I saw a live birthed harbor seal pup for the first time in my life today. I thought it would be horrifying because I have a weak stomach, but it turned to UNGODLY CUTE very fast! Using this thread for some moments in the minutes after. All shot on my z8, edited on phone for now. 🦭 🦑

Continued acts of care and maintenance are not capital-E Events that can be nailed down to a moment in time, so they don't fit readily into our timelines. It's simultaneously meaningful and frustrating to me (big Susan Leigh Star fan), so it's lovely to focus on them in this week's briefing!

Tomorrow! At the Wiltshire Music Centre. Me and m’pals with 400 years of music in about two hours. Amazing musicians! Wonderful pieces! A waffling idiot! A show for noobs and lifers alike. Come and have a squizz. youtu.be/BJPcEy2V-oM

Have you ever seen a Roman plumbing device that is both genius and gorgeous? Just look at this bronze drain strainer, found in the Roman baths at Weißenburg, Germany, dating2nd/3rd century AD! 📷 me 🏺 #archaeology #findsfriday

Beautiful everyday Ladybird things. Boiled eggs and Cornishware (2nd Picture Book, 1970) Artist: Harry Wingfield

Still Life, by Max Weber (American, born Białystok, Russian Empire, now Poland, 1881–1961) 1911 More info: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/210386

<staff kitchen> NAZGUL #1: I just... NAZGUL: #2: What? N#1: Like... Seriously? We're hunting HOBBITS now? N#2: I mean okay but clue was in the name N#1: True, but still WITCH KING <entering>: Hey N#1: Hey N#2: Hey <Witch King leaves with coffee> N#1: Maybe we should have said something N#2: Maybe

Leicester Cathedral held a wedding ceremony in sign language. In 1576. I'm not crying, you're crying. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

anyway the consultation shuts tomorrow, one minute to midnight UK time: www.gov.uk/government/c... Amnesty have some good guidance here. Go on: media.amnesty.org.uk/documents/Am...

I started a podcast. It’s called Six Things. Each month, a guest brings six things and we talk about them. It’s as simple as that. Massage your ears with the first episode, featuring @joannawyld.bsky.social’s fine selection. Available on your favoured ear-massaging platform. pod.link/1873642106/e...

What's that, Adrian Scarborough? Lev's got a new podcast and you're mentioned?

A new song for protests! A paraphrase of Dr Martin Luther King's famous saying "darkness cannot drive out darkness..." Should work for any voices. Harmonies (small notes) optional. Creative Commons license. Recording: soundcloud.com/hutchingsmus... PDF: www.hutchingsmusic.co.uk/wp-content/u...

All the times Alan Grant farts in Jurassic Park.

(guy who's unable to remember the term "court jester"): uh have you seen the

now that the Super Bowl has transpired we can focus on the more pertinent matter: Super Museums of the Historic English Countryside

I never noticed this either.

Man on the bus (to me): If I was you, I'd write down what people say on this bus. I can't do it, I'm too drunk.

Wey up high!

I get that "gluten free" has come to signify "coddled hipster" but oh what I'd give for a comedy character who explains that gluten will give them the ropey shits for a week as they shed the lining of their small intestine

day 136 of making a cow tools every day unless i don't

I'm re recording multiple parts of a song I'm working on through the Leslie. It gets kind of addictive after a while.

It's an ill wind

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

@imcmillan.bsky.social Is there anything more certain in life than summed up simply by #RogermcGough I wanna be the leader I wanna be the leader Can I be the leader? Can I? I can? Promise? Promise? Yippee I'm the leader I'm the leader OK what shall we do? Roger McGough

If you told Herbert Morrison that nationalised healthcare only benefitted the poor, he'd angrily tell you he had no sight in his right eye. Hs middle-class parents didn't have time or money to take him to a doctor for what seemed like a "minor" infection. By the time it got worse, it was too late.

As the World Snooker Championship draws to a close I thought I might recreate a thread I enjoyed putting together over on Twitter: snooker players as composers.

This pup found a stick shaped like an old timey pipe earlier today and has already solved three mysteries. 13/10

I've got good news!

Still Life with Salt, Pepper and Brown Jug

So, this weekend we were recording guitars for a song I wrote. We'd planned to run through the Leslie speaker but when I turned it on, no sound of rotation could be heard. I feared a burnt out motor, so I dragged it in from the garage, all 65 kilos of it.

It appears to be Hedgehog Day. Please appreciate this... unconventional Victorian fairy painting by Charles Altamont Doyle, father of AC Doyle. (artuk.org/discover/art...)

I made this sci-fi puppetry 60s pastiche. CGI, almost completely physics-animated. Love letter to things like Thunderbirds, Fireball XL5, Space Patrol, and watching foreign television only to lose it forever afterwards youtu.be/ME7SVM7bwKU?si=jUYR6APY28kPCUqk

Randy Horney United States, Social Security Death Index

"Your contract allows for a modest structure in the prevailing style of the neighborhood. It does not allow for a big tall house with rooms by the dozen."

This is so lovely, thank you.

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I’ve added the script for Wake Up Dead Man to my site. This is the final shooting script, so it has stuff that was cut and moved around, which I always think is more interesting to see than a conformed cleaned up version. Enjoy! www.rian-johnson.com/screenplays

Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out. As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class. Here's what happened:

Went to a brilliant concert of soul/disco tonight and while most of it was pure joy, there was also a very moving performance of Nina Simone's protest song Mississippi Goddam that was accidentally-on-purpose announced as Minnesota Goddam and ooft 😭

Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence. "He wound up in Obligatory Therapy in Tehachapi."

Mussorgsky looks like we all feel right now.

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Oh oh the Evri delivery van is Just four stops away Oh wait a note just came through my door It said "we tried to deliver it but "you were out" and now I wonder what I waited in for (with apologies to Meredith Wilson)

sort of insane that there's a courier firm well known for working its staff so hard that they toss parcels in the bin and mark them as delivered

Tom Baker is 92 today

Well I never thought I would capture the light of the #aurora reflected in the Montgomeryshire Canal but there you go 🙂

On October 26, 1967, six months before his assassination, MLK Jr spoke at Barratt Junior High School in Philadelphia and gave his “blueprint” speech. Here’s a short excerpt:

So this one time