Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

TIMBER TOWER 2025 Collage Framed 846 X 172 mm. #collage #screenprint #acrylicpainting

Have been hovering up all four seasons of this recently and can confirm: excellent winter TV.

Some gnarly videos of demodex mite tails in the journal article referenced here (or click second link): inews.co.uk/news/dry-eye... www.contactlensjournal.com/article/S136...

Anything with handclaps is good, but this is *especially* good.

With most psychedelic drugs, you never know what you're going to get. But this mysterious mushroom from China - without fail - causes users to hallucinate tiny people: crawling up walls, popping out from under furniture and marching under doors. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

I bet this is super important to the plot of this episode of High Potential. Up there with Miranda’s LASIK on Sex and the City.

Rhea Seehorn Kept the Bonkers ‘Pluribus’ Plot a Secret for Three Years: "This is just gonna keep getting weirder and weirder." www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/r...

Also a reminder that #TheDogwalkersDetectiveAgency has been chosen as a Kindle Monthly Deal for November. The ebook is available for a wag-ulous reduced price of 99p for a limited time only. Canine cosy crime and ideal autumnal reading. Order here: amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DT7S7QN...

The emoji search for “old” is a little bleak

this exists it is called thinking

“Britpop’s best foundational band. From day one – in the post-perestroika summer of Italia 90 – their approach to music, lyrics, and films has always crossed borders, been open-minded, and kept time-travelling.” Thank you Jude Rogers. thequietus.com/interviews/s...

TIL that for some people with irreparably damaged corneas, you can pull one of their teeth, drill a hole in it, install an artificial lens, sew it into their cheek (so tissue attaches), then pull it out and stick it in their damaged eye, and ... it works fine!?! www.nbcboston.com/news/health/...

Mark Ronson’s interview with @petepaphides.bsky.social is a treat. I knew nothing about his childhood in New York, but if Andy Warhol was dropping by your mum’s place clearly something interesting was going on. www.thetimes.com/culture/musi...

Finally a documentary about the devastating side-effects of #LASIK eye surgery. Why the procedure can have life-altering consequences, heartbreaking patients' stories and the total failure of regulators make this essential viewing for anyone considering it. youtu.be/V9g4tnLL2r4...

Rod, my cousin's kid played 'Love Me in the Ass' at her wedding and it was beautiful. There was a line dance and everything.

All of these people saying AI is ruining the music industry, honestly I don't know what they're...hang on a moment

I wish I had a QR code at the back of my neck to give new dates a pdf manual to me. I just don’t want to explain anything anymore. And there would be troubleshooting tips and links to a subreddit for quick fixes.

➡️ Paintings now in my shop 🔗 in my bio

Or trousers, apparently.

It’s been a weird, unproductive week at the lab and I’m feeling a little down. So here are 10 cool facts about vision:

As they say: a snip! Get in there.

Will be writing a strongly worded letter to M&S to request they discontinue making these as I am weak and helpless in their presence and cannot stop.

Out today in the US "Terrifically entertaining" — NYT "Clever and insightful… shows that exciting intellectual history isn't an oxymoron" — Washington Post "Doom without the gloom… the book's own stock of revelations never runs short" — New Yorker www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/709872...

Jake Shears interviewing John Cameron Mitchell about creating Hedwig & The Angry Inch and the anthemic "Midnight Radio" on his podcast, Queer The Music, is excellent. youtu.be/uSPau7P2_Bg...

My time has come.

If you're in need of some spectacular-sounding, noise cancelling in-ear buds, the Bowers & Wilkins Pi7 S2 are less than half price at John Lewis (£149). A bonus is that they can be used on flights to transmit the enterainment audio wirelessly: www.johnlewis.com/bowers-wilki...

Assad Returns To Ophthalmology At Moscow LensCrafters theonion.com/assad-return...

I wrote about the time Scotland Yard sent a SWAT team to investigate my child, and how it was all Jamie Demetriou’s fault heawood.substack.com/p/why-scotla...

It's a national holiday! Celebrate with this clip of Endora illustrating why Bewitched is a homosexual television program for homosexuals.

Pentametron was one of the great web art projects, retweeting couplets of accidentally iambic tweets. Thanks to Bluesky's open feed, I have resurrected the concept.. Behold @iambic.bot!

Most notably, @dmuper.bsky.social is now here

This is dandy. A Chrome extension which finds everyone you were following on Twitter who are on Bluesky. It mostly works (if someone has nicked a Twitter username for Bluesky it can't tell).

Last night a friend said he was heading home to watch Dynasty. “New Dynasty or old Dynasty?” “Old. From 2018” 💀

Do all British people pronounce “adrenaline” like this or is it just Neil Tennant open.spotify.com/track/5DHjp0...

A doctor yesterday: "You're Australian! What's your sport?" Dude.

A huge selection of Olivia Newton-John’s personal effects are up for auction. Her driving license! A Grease drive-in that plays music and lights up! bid.juliensauctions.com/auctions/cat...

Forrest, Western Australia. Population: two. A lovely short film about a couple maintaining an emergency airstrip in the outback without killing each other. vimeo.com/1025757453 Found via the excellent Quality Time newsletter from David Mills: open.substack.com/pub/qualityt...

If you didn’t get Glastonbury tickets, take some consolation from this Tripadvisor reviewer, who deeply regretted their purchase in 2022.

Lucky Nate.

(on the phone, spelling) ‘M for Movember…’

It feels extremely tacky to talk about it given everything, so I'm not going to post a lot about it (and might even delete this in a minute), but if you are in need of some distraction today this is out.

"From time to time you can find me in a small club usually somewhere in east London, watching my son’s band playing a gig...I get a flicker of envy, however small the audience, however dingy the venue..nothing was ever quite as exciting as those beginnings" www.newstatesman.com/culture/life...

Expecting this to change as soon as you all find out about MILF Messenger

The world can only be a better place with a new (but also old) Susanna Hoffs album in it. www.billboard.com/music/pop/su...

Reading the Usborne Book Of The Future, written in 1979.

Guys! Guys!! The BBC’s “Solar System” showed how Phobos is moving closer to Mars, eventually leaving it with rings, like Saturn. I was like WOW I hope that happens in my lifetime.

“I paid for each and every lock, I even let you have my key, and now you want to change the locks and close the door on me” I’m not sure I Will Survive was crying out for the male’s point of view, but Creme D’Cocoa went there in 1981 with a response song. Who knew?! open.spotify.com/track/6VrCNR...

(I'll tell you though)