'Decontamination and decommissioning efforts began in the 1980s but aren’t scheduled to be completed until 2120 at an estimated cost of at least £121,000,000,000.'

Who was the first person to visit every place in The Meaning of Liff? I'm a long way off finishing, but have been to a few, including Ibstock: 'Anything used to make a noise on a corrugated iron wall or clinker-built fence by dragging it along the surface while walking past it. "Mr Bennett [sic]...

Trump ran a great campaign for Machado’s Peace Prize.

Stavanger Swimming Hall [Stavanger, Norway] r/brutalism

A beautiful #HeronFinishingTouch

612. Je me souviens du lait conditionné dans des berlingots, des emballages en forme de tétraèdres.

Well, what do you know?, Dave rates Goode's cycle very highly. And if he's write to say producer Max Wilcox 'knew more about how to record a piano than just anybody in the universe', we have to presume Goode's lusty breath couldn't be rubbed out and learn to love that too. youtu.be/kvxr_3-1ToY?...

Thought I'd listen to Beethoven'd piano sonatas in opus order. Have gone for Richard Goode. At odd moments in the second movement of the first sonata, I'm picking up a sound not produced by the piano. Is it a heavy exhalation? He's not a Gould or Jarrett, is he?

Much like "crab", industrial music is constantly re-evolving from first principles basically anywhere where there's a bunch of metal and plastic laying about

In case you were wondering

How did this happen? Was it a miscalculated bid by Smith to mark the end of his presidency next month by boldly reversing the decision in March to bottle it? Why on earth would you trail a meeting of council that could possibly reach this conclusion? Could it have been the aim all along? Could it?

On the local patch, a woman feeding the ducks told me she'd just flushed a sparrowhawk from the footpath, where she'd seen it dispatch a woodpigeon. I walked on & found the pigeon lying on its back, headless.

My classroom policy on AI is: this is the only AI we will be using in the classroom.

- 400 jobs to go at Lancaster University - 1 in 4 people will be made redundant But where's the financial evidence for this extreme action? Please read 👇 Sign the petition 👇 chng.it/7F52bThYqn

Is this a new first for Hull? Got distracted looking for earlier use of 'meths' than the earliest quoted in the OED, viz. 1935. In the online British Library Newspapers archive, the first seven, from 1924–28, appear in a single organ—The Hull Daily Mail!

The reason, of course, is that we have methylated spirits for our model. Meths and maths in BrE are virtual homonyms for the poshest RPers. Usians have to put up with denatured alcohol, five extra syllables of wind.

Obie, the idiot dog, managed to surprise a lizard on our afternoon walk. Irish lizards shed their tails when surprised to distract predators as they make their escape... It will grow a new one but it does take a while... In the meantime, here's a wiggly lizard tail... #IrishFauna #Lizards

List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep 1) Rainfall in Denley Moor 2) Spear & Jackson shovels 3) The colour of black pudding

These very true words from Steve Hely have given me tremendous comfort over the years.

i think it's a mistake to anthropomorphize trump

Deleting my Academia.edu account in light of their predatory new terms and conditions. There is no way of opting out. It's a shame because it has been useful over the years, but I'm not prepared to give them these rights. Thanks to @downham.bsky.social for highlighting!

Not really a fan of Chomsky, but he was quite perceptive and clearly ahead of his time when he denounced the use of 'remote-controlled unmanned aircraft' in 1970, during the Vietnam War...

It just seems to me (and others who argue this better!) that if we had terminology and concepts that weren't based on theories of human minds, and instead on machine functioning, it would be easier to design technologies that would be helpful when dealing with vast amount of knowledge we now have.

“Israel has arrested Israeli conductor Ilan Volkov after condemning his country's actions in Gaza during a concert in London. "Stop the genocide. It's destroying everything. Stop it now."” (The BBC had cut his #Proms plea from the live broadcast.)

Recently learned that there was an American remake of Fawlty Towers starring Bea Arthur as both Basil and Sybil. It was hastily cancelled halfway through the first season, but there are more episodes of it (13) than Fawlty Towers (12).

It's Sunday, the 26th of June 2016. The Panama Canal extension is about to open to commercial shipping. Guðni Jóhannesson, senior lecturer in history at the University of Iceland, elected yesterday president of Iceland is celebrating his birthday. Meanwhile:

TIL from his Wikipedia bio that 'Ivan Turgenev's brain was found to be one of the largest on record, weighing 2,012 g (4 lb 7 oz). [11]' Nottalotta people know that. [11] Spitzka, E. A. 'A study of the brains of six eminent scientists and scholars belonging to the American...

Attention travellers planning your next holiday on Kythira: Please take note of the following important information. 😂

I thought I'd do a grim little thread on a cursed bird. Here it is. It doesn't know it's cursed, and it isn't it's fault, but it is.

Trying to respond to That Reviewer, I have just written "I feel that one needs to be cautious in generalising from pre-school children to professional mathematicians, even though they undoubtedly have some behaviours in common".

Holy insane egrets, herons, waterfowl in the mist batman. Bicycle accessible conservation areas FTW. #GetOutside

In the Egyptology section of the museum, one of a group of boys in late teens, c. 16–17, comes over to me to ask, Excuse me, are these real dead bodies? TBF the wrapped, embalmed bodies have been removed from & lie on a shelf beneath their sarcophagi.

The rights to It's a Royal Knockout?

#LookAndSee #MusicChallenge youtu.be/LoMPALIUxco?...

MAGA students, the new Red Guard.

Bung "nothing mega but" into the Bluesky search box. What do you think three of the five results are about? Yeah, lists of birds seen by birders, birders ever hopeful of finding a bit of the exotic in their field of view.

Preferable to tinned kjøttboller if Julian Sancton's book about the Belgica expedition to the Antarctic in 1897 is anything to go by. Mind you, the title is Madhouse at the End of the Earth.

I hasten to add: I'm not suggesting that Pad Thai is from Marinetti's Futurist Cookbook.

This looks far worse for Maduro than it does boris tbh

Jonathan Hall, it should also be noted, gave a significant speech at Policy Exchange months before the proscription where he raised the prospect of increasing the police and security service's role in counter-subversion. He also said this ⬇️

Happy Birthday to the man with the brass neck to release a succession of EPs and finally an album of French songs entitled…

'Female Football Foiled!' As the WSL goes from strength to strength, a look back to 1922, when 'The Empire Citizen' magazine (strapline – “Down with the Bolshies – For Britain and Empire”) had Views on the FA’s 1921 ban on women playing on their grounds, a prohibition only lifted in 1971

Co-discoverer of reverse transcriptase at 32, Nobel Prize at 37, played a key role at the 1975 Asilomar comference.

Publication day! My book The Colonial Way of War has finally appeared with CUP. The book is the first comparative & transimperial study of the violence of colonial warfare around 1900, based on an extensive empirical base &case studies from the British, German & Dutch Empire. It... shorturl.at/crWw2

When Georgia Gould was leader of Camden, the LA used a notoriously brutal outfit to defend its SEND Tribunal appeals, Baker Small Legal Services During Gould's tenure, Camden paid Baker Small over £1.2m, according to the council's own payments data

In a sense Farage is right. He would stop the boats in two weeks in the sense that within two weeks of him winning an election the media would stop talking about the boats. This is what happened here in Italy after Meloni came to power. The boats are still coming but the media rarely mention it.

Yeah clearly things have got *much worse*. But the slow rehabilitation of Enoch Powell began even before that, back to post-office Thatcher and the Bruges group. It started with admiration of his euro-scepticism - don't mention Rivers of Blood - but you could see where it was going

Norwegian Bukkehorn - an ancient instrument and a typical melody.

I know someone who stayed in a house where there lived a free range barn owl. The owl took a shine to her and one night she woke to find the owl trying to prize her lips open so that it could drop a mouse into her mouth.

Sure. But. I woke up, heard the headlines, and genuinely thought, "Do I need a backup plan? A bag packed?" His sort of lying and fakery has a cost. Will anyone call him out on it? From my vantage point it looks highly, highly unlikely.