I still remember my anthropology professor’s favorite joke from college: “What did Watson and Crick discover?” “Rosalind Franklin’s notes.”

One of my favourite pop facts is that the oboe on Tanita's stupendous Twist in My Sobriety was played by Malcolm Messiter, whose dad Ian invented Just a Minute. #totp

Walked past a field of sheep earlier and they all stopped what they were doing to look* at me. Bit disconcerting tbh. *This came out as 'lol' to start with so probably that too.

only in the small print of this article do they make clear that the pensioners paying an extra £2,500 of tax would have to have “earnings over £125,140” I know many pensioners are asset rich but how many have income at that level?

Good to see @tanitatikaram.bsky.social on #totp - listen to her new album if you get a chance.

Police auctions throw up some oddities.

Eton Rifles! #totp

Just found these in the letterbox. Thank you @loreandordure.com they look great :)

10/10 take. No notes.

From lunchtime. Corrugated tin doing it's thing.

Ooooohhh Suuuuussssssaaassannnn! #TheArchers

My Land Rover is acquiring it's winter plumage.

My mum just said to me "You should be hung like a horse". When I challenged her over saying such a thing, it transpires she thought it was a punishment horses got. Turns out she's been incorrectly using the phrase since the 90s in various settings

Just saved instead of liked and now I've got a post in my saved list for ever.

The blacklist is back, HUAC will probably be next to return

Not enough attention is being paid to the effective closure of the bulk of one of the 2 or 3 most important public archives for modern British history. A terrible own goal for the BBC as a public-service agency.

It's not like AFV's are a new vehicle class. Mitigating design flaws by changing seat padding and forcing crew to wear ear plugs and over ear defenders due to noise, vibration and harshness is a sticking plaster solution to a fundamental platform issue.

Due to the overwhelming response, we have added a few more run-on copies to the pressing of MARKED TO KILL 12" Red Vinyl Single with 4pp Mag. Now available to pre-order on the Bandcamp page. EXTREMELY LIMITED! Last chance to buy. thebritishstereocollective.bandcamp.com/album/marked-to-kill-e-p

Real Soon Now: Governments rushing to apply AI to public health and safety critical state functions (for unfathomable reasons) suddenly find a script kiddie in Dentistsville, Utah has infected their entire collection of LLM datasets with 250 documents of doom and their AI's are hallucinating.

In our Oxford new congestion charge the EVs pay. And the reason for that, and hear me out here, is because they CAUSE CONGESTION. They don’t pay to go in the clean air zone cos they don’t produce tailpipe emissions. 🤷‍♀️

Hello, heist fans! This Sunday, Nov. 9, I’m teaching a virtual heist workshop! You can still register today, but you need to hurry! I’ve done a terrible job promoting it because of book tour brain - so! If you are interested in writing heists, head on over & grab a seat: www.eventbrite.com/e...

Stonechats under an electricity pylon. #birds #photography #EastCoastKin

Goldfinches in an autumnal tree. #birds #photography #EastCoastKin

Lunchtime walk. Kestrel with a mouse. Flew over me, made a mess of landing in a field, started eating but was disturbed by some gulls so moved on. Surprisingly it immediately went back to hunting when it had eaten it all. #birds #photography #EastCoastKin

My parents gave my siblings and I names that resist being shortened because they disliked it when it happened to them. Taken to it's conclusion we should all be given or choose single syllable forenames and the problem is solved.

Even I thought this was one of mine!

I can remember everything about someone except their name.

Looking at that ship I can understand why.

Fancy a Lidl electric bike? Supermarket debuts €999 folder with large battery: www.cyclingelectric.com/news/lidl-el...

Call people the name they ask you to. It might not the name they've always been known by, it may not be what you want to use, for whatever reason, but respect them and their choice. How is this even up for discussion?

Videos of a crying Ukrainian "conscript" have flooded European social media networks, particularly in Germany and Hungary, this week. The clip, however, appears to be created with help from Sora, OpenAI's new tool.

Clearly, it is unacceptable to remind us that 2005 was 20 years ago, but this is quite fun

Demographic changes in Brighton and Hove continue to be reflected in school admissions - 25% of current reception places to be unfilled in Sept '27. I suspect housing costs in the city and Brexit are both significant contributors. www.sussexexpress.co.uk/news/politic...

check-for-flooding.service.gov.uk/target-area/... Blimey. House phone rang and mobile just beeped

We’ve made this investigation free to read because so many people in Sheffield are affected by this story. Our journalists have been knocking on doors for weeks and we’ve had to employ lawyers because of the legal threats made against us. We can only do this kind of journalism with your support.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay is all about #Fighting birds Male mallard attacking a female. You can see the ducklings that were around her diving under the water (particularly the one on the right as it disappears between images). Although I'm not sure it was a fight as such, more an act of aggression.

Too smug nick

Faithfuls taking being rubbish to an art form. (not an outcome spoiler).

Took the cats out for a walk with my brother and accidentally created a 90s Britpop album cover

Imagining the massed ranks of sandwich yeeters at the next protest and smiling.

Rude boys out of jail.

*record scratch* *freeze frame* Yup, that's me. You're probably wondering how I ended up in this situation...

BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Wow! 😮🤩 There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓 itiner-e.org We might have to have a lie-down.

I’m selling my Riese & Muller Cruiser 2 Mixte Vario. It’s a lovely bike, I’m just not using it. Full specs in pics below. It’s 2 years old and done 2600 miles. Just been serviced. Tyneside. Niche so please share! www.facebook.com/share/1AGbtx... If you’re not on FB, can share more via DM.

That after starting the session reciting Carl Sandburg's "Chicago" poem in full. My wife insists law is a lot less dramatic than it seems on TV, but I gather on the rare occasions a judge waxes poetic or cites Thomas Jefferson they are *really* steamed

Evening walk. River side amble.

She said it took her 5 hours to edit all the clips together.

THIS IS SO GOOD