Mighty glad to have taken an extra day off for my agonies.

UK transit nerds are next level.

Today I'm heading back to 1885 again. To the Black Hills of Dakota*. #larp #deadwood *In Surrey.

I mostly play Nethack. I'm dead.

Nina Marotta ☢️💙@mrschief7.bsky.social · 7d ago

You're offered $250,000,000 but to claim it you must enter the last video game you've played and stay there for a full year. How are y'all faring in this deal?

I found this post box at Knockrome on Jura in 2013. Never seen anything better.

A very Frome postbox, in Frome.

If you see this post a knight #linocut #beermat

Nethar6 @herrnethar6.bsky.social · last wk.

If you see this post a knight #minis #minipainting #Warhammer #DnD #HeroQuest #Nerdlings

Wind from the Sea Andrew Wyeth, 1947

Last year, we reported on (ultimately abandoned) plans for a giant ad screen next to the #Maindy leisure centre in #Cathays. Sadly, a fresh application has come in. Learn more and object here: www.cardiffidoxcloud.wales/publicaccess... #Caerdydd #Cardiff #AdvertisingShitsInYourHead

AdBlock Cardiff@adblockcardiff.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🚨 ADVERT APPLICATION ALERT! 🚨 Plans have been submitted for a massive new ad screen on North Road, next to the Maindy leisure centre. Details below. Lodge an objection ASAP! www.cardiffidoxcloud.wales/publicaccess... #AdvertisingShitsInYourHead #Cardiff #Caerdydd #Cathays #Gabalfa

<waves hands gesturing ant everything generally> "too old for this shit"

since the dawn of sci-fi, americans have sought the answer to one question: what if a planet was Cowboy

How to explain Strange New Worlds to people who don't know Star Trek. it's - well did you ever watch Mr Benn?

Cleaned decades off this wood star, which revealed how the block was actually pieced together, as well as its grain.

A particularly lovely picture of the Eclipse

Just saw one good meteor - right through the middle of Cygnus. And so to bed... #Perseids

Can confirm. Genuinely does taste remarkably like pencils (in a good way.)

Present & Correct@presentcorrect.bsky.social · 2w ago

A new batch of our pencil flavoured chocolate has arrived! www.presentandcorrect.com/products/pen... Gently flavoured with pine and cedar oil and scattered with (cocoa) nibs.

Fuck AI.

Never used ChatGPT Never hired an Uber Never had a Greggs

John Self@john-self.bsky.social · 2w ago

What mundane token of modern life have you never done? I’ve never had a takeaway delivered.

In a cafe/deli in Monmouth, I'm most impressed by their library of cheese oriented books.

These are the little bastards that were trying to get Neo in the Matrix

"What's the most unhinged thing a doctor has said to you with a straight face?" That "Wibbly-Wobbley Timey-Wimey" line always struck me as odd. But mostly because he didn't mention the "Swirly-Whirly" aspect - which is clearly the most important attribute of Time.

The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.

I'd missed this from New Year. But it looks so wholesome and worthwhile I think I need some of this...

King Ludd@kingludd.bsky.social · 3w ago

Entering August and how are we going? For myself this far: 1. I am almost there and it has been a good experince 2.-4. Nothing, yet 5. Half way there 6. I am doing math on Duo now 7. I have started on archery and it is awesome! 8. Running 9. Repair but not a finished piece 10. Not yet 😊

In the office today thinking "Where is my beautiful house? Where is my large automobile? How did I get here?"

Inside you are two wolves. One always lies, one always tells the truth. The wolves cannot be left alone with the goat, the goat cannot be left alone with the cabbage. Treatment is simple: great clown Pagliacci is in town. "But doctor, I cannot operate on this boy, he is my son." Why did the chicken

I'm going to have to go down to the basement and clean out those spam-filters again. Somehow I've got added to a "Classic Tractors" mailing list. I am technically a grown-up; but I don't need tractor-porn, tyvm.

Interesting blog about Cardiff's hollow mountain. This is the hill that overlooks Gwaelod-y-Garth. ilovesthediff.wordpress.com/2018/11/20/c...

The secrets of Cardiff’s hollow mountain

There’s holes in them thar hills. And there’s very little left of Lesser Garth in Morganstown. An autumn afternoon’s adventure that proves to be an education and involves a hole o…

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Reminder: Thomas Edison did NOT invent the first light bulb. (While the story is a bit complicated, Joseph Swan got there before he did. There was a whole court-case about it.) And yet I hear Edison's name bandied about ALL the time as THE inventor of the lightbulb. Please try to get this right.

It's depressing that this moved me so much, but did. First time I've heard a politician praise a group of immigrants, without caveat, for a long while.

Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social · 4w ago

Andy Burnham, "To me, carers should be the best paid people in society, not the worst" "Many people from other countries have been caring for my dad" Andy Burnham praises migrants to the UK who care for our elderly, a stark contrast to Keir-island-of-strangers-Starmer

Every so often I teach someone how to spin yarn on a spindle. And I always tell them that the first yarn you make will not be good yarn, and it's not meant to be, because right now you are not making wool into yarn, you're making yourself into a spinner.