Reply with a cooler spot of yours from today, or which one you're taking home. Otherwise, reshare 😎🇸🇪 #CreatingLightlySpots for #weirdcarbs in Hilversum

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Hands up who else would rather watch from a hovel while their kids flourish from than watch from a mansion while they flounder in despair?

Anyone have any recommendatons for which MacBook/MacBook Pro a keen [conservatoire standard] teenaged musician should be looking at for uni & beyond? Features more important than budget, within reason.

Also my local libraries (here in Devon, UK) are in jeopardy right now so I'd appreciate if people could share this: www.devon.gov.uk/news/devon-r...

Another useful guide from your friends at Buckinghamshire Archives

If you'd like something a little bit different to look forward to in the spring, how about an orchestra of harps? www.menuhinhall.co.uk/events/natio... Sunday 22 March at 3.00pm just outside Cobham, Surrey.

Before you say it I know I've written the card upside down.

Let’s focus less on ‘catastrophic bird strike,’ and more on today’s special in our Food Court, delicious shredded duck with a jet fuel jus.

The fabulous Edith Dog rocking the main stage at @bedfordesquires.bsky.social

At @bedfordesquires.bsky.social for the Bedford Breakthrough; fantastic array of local young bands, and fully expect to see Breaking Mirrors at the Stables in a few weeks’ time

🚨History Job: Assistant Professor in Early Modern British History (Permanent) 🗃️ Come work with us at Warwick! You will join a group of excellent early-modernists and one of the nicest bunches of historians around! 👇👇👇 @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

Courage. Conflict. Poisoned love. 🎭⚡🎶 Collide into timeless stories. Experience the unstoppable energy of the Orchestra, with conductor Alpesh Chauhan. Hisaishi 🪄  Howl’s Moving Castle Wagner ❤️️ Tristan und Isolde Prokofiev ⚔️ Romeo and Juliet Tickets are Free for Teens. www.nyo.org.uk/performances

It’s been a while but I think the world is ready for another #ProofOfCat. Wouldn’t want to overdo things though so just a teaser.

The cruelly underrated Jean-Pierre Jabouille, the first man to win an #F1 GP in a turbocharged car, died #OnThisDay 3 years ago, aged 80. I wrote a #MotorSport column about him. Click below to read it. www.motorsportmagazine.com/articles/sin...

On Les Dawson’s 95th birthday:

Please make it your new resolution to visit AskHistorians once a week, because we've never been this invested in overtaking another community.

Dim7 is playing at New World Deli tonight. (7-9 if you are in Austin searching about for food & music.) I’m singing Chumbawamba’s lyrics for Bella Ciao. Decided my harp should make a statement, too. (This is one of my better Alt Texts. Hope you’ll give it a read.)

Busy Room 2 for the dreamy sounds of Velveteen.

A modest proposal: drivers who exit a roundabout while still indicating right should have one digit, then limb, removed for each successive offence until they have learnt/are no longer able to operate a car.

Jobs! Incredible stuff. Good to see.

You know what your office / workshop really needs? Automotive themed coasters. Well it just so happens I can oblige. And yes, there will be matching mugs coming soon. mrjalco.myshopify.com

There’s a rash of scam spam coming from a real Microsoft address arstechnica.com/information-...

If you ever find yourself typing "for the avoidance of doubt" in a first draft of any legal instrument, strike it out immediately and tighten up the provision in other ways, so that there can be no doubt. The phrase is a red flag of shoddy legal drafting.

I mean, don't pick up hot smoke grenades or tear gas grenades with any kind of gloves. But especially not rubber gloves.

Latest gripe: MS cloud services struggle with the spreadsheets I have to use, so I work on a local copy which actually performs basic functions in <1 minute. But... Office 365 calls these "recovered unsaved files", as if I'm doing something wrong when the guilt and shame should be theirs alone.

Not sure when the various iterations of The Night Manager are set, but noticed Vulcan bombers in one of Dickie Roper’s manifests, way after they were obsolete. Catching up with S2, and just seen someone asking for actual cash money for Bowman systems..?

Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google. My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence! go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

Does anyone have the BBC report on the surrender demand made by Italian officers at Bir Hacheim on 2/642. I've looked through Trove and tried to find what the BBC said (as it upset Gen Koenig), but couldn't find it. @alanallport.bsky.social @tuckerjones1944.bsky.social @cedricmas.bsky.social

My neighbor told me he keeps losing falcons to the widening gyre so I asked how many falcons he has and he said he just goes to the falconry and gets a new falcon afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding falcons to drown with the ceremony of innocence and then Yeats started crying.

Decided to celebrate The Traitors finale by rewatching The Rise & Rise of Michael Rimmer. Much more fun & only marginally less scary as an indication of "this is where the human race is headed".

First indications of political engagement from C16 - she's sent me a link to this petition petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75... Given R17 has already dismissed GenAI as bad for the planet & taking longer than simply looking the answer up for herself I think on balance I'm encouraged.

Prof David Mead from UEA Law School has contributed to a major report that warns recent reforms to protest law and the expansion of police powers risk undermining fundamental democratic rights. Read more: https://bit.ly/45SorXW #ProtestRights #Academia #ThisIsUEA

A few days ago, I stood in the graveyard of an 1100 year old church, getting damper and damper in the drizzling rain. A woman walked into the graveyard, waved, said hello, and, as we had previously arranged, handed me a paper bag full of human bones. The life of a churchwarden is a strange one...

Some of these posts will include work with the Digital Research team, and all collaborative PhD and placement students can attend our internal training talks, hack & yacks, reading groups and workshops!

*In issues of massive permanent technological disemployment, people haven't paid enough attention to the ancient concept of "otium" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otium

I heard last week that the physics teacher of the daughter of one of my colleagues told the daughter that girls who do their nails don’t do physics. Sigh. So, here are the nails of an internationally leading particle physics professor. My nails. Don’t believe the gatekeepers! #womeninSTEM

Reading, along with Towcaster and Bicester, was founded in 1941, as a method of spotting German spies who had snuck into the country. This was a refinement of the original 1940 scheme, Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, which had a 99.8% false-positive rate.

Sitting in (virtually) on the OECD Global Mobility consultation, and cannot stress enough how undervalued Achim Pross is as a speaker. Has put a smile on my face before I'm even halfway through my first cup of coffee.

Just got my Public Lending Right statement and I'm here to remind authors of all kinds in the UK/Ireland: sign up for Public Lending Right! Not only do you get paid when people access your intellectual property (imagine that, GenAI Bros!) but you also get to see how many people borrowed your book!

I remain puzzled as to why the default sharing option for links to MS Teams documents is "not enabled for the recipient unless they're on a different list which you can't edit". The reason I clicked on the button marked "share this document" is that I wanted to share it, not taunt my colleagues.

Can anyone recommend a dashcam (front & rear) for a new driver? Elder offspring will shortly be out on her own and wants the comfort of recordings in case of any incidents.

First gig of the year last night, @bedfordesquires.bsky.social and the brilliant @ttssfu.bsky.social . Such a great sound and performance. Also decent support acts. Ugly Ozo is going places I am sure. Also liked Kate Gore and the Screamers.

Mission level “get the congregation singing ‘Amazing Grace’ to the tune of ‘House of the Rising Sun’ unlocked. (That’ll teach me to joke with the organist about it…)

Contractors: Been paid via an umbrella company? Later had HMRC say the scheme didn’t work? When you didn't know there *was* a scheme? We’d love to hear from people ths has happened to. DM me or email MYNAME @ taxpolicy .org.uk - and please share with others.

One year post-doc at University of Exeter for my project on counter-narratives about climate change, urban planning, and health policy in the southwest UK. Feel free to email me directly with any questions but application must be via link: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

I understand the hexachloroethane bit is an urban myth. These are just coloured smoke, being used to scare people into thinking they're more dangerous than they actually are. The smoke's not good for you but not very dangerous either. (Strongly recommend Dan's thread where he goes through these.)

It's the 3rd of January 1939, your name is professor James Smith and you are staring at a drawing of a fish. It's not a regular fish. It is a completely impossible fish.