Anamorphosis is a perspective trick where an image only appears normal when viewed from a particular angle. I don’t know the orange-in (get it? origin? 🙄) of this tangerine GIF but it was via psychologist Richard Wiseman: richardwiseman.wordpress.com/2013/08/08/t...

“High earners and [successful] entrepreneurs” is a set of people defined by how much they take, Kier mate.

The squirrel has stashed his prize monkey nut where no one else could possibly find it… next to the pvc screen inside the hedgehog’s feeding station.

💙📚 If you like cutesy timey-wimey books then you’ll hate my novel King Street Run 😬 KSR is an adult fantasy (no, not *that* sort of adult). A satire that takes an irreverent look at life, being working class, and what to do when attacked by gargoyles. And it’s stuffed with easter eggs. Ta-daaah!

"His life was made an agony by the number of fine scalpels that he felt to be incessantly engaged in dissecting his dignity." - Little Dorrit, Charles Dickens

H.R. Wakefield, in one of his finest short ghost stories, accidentally sums up the Right's obsession with a make believe past: "Men, in such a pass, if they cannot look forward for succour, look back." - “The First Sheaf” (1939) #Booksky

Or "The Brain In A Jar" nebula, as I like to call it.

“A man can well afford to be as bold as brass, my good fellow, when he gets gold in exchange!” ~ Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit

"Let’s not go grave-digging among memories merely for the sake of making conversation." - Oliver Onions, The Accident (1911)

If you're not familiar with Jake Yapp's oeuvre, track down Dora Dale Pleased To Meet You and go from there. You could also give his podcast a listen. #Podcast #Comedy

May I waft you in the direction of the marvellous @jakeyapp.bsky.social who lavished unbridled praise upon his ARC of Paradox Lost: “It’s really good! I’ve read about three or four pages but that’s pretty good going for me.” So, you can rest assured that the first four pages are stonking stuff!

📚💙 For those who like their sci-fi laced with satire and dark humour, my new novel "Paradox Lost" will be unleashed by @elsewhen.press in 2026. Please form an orderly queue at your nearest book shop and always remember to heed the crush barriers 😜

Fave book quotes: “I feel absurdly young,” he said without a sign of affectation, “and yet I’ve been looking for you a thousand years and more.” - The Touch of Pan, Algernon Blackwood (1917) #Booksky

"To say that we could not work without a capitalist is as false as to say that we could not mow a meadow unless all the scythes belonged to one man." - Robert Blatchford, Merrie England (1893)

From @ericidle.bsky.social & Neil Innes' brilliant & criminally overlooked/unavailable RUTLAND WEEKEND TELEVISION, here's a truncated glimpse of George Harrison's Christmas 1975 guest appearance runner, where he didn't want to perform a song - He really just wanted to play a pirate...

Like everything else right now, it's the tail wagging the dog. If today's publishers were yesterday's the greatest books would have been rejected: Lord of The Rings, 1984, Brave New World: "Thanks for your submission but it's not commercial. Too 'ideas-y'" Thank goodness for small presses! #Booksky

I saw James Watson give a lecture at the Sanger Institute about ten years ago. To channel some rhyming slang, I thought he was a complete Francis Crick.

Such a great book 😊❤️📚

Incredibly humbling to read such a warm review of King Street Run, thank you! 📚💙

One for @21group.bsky.social

Two great things in one! Mindscape is a terrific podcast that covers everything from quantum mechanics to black holes and Daniel Whiteson (physics prof, science communicator, and all round smartie pants) hosts the brilliant @dandkuniverse.bsky.social podcast.

🤷‍♀️The right-wing obsession with Lord of The Rings. Palantir named for the seeing stones, M*sk's Hobbit rant. Forever trying to appropriate and corrupt what their crooked minds can't understand; art, creativity, principles. The only simple parallel in LOTR is between the right wing and Morgoth/Sauron.

📚💙 If you stand on Midsummer Common in Cambridge at midnight on Halloween and say the names of the 31 Colleges, the lost Michaelhouse will appear. #Halloween #Books

Isn’t crossbreeding Farage how Sauron created Uruk-hai? 🤔

Speaking of ballrooms, this is “From The Depths” by William Balfour Ker (circa 1906).

It’s like when Sauron was made an advisor to the King of Númenor.

📚💙 Hugh Walpole is another classic ghost writer who, since his initial success in the 1920s/30s, has fallen into obscurity. If you'd like to delve into his work "Mr Huffam" is an enchanting way to begin. You can also listen to some of his stories on the "Encrypted" podcast read by Jasper L'Estrange.

Don't eat fish.

I really enjoyed this so much. And secretly want you to hear it and conclude I'm a genius an that

How might aliens perceive the Universe? Daniel and Kelly talk about how aliens might experience the Universe and how it might shape their science, a topic from Daniel's new book "Do Aliens Speak Physics?" www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...

If you ever wondered how natural selection works: “Physicists have a huge evolutionary advantage because being a cool physicist makes everyone want to have your babies.” 😂 If you're interested in all things science then I can't recommend this podcast (and Daniel's book! see below) highly enough.

Are you looking for our Public Lecture Series? The 2024 and 2025 lectures are now available on this YouTube channel playlist. 🔭 🧪

Late to the party on this but billionaire “inventions” send my mind to that scene in Carry On Regardless where they’re demonstrating useless, life-complicating gizmos (that all go wrong) at the Ideal Home Exhibition.

💙📚 Star Trek jokes aside, this is a wonderful collection of ghost stories by Arthur Quiller-Couch (A Pair of Hands is particularly good). Every story read buoys up my belief that you can’t beat ghost story writers from the late Victorian period to 1920’s (ish). And I’m already pretty biased.

Indeed. The last thing this country wants is an educated great unwashed. They might start thinking and stuff and that would never do.

She's promised Israel/US that when she gains power she'll privatise all of Venezuela's oil and industry. As a huge supporter of Israel she said ‘If we win, we will move the Venezuelan embassy to Jerusalem to support Israel.’

Is it dystopian science fiction or UK HE? Always hard to tell.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

🔭 NGC 6960: The Witch's Broom Nebula Image Credit & Copyright: Brian Meyers apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25100...

Who says you can’t combine turn of the century ghost stories and Star Trek! #Booksky

📚💙 October reads! If you’re squirrelling away books with a Halloween backdrop then I’d be chuffed if you’d consider my novel King Street Run. It’s a satire on the flogging of academia for profit but with gargoyles, time distortion, and lots of what the kids these days call “easter eggs”. #Books

The Green Party now has 78,000 members. Thats 10,000+ new members this month alone who want to draw the line. I know there are so many more people who want to take a stand. Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk

If we "stop the boats" it won't change a thing; energy will remain unaffordable, food will still be overpriced, & you'll still work crippling hours for peanut wages. Your life isn't rubbish because of small boats. It's rubbish because of predatory capitalism and the societal termites who endorse it

There are nearly 3000 food banks in the UK.

Despite the overwhelming evidence of Trump's criminality, his fascist policies, his support of Israel's genocide, his links with sex trafficking and his views that domestic violence isn't a crime, what were the standout looks of the state visit, BBC News?

Queen

🚨 RIGHT NOW opposite Labour Party HQ in London. We’ve turned their street into Jabaliya camp in Gaza. A genocide is happening, but the Labour government is supplying weapons, intelligence and diplomatic cover to the perpetrator. Protesting this is not terrorism.

Replace "Magician" and "Magic" with "Politician" and "Politics". (Excerpt from vintage 'how-to' magic book)