Reminder, here is how Skeleton is scored: - the bones are their money - so are the worms - the bones equal dollars - they will pull your hair up but not out - all they want is another chance at life

Things do look a little different today - someone put a busy road outside 😄 #WeAreNCL

Needed a new keyboard for when I'm working at my desk Where 'End' used to be is now 'PgUp' Muscle memory means my work-rate is now somewhat slower!

A mate just sent me this classic.

Programme every non-time-critical email to send at 5pm (i) You won't get a reply 'til tomorrow (ii) Your correspondents will learn not to email you because it means they'll get emails at 5pm just as they're shutting down

Look it’s us! 🤗

Tagging @profginab.bsky.social who writes better histories than me!

Here's a #HigherEducation cigarette card showing the arms of the University of Wales nb the excited description in the txt on the back of the heraldic colour murrey, which is a dark-reddish-purple colour; technically a heraldic stain This is a spin-off from #HigherEducationPostcard

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @universityofotago.bsky.social, also called Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka in Māori If you like this image, please repost it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

The institution in question being @ucl.ac.uk, which is 200 years old this week - Happy Birthday! And it’s also my 200th @wonkhe.bsky.social #HigherEducationPostcard blog

Wordle 1,700 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 The authorities had built a retaining wall to limit the destruction caused by any future avalanche

📷 Portrait of an Ottoman Major, 1893

A short 🧵on art. Back in 1990's the modern art scene in the UK was going through some stuff. Damien Hirst had been putting stuff in formaldehyde. Terrible things had happened to cows. In 98's Tracey Emin unveiled My Bed and everyone lost their minds. 1/

Column in which I ask the important question: has Torsten Bell ever killed a man? economist.com/britain/2026...

RACISM DOCTOR: “yes that’s right we triple-checked him, right down beyond the bone marrow, very impressive in fact, he was actually racist at a molecular level”

How about a rare Colombian moth photographer? 😏 Genus Symphlebia, not very rare but look at that punim!

There are some terrible plot choices made due to external production factors eg actors wanting to leave. But can anyone think of one where it's turned out brilliantly -a "necessity is the mother of invention" type situation?

“This mug says “number 1 dad” indicating that you are in fact the best dad.

An absolute corker of a letter to the Welsh rugby clubs from Hayley Parsons 💥

Take your daughter to work day in North Korea

Manchester: Global and industrious Liverpool: Plucky and confident Leeds: Dragged aloft against its will?

While we can't condone smoking... this is really cool! @liverpooluni.bsky.social @universityofleeds.bsky.social - what a coat of arms, eh?

Jim Radcliffe is an economic migrant in Monaco. Jim Radcliffe offshores his money to avoid paying tax in the UK. Jim Radcliffe wants to ensure that the british working class blame refugees and migrants for the problems in Britain. Jim Radcliffe is the problem, not desperate asylum seekers.

If you made it Wenglish it would mean worshipping the god of the evening (heno = tonight in Cymraeg) which is also quite cool

When Lucy from Compass Books in Dartmouth, Devon, was victim to shoplifting people told her to install CCTV. Instead she put this ancient book thief curse on the wall from the Monastery of San Pedro in Barcelona so book stealers would be consumed by "the flames of hell" with "their members blasted".

Just learnt a new word: henotheism = worshipping one god whilst acknowledging that there are others #EveryDayASchoolDay

Here's a #HigherEducation cigarette card showing the arms of @manchester.ac.uk - then the Victoria University, reflecting the short-lived federal university with Liverpool and Leeds. nb the symbols of the three cities and the divided Tudor rose This is a spin-off from #HigherEducationPostcard

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @waikatouniversity.bsky.social showing, in all its glory, the Administration Building If you like this image, please repost it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

🏛️ Ottoman Iznik Wall Tile, c. 1590 (Western Anatolia)

Wordle 1,699 4/6 ⬜🟨⬜🟨🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟩🟩🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 An avalanche was falling down the slopes, threatening to engulf the snowball-warriors below

A very specifically targeted bathroom ...

Cup of tea, ten minutes to spare; you know what that means: #Storytime. Here's how it starts, as always: There is a story the bees used to tell, which makes it hard to disbelieve...

I’m in Birmingham for the day Random thought: Digbeth would be a great name for a kid’s tv character Digbeth the dog

Here's a #HigherEducation cigarette card showing the arms of @sydney.edu.au - which is Australia's oldest university This is a spin-off from #HigherEducationPostcard

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of Armstrong College, which became @newcastleuni.bsky.social There's less green space about it nowadays If you like this image, please repost it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

Wordle 1,698 4/6 🟨🟩🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 The targets were set up for the biathlon, but somewhere earlier in the course the skiers were already having a shoot out

more wolf progress. Cat can be seen on sofa in background. I am going to do more work to their fur I think #artsky

hello here is a nice painting I did shop.frankduffy.co.uk/product/cynn... #crow

This @historytoday.com article is FREE for 7 days to mark the 200th anniversary of London's first university #UCL200 @ioew.bsky.social @uclnews.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk

What a fabulous dataviz It hadn't even occurred to me that red->green without amber was a possibility What a world we live in!

You have won a 'T-shirt' in local Newquay post office competition.

I am reading Naoise MacSweeney's 'The West' and it is very good

Another useful guide from your friends at Buckinghamshire Archives

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse

Euripedes trousers? Eumendedes trousers!

Freya, pose inspired by Kraftwerk

You may not agree with Nigel Farage when he says working from home is unproductive, but you can't deny he practices what he preaches. The guy supposedly lives in Clacton and he hasn't been anywhere near there in over a year.

Bristol Parkway, en route to Birmingham