You know the claim peripheral vision isn't colour? For me at least it's untrue. I tested on the top deck of a bus, the passing street at fullest periphery, turning quickly if I glimpsed colour. It was only for brightly coloured objects like postboxes & signs, but I got the colour right every time.

The oldest Mesolithic human remains yet found in Britain belonged to a 2.5-3.5-year-old girl. Found in a cave in Cumbria. Stretches the Mesolithic cave burial ‘tradition’ back a bit and pretty far north given looks to be just after the end of the Younger Dryas.

FINALLY

Easy Star All*Stars - Exit Music (For a Film) (feat. Sugar Minnot) (Radiohead cover) www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PSZ...

Art Of Noise & Depeche Mode - Moments In Love/Blasphemous Rumours (Matt One 2026 cover/mashup) www.youtube.com/watch?v=NS_5...

Watched AMELIE for the first time in at least 20 years. Audrey Tautou is impossibly adorable and if there's a more delightful movie from start to finish, I don't think my heart could take it.

Edward Gorey

🔭 The Bay of Rainbows Image Credit & Copyright: Olaf Filzinger apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26021...

Be my Valentine (even while you’re rotting in your grave) ‘Is he a ghoul or a vampire?’ I mused. I had read of such hideous incarnate demons’ (Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, Ch. 34) Edmund Dulac, ‘“Come in! Come in”, he sobbed’, from Wuthering Heights (1922) Like many others, I suspect, I’ve…

"Drop an album that was important to you when you were nineteen" Still is, of course.

Soror Dolorosa - You're Giving Me www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUgf...

Thinking the Turing test can be used to judge if LLMs are conscious, when LLMs are precisely designed to do the very thing needed to pass it, without regard for any actual method on which consciousness obtains in known cases, is the height of silliness. #philosophy

Ooh, just realised it's that day when I post that most inappropriate of celebratory songs, and what's for me an archetypal goth anti-anthem. A fave. From 1983's Reptile House EP: The Sisters of Mercy - Valentine www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qtfr...

Concept art for Battlestar Galactica (1978) by Ralph McQuarrie

It's become quite clear since Labour won the general election that their motivations and sympathies are not on our side. The Greens have taken up the mantel for the working class and the progressive vote after Labour have abandoned us. I'm proud to be a Green member now

Great film. I enjoyed the TV series too.

How have I not seen this version of the video before?

"To be conscious is to be an experiencing subject. This can be defined not in terms of computational functions or particular biological substrates, but rather in terms of relations.." This is good, and all necessary for C I think. But not sufficient: the Hard Problem demands a metaphysical solution

If one designs a machine to use a potential mechanism for consciousness, and it says its conscious, that's interesting. If instead one literally designs a machine to mimic us by responding with a mashup of what were once our actual thoughts & language, & it does the same, that's trivial. #philosophy

Ooh, just realised it's that day when I post that most inappropriate of celebratory songs, and what's for me an archetypal goth anti-anthem. A fave. From 1983's Reptile House EP: The Sisters of Mercy - Valentine www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qtfr...

Saint Agnes - Good Boy www.youtube.com/watch?v=alv7...

Sometimes it's not the law that's an arse, just the government. And a Labour one at that: disgusting. Though let's see if the law remains arseless in this matter if and when the government appeal. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb2w...

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes! "Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

Testable idea that the huge mass at the centre of the galaxy is not a supermassive black hole, but compressed Fermionic dark matter | From @universetoday.com #space #astronomy #physics www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah1V...

The Shamen - Hypereal (William Orbit 12" Mix) | 1991 www.youtube.com/watch?v=VN4K...

Just to let you all know, the World Goth Day X account as of now, has been deactivated. We exist only here on Bluesky, Facebook (www.facebook.com/worldgothday...) and of course our official website (worldgothday.com).

PRESS RELEASE: A new study led by SETI Institute scientist Matija Ćuk suggests Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, formed from a collision between two older moons—and that this event may also be linked to the formation of Saturn’s iconic rings. 🧪 🔭 Read the full release: www.seti.org/news/saturns...

oh captain our captain

Neuroscientist Anil Seth recently won the $50,000 Berggruen essay prize for arguing against A.I consciousness. In this short video he gives 4 reasons to deny AI of the current type will ever be conscious. youtube.com/watch?v=TOsr...

Underworld - Cowgirl www.youtube.com/watch?v=feWN...

It's been a while since I nagged y'all to buy my book about consciousness and philosophy of mind: www.amazon.com/dp/B0D9F8SVX2/

Nice. @godwina.bsky.social

#OrchestralManoeuvres Unranked 19. Sinéad O'Connor - Troy youtu.be/0oTiAsFNI9o?...

Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity | Sacrifice, Usefulness, & Human Beings | Core Concepts From Dr Gregory Sadler | #Philosophy www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b2w...

We love this aerial view of the fantastic Iron Age hillfort on the Berkshire Downs near Blewbury, excavated by this very museum in the 1940s and 1950s, see some of finds including a complete dog skeleton in our Green Space gallery

AI muppetry.

Official video for the 1984 cover of the Big Star song "Kangaroo" by 4AD studio project This Mortal Coil. Vocals by Cindy Sharp of Scottish experimental post-punk group Cindytalk. From the album It'll End in Tears. #BigStar #4AD m.youtube.com/watch?v=WByG...

I don't know any famous people who went to my high school, but a friend there, Clavelle, was Sir Lawrence Olivier's granddaughter, and when he unfortunately died in 1989 she was there on the tube at his televised memorial service at Westmister Abbey. I felt like she was famous.

After a trial over the last few years, Ireland has launched a permanent scheme giving a basic income of €325 a week for artists. 2,000 will be eligible, and successful recipients will be chosen at random from applicants, who must be "professional artists" (definition tbc).

In London 2009, Gary Numan made a surprise appearance with NIN to play Numan's "Metal" & "Cars." I filmed it in one unbroken shot from the middle of the stage with a handheld DSLR. Here's the full video, savor the Dudes Rock energy of two legends doing a big mutual respect ("Cars" starts at 6:38):

1965: Moving House. Slowly. | Tonight | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n4u...

Reform politicians are happy to throw insults from a distance. But when it comes to debating their ideas? No show. Richard Tice pulled out. Farage won’t face me. Now their candidate in Gorton & Denton has ducked our candidate Hannah Spencer. Vote Green.

"Post a banger that's not in English" Ofra Haza - Im Nin’alu www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRnz...

Tenta at Kalavasos: A settlement of the aceramic Neolithic (~8000 BCE) in Cyprus. Today the lower remains of round huts can be visited, a modern tent-like structure covers the remains.

Mildred B. Cooper Memorial Chapel, designed by Euine Fay Jones and Maurice Jennings and constructed in 1988, is located in Bella Vista, Arkansas.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekFforFramed The timber-framed marvel that is Little Moreton Hall. 📷 #photography #historichouses #Cheshire

"Post a banger that's not in English" ‪ Though Nena did do a great version in English, and it's that which topped the charts here. This however, was a hit in its native German. And another forty year old 1986 banger. Falco - Rock Me Amadeus www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVik...

“A bird with a 10-gram brain is doing pretty much the same as a chimp with a 400-gram brain,” said Onur Güntürkün, who studies brain structures at Ruhr University Bochum in Germany. “How is it possible?”

Physicalism says everything is ultimately physical, yet physics only tells us how things relate, not what they are in themselves. Can Russellian physicalism fill that gap with intrinsic physical properties without smuggling in consciousness? #philsky