Right, back to college for the first time in 25 years when I left teaching. Gonna be weird. Have fun while I'm away and try and overthrow a few things if you can. I'm too tired to help but I can provide moral support and maybe broken biscuits.

#MonochromeMarch Adventures with an Anamorphic Lens Currarong, NSW A7rV + Sirui Saturn 50/2.9 Cine Anamorphic #Photography #Anamorphic (Zine approval granted)

#endfossilfuels #fossilfools

regen im garten er fällt wie gold vom himmel silberne kreise #fotografie #photography #Fotomontag #haiku

@futurebird the trans ban in the Olympics also mandates genetic testing so I think we're going to end up with a lot of athletes who have been assigned female at birth and been living their whole lives as women getting randomly kicked out because it turns out they have abnormal chromosomes

#nokings #epsteinclass #taxtherich

Last day for people in the UK to get free seeds for bee's pack from 38 degree's mailed to you. I've actually got some from last year which didn't get planted so I'm not getting fresh seeds this year. #bees #bee #savethebees #38degrees #gardening #UK #ukpol #nature […]

In case you haven't had enough of being angry at Professor Jiang clogging up discourse because his stopped clock methods of predicting the obvious and then extending that to everything then here is Professor Tim Wilson joining in. Jiang is what happens when a game theory proponent in a coma […]

I’ll be talking about the very serious helium shortage that is looming (actually, it’s already upon us) and risks crippling semiconductor chip production and diagnostic instruments like MRI scanners, not to mention low temperature science.. It’s maddening because we’ve known that helium is very […]

RE: https://wetdry.world/@rabbithawk256/116312351286576371 I run the insiders build of Code so I get to roll my eyes almost every time I fire up my IDE. The thing is I don't need to run Visual Studio or VS Code any more since nobody is paying me to do it so I can swap out my IDE of choice for […]

RE: https://mastodon.africa/@GrahamDowns/116312263058526075 From observations Google has been tweaking the algorithm over the past few years and has pretty good age restrictions at each end of the chain to be able to prove it has tried not to hook children but Meta and TikTok are fucked. Their […]

A jury has found that Instagram and YouTube are deliberately designed to addict people (children in particular), drawing parallels between the Big Tobacco cases of the past: https://techcentral.co.za/big-techs-big-tobacco-moment-has-arrived/279530/?utm_source=MastodonAfrica #socialmedia #addiction

Balls, we had a bit of an emergency last night and I had to do a lot of running around in the car that wasn't expected so I can't quite get to dole day without a top up in the first week since covid I need to use the car everyday. To make matters worse nobody has diesel locally because of the […]

RE: https://masto.es/@imigueldiaz/116311454721043842 The gardeners best friend and the first insect most kids learn about. Even if they don't know it :)

Ironic that Trump, so opposed to EVs and renewables, has done so much for EV sales. In Australia, EV sales have exploded as everyone realises that the oil price is volatile and supply unreliable. I'm sure it's happening everywhere. The pro fossil fuel idiots here have been very, very quiet, as […]

Mendacity! There are no bad cats, especially on #caturday. #cat #cats #catstodon #catsofmastodon #humor #humour

RE: https://mastodon.social/@eff/116307154921791253 Don't forget the hacktivism part of activism folks. Data is being captured at every well attended event these days and efforts like this allow collection of the data required to prove governments and the companies that support them are […]

So I got around to actually writing that article about coming to slow hiking I was planning weeks ago and never got around to. Trying my hardest to actually do stuff and not doom scroll. Linked below if you can contain your anger at my inability to self edit, not abuse punctuation, or stay on […]

I just used the word Interoceptively intentionally and without thought for the poor reader. Shout out to all the grown up hyperlexic kids who knew words they couldn't pronounce and once got beat up for either knowing the word or saying it wrong. School was a fun place wasn't it :) […]

Male Chaffinch #nature #birds #wildlife #photography #naturephotography #birdphotography #birdsofmastodon #uk #birdscrolling

Female Chaffinch #nature #birds #wildlife #photography #naturephotography #birdphotography #birdsofmastodon #uk #birdscrolling

Switch Angel doing their thing with the algorave while Lofi SciFi brings the visuals. I feel 19 again when I see stuff like this. I want to dance all night again :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5GDqFl1jW0

RE: https://mas.to/@therightarticle/116306592704268914 This seems to be a good time to point out I was once on a conference call with an Israeli security consultant talking about DDOS attacks being used against opponents and how to defend against them. The wouldn't tell us where he got his […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@tuckfrump/116304651190275246 I'm not saying Kash looks like the sort of man that reuses passwords and usernames but if you've used Spiderkash as a username anywhere expect a glut of attacks on it in the next few weeks. I wonder what he's been saying on various […]

#iran #IranWar #hackers #KashPatel #porn Kash Patel has a por account , hilarious.

Some close-ups of my favourite graffiti artworks inside the Attercliffe Shed in Sheffield. Which one's your favourite? History time! Opened in 1873 for horse-drawn trams, the Attercliffe Sheds served Sheffield’s first transport line. Eventually, trams replaced […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

The Grebe Dance Observed this dance this morning between a pair of Great Crested Grebe. #nature #birds #wildlife #photography #naturephotography #birdphotography #birdsofmastodon #uk #birdscrolling #mp4

Apparently today is International Women in Music Day, so to all of you on my timeline who identity that way, you are seen, you are valued :) https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/international-women-in-music-day/

RE: https://todon.nl/@anarchismhub/116305310279623749 Dicky Dread is a really nice guy and a wealth of knowledge on UK counter culture

RE: https://mamot.fr/@Superspindoctor/116305664997046001 Girl In A Band, is a great read. She's so chilled and LA around all the cool New Yorkers. You could almost read it right after Patty Smiths Just Kids to get a potted history of the NY art scene.

Now available in tactical black! 😎

RE: https://h4.io/@brettezeleliquide/116300224933352543 The timelord of invertebrates :)

My ballot paper in the Unite the Union elections has just come through. Now which candidates want to stop funding Labour (and not just the 'blank cheques' talk of the recent leadership), understand that climate change and the environment is the biggest threat we face long term and want to fuck […]

Great Tit (Parus major, 🇩🇪 Kohlmeise, 🇵🇱 bogatka). #birds #birdphotography #birdsofmastodon #birdwatching #nature #naturephotography #vogelflausch #ptaki

irregular reminder that if you go to someone's profile you can add a little personal note that only you can see. You can use it to note down why you followed someone or where you know them from. You can also use it to note down why you muted or blocked someone or why you're thinking about it.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Edent/110095906918921640 This seems to have aged well.

RE: https://c.im/@didgebaba/116300098594464526 I'd like to also recommend Leaf Fielding's book, To Live Outside the Law, much better than the cops eye view in the other book on the bust. https://serpentstail.com/contributor/leaf-fielding/

I'm meant to be sorting out my diary so I don't lag behind all the things I need to do, writing, and finishing off a bit of tidy in part of the garden (ironically the wild bit is too wild and needs a trim). Instead I'm making bad puns on Mastodon. Sometimes I fail upwards :)

Machines he has created for his arcades. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs3kvNw4k_Y&list=PLtaR0lZhSyAO5K9giPepC7ulcgnS4gRKv

The following youtube play lists show Tim at his best. The Secret Life of Machines TV series in full. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJlrbMHLBd4&list=PLtaR0lZhSyAPLuoSbMA29s3Ry8ZUvKff3

Obviously since I've discovered it was Andy Plant who made that wolf it leads to Tim Hunkin who is a British institution on his own. One of those folks that every UK maker cites as influence. I love his clocks and games and have a whole arcade of designs on paper for physical games I'd make if […]

The animatronic on the art gallery is by Andy Plant and has recently been restored. Obviously Wolverhampton has the link with Wolves but the sheep is probably the cities spirit animal. The town was the biggest market place for sheep in the middle ages and before the industrial revolution it […]

Un piccolo "hanami" domestico. うちの小さな花見

oh go on then another local story I missed on the Beeb. I was once removed from the fountain in the gardens here by a policeman for taking part in a spontaneous synchronised swimming event while wearing a toga after being kicked out of a Toga and Tequila party at the student union before […]

Another local BBC story (sorry not sorry ;) ) I passed one of these last week and it made me smile. I didn't know it was part of a series. :) Kids give us hope. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg40zeqdlrgo

One of those things USians can't understand is historic because they pull things down when they hit 30 years old. This factory produced bikes, motorbikes, cars, vans, buses and won grand prix and held the world speed record half a dozen times. Starting about 15 years before Ford. The famous […]

One of my local towns goes for the first 'town of culture' award because it has good orange chips :) I spent most of my life within walking distance of Bilston. At one point it says a person bought a horse into the pub well I can beat that. Before it was a pub it was a Tesco (ok 40 years […]

It's now clearer than ever, we need deeper alignment with the EU. It's the quickest way to deliver economic growth. 🚨 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgk0j71g417o

🇪🇺 The EU is our nearest and largest trading partner; closer relationships are vital for our economic future.