This gig on Thursday features two fantastically talented young singers. My son’s accompanying both of them and it would be great to drum up a crowd. If you can’t/don’t want to come, perhaps share so it can reach people who might? The power of social media etc www.thejagodalston.com/event/jem-wa...

Daunse lyke nobodye ys watchinge except the microscopic civilization of hundredes of thousandes of spyder people yn their great spires and toweres and plazas, composinge their epics and studyinge physics while livinge yn a single speck of dust on your shelfe

when will his vision be realized

For the Hamish heads. What a beautiful day!

As we approached the airport the pilot started banking. A ridiculous time for a career change, I felt.

(•_•) <) )╯Publique fundinge / \ \(•_•) ( (> for the artes and humanityes / \ (•_•) <) )> doth benefit everyone! / \

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. If you've looked upon my works and despaired please consider leaving a review on one of the major online retail sites.

I once tried accidentally gave a Word document a left hand margin of 5 metres. Got a call from my next door neighbour saying it had appeared on his monitor.

2027 Effin’ Birds calendars, available to pre-order right now at your favourite bookstore. Check eatf.art for some online options.

Repeat after me. It's not the kids that need to have social media taken off them. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

🎶 She wore an Itsy bitsy teeny weeny…

I know some of my home cooking Bluesky friends love the jarred beans and pulses. On Thursday Lidl will have their Spanish week - the jar of chick peas is a good value buy. Generous amount, and the chick peas are large with good texture. Great for people wanting more protein and fibre in their diet.

today's @effinbirds.com calendar page has good advice

Some of you don’t seem to understand that a trillion just doesn’t go that far these days. I mean, it’s clearly not enough to buy even one friend.

Layers

A reminder that Brazil banned Twitter for failing to stop the spreading of disinformation. There is nothing stopping the British government from doing the same.

Schrödinger's incitement.

It looks like a second night of violence by Loyalists, & other far right extremists in Belfast, incited by far right influencers. Already fake news, created by the international far right, is circulating. RTÉ is Irish state TV & a more accurate source. English extremists catalysed the riots.

no other way to say it, this thing in the uk where every single time a non-white person is in the news being accused of a crime we have full on race riots is very very bad

Remember that the NHS told trans kids, who were currently on endocrine care, that they would be allowed to continue. Now it looks like they’re withdrawing that as well. The NHS is a danger to everyone in the trans community.

Do I know anyone, or know anyone who knows anyone, on here that could translate a short letter in German script for me? I will happily offer gratitude and a well-deserved treat in exchange.

Every "legitimate concern" comment, every time Reform was given a platform, every "both sides of the issue", every concession to the right wing, has all led to this, because nobody in government had the sense or guts to draw a line and say "No more", for fear of losing votes. Shameful.

Hello Bluepals, we are open.

Cat face brooches #art #cat #face #art

Of course 11 years is a truly long time in politics.

Doing a PhD is not simply generating data. It’s learning how to be a scientist. It’s teaching and science communication, and writing, and presenting and FUCKING THINKING.

It's National Scoliosis Awareness Month so I've written about bones, specifically my daughter's, and updated a previously-published Wordpress blog about her - and our- experiences. I know it's not about food or cookbooks, but I hope you'll enjoy it. tales-from-topographic-kitchens.ghost.io/bones/

@levparikian.bsky.social Thanks for the repost, Lev.

@snig.bsky.social Thanks, Snig ☺️

Posting this again, all suggestions welcome 😁

Empress Dowager Cixi1 (1835 – 1908), of the Manchu Yehenara clan, was a Chinese empress dowager and regent who effectively controlled the Chinese government in the late Qing dynasty for 47 years from 1861 until her death in 1908. #CelebratingWomen

If it’s 6 June, it must be 194 years to the day since Jeremy Bentham died, stipulating in his will that his body should be preserved at University College London so he could be wheeled in to attend every council meeting. Except most of the stories about his remains aren’t true 🧵

And this morning the Shed is a scrap of paper, rolled inside a bottle and cast out to sea, bearing its message to anyone who may happen to find it…

Please share- The @burylitfest.bsky.social is running a writing competition for children with some great prizes! www.burylitfest.co.uk/childrens-cr...

No it won’t. This is ‘jobs-first Brexit’ again. Utter bollocks.

UK publishing generated £7.4 billion in revenue last year. Compare that to: Premier League football: £6.6 billion Home entertainment: £5.6 billion UK film industry: 2.8 billion Now tell me again why authors don't deserve fair contracts and better pay.

Looks ok actually! #wip #birdart #puffin #felt #woolart

I've not even got a cardigan on.

A supernatural anniversary today, for at precisely 2.10pm on 3 June 1997, an apparition appeared in the British Museum’s reading room, just as Max Beerbohm had said it would in 1916 – the shade of Enoch Soames, who had once done a deal with the devil... 🧵

Hand puffin, for all your puffin needs

Here's something nice: BROKEN LIGHT for just 99p on Kindle UK till the end of the onth! www.amazon.co.uk/Broken-Light...

This is a long shot, but does anyone know of any youth centres/charities in the Salford and Greater Manchester area who would like a free pool table? My dad has one he'd like to give away and he's having a hard time finding anyone who wants one.

Song Ruoxin (768-820) was a Chinese Confucian scholar and poet. She was the eldest of five sisters, who all became employed as official poets at the Imperial court: Song Ruozhao, Song Ruoxian, Song Ruolun and Song Ruoxun. #CelebratingWomen

It is Pride month.

On this day in 1965, the sport of cycling banned performance-enhancing drugs. Why, in those far-off, innocent, pre-Lance Armstrong times, had they need of such measures? Well, because everyone in the Tour de France was off their bollocks on speed, of course... 🧵