@sathnam.bsky.social Just been discussing with my geography teacher great-nephew what he wants for Xmas, and we’ve settled on a copy of Empireland and a bag of Monsooned Malabar 👌🏻

@mattleys.bsky.social I’ve just noticed there’s a third season of Delhi Crime on Netflix. Did you know? Or has it been there for ages and I’m last with the latest?

Kash Patel and Dan Bongino leading an FBI manhunt in the heart of Mormonland sounds like the setup for a Coen Brothers movie

@ita99.bsky.social Did you see this? I liked it, especially the baby DS

Anxious to find out what these bombshell stories are but could probably just text Hegseth and ask him

My review of Chris Whipple's Uncharted. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/b...

Anyway, here is the mood in France

This is the takeaway of the tariffs announced by Trump: In addition to the penguin-occupied Heard and McDonald Islands, the tariffs target the British Indian Ocean Territory, whose sole occupants live on a joint US-UK military base. Yes, the US is levying reciprocal tariffs against its own troops.

Big "You let Dougal do a funeral?" energy.

I haven't been able to follow the classified Signal chat debacle without thinking of Airplane.

This morning's eclipse was covered by cloud so I had to seek a consolation moonrise this evening and managed to snare it in the Granton Gasholder

“We wanted to learn the truth about the concerns and the science behind vaccine safety. So we talked to two uneducated, elderly, white, millionaire conspiracy theorists in a Steak & Shake.”

Ever since someone posted that he looks like a racist care bear I can't not think that whenever I see a picture.

I remember seeing these on a library school trip before the shelves went up in 1980, and I still walk over them 40+ years later!

I have motion-sensitive lights in the kitchen and one fell in the corn flakes last night. Gave me a bit of a start when I turned round

WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE AN AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER?

@ita99.bsky.social Have you ever seen these, Ita? I loved them. They’re sort of comedy drama crime uk.acorn.tv/jackirish/

blasphemous grifting -- Lee Greenwood says Trump may take the oath of office on a new limited edition Trump bible that is going to be released tomorrow

@ianmartin.bsky.social Forgive me if you’ve already seen this a million times but just ICYMI youtu.be/93eoCNI31JQ?...

@greigforbes.bsky.social Sunset on Leith

@ita99.bsky.social Ita, do you remember a tv drama about a murder where the murderer was identified years later using his son’s dna, after his son was arrested for a driving offence? There was a lot made of his car’s being ‘up on bricks’ at the time of the murder? Probably this

It’s the last day of the year — why not do a list? I’ve taken part in various films-of-the-year polls, and posted my contributions, but none worked according to my criteria, which are simple: any new (or new-ish) film I saw this year, regardless of its eventual release date.

I should note here that kagi.com is a very good alternative, although it costs (which is probably why it’s good.) Excerpt from recent paywalled long read I did for the Telegraph about Google’s woes:

@wendymoore99.bsky.social I was reading on the Hunterian Museum’s insta about Joanna Baillie, John Hunter’s niece. Is there enough surviving material for you to do a bio? She sounds fascinating. What an extraordinary family

November night, Edinburgh by Norman MacCaig, a favourite poem. I like to post this each year in November. First time on here and I’ve just made it by the skin of my teeth

St Cuthbert's kirkyard overlooked by Edinburgh Castle on its crag, is the oldest known site of Christian worship in Edinburgh and the railway lines from Waverley go through a tunnel underneath which must keep the residents turning in their graves. #Edinburgh

Just learned that Apple is using Frasier scripts to help its apps converse more like people. So if your Siri keeps blurting, "I must have you right now! Sorry, wrong room," now you know why.

I love the fact that in an experiment teaching rats to drive mini-cars, that the rats eventually learned on their own to rev the engine and take longer drives for the enjoyment of it theconversation.com/im-a-neurosc...

What a difference a couple of days makes #edinburghskies

This thing is really interesting. I’ve taken it three times and gotten the exact same result every time. ismy.blue

I urgently need this for purple, grey and blue

@jtlovell.bsky.social I haven’t watched the interview yet but this is a funny tangent. Sounds as if BF always woke up with a hangover

As a beneficiary of BuzzFeed’s fuck-ups in this area, it is always a delight when US tech firms consistently fail to realise they actually have to abide by European countries’ employment laws. www.theguardian.com/technology/a...

"Covering British politics during this period has been like trying to remember, and explain, a very convoluted and ultimately boring dream. If you really concentrate, you can recall a lot of the details, but that doesn’t lead you closer to any meaning." www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The thing about Joe Biden being an elderly man with a poor memory is that his likely opponent is an elderly man with a poor memory who has been indicted for 91 felonies and found liable for rape

@ianmartin.bsky.social This one mentions the writers 👌🏻 https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/12/slow-horses-modern-britain-hopeless-spies/676279/

i'm sorry to say this but if you send me a tiktok of a person telling a story into the camera for 3 minutes i'm not fucking watching it. just in general ever. people need to start typing things up again because i can read so much faster than you can talk and i'm not wasting my precious time on this

Resembles a social services interview with parents who left a toddler unsupervised.

Of course he is

@greigforbes.bsky.social Perfect example of what you said 🫢

Today I learnt that there is an island deemed so inaccessible that it was literally named Inaccessible Island en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inacces...

Modigliani - "Elvira Considering The Latest Trending Topics"

Seeing an influx of good people here today. Starting to get that putting the band back together feeling.

I think if you had a cat in a box and it wasn't dead, it would let you know.

I like when the email says "track your order" and you click it and the website says, "the thing you ordered, we are going to deliver it."

@jtlovell.bsky.social @alexadwilson.bsky.social @ita99.bsky.social 👍🏻

@jtlovell.bsky.social @ita99.bsky.social @alexadwilson.bsky.social I never used Tweetdeck but I think you lot did