Have to go to Malaysia this week, so why not go overland? Step one, 16 hours on the sleeper from Bangkok to Padang Besar

Me: Which is why I did a Chotiner interview meme post Chotiner: but you did want engagement Me: Oh, of course! But it wasn’t just that. C: You felt you could add to the conversation Me: My own perspective. C: By posting the same joke as everyone else Me: it’s a funny variation

I would like to take a moment to share with people the absolutely demented story of Hudson and Rex, a Canadian cop drama about a cop and his partner who happens to be a dog. PLEASE STICK AROUND UNTIL THE END, I PROMISE THIS IS GOING PLACES YOU COULD NEVER EXPECT

Did you know the NIH has an extensive collection of vector art? In case you ever need a scientifically accurate image of a guinea pig, a man hiking while pointing upwards, or a very large collection of different ticks bioart.niaid.nih.gov

Picked an excellent time to disappear into the bush for a few days. Brought you back an angry little borb.

"Sweeteners can harm cognitive health equivalent to 1.6 years of ageing, study finds" Or does it? Let's take a look at this "study"... www.theguardian.com/food/2025/se...

Found myself thinking I need a backup alarm clock with a really long battery life and no charging needed, and it would be great if it was small and portable for travel, and yes I did eventually figure this out and just buy a cheap digital watch.

I enjoyed this. And what an infectious laugh. ❤️ "Reporter left speechless after witnessing Japan's new $70 million Maglev train in action at 310 mph"

Hugo nomination stats are up: seattlein2025.org/wp-content/u...

I think it is important to understand her psychology though because I think it is widely shared. In her mind all she was doing was Posting On The Internet, a thing which is every citizens birthright and which is utterly separate from the real world of physical cause and effect.

I might also add that the author community's constant slalom between "if you wait for a series to conclude before starting it you are personally responsible for the death of the genre" and "how dare you expect an author to finish a story they've started" is perhaps not the most effective messaging.

in britain the anchorites of asda dwell by the sacred stones, solemnly intoning the words “that’s asda price”, and performing the necessary ritual (the double bum slap) three times a day to bring about the great rolling back when we will all be redeemed

Did you know that owning a cat can actually enhance your own hunting instincts? For example, last night I awoke at 3 AM and instinctively knew, almost immediately, that a big round idiot was fighting a moth under my bed.

Look, I’m sorry, but the shambles of title and name mispronunciations in this Hugo award ceremony is not funny. GRRM is sitting by his phone waiting for an apology.

Sad to not be in Seattle but I'm gonna watch the Hugos from a swimming pool so it's not all bad

This is a masterpiece. Simply excellent www.instagram.com/reel/DMVGMIC...

Wild case of ChatGPT almost killing a guy by telling him to substitute sodium bromine for table salt (sodium chloride) #medsky www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...

the brain that can see a face in a wall outlet was always doomed to hear the voice of God in a markov chain

This is it, folks. This is the absolute craziest win probability chart you will ever see in your entire life. Ultimate WHEEEEEEEEE! ‪@slangsonsports.bsky.social‬

Either seagulls can move a whole van and a lamppost out of the background without you noticing or that seagull video is AI.

Among the greatest promotional photos of all time are these for the 1990 television movie of IT, where it looks like a prestige legal drama about a firm of hot young lawyers and one associate who likes to dress up like a clown.

Last day to vote for this year's #HugoAwards! ARB is up for Fanzine, and A Meal of Thorns is up for fancast, and friends of ARB & AMOT have cool work in a lot of categories: seattlein2025.org/wsfs/hugo-aw...

Khao Kheow Zoo did an animal escape drill with an inflatable Moo Deng mascot and I am dying laughing at the vicious hippo attack www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8K_...

Like this???

I’m sure JRR Tolkien sold a lot of books. But did he have a commemorative plaque on a bookstore toilet? I think not.

Ahead of the expected proscription of Palestine Action - the first time a protest group has been legally redefined as terrorist - I went through the Hansard of the 2000 Act they're being banned under. Turns out MPs were assured the law wouldn't be applied this way. Thread 🧵🔽

BBC is doing a live video of Oasis gig outside the venue with 16k viewers, as they have no rights to show inside. Or if you open TikTok there’s some random woman live streaming the whole set live on her phone to 32k people, who are sending her loads of hard money gifts. A thrilling new frontier!

Now I've looked more closely at these two recent papers in Nature, and they are both excellent examples of why we need new narratives for talking about molecular biology to non-specialists. 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The end of this year's Tour de France will signal the very sad end of ITV's fantastic coverage after 40 years. My dad's worked on it for the past 30, so I asked him to write about it 🇫🇷✍️ @escapecollective.bsky.social escapecollective.com/i-worked-on-...

"If you built this whole operation in Germany, nobody would question that it is feasible. But people are asking questions when you’re doing it in Africa … That narrative is terrible — we’re all fighting to show that we can do it in Africa." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Post a warning.

Spammed by an ad for an academic AI tool which addressed me as an "environmental science researcher". That's not a good ad for your AI tool chums

NEW: What went wrong with Dragon Age: The Veilguard? Why was the writing so tonally inconsistent? Why did it feel so shallow? Why were there so few choices? Really, after ten years of turbulence, it was a miracle that anything came out at all. This is the story: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

“Despite meeting the criteria for exceptional circumstances, there are no viable pathways in the UK immigration system [for] undocumented migrants such as Nay Lin Aung through spousal visas. The rules say he must make an application from his country of origin, which is now in a state of civil war.”

Pigeons! The worst nest builders.

root out blue labour, I reckon

Huddle up, folks. I’m going to publish @jonbois.bsky.social ’s debut novel, 50007: AN AMERICAN FOOTBALL ODYSSEY

I ordered some hobby knickknacks on Etsy and they offered me the option to personalize the carrying case

who called it woke pope and not Opus DEI

And now they're engaged. Men, take note.

This is a great piece. Bhattacharya insisted that the reporter not "write about rumors" because "it spreads panic.” Hours later, those very leads were confirmed. www.science.org/content/arti...

Remember when you first learned about genetics at school? All those fascinating examples of human traits that are each apparently determined by just a single gene? Time to check in on some of your favourites to see how they’re doing. 🧬🧵🧪 1/n

Let this be a warning to you all: nobody steals my charts and gets to be Prime Minister of Canada

Far from the worst attempt at a music video by a pro cycling team youtu.be/WaMgeLgdpm4?...

The most Welsh Rugby image of all time

Time to discover if a flask of tea and triple action strepsils can power me through Vaughan Williams Sea Symphony.

So in the midst of the chaos and joy of Eastercon, @ngjeannette.bsky.social and I have set up a charity auction: Genre Creators for Trans rights in the UK and South Africa as a small personal response to what's happening in the world. You can bid on cool things here www.32auctions.com/genrefortrans

Paul Kincaid's Colourfields: Writing About Writing About Science Fiction is out on Thursday, so here's a reminder of what some people have said about it. Pre-order from our site or (ebook only) Amazon.

in case you're wondering, "what's the harm in claiming an extinct species has been brought back from the dead" when it most certainly has not, our interior secretary is already using it to justify taking animals off the endangered species list