Who else loves canyon wrens? #birds #wildlife #nature

Stardew Valley is amazing, and if you like it you may like Timber Life, a game I'm solo developing (many lawyers turn novelists but I'm trying to go lawyer -> game dev)... store.steampowered.com/app/4269610/...

B E H O L D 🐣 🪶

BuzzFeed is currently deleting Kyra Kupetsky's tweets about the situation. Deleted follow-up message:

As Ted "Theodore" Logan awoke one morning from most heinous dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a non-resplendent bug.

Stunning view of the Westerkerk by Jan van der Heyden. Wish I were there right now! Today is his day.

What if we simply make selling data illegal

Lots of Canadians triumphantly dunking on this, but to be fair to the US, roughly half of Americans *are* morally bad people.

As days become longer and warmer our urban flora is beginning to gather steam. Here’s Common Whitlowgrass (Erophila verna) growing - as it so often does - on a bed of moss on a pavement #UrbanPlants

Potato pierogi are called "ruskie" in Polish, and there's an Communist-era joke about the waiter coming out and asking "who ordered the ruskie?" and getting the reply "no-one, but they came anyway".

They say you shouldn't judge a book by its cover, but the pages didn't survive 437 years submerged in seawater! Nine leather book covers were recovered from the Mary Rose, which probably belonged to officers - books were very expensive in 1545!

I do not like this gen AI I do not like what it implies I do not want it in my art I do not think it makes you smart I do not want it in my games I do not like its goals and aims I do not want it in my books I do not like the way it looks I do not like it, I don't care I do not want it anywhere

When assessing #kakapo chicks we weigh them, check their respiration rate and hydration. We usually do this twice in the first four days (this chick is less than a day old), and then every 5-7 days. The frequency of checks depends on their genetic priority. #kakapo2026 #conservation #parrots

'Bathed in Gold' Taken shortly after sunrise this morning, walking down from Glastonbury Tor. I can never resist just one more photograph before I leave.

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

"The research suggests that generalizations about human behavior are often flawed because they rely on samples composed largely of White individuals."

It is my firmly held belief that, every time you look through someone who is begging, you not only dehumanise them, but a small piece of your own soul crumbles to dust.

Was not expecting to start my day with this good #20s30s history from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Any building can be a penis museum if you try hard enough

"Do not forget it, i can remove you from this transaction" goes so hard

this has reminded me of possibly the best book review I've ever seen, an anonymous marxist amazon review of the 1971 children's book "The Elephant and the Bad Baby"

A cartoon reminder that tomorrow is World Book Day (In the UK anyway). Originally for the @theguardian.com

This book deserves your love

"The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see." — James Baldwin

Barbara Newhall Follett (1914-1939?) was an American child prodigy. Her first novel, The House Without Windows, was published in 1927, when she was only 12. Her second novel was a betseller when she was 14. In December 1939, aged 25, she disappeared. She has never been found. #CelebratingWomen

I think I might have had the same cold…

I've done the linework now and blocked out the colours (I have three layers for colour - cats, plants and pots)

With the exception of the present one, I have shaken the hand of every U.S. president since Lyndon Johnson.

best gift shop in Iceland by the way I was catching a bus to the airport right across the street from the Icelandic Phallilogical Society (aka penis museum) and got a nice stranger to guard my suitcases while I ran over there

I know my geeks will love this. This is an arithmometer. It's your Texas Instruments digital calculator's great grandpappy. They started making these in the 1850s. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmo...

It’s #worldbookday. www.penguin.co.uk/books/473994...

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 276: So many ideas come to us because we interact with the world. Things we notice; things we read; people we meet; roads we tread; questions we ask. Don't just sit at your desk waiting. Be curious. Go looking.

I love games and so many of the people who make them. It was an honor to accept the award on behalf of the team and a privilege to be able to speak to what I believe in. ♥️

Le seul moyen de savoir si le diplodocus refile la gonorrhée c'est quand même de coucher avec mais personne ose

Your regular reminder than a large majority of voters - and overwhelming majority of Labour voters - favour giving settled migrants access to the welfare state after five years or less. The Home Secretary is not reforming rules in line with public opinion. She is doing the opposite.

🌾 The birds of North America New York, U.S.A.: Published under the auspices of the Natural Science Association of America, 1895, c1888. [Source]

Home Secretary does Servalan cosplay. MAXIMUM POWER

I wrote to my MP on this, using Ed's eloquent thread because at this stage what I actually want to say is basically just 4000 characters of swearing.

I am sorry everybody, I will stop the surveillance now.

The Museum of Scotland using small children in size comparison info panels is absolutely sending me.

the first step marginalized white people must take in order to be antiracist is recognize, accept, and work through their feelings about the fact that they are oppressed because white supremacy also requires white victims in order to sustain whiteness as a superior racial category

Happy #WorldBookDay2026. The French writer and philosopher Voltaire once said 'Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.' 📚 He also drank up to 50 cups of coffee a day, often mixed with chocolate. I think we're onboard with this.

Last year’s tiny studies on found objects… from the top: Sennen, Mousehole harbour from the beach, Sennen looking out towards the cliffs and the view from the beach at Porthmeor - painted on pebbles and ceramic slivers I found on the beach #cornwall #cornwallart #tinyart #traditionalart #stpiransday

DO NOT BOOP THE KITTY

What I thought getting white hairs would be like vs what it is like #EncephaloDoddles, name courtesy of @moewenfels.bsky.social

This is a good analogy. Very useful in carefully controlled settings for specific usages, but unfortunately being widely inserted into everything and used without training or PPE and poisoning a lot of things and people and we’re going to pay a tonne of money to remove it safely in the future

Freya Emerson, 35, reportedly failed to respond to your casual request for a coffee as she didn’t know how to explain to you that she was overwhelmed and unavailable without making it sound like she didn’t like you – and has felt terrible about it ever since.

The silver lining here is that if two reigns of error won’t collapse the global economy, it implies that There Is No Alternative cannot be correct and the economy would not, in fact, collapse even if we had a slightly more fair economic policy.

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