, so there will need to be some good incentives for adoption of low-resource approaches

Retail parks are more profitable for retailers because they are cheap sites which externalise the costs. We all pay for the huge road infrastructure serving them and the harms that arise from car-dependent society.

It’s #smallbirdsaturday and I have flockin’ loads of small bird greetings cards for people that like, um, small birds. Find them here dippyfishcards.etsy.com/listing/1062... #birdart #bsnm #ukgiftam #ukgifthour #mhhsbd #spring #natureart

Topical antifungals useless against this outbreak of current affairs.

Absolutely stunning clouds this morning. Photo taken not long after sunrise on Glastonbury Tor.