Jane Austen used 'however' at the beginning of a sentence, and so can you.

Today’s tube station painting is Burnt Oak. It’s new and up on my website. Burnt Oak Underground Station. London. Postcard painting. Watercolour darrenhaymanart.com

Maybe Kemi can put him in the House of Lords. That would *really* own the libs.

Alex Partridge@alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 7h ago

Joshua Bonehill-Paine steps back from being a Conservative council candidate following backlash

Can't repost with comments for the thread by @chrischirp.bsky.social I just reposted, on school closures during Covid, but I'd say this: I think Christina's comments are spot on. School closures were one of the worst aspects of lockdown, and hard to discuss in a balanced way now. /1

Kudos to @gwr.com : I had to abandon a rail trip from Oxford to Cardiff on Monday because of disruption. a) Simple system for getting refunded - got full value of ticket when I thought I might be eligible for only half. b) Station staff/guards unfailingly helpful in v trying conditions.

but, also, tardigrades colonizing the moon

New Yorker cartoon feels about right

I saw one of his pieces at the Palm Springs Art Museum and it was fabulous

Sarah Archer@sarcher.bsky.social · yesterday

It's Textile Tuesday, and you know what that means: a piece by artist Faig Ahmed called "The Dragons of Karabakh" that's woven to look like an antique Central Asian carpet is melting off the wall into a puddle. More about the artist here: faigahmed.com

Here a compilation of stupid things library consultants have said to me in solidarity with library pals at Lambeth Libraries where genius consultants has decided that a qualified head of library service post isn't really essential.

"Night Taxi" - my oil painting

I'm incredibly honored to be one of the inaugural winners of the Ctrl-Z award. The sequence of events preceding and following this retraction were harrowing (and are honestly still stressful), but I hope this will be an opportunity for more open dialogue about mistakes + self-retraction in science.

Retraction Watch@retractionwatch.com · yesterday

The Center for Scientific Integrity is proud to announce the inaugural winners of the 2026 Ctrl-Z Award. Named for the universal keyboard shortcut for “undo,” the Ctrl-Z Award this year honors @cetaceanneeded.bsky.social and @katelaskowski.bsky.social for choosing transparency over reputation.

this is a weird line to draw since the liberal position (correct) is that it's not reasonable to summarily execute people in international waters even if they're involved in drug trafficking and the conservative position is that you must do that even if you kill a bunch of innocent people too

CNN@cnn.com · 2d ago

The US military’s strikes on alleged drug boats have likely illegally killed “individuals who are not involved in narcotrafficking,” Sen. Tim Kaine told the White House, following “a careful review” of classified information he has seen so far.

Future utilitarians living in a solar punk utopia having anguished debates about the credit owed to President Trump for supercharging green transition.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3w ago

24-hour Hormuz traffic rolling over sharply ... now at just 3. - Schwab

More on the increasingly tortuous story of that 'edge science' paper by Packalen and Bhattacharya. In another paper published 3 yr previous they DID use the method I suggested for determining novelty of ideas. pubpeer.com/publications...

Sacred harmony: Pieter Jansz Saenredam, Dutch Golden Age architectural painter & draughtsman (1597-1665); pioneer of ‘church portraits’, whose subtle, tonal compositions foreshadow abstract modernism. St Bavo Haarlem, 1635, Gemäldegalerie Berlin

Deborah Sandidge "Great chicks in the nest are getting very sleepy after a busy day at the wetlands. The late afternoon sun and sounds of the wetlands eventually lulls them to sleep as the parent stands close. Big yawn for a little baby bird looking like a roar from a little green dinosaur"

Inuk artist Peggy Ekagina, Fox shaman transformation (c. 1960), stone carving #WomensArt

BREAKING: A reporter asked Mike Johnson at a press conference today, “Should we bother asking you any questions about Max Miller, Trump’s latest Iran deal, or his Capital One scandal, or have you not heard about any of them yet?"

Reporting any party's policy proposals as the top story three years clear of a general election is FITH. Reform's batshit gunboat diplomacy 'policy' being the top story on the Radio 2 7pm news is a clear indication that the BBC's news values have been bummed over a bin to the point of prolapse.

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

When someone is described as "often controversial, never boring" in 2026 it just means: full nazi but also part of the establishment.

"Night City" - my oil painting

Our flight from Seattle to Sacramento was delayed by a few hours last night, but we were rewarded with an epic sunset on Tahoma (Rainier) as it poked through the low stratus layer. The pastel peach backdrop was made possible by the horrific wildfire smoke from all the PNW fires.

Immediately cancels planned trip to the moon.

onesillyfag@onesillyfag.bsky.social · 3d ago

Asteroid strike on the moon.

It's cautionary tale for LLM use though. Data aren't democratic; some are better. Reminds me of something a biologist recently said to me of an AI colleague: "His models are fantastic. It's just a shame he doesn't realize the output's garbage because half the papers fed into it are wrong.." 5/n

Excellent thread of comments on PubPeer if you want to see how, in scientific work, just a different interpretational move can lead to the opposite conclusion...

Dorothy Bishop@deevybee.bsky.social · 3d ago

I've been digging in to the Packalen and Bhattacharya paper on "edge science". They seem to have run the analysis on 1 million articles but the dataset has 6.2 million. There may be a good reason for this, but I can't find it in the paper, so have asked on PubPeer. pubpeer.com/publications...

I've been digging in to the Packalen and Bhattacharya paper on "edge science". They seem to have run the analysis on 1 million articles but the dataset has 6.2 million. There may be a good reason for this, but I can't find it in the paper, so have asked on PubPeer. pubpeer.com/publications...

A bald eagle pants while perching in a dead snag along the shore of Flathead Lake in Montana. The mountain in the background is Wild Horse Island, a 2,164-acre state park. #BirdOfTheDay #BestOfJuly #bird #birdphotography #ECK #birds #birdsofbluesky #nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography

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