"Let's just take the subway...." The Subway:

The Busy World of Doctor Who

Piano-playing neighbour usually treats us to a Saturday morning medley of early-Nineties AOR and the occasional jaunty soap theme Today she's joined by a flute and a recorder for an extended fantasia on I Know Him So Well

If this doesn’t brighten up your feed just a bit then I don’t know what.

Big band nite at the place Somewhere Over the Rainbow is not naturally a sleazy song, but that reading had a leopardskin posing pouch, a cigarillo behind its ear and visible cilantro stuck between its yellowing teeth

I've been collecting pandemic era signs that nobody can be bothered to take down or remove. There's something grimly fascinating about this. Putting them up was urgent and important; removing them is nobody's job. How long will some of these hang around?

On a grey day this Parasol had the air of a looming brutalist structure. 🍄 #FungiFriday #FungiFriends

Sitter i et mikrobryggeri taproom i et tidligere jernstøperi. Acid jazz og oldemors stuemøbler En tosk i logo-skyggelue skrur stadig lysnivået brått opp og ned. "Er det atmosfærisk nå? Nå? Nå?"

Mood:

One of my favorite fall shots from two years ago. A dead Oak in front of a live Oak. #BlueSkyArtShow #autumn #Photography #EastCoastKin

Spooky shrooms 🍁👻🎃

The first (1955) Danish edition of Ray Bradbury’s FAHRENHEIT 451. Later editions did not convert the title, so this is the only SI-compatible edition! 🎢

If you're having a hard time, if things seem impossible and grim... just remember that World of Sport once covered the International Clown Diving Championships. It won't help with any of what we're all facing but god, it's a good thing to have in your head.

In the pub The bloke adjacent is also in the pub And there has he been for several hours That is about the nineteenth time He has used the word "myriad" To mean "any number larger than one"

i’m terrible at chess but there’s no point in getting good because i already look like i’d be good at chess. you see me at the park and i tell you i’m actually a grandmaster you’d be like “no shit.” it’s only worth getting good at chess if you’re a big buff guy or super hot girl or maybe a child

"Plant one bamboo shoot, cut bamboo for the rest of your life" Also: buy a Flymo, cut the entire lawn three or four times before anyone else could tell

Oj, der gikk lørdag

Sometimes I think my parents only come visit so they can inspect the houseplants they gave us and complain about how their own ones pale in comparison

The Breeders

Foreldrene er ikke hjemme, derfor skal vi: • holde temperaturen under 26°C i alle rom • ha på TV under ropevolum • bare gå i dusjen, uten å måtte forhandle tidspunkt et døgn på forhånd Vi lever som griser, det er kaos

You helped will this into existence, you know...

T-shirt: Price& Guinness& Hobson& Greenwood& Guinness& Guinness& Guinness& Guinness& Guinness& Guinness& Guinness.

Uutnyttet Bluesky-nisje: Småbrisent hagestell Forlot pøbben før England-kampen begynte og nå er det bare meg og jorda

This guy has murdered hundreds of thousands of people this year, most of them children.

Cancelling missions that are in space and still returning science ie: Juno & APEX is about the most pound foolish stuff you can do. And APEX was going to image Apophis (you know that possible extinction event asteroid that's going to fly by in 2029)

It’s astonishing how misunderstood this is: AI is currently theft. That’s it. It’s that simple. And until it pays, it remains theft.

Proper pub, playing host simultaneously to a wake, a tier 8 football club's end-of-season bash and, in the corner, an impromptu bluegrass banjo masterclass

Refugees Are Welcome Here event There was a counter-demonstration, but after about five minutes he fucked off to Greggs

Too broke for therapy, so when I blow my nose I open the tissue and try to decide what it looks like

ChatGPT, like all of the capital innovations of the last, let's say twenty years, is better understood not as something that *eliminates* work, but rather as something that *moves* work onto someone else.

Loving the disclaimer

Had to Google my favourite film, for cast reasons The unavoidable top-of-page AI summary made a big deal of explaining a "pivotal line" which does not actually appear in the film, nor in the poem it claimed the character was quoting How, why, stop it

This is amazing. Also Mike has a great newsletter you should sign up for.

Made a cocktail for my wife and she put it in the freezer, inadvertently creating a new superorganism please hel—*glurk*

Dude at next table is explaining how his digital marketing company has "Netflixified the recommendations pipeline" Come, friendly meteor, and fall on pub

Bootleg Yoda is our new double IPA,

Cannot articulate to my satisfaction how much this thread is absolutely my shit

At the gallery cafe It does not require Sherlockian powers to identify who's here to see the John and Yoko documentary and who's here because turned away from the all-day techno festival happening next door

Not to say we've been neglecting the garden, but that's me just finished mowing the patio 😬

I wish I was a little bit taller I wish I was Pontiff Pizzaballa

This is where I live now. (not Chicago, this tape archive)

Maybe I'm just not making myself clear.

Oh, and here’s the link to the story, which includes the unimprovable quote “Those who know me well know I was eventually going to build a giant curlew”

A conversation about Russell Crowe, Michael Keaton and Meryl Streep, as actors who played in consecutive Best Picture-winning films, leads to today's useless knowledge: Ian Charleson, John Gielgud and Richard Griffiths were *all* in both Chariots of Fire and Gandhi

WFH means nobody sees you sobbing at your desk as you listen to Patsy Cline.