So... Hypothetically, could the University of Oxford cease to be an accredited university if it is unable to stop students from protesting a statue of Cecil Rhodes, if the Office for Students decides that this limits the free speech of people who want to enjoy their positive feelings about Rhodes?

It’s absolutely incredible that one of the largest Japanese-run Go servers, which has been running since 1992, is still accessed entirely via Telnet. And while most players use GUI clients that use Telnet under the hood, you can still connect manually and get ASCII graphics streamed to you

Absolutely true. Followed by dog on the pitch. Trouble is, these days you never see a dog on the pitch.

On a derive in Oxford, serendipitous sighting of work by @irny.bsky.social in Hoyle's very nicely curated RPG section..

I knew it!

I believe the medical term for this is "Yeezy's regret".

And yet they must report this bad news to the king.

It's easy to be skeptical that President Trump looked at the picture of himself in robes laying on hands and thought "yes, that is portraying me as a doctor", up until the moment that you remember that his personal physician for most of his adult life looked like Gandalf.

There's a short answer and a long answer to that. The short answer is yes. The long answer is yes, obviously.

National Geographic Award winning photograph of the year. So beautiful. 🐝🐝🐝

In amongst the generally doomy news, I just wanted to share this picture of a memorial to Magawa, a rat who sniffed out over 100 landmines.

OH. MY. GOD. THIS IS THE MILKY WAY SHOT BY THE ARTEMIS II CREW. LOOK AT ALL THOSE STARS!!!!

happy 17776 day everyone

This is beautiful.

You know, I hadn't really thought about this before, but Colin Mochrie would actually make a pretty good Dumbledore.

Fair.

Andor (2022)

(To be fair to the New York Times, the article is sharper than the headline - it notes that there are 130 free preschool places planned for E 65 St, and not all of the Upper East Side's 200,000-odd residents are regularly eating $34 double bacon cheeseburgers at East Pole.)

I mean, if anything even more so!

As a nerd, I thought I'd take advantage of being currently at leisure to finish up watching The Walking Dead, and gosh. Oh my. Thank you so much, so kind of you to keep this for me, but gosh. So many episodes, I just don't know _where_ I could possibly put them.

Guy who’s only seen one animal:

I was wondering about posting an April Fool's day message, but honestly there is nothing currently so outlandish that it might not be a credible avenue, except possibly "I am no longer interested in fountain pens". And even then I _have_ been looking at rollerballs more. Or have I?

This is pretty great.

Sauron the Youtuber

People are obviously free to think what they think, but is The Martian not kind of predicated on the importance of a) international cooperation and b) funding NASA?

mood

Looks like The Guardian Australia is now subtweeting The Guardian UK, which is always an interesting place to be.

As far as I know, one (1) trans woman has competed in the Olympics in the history of the modern Olympic movement. Statistically, this will impact no trans women. It _will_ be interesting to see how many women currently competing will fail to clear the bar of the SRY gene test.

I guess the next step is Greece asking for a cut?

(Dont know who originally did this, but its too good not so share) BTW: His children are also bad.

A view of the night sky from Mars. (Yes, really)

I have to say, the idea of a 32-year old Harry Potter navigating his first crush with the advice of a 100-year old John Lithgow is the most interesting element of this so far.

WARNING: MISCHIEVOUS CROWS

Oh my. They have Wendy Carlos as well, so you can teach your kids about two great pioneers of analog electronic music!

You're not really supposed to talk about this.

people, I am tired of repeating myself. re-file skulls when you're done with them. that means back in the skull filing cabinet. not on the cabinet, not near the cabinet, in the cabinet. we have a skull filing cabinet for a reason

I mean, this looks pretty simple to reconcile!

"Muse" is a legitimately terrible job, and the pre-Raphaelite muses in particular should have unionised.

"The wizard's emporium foreclosed, and the nine-men's-morris is fill'd up with mud."

Oxford is absolutely rotten with Harry Potter tat, and while I do not think of myself as a snob, I feel strangely aligned with the student in "Mean Girls" who shouts "She doesn't even go here!"

Very Craig Raine vibes. "A jacket potato is a heavily topped tuber. The English make them rotate in a room filled with radiation."

My photograph of the ISS tonight looks like Paddington coming for me after I flatline on the operating table

the vengeful pillow by Edward Gorey

Bit of a thrifting win.

Wait, is this actually real?

This doesn't seem _great_.

The enemy of the good fried chicken.

I know this community very well. The Shenandoah club the Temple Israel statement refers to as providing food and shelter during this attack is the club established by Iraqi Chaldeans. This is really beautiful interfaith solidarity in action.

What.

As far as I can discern, this absolute belter of a headline is from an upstate New York newspaper in 1908. Happy International Women's Day!