The first (1955) Danish edition of Ray Bradbury’s FAHRENHEIT 451. Later editions did not convert the title, so this is the only SI-compatible edition! 🎢

Moving their cities. Living moderate lives. Eating more fish. Growing chilies. Saved you a read.

👀 www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Clearly the US needs a National Sandwich Association to ensure that the right of the people to eat sandwiches is not infringed. And to promote responsible sandwich use.

Long chat about a shopper's Shih Tzu. She loves shops. Can't be left off a leash for a second. Likes men. Poses, shamelessly! Folks, she's Sza Sza Gabor reincarnated.

Watch, if you can, only for the Edward Teller interview.

Until it recently became undeniable, every NZ physics department head has been a climate change denier. So, you can imagine how the funding worked out for early geophysical researchers.

I once worked with Goddard scientists and technicians as the NZ system administrator on their earliest attempt to verify global warming, with long transmission sonar. They were undoubtedly among the most professional and talented people I have ever worked with.

Man at Qantas’s international business lounge caught fire after a powerbank in his pocket ignited, forcing an evacuation of 150 people www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

The best part of this story is the instruction to “[bring the data] back here”. That’s extremely not how this works!

The film, Eddington. How misinformation contributed to the violence in the wake of the global public health emergencies. And, Joaquin Phoeni, is only 51?

Beckie's fundraiser hit a hill for a while, but progress now looks most encouraging. If you can afford to pledge a little, it would make all the difference to the life of a very fine person. givealittle.co.nz/cause/beckie...

One of the houses built into the ruined west front of the former Benedictine abbey at Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk. 📸 My own. #WallsOnWednesday #BuryStEdmunds

For the love of god!

So happy for my Yorkers.

Fireworks tonight!

roses are red big laughs are hearty

Microsoft-owned LinkedIn will be collecting your data to train AI models — starting today.

Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.

this is very cool: Kodak quietly relisted Kodak Gold and Ultramax on its website and confirmed to me it is selling the films directly to photography stores again. this is a big deal because for the last decade, Kodak has not controlled distribution of its own film www.404media.co/kodak-quietl...

Impossibly wonderful and enriching career role found today and despite my best efforts to talk myself out of it, it still stares smiling at me from across a room of other eligible fools.

Today's Low Quality Ad is for this "Hello, I'm Tired" pin. The plan: We all wear this pin. Every day. The result: No more small talk. I'm tired. You're tired. No need to elaborate. collabs.shop/f83pfl

A 10% finders fee seems appropriate. jobs.smartrecruiters.com/TheUniversit...

Keeping an eye dressing dry for 48 hours isn't as easy as it sounds.

Minor plastic surgery very near an eye. The anaesthetic will be interesting.

We're losing something that cannot be recovered. Most people don't understand what we are losing. There's a lot wrong with academia, but burning it all down is not the best answer. 🧪

Wildly overestimated how much garden salad I was prepared to eat when I planted out my summer vege garden a few weeks back. It's a jungle already.

If you win the Lotto jackpot and want a London dive for your occasional shopping trip, consider this very blue townhouse deep in Paddington Bear country. I would be pleased to house sit on your behalf, for a modest fee. countrylife.onthemarket.com/details/1641...

In memorandum of the burning down of Palmie's The Fitz, here's my first (and only, really) piece of gonzo journalism for Salient in 2003 about the Worst Pub in the World. CW: Piss and vomit. @jgreenbrookheld.bsky.social

The AppleTV series, Omnivore, S1E6, "Rice", beautifully describes the immense battle with climate change faced, every day by Indian rice farmers. And how endemic, traditional rice varieties grown organically are the future of global food.

New Christmas tree has an AI enabled app.

Barn find at Turner's in Glenfield.

Our problems began when colleges and universities became safe places for idiots. They used to be hunted, harmed and expunged.

Retired family doctor wants to know what I've ordered for breakfast and what time I got out of bed.

Man Wouldn't Have Worn Costume To Work If He'd Known He Was Getting Laid Off

A timeline cleanse. Two hummingbirds taking shelter from the rain inside a rose. Good night Bluesky.🥰

Garden hose ready.

📰 DEFRA avian influenza update on 30 Oct 2025 #IDsky #OneHealth 🧪 🐦 HPAI H5N1 confirmed in captive birds near Silloth, Cumbria. 📊 89 confirmed HPAI H5N1 cases in poultry & other captive birds in UK from 04 Nov 2024. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England: 80 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland: 3 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Wales: 2 🇬🇧 Northern Ireland: 4

"I think we have the evidence that we can say, okay, no, rationality in its fundamental form is not uniquely human." 🧪🧠

Neighbours going large on Halloween.

Almost there!

Seemingly insurmountable work day is ahead. Focusing on near term objectives, taking things one step at a time.

Kia ora, Aotearoa BS, we've got a small request for help. A lot of Pōneke BS and Twitter folk know Beckie, and she's always been ridiculously generous with her time, knowledge, and support for others, so hopefully we can help with a bit of karmic balance givealittle.co.nz/cause/beckie...

One minute, you're just living your life, and the next, you're mimicking bird calls. Here’s how it happens: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jSPKeM

An oak angled showcase - 1904/6 Antoni Gaudí Originally in the dining room of Casa Battló, Barcelona, Spain Now @museeorsay.bsky.social , Paris, France #Woodensday #WoodcarvingWednesday

He's Batman. The Dornier Aeroclub having a bit of Halloween fun this year. www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraf...

Do not feed the Gremlins after 12! 😱