This is a cover. A ruse. We do not observe the moon for educational purposes, we observe it to keep an eye on it in light of its CRIMES

This - which I explored today - is the kind of thing I live for on walks in the deep countryside: a 200+-year-old abandoned walled garden, totally overgrown and teeming with wildlife and ghosts. Finding lost magic places like this, untouched and undeveloped, always fills me with weird kind of hope.

Art credit Wizard of Barge literally my all time favorite artist

Karate teachers work in hi-ya education

HER: I’m a genealogist. ME: that’s crazy, I just finished watching Aladdin.

with alt-text because it is necessary

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

Yup, a reminder the Suffragettes literally ran a bombing campaign and were very controversial in their own time

It's true. It can turn you into a hummusidal maniac.

Hey, #MedSky & #SciSky! New text from Elsevier out today, "The Scientific Basis of Fatigue", with multiple chapters on different diseases, including #MECFS, COVID, Parkinson's, stroke and MS. Proud to be the co-author of the #MECFS chapter with authors from Mayo and Bateman-Horne! More info:🧪

Major Avengers: Domesday spoilers.... spoiler space spoiler space spoiler space So after 1066, William the Conqueror realizes he needs a team of heroes to survey a newly conquered England, and there's only one crew heroic enough to compile a complete census of the English polity

🌿☕Good morning🌞 This is arctoparmelia centrifuga lichen Lichen means "licker" from the Greek to lick. It's literally licking the glacial boulder, I can 👀 that! Lichen is a symbiotic complex life form partnership of a fungus & an alga. The dominant partner is the 🍄‍🟫 Fascinating!🌿 @susiedent.com

No it doesn’t, that’s you doing that

Hwæt! 🐉 Ever wondered what the epic poem Beowulf sounds like spoken in Old English? #NationalPoetryDay

I flew all niiiiight To get to your door Is that all right? I flew all niiiiight From death's pallid shore Woke you from your dreams To say "Nevermore" Is that all right? I flew all night.

Please use alt text when posting illustrations or photos or other images. I realize it feels like an inconvenience if you didn't ever do it at the other place, but folks who need it are a zillion times more inconvenienced every single day.

no no the publishing industry is doing fine, why do you ask

please enjoy Discworld Elysium, everyone this was clearly written for me personally but I think a lot of you will also like it

I have updated i will strangle a horse! It now has DEATH TRACKING! So you can see which ones you've missed in the Stats page! A Secret Thing that shows on your stats for when you get the Good ending! Nothing added to the infinite door knocking loop! But soon! brainmage.itch.io/i-will-stran...

Written 55 years ago, Schulz's heartfelt clarity cuts through the noise, even today. h/t @tisserand.bsky.social

As Yom Kippur comes to an end and many Jews are learning of the awful events in Manchester for the first time, I'm sending my support to all who grieve.

Happy 75th Birthday Peanuts

Jennifer Armentraut: Submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of the scone of stone and bone King: what's that smell? Armentraut: oh you mean that garlic smell? Armentraut: that patented Hellmans original mouth-watering garlic aioli smell? King: King: yeah that smell

I’ll take some better photos tomorrow but here he is- Eamonn Itapus. Original Unseen design, hand burned onto the wood and hand painted. #art #octopus #craft #mushrooms #nature #pyrography

American Christians deciding the Pope doesn't know the Bible because he said immigrants are human is the perfect summary of the evangelist movement

In 1945, the Allies faced a tricky question: where to hold Nazi war criminals until the trials. A run-down hotel in Luxembourg was quickly converted to a prison ("Camp Ashcan"). The hope was to keep the nature of the prisoners secret. In May 1945, this failed, and almost turned into a disaster. /1

The University of Glasgow groundspeople are going to be quite annoyed when they come in to work tomorrow...

Thei did the Mash; thei did the Monstere Mash. The Monstere Mash: beholde, sepulchral smash! Thei did the Mash, and it kaughte on moost fast - Hark, heare the Mash! Forsooth, the Monstere Mash!

Someone You Can Build A Nest In is a UK Kindle Deal! Get my monster for just 99p.

One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."

sad news, but good excuse to dig out this Far Side cartoon

Farewell to one of the greats www.nbcnews.com/news/obituar...

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Y'know what, I'm gonna do it the other way round too. There now follows a short thread of Kratos quotes on screenshots of Captain Holt.

No. Racism is not a “legitimate concern”. It’s an immoral attitude that needs to be stamped out

Hi! We've made the Put This In Your Ear Object. It is the ideal size and shape to put in your ear, feels really nice when you put it in your ear, and can be used to clean out earwax, by putting it in your ear. Just one thing, though. Under NO circumstances should you put this in your ear.

My favourite Barry Cryer story is his account of Nicholas Parsons asking Ross Noble who his favourite comedian was. "Richard Pryor" Noble replied, "Genius! So sad he set himself on fire while freebasing crack cocaine". Parsons, visibly upset, asked Barry later: "did you hear about Richard Briers?"

When David Lammy says Nigel Farage flirted with Hitler Youth, he’s referring to the fact that teachers from his school described him as a Fascist and recalled how he marched through a Sussex village singing Hitler Youth songs. Sounds pretty flirty to me.

If you don’t like being called a racist, maybe don’t make a career of saying things that appeal to racists, don’t create a political party that keeps attracting racist candidates, don’t fawn over racist world leaders, and don’t make a convicted racist the guest of honour at your party conference.

This year, please don’t let the cynical commercialisation of Halloween cheapen its profound spiritual message about zombies eating people’s brains.

They drop against the ends of names, Not orderly, but any old how. Henri, Mitchell, McGough- watch it mates, The brackets, any day now. Brian Patten

Drew lil' Lilith because I love her.

I've been down the most fascinating rabbit hole this evening. A charity here in the UK called Heritage Crafts are giving bursaries for people wanting to learn endangered crafts. Just some of the crafts on the list: 1/

These words that Nigel Latta wrote in 2015 have always stayed with me

Found the gate that leads to winter.

IMPORTANT: When transporting a giant puffball mushroom you have recently foraged, it is absolutely crucial that you ensure the mushroom is firmly strapped into the passenger seat of your car to guard against sharp braking and potential whiplash.