Got myself into a cul-de-sac of irrelevance on the dissertation today after some good progress. Will be deleting a chunk tomorrow.

It's not going to be much of a secret if you put posters up for it, lads. In a similar vein, the Hidden Hut at Portscatho isn't very well hidden because every bugger knows it's there.

I shaved. Bullshit. Never doing that again.

"On the face of this countryside a poor farm shows up like a wart. No place here for sentimental hedgerows, no grassy glades for picnic parties from the towns. The beauty of Lincolnshire is measured in tonnes per hectare."

BBC Archive@bbcarchivebot.bsky.social · 14h ago

1970: Living off the Land - Farming in Britain | The Philpott File

I know you're not allowed to say this during the current debate, but the reason the left dominates academics, art, comedy, and music is that the right has stupid, discredited ideas, they're not funny, and dull resentment does not make for good art. No grand conspiracy required.

Just microdosed SSD and I can remember a tiny bit more than I could before.

Carl Maxim@carlmaxim.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Tried microdosing LSD and thought I could fly, but only very short distances.

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Reminds me of the time we were sat at a backpackers in Bangkok and an American guy referred to the city smelling "like ass". www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

The Great Stink of 2026? Hot, dry summer leaves London holding its nose

Experts say putrid stench shows overhaul of sewers is needed – like the one prompted by the Great Stink of 1858

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Looking forward to getting those fans delivered today as the email said! *Checks tracking info. It's Evri.*

Utilised agricultural area (UAA, 17m ha) and croppable area (6.2m ha) aren't the same thing. All land is not fungible. Capability (climate, soils, topography and trafficability) restricts land use change. Of the *croppable* area, the proportion used for animal feed is around 58% (same gov.uk source)

Zach Boren@zdboren.bsky.social · 2d ago

as britain endures its worst harvest on record, it's worth knowing: 85% of UK farmland is used to feed livestock. and half of our wheat harvest doesn't feed people, it feeds animals

I know you all hate the emergency alert about disposable barbeques. But yesterday I watched a man at our hotel breakfast set fire to a toaster by trying to toast a croissant - despite multiple signs telling him not to. Today he tried again. So, you know, calibrate for the average person.

Discovered this amazing mural while running work errands today. For a moment there I actually thought the figure on the ground was a live person touching up the mural. It’s that good (or my glasses are that bad 😂).

Thank God there's been a temporary ban on disposable barbecues, we're saved

The only thing that uses as much energy as AI and data centres is people going on about them on Bluesky.

Radio Lento is an absolute treasure, work done with great love by Madeleine and Hugh.

Radio Lento@radiolento.bsky.social · 3d ago

A new Lento milestone - 300 episodes! 🎂 In total 205 hours of quiet from real places From 26 counties, 127 different locations Always made with love by us ❤️ Free for everyone to listen Thanks to supporters who help us cover our increasing hosting and production costs > ko-fi.com/radiolento

The most substantial, huge, enormous, immense, vast, massive, colossal, gigantic, giant, mammoth, whopping, ginormous, humungous, scary, alarming, daunting, formidable, intimidating, terrifying, fearsome and petrifying of all the dinosaurs was the thesaurus.

He only managed to increase the number of votes he received in Clacton over the 2024 result by just over 1,000. Against a bin. Feeble.

Me the next time it rains

Joyful Andy Dufresne in the Rain

Alt: Joyful Andy Dufresne in the Rain

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Managed to buy two fans. I fully expect them to be delivered around November.

Good start, but regen ag (point 10) so vague as to be useless. Investment needed in on-farm water saving and water management, catchment-based approach, reservoirs, look at abstraction licensing and planning per @thecccuk.bsky.social and Lords Environment & Climate Change Committee recommendations

A handy guide to ten things Andy Burnham could do right now to safeguard climate, environment, people and vital national infrastructure www.theguardian.com/environment/...

They all wish they could say, "I am Iron Man." Good thread.

Foz Meadows@fozmeadows.bsky.social · 4d ago

I recently watched Iron Man (2008) for the first time in over a decade, and it's a real lightbulb moment to realize that every executive, business bro and tech guy currently obsessed with using ChatGPT or Claude or whatever thinks they're like Tony Stark talking to Jarvis

Lots of advice coming your way today from the sages of Bluesky on how to think about your A-Level results, all three of you that might have an account here to read it.

Good night for it. Seen a couple of gorgeous big ones leaving trails already.

Nathan Nelson@nathannelson.co.uk · 4d ago

This eclipse nonsense is *cough* overshadowing the fact that it is the peak of the Perseids tonight.

Bedtime reading to clear my head after dissertation work is Andrew Lownie's Entitled, the biography of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Sarah Ferguson. They're just awful, awful people and the Royal Family covered for those shithouses for so long.

Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation is on Film 4. Good movie. Almost as good as Mission Impossible: Fallout, the last Mission Impossible movie in the series (as far as I'm concerned). God but those last two were stinkers.

Quickly bodged together a pinhole projector. That's better.

Ready.

Chat shit, get commissioned 💪🏻😅 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Farage has turned Clacton into a human zoo. Here’s the truth about what’s happening here | Sarah Elizabeth Cox

When I moved to the town in 2022 I loved the beach walks, cheap drinks and panoramic coastal views. Now it feels like a never-ending circus, says historian Sarah Elizabeth Cox

theguardian.com

Dissertation update: current status is yellow approaching green.