This composition had eluded me for nearly a decade, but yesterday I was finally able to capture it. A train rolled through just as the Duquesne Incline was crossing over the tracks in #Pittsburgh, creating a picture perfect winter scene. It was worth the hours and hours I've waited over the years.

Oh my fucking god @tomrobinson.com

Problem: you have two left wing parties in British politics. Solution: start a new left wing party to unify the movement Problem: you now have four left wing parties in British politics

It's the most wonderful time of the year: Scotland's gritter tracker is back! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿❄️🧊 www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-trac...

Every ad now

obsessed with this photo of cows watching the northern lights. it's the scene in a muppet movie that's so surprisingly touching you start to cry (photographer: @ChrisReichert3 on twitter)

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

Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back! Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary. Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest! #MundaneHalloween

happy halloween i am ready to confuse some trick-or-treaters

We have real-time monitoring just inside one of the charge points via @telraam.bsky.social telraam.net/en/location/...

Renters' Rights Bill becomes law Described as the biggest shake-up to renting in England for more than 30 years, a new law to give renters more rights was formally approved on Monday www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Under Over Over - West Hampstead So it's taken a while, but I've finally found a location where you can clearly see London Underground trains traveling over London Overground trains. The vantage point is at West Hampstead Overground station at the end of the platform.

chicks rock

The Andrew formerly known as Prince

Can I offer you some nice gourds in these trying times?

So I installed @linuxmint.com

Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it

Learning well

(scrolls) (mutters 'fucking hell') ... (scrolls) (mutters 'fucking hell') ... (scrolls) (mutters 'fucking hell') ... (scrolls) (mutters 'fucking hell') ...

the scenario we all feared

This is fun/good.

Discovered today that not everyone considers this nine year old viral tweet a seminal text in the field of social media studies but I do

Madness this morning. My partner's works laptop couldn't connect. She shouted at me "The Internet isn't working" "What is it?" I replied. "It’s a worldwide network of computers and other systems that all speak to each other, but that’s not important right now." Turns it was in Airplane mode...

My latest, exploring with numbers how the millennial household budget is basically incomprehensible to retired boomers.

lol @ “it’s staying home” #thefootball

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿!⚽!🏆!

Makes one proud to be British 🥲

paradox, you say

more businesses are relying on heroin use to increase employee efficiency. studies have found that one employee on heroin can replace three non-heroin employees at a fraction of the cost. ceo's should consider implementing heroin in their organizations or risk being left behind, say heroin dealers

Budapest Pride! Sent from a friend on site. ❤️

Some actual good news

It’s Oxfordshire County Council’s first Cabinet meeting since the May elections, and the decision on whether to proceed with a congestion charge is due to be taken today. We’ll be live-tweeting proceedings.

This is a wonderful thread

Seconding this, Libro is great! Plus it's DRM-free, and it has options to pay for individual audiobooks or to subscribe for monthly credits (which you don't lose if you stop subscribing!)

Some of y'all can't handle 2 high agency males going at it and it really shows

The apparent inability to be aware of other people's experiences until they've happened to her personally does go a long way to explaining the transphobia, tbh.

Make sure to read this by @nesrinemalik.bsky.social on the clumsy curelty of the gov's ILR changes "Every bad day at work becomes... a worry that your whole life in the UK may be over. Long-term sickness becomes not just a health calamity, but an existential one" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Happy Pride everybody, I made a Bisexshawl.

Look at the gender breakdown of who speaks in popular films!

good news everyone. boat stuck. no one hurt. incredible photos.

The internet has got worse in many ways since I was 15, but something that has been a definite improvement is the number of platypus videos and photos now readily available to enjoy.

I'm just glad we had a moment of joy.

yeah the solution is to stop telling your own voters to fuck off in favour of people who hate you.

Oh wrestling is fake? Then explain this

"Even if it does work as a strategy for winning the next election, there’s a question: why bother?" A bit by me on the sheer, infuriating pointlessness of a Labour leadership that sees governing in a progressive way as a distracting from fighting the next election.

Young priest! there's no need to feel down there's a Country! That's inside of a town you can Go there! Now ol Frank's underground and you choose a new guy (bom bom bom bom bom) It's fun to vote for a P O P E

some quick met gala doodles

This is lovely!