What am I giving up for Lent? Calm. Kindness. Kinship. Love. I've given up all chance at inner peace. I've made my mind a sunless space.

Today I learned there, was a Pokestop on Epstein's island, and Niantic removed... THREE DAYS AGO. I really don't know what to do with this information. It feels like reality itself is... broken, somehow.

I hope Russel T Davies's Dr Who Christmas special kills the show. Temporarily. I hope it stays off air for about 30 years. Then someone writes a triumphant return in 2055. And the show runs 8 years from then, and does a 100th anniversary special. That writer is about 16 years old already...

Five jobs I've had: Barman Kidney Research fundraiser Chocolate factory process engineer (i.e. Willy Wonka, effectively) Sales assistant in Dixons electricals Drinking water analyst

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If ICE murdering a white male gun owner, in broad daylight, on video is the last straw that stirs Americans to action... that's fucked up. And if it's NOT... I don't even know a phrase for what that is.

Things that get said in my house: Her: you know what I mean! Me: no. I know what you *said*

Today I realised with sadness that, as time goes on, there are fewer and fewer of us who, when we go to a carpet shop, are compelled to do an impression of Speedy Gonzalez

The world is learning. When I was a kids, the bad guys were ze Germans. Then da Ruskies. Then the Arabs. Now in media, it's starting to coalesce around bad guys = rich people. Which is (a) more like real life and (b) doesn't require racism.

kids these days don't know how to impress Jodie Foster

Why isn't "young mother murdered" trending on bluesky?! #timwalz #ICE

Saw a trailer for Avengers :Doomsday today that actually made me less likely to watch it. The number of characters they're shoehorning in means it's going to have to be either 6 hours long or run at 240 fps just to get everyone in.

Google image search Estonian national Opera car park barriers. You're welcome.

We got stone stands, antique lands, And miles and miles of level sands Old hunks, half sunk Hanging round without a trunk Lifeless things, king of kings Whasisname has had a push Lying in the desert sand Cold command upon his mush Mush, mush, mush, mush…

Turley letter to Lam, as posted on X

What car is this?

I love print media @theonion.com @bencollins.bsky.social

@robinince.bsky.social... will be KBOs. But no. The options were Uranus, Neptune, Mercury & Saturn. Mercury was apparently discovered in 1500BC, and Saturn - the 5th or sixth brightest object in the sky - was discovered in 1610. I remonstrated to no avail. Loving the book.

@robinince.bsky.social I just read p152 of "I'm a joke etc". I was at a PTA quiz night earlier this year. One round was "put 4 things in order". One question was "when planets were discovered". Ooh, I thought, this will be interesting - only 2 actual planets were discovered, so at least 2 options...

I recently had cause to phone my mobile. I was startled to hear my own voice asking me to leave a message, because I realised that I recorded that message in May 1999 and have never changed it. Sure as hell can't change it now.

The mathematician John Venn was born on this day in 1834. To commemorate the occasion, here’s a poem in the form of a Venn diagram.

Genius: chinwag.au/verification/

Mon Mothma is the BEST in Andor, and Genevieve O'Reilly is a gorgeous, gorgeous woman. Couldn't do better.

I am unreasonably annoyed that every headline about Felix Baumgartners death says it was is a "paraglider" accident. Then mentions the engine. It's just sloppy and wrong. Google "Gell-Mann amnesia"

When Superman saves Palestinian children.

Once again, Connections success depends on the player not being able to pronounce English words properly, aka having an American accent (and quite a specific one, too).

So statesmanlike

By now, we've all seen the video of Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA) being forcibly removed and handcuffed for asking a question during Kristi Noem's press conference. But what Noem said just moments before the video was taken is "classic authoritarian red-baiting," points out @davidcorn.bsky.social.

Your First Doctor- either Tom Baker in Pyramids or McCoy in Greatest Show. Saw both as repeats when very young. Favourite Doctor: Troughton Favourite Companion: Ian Chesterton (classic), Bill Potts (New) Favourite Story: Caves of Androzani (classic), Human Nature/Family of Blood (new)

Wife bought a spice rack from Ikea, well-known flat-pack purveyors. It's called Bekvam The Klingon noun suffix vam means "this" The Klingon verb beQ means "be flat". choDojmoH, Ikea.

Andor S02E05 has two cameos that made me double take: Ruby Wax as two dreadful TV presenters and Pui Fan Lee, the o.g. Po.

Today is the third anniversary of me retiring from Wordle, after getting it in one. Luck, obviously, but I'm the luckiest bugger I know.

Did this years ago. It went viral at the other place. Happy Birthday/Deathday WS!

SORRY. Sorry. Have we seen this *incredible* news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement

The word "octarine" was RIGHT THERE. I am disappoint. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

I mean if you don’t share this picture of Jean Marsh, are you even thinking RIP Jean Marsh?

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Another person surprised and hurt the leopards ate HIS face.

In 1968, Douglas Engelbart revolutionized computing by showing the mouse, hypertext, and collaborative computing in "The Mother of All Demos". Most of his ideas are now part of everyday computing, but one device—the keyset—failed to catch on. Let's look at Engelbart's demo and the keyset. 1/N

Carney: The system of global trade anchored on the United States.. is over. Our old relationship of steadily deepening integration with the United States is over. The 80 year period when the United States embraced the mantle of economic leadership… is over.

gonna be sporting and give tim a five minute head start

That weird thing when you have an agreeable walk/climb/Abseil in the lake district, then while you're winding down you get interviewed about water quality and turn up on the BBC the next morning.

Another winner.

Ten years ago today i flew a paraglider from Heron Pike to Rossett Pike to Raise and back to Heron Pike. Not my longest, but most exacting and exciting. I miss flying...

The word "other" does not belong in that paragraph.