Cat wandered in front of the camera during the #aurora long exposure

rat pushing the heroin button but it's me refreshing the page to see if a GP appointment has come free in the past five minutes

A nice thing about being a niche hobby person is that one inevitably meets other niche hobby people and then when you have a question that's like "how do I assess this sun damaged late Edo woodblock print of a fictional battle between inanimate objects" you actually know who to ask

Dear researchers who are interested in pre-modern Japan, NDL's OCR, now released, can read kuzushi-ji characters with such accuracy, despite the fact that it can be easily operated on a PC with a GUI. Please try it! github.com/ndl-lab/ndlk... The OCR result of the beginning of The Tale of Genji:

I made a website traintimes.org.uk that can e.g. show you live departures 7 times quicker than the official site, even though it... gets the data from the official site? It’s both a policy failure, and symptomatic of failures in some modern web development. www.webpagetest.org/video/compar...

the generation war is the least worthwhile of the culture wars but, I'll level with you, today while shopping I heard my inner monologue say "oh yes, my decorative gourds, ah, my emotional support yam" and I did briefly hope for the meteor to destroy myself and every other twee millennial

Also if you're in Wales SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL HERITAGE RAILWAY, steam engines' fireboxes make great incubators for dragon eggs and hatchlings, and the volunteers are only too happy to provide this service for these beautiful endangered creatures

Really really really want a tattoo of one/all of these pink birds from a Korean magic manuscript that @devinfitz.bsky.social showed my class this week

Oh gosh, this embroidered piece by Narumi Takada is so so lovely. “Stepping on Fresh Snow”

Couldn't go for a swim this morning because there was too much parent stuff to do, and I'm regretting it because I know that once the temperature plummets I won't feel brave enough (it's already solidly on the way down - 7.2°C yesterday, 6.6 today).

Happy New Year

You can listen to Tatsuro Yamashita's "Christmas Eve" any time you like but it is particularly satisfying today youtu.be/coMOdCva_EU

ACAB includes “good king” Wenceslas

Substack doesn't make it very straightforward to end your paid subscriptions, does it?

I often get this ad on instagram that's just a clip from the video for luther vandross' "never too much"

done two wayangs this week! watching the puppet fights really never gets old

Happy Friday; Gutenberg can absolutely kiss it.

Kick him in the nuts Paddington

Managed to take an online shopping return to the parcel office within the 30 day return window for what feels like the first time in my life. You're telling me there's executives at this function?

lofi heart sutra radio 🕉 - beats to relax / apprehend the emptiness of the five aggregates to

I swam 800m at 8.6°C this afternoon and it should be illegal for me to have to make supper and do the laundry and put out the bins before I can go to bed

arxiv.org/abs/2303.06642 gives the numbers as follows: 72% of the greenhouse gas impact of a smartphone comes from making it, 52% for a laptop. keep your devices going as long as you can!

it's kind of cool that Bandcamp Friday still exists (for now) and it imo makes total sense to still participate in it since the whole point is Bandcamp doesn't get any of the money you spend on the site today

Thanks yeah feeling pretty recovered from this bout of covid actually

So on the one hand having Covid again turns out to be about as shitty as having it the first time, even if this bout is milder, but on the other hand I am getting better at my repertoire of "vaguely nutritious meals that can be made by using a basic rice cooker as a kind of hot plate"

Okay, this time around I have finally learned what the 'arm pain' side effect of getting a covid jab is, and frankly I would have preferred not learning

I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast haha you've been just completely fuckin owned plumless asshole

I composed a haiku this morning, whose title is "on swimming breaststroke past the birds in the reservoir", here it is: The cormorant stands with its wings spread wide like a flasher's open coat

If you ran into an issue with today's "Daily Classic" KNOTWORDS, here's how to fix it: In-game Settings > Customization > Word feedback: change from Valid to Correct.

It's important to have a little personal project to keep you engaged at work, which is why I am personally at war with whoever keeps "helpfully" tucking the alarm cord in my office's disabled toilet out of the way

Other, better signs of birthday szn:

Nothing says "birthday season" quite like getting that card in the mail that says someone hasn't paid full postage on a package and now you have to

Amazing lifehack: booked a carer to give my parents dinner and put them to bed so I could spend the evening out, and then instead of going out I just went and laid down for three hours.

left work early today to enjoy two great luxuries of leisure time: staying in an exhibition until it closes, and riding the bus from the start to the end of its route

If you have 48 minutes to spare this week why not take part in the new round of the LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY TRACKS game? Listen to 12 excellent songs, pick your new faves. https://peoples-pop.com/2023/08/06/the-league-of-extraordinary-tracks-7-four-letter-words-poll/

Babe, is everything ok? You’ve hardly posted on your 9 different social media accounts where you are mutuals with the exact same 200 people

I'm starting a crew who's in

I go somewhere with minimal internet access for one weekend and look what happens

Still thinking about it.

someone said to me, recently, "you look very... well rested!" and it's haunting me. what did they mean? were they being ironic? were they being rude? what was going on?

Anyway somehow the alpine strawberries are doing well out of all this