21/9/25 - nocturn

Someone living in an MR James short story there.

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From

Bee on Lips, New York, 1995 by Irving Penn

OH i get it, liberals think trans rights are a question of freedom of expression and not one of bodily autonomy

Made this sea glass puppy recently

Anyhow I saw the best garden hedge in London today A+++ no regrets

It's been exactly 10 years since one of the funnest days to be online ever

Is there a 1 year 10 month sleep regression, I google as my baby wakes up again Is there a 5 year sleep regression, I google as the middle kid wanders out of his room Is there a 6 year sleep regression, I google as the oldest shuffles out Why do only mothers in their 30s want to sleep, I google

What’s a pirate’s favorite computer programming language? You’d think it’s R, but no, their first love will always be the C. Happy talk like a pirate day!

Went into this story thinking it was a profile of two brilliant pranksters—Connor Gaydos and Peter McIndoe of Birds Aren’t Real fame. They started Enron as a satire of greed and corporate buffoonery. But those things aren’t as easy to defeat as you might imagine. 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

The fall out to last week’s assassination is interesting to me because it really gives insight into the way the algorithm showed people on the right CK’s relatively benign, pro-Christian, pro-family content and none of his bigotry, and people on the left seemingly only saw the bigotry stuff

Memory unlocked:

Egg boxes don't get enough credit. Only a thin bit of cardboard and yet you hardly ever find a broken egg in one. Buy a pen online and it comes in a massive box wrapped in bubblewrap.

Waiting for a (delayed, of course) train & spotted this extraordinary statistic. 40% of Avanti trains at Birmingham are late! 40%! That is insane! When British people grumble about things getting shitter it’s stuff like this that is part of the grinding down of morale and a functioning society.

Intense, dancing aurora last night from my driveway in North Pole, Alaska. The best display I have seen this season by far. Check out this real-time motion!

Possibly someone our midst might be able to help?

The destruction of the Gaza city mosque is a devastating loss to humanity as a whole. A part of our global medieval heritage destroyed in furtherance to a genocide. I despair.

I have to pay the hotel for another week on Thursday and my storage unit is due at the beginning of next week. If anyone has even a few dollars to spare, I'm going to be shy being able to cover them both. #MutualAidRequest #TransCrowdFund cash.app/$Settiai paypal.me/poicelle venmo.com/u/Settiai

Style lessons from Robert Redford, one of the most stylish men in the last century. 🧵

We are offering a 2-year postdoctoral position at CIMCyC (Granada, Spain) to work on the psychology of dis(mis)information. Apply before 26th September. Nice city, great environment ☺️ Please share! 🔃 cimcyc.ugr.es/en/informati... #socialpsychology #cogpsyc #PsychSciSky #PsychJob #PhDJob

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Quick heads up to whoever sent me a DM - i am not arsing about with age verification on social media (because I should spend less time on it anyway) so if you know me in real life and can message me through another platform please do :) and if you don't know me, don't!

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com p.s. this week I am on a USA/Canada tour with my new book. Details and preorder links at tomgauld.com

So a body positive insta account I follow is promoting an on-brand queer feminist porn site where they interview the actresses at the end of videos and my OH said "oh, like at the end of Blue Planet" and I. am. gone.

I have to admit, as someone driven mad by the number of "from scratch" recipes online that include a box of cake mix or premade ingredients that aren't sold in the UK, I'm not heartbroken about this, but shrinkflation is a bitch.

honey, what's wrong, you've hardly touched your festive fall gendered butt wipes

You're saying this crystal maze ass lightbulb on legs is giving me a runny nose?

“I’m an eleven, but continue.”

For non-Brits: Our political/media class bet absolutely everything on it being fine to demonise and destroy the anti-racist left, who were getting too big for their boots, because the Sensible Moderates could co-opt and control the racist right. And they have now fucked it into the upper ionosphere.

The sheer eeriness…it should be a bang barge, and it should slither down the canals of England, arriving with a fog as obscure as stone and bone-chilling cold. A single hooded gondolier pushing it along with a stick should summon young men within with a curling, skeletal finger in deathly silence.

Reminder that 100,000 people marched for Trans Pride in London earlier this year, but because they weren't violent fascists, there was minimal press coverage, unlike the Nazis today. https://www.them.us/story/london-trans-pride-march-turnout-record-uk-transphobia

Timeline cleanse Fat Bear Week pro tip: the horribly-named and under-appreciated Underwater Salmon Cam is also an underwater bear cam. Bears come within mere feet (sometimes inches!) from the camera, which is how I learned that bears walking on their hind legs look ridiculous

Tumble out of bed and I stumble to the bed and I pour myself a cup of the bed

Hat tip @clownf1st.bsky.social

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

I am just really happy for the Koalas and for those of us who support vaccines—close to 50% die of chlamydia. 💉 www.popsci.com/environment/... Vaccines save all lives, including koalae 🐨

wholesome news saturday

We asked Sudanese people to explain what the war is about. What emerges is clear: there is no such thing as a war about nothing. continent.substack.com/p/is-the-sud...

There’s a real generational divide between Labour MPs leaking to the Guardian and Labour MPs leaking to the Huffington Post

But did you notice that when Hammond is looking for glasses for the champagne and Sattler goes to direct him, he says, "I know my way around the kitchen!" but there are flutes on the microwave right in front of him that he ignores in favour of tumblers? It's foreshadowing that he's full of shit.

Shout out to everyone only now learning that "Albert Einstein was reclusive at the end of his career, shunning public engagements." Really meant, "For the last *20 years* of his career, Einstein opposed US racism by only speaking publicly at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).

Sanjeev Bhaskar is really in his silver fox era #taskmaster

it seems as if every day science takes another giant leap forward

Just wow 😵‍💫 #MolluscMonday

Having the kind of morning where I went to set up my desk at work (hotdesking) and forgot if I'm left or right handed.

3. If you see content that disturbs you, immediately (or as fast as possible) go and play 20-30 minutes of Tetris (or any other fast-paced game with your eyes sweeping over the visual field that has caused visual artifacts to linger when you close your eyes for you in the past).

I'm enjoying Final Draft, a Physical100 style competition for ex pro athletes in Japan, in which they have to compete against each other in feats of strength and agility and also present a business case for how they'd use the prize money in an open-sided tent in heavy snow.

- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked