"My husband complains about the cold," the man said. "Can you teach me a spell to keep him warm?" "I can teach you to bind hair into a net to catch heat," the wizard said, "using arcane counting and a pair of fine wands." After a while, the man said "Isn't this knitting?" "This, too, is magic."

Board game night is back at Colchester Castle with Ace Comics. Bring a board game or RPG, grab a table for up to six, and play after hours among the galleries: colchester.cimuseums.org.uk/events/gamin... What’s your first game of the night?

A few days ago, I stood in the graveyard of an 1100 year old church, getting damper and damper in the drizzling rain. A woman walked into the graveyard, waved, said hello, and, as we had previously arranged, handed me a paper bag full of human bones. The life of a churchwarden is a strange one...

When it's just as well you were planning a brisk 55 minute walk home! Delicious lunch at Victor Victoria in Sawston.

GCP are recommending the go-ahead on crossing proposals for Hinton Way in Great Shelford as part of the Sawston Greenway, despite having received 58 objections. Anyone know where I can find more detail of what the objections were in full? @camcycle.bsky.social? See: lnr.dreamwidth.org/664585.html

GCP are recommending the go-ahead on crossing proposals for Hinton Way in Great Shelford as part of the Sawston Greenway, despite having received 58 objections. Anyone know where I can find more detail of what the objections were in full? @camcycle.bsky.social? See: lnr.dreamwidth.org/664585.html

“I'm glad you have enough love in your life that that response comes naturally. If anything, you should be proud of that :)”

It’s Penguin Awareness Day which seems like a great excuse to post the greatest ever Wikipedia edit.

Well that’s me locked out. No pay for the foreseeable future, all because I refuse to reschedule lost teaching, for which I have already lost pay as part of the strike. Please donate to support @sheffielducu.bsky.social members like me at www.gofundme.com/f/heubvb-sup...

Oh are we doing that whole bit again where we pretend Brianna Ghey died because of social media rather than because of the people who stabbed her 28 times.

I went to see if there was any aurora. I found partial cloud with a light pollution glow. Ah well!

While I'm asking for the impossible: can someone invent a carpet which doesn't make the room look dark but doesn't show marks and is made of a sustainable material that is soft to walk on but whose fibres don't felt together if you try and rub it clean? Guess who bought cream wool front room carpet?

Oh bollocks, Matthew's going to be so cross with me. I thought his dentist appointment wouldn't mess up his attendance record at school because it was authorised, but no. Less than an hour late into school and he's now lost the 100% attendance which *he* valued, because the school makes a fuss. :(

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 football team’s official LGBTQ+ fan group @3lionspride.bsky.social won’t attend World Cup in USA: ‘We very loudly raised our concerns’ re 🇷🇺 and 🇶🇦 as hosts, ‘would be irresponsible not to do the same’ now re 🇺🇸 sportsmedialgbt.com/three-lions-...

punk frog

Today has been buy-a-new-bike day! We get to go pick it up for Matthew on Friday. Not just his first adult bike but, having gone for an open frame style, also a size large frame! He's only 12 and 3/4!

Just had the “try our updated app” email from Trainline. If it wasn’t so depressing it’d be hilarious. What’s the ONE thing you want with travel information…?

Horrible fat phobic comments about ozempic doing the rounds again. We can't do anything right, can we?

Whoa-oh-oh Artist: monkeon https://b3ta.com/board/11424622 From the 'Music and Food II' challenge https://b3ta.com/challenge/musicandfood2/popular/ #MusicAndFoodII

Coffee with Carrie at Cara. Crochet with the crafters at the library. Lunch and coffee and crochet with @amandycat.bsky.social at Ori. Solo coffee and crochet at Dao. Seriously chilled out day, with about 30km cycling in between :)

I do wish the weather were a bit more settled. It was -2 yesterday morning (sunny), and nearly 8 degrees this morning (overcast). It's so weird.

I deleted my previous posts about my harasser to protect the sanctuary, but I will not be using this bluesky account anymore if someone can threaten me here, via email, and on the phone without consequences. Bye for now.

May I offer you a small painted chicken in these trying times

Cycling BlueSky! Anyone got a #Brompton they're selling? UK based analogue 3 or 6sp C-line or better. Medium or (ideally) Short. Not a Tall certainly. I haven't got a huge amount of cash but will consider anything up to £800. Diolch yn fawr iawn - Thank you very much.

For sale: SML Brompton G Line Electric - Traildust White, 25miles only, full set of G line luggage (Big bag, small bag, rackbag, metro pouch). Very tiny mark (2mm) on frame, otherwise as new. £3000 SML G Line Electric - Forest Green, 2miles, with small bag, perfect condition £3000 #Brompton #GLine

An unclaimed #buyastrangerabook offer from last week. In memory of a friend who died at the end of last year, @lancslass.bsky.social offered to buy TWO people a book each of their choice, up to £15. One's gone, but one's still up for grabs, so if there's a book you'd like, get in touch. UK only

It consistently amazes me not only that people think AI is "good enough" to do stuff like this, but also that they very clearly don't bother to actually *look at the damn thing* after generating it. The mistakes on this are immediately, glaringly obvious.

A light frost this morning. Can only apologise to the people stuck behind me on the bike path when we got to a more frosty bit and I went *very slow* - it seems I am still feeling extra cautious after last Thursday's bump. Epic bruise on my thigh still has a bump in the middle too.

Today's my birthday! And I'm launching a new thing, which is a bit scary and I need your help to spread the word. So! Today THE THIRTEENTH GOD, my new military progression fantasy magitech Mad Max x Final Fantasy x Gurren Lagann serial starts over at Royal Road! www.royalroad.com/fiction/1472...

The river Granta (or Cam) where it passes the recreation ground in Great Shelford. This photo from 2014, just because it was a pretty one :)

Cambridge Solidarity Fund gives money to people in need across our city, no questions asked. Cambridge has some of the highest wealth inequality in the UK, and CSF does absolutely essential work. It's also £340 short of the funds needed for this month's grants opencollective.com/cambridgesol...

✂️ Yesterday I finally responded to @agakowalska.bsky.social’s challenge to make a collage from a single piece of packaging. I present to you a green (tea) woodpecker, made from a big Yorkshire Tea box. It was fun and I’ll be rooting through our recycling bin for more materials later on ♻️

First proper gig: November 17th 1990, Leeds University Union (now known as the Refectory). Del Amitri. I wasn't sure if this one was first or Chris Isaak, but it turns out the latter was in March 1991 www.leeds.ac.uk/alumni-commu...

I would not like it in my docs I would not like it in my clocks I would not use it in a letter It will not make things any better I will not give it all my stuff It cannot fuck off fast enough

Inspired by Anna Hughes’ Eat Sleep Cycle (is she on here?), we’re planning to tour Scotland from Edinburgh to Thurso (where my grandparents are from) by e-bike later this year. Would love to hear from experienced bike tourists - any e-bike recommendations for long-distance touring?

"If you die in the game, you die in real life" is actually true for an awful lot of things, like snooker and backgammon

Today, a visibility thread dedicated to trans men 🧵🏳️‍⚧️ Starting with iconic bad boy Harry Allen, famous for biting and throwing rocks at the police!

🚨FLASH : on a retrouvé une manette de l'âge de pierre, indiquant que nos ancêtres jouaient déjà aux jeux vidéos.

The information sign for a country park looks to me like people saying ‘yay! we’re going to the country park!’

Ye brynge to mynde the babe. What babe? That babe wyth the knowlech. What knowlech? The knowlech of sorcerye. Sorcerye? Assuredlye! Assuredlye what? Brynge to mynde the babe. #Labyrinth #Bowie

What's a gerbil's favourite workout video? 30 day Shred.

Time to upgrade these old bad boys for the newer green spine versions. If anyone in NZ has those versions to buy or trade, let me know!

So my 11yo’s frat bro homeroom teacher has announced that he’s going to ban “books w/pictures” during FREE READING PERIODS. Obvs I will be raising hell abt this, w/a lit review. Does anyone have recs for specific sources on how damaging it is to prevent kids from reading stuff they actually like??

Blue sky, sorry for this, but are any of you a city/regional transportation planner, or know someone who is a transportation planner? My kid is writing a paper, and needs to ask some questions of a transportation planner, and her source fell through PLEASE let me know ASAP

Well, I think I'm going to have a cracking bruise tomorrow! (Photo is of my bare leg, with a mark where I bumped it, not terribly graphic). Somewhat ironic too to have come off right outside the hospital - though we didn't need its services!

I solved the 'it's still the Year of the Snake, but everyone thinks it's Year of the Horse' problem. It's now the month of the Snorse. #sygnin

Does anyone have this book or know where I could get it? I've exhausted all the options I have besides endlessly trawling local bookshops and hoping one shows up, and I've attempted to buy three different copies online to no avail.

Not gritting footways saves the local council money... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

IT'S WEDNESDAY! It's #buyastrangerabook day! The grooviest of all the days. I'll give out TWO books. FOR FREE. If you'd like one, let me know. Also, if you'd like to #BuyAStrangerABook too, let me know. It's a thing! Look. www.biggreenbookshop.com/stuff-you-mi... UK only.

It's the 3rd of January 1939, your name is professor James Smith and you are staring at a drawing of a fish. It's not a regular fish. It is a completely impossible fish.