This woman’s cat named Missy is missing and she’s asked a graphic designer in her office for help with a poster. I laugh out loud every time I read it! It never gets old. peripheralperceptions.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

Ten years!

"Who is the man who appears unexpectedly in an OS map..?"

🔎 NEW Reform council that promised cuts has handed out a £30,000 contract to a company owned by a party supporter which was involved with 10 serious pollution incidents in 2024. Investigation by @ollyhaynes.bsky.social: https://goodlaw.social/kip5

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

A great thread.

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Well worth thinking about… youtube.com/shorts/vrgtV...

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

Any recommendations for a Shopify Developer who could help us set up a relatively simple shop, but one that can provide discounts for (logged-in) members. #charity

Annual reminder to water your Christmas tree poems …

Gmorn 🙂

First step (as always) is to re-read, "Doing presentations - How to write good presentations and present them well" gilest.org/doingpresent... by @gilestur.bsky.social.

This is why it's important to have Arts/Humanities courses AND STEM courses. It all fits together, they compliment each other. There's no such thing as useless education.

France hosted a large musical flash mob featuring 100 musicians who came together to perform a new orchestral version of Carol of the Bells to mark the ceremonial switching-on of the Christmas lights in the streets of Paris.

Our work on public value of the arts and culture ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...

Arts and culture are investments, not costs. Governments need new ways to measure, evaluate and reimagine how cultural industries can shape the direction of economic growth.   This weekend, I’ll be speaking at the CIMAM annual conference in Turin about our work on the Public Value of Arts & Culture.

🔤🌐The Earth spells it out🌐🔤 #YourNameInLandsat uses lookie-likie letters in satellite images from @NASA_Landsat over the last 50 years managed jointly with @USGS #EarthObservation #RemoteSensing landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNam... 🙏 @thenasaearth.bsky.social #30DayMapChallenge Day 29: Raster

Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.

What I've been noticing lately in convos with students is that they *despise* the AI-slopification of everything as much or even more than I do. And yet our universities & their admin seem to believe that students for some reason want it integrated into everything. THEY DON'T.

This is a lovely read about the practice of 'weeding' in libraries. Look out for earthquakes, the meaning of MUSTY, what some thought the burgeoning internet meant for libraries as long ago as 1984. Oh, and Guerilla Librarians. 99percentinvisible.org/episode/weed...

Terrence and Lesley Bridges have seen their energy bills drop dramatically, from £375 a month down to as low as £40, since they swapped their gas boiler for a HeatHub – a small data centre containing more than 500 [Raspberry Pi] computers. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

@mercoglianos.bsky.social I’d love to hear your insight on this ship which left Libya 139 days ago and is being tugged in circles off Kalamata. www.vesselfinder.com/vessels/deta... Googling shows a likely cause, but what’s the ongoing story - for those on board both vessels? Will it ever dock!?

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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

"it is striking how many of the key players we have looked into — the people who have gone out of their way to put up hundreds of flags — seem anything but ordinary." manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...

this man hacked into the mainframe of his roomba codetiger.github.io/blog/the-day...

EHRC anti-trans campaign loses its momentum - a week of absolute scenes has left the organisation in limbo. Here's what happened, why it happened, and what it all means iandunt.substack.com/p/frightened...

Today is the 89th anniversary of The Battle of Cable Street when the people of the East End of London halted the march of Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts through Stepney.

"Spread Love". Someone has clearly tried to remove this, but love has been stronger than bigotry.

Measured, sensible, and much welcomed statement from Faversham Town Council on the idiocy of the moronic flag pandemic.

My course about birding & creative code is also secretly (shhhh) a course about critical data thinking. Which is one of the most important skills you could possibly cultivate in this age of AI and misinformation. Autumn cohorts start September 23rd... join me? jerthorp.me/learning 🪶📊🎨

Talking about object biographies made me think of this. It’s an Ever-Ready Razor, dates to the 1930s and like all the best most unimportant things you keep hold of, it has a story.

Donate a bedtime story to @rsbc.bsky.social. bedtime-donations.com

Really good article. Includes this from Ciaran Martin: “Both data security and service continuity are important. But they’re quite different … someone sneaking around your house copying your sensitive information [vs] having someone punch you in the face and break your legs.”

Here’s a poem called ‘English Roundabouts’.

A large part of our public sector's services rely heavily on Microsoft, creating uncertainty. Schleswig-Holstein's shift to alternatives is a promising step that Europe should follow. 👉 www.euractiv.com/news/the-ger...

In case anyone was wondering where we keep our most prized objects, it’s not here.

A ‘group’ not a single merged university - with two sets of degree awarding powers. There’s a lot to unpack in this announcement from Greenwich and Kent, but it’s definitely new. (Let’s not call it a super-university though) wonkhe.com/blogs/the-fi...

Faversham. It's been like a 2nd home this year. What the actual fek are we letting happen? "Racists and thugs are acting with impunity, intimidating local residents and people of colour, who are living in fear. This is England 2025."

Oh, this is cool 📚 🚇 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Rayner’s case highlights the complexities of a system every UK housebuyer is expected to get to grips with.

Great recommendation👍 2 hrs long, I'm only 10 mins in, but already thinking 'perfect for all the listers, and at the same time, all the non-listers out there..' Do try 10 mins. At mo' feels like the mash-up I never knew I needed; 'Bill and Ted go listing'.

Bank Holiday ahead! Artist: Martin Aitchison (We Like to Help, 1965)

“America by Design,” a national initiative to improve experiences for Americans, starting [with] the design of sites where people interface with their #Government … This effort will be facilitated by a new National Design Studio and by a new Chief Design Officer [Airbnb cofounder Joe Gebbia].