or if you want the video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttfZ...

Never let anyone convince you that technology is just whatever one of the platform surveillance machines want to sell you. Technology doesn’t belong to them

I’m very happily lost.

You might need this little soapstone carving of a whale today… (1200-1600 CE, Chumash culture, California, held at Musée des Beaux Arts, Montreal)

My privilege to share some lovely stories from the science community about what Sam Neill's timeless performance as Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park meant to them—and why it will continue to inspire kids to chase their own discoveries for years to come.

Watching Jurassic Park 👍🏻

🚨 Ealing Classic 🚨9:05pm on #TalkingPicturesTV THE MAN IN THE WHITE SUIT (1951) stars #AlecGuinness #JoanGreenwood #CecilParker #HowardMarionCrawford #MichaelGough sci-fi/comedy #TPTVsubtitles

Always loved this Dr. Feelgood line-up. Two plain-clothes coppers (bass and drums) and two absolute psychos (guitar, vox) out on parole.

Many, many happy memories owed to Brian Cant. youtu.be/NO5_sWa4Lro

Today is Brian Cant's Birthday. One of THE great voices of our childhood. I feel so lucky to be around when people like him brought those shows to life.

I work as a train conductor and was correcting passengers on misinformation. I was trying to adapt the phrase 'you heard it from the horse's mouth' but what I ended up saying, to a group of middle aged ladies was 'I am the horse. Take it from my mouth'

This is what happens when Norway go back to the dressing room. They relax into their natural state as pencil sketch animations

my best friend is one of those people who explore rural Japan looking for abandoned properties and he recently found these signs out in the country

This is my favourite interpretation of a letter of Charles Darwin's: youtu.be/MYU-TeElKMc

The blue layer is a bit scrappy. I made this press out of an IKEA shelf; I sit on it to provide the proper pressure, but I'm thinking of adding a layer of the foam rubber sheet I got to repair the Odyssey keyboard (which didn't work, by the way). Hopefully this'll even out the gaps!

Test prints!

GUYS - I’ve just realised what Farage is going to do… The thing is he now has NO WAY to proceed which doesn’t humiliate him. If he wins, he is, as Rachel Reeves put it, The Man Who Spent His Summer Arguing With A Bin. If he bails, he’s The Man Who Fled From A Bin. And if he LOSES…

So he’s only got one way out, and I’ve just realised what it’s going to be: FAKE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT. I am NOT KIDDING. First of all, he steals all his moves from the Trump playbook. Second, it gets him out the race on wounded health grounds… He leaves the field a martyred hero…

There are six million lamp posts in Britain, and only a few thousand have flags on them. But look out of your window on bin day: every house proudly sports the bin! #VoteBinface

JICYMI - hugely enjoyable interview with the Count himself on the Today Programme this morning: starts at 2hrs54min into the show.

So when the coal tits decide they want more sunflower seeds, they send in their leader to sort out supply issues.

One of my most popular tweets.

Can you, as one person, possibly make a difference in whether an unusual, creative, category-breaking book (a book without a marketing department or a budget behind it) succeeds? Yes you can, and I'm going to tell you why it's a hell of a lot more attainable than you think.

You will see authors start to sound a little unhinged when we talk about "preorders." But WHY? Because a book that sells 500 copies over six months can look like a failure to early detection "should we show this book" systems. The same 500 concentrated into the preorder window? Trips thresholds.

Albert Gleizes - Composition For Jazz

Nice.

Beano #824, May 3, 1958

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Aha! Finally found the ecclesiastial power supply for this.

Aesop: I TOLD YOU

High voltage saltire

Live-streamed tonight www.rcm.ac.uk/events/live/...

It is traditional on Friday for me to say: perhaps someone would like some original art, and to support a person who is me. www.chloecumming.com

My first cut, as it were, was fun but perhaps not quite as aligned as I would have liked 😆

She also went on to illustrate the inside of my books Help The Witch, Ring The Hill, Notebook, Villager and Everything Will Swallow You. It was always exciting waiting to see what she would come up with & watching her art develop was an extra motivating factor for me in trying to improve as a writer

I've kept the paywall off this essay in case anyone would like to read more about my mum's art (and my dad's!): www.tom-cox.com/the-magic-ro...

THREAD. A while ago my parents' cat Bridget went missing. As the worrying weeks dragged on my dad devised a way to distract himself: he began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time & inhabiting art's most iconic scenes. What he produced (& how quickly) was phenomenal...

Can’t help thinking this one has bindun

Almost ready for ink

If you’re not following this guy on Instagram’s day-by-day account of building a lightweight Phoenician war-elephant outfit centered around his toddler in the command seat so that he can hike over the Alps in it in the footsteps of Hannibal—you should be. www.instagram.com/reel/DaOO7iV...

We are definitely on a particular side of this line

The Quiche of Marinus

WHAT'S A HAIKU? (Anagrammed Lines) Basically, the paced heptadecasyllabic blade; a patchy slice.

This is a corker too: From the wonderful Gail Myerscough www.gailmyerscough.co.uk