Looks like the world’s on fire

Northern Lights, Isle of Arran. Pic: IG/dynamic_scotland_photography

Yorkshire. 11:15pm. 24°C.

England football team celebrating the 10th anniversary of Brexit by dispensing with fancy European concepts like one-touch passing, movement and passing forwards. They’ll be lumping it up to the big fella any minute. #ENGvGHA

Otters fighting/mating (? would welcome insight from those who know) in the River #Wharfe at #Otley

I’m in a proper over-designed Italian hotel room. This is the handle on the wardrobe.

A Plague Of Lighthouse-Keeper, eh, @sofasound.bsky.social ?

On my way to #FirenzeRocks for @annacalvi.bsky.social; meanwhile in one of my favourite cheap hotels with a view.

If you do pictures, you should jump at this opportunity.

On my way to Lord’s, probably to watch it rain there too. #TheCricket #ENGvNZ

Fascinating to compare post-administration Brown and Blair. In case its unclear, this one is the delusional believer of hisnown ounlicity www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I completely love this cover.

Silecroft Beach. No-one else here. #heaven

I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I. I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee

I love dogs;)

Just remembered about the time I used to work in the Pontins head office near Chorley when we had promos in the newspapers about £10 breaks: a long weekend for £10 at one of the shitty sites they used to run. Anyway, one day I answered the phone to a pleasant older lady who’d see the ad…

HOW WOULDJYA BE WELL AND THE CHEEKS O'YER ARSE IN TWO HALVES?!?!?!?! #Ireland #COYBIG #TheFootball

This is very good. Great sense of his restless unique untrained intelligence. Also has him cooking an omelette the way I have ever since I read that page in the cookstrips.

There’s a good profile of Len Deighton profile up on iPlayer www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Len Deighton dead. An absolute inspiration.

Max Dowman, who has just scored for Aresenal, is younger than my eldest daughter.

Some people are apparently claiming that Silicon Valley Tech Bros have consciousness, like normal humans. As someone who studies these issues carefully, I can assure you that this is an utterly preposterous claim. Yes, they can mimic humans, but they are fundamentally incapable of original thought.

Time for a Van der Graaf Generator photo. Trieste Summer 2009. Gorgeous gig this was. #VdGG

Adding a third celestial body to a gravitational system makes things wildly chaotic and unpredictable. Hence the 'Three Body Problem'. Some beautiful examples of periodic 3-body systems: (via instagram user data__is__beautiful)

The wild garlic’s up and about.

It’s actually FEWER Misérables

We have bought quite a few old map prints from the NLS - print quality, value for money, delivery time are off-the-charts good. Fabulous archive.

Here's what today's Premier League fixtures would look like if every team was named after the most common atmospheric gas in their town/city

All the rent-a-mouths on the radio still talking like Trump is capable of formulating a plan.

@davidsquires.bsky.social has outdone himself here. Cap’n Rice especially. www.theguardian.com/football/pic...

Emerson Park > Romford > Liverpool Street > Cambridge > Peterborough > Leeds > Menston. #trains.

What a day in Aylsham can do to you…

Ban Social Media for the over-60’s.

Since a handful of hate filled people protested outside RNLI HQ yesterday because they're angry that crews don't discriminate in their rescues and work to save all lives at sea you might want to show your support with a one off or regular donation. rnli.org/pages/ig/new...

“Ooooohhh flimsy steve”

Quite excited about this being announced. Like being a grown-up sound designer.

Have to say, whoever decided to make the character of Rocky be a boxer rather than a civil engineer definitely made the right decision. The ending where he wins a televised boxing match wouldn't have made as much sense otherwise. Good job by all involved 👏

Mercury, Messenger of the Gods, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 18th c, 📸 by @PhilEllsworth1

Signs!

My daughter just got REALLY excited about the notion of the biathlon. Until she learned they’re not shooting at each other. To be fair, she has a point. That would be pretty amazing.

Added Yakety Sax to that video from Minneapolis

Too late.

Watched the first half of Spurs and decided not to bother with the second. Any Spurs fans want to pay me not to watch their games?

meanwhile, ICE is still out in force terrorizing the children of Minnesota - just got this from my kid's school

Not sure if I ever shared the scale model Transit van on here. So I’ll do a bit. It’s basically very loosely based on the types of knackered vans me and mates had and used in the 80s and 90s to cart band gear about in. This is 1/24th scale.

Along come Nodge! #NCFC

The EUVL business is a bit mad.

The Acrobats, by Alexander Calder, 1944, 📸 by @Bessex_Joshua