I've decided to shut my business and do more volunteer / community work. If you know of an organisation which could use a board member with strong digital skills, extensive experience in open source and open standards, or cybersecurity please let me know.

A public service in so many, many ways.

I honestly feel like that’s the lesson of the Trump era the country is gonna take the longest to learn. like oh okay so we have been lionizing the founding fathers for 250 years and it turns out they didn’t do their ONE JOB. they didn’t Mad King-proof ANYTHING! first Mad King crashed the system!!!

A is for Anya. She's newly human and strangely literal.

alright fine

Due to high geopolitical tensions, sports fans are temporarily required to contextualize their posts, for example: ❌ OH GOD OH NO OH FUCK ✔️ OH GOD OH NO OH FUCK how did he make that basketball go in the hole

I can't stop looking at this image of a Great Potoo. This is a real animal & not a Jim Henson puppet. HT @ewacat.bsky.social for drawing my attention to this fucking weirdo. more excellent pics here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potoo

They said it would take 193 years to clean London’s air. We did it in nine. 💨 London has now met legal limits for nitrogen dioxide air pollution.

Many such hobbies

We live in Rip Off Britain. We have to lower people's bills and tax wealth fairly. This morning I'll be starting to lay out our vision of how to do this. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Yes. Hindsight makes us look back on older Trek and maybe not recognize how progressive it was for its time because we have years more experience of progress in the real world. That’s just me trying to be nice to them. But honestly, I’m so tired of it.

It's not just you, bluesky, l just said 'titsfuck' at a tin of tomatoes that turned out on opening to accidentally be chopped instead of the required plum, and implored my boiling-over lentils to 'be normal about this'

These dagger bookmarks look so convincing they have a 1 star review complaining that they are not actual daggers. While we won't send you a real knife, you can channel your inner stabby protagonist in style! thebrokencircle.etsy...

The job market is tough for young people atm, but the London Wildlife Trust has PAID traineeships available for those looking to get into nature recovery and conservation Deadline is this Sunday 22nd March, so be quick careers.wildlondon.org.uk/job/c00274af...

Tom Holland could have pulled off “Dune” but Timothee Chalamet could not have pulled off “Umbrella”

If you're cold, Cathy's cold. LET HER IN.

As the poet said: Women is my favourite guy

So, BlueSky, one of my passions is the study of tea in WW2. I need you to watch this oral history from three ex-tea ladies from the Bermondsey WVS. Because you could guess for ONE THOUSAND YEARS and you would not guess where it is going... #skystorians #history #tea

London, I'm looking at you

Even if every single person who owns one of these is rich enough to just pay up, and it doesn't reduce the number of them, that's still good news for the rest of us who will benefit from the money being spent on public goods. (and it might put off some people who were thinking of getting one)

Oh boy! What a headline... Ask yourself: "What am I being asked to believe?" "Who am I being told to blame?" Take a few seconds to imagine what the Daily Mail (And Telegraph, GB News and Express) WANT you to think is going on. Let's see what's ACTUALLY happening...🧵 1/21

*do not bring them into the house* Even if your cat does not mess with flowers, if the pollen gets on their fur and they clean themselves, congrats, you have a dead cat now. DO NOT

Narratively having Ever Given getting stuck in 2021 to set up Hormuz in 2026 is great foreshadowing. You want your audience to understand the basics of international shipping in a lower stakes context so you drop the real plot without a lot of saggy exposition about the minutiae of cargo logistics.

Just clicked on a crochet tutorial video that didn't have any chapters and landed EXACTLY on the part of the pattern that I needed. I haven't even been watching the video, I've done everything else from the written pattern. It feels like a very minor superpower.

Thigh high yellow boots, I see the vision

I don't know that song but my brain saw it and decided that if you elide "fiver" into a single syllable you can do pink pony club woke badger fivr i'm gonna buy my cornflakes with a woke badger fivr

A CNN investigation into AI chatbots has found that most of the chatbots tested are not only failing to prevent potential harm – they are actively assisting users by giving them information that could be used in preparing attacks. edition.cnn.com/2026/03/11/a...

A HUNDRED pound note? Nobody will even take a £50!

Scriptwriters would love me, I often have to say in meetings "are you saying...." and then rephrase in simpler words with more context.

Synchronicity @scriblit.bsky.social @anonopin.bsky.social

I think we can do wildlife and iconic British at the same time: City pigeon eating a dropped sandwich on £5. Herring Gull stealing chips on £10. Urban Fox going through a bin on £20. Mute swan breaking a man’s arm on the £50.

Once again, the culture warriors deeply misunderstand the deep underlying psyche of the British people. The British people were offered nice animals and they overwhelmingly favoured nice animals.

I try very hard not to have a thing I hate on my plate in the first place

Someone please draw this with the shrew trying to call the cat "cousin"

Wearing my beetle skirt to go to the Royal Society to talk about women, science, equity and AI with @abeba.bsky.social and a stellar panel. Pretty sure we'll get it all sorted in an hour royalsociety.org/science-even...

I'm so disappointed when I see really cool artwork in a post and go to share it l, only to realise it doesn't have alt-text. Because then I don't share it. And I want to share cool art with people. Please add alt-text to any images you post. You can even enable in-app reminders to help you remember.

Just watched a TV ad which ended with "always keep away from children" and that's sound life advice right there

I wrote a game! About attempting to strangle a horse! And dying of eg Spider Bumhead or Bonegone Horsefright! It's free! And VERY SILLY brainmage.itch.io/i-will-stran...

Egwene reached into her bumbag to pull out her scarf

how it started/how it's going

I talked about sunshine too much laster week (and how it inspired me wanting to draw cats and plants). Now it's all gloomy and the cats just want blankets and radiators again. That hasn't stopped me finishing this illustration though :D

I know it's easy enough for me to say this, but transitioning sex and gender is cool and good, and it must be pretty sad to be a person who can never take delight in seeing someone absolutely stoked as hell with their new mind and/or body

This is excellent. As someone only a little younger than Lanchester, I agree with every word. The stats on Brexit are astonishing. www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...

At the cinema because they're showing The Handmaiden, which somehow the first time I watched it I went in not knowing it was based on a Sarah Waters book, so halfway through when I realised I was VERY EXCITED

The Elizabeth Taylor story about her near death experience in 1961 where she saw her deceased third husband waiting for her suggests that heaven is polycules

It's time to start making your plans! Romancing the Vote returns July 1st - July 5th, 2026! * authors, start annotating those books * artists, start making that art * experts, start plotting your consultations Stay updated: updates.romancingthevote.com

There is literally no way to find a real life fox that attractive and that’s sort of the dealbreaker for folks, most real life foxes just want to eat chickens and not be sexy

"We saw that change in Gorton and Denton – and that result unlocked a new level of confidence for potential Green voters that they can truly vote for what they want and get it." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Now this is a mug appreciator