This is a fabulous painting, but the name would bother me. I wonder if the person who commissioned it noticed?

Good morning 😊

As the year ends, I'd like to say a huge thank you to everyone who has taken part or shared our GP survey on #tinnitus & #hyperacusis. I'm still collecting data, so if you're a GP, it should only take 10-15 minutes to complete! app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/nottingham... #PrimaryCare #ThankYou

Ruin 2 bands by combining them The Einstürzende Elevators

Great advice. Mine is this: all good abstracts do the following 1. Background (who what when where) 2. Problem — what's the hole your research addresses? 3. Argument/Hypothesis 4. Evidence — on what basis are you making the argument? 5. Answer the "so what" question — why does this matter? to whom?

A #thread of awesome music.

More absolute scenes from the river bank... I kind of wish I'd had a camera rather than my phone, but I was #running, so... #Heron #Fenlife

I was once blocked into a cake shop by Professor Stephen Hawking. Rather improbably, my partner failed to recognise him, even after I pointed him out...

Look, one tech bro needs to take one for the team and actually read Lord Of The Rings so he can turn it into a podcast form that the others can understand. This can’t just keep happening.

Coincidentally, this is also a major reason for the essential collapse of the tall ships industry/sector in recent years: the devaluation & defunding (& thus disappearance) of sail training programs that produce entry-level deckhands

keir starmer is murdering these ppl.

“I am a chorus in search of a tragedy, a raker of middens in the industrial North. “I am a genius in an obscure line of business. Try me a little. “I may have something you can use.” The artist & writer Alasdair Gray (1934–2019) was born #OTD, 28 Dec 💙📚 1/5 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/a...

Rarely has this nation produced a freer or more vivid imagination. How lucky I am to see his art almost ever day as I travel through Glasgow’s west end. Happy birthday to a true visionary!

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam or Alice in Chains? That's hardly a challenge!

I love a #Pantomime, me. And @kdtheatre.bsky.social pantomimes are some of the best. Tonight was #JackAndTheBeanstalk in #Ely #Maltings (on till January 4 and HIGHLY recommended)

Universities? Humanity in general...

"Labour Alienating Rural People by opposing hunts" lads I'm gonna be real with you the purpose of a social democratic party is not to speak for the country squire

Just been up there - apparently they've been told to be out by the end of January, after 44 years. They're fighting hard, and really want people to sign this petition. Please spread it wide! c.org/gsxVMrWW8T

The manager of Hilbert's Grand Hotel, hearing the Christmas story and thinking "Fucksake - it's easy. You move the guest from room one..."

This is a salient observation

One for @everyheron.bsky.social

Definitely worth a read:

18-month Postdoc in Biomolecular Archaeology at CNRS/CEPAM (Nice). ​Focus: Lipidomics & starch analysis of West African ceramics for the RainForStory project (Congo Basin agriculture). ​📅 Deadline: 12 Jan 2026

@cotonmorris.bsky.social were out in #Ely today with the Ely and Littleport Riot and Sutton Masque. A fine day for it, too... #MorrisDancing #BoxingDay

Another wonderful @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social #thread

I wish!

Do not put unauthorised cinnamon on the God-damned meeting table! That's all the fuck we need...

thinking about the triumphalist narrative of free thought - renaissance, reformation and enlightenment teaching us to think for ourselves, question everything, etc - and how many people who have pushed it have gone gung-ho on technology that is destroying people's ability to think independently

Christmas baking with Sparks here.

I do like #Godwick #DesertedMedievalVillage

The tiny fisted orange sex pest says that the proposed Trump-class battleships will be the best looking ever. That's quite a claim, Gröfaz, that's quite a claim...

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Anyway, I came on here to say that Chris De Burgh, of Lady in Red fame, is not related to Lady Catherine De Bourgh, of Rosings fame.

This is one of the key reasons I don't care for the hysterical marketing of AI. The ethical, IP and environmental issues are the reasons I don't care for AI itself.

This was posted yesterday by a retired senior officer and now corporate leader. If AI cannot even generate a map of the US accurately what is it all about? Lunacy.

Go anti-woke, go broke. I'll be boycotting these companies if I can. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

It isn't really funny, but it did make me think ...

The Royal Navy used to order that ships should avoid the Gulf of Corryvreckan (I sailed through on HMS Archer in 1989, so the ban has been lifted by then). George Orwell was shipwrecked here in the 1940s.

Total gaslighting. Anti-trans activist; chooses to speak in person, provoking students who want to protect trans rights; they exercise their freedom of speech to tell her she isn't wanted; she gets to speak anyway; the BBC dutifully platforms her again; and now she threatens to sue everyone.

What a wonderful thread! Luckily it omits the pets acquired by the Russian Second Pacific Squadron, which included monkeys, crocodiles and at least one poisonous snake.

Two types of historians too, yeah? One has the archive build their argument, the other forces the archive to support what they came in there thinking.

Is this a smart move? Yes or no. Comment 👇 We need more solar energy, but where we place it matters. Open fields are valuable for farming and green space. At the same time, vast car parks sit in the sun all day doing nothing above the cars. Those spaces are perfect for solar panels. #Solar_energy

It is #RunningPunks #VirtualRunClub Sunday (with a side order of #SelfieSunday). Remember to spare a thought for the #BrokenPunks and all in the #NoRunClub. Soundtrack #13thFloorElevators (until my batteries gave up)

#QuoteOfTheDay: 'So England at the time of Henry VIII was Cathestant?'

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Badly failing at formatting a Word document this afternoon but that is balanced by carving a Christmas present for my niece before breakfast this morning. I know which skills I prefer having!

#WutheringHeights isn't a romance - it is a psychological thriller about abuse, entitlement and obsession. All these films that stop at the death of Cathy do #EmilyBronte a massive disservice by missing out those parts of the book where Bronte's craft and courage stand out.

Läuft … Heißt das es läuft oder es kommt bald … Läuft #earworm #RunningPunks