Absolutely flabbergasted at Last.fm finally being independent again after a decade of neglect by CBS. Incredibly exciting. support.last.fm/t/last-fm-is...

it's that time.

Maybe I should have cooked 4 sausages instead of 3

Also reminding myself that I don't need to host my own bookwyrm instance, I can just migrate to a new one if the current one comes back online. (I would love for them to have a status page or actually communicate on their mastodon account, but they don't :( )

Deeply suspicious that I've not seen any more promo for that one film that I didn't enjoy, even though it's not out for a few more weeks yet. 🤔

"Unless you are at the very top of all formal and informal hierarchies, you are not safe." & "This is not a hypothetical. You are less free now. Your security, dignity, and safety is in the hands of nasty, petty, monumentally stupid bigots. They can take it from you at a whim."

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

The whole process is extraordinarily satisfying to watch

So happy with these new handmade hairclip designs 🥹💖

The thing about when the weather is really warm is that I'll feel compelled by some unknown mysterious force to eat hot pot or soup noodle and without fail, I will sit there having consumed basically a giant bowl of hot water and think "I'm hot 🥵"

Only 90s British kids will get this

This is the Best Advice. Some of my favorite blogs used to only ever update once a quarter or something but were always worth the wait.

Every so often someone will call the charity I work for thinking that we will want to clear their deceased relative's house for them for free or take whatever furniture they are trying to get rid of from their own home. We don't even have charity shops.

I’ve done an inexplicable thing.

My husband volunteers at St Joseph’s Hospice in Hackney, and tomorrow he’s running the Hackney Half Marathon for them – on his 40th birthday! He’s ever so close to his fundraising target, in case anyone feels like chucking him a few quid. It’s a very good cause 💛 www.justgiving.com/page/mike-wi...

It's taken me until now to realise the X in arXiv is chi and not x which isn't great considering I did study ancient Greek for fun that time

So Badgers has been added to the BFI archives. Honestly this feels like quiite an honor. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNqb...

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

A compelling, urgent read about cocaine from @hazelsouthwell.bsky.social buttondown.com/behind-the-b...

Interesting to read about things from the newsletter writer side. On my part, I unsubscribed from all the newsletters on Substack I had been following some time ago.

We have a very exciting opportunity for someone to become our new Community Partnerships Curator! You'll lead on the co-creation of a major public exhibition, exploring and reimagining Britain’s relationship with displaced communities. Find out more and apply: jobs.reading.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

I think I saw Sex Garden supporting Gnome Ban at the Water Rats in 2003

opening up the tfl design manual to find this gem:

Test animation complete! It's a bit jank but was so fun to make. You don't need to have the sound on, it's just goose honks. youtu.be/pJjDXCwXqVI?...

as ever, a hearty fuck you to jeff bezos and amazon for killing comixology

This is incredible. The new NASA image release from #Artemis includes a sequence of 'Hello World' still photographs. I've been processing / animating them and here's what the original didn't show us: Satellites, including their solar arrays, lightning storms and dancing aurora!

Important 📣

*extremely long sigh* so at one point skinner says that the only reason they keep the x-files around is their case closure rate is like 95%. but we see a ton of cases that don't get closure in any real way so there must be HUNDREDS of cases where they're slam dunking serial killers ten minutes in

This tells me NOTHING about what might happen in the story Kobo, please stop doing this (I have emailed to tell them that this kind of listing is unhelpful already)

After reading this newest essay of mine, one of my readers said via email, "This is probably the best article I've ever read advocating for UBI. And one of the best you've ever written." If you haven't read it yet, please do. Maybe you will feel the same way. 🎲 www.scottsantens.com/the-angine-d...

Automatic captions make it difficult to watch videos because the viewer is forced to decipher misspelled or mistranslated words that appear in a string of text without any punctuation. These can be distracting and disorienting. Always edit your captions before publishing.

Admittedly I can't download apps on my Nokia

Every single website that wants me to download their app instead of use the mobile site is immediately labeled as repugnant in my mind, and I will never ever download your app. the heat death of the universe will arrive and I still will not have downloaded your app

Bring back the ancient knowledge

If bluesky doesn't work out I'm not going to another social media platform I'm starting a numbers station

Heard a-snufflin' by the bins... THREE HEDGEHOGS

It’s the first of May. The bells in Minas Tirith all start tolling as the bright morning Sun rises into the clear skies that now stand above the mountains of Mordor on the eastern horizon. The argent standard of the Stewards of Gondor is raised over the Citadel for the last time.

Social media showing me adverts for a film that I already saw weeks ago part 3853: Rose of Nevada This is usually fine because I enjoyed the film but this one was kind of bleurgh and disappointing overall

The rules of Fibonacci Club: 1. You do not talk about Fibonacci Club 1. You do not talk about Fibonacci Club 2. You you do do not not talk talk about about Fibonacci Fibonacci Club Club

🐧It’s #WorldPenguinDay! Here’s the Penguin Galaxy, a distorted spiral galaxy, and the compact elliptical galaxy at the left, the Egg, collectively known as Arp 142, as seen by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope 🧪🔭 www.esa.int/Science_Expl... @stsci.edu @science.esa.int

My translation of Le Mystère du Train Bleu is a free kindle download this weekend! The first in a series of nine adventures: "The Further Exploits of Chantecoq" (all also at 99p). 1920s French detective action ahoy! Passion! Intrigue! Mysterious masked men! Did I mention free? mybook.to/BlueTrain

Come work at Birkbeck! We're hiring a full-time, permanent Lecturer in Digital Media and AI. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRH875/l...

we're gonna need a larger sickos_yes. the largest sickos_yes ever commissioned

My Mum's surgery uses this kind of tool and luckily she (a retired nurse) knows her own medication and had made her own notes at her appointment because it transcribed the tablets her GP had prescribed incorrectly and the GP "hadn't had time" to check that it was right. 🙃

At work, the most important thing I think about in the morning is what I'm having for lunch. In the afternoon, it's what I'm having for dinner.

Right now ☺️