Context: Korean myth says that a lesser son of god came down to earth to carve out something of his own. He and his retinue brought technologies and knowledges such as farming to the barbaric people below and began a civilization. (1/n)

A cartoon from my new book, 'Physics for Cats'. Out next week: www.tomgauld.com

I wrote this eight years ago. The only thing that has changed is that there are fewer libraries. Mandatory digital ID to access services is going to make things worse. medium.com/@nalsa/send-...

I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox which you probably bought from goblins forgive me; they were so, so sweet And streaked my neck which quaked like curd.

Popping into Jumbo or Crash who had thousands of books of paper tickets and finding the gig you wanted took less time than the page loading screen on stubhub, and it was more fun because you'd be watching the guy flip through and you'd go "wait, was that Hubrazorba at the Duchess? One of them, too"

I will not piss on anyone’s chips, but as a project which celebrates the English gothic and the weird every day of the year, I sigh heartily at the start of October. Celebration of the dark and strange should never be calendar constrained. #October

' ... the anonymous artist had patience and knowledge and an obsession with bears, catching a glint of amber fire ... ' iambapoet.com/wave/23-sara...

Apropos of nothing (2024): www.amnestyusa.org/press-releas...

Apropos of nothing in particular: www.bbc.co.uk/news/10164331

Oh the Horizon inquiry is going to look like a very, very small fish when the inevitable enquiry into how this piece of overreach gets put in situ gets started in about 15 years time.

Quick thing: if you're in Edinburgh and want a really good set menu for lunch I can heartily recommend Tipo. It is impeccably well executed.

Some Swedish news to share - next stop Skara Bibliotek! This is part of the UNESCO World Cities of Literature Residency program, delighted be one of the writers representing 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 📚 🎩 📚 skara.se/upplevaochgo...

I think the most important news from history today is that it’s the 38th anniversary of the (US) release of The Princess Bride – and what better way to mark the day than remind ourselves of Cary Elwes’ story about André the Giant and the enormous, life-altering, earth-shaking fart?

In this house "an interesting evening of contemporary theatre" is everyday vocabulary.

Aw, wait, did I miss the rapture? Oh well, the queue at the sandwich shop might be smaller.

Today is the autumn equinox! We get 11:51:38 of daylight - take full advantage of it, if you can. #daylightbot

Happy Equinox day, folks!

You know thise awkward photos you see of people being given certificates in front of a marble fireplace, and there's one person smiling awkwardly and two people wondering what is going on? I want to change that energy. Hug the person presenting. Act like the cert is amazing. Joy it all.

Found it, thanks to @tacc.org.uk we know about this lobbying tacc.org.uk/2025/08/12/m...

From NASA: Check out the view from up here! As the Curiosity rover continues to climb the flanks of Mt. Sharp, it has captured an extraordinarily clear panorama of Gale Crater's rim...and even the lands beyond. Details: photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA2...

Quick reminder: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPKG...

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

not an exaggeration to say I am WEEPING with laughter at this reply from someone who hadn't seen that Robert Redford died today

Huh, we only watched The Sting on Sunday.

“…a web that remembers why we came online in the first place — not to be harvested but to be heard, not to go viral but to find our people, not to scroll but to connect.” www.noemamag.com/the-last-day...

ok, so it seems to be a bank holiday in Edinburgh and East Lothian... is it a bank holiday anywhere else? Glasgow? Aberdeen? Dumfries?

Pssst Discussing books with people you respect and admire and like and who make you laugh is a fantastic way to spend an evening.

Always a good dress if you can stash two roll-up party horns in the decolletage. #lnotp

Pretty sure there isn't a line in Wood's Fantasia for "slow party poppers". I wouldn't mind so much if they were in time. #lnotp

Love some Dukas. #lnotp

Been ages since I last made some tiffin.

26 years since we lost the moon. Remembering the 311. #breakawayday #space1999

"Unfunded hobbyist research" is what gave us the Linux kernel and continues to give us nearly all of the software that global infrastructure depends on.

The thing that Saving Lives At Sea really makes me think about is if the RNLI have a really good counselling service on call, or in station MH professionals?

It'll be Boris, won't it. New ambassador. Of course. It's all a game of 4-d chess.

Caaaaats.

And so it begins. My prediction: 1) ‘back-office efficiencies’ (aka cull of professional services and academic-related staff inc programme admin, student support, teaching/learning support / digital learning support /libraries / professional development etc) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I can sign my name four times on the same page and my signature will look slightly different every time.

Given Ben Whishaw voices Paddington I would be delighted if Pads was Q in this scenario. "Now, this may look like a marmalade sandwich..."

"Gary", haha.

Good morning! 🪶

My cartoon for the @theguardian.com books autumn reads special.

I know it's just a pithy tweet, but...no! No, that's not what happened! We gave everyone access to all knowledge in the world and a minority of people with infinite time and money and spent decades propagandizing people while the people in power went, "Well, it makes us money, so who gives a fuck"

Delighted to be flying high with @northernjim.bsky.social @ thedirigibleballoon with new work - dirigibleballoon.org/poem/Theres-...

Of all the videos I watched, this has been my favourite so far. A proper understanding of what makes young people stop drawing when their taste suddenly shoots past their ability and how to work around it. Really great! www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4Me...

Here's something a bit different. We've been reporting from Edinburgh to try to get to the bottom of a mystery in London. Princes Street is the Scottish capital's most famous shopping street — and it's gaining the *exact same* tatty gift shops as London. www.londoncentric.media/p/edinburgh-...

I have no skin in the anthropic game, but their settling seems too easy and I can't help wondering about unintended consequences (eg, making libgen-derived garbage immune from similar CALs).

The tomato finally ripened enough to eat. It was quite tasty. Tomato-flavoured, as opposed to, say, "the memory of being a child tasting their first bright red fruit and arguing that itvwas a vegetable"-flavoured.